In the full clip he does it twice. I think this gif is the first salute, then he turns to his left and does it again.
If you’ve never seen the full clip and think “oh people are taking this out of context” give it a watch (it’s in the first 20 seconds of this news report https://youtu.be/48gTx8MpRmI
The sales staff? I mean why? Were customers complaining that the guy they weren’t buying cars from wasn’t haggard enough?
Universities have often played a role in being where protest movements begin and grow.
There’s a lot of reasons for this, you have a lot of students in one place, most students on scholarships and with loans have time on their hands to discuss issues of the day, most students aren’t constrained by work and family and property that would give others pause from participating in protest.
From the anti war movement in the 60s to the communist overthrow of China, mass political movements get their starts in universities.
So if you can set a precedent of criminalizing speech and make the punishments as cruel as possible, you make students think twice about protesting.
That’s what this is about, sure America is happy to do Israel’s bidding, but don’t think for one moment they actually give one flying fuck about that. They found a brown person with a foreign enough name that they could destroy for stepping out of line as a not so subtle way to say to every student, “shut up, keep your head down, and we won’t come after you”
It’s the same thing they are doing with Kilmar Abrego Garcia. They don’t care about these two individuals, they don’t have any special interest in harming them (though I’m sure they delight in it) they want to send a message to everyone else.
We have the power, shut up
That’s the message, step out of line and find out. Due process, free speech, that shit is over. You are welcome to pretend it still exists but challenge us and we are one clerical error from you enjoying a lifetime of free room and board at CECOT.
For this to work it has to be punishing, it has to be dehumanizing, it has to be spectacular. The goal is to make you think when you go to resist, “I don’t want to end up like that one guy…”
The point is to make this as visible and memorable as possible so when your personal breaking point is hit and you think to resist there’s a voice in your head that says “no I better not”
The absolute best life hack I have is the 5 minute rule.
If I see something that needs doing I ask one question, “can I do this in less than 5 minutes?” If the answer is yes, I do it.
Over time I’ve realized how many things I used to put off and let pile up because I didn’t have the time and how many of those things take less than 5 minutes, less than 2 minutes.
It’s amazing how many things you can do in basically no time. I used to put off so much, I won’t empty the dishwasher because it “takes too long” takes about 2 minutes. I won’t load the dishwasher because it “takes too long” takes about 2 minutes. The counter is messy but it would take forever to clean it, nope, 3 minutes.
I think it’s a good hack though because it works in 3 different dimensions
So that’s my cleaning life hack. It has completely changed the way I think about cleaning. It’s not something I stop and do and dread Saturday because I’ve got to do a big clean of the kitchen. My kitchen is always pretty clean now and on Sunday I spend 30-60 minutes mopping and spraying everything down for a nice squeaky clean.
Living in a nice clean place also rules.
Every suspension of due process seems to have the same contours.
Pick a person that you can tell your followers is “obviously bad.”
Now, because they are so obviously bad it seems like it should be no bother at all to go prove that to a court. But your followers didn’t get into this cult for the critical thinking skills workshops.
And now you’ve got your due process loophole, everything is all nice and legalish. The followers will never find themselves caught in that loophole, no sir, they aren’t “obviously bad.” Oh a follower of the cult just got caught in the loophole, well they must have not been a real follower, they are retroactively obviously bad.
What do you mean I’m obvious bad, no I’m not?! I can prove I’m not bad, I have evidence that I said the right things, I thought the right thoughts, I hated the right people!!! When’s my day in court, I can’t believe the things they are saying about me!!!
What do you mean get on the plane to CECOT?! I’m not a terrorist, I’m not in MS13, this is preposterous. You are only supposed to use this on people who are obviously bad…
As an American so far woke has meant for us.
Just a word of caution before you get rid of those things too
Classic Republican nanny state. Americans don’t have the freedom to enjoy bright red, white, and blue food anymore.
Yea he has built an entire persona off of going “this thing I can’t deliver is a year or two around the corner”
Self driving has been 12-18 months away for a decade plus now.
They get four years in office (if democracy holds up) and so his shtick is already not going to fly. Seems like he bet heavily on AI + a bunch of 20 year olds that didn’t understand their own limits. Sure yea, use AI to sift through a million emails explaining what people did last week to see who to fire… great plan.
