“ALL HAIL CHAIRMAN TRUMP! WITH HIS GLORIOUS 10% PURCHASE OF INTEL, THE SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF AMERICA ENTERS A BOLD NEW ERA” -- California governor Newsom riles Republicans with Trump-trolling posts

[u/marketrent]

https://www.barrons.com/news/meme-lord-newsom-riles-republicans-with-trump-trolling-posts-05b74794

[u/HotelPuzzleheaded654]

The one thing you can give Trump credit for is that he is very transparent about his corruption given it relies on his base being total morons.

They have this assumption everyone is corrupt but it’s okay if you don’t try to hide it.

[u/TacticlTwinkie → u/HotelPuzzleheaded654]

That’s the thing. They are thoroughly convinced that the other side is already doing all these things. In their mind, they are just fighting fire with fire.

[u/crankisaurusrex → u/TacticlTwinkie]

They're telling on themselves. They think everybody else is doing it because it's exactly what they'd do given the opportunity.

[u/Drolb → u/crankisaurusrex]

It’s fucking wild how awful these people must be internally, and how horrible they must be to know and interact with.

Like it’s one thing to be cynical, I’m cynical a lot of the time

But to be so far off the scale of terrible people that you fully believe all people are bastards all the time and will always screw everyone over at every opportunity you’ve got to be a real piece of shit. I’m talking sloppy steaks level piece of shit.

[u/No-Mark4427 → u/Drolb]

The one thing I find most scary and most fascinating about most people, including myself, is how unbelievably easy it is for anyone to convince themselves that anything is true or OK. Even if it means they are a massive hypocrite, its super easy to simply switch that off and say 'nah its different for me'

[u/1-800PederastyNow → u/No-Mark4427]

I agree. Anyone that says they would never have been a Nazi is deluding themselves, there is nothing inhuman about Nazis and that's why they're so terrifying. With just the wrong upbringing...

[u/Senior-Albatross → u/1-800PederastyNow]

Nazis were quintessentially human, actually. That evil is within all of us was the lesson. Unfortunately, not wanting to acknowledge difficult truths and replacing them with nonsense is also within all of us.

[u/Canadian-Man-infj → u/Senior-Albatross]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eichmann_in_Jerusalem

Philosopher Hannah Arendt coined the term "banality of evil" and it's exactly what you're describing.

She found that they weren't "evil" necessarily and not even that intelligent; they were just obedient underlings doing what they were told to do...

In the end, they were just "doing their job."

[u/el_muchacho → u/Canadian-Man-infj]

Basically when society tells them something that was once unacceptable is now acceptable, most people don't think twice and it becomes their new normal. This is why propaganda channels like Fox are so dangerous. You can see the shift year after year towards fascism and what was inconceivable only a decade ago is now accepted and will eventually become the norm. What Nazism taught us is, there is no bottom to this process, even in a society we call "civilized".

[u/Lil_S_curve2 → u/el_muchacho]

My fucking father summed up.

I hate this ride.

[u/xpdx → u/Senior-Albatross]

Nazi Germany was absolutely swimming in methamphetamine. Soldiers took it, housewives, police, bakers, and the fuhrer himself had quite the habit going too. Pervitin it was called, although Mr. Hitler got injections of the really good shit from his doctor.

Yes they were humans and all humans have the capacity for evil, but truckloads of meth sure does help push it over the top.

[u/SunyataHappens → u/xpdx]

Millions of doses used during the Nazi blitzkrieg through Poland into France.

[u/overkill → u/xpdx]

The book "Blitzed" by Norman Ohler is an excellent exploration of both of these subjects. The subtitle of it could be "Were the Nazis crank fueled meth heads?" and the answer is "largely, yes".

They even had meth laced chocolate called Hausfrauenschokolade for housewives so they could do their housework at super speeds.

[u/BuckThis86 → u/Senior-Albatross]

Nazism and fascism occur when fear and greed take the place of care and love

[u/calgarspimphand → u/1-800PederastyNow]

As an engineer and a history buff, I always thought about what it would have been like for engineers at places like BMW or Krupp to keep working on weapons even after the Nazis had revealed their full evil. How could one do that?

And so I am now unemployed, because at this point in American history I refuse to continue working in the defense industry.

[u/crankisaurusrex → u/Drolb]

Don't get me wrong, I agree with you wholeheartedly. But...

A lot of people are products of their environment.

Some people believe all people are bastards because everyone they've ever known has been a bastard.

It's not necessarily a MAGAT's fault they are the way they are. Maybe Dad beat him in the name of God, his older brother stole all his food, and the only media on ever was Fox news.

And then Introspection is hard, even for a lot of very smart people.

(Let me post-script this with 'Fuck all Republicans')

It's whatever's going on in our culture that's the carcinogen. MAGA's just a tumor that's metastisized.

[u/cantadmittoposting → u/crankisaurusrex]

It's whatever's going on in our culture that's the carcinogen. MAGA's just a tumor that's metastisized.

yeah i think a lot about how ubiquitous peer to peer global communication (i.e. internet, social media) exposed existing cultural rot, versus how much of that rot was introduced by this reactionary right wing growth.

 

Prior to widespread internet, i think many of the "middle american conservative evangelicals" may have legitimately been unaware how outdated bigoted their whole culture basically was.

So they showed up to "the internet" and got absolutely inundated with all these supposedly awful or immoral cultures sort of openly just existing and posting, and got metaphorically punched in the face with a rejection of their insular religious bigotry.

