Saint Peter is a fucking bitch ass motherfucker.

Who’d have guessed that Musk’s promise to “maximize free speech” was just a dogwhistle to allow the worst of society to say all the worst things with no pushback.

Oh yeah I guess everyone guessed that. None of these fucks cares about “free speech” they want “free speech without consequences specifically for me, but definitely consequences for the speech of people I don’t like.”

The most important aspect of this that I think most people are missing is that they are specifically trying to bias the public into thinking he definitely did it. There is no “allegedly” in how they’ve treated him, they are actually using the positive public sentiment about what he did to continue to build the idea that it was definitely him and we don’t need to go to court to prove it. The public loving Mangione and believing he definitely did it is actually in many ways beneficial to their case. It helps solidify the idea in the general public eye that “he did it” before any court case has looked at the facts.

Remember ol’ Khrushchev when he was ridin’ high with that Sputnik satellite
He told us yankee boys, he’s gunna fill the skies with them shiny new satellites
He said “Hey Mr. Eisenhower, watcha think of my Sputnik satellite?”
Well, Ike reeled his head back
Looked him in the eye, that’s a mighty fine satellite.

But I’mma gonna get me one better, just you wait and see
I’mma gonna get me one better, you can’t get the best of me
I’mma gonna get me one better, the baddest one around
I’mma gonna get me one better, ‘cause’ I got the biggest balls in town.

Gaslight Obstruct Project is just too on the nose for Republicans.

Because this isn’t just projection of their own violent tendencies it’s literally trying to gaslight the public into believing that reality must be different than what they’ve seen, and they’ll use the law to obstruct any investigation into proving that they are gaslighting the public.

Okay, well here are some facts that you can confirm with anyone else who has been involved in election administration that support my point:

I’m quoting OP to make a point here, and that point is they gave you an opportunity to validate the evidence they were presenting and not just take their word for it.

I have never worked in elections but have done enough research on elections to agree with the mod that these are indisputable facts. Elections are run at state and county levels and at each level you literally have security and cybersecurity teams that have to work with each other but were all hired by different groups: State, county, city. Due to this, processes will be different at each level and in each city/county/state. Similarly, each place will be sourcing their hardware from a different vendor, meaning it is highly implausible that somehow they all had the correct Tripp Lite devices in place in all the right districts and that the cybersecurity teams were either all grossly incompetent or somehow in on a grand conspiracy. Hell, I’ve had a government job for a short time, and even different agencies in the same government will be using different vendors than another agency. There is no overarching “you have to get your equipment from this specific vendor and no one else” more like “you can get your equipment from this large group of vendors who fit the specifications and requirements our city/county/state government has.”

These are things you can research and verify. The mod isn’t just asking you to their their word on it, they provide evidence and give you the opportunity to go verify that evidence for yourself. To go ask the people who run your local elections and find out. Not just trust the musings of some random asshat on the internet. Also the whole “elections are run at the state level” thing should be pretty common knowledge because that’s basic civics.

Find a different strategy for investment. Maybe crowdfunding? I know that seems infeasible but hear me out.

If he is against the current environment, one of the main things he can offer that other places can’t is customer service. This was hammered into me in my twenties when I worked in a small rural grocery store that was somewhat competing for business with the Walmart about a 20 minute drive away. Being close to where people lived, keeping a stock of what those people wanted and needed, offering services they used, and giving them quality customer service from people they got to get to know on an interpersonal level is what could sway people to not make that 20 minute drive for something cheaper. For the most part, it worked.

So many companies are chasing AI because they want to dump you into a customer service loop with an AI that never helps you. So many companies are chasing SaaS because they want endless income streams to be able to go public and sell the company. So many companies are choosing B2B because we’ve hollowed out the consumer class and the only groups who have a lot of money left to spend are big businesses.

Focus on customer service and having real customer service agents, word of mouth will make people know that this company has humans you can talk to. Work with local governments to get grants to give some of this product away to local medical facilities or locally owned gyms for the sports use. State government grants are actually an excellent way to get funding and get your product in the hands of people who need it. Also, selling to state governments is also similar to a B2B model, except you’re working with the government to try to get things into the hands of people who need it.

Anyway, just some thoughts, shooting from the hip so to speak on the idea. Hope it makes sense, good luck to your friend.

I just came back to this thread because I wanted to say: thank you for this write up, you got a lot of details I neglected to mention. The most important of which is that elections are run at the state level and every state is going to have their own security and cybersecurity teams, and the assumptions made in this treat it like either every cybersecurity team in every state is grossly incompetent or the cybersecurity teams were somehow “in on it” and kept their mouths shut (not a skill most of the people in Trumps orbit seem to have) or that the Trump admin had been sitting on a massive zero-day exploit to be used at the right moment, through the right channels, with the right pieces of hardware installed in the right spots every place they needed them (once again, these people are not good about keeping quiet about such things). Which, to me, all three are so highly implausible it really makes no sense to make grand conspiracies in your own head about it all.

This only counts because they use their money to make their lives “lawful” through legislation and capture of the courts, minimizing their very real crimes against humanity.

Okay perhaps Buffett, Gates, and Cook haven’t gone as far as actual crimes against humanity but the rest have, and Buffett, Gates, and Cook are still unlawful but used their money to twist the laws in their favor.

I got the touch… I got the power… Yeaaaaahhh!

A lot of US networks have disabled 2G entirely and the lowest service they have now is 3G.

I mean last time New York chose an ex-cop “Democrat.” I’m kind of convinced New York City is filled with idiots.

There’s 26 spaces and 2 disabled spaces. There’s about 35 cars waiting in line but it’s not clear if they’re all in line for the restaurant or if they need to be in that lane for other reasons. Only one space is filled in the parking lot, 25 of these cars could be parked and have people inside, leaving maybe 10 cars for the drive through but even then the 10 in the drive through would be blocking cars from coming or going.

These drive-thrus are always so fucking badly designed.

Carbrained and fast-foodbrained. Cook a fuckin meal and you might save more time, jeeze.

Poor Luigi…

…although on second thought maybe it’s a legit kink for him. Some people love being the cuckold. Not meaning to kinkshame Luigi either.

I mean we’re staring down the barrel of total civilization collapse by 2050 if we don’t get climate change under control, so I mean, I’m not sure anywhere is gonna be all that good.

However, your point stands.

The Dude would just say fuck it and not even bother arguing and tell Brandt that the Big Lebowski told him to take any one of his rental properties as The Dude’s own.

Tread on me, Gothy Dommy Mommy.

Unironically yes, yes we do.