Mom’s “Well…” at the end always fucking killed me about this strip. For once she’s considering Dad’s position seriously.

Ok, probably thought about this too much but here goes:

The reason Musk is obsessed with plausible deniability and things like faking his scores is because he believes he is some kind of trickster god who you can never prove one way or another since he keeps his personal life fairly private (other than all the fucking xeets and children).

So, he’s giggling behind the scenes going “Ha ha you can’t prove it!” even though anyone with a fucking brain knows what’s going on, and what’s sad, is he think that makes himself clever. What’s even worse is it seems he enjoys knowing people know but can’t prove it so he can keep dangling it saying “ha ha I dictate reality what are you gonna do about it.”

It’s fucking childish insanity.

Vivian is a thousand times the person this dork could ever be, and she did a better job than I did of expressing how easy and dumb and not-clever it is to hide behind “plausible deniability” when you’re basically screaming your violent tendencies out loud for all to hear.

Callback to Sarah Palin’s “Real America” garbage. It’s been festering a while.

“There’s nobody you can talk to. Everything is automated.”

Yeah this is the stuff that needs to be regulated asap. You should have to have a contact you can refer to for pay disputes, this just creates an unreasonable burden on the person being paid when they have no one to contact.

Head injuries aren’t!

Unrelated but relevant:

I surprised myself at remembering this one. Possibly the mnemonic of a tasty square pie helped me remember all these years.

Zuck’s just collecting MetaData…

…I’ll show myself out.

It’s feels like it’s because deep down they all know ‘deport’ means ‘forced work camp’ since no country will actually take them.

It’s so transparent and yet so few really do pause on this moment and understand the severity of what this means for this kind of talk to be normalized so soon. For a Seig Heil to be normalized so soon and excused as “misunderstood.” They have no principles, none, there is no bottom and they find a perverse joy in hurting those they have power over.

People need to be aware of just how deep in this we are.

I feel that while this is true, such statements do a significant amount of whitewashing of the women who support people like Trump, which especially when it comes to white women is not an insignificant number.

https://www.fosters.com/story/news/2022/05/05/nh-representative-susan-delemus-screams-murderers-abortion-rights-activists-video/9661689002/

Protesters were heard shouting “shame on you” right before DeLemus was seen pointing at protesters screaming “Shame on you, shame on all of you. Shame on you, killing babies.” It then escalated to her pointing at the crowd, repeatedly screaming “You’re a murderer!”

DeLemus also shouted, “I murdered my own baby!” referring to an abortion she had decades ago and has publicly declared her regret about in the past. In 2012, DeLemus recounted an abortion she had when a bill was up for discussion on instating a 24-hour waiting period, AP reported.

https://joycearthur.com/abortion/the-only-moral-abortion-is-my-abortion/

Many anti-choice women are convinced that their need for abortion is unique — not like those “other” women — even though they have abortions for the same sorts of reasons. Anti-choice women often expect special treatment from clinic staff. Some demand an abortion immediately, wanting to skip important preliminaries such as taking a history or waiting for blood test results. Frequently, anti-abortion women will refuse counseling. Some women insist on sneaking in the back door and hiding in a room away from other patients. Others refuse to sit in the waiting room with women they call “sluts” and “trash.” Or if they do, they get angry when other patients in the waiting room talk or laugh, because it proves to them that women get abortions casually, for “convenience”.

A few behave in a very hostile manner, such as calling clinic staff “murderers.” Years ago, a clinic counselor in British Columbia told me that one of her patients went into the procedure room apparently fine with her decision to have an abortion. During the abortion, at a stage when it was too late to stop the procedure, the woman started screaming “You murderers!” and other invectives at everyone in the room.

While it’s very true that women’s voting and leadership tends to lead to more peaceful outcomes, there’s still sadly a significant number of women who seem almost giddy at being part of the problem, like Ginni Thomas, for example.

This is not to mean that men aren’t still worse, they are. Just sometimes there’s attempts to treat women as all innocent victims of the controlling fascist right, and while for many that is indeed true, there’s many others where, well, I just don’t know if they’re actually a victim or a willing participant.

Even the mildest of mild criticisms bite him to his core.

Such a thin skinned little bitch, but all fascists are at their core.

Those who read history are doomed to watch those who don’t read history repeat it.

Sounds like the management at Tiktok see it as politically expedient to fluff Trump to be able to continue to have access to the US market.

Exactly, just like Jan 6thers were antifa trying to make Trump look bad, but he just pardoned all of them and the followers celebrated…

It’s that Sartre quote about anti-semites and how they don’t actually have any real arguments or principles and will always say whatever to win.

I think they mean “beaten badly” as in “lost control of all three branches of government” not so much “Trump landslide vote.”

The person you responded to even said “Dems got beaten pretty bad” not “Harris got beaten pretty bad.”

By the metric of losing the house, losing the senate, losing the judiciary, and losing the presidency is a pretty deep blow.

Why are the journalist bending over to Musk?

Because performative protest like wearing pussy hats isn’t actually as effective as general strikes or direct action.

The McResistance fades because that’s all it ever was.

I’m a self-hoster and self-admitted energy-addict.

On one hand, I think getting away from corporate control, self-hosting, and data archival are important, on the other hand they are also deeply resource intensive.

I think in the future whether we like it or not personal computing as we know it might go the away simply due to energy constraints and it may be more like if people are lucky they have a small, low-powered command line device like a Raspberry Pi, probably with very high latency.

Calling this mildly infuriating is… well… putting it mildly.

I’ll be there for you

(In the bottom of your bag)

I’ll be there for you

(Shoved in your burger)

I’ll be there for you

(And give you a heart attack too)