 

So religious and conservative strategists of course jumped on that fear, and weaponized it, and also, via botnets and paid influencers and all that other jazz, recreated the safe space on social media networks by overloading algorithms with "safe" messaging.

so people like poor innocent grandma now logs on to facebook and thinks all is right with the world again because she sees AI generated croissant jesus instead of second cousin billy's pride parade photos from the big city. And the angry people get a whole tiktok algo convincing them they're "winning."

[u/mmlovin → u/cantadmittoposting]

I’m starting to think the internet in general is a mistake. I mean, I’ve known that about social media for a while, but idk man the internet seems to have started to reverse humanity’s progress backward.

All scientific studies say humans are more lonely than ever, it’s a health crisis. That’s humans existing right now. All the studies say none of us like to online date, that we don’t know how to make friends without relying on social media. Like the majority of us would rather be talking to people in the coffee shop, but we aren’t cause we’re all on our phone in the coffee shop. It’s nuts to me. It’s actually changing our brain development.

Like I’m 34, I remember what it was like to have to be present in the real world all the time without a computer world to escape to. You HAD to be with people. & I’m lonely as shit & rely on the internet for socialization cause of depression.

Now what does is a lonely 34 year old look like 30 years from now? Someone who literally never had to have that human interaction to have relationships?

TLDR: The cons of the internet are getting really close to outweighing the pros & it’s being reflected society

[u/Ok-Primary6610 → u/mmlovin]

The "time before the Internet" wasn't all gravy train. Some of us don't live around people where we fit in. As a geek, growing up in the late 80's and through the 90's had its rough moments. Now try being a POC, non religious, pansexual AND a geek. Pretty much everything that the right hates and "normal" people made fun of. Imagine how lonely that was before being able to find similar people online to talk to. Something to think about.

[u/TBANON_NSFW → u/crankisaurusrex]

Its because they are addicts.

And Hate is their choice of drug.

Hating can literally release endorphins, dopamine and serotonin to deal with the stress that comes from how they perceive their world to be.

Fox news has spent decades dosing the people with daily sprinkles of hate. They create the stress first by presenting absurdly out of context if not totally fabricated viewpoints and issues, then follow those stress inducers with hateful rhetoric that allows the viewers to get both the urge and release in one sitting. Its why its something old people have on 24/7 in their homes. Not the millions of movies and tv episodes, but fox news running 24/7... ITs why young people flock to social media personalities and joe rogan. They do the same, they give them a series of stress inducers and then follow it up with the release through hating minorities and woke and socialism and dei and whatever acronym or group they decide is at fault at the moment.

And everyone enjoys a little hate. Have you ever watched a movie, or seen a game, or heard a song and just disliked it, like you cant understand why others would like it, or you watch segments on daily show or olivers show and get angry but also get a release from them making fun of these things and people, then you go online and read someone sharing that opinion or talk with your friends and they also agree it sucks, it feels good right. You feel justified you feel acknowledged you feel a little happy.... relaxed....

Now imagine that amped up to 1000.

BUT over time people become numb to the hate, it becomes normalized just like anything in excess would do.

UNTIL Trump came along and gave them a new level of amygdala hits like they were taking fent laced crack cocaine straight up their buttholes. And once they got that taste of that kind of high....

Ooooo boy, its like trying to convince your neighborhood crack addict with no teeth and rotting toes that he should stop hitting the pipe x 1000 because their crack is everywhere around them 24/7, its on the radio when they wake up and go to work, its around the office and during lunch breaks, its on their doctors waiting rooms, in their grocery stores, in their gyms, even when they hang out, they talk about how much they love their hate crack cocaine so much, they love to share and boof each others buttholes. They spend their nights before sleeping just taking another hit, so they can dream about their hate. Heck they even go to churches that preach that hate.

To help someone who is brainwashed and inside a cult, you need to take that person away from the cult first and foremost. But like i just wrote, they are surrounded by it everywhere. And with Fox News and Sinclair media owning almost all local news stations, and the rise of social media hate peddlers, its pretty much impossible to reach them.

Trump could literally rape a child on 5th ave in front of every news station and joe rogan and instagram social media influencers, and they would still vote for him next time and find a way to justify him raping a child in front of their eyes and in turn their voters agreeing and blaming the child or democrats or biden or obama.

Because they are addicts. They want their hit of hate no matter what.

[u/Deadlymonkey → u/Drolb]

I don’t think it’s that, I think it’s more so that their evaluation of themselves is incredibly high and this is a convenient explanation to justify why their views/values may not be as popular as they want to believe.

[u/dcrico20 → u/crankisaurusrex]

For the most part they've been told their entire lives that anybody left of Reagan has been doing this kind of shit.

The right has built a permission structure for this kind of authoritarian regime for decades through relentless agitprop while the media manufactured consent with relentless enlightened centrism, false equivalencies, and nuance poisoning.

And while this was happening, the Democratic party fully succumbed to corporate capture, leaving no actual opposition in Washington to fight this fascist takeover.

[u/ultimapanzer → u/crankisaurusrex]

Yeah, it’s called projection. The “every accusation is a confession” idea is very much reality with these people. Everyone should be concerned by how often they accuse democrats of being pedophiles…

[u/HeldnarRommar → u/TacticlTwinkie]

You see it with the whole gerrymandering debacle. Conservatives keep saying Dems have been gerrymandering for decades and do it more than conservatives when that’s not even remotely true and has zero basis in reality.

[u/RedditReader4031 → u/HeldnarRommar]

Search Tarrant County TX commissioner interview about redistricting maps. This clown says it with a straight face as if he’s the only correct one.

[u/Bellamysghost → u/TacticlTwinkie]

Yeah that’s what the projection was for. The election lies, the baby killer/pedo accusations. They were prepping for this. If I accuse you of stealing from me in front of the family all week when I finally actually steal from you the family is gonna think im retaliating vs. just being a dick.

