Humanity cannot be THAT stoopid

Have you ever been introduced to the concept of Poe's Law?

There have been many iterations over the years as the picture gradually became clearer, but the current state of the observation is thus

There is no bottom rung to human stupidity, ergo Satire and Parody can never be more extreme than the genuine beliefs of someone, somewhere, and there's more of them than you want to believe.

Boy howdy do they like clutching pearls at the consequences of their own stupidity.

I call it "Turing's Revenge" where, once the bot can pass the Turing test, we find out the hard way if humans are intelligent... and we appear to have a lot of failed models, mostly in management.

The names of Elizabeth and Ines Soto need to be on every lip, just like Alex Pretty and Rene Good.

He's got a party to rebuild, but if there were ever a time you'd like to have a real left-of-center party in this country, now is the time to do get involved. They don't exactly have a lot of "Old Guard" to get in the way.

Those who make peaceful redress impossible will make violence inevitable. Such has always been true. It didn't have to be this way, but it has become abundantly clear that those we used to call brothers and countrymen have decided, immutably, that our survival is incompatible with theirs. They speak of compromise, but by compromise they mean surrender and extinction. They consider us monsters, evil incarnate. They are lost to us. We have no choice but to prepare for the inevitable, and prepare hard because our survival depends on our ability to organize and mobilize resources. Pray for peace. Prepare for the worst.

Maybe, maybe not. Regardless, a name is a powerful thing. It's hard for some to rally around an idea, especially when it's big and nuanced. People know who Nelson Mandela was though.

There's no note, everyone is a "Potential Drug Seeker", no exceptions.

He's gearing up for his own presidential bid

It's not the length of the sentence that matters, it's what a Terrorism charge does to you upon release. They may only get 5 years in a cell, but this is effectively a life sentence.

You're not going to "Break the back of polarization" because the people keeping us divided, who benefit from the dysfunction, are the same ones funding the careers of politicians. The system isn't broken and needs to be fixed. The system is working as intended and needs to be eliminated.

Well, it could, but not under the current conditions. A man can still dream.

It would be really nice if the system produced more than 2 options, you know? Sometimes the leftist party has very poor leadership or their ideas are just played out and it needs to lose power, but when the only alternative is the equivalent of throwing yourself in a fire because they're openly criminal and corrupt, you're damned if you and damned if you don't, si?

Not to minimize the horror of this, and it is awful, but sexual violence is always used in war. Always has been, always will be. That's not to say we should not tell the story of the innocent victims, we absolutely should and we should condemn the perpetrators, but we should also keep in mind this is a part of war. Property is destroyed, innocent lives are lost, survivors are often maimed, and people are sexually violated. Women, men, and children. It's part why there's no such thing as a just war.

Because they are stupid for voting for a right wing candidate. He's going to turn on them immediately and destroy their livelihoods because that's what they do. That's all the right wing ever does and has ever done. They're not here to help you. They're here to help themselves, usually to the fruits of your labour. And then they call us thieves for demanding our cut of the wealth back. The right wing is just organized crime with better PR, that's all they've ever been and that's all they'll ever be. Oh they'll dress it up in a song and dance about some nostalgic nonsense or another, it's all a spectacle to keep you distracted while they pick your pocket. "Oh we're the party of law and order" bullshit. They'll complain about crime, loudly and for hours to anyone who will listen, but their "solutions" are usually just more ways to profiteer off of it while pretending their useless gestures are "Doing something."

At least they're more honest about it than the damned centrists, but given the choice of being stabbed in the back or in the face, I'd say I'd rather not be stabbed at all.

It's the logographic nature of the text that makes it more common in eastern languages. Modern Western written languages, for the most part, are strictly alphabetic so since the symbol doesn't represent concepts, only vocal Phonemes which when strung together represent a concept, it's really hard to misinterpret the symbols, and it really doesn't matter which language you're representing with them. This gets a little fuzzy in Celtic languages because they have a lot of sound combinations that don't exist in other languages, and there's some confusion at times when looking at Western script and Cyrillic because while they're both rooted in the Latin Alphabet, they both evolved separate ways of handling various sounds, but since similar words that share a common meaning (and often a common root word) in a lot of languages do in fact sound different, they also are often spelled differently enough that it becomes obvious quickly which language you're using. There are of course some words and short phrases that do in fact get written identically in multiple, closely related languages, and that can confuse machines and people, but it's far less common than with eastern languages.

If you think the gas prices will start a riot, wait until you see the food prices in a few months. An army marches on its stomach. When you can't feed the soldiers, you're going to have a hard time quelling anything.

Listen... what happened on my juvenile record was sealed... 😜

Technically the core of the story is real, but the OP is basically just a tabloid blog, not a real news source. My guess is it's an AI generated article capitalizing on real stories and editorializing to make click bait.

https://www.kcci.com/article/iowa-abortion-law-exceptions-confusion-access/71102195

As an IT guy, I can confirm, it's a trap.