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  1. 30 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Could be the minerals, but we can probably purchase mineral rights cheaper (and using private sector funds) than we can "buying" Greenland.

    Thiel and the datacenter/AI boys all want those minerals. His boy is at Trump's side, so why not get them cheap?

  2. 2 hours ago, miguelito said:

    What the fuck is going on?

    They are losing control of the narrative and in some cases, the public spaces - no matter how they spin things, there's cell phones everywhere recording them, people are chasing them away with numbers, whistles, and phones/cameras, people are actively trying to dox all of them. Their boy Ross and his family had to be moved to a safe house after he murdered a woman.

    All of that leads into them having to try and intimidate people even more and to try to reestablish control over the population by doing these raids and pointing their sidearms at people and picking people out to harass. They can't identify these agents for the most part (although there is a large number of people who are quietly working to doxx every one of the ICE agents) so the agents don't have to worry about being reprimanded.

  3. 6 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

    Holy shit, just got into a yelling match with my wife (on my side) and the in laws. Just straight right wing propagandists. They immediately bring up shit that I only vaguely know about from the Fox News thread and such on this site as if it is straight reality.

    For a second there, I was about to suggest you need to check the lineup of your backup spouses in case you end up divorced but saw she was on your side.

    You married well

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  4. 9 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    And don’t let them stand on some story that the agent was previously hit by a car. If that truly traumatized him, then he shouldn’t be placed in the scenario where there are cars present. He can be in a office filling out paperwork.

    Point out that he was violating DHS policy with this shooting by trying to get in front of the Pillot, and also that he was violating DHS policy when he got dragged before.

  5. 3 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

    I gotta tell ya.....little moments like that are literally the only thing that gives me even a scintilla of hope. People banding together, acting with audacity and courage, in the face of evil.....it's literally the only chance we've got.

    1 hour ago, GSU&UT said:

    This gives me an inkling of hope. This past week has been the darkest in our country of at least my entire life.

    Ross had to move out of his home. May not seem like much of a consequence, but as more ICE agents get doxxed or face being doxxed and as more Americans realize they are cowards that can't stand the spotlight being shone on them (or rather the whistles and cameras) the dynamic may change a bit. Some will become more dangerous, I'm sure, but they are being followed, they are being tracked. All it takes is a few careless seconds and somebody gets a photo of a face, and they will lose their anonymity and get to move out like Ross did.

    The people following them and confronting them are awesome. Wish I had the balls to do that.

  6. 6 hours ago, Red Five said:

    I wonder how far they will be willing to take this. Meaning, they "support" that, and they support shooting a 37 year-old mom in the face through her driver side window as she tries to drive away. If video comes out tomorrow of ICE mowing down a bunch of kids, does that get their support too? Is there a line?

    I'm sure Noem will say "nits grow into lice" or something along those lines.

  7. 6 hours ago, Red Five said:

    I think one NATO country annexing another against their will would pretty much be the end of the alliance.

    10 minutes ago, The Hot Dog Buffet said:

    It could stay together without us. Maybe France nukes us or something.

    NATO would reform in a heartbeat, without us. Same buildings and facilities, same wording in everything, just without the US.

    7 hours ago, Pasken said:

    Serious question. Say the mid terms are allowed to happen and there is no bullshit and the dems take back the house. They impeach the president. He and his defense team just don't participate at all in the senate trial. What happens?

    There is so much legal stuff that would happen, and don't forget, they would be putting Vance in power, you think Vance is going to turn it down if they impeach Trump and order him sworn in? Congress also still has the power of the treasure and could shut down a lot of Trump's bullshit, could even fuck around with budgets for various agencies/the White House.

    And that is why I believe that Trump is desperate to get that Venezuelan oil sold off and that money in coffers he controls outside of the Congress's reach. I know that it is mostly him trying to funnel that money somewhere (donor or family member) because the grift is real, but I think there is still a very good chance that he thinks he needs to have money that Congress can't touch.

  8. 4 hours ago, tbone_ said:

    Ah, the US Senate wrote a sternly worded note. Should be very effective.

    It's an election year, he's laughing about people creating horrible shit with grok, and bitching that it's censorship to be asked to prevent people from making Grok generate undressed photos of anybody and everybody. And even the simplest of simpletons understand that some creep can grab photos of their grandkids off of Facebook and have grok undress them. And the letter/responses/hearings provide cover for Apple and Google to remove twitter from their respective app stores if they want to.

    Plus the "Take it Down" law kicks in this coming May

    The TAKE IT DOWN Act: A Federal Law Prohibiting the Nonconsensual Publication of Intimate Images | Congress.gov | Library of Congress and he's already bitched about that.