[u/Simple-Pea8805 → u/TacticlTwinkie]

I think “convinced” is the wrong word, here. They just hate black people and gay people. They don’t care what Trump does, long as Black people and Gay people are disenfranchised.

My coworker was listening to a crypto bro talking about the “[gay slurs]” ruining everything just an hour ago.

[u/Silver-Bread4668 → u/Simple-Pea8805]

They just hate. Full stop.

The Republican propaganda machine has tapped into that by giving them something to hate. Black people. Gay people. Immigrants. Anyone other than themselves. Anyone they are told to hate.

Even though the hatred is build on bullshit, the threat to those groups that it creates of thin air is very real and tangible. We can't not defend ourselves or our loved ones that are affected.

And so the filthy peasant class gets stuck fighting amongst themselves, even though many can clearly see the bullshit for what it' is, while the rich get richer. If I didn't hate it so much I'd say it's a pretty fucking brilliant strategy.

[u/Simple-Pea8805 → u/Silver-Bread4668]

They became their own parody by American Dad

[u/Tall_Sir_4312 → u/Simple-Pea8805]

Exactly what I have been saying. It doesn’t matter if they are uneducated or giving up public benefits or any of that. They are hate filled people and that is what moves them emotionally. To boot they are afraid of anything that challenges their hate filled views and they attack that too.

[u/this_my_sportsreddit → u/Tall_Sir_4312]

its absolutely wild how much of the left STILL doesn't understand this. We're literally more than a decade into trump and his fans spewing and loving bigotry and hatred, yet still there are large portions of the left who are still like..'man..i wonder what their motivation is. i'm sure going to college will fix them'

[u/SnooCompliments8967 → u/Simple-Pea8805]

They have been told the "left" is doing what the right is currently doing for decades now - stealing freedom and government and building a fascist empire that's destroying the economoy for their special interests.

When you believe those are your enemies, then you deally don't care much about the moral character of the person fighting them. "Enemy of the enemy is my friend" and all that.

[u/BobbySpitOnMe → u/TacticlTwinkie]

I tried to bring up the blatant corruption to my family and they started what-abouting the Clintons’ speaker fees.

[u/MrSnarf26 → u/TacticlTwinkie]

Yea republicans love it. We have “both sides”’d ourselves into fascism.

[u/ELLinversionista → u/HotelPuzzleheaded654]

Imagine Kamala launching a shitcoin then rugpulling people. These people would probably ask for her head. But then she would never do that nor people buying the shitcoin since they don’t follow a cult leader and are not* dumbasses

[u/EnfantTerrible68 → u/ELLinversionista]

Imagine if Kamala had been married 3 times with kids from all 3 different fathers?

[u/Hamonwrysangwich → u/EnfantTerrible68]

She didn't, and MAGA referred to she and Biden as "Joe and the Hoe" anyway.

[u/MadRaymer → u/Hamonwrysangwich]

They didn't stop there. They were calling her Heels-up Harris, BJ queen, and a few other things I don't even feel comfortable typing out. There's zero evidence she "slept her way to the top" yet they believe it, because in the MAGA mind there's simply no other way a woman could achieve a position of power.

I think sometimes we forget that in addition to how openly racist much of America is, perhaps even more of it is openly sexist. There's no way to test this theory, but I think if Trump's 2024 opponent had been a black man with exactly the same qualifications Harris had, that opponent would have won (though probably just barely).

[u/Immediate-Repeat-201 → u/MadRaymer]

Its exactly this. MAGA women saying that she slept her way up is COPE because that's what they all had to do. I feel bad for them as fellow humans but holy shit yall fucked my country up.

[u/EnfantTerrible68 → u/MadRaymer]

Oh, we women are well aware of that, unfortunately.

[u/_BannedAcctSpeedrun_ → u/MadRaymer]

Everyone knows the OG throat goat was Nancy Reagan.

[u/Papayaslice636 → u/MadRaymer]

Also the argument that women sleep their way to the top never made sense to me. If they could get to the highest positions of society, government, business, etc just by sucking and fucking a few guys (or a lot of guys) then women would be in charge of literally everything by now.

[u/ELLinversionista → u/Hamonwrysangwich]

Trump is nowhere near the textbook morally good person. Also, calling someone a hoe shows exactly how these people treat women. Like I wouldn’t use that even for sex workers since it is such a demeaning word. Oh let’s not forget these people are protecting women’s sports. The Hypocrisy and Idiocy go hand in hand with these people.

[u/KaiserJustice → u/EnfantTerrible68]

Some who’s other parent was an immigrant who wasn’t a US citizen yet

[u/Notsurehowtoreact → u/EnfantTerrible68]

They straight up gave her shit for being "just a step-mother." They are ghouls. 

[u/EnfantTerrible68 → u/Notsurehowtoreact]

Isn’t Melania also a step mother?

[u/BabyStingrayJesus → u/EnfantTerrible68]

And one of those kids was conceived via extramarital affair.

[u/Jrylryll → u/EnfantTerrible68]

She dated someone 30 years ago and they can’t get over it.

[u/discocrisco → u/HotelPuzzleheaded654]

Trump’s entire shtick is turning corruption into a performance.

[u/Ok_Scale_4578 → u/discocrisco]

“I’m smart”

With two words, trump took an entire electorate who railed against abuse of government entitlements and convinced them that like behaviors are ok as long as it benefits them. Then they raped the PPP program.

[u/ramvorg → u/HotelPuzzleheaded654]

Right!?!

It’s so obvious how trump is giving Maxwell a sweet ass deal for silence.

Everyone sees this, right?

