They weren’t on the Mayflower, but they were some of the OG immigrants that the people who emigrated on the Mayflower first said that phrase to.

The people on the Mayflower believed that my family’s culture would ruin “their” country. “Their” country, which had been totally uninhabited before they nearly starved to death until the natives took pity on them, and taught them how to survive made America great. /s

Not to humble brag too much or anything, but both sides of my family settled in Bumfuck TN a long time ago and never even went further north than Indiana. Then eventually came back to Bumfuck TN and MS. Not like they stuck around there because they had a lot of success and flourished, but I guess they just kind of dropped their shit and said this is an ok place to spread generational fatalism.

But I get what you mean, and aside from targeting immigration, I believe people like this are always capable of finding some way to use their power and corruption to hurt people who don’t bow down or cower before them. The value of a human life, and all the other lives it touches is absolutely meaningless if it gets in the way of their plans. But, the reality is, they’ll keep finding ways to break the law and abuse their power and authority to hurt people until they’re stopped. And they’re not going to be stopped until people push back as a collective.

It’s not going to be any one individual that stops it, but it will take people recognizing and acknowledging they have unfair privileges and advantages that make it easier to push back and say this is illegal and it’s fucked up, it’s always been illegal and fucked up, and it needs to be stopped. The longer that we only look out for ourselves, and turn a blind eye to what’s happing, the more they will continue to take. The more they take, the more emboldened and stronger they become, and the less power and opportunity we have to actually stop them.

I mean, I’m not breaking any laws. I’m a boring ass white mom closing in on 40 in a couple of years.

If they want to waste even more tax dollars to spy on me go right ahead. They can keep a record and explain in front of a judge in a few years why they thought it was so necessary to violate my constitutional rights just to learn all the juicy deets about my embarrassing health issues, oddly specific things I looked up at 3 am, and other weird shit that caught my attention and apparently poses a threat to national security.

I guess they can try to embarrass me, but as a consequence of the government violating my privacy and chipping away my dignity, I don’t really have much shame left. I also can’t think of anything that could be more shameful than what they’re currently doing to the constitution and the American people.

Idk maybe Trump holds a quarterly workshop on how to blow Bubba and remain straight as an arrow.

Step 1: Turn off the lights, or ask Bubba to throw a blanket over his lap so God can’t see you.

Step 2: Blast the village people at full volume.

Step 3: Exchange a hearty “no homo,” followed by a nod and secret hand shake that ends with the gesture for zipped lips.

“At this time, I recommend that you immediately direct NOPD officers and staff to fully cooperate with ICE and CBP,” Murrill wrote in the conclusion of her letter.

Good lord, Liz Murrill is such a lame ass, passive aggressive, dickhead. You better help us terrorize families, be racist, and waste a shit load of money and manpower (even though there’s a fucking police shortage at the moment), or you’re gonna be in big trouble!

Who will police the police? This bitch apparently but only in order to insist they remove a federal consent decree that exists to protect civil rights.

I’m pretty sure I heard a rumor Liz Murrill got kicked off a greyhound bus for farting the alphabet and trying to bully a pregnant lady into an arm wrestling challenge. No idea if it’s true, but at this time, I recommend that you immediately direct everyone you know to assume it is.

A tow truck driver blocked the road leading to the house at the request of law enforcement, blaring the pro-police anthem, “Bad Boys.”

What a lame ass piece of moldy dog shit, walking around disguised as a human.

CNN also reported the case of a 22-year-old US-born mother who was chased home by federal agents in an SUV from the grocery store in Marrero. She told CNN: “I kept yelling at them, ‘I’m legal! I’m a US-born citizen! Please, leave me alone! I’m going home, my daughter is in the house. My baby is waiting for me!’”

“They’re not picking up criminals,” said Taber. “They’re picking up people off the streets, whoever they can catch – these are moms and dads coming home from work, ambushed getting out of their cars.”

The only thing that keeps coming to my mind when reading this is just how fucking disgusting this is.

How the fuck can anyone just be ok with this? Brain washing? Dissociation? The false belief that even if everything collapses around them, maybe they’ll be ok as long as they keep their noses out of it?

What is it that keeps people from acknowledging this is not fucking ok? If you won’t at least speak up, at what point will you accept your role as a collaborator?

They’re fascists

They’re nationalists

They love government interference and socialism as long as it’s for the right people.

But just because they’re National Socialists, you totally shouldn’t call them Nazis (bc it hurts their fee-fees and it’s now considered unacceptable hate speech). They prefer the term “Christian” Nationalists or Naxis

I didn’t see that, but in Memphis they’ve been arresting mainly poor people following pretextual stops.

Whatever you gotta do to meet a quota I guess. Seems like a really efficient way to prove you’re a dickhead on a power trip “making america great.”

Nazi paraphernalia was also found inside the home, including writing on a wall that says “Kapitulieren nein,” which is German for “No surrender.”

Do all Nazis think suicide is some kind of loophole/technicality? Like maybe it’s not really “surrender” if you forfeit?

It’s a _____ goal

Fucking ridiculous, preposterous, insane, horrific, fascist…

There are probably 5000 better adjectives to describe that goal.

Ukraine’s defense relies increasingly on huge volumes of civilian data stored on cloud platforms. An adversary’s military may supply their targeting algorithm with an individual’s location, health, and online behavior. Military actors regularly mine, analyze, and repurpose social media posts.