    He's playing with fire on this one. The deepfake stuff already had a lot of people pissed off (which is partly why Congress passed a law last year) but toss in grok undressing kids/etc. and him laughing at people angry about it, and yeah, it won't end well.

  9. One of the tweets @Macklemore posted had this bit:

    When you talk to people, the majority say that this time there's really no room to retreat because if the regime survives this stage, they'll commit a massacre beyond anything ever seen before. Gen Z and Gen Alpha have raised hell on the regime. They're so brave it's unbelievable. Field leadership is practically in their hands, but there are plenty of middle-aged and elderly people seen in the crowd. All kinds of people are on the streets. Employees, merchants, factory owners, workers, students, retirees, everyone."

    Agreed that if they retreat, the regime will hunt down anybody and everybody and kill them rather than risking this again.

    Also " Gen Z and Gen Alpha have raised hell on the regime.....Field leadership is practically in their hands, but there are plenty of middle-aged and elderly people seen in the crowd. "

    Does this mean Gen Xers are the middle-aged and elderly?

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  10. 8 hours ago, PTINS said:

    In January, after an audacious US raid on Venezuela that ended with Maduro’s capture, Karnaukhov’s humility was restored. He meekly surmised: “If Russia stands in America’s way, it will crush us too.”  

    They love to play the victim of Western imperialists/capitalists/whateverists.

  11. 10 minutes ago, McCroskey said:

    So what is the world’s worst Nazi up to these days?

    The Senate figured out his Achilles heel - booting twitter out of the App Store. And his laughing emoji responses to people creating really bad stuff with Grok has not gone unnoticed.

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    Letter to Apple and Google on Removing X and Grok from App Store 1.9.2026.pdf

    We write to ask that you enforce your app stores’ terms of service against X Corp’s (hereafter, “X”) X and Grok apps for their mass generation of nonconsensual sexualized images of women and children. X’s generation of these harmful and likely illegal depictions of women and children has shown complete disregard for your stores’ distribution terms. Apple and Google must remove these apps from the app stores until X’s policy violations are addressed. In recent days, X users have used the app’s Grok AI tool to generate nonconsensual sexual imagery of real, private citizens at scale. This trend has included Grok modifying images to depict women being sexually abused, humiliated, hurt, and even killed. In some cases, Grok has reportedly created sexualized images of children—the most heinous type of content imaginable.

    What is more, X has reportedly encouraged this behavior, including through the company’s CEO Elon Musk acknowledging this trend with laugh-cry emoji reactions. Researchers have also found a Grok app archive reportedly containing nearly 100 images of potential child sexual abuse materials generated since August, in addition to many other nonconsensual nude depictions of real people being tortured and worse. There can be no mistake about X’s knowledge, and, at best, negligent response to these trends.

    Your app stores’ policies are clear. Google’s terms of service require apps to “prohibit users from creating, uploading, or distributing content that facilitates the exploitation or abuse of children” including prohibiting the “portrayal of children in a manner that could result in the sexual exploitation of children.” Apps that do not are said to be subject to “immediate removal from Google Play” for violations. Similarly, Apple’s terms of service bar apps from including “offensive” or “just plain creepy” content, which under any definition must include nonconsensually-generated sexualized images of children and women. Further, Apple’s terms explicitly bar apps from including content that is “[o]vertly sexual or pornographic material” including material “intended to stimulate erotic rather than aesthetic or emotional feelings.”

    Turning a blind eye to X’s egregious behavior would make a mockery of your moderation practices. Indeed, not taking action would undermine your claims in public and in court that your app stores offer a safer user experience than letting users download apps directly to their phones. This principle has been core to your advocacy against legislative reforms to increase app store competition and your defenses to claims that your app stores abuse their market power through their payment systems.

    Both Apple and Google have also recently demonstrated the ability to move quickly to moderate apps from the app stores. For example, under explicit pressure, and perhaps threats, from the Department of Homeland Security, your companies quickly removed apps that allowed users to lawfully report immigration enforcement activities, like ICEBlock and Red Dot. Unlike Grok’s sickening content generation, these apps were not creating or hosting harmful or illegal content, and yet, based entirely on the Administration’s claims that they posed a risk to immigration enforcers, you removed them from your stores.

    We hope you will demonstrate a similar level of responsiveness and initiate swift action to remove the X and Grok apps from your app stores. Given the severity of the harm, at the very least, temporary removal pending a full investigation of the claims is appropriate.

    To understand your approach to evaluating X and Grok under your existing policies, we request a written response to this letter by January 23, 202

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