Scrolling past headlines like this one while the Curb your enthusiasm theme plays on loop.

I hate to say this, but the Internet is not the same as it was back when I was growing up.

You always had the possibility of stumbling across a bad actor. Now the billionaire tech broligoply who own most social media are the bad actors. How many websites did you visit where the person running the website has been caught repeatedly trying to psychologically manipulate and control the masses via disinformation?

Back in the day, nobody would be doing whatever the fuck it is these people are doing with kids and their pedo adjacent targeted ads and chat bots bc they would be afraid of being sent to jail for cp

Why does it need to take decades though?

I bet if there were actual consequences for this shit, like in the form of seizing assets from the broligarchs who run these companies, and giving them to the victims of their creations, the issue would be solved very quickly.

It’s so fucking creepy. It’s not just making people dumber, its literally exposing kids to sexual content and sexualizing children in advertisements aimed at adults.

At what point is it ok for all of society to demand these people either be put in jail or at least exiled from the rest of society?

Parents outraged as Meta uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting man Instagram pictures of girls as young as 13 were posted to promote Threads site ‘as bait’, campaigner says

Meta CEO Zuckerberg blocked curbs on sex-talking chatbots for minors, court filing alleges

Regulations are keeping your businesses from thriving? The ones you seem to be building to intentionally cater to pedophiles and harm children? Half of these creepy ass broligarchs are already confirmed to be in the Epstein files.

They’re pretty open about what they want the future to look like, and the shit they’ve already got going, like the inescapable 24/7 surveillance where they can pick and choose the victims they want to legally abduct and traffic is just the beginning. And we’re supposed to just pretend we’re all fucking stupid enough to go along with it?

Attending the summit, Kratsios, the White House representative, addressed middle powers’ fears. “Real AI sovereignty means owning and using best-in-class technology for the benefit of your people,” he said. “Complete technological self-containment is unrealistic for any country, because the AI stack is incredibly complex. But strategic autonomy alongside rapid AI adoption is achievable, and it is a necessity for independent nations. America wants to help.”

“America is the only AI superpower willing and able to truly empower partner nations in your pursuit of meaningful AI sovereignty,” he went on. “American companies can build large, independent AI infrastructure, with secure and robust supply chains that minimize backdoor risk. They build it; it’s yours.”

… Are you fucking kidding me. America wants to help? America is being held hostage by these shitbag oligarchs. It needs help.

Also, American companies can build large, independent AI infrastructure, with secure and robust supply chains that minimize backdoor risk?

Who TF are you kidding with this bullshit. Nobody paying attention to any of the bullshit DOGE did (that we know about so far) under the anti-regulatory administration you work for. Given you’re the big AI policy guy, and you paved the path for everything DOGE did it in 2025, during your run in Trump’s first administration, this should really be considered your fault as much as it is Musk’s fault for taking the bait, and becoming the fall guy on behalf of you and your mentor Peter Thiel.

•2018: The White House promises to release government data to fuel the AI boom

What a brilliant fucking idea Michael Kratsios had in 2018, what could possibly go wrong?

•2025: DOGE’s access to federal data is ‘an absolute nightmare,’ legal experts warn

•2025: DOGE is putting the country’s data and computing infrastructure at risk, HKS expert argues

Cyber security expert Bruce Schneier worries that DOGE’s access to highly sensitive information is giving bad actors a chance to take advantage

But that’s the opposite of what Kratsios sez Merican tech is good at…? Is he lying? How could we ever know?

•2026: Government Data Breach Sparks Fears Millions May Need New Social Security Numbers

Yeah…, seems like pretty solid evidence these people don’t know what the fuck they’re doing, and they never have. Or alternatively, if they do, their interests are purely selfish. They never should have been trusted with power, and if they weren’t such sociopathic narcissists they wouldn’t be able to maintain a straight face while telling such bold faced lies to the rest of the world.

Surely this will fix everything that is currently wrong in Louisiana.

Who needs hospitals or voting rights when you can have the 10 commandments installed in every classroom instead.

Saints Row 2 was one of my favorite games mainly because you had the option of picking people up and throwing them to fight.

I made my character a giant, and I’m pretty sure I played through ~75% of the game without ever needing to use a weapon because I could just pick everybody up and take them out with one or 2 throws. I also remember giving her the derpy face option.

Got damn commies

I was thinking he looked like a fed, but maybe it’s a different steel pan player named Glen Samuel.

Emails in 2015 and 2016 show that Epstein would have another officer, Glen Samuel, come to Little Saint James to perform steel pan drums—a side gig Samuel informally advertised at one point on his Facebook page. In a January 2015 email thread, Epstein asked an associate to clarify Samuel’s rate. The associate replied, “Mr. Samuel says he does not intend to charge you. He considers you a friend and was doing this for you. If you wish to give him something, he is appreciative, but there is no fee.” Samuel did not respond to a request for comment.

I already posted the Guardian article, but they didn’t include the name of the agent who played steel drums for Epstein or the part about him insisting he perform as a favor to a friend.

Even though this whole things is so far beyond the realm of bizarro world, for some reason reading about the steel pan CBP agent performing on pedo Island was especially salient in a “how the fuck is this reality?!?” kind of way.

Anyway, I think I might have found an album he made for sale on eBay.

•In the summer of 1919, after the war’s conclusion, Hitler was assigned to the Education and Propaganda Department of the German military in Bavaria. The department was run by Captain Karl Mayr, whose orders were to use army assets to keep the civilian population under surveillance in order to avoid future unrest and uprisings. (This was a reasonable mission, considering the wave of uprisings, several of them communist in nature, in the final days of the war.)

