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All it takes is for one determined furry to pull up their programming socks and hack into Truth Social and start posting under Trump’s name and we’ll see that dry up real quick, unless he wants to make all his official announcements surrounded by uwu’s and lewd pictures of Pokémon.

Dollars to donuts it’s going to be stupid easy to do as well, because Trump is incapable of hiring competent employees or of paying whoever he does hire.

*That you’ve been allowed to hear about

I feel like the logical endpoint of “corruption in a system of anarchy” then is just bandit gangs.

I have a hard time saying those are worse for society than rich capitalists these days. But they’re not good.

I’m an American… I’m thinking recently that we could stand to be a little more like the French a little more often.

In the South? Yes, definitely.

1. The Mexico border is down there. This is worrisome, not because of the Mexicans, but because ICE gangs like to hang out near the border to try and catch runners. A lot of them are tied up in northern cities right now kidnapping citizens but I wouldn’t expect them to leave the southern border undefended.

2. It’s extremely hot as fuck right now. Further south you go the worse it gets. I’m ~600 miles north of Orlando and it was 109F outside today (that’s about 43C) with over 50% humidity. When you pass through my home state of Louisiana you’ll be seeing closer to 115F/80%. With heat that high and humidity content that high heat stroke becomes extremely easy. You’ll be dealing with this from Florida through around maybe Texas where it starts to become a drier heat, with lower humidity, but places like Arizona used to hit 120F/49C before we were all talking about global warming.

3. Southern Americans (as in, Southerners in the US, not people who live in South America, I know it’s confusing) are not all racist, but uh… you’ll see more who are, than aren’t. If you’re any shade of brown you’re going to have a rough time. If you speak with a “funny” accent you’re going to have a rough time. Armed racists populate huge swathes of the southern and midwestern US. This is statistically more likely to be just upsetting rather than directly harmful in most situations, but I wouldn’t want to roll those dice, it’s still very possible to find people who would just abduct and kill a foreigner they don’t like.

Currently speaking, your biggest problems in the American South right now as a foreign tourist are going to be local racism and ICE. The local racism has been around forever and is mostly tolerable if you don’t take offense easily, but you can probably expect to be called some slurs right to your face in more than a few small towns. ICE is a newer and probably bigger problem at the moment. They have orders from the president to capture and deport more people than they will possibly be able to accomplish, so anyone who looks or sounds foreign and doesn’t have three forms of ID on them to prove citizenship is increasingly likely to get bagged, tagged, and dragged to a blacksite somewhere. I’m not confident that a tourist visa (or even a work visa) is going to stop them, it’s already been proven that actual valid citizenship doesn’t stop them.

Flying in from outside the US during this time to then attempt to drive all the way across the South

Both. It’s both. I hope they stay safe. There are like 4 different major threats to a foreigner on that route.

His big “bombshell” was just

“Trump is in the Epstien files!!”

Yeah. No shit bud. We’ve had photos of them together for decades, that’s obviously the reason he hasn’t released the file.

Musk seriously thinks everyone in the entire world except for him has the intelligence of a washed up ketamine addict.

So you have no answer then, cool, thought so.

So please explain then? I’d love to know why a stranger on the internet thinks that financially contributing to industrialized murder is funny. Please do elaborate.

It’s objectively not an opinion, where the fuck do you think that money goes?

And sure, $20 here doesn’t matter. When a million other people also invest $20 “as a gag” or more trying to make a profit, whoops, that’s $20 million plus worth of death. They don’t make anything else. Only death.

For directly and unapologetically funding the death and destruction of human lives?

Yes. Yes you are.

It’s a near certainty, if you want your brain implant to be able to communicate with any device outside your skull. If it has Bluetooth or NFC then that’s a vulnerability vector.

Hmm. I think you’re right actually. I was never brave or foolish enough to test it though.

But I know for certain that this works on any and every humanoid merchant, as long as you’re smart with what element you pick. No frost damage on Nords or fire on Dunmer, for instance.

So, fun fact about that, this enabled one of my favorite exploits.

When you sell stuff to merchants, they’ll automatically equip it, if it’s of higher value than what they already have equipped. Most anything with a constant effect enchantment is higher value than almost anything they’re likely to be wearing.

So, you go enchant yourself a shirt with Constant Effect Damage Health on Self 1pt. Sell it to a merchant, and then wait patiently for an hour until he keels over dead. Proceed to loot his entire shop without getting a bounty for it and then move on to the next shop.

Pro tip, if you get too happy with this strategy, remember not to do this to the creature merchants as well or you can very easily find yourself left in a world without commerce.

Ever heard the phrase “having fuck-you money”?

This is having “fuck-errybody” money.

Ding ding ding, winner!

Thing is, he’s absolutely right. It’s way beyond past time to create a powerful political third party in the US that genuinely represents the interest of the people.

Elon Musk, however, should not be allowed anywhere within brick throwing distance of it.

Nor should most anyone else who is actually capable of funding it. Herein lies our actual problem.

Even the neckbeards are leaving reddit now

It’s mostly just bots

You can’t even be sure you’re arguing with real idiots anymore, there’s a decent chance you’re just arguing with a prompt spat out by Claude or one of the GPTs intending to get you arguing in the comments

Insulin manufacturers?