It is not clear, however, that the deep learning systems integral to some of these new weapons can overcome the fog of war. These systems treat all data as objective representations of reality, when in fact information drawn from social media platforms is shaped by users’ emotional and cognitive experiences in ways that can skew its utility for wartime intelligence. The “learned knowledge” generated by analytic systems is probabilistic, not causal—leading to the risk that algorithms are “enforc[ing] their version of ‘reality’ from patterns and probabilities derived from data.”

These venture-backed firms view contemporary conflicts as live testing grounds.

Global digital platforms such as TikTok and Telegram illustrate the wider environment in which these dependencies are forming. Though neither company develops military technologies, both shape the information environment surrounding war. TikTok’s recommendation algorithm influences how audiences perceive the conflict in Ukraine, shaping global narratives and public opinion. Yet its complex ownership structure, rooted in Chinese parent company ByteDance and entangled with global venture capital, has sparked geopolitical concern. … These concerns highlight how platforms created for civilian use can also become entangled in the political and informational dimensions of war.

The overlapping interests of finance capital and private technology corporations transcend national borders, creating forms of influence that do not fit neatly into binary friend-or-enemy distinctions. ByteDance’s global investment network, spanning Chinese state-linked entities, American private equity funds, and international investors, illustrates this transnational ownership model. It complicates national regulatory and security responses, as policymakers must ask not merely who owns a given platform, but who controls the data, infrastructure, and decisionmaking power that states increasingly depend on.

This illustrates a deeper shift in the relationship between the market and the military. The problem is not that defense firms are publicly traded—Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics have been for decades—but that contemporary defense-tech companies retain proprietary control over data-driven systems central to military operations. Their technologies are not merely delivered to the state; the companies are embedded in the decisionmaking architecture of warfare. When a firm’s market value depends on its perceived wartime success, its incentives may diverge from those of the state it ostensibly serves. This intertwining of commercial strategy, military dependency, and investor confidence represents a new kind of vulnerability for states.

What is at stake, beyond the conflict itself, is the nature of state sovereignty. The ability of states to govern, defend, and act independently is increasingly mediated by private technology firms and global finance. This is not entirely new. States have long relied on private contractors, but the kind of dependency has changed. Unlike traditional arms manufacturers, today’s defense-tech firms control the digital platforms, data flows, and algorithmic systems that underpin military decisionmaking. At the same time, civilian platforms like Telegram and TikTok shape the informational terrain of conflict, influencing how wars are perceived and fought.

I just want to make sure I’m understanding this.

•You have companies like Meta (just an example) working for both sides of a conflict via government contract, but not necessarily bound to either side of a conflict because of global venture capital/transnational ownership model

•We know Facebook/Meta has been intentionally manipulating the emotions of social media users for over a decade now

•That social media data is then collected and used to train military platforms, which may be directly or indirectly linked to the social media company

•These companies very likely have an incentive to create an endless war (and endless profits for themselves) by manipulating the emotions and behavior of social media users, knowing that data will be used to train military platforms

Basically, a private tech company could manipulate data to give one side of a conflict an advantage over the other, but it could also intentionally pit adversaries against each other in an endless loop by manipulating social media content, and by extension, manipulating the military platforms being trained.

A company could potentially profit from both sides of a conflict it’s manipulating because the states have turned to it and other big tech companies to help them reach “victory” in the endless conflict the company helped create. Correct?

I was thinking the same thing!

What?

There’s a few ways this could play out, so it seems to depend on whether or not we’re really “at war.”

Trump administration says we are (except he’s the president of peace so that doesn’t make much sense).

Most experts seem to say we’re not at war, so that contradicts the Trump administration.

So it would seem that solving this riddle will determine who is actually held responsible. Is it Hegseth for giving the illegal orders or is it the people that carried out the illegal orders for him?

I think morally both would be responsible. But legally, it’s going to take somebody clearing up whether or not this actually counts as a war.

"I don’t know anything about it. He said he did not say that, and I believe him, 100 percent,” Trump said aboard Air Force One. Asked whether he would have agreed with the order if Hegseth had given it, Trump replied: “He said he didn’t do it, so I don’t have to make that decision.”

He said he didn’t do it. If it turns out he lied, then I’m just as innocent as the innocent people he murdered.

“If orders are illegal, not only do they not have to follow them, they are legally required not to follow them,” Kelly told Welker.

Ohhh watch out Kelly. Freedom facts mean even astronauts can’t encourage American soldiers not to break the law.

It was self defense. They wanted to charge me with a war crime for commiting a war crime, can you believe it?

Do they even know who my daddy is?

Meanwhile daddy will be happy to throw his ass under the bus to save himself.

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The murders weren’t committed in the U.S. so…

His official statements on the matter:

“The Biden Administration justified bringing the alleged shooter to the United States in September 2021 due to his prior work with the US Government, including CIA, as a member of a partner force in Kandahar, which ended shortly following the chaotic evacuation,” CIA Director John Ratcliffe said in a statement to CBS.

“In the wake of the disastrous Biden withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Biden administration justified bringing the alleged shooter to the United States in September 2021 due to his prior work with the U.S. government, including CIA, as a member of a partner force in Kandahar, which ended shortly following the chaotic evacuation,” CIA Director John Ratcliffe told Fox News Digital.

Except it turns out that:

Officials criticize Biden vetting, but Afghan shooting suspect was granted asylum under Trump