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On Election Day, Harris will take office and Trump will be arrested according to election conspiracy subreddit

This comment was left in an election conspiracy subreddit under a post where Biden acknowledges Trump as the incoming president:

If he came out and said anything now there would be violence. I feel that come swear in day that Kamala will be the one with her hand swearing in. Trump will be taken into custody shortly after. I think we all need to show up to support her. We showed up in force to vote and that was stripped from us. Now our country needs us more than ever.

I go back to this sub every week, and each time I do the rhetoric I read is elevated closer to Q-Anon-level delirium. The account in the screenshot above has all the right signals—they have a liberal-leaning post history and an avatar with the correct liberal flags. But the account was created in April of this year.

Since 2016, I’ve spent a lot of hours scrolling right-wing conspiracy forums. It’s always something. Something is always on the horizon. There’s always something the people in charge know that we don’t. Always a sound bite to examine for secret information.

The situation comes to a boil, and just when the suspense is too much to bear, something falls through. The date is pushed back. New information tells us that the old information was wrong about one key detail. Be patient. Trust the –

At some point Biden is going to stop telling us that Trump will be the next President, right? Speculation/Opinion Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump Question: “You’re going to be at the inauguration?” President Biden: “Of course I am. The only president ever to avoid an inauguration is the guy about to be inaugurated.

Seems to me nothign can happen until the joint session on Jan 6 and then maybe (I guess Harris ?) USC 14.3 will be invoked, requiring a 2/3 majority to override Trumps disqualification, and OR the states with wonky ballot stats get objected to and tossed. Either way smart to not going to give a heads up for Trump to assemble his minions. We might get a clue something is up if a lot of barricades go up arount Jan 4th, 5th

I WISH! This interview was hard to watch for me lol. Reply: He did say something interesting at around minute 9 The question was something like, world leaders everywhere are saying you can’t leave, you can’t let trump take over and ruin everything destroy world stability. He answered something about congress and how a lot of republicans won’t be supporting dictatorship. Made me wonder if it has to do with congress disqualifying trump on january 6 due to the 14th amendment. Edit: it’s actually at 10:25 where he mentions congress after answering the question on foreign policy. He says the leaders of G7 (ELE••) said that their own democracy is also at risk as well.

!He’s gonna be at the inauguration. The question i wanna know is: Whose?

*Jams fork into eye*

VCs pledge not to take money from Russia or China:

More than 20 VC firms, many of which invest in defense tech, signed the Clean Capital Certification, self-attesting that they have not and will not take money from U.S. geopolitical adversaries such as China and Russia.

Venture Capitalists would shove a CPU up their own grandmother’s ass if they thought they could sell her as a laptop. So I’m not sure.

I must decline. For secret reasons.

Luigi Mangione Movement - Lets Organize Transparently!!!&10;Follows you&10;@luigimovement.bsky.social&10;685 followers 1.4K following 316 posts&10;All killing is bad & must stop!&10;But it is more evil to distort reality, by saying that Societal Killing by the elite is fine while killing one person with a gun is bad.&10;We organize transparently to bring light to the darkness. Who's in?Not A Cop @NoPoliceman&10;If anyone is planning any illegal activities tonight let me know. I love doing crimes.

Edit: He’s a Fed (song; h/t @jdp23)

The Internet is posting Luigi Mangione’s perpwalk photos next to famous renaissance paintings, or otherwise highlighting the photos' very renaissance-like compositions.

Note to my art nerds: I know not all these paintings are from the renaissance. I’m just dumb and going off vibes

Man in orange suit with a hallow superimposed on him. Armed military surround him as he walks.

two panel: photo of man in handcuffs surround by police. Then painting of Jesus “The Disrobing of Christ,” by El Greco.

two panel: photo of man in handcuffs surround by police. Then painting of Jesus arrested. “The Arrest of Christ,” by some artist I can’t confirm the name.

two panel: photo of man in handcuffs surround by police. Then painting of Jesus “The Capture of Christ," Heinrich Hofmann

Similar imagery are being found in the real world, too.

📍Baltimore, Maryland

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— Luigi Mangione Updates 💬 ([@thecigaverse.swifties.social](http://thecigaverse.swifties.social)) Dec 19, 2024 at 7:57 PM

Or just general expressions of support.

picture of a sticker on a pole of Luigi character that says free Luigi

Free Luigi spray painted on a wall

Luigi 2024 watercolour and noodlers waterproof pink ink

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— Armpit Sweaty ([@armpit-sweaty.bsky.social](http://armpit-sweaty.bsky.social)) Dec 12, 2024 at 10:58 PM

I’ll post more images here as I come across them.

