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1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

It's hard to imagine a group that has beclowned itself more in the past decade than "libertarians."  From "Don't Tread on Me" to "Tread on me daddy, hand over control of the government to corporate oligarchs with no limits or checks, and let's go ahead with governmental ownership of private enterprise too."  

It was never an ideology.  I have no idea what in the fuck it was, other than dipshits biding their time until they found just the right flavor of fascist authoritarianism.

Literal decades of crying about government regulating capitalism and how we need guns to protect against an occupying federal force on radio, tv, and the internet. 
 

And now with the government taking ownership stakes in Intel and US Steel (with plans for more) and deployment of actual soldiers to US cities under the barest pretext…. just crickets. Or probably more accurately, cheers. 
 

We are nearing a dangerous escalation point I think - especially with the attempt to take over the Fed. I will say only this: those who disregard constitutional order cannot claim its protections. 

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I gotta admit, if there is anyone I don't want writing bad articles about me it's Drew Magary (of Defector and the SF Gate)

https://www.sfgate.com/streaming/article/alien-earth-elon-musk-sucks-20888757.php

Hollywood’s new favorite villain is THE billionaire CEO

Emphasis is mine, it's not a generic billionaire CEO, it's a particular one (the one you are probably thinking about now)

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In fact, this is the fifth time within a calendar year that I’ve watched a film or TV show where the main villain was an Elon stand-in. I didn’t have to think hard to remember the examples, either:

<insert list of 4 other movie villains>

It’s not new for Hollywood to conjure up villains inspired by the modern CEO. Hell, I remember Jonathan Pryce playing an obvious Rupert Murdoch stand-in in “Tomorrow Never Dies,” one of the lesser Bond films of my time. Elon makes for an even easier template, because he’s one of the most unpopular figures in America, and because he was born into his wealth thanks to a racist daddy. Best of all, he’s an individual person instead of a recognizable nation-state. So HEY PRESTO. Hollywood now has another option outside of “vaguely Eastern European bagman” if they want a villain character who won’t tick off the wrong people. Everyone would like to see Elon Musk die, myself included. And it’s nice to see our leading filmmakers give that desire at least partial recognition.

 

Funny read and review of Alien Earth too.

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 Jonathan Pryce playing an obvious Rupert Murdoch stand-in in “Tomorrow Never Dies,” one of the lesser Bond films of my time.

Top third of the post-1990 Bond films.  And it only gets more and more prescient.

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23 hours ago, Captainant said:

literally to feed it into an LLM, I would imagine. Considering he's spent tens of billions of dollars on hardware to do just that sort of thing

possibly but I'd guess the more likely recipient was Palantir, for the surveillance state - the record includes your name, SSN, DOB, place of birth, parents name, gender, and immigration status. 

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3 hours ago, Parliament said:

Top third of the post-1990 Bond films.  And it only gets more and more prescient.

You get a hook'em for the 2nd part. But that first part is just wrong.

There is no way that Tomorrow Never Dies is in the top 3 Bond films since 1990 (there have been 9).

 

Skyfall, Casino Royal and No Time to Die.

 

It might not be in the top 6 and its not the best Brosnan Bond film.

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1 hour ago, HenryJames said:

 

If only they could calculate how much money is being spent on the portion of disabled vets collecting 100% disability while still working full time jobs and collecting regular paychecks on top of their disability pay. 

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7 minutes ago, MrBig said:

If only they could calculate how much money is being spent on the portion of disabled vets collecting 100% disability while still working full time jobs and collecting regular paychecks on top of their disability pay. 

You do realize that VA disability is different than SSDI? SSDI is related to one's ability to work and VA disability is related to disabilities from service and not based on the ability to work. 

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2 hours ago, MrBig said:

If only they could calculate how much money is being spent on the portion of disabled vets collecting 100% disability while still working full time jobs and collecting regular paychecks on top of their disability pay. 

@swam has been seen. 

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11 hours ago, F250 said:

You do realize that VA disability is different than SSDI? SSDI is related to one's ability to work and VA disability is related to disabilities from service and not based on the ability to work. 

While that is no doubt true and I and we as a nation want to tread carefully on veteran's benefits, I know or am aware of vets collecting substantial disability for "aggravation" of existing injuries, ie high school sports or other injuries, and there is a minor industry in helping vets collect extra benefits.

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20 hours ago, Captain Ron said:

I gotta admit, if there is anyone I don't want writing bad articles about me it's Drew Magary (of Defector and the SF Gate)

https://www.sfgate.com/streaming/article/alien-earth-elon-musk-sucks-20888757.php

Hollywood’s new favorite villain is THE billionaire CEO

Emphasis is mine, it's not a generic billionaire CEO, it's a particular one (the one you are probably thinking about now)

 

Funny read and review of Alien Earth too.

Met him before at a live podcast he and David Roth did. Those two are my favorite writers on Defector. 

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15 hours ago, F250 said:

You do realize that VA disability is different than SSDI? SSDI is related to one's ability to work and VA disability is related to disabilities from service and not based on the ability to work. 

My brother has 100% disability due to his PTSD from Iraq & Afghanistan. But he works full time as a city patrol police officer while simultaneously collecting his VA disability because of the PTSD. He’s not pushing papers at a desk, he is actively patrolling the streets on night shift and has killed 2 people with justified deadly force (investigations cleared him of any wrongdoing). I’m not saying the shootings aren’t justified and that his PTSD isn’t real, it just doesn’t make sense to me how he could be allowed to do this kind of job based on his PTSD diagnosis. 

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