Imaginary boogymen. They’ve got no idea what they’re doing or how to go about it so they’re hoping to scare people into doing the work for them. They desperately need something they can point to where their anti-DEI crusade actually changed something meaningful (read the want to be able to point to a bunch of minorities they fired) but they need to be able to show they were “DEI hires” not just minorities because things haven’t quite gotten to the point where that would fly.
Got to admit, this is one of the dumbest stunts the MAGAts have pulled in a while. It remains the Gulf of Mexico. This will have as much staying power as “Freedom Fries” did.
Also known more formally as Betteridge’s law of headlines.
Honestly it would be hilarious if they actually did, these dumbasses would quickly learn how utterly dependent on “immigrants” they actually are. I say “immigrants” because everyone knows they consider anyone that isn’t white to be an immigrant, even though by that logic anyone who isn’t Native American would be an immigrant and that absolutely includes these wastes of oxygen.
I’m just annoyed that the term AI has been co-opted now to refer to pretty much any form of machine learning. Stuff gets called AI today that wouldn’t have been considered AI even 10 years ago. I think that’s part of what’s driving peoples ridiculous expectations because they hear AI and they expect actual AI not a glorified smart fill.
Boomers are the core, but they’ve gotten some reinforcements from Gen X and Millenials. The good news if there is any is that not enough of Gen X and Millenials are MAGAts to carry an election without the Boomers, so in another couple decades if a bunch of Gen Alpha doesn’t turn real stupid we might have a chance.
The thing is, it was a close one that first time around. Prior to Pearl Harbor there was a small but strong pro-Nazi movement in the US. That’s part of why the US was being moderately hands off during the start of WW2. Sure the US was shipping supplies to the UK, but in the grand scheme of things that wasn’t much.
Japan really fucked up by attacking the US as there’s a pretty strong argument to be made that that one action determined the outcome of WW2. There’s an alternate history out there where Pearl Harbor didn’t happen and the US either never took part in WW2 or else entered far too late to make a difference and the Axis powers ultimately won.
Turns out the pro-Nazi faction in the US never really went anywhere, they just got quiet for nearly a century. Lets hope we can shut them up this time again.
A politician has exactly one job, and that’s to convince people to vote for them. In a perfect world they would do that by having a solid policy and a strong track record. In this less perfect world it mostly comes down to their campaign promises. When a politician loses an election, assuming no election fraud (and setting aside the real issues of gerrymandering and the problems with first past the post) that is entirely the fault of that politician. It is not the voters fault. It’s the politicians job to convince the voters nobody else’s.
Nothing new will come of the JFK files but there might be a surprise or two in the MLK ones. I don’t necessarily think it would be something as crazy as the CIA being responsible for the assassination, but it wouldn’t surprise me if for instance they knew about it before hand and just didn’t do anything to stop it.