“It’s completely unfair to the agents who have been put in this position,” he added. “There’s only so much they can handle before bad things start to happen.”

They knew exactly what they were getting themselves into. Most of them want those bad things to happen. They masturbate over the prospect of that brutality.

This is just some asshole trying to hand-wave away the crimes these people are doing under the guise of “boo hoo, poor them!”

They deserve zero sympathy. And all of them who have harassed, threatened, kidnapped, hurt, or murdered people should be brought to justice.

Every accusation is an admission.

Kind of funny considering that Visio is the name of another Microsoft product.

ETA: I’m not defending Microsoft’s usage of the term ‘Visio’ here. The French use of that term makes a lot of sense, and Microsoft has an annoying tendency of using and copyrighting very common terms like ‘Word’ or ‘SQL Server’. And France (or the French government) should be allowed to use it for their video conferencing software. I’m just smiling at the idea of some people opening Microsoft Visio by mistake and trying to figure out how to make a call through a diagramming app.

Congratulations on the Trump Kennedy center for their imminent bankruptcy announcement.

What?! The administration run by a man who is famous for not paying people didn’t pay some people?!

This guy is a one-trick pony.

Have to oath in a Democrat who will trigger a vote his master doesn’t like? Send everyone home!

Files that incriminates his master are being released? Send everyone home!

This tactic is getting old already.

The only thing I’m aware of is him publicly slating a could of actors. He was very critical of Paul Dano from There Will Be Blood (which is a bit weird because that movie has been out for a long time). He also publicly slated Matthew Lillard, who seems like a genuinely nice guy and has a lot of fans. I think those (especially the criticism of Lillard) pissed a lot of people off.

Holy shit, a real comment in one of these threads!!!

What’s going on with Liverpool? They have a fantastic squad, but the results have been poor for a couple of months now. You think it’s purely a confidence thing? Or are the new signing not gelling with the squad? Has Slott lost the changing room?

and questioned whether certain nations can remain reliable allies

Funnily enough most of Europe has been asking the same question about the US under Trump. I guess Russia has got a psychological win (even as their military fails dismally in Ukraine) by corrupting a key player from the inside and then pitting old allies against each other.

Just like they were ready to fully conquer Ukraine, fight?

Here’s a link from a December 2024 article. It mentions how the people behind Project 2025 had an online questionnaire. I remember reading somewhere that I’m addition to being an promoted on maga web sites, the questionnaire was also heavily promoted at Trump’s rallies. I can’t find a link on that now, but it makes perfect sense that’s one of the places where they’d be advertising it and gathering names. It would be a very effective way of reaching those people.

Pertinent parts of this article, which again was published before he was sworn in, include:

Among Donald Trump’s many disconcerting campaign promises is a pledge to fire tens of thousands of federal employees and replace them with loyalists.

Project 2025’s online questionnaire for landing job in the next Trump administration asks about the influences on applicants’ “political philosophy.” According to one alumnus of the first Trump administration, the idea is to “see that you’re listening to Tucker, and not pointing to the Reagan revolution or any George W. Bush stuff.”

Remember how during the election campaign he had sign-up forms for the maga loyalists who attended his rallies and were interested in working for his government?

This is the next step in that plan. The first step was having Musk and his DOGE lackeys gut the federal government of anyone who was employed in areas they didn’t like, it those who might be critical of them.

Now they are moving to step 2: they are going to use subs of the freed-up wages from those lost positions to flood the federal government with their loyalist grunts. And ICE is the perfect place for most of them. These people will get to strut around in their armed forces paraphernalia, persecuting immigrants and people with darker skin than them.

I’m surprised I haven’t seen any mention of those rally sign-up forms anywhere recently. But this is all part of a wider plan.

The same courts that the government routinely ignores, and that has a sham, corrupt supreme court at it’s head? Yeah, good luck with that, unfortunately.

I guess I’m… Plain Mercury?

“Woke Marxist Popes” would make a pretty awesome band name.

user names and passwords for logging in to various accounts belonging to Schutt have been published at least four times since 2023 in logs from stealer malware.

Oof. That’s embarrassing. He’s been oblviously leaking his credentials for months due to an earlier infection by malware.

“I don’t stop at yield signs,” he continued.

I haven’t heard this expression before. I understand that he’s trying to project the whole ‘alpha male’ things through that phrase. But that’s a fucking stupid expression. Yield signs are there for everyone’s safety, including your own. Not yielding at them, either literally or figuratively, is the sign of a dunce.

Damn, I’ve been lucky. In my last three positions the vast majority of my coworkers (like 90+%) have been pleasant and easy to work with. And I like all the other developers I currently work with.

That’s objectively poor survey design. For questions like that there should always be an ‘Other’ option. There should also be a ‘None’ or ‘N/A’ option.

“ARCADE INSIDE! ARCADE! ARCADE! ARCADE! ARCADE INSIDE!”

I feel like they are trying to tell me something. I wonder what it is.