Sure and army squadrons hopped up on meth can wipe out an entire square full of unarmed protesters in no time.

Propaganda works. Everytime.

You’re careening towards deep shit.

Geez it’s like what happened to make these institutions such embarrassments?

IT’S A MYSTERY

This is super old technology. I remember reading about it decades ago. I have no idea why the Grauniad insists on writing about it like it’s a ghost sighting.

‘Some sort of device’, quotes around “sound cannon”, other examples. This is like

Witnesses described ‘some sort of smoke device’ that created apparent eye irritation - what the petition called a “tear gas grenade”

*gasp!*

You suggest, do you sir, that the leadership of this great country may be so incompetent and corrupt as to deny working men and women their fair shake at a reasonable living?!

Oh! I may have the vapors!

What’s that in %? Like, Micro$quash makes 65 Billion a year, they could absorb (and do) that kind of loss without missing a beat. I would expect the state oil company of “a gast station masquerading as a country” to be at least that big.

Sorry - I didn’t mean “Got it” like ‘sure whatever’ I meant “Got it” like i’m a dumbass trumper who took exactly the wrong message away from the engineer and went off and did bad things to others.

Apologies for that not working right :D

Okay so - let’s take the R/C out of that guy’s hands, sell it and pocket the money and we’ll put the other one in jail for the lulz. Got it.

Also good.

Yes. How strange

That part of the metaphor is the Cambridge Analytica / Brexit undercurrent of the demented rapist’s rise.

AI Scrapers and AI bug reports ddos’ing every git repo. JFC

Well, thanks for all the fish.

Yeah but one of them is not a demented rapist.

Can I interest you in a $1000 hammer from Boeing? No waste here. That’s a quality hammer.

I would fuck them up big time.

“Oh yeah? Sure sure. I’m just gonna commit one small change. There ya go. Now. You were saying?”

never say never

Oh there’s no maybe about it. Reagan - “an actor?!” was the perfect foil for photo ops and propaganda. His lickspittle Michael Deaver created them such that as wikipedia says,

As Deputy Chief of Staff, Deaver worked primarily on media management, forming how the public perceived Reagan, sometimes by engineering press events so that the White House set the networks’ agenda for covering him.

Which was a quantum leap from the flashbulb-handshake photo ops of the earlier presidents.

He coincided with Mtv, cable television, and the nascent seedlings of Fox News. Every demented rapist presser where Orange Julius presents stacks of binders filled with blank paper is drawn from the work Deaver did with Reagan.

Also remember that while Reagan had more public office experience than the demented rapist, he wasn’t trained on anything - he wasn’t a lawyer, didn’t study foreign policy, wasn’t in the military - he was an actor. And so while he was a conservative at heart most of the ridiculous idiocies were pitched to him and pending any kind of ok were run by evil toadies, just as it is today.

So yeah, he was probably nice enough as a neighbor or something, but as a President he created huge waves of evil we’re still getting hit with today. (And which were called out at the time, btw.)

US techies also call for that. Y’know. Just. For completeness’ sake.

Giggity