Edit 10:57pm 12/20/24:

Painting of Luigi as a saint with a hallow

Even the AI bros are getting in on the art fair:

Okay, But…Who Exactly Was Luigi Mangione Terrorizing? | The Fucking News:

Treating the CEO population as the civilian population would constitute the grave offense of politicizing the office, weaponizing it to serve the agenda of a corporation that pays millions annually to lobby the government and elect friendly politicians.

Entertaining read.

Sam Altman disputes Marc Andreessen’s description of AI meetings with Biden administration | TechCrunch:

“I mean, we were in a room with them, and other companies and the administration, but never like, ‘Here’s our conspiracy theory, we’re going to make it so only a few companies can build AI and then you have to do what we say.’ Never anything like that,” Altman said.

My “Not involved in state-sponsored monopoly” T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.

PornHub Is Blocking Access in Florida from January 1 2025:

Aylo, the company that owns PornHub, says it is revoking the entire state’s access over concerns about privacy and user safety. The company says that age verification laws often result in the collection of sensitive personal information, posing a security risk to its users.

Good god. The Instagram comments are about to get so horny in The Sunshine State.

Cops save Christmas for the billionaires

From @alexnpress:

Re: Chris Hayes expresses his distaste for a Christmas song without mentioning Trump (and that’s bad for some reason).

This is happening with greater frequency. We’ve entered a bizarre new era of social media discourse where even the most mundane critical observation is met with incredulous anger if that critique is not somehow centered around Donald J. Trump.

Chris Hayes [@chrishayes.bsky.social](http://chrishayes.bsky.social) • 1h&10;It's the time of the year when "Do They Know it's Christmas?" randomly pops up on the spotify holiday playlist and I'm shocked *once again* at how utterly tone deaf and condescending it is. I know I'm not breaking any new ground but MY GOD.&10;&10;Comment:&10;Chris, Chris, Chris. This song was about motivating folks to donate money to a good cause, the famine in Ethiopia. We have seen worse pleas for money, much more condescending. Let's start with the Trump golden sneakers, the Trump watches, and the Trump cologne, shall we?

The website guy responded. It went well. Lol.

??; Was something not clear?; I didn’t see the story; I’m calling you out for stealing my website He definitely saw it the second I posted but okay.

I’m calling you out for stealing my website. I don’t steal your website. I wanna buy it from you. You need to put it for sale. Me You literally did steal it. It’s up on your site now. It’s a nice template. It’s not a template. It’s a custom design that I made. I was testing it. Are you selling it ? Lol. Lots of templates are cloneable now So we’re gaslighting from the jump. I respect it.

You can’t take something and then later ask if you can buy it. That’s not how commerce works. Better to make your content sellable. Okay. I’ll delete it Yeah, but here’s the thing that’s not a template. It’s my personal website that I coded. That’s why l’m asking you if you’re selling it. You could’ve asked me and I probably would’ve helped you. for free dude. Don’t take it too personal. Oh that’s nice of you. I would love to you. Are you available. “Don’t take it personal.” It’s a personal website, you sack of oatmeal.

Are you available. That’s a good way of getting your attention. Are you available for hire.I’m not begging. Change the looking feel of the site until it’s unrecognizable Venmo me $100 and we’re square. So it’s all about money? I’m not sure how much I can change the look. It’s okay l’ll just delete it. I don’t need it anymore. Thanks. Edited. dope. Have a good. “I’ll give you money.” “Okay give me money.” “Oh it’s all about the money?” WHAT.

I don’t even want the money. Even thought he did pay someone else $50 to “clone” the site. An apology would’ve been cool. Owning up to it seems like something to do. Based on our conversation, my guess is he doesn’t take it down and just blocks me instead. I looked at the site again, and its now different enough where I don’t care.

A friend said he sounds like a guy on a dating app after the woman rejects him hahaha.

I grew up on Curry Ford Road in downtown Orlando. Free market capitalism didn’t help my mother when Wachovia Bank rearranged her debit charges to maximize overdraft fees the week before Christmas.

It didn’t help her when she pawned her dead mother’s jewelry so that her kids could get presents that year. And it didn’t help her fifteen years later when the bank settled a class action suit and my mom received a $33 check.

Poor people shouldn’t have to pay for some rich Californian’s ideals on free market economics.

I’ve seen how libertarians act under duress; when it’s their lives being violated. And it’s never half as bad as a poor person’s Tuesday, and never with a thimble worth of their dignity.

Could it be? Is it so? That maybe this free speech crusade was all a front so that big tech oligarchs and any subsequent successors may continue the wholesale exploitation of Americans, unfettered?

Because if it’s free speech unless I deem something to be a threat, then its not a right, it’s just an expressed desire for absolute authority.

