That read was great for the soul.

Anyone want to share context or anything for those of us who don’t know?

Just because you like why they’d do it doesn’t make it less authoritarian.

Just like in Hungary this week?

No idea what you’re trying to say.

You should probably read what OP wrote and what I responded to.

Military control to prevent an opponent from taking power is almost literally the definition of authoritarian.

Like I said:

Politically, they Impeached trump and only craven Republicans saved him.

You know what could have given trump problems? More Dems in the Senate either time he was Impeached!

You would probably refer to me as an authoritarian yeah

You are correct

And the answer to rising fascism is not trying to replace a popular authoritarian with an unpopular one.

Unfortunately, everyone can call anyone a fascist. That’s the entire problem.

Any system wherein one group can just dismantle another because of their politics will be abused. If whatever magical law/mechanism your nonsense required existed and had been used after the 2020 election, trump’s successor would simply have done the same thing to the Democrats next time but we’d be even worse off as there would be no constraints on their power and no viable opposition, unlike the Dems who now stand a Puncher’s chance in the goddamn Senate.

Being the good guy is difficult but the road you propose inexorably leads to authoritarianism.

I get that politics is slow and boring but this isn’t a video game.

Trump and crew literally attempted to overturn the election and the Dems did next to nothing

Are you forgetting how almost everyone who stormed the Capitol was arrested?

Politically, they Impeached trump and only craven Republicans saved him.

The rest is supposed to be on the voters, more than half of whom decided they were okay with what had happened. As is their unfortunate democratic right, that’s literally how it works.

they did nothing to prevent fascism. The fascist did not face serious detrimental consequences of any kind.

That is the trumpiest and scariest line of thinking possible. Elections are not meant to punish the losing side.

The very fact the Dems won in an election is a demonstration that they weren’t battling fascists yet.

This is crazy dumb.

It’s almost like you have to win the election…

I may hate the Maple Leafs but goddamn some of Toronto’s buildings ans neighbourhoods are lovely.

Great shot!

Yeah, really seems donald is doing his damnedest to give the Democrats the Senate.

His claim is that he’s a professed Christian who is so religiously unaware that he thought that was a doctor? Really?

Not sure trump knows enough about the situation to give a good report. On the other hand, this might explain the erratic decision making.

“What progress have you made Donald?”

“Uhhh, there’s a blockade…”

“What? Iran’s blockading during the ceasefire?”

“Cease fire? … i mean, uhhh, no, we’re blockading! It’s the biggest most beautiful blockade, no one’s ever seen a blockade like this! All the aid is blocks!”

That was a more hopeful and literate version of the future than the one we’re one. Were Ender’s Game rewritten now, Peter and Violet would be influencers…

That’s wild and kind of makes me want to see him do “Star Wars middle age man.”

Footage of Vance during the negotiations:

The top ways people plan to use AI is to help answer filing questions, find deductions or credits, and review returns for mistakes.

If you can’t afford a professional, these don’t seem particularly unreasonable. I certain wouldn’t recommend feeding all your info into chatgpt etc but for a simple filer, asking an LLM for explanations or possible deductions seems fine.

Not everyone has access to the same resources that I do, so I try to picture it from others perspectives.