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoFilterNews/s/JSMhgFqtZ5

[u/ThePimpImp → u/HotelPuzzleheaded654]

I knew Intel was in dire straights, but this confirms it was so much worse than we thought. Kills the brand for me permanently though. Will be interesting to see if its saves the company or if it is just stay of execution.

[u/[deleted] → u/HotelPuzzleheaded654]

I find it funny. Trump somehow has the ability to get away with the blatant corruption and authoritarianism that Republicans have wanted to get away with for decades. George W Bush had to have a terrorist attack to even attempt this level of corruption.

[u/HotelPuzzleheaded654 → u/[deleted]]

Yeah they’ve basically let in a Trojan horse of authoritarianism but in this case the Trojan horse was made of glass.

There is no underpinning ideology beyond consolidating power and enriching himself, that’s why Trump seems to borrow from various political ideologies and the Republican Party is simply the vessel rather than the political principles/ideology.

Whole thing is so morally bankrupt in the most shameless way.

[u/monacelli → u/HotelPuzzleheaded654]

The one thing you can give Trump credit for is that he is very transparent about his corruption

I'm thinking that's the actual play that he's running. He doesn't want to be one of the presidents that everybody forgets so he might as well go down in history for something that he's truly the best at.. He will be known as the best grifter/con man that the world has ever had to deal with and he gets to do whatever the fuck he wants in his twilight years while achieving this goal.

[u/Ok_Series_4580 → u/HotelPuzzleheaded654]

I thought republicans HATED SOCIALISM?! /s

[u/koshgeo → u/Ok_Series_4580]

I know you're being sarcastic, but not really. They love socialism for the military, for example. There are plenty of things they love spending government money on, but then they pick and choose what they call "socialism".

Anything they don't like: socialism. Anything they do like, they never mention it.

[u/DevelopedDevelopment → u/HotelPuzzleheaded654]

I mean they always complain about government corruption, but corporate contracts literally work by providing a service as cheap as possible so everything extra the government gave you can be considered profit. Or better yet, the government stops providing that service so a company can sell you solutions directly, like healthcare.

[u/AusGeno]

I went to check out the conservative sub to see what they think of this. No article. No discussion.

[u/FreneticPlatypus → u/AusGeno]

My uncle was a hardline maga fan and whenever he was faced with proof he was wrong or that Trump was the shitheel he is, he’d just turn away and say, “Well I don’t know anything about that.” He didn’t want to know. It’s easy enough for them all to cherry pick what belongs in their reality.

[u/bluemaciz → u/FreneticPlatypus]

It really is always that line - “well I don’t know about that.” Like feigning ignorance somehow absolves them of doing any critical thinking.

[u/pagerussell → u/bluemaciz]

At that point you tell them this is what they value, these are their principles, and if that's the case, you can no longer be in my life, because I am not going to tolerate people who believe hateful things.

[u/ToastedWave → u/bluemaciz]

I recall a group of people back in the 40s or something that also said they didn't know about a bunch of atrocities....hmmmmm

[u/InternetGoodGuy → u/FreneticPlatypus]

I get this all the fucking time from MAGA family.

"I'm telling you about it. So now you know. What do you think?"

They just wave it away and start asking what I think about some stupid culture war thing that isn't happening. Like CRT in grade schools or schools pushing kids to be trans. It's impossible to talk to them about any of this.

[u/PizzaInMyBread → u/InternetGoodGuy]

Same here. I gave up. I only expect the die-hard MAGA in my life to actually care when the shit lands on their doorstep and there's no more denying it. It's how they've been in the past with many issues unfortunately.

[u/ArmedAwareness → u/InternetGoodGuy]

I cut contact with my magatarded family.

[u/buckyb4dg3r → u/FreneticPlatypus]

Or claim “well [insert Dem candidate] would be even worse!”

Source: my MIL

[u/illecebra_games → u/FreneticPlatypus]

What he means is "I haven't been given any talking points on that."

Anytime there's a surprising development, you see the silence and confusion among conservatives, often for days, until their pre-approved talking points are handed down.

But some subjects are too dangerous to even issue talking points on. The propagandists decide it's better to just bury it and never speak about it.

It's our duty to bring these subjects up, relentlessly.

[u/kent_eh → u/FreneticPlatypus]

“Well I don’t know anything about that.”

"Maybe you should learn, then..."

[u/Nematrec → u/kent_eh]

"There's a lot of things you don't know about. I'm beginning to think it outnumbers the things you do know about"

[u/Horskr → u/FreneticPlatypus]

I had some of those conversations with a couple family members the first go round with Trump. Not even crazy maga people, just life long Republicans. At best I'd get something like, "I didn't know he did that, that's awful!" Then talking to them later they just went ahead and voted for him a couple more times anyway. I don't even bother now.

[u/3-DMan → u/FreneticPlatypus]

"Doesn't look like anything to me.."

[u/distung → u/AusGeno]

There’s a post with maybe 3-4 people discussing it. The bots probably don’t know how to engage yet. It’ll come along with talking points soon enough.

[u/AusGeno → u/distung]

I searched the sub for Intel and sorted by recent and I only see one from yesterday before the 10% stake became official.

[u/GeneralRane → u/AusGeno]

None of the four people who make most of the posts have gotten around to it yet.

[u/ReignOnWillie → u/GeneralRane]

Gotta love the format of:

Random article posted. Then OP (bot) posts a 4-5 sentence comment opinion of how great Trump is.

Rinse and repeat

[u/minche → u/ReignOnWillie]

And if a discussion develops claim that the post is being brigaded

[u/Naive-Significance48 → u/GeneralRane]

Seriously though. Some of them make dozens of posts a day to the one subreddit.