Illustration of a snake on a yellow background with an asterisk out its mouth and the caption "you can tread on me sometimes, as a treat"

It’s been interesting to see big techno-libertarian voices dodge the looming Tiktok ban by offering a half-hearted, comparatively limp-dicked rebuke that would have been a huge deal under any other circumstance.

The government is censoring one of the largest speech platforms for Americans. This is your armageddon. I figured they’d be marching in the streets.

Willy Wonka with his head resting on his hands with the caption no stop, please don't.

Could it be, is it so? The free speech crusade is a merely a front so that big tech can continue taking advantage of Americans unfettered.

Michael Jackson is so unhelpful in Smooth Criminal like yeah, I’ll be fine could you maybe call an ambulance I’m losing a lot of blood.

Is Matt Mullenweg the Mad King of WordPress?:

Standing in a bathroom at Automattic’s San Francisco offices, Matt Mullenweg is talking to me about toilet paper.

Just an incredible way to start an article. I lol’d.

It’s at least a little funny knowing that it was the cops' egos that demanded the spectacle and its backfiring on them spectacularly.

The Arrest of Christ, German artist, 1480-1495, 📸 by @1ontapdigital

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— ArtButMakeItSports ([@artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social](http://artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social)) Dec 19, 2024 at 10:39 PM

When AI summaries replace hyperlinks, thought itself is flattened | Aeon Essays:

We are at a moment in the history of the web in which the link itself – the countless connections made by website creators, the endless tapestry of ideas woven together throughout the web – is a in danger of going extinct.

Long but fantastic read so far (half way through). Will have more to say about it later.

From Aeon: Ted Nelson’s original 1965 article introducing the term ‘hypertext’. Courtesy the Internet Archive/Ted Nelson

Hey Bluesky, from my micro blog.

All this political theater is making Luigi Mangione look cool as hell, I fear. (The optics aren’t doing anything to help the idea that we have an overly militarized police problem either.)

Man in orange jumpsuit handcuffed with armed militarized police around him walking.

[From the drafts] Starved for hope, a trolling Harris feeds us

Here’s an incomplete draft of mine from September 11th. During the months leading up to the election, I was very nervous. I wrote a lot. For whatever reason, I published none of it, effectively keeping myself a political diary of unfinished thoughts. After revisiting some of my mini-political essays, I may publish them here on my micro. If for nothing else, to connect with folks who felt the same way as I did.

Under the mountain of Donald Trump’s lies is a bedrock composed of a single truth. It is the key to all of his power.

He said, “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters.”

He offered that truth at the Iowa rally nearly a decade ago, and still, democrats refuse to acknowledge it. We still believe we can embarrass his voters enough to jump ship. But history is clear.

This fight is, and has always been, about one thing— the whiteness of America.

The overturning of Roe v Wade, the attacks on birth control and interracial marriage. They separate brown children from their mothers. It all points to keeping this country white.

And when it comes to preserving that identity at any cost, there is only one game in town. Donald Trump.

Take it from someone who trolled his cronies so hard that it made the news.

No matter what he does; no matter how much we get under his skin, or call out his hypocrisies, he will always have the margin of error to win the presidency of the United States.

The new Superman trailer shows Krypto in the movie!

James Gunn is my favorite thing about superhero movies. He’s not afraid of the weird and cheesy parts of sci-fi lore. I would love, love if Gunn rebooted Hitchhicker’s Guide to The Galaxy, and embraced the kitschiness of the 1980’s BBC series.

Anyway, the shots look gorgeous. I’m hopeful.

Dog in the snow with red cloth in front of him

wide shot of dog in snow and Superman laying down

Close up of white dog

Edit: Here’s the complete BBC radio series of Hitchhiker’s Guide to The Galaxy thanks to @pabloniusmonk on Mastodon. Great find.

Helping my mom clear her storage and I notice she has 4GB worth of NOTES? As non-technical as she is, she immediately said “yeah that make sense I love that app,” lmao. Parents.

Notes&10;Last Used: Yesterday&10;4.15 GB

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I, too, am launching a newsletter exclusively for Fourtune 500 CEOs. Just give me your name, email, street address–

Me when a Zoom call runs five minutes long.

Illustration of Dr. Manhattan looking into the sky. The caption reads I am tired of earth. These people. I am tired of being caught in the tangle of their lives.&10;

What percentage of content on the Internet—memes, videos, blogs, etc.—are published with the explicit intention of shaping your opinion, or nudging your actions, but are disguised to be completely innocuous?

Take out foreign actors. Just homegrown efforts. Whether that be our government, corporate interests, news media, etc.

1%? 20%? What topics would be most important to them?

I don’t have a point other than just thinking about that question makes me more aware of propaganda. Because whatever the percentage, it’s non-zero.

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