Well that’s certainly strange. That it all seems to go back to civilian surveillance and concerns about communist uprisings. What’s this Karl Mayr guy’s story?

•Mayr later became Hitler’s opponent, and wrote in his memoirs that General Erich Ludendorff had personally ordered him to have Hitler join the German Workers’ Party (DAP) and build it up.

Who?

•After the war, Ludendorff became a prominent nationalist leader and a promoter of the stab-in-the-back myth, which posited that Germany’s defeat and the settlement reached at Versailles were the result of a treasonous conspiracy by Marxists, Freemasons and Jews. … He also took part in the failed 1920 Kapp Putsch and 1923 Beer Hall Putsch before unsuccessfully standing in the 1925 election for president. Thereafter, he retired from politics and devoted his final years to the study of military theory. His most famous work in this field was The Total War, where he argued that a nation’s entire physical and moral resources should remain forever poised for mobilization because peace was merely an interval in a never-ending chain of wars.

•as an antisemitic and anti-communist conspiracy theory that was widely believed and promulgated in Germany after 1918. It maintained that the Imperial German Army did not lose World War I on the battlefield, but was instead betrayed by certain citizens on the home front – especially Jews, revolutionary socialists who fomented strikes and labour unrest,[1] and republican politicians who had overthrown the House of Hohenzollern in the German Revolution of 1918…When Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party rose to power in 1933, they made the conspiracy theory an integral part of their official history of the 1920s, portraying the Weimar Republic as the work of the “November criminals” who had “stabbed the nation in the back” in order to seize power.

The 75 people just stood by and watched ICE murder a citizen in broad daylight. When in reality those 75 people could have not only stopped the murder from happening, but likely killed those 6 ICE agents and prevented a future tragedy.

Surely civilians joining together in a mob to take out Trump’s gang of lil rascals would be the end of it right?

President Donald Trump has repeatedly signaled he is open to invoking the Insurrection Act, a law from 1807 that allows the president to deploy the military in the United States.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has awarded Palantir Technologies Inc. a five-year blanket purchase to expand the department’s use of artificial intelligence and large-scale data analytics platforms across its agencies.

Executives from high-tech firms Meta, OpenAI and Palantir are joining the Army Reserve at the rank of lieutenant colonel to serve in Detachment 201, a new “Executive Innovation Corps,” the service announced Friday.

Graciously explicit’ job post reveals Trump’s DHS expanding shadowy apparatus: report

Pam Bondi Admits DOJ Has a Secret Domestic Terrorist List

The Lavender precedent: automated kill lists and the limits of International Humanitarian Law

The onslaught was, undoubtedly, fuelled by algorithmic calculations and the automatisation of warfare. (Fatafta and Leufer 2024). Indeed, AI-driven targeting enabled the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) to find targets faster than they could be struck (Mhajne 2025). In practice, this meant that once the bombing began, there was a virtually endless “pipeline” of targets. One intelligence officer stated, “the targets never end”. Once an attack is launched, the commander has “another 36,000 waiting” (McKernan & Davies 2024). The integration of these AI systems has accelerated the pace and expanded the scale of attacks to a degree that experts say “incomparable with any 21st-century air campaign”, with devastating consequences for Gaza’s civilians (Airwars 2024).

Foremost among these AI tools is a system code-named “Lavender,” an algorithm developed by Unit 8200 (Israel’s elite signals intelligence unit) to automate the identification of human targets. An investigative report by +972 Magazine and Local Call (Abraham 2024) revealed that the Lavender algorithm assigns each person a probabilistic score indicating the likelihood that they are members of an armed group (Mhajne 2025). Six Israeli intelligence officers involved in the process testified that the system marked up to 37,000 Palestinians as suspected militants and identified their homes as targets for attack (Abraham 2024). These were predominantly low-ranking individuals.

Good luck bringing 75 guns to a Palantir drone fight, Mark Wahlberg.

Saboteur!

Did you know Hitler just took over the movement created by his mentor?

I didn’t until recently

Down to the lil mustache and everything…

Ted Lieu has been one of the few Democrats who has been trying to actively block this administration. Even when it came to Senate nominations he was one of only a few that actually tried to use his position on a committee to block them before they went to the full Senate.

We need every Democrat repeating this and demanding Caroline levitt and especially James Comer acknowledge it. Levitt will of course deny it.

Not sure how Comer will handle being asked directly to acknowledge this information, but any next step would certainly seem to require Chairman of the oversight committee acknowledging reality.

I feel like he would just buy his luxury in prison like Pablo Escobar.

I think the worst punishment for people like Thiel and Musk would be to have their assets seized and any future wages garnished to be paid to the victims of their crimes, while they’re forced to attempt to survive in the society they’ve helped create.

The consequences they face will serve as an example and deterrent for others like them and one of two things would happen. Billionaires suddenly experience empathy/gain a conscience and conditions improve for all of society, or, billionaires continue to maintain the conditions they’ve created while one by one falling victim to their own creations. Most likely they check themselves out very quickly rather than attempt to survive the nightmare they had no problems inflicting on others. Either way equals a net gain for society.

I could use an extra $2500.

Thanks a lot DOGE. So clearly Elon Musk gives every American compensation, we get new numbers and have all of our credit history wiped clean to start new right? Bc otherwise this just means we’ve all been massively fucked by Trump and his band of idiots

Yes! It is so sad this seems like such a bold move, but we’ve just become so fucking conditioned to bullshit politicians gaslighting us about why everybody else is just going to have to go without in order to keep giving handouts to the most entitled and useless pieces of crap just because they’re already wealthy.

Why? Allegedly because they generate more money… But do they really? Have they ever?