Then, you scroll through and see the same accounts over and over posting.

Didn't notice for a while.

[u/FactoryPl → u/Naive-Significance48]

Most heavily moderated sub on the platform brought to you by the freedom of speech crowd.

[u/ImperfectRegulator → u/Naive-Significance48]

and the one anti abortion guy who is probably the only person I think might be real, but he's insane soooo

[u/p_k → u/GeneralRane]

It's the weekend after all. Some of them aren't bots but hired propagandists. They're full time employees like us and have weekends off. They'll be back posting Monday morning, you'll see.

[u/TheWizardOfDeez → u/p_k]

It makes sense, since they are always accusing the left of paid protesters that they are paying for supporters.

[u/distung → u/AusGeno]

Not sure if it was deleted. I saw the one you mentioned plus one more earlier today about the official news. Both with only a couple of comments.

[u/Arkeband → u/distung]

their favorite thing to post is “they’re brigading us!” when a really stupid take gets downvoted and is divisive even among the hogs.

[u/wtftocallmyself → u/Arkeband]

Plenty of alarmist immigrant stories but ..smh

[u/helloworldpat → u/wtftocallmyself]

Always the same, one person (that is not white and not Christian) did something bad - “see I told yall, dems don’t wanna see the truth, kick all of them out!”

My favourite takes the last few days from their sub: “Newson promised to end homelessness to end 10 years ago and nothing happened” - all while Trump promised to end the Russia Ukraine war in one day “Maxwell herself said Trump is innocent and they will still not be happy with it” - bro don’t even know where to start with that one

[u/buckyb4dg3r → u/helloworldpat]

All of their arguments can easily be counter arguments.

The Maxwell thread had a comment that basically said “well if Maxwell said Trump was incriminated, Dems would have said she was truthful!”

Wait, wouldn’t you just do the reverse and claim she’s a felon and perjured herself many times before?

[u/Garbitch69420 → u/Arkeband]

It's such a bizarre place. You'll find a good chunk of "rational" comments on a post about something unhinged Trump says or does, that say he's going too far, it's a waste of time, whatever. Then the magats calling those people liberals get downvoted and cry brigade. Then the next post is like "Yeah I'm super mega pro Trump" and it's equally upvoted. Is it collective split personality or is it just all bots

[u/danglotka → u/distung]

If you look at comment count theres actually a lot more. They just censor anything they dont like

[u/introspectivejoker → u/AusGeno]

The majority of the commenters in r/conservative are literally acting like the Maxwell testimony actually clears trump of wrongdoing.

Those people are the stupidest fuckers of all time

[u/AffectionateSwan5129 → u/introspectivejoker]

I do think that sub is riddled with bots and a sprinkle of humans. I see the odd dissenting opinion over Epstein - but so many are not based on politics but how the “left” must be seething.. it’s pretty impressive with all that winning that goes on, the opposition lives rent free in their minds all day.

[u/GreatGojira → u/AusGeno]

You have been banned from r/conservative for posting on r/technology

[u/apathy420 → u/GreatGojira]

I am banned from conservative and have never posted over there. Makes me wonder if they actively police accounts they don't want? Wouldn't surprise me

[u/bensefero → u/AusGeno]

The whole Epstein thing got gagged as soon as it started looking bad. No articles, no mentions, no discussion. If you typed in that name the only thing was from a week before

[u/WestleyThe → u/bensefero]

Everything gets gagged there or they wait to post it to see how it plays out. When Donald announced the DC takeover you would think they would all be cheering or something but there was nothing on there for days

They wait for it to die down and they wait to see how they are told to spin in based on right wing news talking points

[u/wtftocallmyself → u/AusGeno]

Slightly good news I've noticed the number of comments in that sub going down and down daily. It might be dawning on some of them, maybe, hopefully.. pitifully

[u/DistributionSalt4188 → u/wtftocallmyself]

It's because they ban anyone who doesn't enthusiastically toe the party line, lmao.

Anyone who goes "hey, wait a second..." is called a fake conservative and then has to either immediately purity test themselves or get banhammered.

Biggest safe space on the Internet for only the most fragile snowflakes.

So a solid portion of the people left on there seem to be legitimately mentally unstable and have made Trump their god.

[u/sokka2d → u/wtftocallmyself]

You just can't see them. Everyone is shadow banned.

[u/lolas_coffee → u/AusGeno]

Conservatives are lemmings, nothing else.

If Trump told them to be liberals, they'd be liberals.

[u/fkih → u/AusGeno]

Every time there’s something indefensible going on with Trump they just post an article about an immigrant doing a crime to get mad about. 

[u/1OO1OO1S0S → u/AusGeno]

Well yeah, if it wasn't complaining about trans people or immigrants eating cats and dogs, do they really care?

[u/musclecard54 → u/AusGeno]

They get removed by mods. There are regular people there with conservative beliefs and they get shit on for asking questions and commenting anything that isn’t praise of the administration

[u/ECguy84 → u/AusGeno]

FLAIRED USERS ONLY

[u/No_Mercy_4_Potatoes → u/AusGeno]

There are never any posts about any negative press on that sub. It's like they collectively decided to put blindfolds on and act normal.

[u/Weary_Cabinet_8123 → u/AusGeno]

You’ll get nothing from that sub. It’s one of the most disgustingly censored echo chambers on the entire app and that’s saying a lot

[u/JSpell]

Wait, what about the free market.....

