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Cake day: March 12th, 2025

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  • The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is updating vehicle standards to make it easier and faster for driverless cars to deploy on public roads. It’s currently tweaking eight rules, including those requiring car parts that driverless cars don’t really need: brake pedals, windshield wipers, and rearview mirrors. But for now, years-old standards remain in place.

    Beyond private companies using tax dollars to manage their special regulatory environment, privatize and monetize public roads, and test their unfinished and unregulated products on citizens, I expect these to be fully-equipped roving surveillance and oppression machines:

    • Each car can be covertly equipped with a suite of LPR or facial recognition cameras, sensors, and signals intelligence equipment.

    • Autonomous cars can patrol and surveil large areas to gather intelligence while acting as innocuous taxis.

    • Journalists, brown people, or pregnant woman making the mistake of entering one of these could simply be recognized and driven to a “detention” center for arrest.

    • Vehicles can autonomously work in tandem to hunt down and assault other vehicles, or serve as transport for domestic military operations, or blockade roads.

    • Service can be selectively denied to certain areas or social groups to curtail and manage movement during protests or events.

    I mean, just use your imagination as to how an authoritarian federal government could collude with a Fascist tech CEO to leverage a large autonomous robo-taxi fleet set upon the population:




  • Rest assured that most Americans are not okay with this. Several people have tried to kill this guy and he is wildly unpopular with American voters today:

    Throughout 2025 to 2026, Trump’s approval rating has steadily declined to an average of 37 to 39%. In August 2026, Trump was the second most unpopular president at this stage of his presidency in the history of polling going back to the 1940s (the worst being Richard Nixon just days before resigning the office).

    Trump’s base is filled with the worst people America has to offer, amplified by decades of extreme and growing wealth inequality. Sadly, the real danger of fascism is that it almost always begins as a populist movement based on extreme grievance. Ironically, it is the same income inequality causing that grievance that is also funding its redirection into right-wing and racist sentiments.

    The plan has always been to use Trump’s populist but ultimately meaningless gestures as a distraction from the implementation of extreme Christian Nationalist and White Nationalist policies. However, the more the effects of these policies are seen and harm the American people, the less popular Trump becomes. Republican support is faltering, and there are already rats deserting the sinking ship.

    The race is on now to cheat the American people out of the next upcoming elections before MAGA support collapses and the opportunity to form a fully authoritarian government is gone. Americans still have a lot to lose and incredibly, our current Democratic system is still churning away and successfully eradicating fascist elements one by one. So, mass rebellion doesn’t really make sense at this stage of the game especially for Trump’s petty, childish, and ultimately distractionary squabbles.



  • This is a child’s conception of Presidential power.

    There is something deeply wrong and hopelessly broken at the core of American government and the American people, to enable and tolerate this kind of narcissistic behavior and absent-minded policy-making by Twitter-decree.

    This style of petty manipulation, negative attention seeking, self-aggrandizing and grandiose obsession, and carelessly destructive interpersonal action is textbook malignant narcissism. You are really, really, really, really not supposed to allow a person like this access to the Presidency (or any position of power at all, ideally) because of how effortlessly destructive they are, and difficult they are to dislodge.

    America is deep in the throes of a particularly nasty form of powerful narcissistic abuse on a national scale, and there is no clear or easy way to escape from it at this stage. There is an entire generation of abusers enabled by this system of power, frothing at the mouth to supplant Trump when he is finally gone.







  • That’s basically what he’s been doing his whole life, to everything. It’s getting to the point that everything he does is emblematic of American decline, while also directly causing it.

    Here’s why the navy is switching to the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System, over the reliability of steam catapults:

    The system launches carrier-based aircraft by means of a catapult employing a linear induction motor rather than the conventional steam piston, providing greater precision and faster recharge compared to steam.

    Its main advantage is that it accelerates aircraft more smoothly, putting less stress on their airframes. Compared to steam catapults, the EMALS also weighs less, is expected to cost less and require less maintenance, and can launch both heavier and lighter aircraft than a steam piston-driven system. It also reduces the carrier’s requirement of fresh water, thus reducing the demand for energy-intensive desalination.






  • They would say that this helps the average citizen by preventing it from being okay to be trans in American society which has benefits like:

    • Preventing your kids from becoming trans

    • Ending boys pretending to be girls so they can rape and spy on your daughters in gender-segregated spaces.

    • Stopping “woke” doctors who embrace “trans ideology” from profiting off of coercing your children into expensive and unnecessary medical treatments.

    • Removing “woke” teachers from tricking your kids into becoming trans, or giving them the option to be trans.

    • Having to deal with trans coworkers and accommodating their workplace rights.

    …and so on. These are almost exactly the same prejudiced justifications used in the past against gay rights in America.

    In this new round of American-style fascism, our government has been coerced into being taken over by an extreme right-wing contingent of American political life: Christian nationalists, white nationalists, neo-liberal economic extremists (which used to be called plain old conservative economics), conspiracy theorists, and narcissists. These people have an extreme and unbalanced worldview that flows from their political, economic, social, and emotional wants and needs instead of the fundamental human rights of citizens in a democracy.

    Beyond the sociopolitical convenience of having a group to scapegoat and channel political action against, there is a genuine conservative hate for those that do not conform to general conceptions of gender and sexuality. To conservatives, you’re either in or out - with us, or against us, and the people that make them feel weird about sex and gender are easy to exclude. That trans people are human and have rights and live under a democratic government with equal protection under the law becomes harder to integrate into conservative thinking than simply hating them and the accompanying societal norms.