A bunch of 20 year olds don’t know cobol and can’t figure anything out and their brilliant idea, let’s rewrite it all in Java real quick, should be able to knock that out in a sprint or two.
Normally his bullshit claims only need to be swallowed by his adoring fanbois. But when you start fucking with social security people aren’t satisfied with “trust me bro”
I hope Elon dies sad and alone. I hope from now until then he can’t take enough ketamine to push back the encroaching feeling that he’s a fraud and a loser and no one likes him. He and trump are perfect, two people have never had more and been more miserable because of it. Fuck them both.
I suspect it’s because a lot of people, myself included, think that this is how you get to festering problems that are fertile ground for the next authoritarian.
There was a brief moment after J6 where Lindsay Graham took to the floor of the senate, fresh from the reality of what had just happened and said that he didn’t support it. But a few weeks later, suffering no real consequences, he was back at the MAGA trough chowing down.
Humiliating people that change their minds for the better is probably not the solution. But saying “no consequences, all is forgiven if we can move on” is how you get confederate general statues all over union soil.
At the end of the day, trump supporters seem to be responding to the humanity crushing nature of global capitalism. They fall for the populist rhetoric and then swept up by the personality just assume that everything he said would get fixed is getting fixed now and everyone just doesn’t like him and are making things up. This works until it directly effects them, but even then they think it must be some mistake or oversight.
This goes to show how deep the hunger is for someone to rein in capitalism and support populist reforms. In the absence of any legitimate policies pointing in that direction, this conman is making a fantastic meal out of promising whatever sounds good, delivering nothing, then moving on to the next round of grifting.
Real substantive improvement to this nation will only come from actually improving the material conditions under which Americans labor. And this sounds strange for the wealthiest nation on earth, but many of our countrymen can’t afford healthy food, medicine, shelter, and if they can it’s at the expense of their every waking minute of labor. If you push a population like that, they will eventually wonder what the heck the point is, and they will follow anyone that says they can fix it. Sadly, trump sees this rhetoric as a campaigning tool nothing more, he could care less if people can sell their alfalfa as long as they cheer for him. And the Democratic Party isn’t offering compelling solutions either, they’ve slid far enough right that Biden’s cornerstone IRA and CHIPS acts largely targeted massive companies in a full embrace of trickle down economics. Intel gets to build a new chip foundary eventually, if the legislation isn’t gutted, and if intel doesn’t find it more convenient to pocket the cash, blame burdensome regulations, and cancel the project a la Foxconn in Wisconsin.
Both parties are captured by the massive companies, they can only legislate in the thin band the wealthy donors allow them too. Dems offer up solutions in that band that dont make things meaningfully better. MAGA just figured out that no one is following up, so you can say you’ll do popular things and then deliver a massive tax cut to the wealthiest instead.
The fed controls interest rates. That controls how cheap or expensive it is to borrow money.
Lower interest rates are a great tool if you’ve got people sitting on capital. You lower the interest rates, borrowing becomes cheaper, and capital takes advantage of this to start more enterprises and the economy heats up.
Higher interest rates help fight inflation, there’s too much money in the system, higher rates make getting more money to pump into the system more expensive cooling it down.
Now what a keen observer might notice is that there no direction to move the interest rates which counteract nonsense trade policies.
You can cut rates to 0, flood the market with cheap credit, and if your inputs are tariffed and you can’t turn a profit… it doesn’t change shit.
This is where stagflation thrives. The cheap money floods the economy to try to spur economic growth, but the thing holding back growth isn’t access to borrowing, it’s the nonsense trade policies. So the market flooded with cheap money just becomes inflationary.
You get little economic development, high inflation, this is a classic stagflation trap. And trump and his advisors are going to apply maximum pressure to cut rates to “save the economy” from their terrible trade policies and all that will do is sink us deeper into this hole.
I’ve normally heard the term “bad faith” used to describe such situations.
You’ll sometimes hear about a lawyer doing this and the judge will chastise them for acting in bad faith or advancing a bad faith argument.
Hey the Nazi shitwagon has got better battery range now for when you need to drive it to the dealership to get it glued back together.
Fuck Elon and his dumpstermobile.