[u/_SummerofGeorge_ → u/JSpell]

Freedom costs a buck o’ five bro

[u/BrewHog → u/_SummerofGeorge_]

Yeah there's a hefty fuckin fee

[u/Substantial-Low → u/BrewHog]

Freedom isn't free

[u/True_Window_9389 → u/JSpell]

What about Congress? I guess it’s silly to even bring up, but how did we get a 10% stake in a private company without Congress appropriating the funds and writing approving legislation? Where is the legal basis for this?

[u/Standard-Ad-4077 → u/True_Window_9389]

It was going to Intel already via the CHIPS act, so Trump just got something for it upfront instead.

This should be common practise for companies to receive money from the Feds that isn’t in the form of tax breaks. Now the public owns 10% of Intel, which will most certainly be worth more when they eventually sell it if at all.

[u/Defiant_Review1582 → u/Standard-Ad-4077]

You’re getting downvoted but you’re correct. I remember Democrats and Republicans wanting a piece of Boeing last time they “needed” a bailout and then miraculously Boeing was able to find money in the private sector.

ETA: I don’t agree with giving any of these corporations free government money and too big to fail is a shit sandwich that rich people feed taxpayers. It’s socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor

[u/citizenjones]

Republicans quack then complain that they sound like ducks.

[u/cCowgirl → u/[deleted]]

I’d say they’re less like a duck and much more like a goose-stepping Nazi.

[u/JaffaTheOrange]

It’s the only way to beat him, expose him and go down to his level, it will infuriate him.

[u/absentmindedjwc → u/JaffaTheOrange]

Can't wait for Newsom to start calling out his personal features - laughing at him for his obvious comb-over, commenting on his little baby hands, commenting about how he got his looks from his mother.. who looks like she got hit in the face with a fucking shovel, commenting on his weight.

Its the only thing that really gets under his skin. I can't wait.

[u/Amiro77 → u/absentmindedjwc]

He already did the tiny hands. 

[u/FalconX88 → u/absentmindedjwc]

He already went with the tiny hands

DONALD IS FINISHED — HE IS NO LONGER “HOT.” FIRST THE HANDS (SO TINY) AND NOW ME — GAVIN C. NEWSOM — HAVE TAKEN AWAY HIS “STEP.” MANY ARE SAYING HE CAN’T EVEN DO THE “BIG STAIRS” ON AIR FORCE ONE ANYMORE — USES THE LITTLE BABY STAIRS NOW.

[u/Simple_Purple_4600 → u/absentmindedjwc]

cankles and diapers would do it

[u/BurrrritoBoy → u/absentmindedjwc]

Especially the gaping nussy

[u/moaterboater69 → u/BurrrritoBoy]

Normally I like nussys but Trumps is repulsive.

[u/LoTuS-MatRiX → u/JaffaTheOrange]

Like 12 years too late.

[u/Chrontius → u/LoTuS-MatRiX]

Better late than never. Sure would have been nice if the DNC got off their collective asses and ran someone compelling back then, though.

[u/tgt305 → u/JaffaTheOrange]

Well certainly taking the high road has worked fuck all

[u/rraattbbooyy]

Small government.

[u/Electrical_Top656]

the differentiating variable between capitalism and socialism is the ownership of the means of production, private hands in capitalism and the people/state in socialism

[u/Hettie933 → u/Electrical_Top656]

Yeah, but this is neither of those. Most of his supporters wouldn’t understand what it really is, so it’s smart to label it communism. Not that it will change what is left of their minds.

[u/telthetruth → u/Hettie933]

It’s fucking fascism. An authoritarian government is taking stake in a company to ensure it functions for their benefit.

Socialism implies that the government will take control of a utility to become a public service to benefit all. Intel is not a public fuckin utility and this will benefit no one outside of the oligarchy.

[u/SimoneNonvelodico → u/telthetruth]

It’s fucking fascism. An authoritarian government is taking stake in a company to ensure it functions for their benefit.

The specific reason why this government is doing is of course sus, but I don't think "owning strategically vital industries" is such a bad thing for states to do, even from a left wing perspective. It means there's potentially more accountability and political control over things that are important for the country to keep functioning even in time of crisis - which can be democratic accountability if the country's democracy is healthy (which is not in this case, but different story).

Saying that chips aren't vital in this day is delusional.

[u/sw00pr → u/Electrical_Top656]

Is it still "socialism" if the state is not in the hands of the people?

[u/absentmindedjwc]

Intel is now owned by a pedophile.. or at least, some of it is.

[u/Temassi → u/absentmindedjwc]

At least 10% of it

[u/Arado626 → u/Temassi]

Just the tip

[u/kairos → u/Arado626]

That's what they meant by "Intel Inside"

[u/drfrink85 → u/kairos]

Intel Inside (Minors)

[u/Repulsive_Subject526 → u/absentmindedjwc]

No. It’s owned by American tax dollars. This means we get part of the dividends right? Right? 

[u/tsdguy]

But won’t that increase the national debt? Oh right I forget increasing the debt is only bad when Democrats do it not Republicans. Because…

[u/MaximumManagement → u/tsdguy]

My understanding is he's repurposing CHIPS Act money to purchase a stake in Intel, so it doesn't affect the debt.

Is that legal? Probably not, but Roberts doesn't care.

[u/Jamizon1]

From the article:

"If there is a terrible natural disaster -- a catastrophic fire or mudslide -- it's fair to say that the White House keeps score," he said, "and the president may be less inclined to provide timely federal government support and funding for the response."

Now that would be a dereliction of duty. The POTUS has a responsibility to THE PEOPLE, regardless of their political alignment. Delaying disaster relief would be in conflict with that responsibility, and should be punishable.

Oh, wait… that’s right, the SCOTUS made him immune to prosecution for anything he does while in office… does that also apply to what he ~doesn’t~ do??

