How else you going to live out your badass road warrior fantasies??

Fucken dunce…

Dumbass cop was about to pitt maneuver this truck into an innocent car.

God I fucking love his mustached, balding doofus.

Except no, they literally do.

The Epstein strategy was one where people were hoping that a Trump-led DOJ would release material necessary to take down Trump - who runs the DOJ. It’s a baffling, failing strategy.

So are SIM cards.

Hey, you basically defined my system.

Truenas scale machine running 4x 16TB drives. I use a cheap rosewill 4u server rack case. It has hot swap drive bays in front. Big plus.

The brain is an amd 5950x running on an asrock x570 steel legend w/ 128GB of the cheapest crucial DDR4 ECC I could find. Also running an rtx 2080 for jellyfin transcoding.

My consumer mobo is the bottleneck. Given how my end goal is to have a 10gb nic and an LSI card for more sata ports, I’m going to have to get creative with m.2 ports. I might plug a 10gb nic into an m.2 port.

PSU was a 1kW fractal platinum rated. Way overkill, but the high efficiency is key.

You’ll notice my build uses a lot of gaming parts - i simply harvested my old parts when I upgraded my gaming PC. Despite this, it still idles under 200 watts. My point is not that you should seek out gaming parts, but if you happen to have any on hand, they could be effectively leveraged given price increases on new parts.

The biggest thing is: Use ECC. This is non negotiable for your setup. ECC saved me a couple weeks ago when my 5950x shot craps, randomly. So far no issues after increasing to a set voltage. ZFS and ECC go together like peas in a pod.

But, ironically, it is expected to disenfranchise significantly more republicans

This seems more like a hypothesis of yours rather than a well-understood expectation. Let me get this straight: you think the SAVE act is going to protect voting rights of previously-disenfranchised voters? That seems unlikely, and i dont think many share your theory.

And… Brown People™ have been getting their papers in order for years.

What do you mean by this? Are you saying people of color are unique positioned to gain from the SAVE act? Why do you think this?

More than 3.8 million adult U.S. citizens lack any form of citizenship documents, such as a birth certificate, passport, or naturalization papers, according to UMD’s Center for Democracy and Civic Engagement.

This is a critical issue among people of color. Three percent said they had no document at all, compared to 1% of white citizens.

Another 11% of people of color, or some 8.4 million people, cannot readily access citizenship documents compared to 8% of white Americans.

The issue cuts across political affiliation, too. Independents were more likely than Democrats and Republicans to lack citizenship documents or not have ready access to them.

Young people, aged 18 to 24, are also less likely to have access. Many young people may not know where their birth certificate is stored or it may be in another location, another state, with parents or other family members, the center’s analysis suggested.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/how-the-save-america-act-would-make-major-changes-to-voting

In short, it seems like youre shrugging off this issue to “they’ll never achieve this” at a time when it is increasingly clear that the right has the power to do pretty much whatever they want - most often successfully.

The republicans can fire trump at any second they want.

But why would they? They have power. Is there supposed to be some sort of conclusion we can draw from this statement?

It’s also true that Exxon could cease all oil drilling tomorrow. It’s also true that all billionaires could give away their entire fortunes tomorrow. But they won’t, because they have power.

Sure, at any given time it is true that your evil adversaries could just give up and magically change course, but is there really anything groundbreaking about underscoring that?

We should be leaning on the purported “opposition” party to actually fix things instead of waiting for evil pedophiles to magically change course.

But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.

You really think this is bulletproof?

Have Trump run for Speaker. Hell, have him appointed as secretary of agriculture and have the people above resign. Its really not that difficult when your constitution is held together with bubblegum and pinky promises.

There is nothing in the constitution that says he cant enjoy a third term.

the stupidest motherfucker in the country can do the math to see it’s unconstitutional

It’s not at all unconstitutional for Trump to enjoy a third term as president. All the Constitution says is that he can’t be elected a third time. There’s nothing that says he cannot run as VP and then succeed into POTUS once Vance steps down.

If Taco Bell reintroduced the shredded chicken burrito, how many angels could dance on the head of a pin?

Suppose, in 10 years, your choice for president is between a democrat who openly expresses interest in murdering six million Jewish people, and a Republican who openly expresses interest in murdering seven million Jewish people.

Will you still be an unwavering Democrat?

and then have 11 of the 12 listed examples being perpetrated by one group

Why are you focusing on who was president?

The claim was: American Imperialism enjoys bipartisan support

Your counterpoint was: that cant be true because some of these examples were during republican POTUS.

That doesn’t mean anything. American Imperialism can still enjoy bipartisan support, even if the president is a republican.

Take the DR in 1965, for example. LBJ was president, but his call to war was answered emphatically by both Democrats AND Republicans in the name of anticommunism. Do you seriously think that the fact that LBJ was president disproves that this meddling enjoyed bipartisan support?

So what are you saying? That American Imperialism is not the fault of America, but the fault of Republicans? Quite a convenient way to absolve yourself.

My main point is that American Imperialism, especially in Latin America, enjoys bipartisan support.

basically every one of those incidents involves a Republican administration

Using military money that was allocated in the preceding year by democrats.

Must be related to Oliver Closeoff.

Regarding meddling in Latin America?

Correct.

Do you think fascism happens when a critical number of people have been tricked into doing fascism? Fascism is not the result of some nebulous, nationwide hoodwink, but a response to measurable deterioration of wages, education, infrastructure, wages, healthcare, etc…

If you truly believe this, your only recourse is fact checking, appeals to logic, and information campaigns. How have those worked over the past decade?

It is pure liberalism to think that we just need to sit our best politicians and philosophers down, have them draft up an absolutely banger explanation of why fascism is bad, and then every fascist American yokel will see the error in their ways and renounce fascism. Liberalism is the idea that people are fascist simply becsuse they haven’t been presented with the “right” ideas yet.

Liberal slop that posits we must return the wholesome big chungus good old days of healthy American democracy (as if the US wasn’t born out of wholesale genocide of Native Americans and the enslavement of an entire continent). You can tell this article was written by someone who just wants to go back to esting brunch while the US plunders the planet. Does the article even mention workers? If it does, it makes far more effort to put its stock in “institutions”, “courts”, and “elites”.

American fascism is not an abberation, but the logical conclusion. This article comes from the perspective that we have to save the current system as opposed to even considering a new one.

Fascism Is Possible Not in Spite of Liberal Capitalism, but Because of It

Clintonite cosmopolitan liberalism claims that these oppressions are atavisms of the past, even though they are renewed every day. It promises to unite the world Benetton-like in a multicultural global market, where everyone is equally free to exploit and be exploited. Liberalism will occasionally apologize for its racism, sexism and colonial massacres, and may make affirmative action reforms to stabilize its rule and rationalize production, or in the case of the US government’s eventual concessions to the civil rights movement, to compete ideologically with the Soviet Union. But there is one place where it can never acknowledge illegitimate hierarchy: the workplace. And it is precisely here that the contradictions that propel the world toward fascism are rooted.