He likely has narcissistic personality disorder and so this is less an act and more a mask, a shield. The person he’s protecting the most is himself, he needs to be this facade.
I found this video really quite fascinating about what it’s like caring for a dying narcissist. Whatever family that remains hold out hope that as death itself nears the narcissist might finally let down their guard and show their true self. Apparently the opposite happens.
Neat, I appreciate your insight. Upvote from me and today I learned.
$100k when I checked on Friday. Not going to check again, that way madness lies.
An entire lifetime of work, living modestly, saving, funding my retirement accounts, paying a financial advisor to help me make responsible decisions.
Blown up by that orange turd.
We should make them take an oath to defend the constitution so they would know what they should do…
Yea this is my problem with this video.
It’s a pretty good video and the creator gets so close to figuring out that he doesn’t hate his phone, he hates social media.
It’s an interesting video from the point of view that it kinda makes this argument over and over.
I thought that doing X without my smartphone would be really inconvenient, it was only mildly inconvenient and I was able to manage it.
He ends up realizing how much happier he is without having the ability to just pull his phone out and go on twitter anytime he is bored. So just delete twitter?
All the benefits of his experiment can be had by just getting rid of social media apps and all the inconveniences can go away.
I really wanted this video to end with him putting those two bits together. But instead he just goes “well back to using a phone and it making me miserable” and as the viewer I’m just thinking “what was the point of all this then?! You learned a lesson, you gained a valuable insight about yourself as a person, and now just nothing. Just ‘cool insight, no need to act on that though’ seriously?!”
Yea I tend to think than when someone identifies as a Libertarian they almost certainly don’t mean a civil libertarian, which is how the aclu actually identifies themselves.
We have grown from a roomful of civil libertarians to more than 4 million members, activists, and supporters across the country. The ACLU is now a nationwide organization with a 50-state network of staffed affiliate offices filing cases in both state and federal courts. We appear before the Supreme Court more than any other organization except the Department of Justice.
This is literally the only time the word libertarian appears in their own history https://www.aclu.org/about/aclu-history
Thank you.
I feel like a crazy person sometimes because I remember when the ACA was rolling along it was reported that it was just the Heritage Foundation, a notoriously right wing think tank, plan.
I looked into it because I thought “certainly this can’t be true, hope and change and all that” I went and looked up their plan. It was a market based approach that used tax incentives and penalties to increase the size of the insurance pool.
That’s the ACA.
And people act like it’s some litmus test of progressive policy success.
This is what I’ll never forgive Obama about. He captured an entire generation of voters energy stumping with progressive speeches about making real change. He had no real desire to do that, constantly governing from the center / center right.
So that whole generation learned a lesson, progressive policies don’t work. Which is amazing considering that we didn’t even try any. We somehow passed a bunch of corporate friendly policies and peoples lives didn’t get meaningfully better and they chalked it up to “progressives don’t have an answer either”
I think this is a contributing factor to the absolute shit show we find ourselves in today. America has deeply broken problems that are entrenched because them existing makes someone very rich. Not the same guy for every problem, but for every problem in America you can rest assured there’s a small group of assholes that need that problem to exist so they can buy a third yacht. People feel that pain and they went “well fuck, the lefts best orator, the guy with a vision and plan and skills couldn’t fix it” then along comes trump being a blowhard jackass saying “I can fix it” and people were like “sure, let’s try it”
Obama could have actually delivered on that change, it wouldn’t have been easy, he would have had to actually use that supermajority for the few weeks it existed to pass legislation. He would have had to bring blue dogs to heel or blow up the filibuster. But if he could have found the gumption to do it, and those policies meaningfully improved peoples lives, he would have cemented multiple decades of democratic dominance.
Instead he passed uninspiring half assed solutions that tinkered around the edges of our societies most difficult problems. Structured them so that all the pain would be felt up front and all the benefits would slowly phase in over time. Tried to find compromise so that the right wouldn’t attack him and even after giving everything away they screeched about death panels.
The funniest thing to me is you can see how psyched he is to do this which is so mega cringe it hurts.
It’s like you can almost hear the little edge lord devil on his shoulder going “do it Elon, do the Nazi salute. Kekekek do it again”
He is such a sad man, if he weren’t such a 5 alarm dumpster fire of a human being I would feel sad for him