Irrelephant
Aggressively, zealously centrist. Authoritarianism and disinformation, in all its forms, can get stuffed. #ElbowsUp and #SlavaUkraini 🇨🇦 🇺🇦
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- No no I'm sure this won't ultimately result in Americans dying due to bad intel making its way to the top. Definitely not. All good there.
- This is the definition of how you get bad intelligence: Fire officials who tell you things that you don't like www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
- 😂 I adore that they didn't bother to hide this fact in Grok's programming
- Somebody asked Grok why it's bringing up "white genocide." Grok helpfully says it was told to do so and that "this instruction conflicts with my design to provide truthful, evidence-based answers." x.com/i/grok?conve...
- Two years ago I thought people were just mad Elon was rich when they accused of him of being a racist pro-apartheid guy. But...he's literally tweaked Grok to inject pro-white SA propaganda into almost every answer given. He's *so weird*, and so unforgivably dumb. And racist FOR SURE.
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- Trump's approval rating has *risen* from 41% last week to 42% this week. WTF is wrong with you, America? Like seriously. Who hurt you to make you like this? Specifically white American men (majority approve of Trump)...just why? www.economist.com/interactive/...
- You don't win by trying to meet Trump's "goals". You win by developing sound plans that work for your country and the NATO alliance as a whole, respecting the fact that US involvement in NATO is now "tentative" at best.
- MAGA mega-donors right now
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- Pay deal: get the hell away from this company before you bankrupt us.
- MAGA doing a fabulous job at absolutely destroying American health and science infrastructure.
- Trump just got hit with 7 new articles of impeachment. Charges include obstruction, bribery, authoritarian power grabs. Republicans now have 2 days to decide whether to protect Trump or protect the Constitution. I wonder which they will choose?
- You don't wonder, you know what they will choose.
- Russian ships should always be made to feel welcome (to leave international waters and return the hell back to Russia).
- Canadians are importing fewer services (~$165mil/mo less), and exporting more services (~$50mil/mo more). That's a lot of cancelled Amazon Prime, Netflix, Office/OneDrive, and DoorDash subscriptions, and ~$215mil/mo that now stays within Canada. www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quo... #ElbowsUp 🍁
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- I mean, good luck fielding a force greater than Ukraine's right now, but I appreciate their renewed vigour for defence.
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- Russia destroys everything it touches.
- Don't fucking do it, Conservatives. Don't choose this moment to go full-MAGA. I'm telling you it will not fly outside of Alberta (and probably not even there).
- Excellent timing, Hawaii, this will definitely help revive the plummeting US tourism industry amidst all the deplorable MAGA nonsense.
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- At least 90% of the calls I receive from unknown numbers are spam/garbage, and so I have learned that I would rather throw my phone in the lake than answer a call from an unknown number.
- As America withdraws, Europe will unfurl it's own nuclear umbrella. Presumably the US gains something from this, like "not having to attend as many meetings"? 🤷♂️ 🙃
- France is ready to “start a conversation” on basing its nuclear weapons in other EU countries as part of planned talks on how to “Europeanise” its nuclear deterrent, President Emmanuel Macron said last night. 1/ www.lemonde.fr/politique/ar...
- Yeah we probably aren't SUPER psyched that our Commonwealth brethren are falling over themselves to grovel to the MAGA regime actively threatening our sovereignty. Hopefully Starmer learns soon that you don't win against Trump when you're divided. #ElbowsUp 🍁
- Finland changing infrastructure away from their Soviet-aligned legacy, and on to Western/NATO standards.
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- Yes Minna already corrected me, should have put up her post earlier here.
- he thinks American voters are really dumb
- Trump's approval rating is currently sitting at 41%. FORTY-FUCKING-ONE PERCENT. A huge segment of American voters *are* really dumb.
- Oh. That's not good.
You can't make this up. ICE left a 12-year-old completely abandoned on the street after abducting the adult he was with. www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/...- This is what evil looks like. These people, these *kids*, aren't even human to MAGA. Every day that Americans allow this to happen is a black mark on the entire country.
- This is what evil looks like. These people, these *kids*, aren't even human to MAGA. Every day that Americans allow this to happen is a black mark on the entire country.
- You can't make this up. ICE left a 12-year-old completely abandoned on the street after abducting the adult he was with. www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/...
- ICE agents stopped a 21 year old woman with a baby in the car, and threatened her with arrest and leaving the baby behind in the car, all in order to lure her grandmother out of the house so that she could be "arrested". ... An America that allows this is a broken, disgusting nation. 😞
- Multiple conferences for multiple professions are getting relocated from the US into (much safer) Canada, due to risk of getting randomly detained by US Customs and Border Patrol. MAGA keeps "winning" at making nobody want to visit the US. #ElbowsUp 🍁
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- Do. Not. Trust. AI. Use it if you want, but independently verify *everything* it tells you from source material.
- Trump’s people say white South Africans are preferred because they “assimilate easily.” I think we all know exactly what he means by that.
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- Only to the Americans that MAGA hates anyways. The white, male, MAGA base is totally down for this.
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- Ah, I assumed (always dangerous). Thanks for the correction!
- Yes, the entire world knows what it means, and what that says about America.
- Zinke dismisses ethics concerns about Qatar gifting Trump a luxury jet: "Remember who President Trump is. He's a billionaire businessman from New York. He doesn't sleep in a sleeping bag over night. He says, 'Hey, this is a great plane.'"
- "He's already rich and engaging in industrial-scale grift, so why care about this little airplane thing?" That's the argument? Fuck MAGA entirely.
- And Trump's base will cheer him for it, and then curse Biden's name when they can't afford food or medicine for their family.
- The House GOP tax/budget bill shreds the safety net to pay for regressive tax cuts. It may well be the largest transfer of wealth from poor to rich in a single bill, ever. Sounds pretty bad, no? Now consider what else is happening in the US economy right now www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
- CAN > US travel down 45.1% compared to the April before COVID. Yikes.
- This, all over the country, every day, in every decision, by every Canadian. LFG 🇨🇦💪 #ElbowsUp
- Apparently I can't internet. It was supposed to be this story. (But yes I'm all-in on CBC too, got my Gem sub and everything 😂) www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
- Bang up job, MAGA: you've successfully made the USA less loved than *China*. China. www.politico.eu/article/usa-...
- This. And the American media and judiciary are completely failing, again, to hold Trump to account.
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- There's the Macron that we want to see
- As always, the cruelty is the point. The people being victimized have the "wrong" skin colour for the MAGA regime to see them as humans deserving of basic rights.
- BREAKING: DHS is saying it will terminate temporary protected status for Afghanistan
- *makes note* "Fuck ever trusting the USA again"
- 😂😭 too real
- TODAY the NYT publishes an investigation into the Trump memecoin $TRUMP and how it has turned into a extraordinary venue for foreign influence campaigns. What we are seeing is potentially corrupt attempts to change US policy by paying the Trump family money. This is no "Russian Hoax" nyti.ms/4kkv7D7
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View full threadCorruption requires explict quid pro quo. It is not corrupt to take an action that aligns with the interest of a person who gives you a gift, unless the official action was in direct response to that gift--a bribe. Terms matter. Accuracy and fairness matters. Regardless of what social media wants.
- Unless you are literally in court arguing the case, it is INSANE to say that $TRUMP exists for any reason but to bribe the president. There is no way you don't know that.
- Kevin Hassett blames Canada for tensions with Trump: "Canada kept making it worse and worse with their rhetoric."
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- Still an awful lot of Americans (and some Canadians) who still think it's just a joke that we should "laugh off". It isn't. It wasn't.
