Mass data harvesting, inevitable data breach - oh look, you have genetic markers for some degenerative condition, and for some reason you're now suddenly getting booted off your insurance and refused coverage.

I don't think that's true at all, but if it is, it becomes a question of whether that damage is outweighed by the benefit of the action.

Nah - let's just feel superior by whining about people doing something to defer the apocalypse - both stunts to draw attention, and shutting down oil pipelines directly.

What are you even trying to say here? That any bastard with a camera and something to show will magically be seen, or that everyone with a smartphone is going to be aware of everything that affects them? Because neither of those things is remotely close to the way the world works.

You were aware of the JSO protesters shutting down the oil pipeline? If and that's a big "if" so, do you think the average schmuck is? No. But chances are that they're aware of the stunts like the soup.

You stop the problem from being buried under the fact that everyone is struggling to get by, or distracted by whatever the fuck the likes of the Kardashians are up to. You bring it to the forefront and prompt conversations like these - conversations where someone might realise that to stay the course on this one is to roll down the road to the apocalypse, and maybe they'd like to do something about that.

Assuming there's no collateral damage to speak of, I'd argue it would be an act of self-defence for the benefit of all of us. In principle, I'd struggle to find reason to be upset by it.

It's almost as though a political ideology based on rigid hierarchy and inferior "others", who should exist to respect and serve their "betters" primes people for dehumanising and horrifically exploiting people, while a political ideology grounded in respect, equality and freedom views children as people rather than sex objects.

The pedocon theory holds water, and I don't see this lunatic gunning down good friend of Epstein and convicted rapist Donald Trump.

Pissing away 40bn - 15% of your net worth to own the libs by destroying a company you were forced to buy requires an incredible degree of stupidity. Imagine the damage a remotely competent malicious narcissist could do with that kind of money.

For context, the 2016 election cost $6.5bn - for both sides, presidential and congressional elections - that comfortably buys you a quarter century of elections - and if the GOP has power for that long, at this point, there won't be another election to fund.

Musk clearly has sub-normal IQ - there's no shame in that, but he has no shortage of other reasons to be ashamed of himself.

Not with that attitude, it doesn't.

Never attribute to malice what can reasonably be attributed to the stupidity, hate, and pig-headedness of an exceptionally fragile billionaire.

Now with more hard 'r'.

They've done that too, and have encountered media blackouts.

As nice as it would be if they could simply fix the climate problem with the disruption a handful of protests cause, they can't, and need to draw public attention to the problem.

These demonstrations open up the conversation in threads like this - you agree there's a problem, you agree these protests don't fix the problem, so let's talk about what will.

The real MVP boiling this down to what we need to check - thanks!

Ah yes - "socialism" that's highly authoritarian, lacks worker enfranchisement, lacks worker control of the means of production and leads to the deaths of millions of workers. What's not to love?

Words have meaning - you going to sell us on DPRK democracy for the same reasons? It's in the name, they like red, and tankie brain rot?

I was thinking he'd wind up with a braniac-style nemesis.

Ah yes - the world's moral compass - the pinnacle of western civilisation killing people they have securely locked up where they can't be a danger to the public... for what - revenge?

Look at the money being spent to satiate this thirst for blood compared to keeping them locked up - or shudder making any attempt to rehabilitate people to be a productive member of society.

There's also the fact that if people hate him enough and realise how genuinely stupid the guy is, they'll start wondering if the economic system that allowed him to amass the wealth of a country as millions starve might be doing it wrong.

Killing cheeto Mussolini would be an act of war, and an act of peace - but most of all, Graham can fuck right off.

Sounds like he's admitting to grooming kids with his non-gender-confirming makeup.

To the camps with him.

To be fair, a far-right wing lunatic having consistent principles would be more surprising...