The Donald vs Big Tech

[Eoin McLove]

This is probably a piece of information that won't enrich my life. I'll hold on to my ignorance 

[Ducky]

We're on Stage 9 cancer now, boys 

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Cross-fertilizing from the main forum, my SOAD revisit brought me to Toxicity. Fairly striking that, in 2001, the lyrics to a song on one of the most massively popular albums were this:

All research and successful drug policy
Shows that treatment should be increased
And law enforcement decreased

Yet 20 years later, the global MAGA anti-"woke" brain-rot had penetrated so widely that many otherwise intelligent people found themselves incapable of understanding what "defund the police" meant.

[astfgyl]

Do they still have that autonomous zone in Seattle?

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Haven't had the chance to see the new doc about Art Spiegelman yet (author of Maus), but hopefully I'll be able to find an uncut version to watch. Self-censorship in the age of Trump suing channels for millions and sometimes billions.

Twelve days before Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse (2024) was set to broadcast on April 15 across PBS stations nationwide as part of its strand American Masters, the filmmakers were told that a 90-second sequence—which shows the famous artist discussing an anti-Trump cartoon he created for the 2017 Women's March newspaper—would be cut from the documentary.

https://documentary.org/online-feature/c-censorship-pbs-cuts-art-spiegelman-doc-and-other-dubious-acts-embattled

Part of the deleted section:
https://www.instagram.com/artspiegelmandoc/reel/DG3ssJQTyRa/

[Eoin McLove]

Oof. We have been in a cultural new dark age in recent years. This cult of cancellation and censorship that has been on the rise over the past decade or more is fucking grotesque. Who started it is almost irrelevant at this point. Who will have the guts and decency to end it is the main thing for me. The downward spiral into the shit continues unabated. Sick fucking bullshit wherever it's coming from.

[open face surgery]

Trump using the word genocide in relation to white South Africans. The unbelievable continues to astound.

[Ollkiller]

Trump using the word genocide in relation to white South Africans. The unbelievable continues to astound.

See him playing a 5 minute video as evidence. Clown House.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

No fucking chance of him playing five minutes of Gaza or West Bank attacks for his buddy Bibi.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Oh, turns out the research that went into Trump's claims about white genocide was somewhat haphazard!
https://www.capetownetc.com/news/trump-caught-using-fake-congo-photo-in-clash-with-ramaphosa/

Somewhat related, watched this last night. It's not perfect, but the breakdown of bad faith omissions and distortions in the primary arguments advancing there was an unprecedented "woke" cancel culture are worth seeing, all the more so that yer man has no problem calling a spade a spade when it comes to genuinely overboard cancellations.
https://youtu.be/xgEvL_afVMA?si=hKyaiDfuaI7arEGS

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Musk appears to turn on Trump:
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/musk-calls-trumps-big-beautiful-bill-a-disgusting-abomination-2025-06-03/

[Ducky]

They both used each other and got what they wanted - Musk bought the election for Trump, and in turn Musk got access to all that shit he should never have been near.

Must have been a madhouse in the Oval Office - a demented auld narcissist and a memelord wrecked on ketamine.

[Eoin McLove]

I wonder if Musk is sensing a change in wind direction here and trying to limit the damage to his brand? A complete fucking tit. He should shut his autistic hole and fuck off to Mars. Maybe take the orange cunt with him.

[Bürggermeister]

Well worth a watch, Cadwalladr broke the Cambridge Analytica story, the Russian financing of Brexit, etc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG7CvbccdVM

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Sound, will watch that.

Among those facing deportation is a pro-Trump Cuban rapper behind a hit song "Patria y Vida" — "Homeland and Life" — that became the unofficial anthem of anti-communist protests on the island in 2021 and drew praise from the likes of then Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, now Secretary of State. Eliéxer Márquez, who raps under the name El Funky, said he received notice this month that he had 30 days to leave the U.S.

https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/trumps-immigration-crackdown-unnerves-cuban-exiles-long-shielded-from-deportation-2/

Actually feel sorry for these poor hoodwinked feckers, having believed that ultra-conservative MAGA could ever be anything other than revolted by everything about them. Then again, they should have paid more heed in 2016 when Trump was saying "This is a country where we speak English. It's English. You have to speak English!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP9Bto5lOEQ