Relevant: "Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?" [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44962529

It's convinced Brave on Android is a bot too. What's with these lolita mascots?

The idea is that you have to pay to get a "profesional" version without the mascots. Shameware?

I cant even open it on Chrome in Android...

If they figure it out before losing the market

That's gold, I've just stumbled on the original a week ago

Care to elaborate?

Maybe orange man will abolish the FCC because rules are inefficient

He won't abolish the FCC. It is too efficient at attacking his enemies.

looking at his policy to China and Russia, maybe his enemies are not what we thought

His enemies are Americans that don't bow down.

Nope, it seems more like the point where the fall accelerates

There’s a chance the Trump administration can bring the US out of its massive debt hole caused by every single recent administration before it.

So yeah, it’s definitely accelerating, but the outcome has not been decided.

I’ll happily take more downvotes to point out that society hasn’t collapsed yet in spite of your feelings. :-)

And the US is like more than 50 states. Now what?

Germany has 16 states

France has 27 states

Poland has 16 states

Bulgaria has 28 states

Italy has 20 states

so on... Shall we start counting state wise?

And the US has over 3000 counties, many of which are comparable in size and population to those states; compare apples to apples

Or they never try to get i back but have now a conveniently locked down internet for their citizen, nicely packaged with a scapegoat to wag their finger at shouting "look at these evil countries trying to force their will on us, they keep YOU from the internet"

But you did see the videos? You still trust a right wing politician, who stands to profit immensely from Trump and Musk in power, more than your own eyes? That's wild

This won't fly yet

The 'awkward gesture' take is a fun one.

"Sorry officer, I did not flip you off twice, that were both just very awkward gestures"

There is tons of data on how Musk became a far right supporter and sympathizer, like his support of UK racists and the German far right. You seem to still use X, you could just scroll through his posts there and try to not ignore the evidence you see with your own eyes

Have you considered that perhaps the increasing levels of vitriol and outright hatred directed at him by the left might have had something to do with his rightward trend? They seem pretty correlated.

I struggle to see how doubling down on the hatred is going to convince anyone other than _already hateful_ people of the righteousness of your cause?

Have you considered that doing a nazi salute, whether earnest or ironically earnest, is just not okay?

No, it's not okay, and I'm not trying to justify it.

But you (and everyone else in this thread, with perhaps a few exceptions) hated him long before the salute, so to try to blame it on that is pretty disingenuous.

I think trying to justify your hatred of someone based on something the did after you started hating them is pretty "not okay", too, fwiw