And that both sides of the current US political divide are exactly the same, yep, exactly the same. The really boring ones who are kinda slow to get with the times and then the ones who are destroying the institutions of government as fast as legally possible and also faster than legally possible. Yep. The same.
They went on, however, to question the ethics and judgment of the potentially destructive payload.
Goodness me, the brain-rotted slop fans suddenly care about ethics?
Next time I do a rewatch, I think I’m going to take inspiration from those green-skinned folks.
(Sorry, Tendi. Your great-grandma was cool. But back then they had a reputation for a reason.)
My grandpa’s name is Donald. I was gonna name my kid after him.
Sorry, grandpa.
New goal: nine fives of uptime
Okay, these two in particular feel like the pots calling the kettle black.
Don’t get me wrong, the foreign policy of the US is beyond a train wreck right now and we’re doing damage that will take decades to undo.
But the US being terrible doesn’t mean these guys are good.
Meanwhile, his and his family’s net worth has skyrocketed.
“No” would have been a shorter response.
Can you give me an example of a currently-running democratic candidate for national office that is saying what you’re claiming they’re saying?
That’s not what this meme is about.
This meme says “if you vote for them, they will not do what you want. Probably best to sit this election out.” It is an attempt to convince people not to vote. How do you not understand this?
Man, like they could have kept a big part of the government shut down to avoid funding more DHS stuff and negotiate to reopen without that funding. That would have been what you wanted.
THEY DID THAT. So how far do you want to move the goalposts this time?
I genuinely think these people fall into three categories:
It’s ridiculous that you think this image isn’t weaponized voter suppression
Can’t wait to stay home for an election and let people win who are actively destroying the institutions that keep people alive. I am so smart! Take that, people that I mostly agree with!
Boy I wish Joanne didn’t want people I care about to die
Couldn’t have happened to better people.
Obviously yes, one image is too many. But companies only care about money, and if their money is going to evaporate because of their stupid technology, they’ll figure out a way to shut it off before it costs them.
The alternative is the status quo, which is that there are no consequences so there are no changes. Or maybe you make the fine ten quadrillion dollars for the first image generated, which is never gonna fly.
Let’s say a user generates one image per minute. If they do that for an hour, that’s $30M. If they did that once a day for a month, that’s almost a billion dollars.
These services have hundreds of millions of users. Collectively, if they don’t stop, the fines will be total-world-GDP levels in days or weeks.
These things are nonconsensual sexual image machine guns, dude.
As with all terrorism, the lasting damage is self-inflicted by the overreacting victim.
Turning every airport into the thin end of the fascist wedge, all the rampant surveillance stuff, and perpetual war in the middle east did quite a lot of structural damage to American democracy. I’m not sure we’d have elected the current dipshit-in-chief without 9/11 fifteen years earlier. We’d have kept electing publicly mostly boring and privately kinda shitty people for another few decades.