Hello Dante? What Level Is This?

[ponchi101]

The Secretary of Defense allowed pictures of the Enola Gay to be deleted?
I agree. After all, it is simply one of the least important planes in history, never flying any mission of any relevance.
Right?

[ti-amie]

The Secretary of Defense allowed pictures of the Enola Gay to be deleted?
I agree. After all, it is simply one of the least important planes in history, never flying any mission of any relevance.
Right?

The Ministry of Stupidity and Ignorance is running this country.

[dave g]

The Ministry of Stupidity and Ignorance and Arrogance is running this country.

That's better.

[ti-amie]

Charles Ornstein‬ ‪@charlesornstein.bsky.social‬
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Apparently, you can't say or write "cancer moonshot" or "peanut allergy" without permission if you work at the National Cancer Institute. www.propublica.org/article/nati...

[ti-amie]

Domestic Enemy Hat‬ ‪@kenwhite.bsky.social‬

This country’s founders knew that “treason” was a claim so vulnerable to abuse that they took the trouble to define it narrowly in the constitution: “Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.” /1

Radley Balko
‪@radleybalko.bsky.social‬

The co-president says speaking against Putin’s interests is akin to treason.

So I guess that’s where we are now.

[Owendonovan]

Whoever hacked twitter, needs to permanently disable it. Serves no good purpose existing any longer.

[ti-amie]

Elmo is saying the source seems to be "IP" addresses in the Ukraine area. Is there any other country in the "Ukraine area" that has that capability? /s

[ponchi101]

A South African is telling an American senator he is a traitor.
Why does that bug me?

[ti-amie]

[ti-amie]

Aaron Black‬ ‪@aaronblack.bsky.social‬

Texas megachurch pastor and former Trump advisor, Robert Morris, was just indicted for raping a 12 year old girl.

[Owendonovan]

I pretty much always suspect some kind of current or past debased behavior from men of the cloth.

[ti-amie]

ElectricChocoDad

If only they had a reliable neighbour who would help at any point you're stuck. A really close neighbour who you share a massive unguarded border with...got nothing kick rocks

Llama_Shaman

They also asked Denmark and Sweden. Major reason they were told no was that they had strange and expensive requirements like washing the eggs and US government inspections of chicken farms AT THE EXPENSE OF THE FARMS.

[ponchi101]

If only eggs would come with a protective shell or something, that would made them easily washable at home...

[ti-amie]

[ti-amie]

Elon Musk Shared, Then Removed a Post Absolving Dictators for Genocide
The post falsely claimed that Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler and Mao Zedong were not responsible for the murders of millions of people, but rather public sector workers were.

By Kate Conger
March 14, 2025, 6:44 p.m. ET

Early on Friday, Elon Musk shared a post written by an X user about the actions of three 20th century dictators — then quickly deleted it after it sparked a backlash.

The post falsely claimed that Joseph Stalin, the communist leader of the Soviet Union until 1953; Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazi party in Germany; and Mao Zedong, the founder of the People’s Republic of China, didn’t cause the deaths of millions of people under their watch. Instead, the post said, their public sector workers did.

Mr. Musk shared the post without any other comment. He removed it soon after users on X criticized the post, saying it was antisemitic and dismissive of genocide. Historians have widely chronicled that millions of people died under Stalin in the 1950s, that millions of Jews were massacred under Hitler during the Holocaust, and that millions of Chinese were displaced or killed during Mao’s cultural revolution.

It was the latest post by Mr. Musk to devolve into controversy. In 2023, Mr. Musk endorsed an antisemitic post on X as “the actual truth” of what Jewish people were doing, prompting advertisers to flee. And after an assassination attempt on Mr. Trump last year, Mr. Musk wrote — then deleted — a post suggesting it was odd that nobody had tried to kill former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. or former Vice President Kamala Harris.

Mr. Musk has long appeared to favor strongmen and has promoted right wing modern-day leaders. He has repeatedly used X to support politicians like Javier Milei of Argentina, Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil and Narendra Modi of India, leaders in countries where he also has business interests. Most recently, he threw his support behind the hard-right Alternative for Germany party, hosting an online town hall for its candidate for chancellor.

“It is deeply disturbing and irresponsible for someone with a large public platform to elevate the kind of rhetoric that serves to undermine the seriousness of these issues,” the Anti-Defamation League said in a statement about Mr. Musk’s sharing of the post.

Mr. Musk did not respond to a request for comment.

Mr. Musk frequently uses X as a megaphone to share everything from juvenile memes to major U.S. policy proposals, blasting his opinions to his more than 219 million followers. But his viewpoints are drawing more scrutiny since he has become a close adviser to President Trump helping overhaul government spending.


https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/tech ... n-mao.html