Trump is quite simply the worst POTUS in the history of this country.

[u/Chrontius → u/Jamizon1]

Now that would be a dereliction of duty.

Criminal negligence would be another good term.

[u/PokeYrMomStanley → u/Jamizon1]

Arguably the scotus is the worst.

[u/marketrent]

California governor Newsom wrote, "ALL HAIL CHAIRMAN TRUMP! WITH HIS GLORIOUS 10% PURCHASE OF INTEL, THE SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF AMERICA ENTERS A BOLD NEW ERA OF GOVERNMENT-RUN BUSINESS."

Agence France-Presse text:

All-caps hyperbole, wild accusations and idiosyncratic spelling: not just an average Wednesday on Donald Trump's Truth Social feed, but a new digital media strategy for California Governor Gavin Newsom that is delighting Democrats -- and riling Republicans.

Newsom -- hotly-tipped for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination -- has been parodying Trump with a series of posts written in the Republican leader's distinct style that he hopes will show his party how to beat the social media master at his own game.

In recent weeks the governor has posted all manner of manipulated images depicting him in the kind of over-the-top vignettes popular among Trump's "MAGA" movement -- superimposing his face on Mount Rushmore and appearing to pray with MAGA favorites Tucker Carlson, Kid Rock and Hulk Hogan.

When Trump's one-word weekend post -- saying simply "Bela" -- left the president's supporters scratching their heads, Newsom posted a screenshot alongside his own caption: "DONALD (TINY HANDS), HAS WRITTEN HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY THIS MORNING — UNFORTUNATELY (LOW IQ) HE SPELLED IT WRONG — 'BETA.'"

[...] Asked for comment, the White House shared with AFP an image it had initially sent US publication Politico repurposing a scene from the show "Mad Men" to demonstrate that Trump is not just unfazed, but doesn't think about Newsom at all.

Politico had called it the first official White House press statement delivered exclusively in meme form.

[u/Justnobodyfqwl → u/marketrent]

Y'know. I went to school for political science. I thought it was gonna be a boring and stable field. Local government and all that. Maybe a nonprofit. I didn't wanna have to see the White House Press Memes. I wanted to get a boring government job to stop seeing as many memes. 

[u/IAMA_Plumber-AMA → u/Justnobodyfqwl]

I guess that's what happens when people vote to turn reality into Reality TV.

[u/Adjective-Noun-nnnn → u/IAMA_Plumber-AMA]

45 years of Reagan cuts to public education and 20 years of Dubya's No Child Left Behind resulted in a population so stupid, on average, that they think reality tee vee is actually real.

[u/river_tree_nut → u/Justnobodyfqwl]

Same here. I think everyone with a poli sci degree is pretty shocked by all this. I look forward to when politics is boring again...although I'm not sure it's going to happen in my lifetime.

[u/mmlovin → u/river_tree_nut]

My BA is in poli sci with a focus on legal studies. But I was in college during the 2012 election when Romney’s binders of women thing was a huge fuck up.

If I was in right now?? I’d change fucking majors. I wanted to go to law school..what for? The law means jack shit

[u/cookies_n_juice → u/river_tree_nut]

I have a PhD in political science and am decidedly not shocked. Literature on democracy and polarization is pretty clear lol. Only the political science people who studied only the US (Americanists) were shocked. 

[u/framersmethod2028 → u/river_tree_nut]

if you want boring again, we need to make the election system boring again. right now its all emotion and entertainment. its a show.

[u/Thich_QuangDuc → u/marketrent]

White House has replied with a meme. Official response is a meme

Cool... Cool, cool, cool

[u/VroomCoomer → u/marketrent]

The buried lede in here the fact that the White House's official response to the request for comment was to send them a Mad Men meme.

[u/NotAllOwled → u/VroomCoomer]

It's extra funny because, in the source material, Don Draper is bluffing. Ginsberg totally does get under his skin and live rent-free in his head.

[u/coldphront3]

It's crazy to me that Newsom seems to be the only prominent Democrat who is consistently willing and able to get under Trump's skin and that of his supporters.

Don't get me wrong, many have spoken up and continue to do so. Newsom seems to be the one that gets to them the most, though, and most of what he says on social media these days is just a parody of Trump himself lol

[u/hotboii96 → u/coldphront3]

Because he finds joy in attack mode, just like Trump. He is fighting fire with fire, instead of trying to take the "high road" like alot of moronic democrats do when Trump attack them.

[u/dartheduardo]

Remember when Jimmy Carter gave up his peanut farm?

Cause he didn't want to influence anyone with his very great, perfect tasting, world famous....boiled peanuts?

This guy is up there with Joffrey levels of hatred from me.

[u/Freshstocx]

Republicans should be run out of the country. Traitors.

[u/KingPe0n]

He intentionally ran their stock low so he could buy in.

Grifter in chief.

[u/bluwolf83]

All this money to purchase anything they want. Not need - want. Yet we can’t fix our crumbling bridges or pave our pock-marked roads. The reality is that profits for the ruling class has taken everything. The rest of us are supposed to just shut up and pretend we agree. We are also not allowed to notice that the rest of the world is moving on without us. That our capitalism has become so lopsided that it no longer serves as a role model.

[u/RaindropsInMyMind]

Good political strategy (Newsom) imo, I’m interested to see where it goes.

[u/ultrafud → u/RaindropsInMyMind]

It's utterly depressing that "good political strategy" in the US is a massively sarcastic social media post from someone in the Democratic Party.

I'm not saying I don't agree with it, because I do, fuck Trump, but it's just a really sad state of affairs when this is what your politics has regressed to.

Where are the adults?

