I agree, but that really is the point. Strain government services so they are shit, then use that as an excuse to privatize it as much as possible and funnel the funding to the oligarchs.

I thought the idea was that Trump wasn’t paying them? As in that’s the point, the Federal government is forcing the states to foot the bill as a sign of fealty.

It’s not my estimates, it’s actually polling data that is showing that among Hispanic voters in Texas that voted for Trump, his approval rating is dropping noticably.

From what I’ve seen if you account for voting trends even just back through 2016 or 2012, this redistricting isn’t very helpful. The 2024 voting trends seem more like an anomaly, especially with Hispanic voters. Given Trump’s crack down with ICE, his approval ratings among those voters have gone negative.

Remember they are basing all of this redistricting in the data from only 1 election cycle, 2024. Even though it’s obvious the trends related to Hispanic voters are likely moving back to historical levels favoring the Democrats. So in other words, this redistricting could easily blow up in their faces and increase the number of democratic seats.

So will we have the police fighting the military? What if the police start starting the soldiers? What if members of the Chicago PD are also in the reserves, will they get called up? What would happen if the city of Chicago organized to the point that the police as a whole decided not to allow the military into the city?

I’m sure it’s as accurate and expensive as most A.I. slop.

I had an uncle that would quite literally do that and throw the hitch(es) into the bed of the truck every single time he walked through a parking lot. If he had to do that to multiple trucks before getting to the store so be it.

Gambling is also widespread enough now if that’s why you were going to Vegas, you don’t have to anymore. Even in NC we have a pretty sizable casino in Cherokee. And the shows in Vegas seem to really just be the same shit you could see in other big cities, or at least something equivalent.

This seems like a prime opportunity for a good mural to really highlight the effect.

Even as an American I don’t understand why tourism hasn’t dropped more than it has. I know it’s down but I’m amazed people are still coming at all.

But, it’s true that the mainstream media isn’t really reporting on this, Trump’s ‘flood the zone’ strategy works exceedingly well.

This has been the full steam ahead plan since Reagan at least. You can see the social programs and reforms done by LBJ in the late 60s and some of the things Nixon did like the EPA. If I’m not mistaken Nixon then flirted with a government healthcare Medicare for all plan but it didn’t get far.

Since then it’s just been naked class warfare, capitalist pillaging, and wealth accumulation for the 0.1%.

Is this from an app you download? This honestly looks like it would be fun to play around with.

I do love the potential of Trump throwing a deal at Maxwell to name Clinton in the Epstein files to finally ‘get’ the Clintons, only to them have it blow up in his face if Clinton then turned around and named Trump as being there as well. I don’t believe either will happen but it’s a fun thought. You just know if Bill is going down he’s taking everybody with him.

Sure, it’s a horrible idea in an open office environment but if someone wants to use this at home for all their passwords it really won’t hurt anything.

I don’t doubt this is true. I’ve been playing with an A.I and some fairly simple python scripts and it’s so tedious to get the A.I. to actually do something to the script correctly. Learning to prompt is a skill all it’s own.

In my experience it’s much more useful for doing things like in AWS like create a Cloudformation template or look through user permissions for excess privileges or setup a backup schedule, like at scale when you have lots of accounts and users, etc.

How long before someone finds a glitch that allows them to trick the A.I. Into letting them get free seats or book the entire plane, etc.

You’re one to talk! This is literally on a thread about guy detained while BIDEN was President! There is a legit reason to both sides this issue. We have to press the Democratic party to stop moving to the right of the Republicans, and you can’t do that if you don’t talk about it. There is a clear connection to the Democrats laying the groundwork that have directly helped lead us to the situation we’re now in with Trump.

Failing to hold Democrats accountable for their own behavior by focusing only on Trump will only allow the Democrats to follow this downward spiral. The Democratic party doesn’t see the evil in their own past behavior and that’s a key part of why they cannot effectively counter Trump with any of this.

I don’t know why you act like I am defending Trump, I am only trying to point out that Democrats were still mass deporting people. Trump is historically evil and will probably blow the Obama/Biden numbers out once ICE gets the new budget. But, this has been standard US policy since 9/11 basically.

For example - https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/trump-2-immigration-first-100-days or https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/biden-deportation-record

While the government has not released official data in comprehensive fashion, based on Federal Register notices and selective information shared with news organizations it appears on track to deport roughly half a million people this year—fewer than the 685,000 deportations recorded in fiscal year (FY) 2024 under President Joe Biden.

My point is that Trump could easily accomplish the same thing if mass deportations was his chief goal, because the Democrats were already doing that. Biden deported 685k in one year according to the Federal Register, if you want to discount the source and provide other numbers that is fine. I’m not trying to argue tactics, because frankly what the Dems and GOP have been doing (at least since 9/11) related to deportations and immigration has been illegal to unconstitutional in a variety of ways. Claiming asylum under international law is a defined legal process and even Obama and Biden were not following that process.

Look even at the article this thread is in, this Irish tourist was jailed when Biden was President for overstaying his VISA for 3 days, even though he wanted to leave. That is pretty horrible behavior. Again, not saying Trump is better by any means, easily he is far worse.