[u/couchbutt → u/RaindropsInMyMind]

Im waiting for a post on how gloriously large his hands are.

[u/FalconX88 → u/couchbutt]

DONALD IS FINISHED — HE IS NO LONGER “HOT.” FIRST THE HANDS (SO TINY) AND NOW ME — GAVIN C. NEWSOM — HAVE TAKEN AWAY HIS “STEP.”

[u/spribyl]

Step One: Control the means of production

Intel and Nvidia are beholden

[u/---Blix---]

"NDS - Newsome derangment syndrome is a thing."

Love it!

[u/LastImprovement7586]

The difficulty with trolling the right is that none of them know what socialism is. Most of them don't even have belief systems. It's just Trump GOOD, Liberals BAD. Newsom could cure cancer and republicans would find some way to say that Newsom is the only reason cancer existed in the first place. Meanwhile, Trump could murder everyone's first born child and the typical Trump-tard would just say it was necessary to save the nation.

[u/bi7worker]

« the first official White House press statement delivered exclusively in meme form ». So, this is how it ends..

[u/Quiet-Now]

I am starting to really like this guy

[u/Kruk01]

And everyone thought the Dems were the socialists

[u/Sancticide → u/Kruk01]

Silly Biden, only providing capitalist incentives with the CHIPS Act. He should've just started buying processor companies, like a proper Maoist. /s

[u/smiffer67]

Didn't trump extort the 10% out of Intel? I'm sure I read him gloating that he didn't pay anything for them.

[u/goddoc]

All good. Everyone have potato!

[u/trustmeep → u/goddoc]

No potato...only darkness.

[u/0098six]

Long live the SRA!!

[u/Large-Excitement777]

Welp time to buy AMD

[u/composedmason]

Just release the Epstein files and arrest Trump and Clinton and anyone else on them. Gaetz especially

[u/LightDarkBeing]

I bet that “when” he leaves “office”, he will expect to keep the 10% Intel, like the plane from Bahrain.

[u/shillyshally]

Forget it. The socialist aspect is utterly lost on his followers, they don't get the joke.

[u/Skiingislife42069]

It’s clear that a good amount of democrats dont like him, and I haven’t done enough research to learn why that is… but… this is the level of tit for tat we as a republic have been begging for. Too long have democratic centrists told us that stooping to the GOPs level would be morally wrong.

Fuck that. We need leaders who do more than wait until their party is in office to begin hearings. Hearings that btw don’t even come to fruition during a four year period. We need people like Newsom to fight fire with fire

[u/NerdyNinjutsu]

No it's still fascism

[u/AristocraticSeltzer]

The government owning the means of production is a literal hallmark of communism.

[u/crankysasquatch]

So now the country has a problem. When intel, very much a for-profit company cuts staff to increase profit, or violates laws, or gets a government contract the government is involved with it. Someone needs to introduce this dumb fucker to the term “conflict of interest”.

[u/OliverClothesov87]

Dumb comment. If we were actually socialist we would be significantly better off.

[u/LEM1978 → u/OliverClothesov87]

Intels better off. Corporations love to socialize their problems

[u/SunbeamSailor67 → u/LEM1978]

Haven’t you heard? The capitalist must always privatize profits while democratizing losses…it’s the American way.

[u/Sandukan_]

Long live COMMUNIST America 😂😂😂

[u/schloffgor]

Keep it up Governor, you're the only one so far that has this fat piece of orange craps number.

[u/ceribus_peribus]

Let's see if the bankruptcy king can work his magic when he only owns 10% of the company.

[u/Nzdiver81]

Next Trump is going to announce the Intel shares will be transferred to his personal library...

[u/sabimbi]

I like that Trump is now fully going into Komrade Kraznov era :) /s

[u/DonutsMcKenzie]

I'm personally in favor of practical applications of socialism, so I'm not mad at Trump about this (unlike the pedo stuff, the fascist shit, and the blatant attacks on democracy and the constitution).

But I have to say I'm bewildered to see the self-proclaimed "small government conservative" administration doing something so textbook socialist. I can only assume they're doing it because Trump is personally getting his beak wet by it, otherwise why would they?

[u/Callepoo]

Now, the rest of the world will know that Intel is a government agency. I'm sure that'll help sales....

[u/RadioRoyGBiv]

You got any of that Healthcare the rest of the world is on about?

[u/TidePodsTasteFunny]

He’s fucking calling these hypocrites out. Step up the heat

[u/Acrobatic-Tomato-128]

Trumps an idiot

He is the worst president of all time

Release the epstein files

[u/Comfortable-Ad-3988]

Seriously, what the fuck happened to the "free market/no regulation" meritocracy? Now it's straight-up cronyism/kleptocracy? This is not freedom in any sense of the word.

[u/snakebite75]

"If there is a terrible natural disaster -- a catastrophic fire or mudslide -- it's fair to say that the White House keeps score," he said, "and the president may be less inclined to provide timely federal government support and funding for the response."

Trump's FEMA has already denied funds from red states, there's no way in hell Trump would let them help a blue state.

[u/Nice_Collection5400]

Blockbuster is next on Trump’s investment scheme of public money.

[u/Longjumping-Leg5583]

The US taking a 10% stake in Intel isn’t the first time the government has held equity in major companies—recall the bailouts during the financial crisis.

What’s different here is that previous nationalizations, like GM, were responses to collapse, while Intel’s stake is tied to industrial policy and tech competition.

The major concern now is the precedent of government equity in strategic industries even without imminent failure, raising questions about political influence, long-term market distortion, and future expectations for corporate-government relationships.

This blurs lines between private enterprise and state direction—making the government both a policymaker and a vested shareholder—and could erode market trust in fair competition.