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This just feels like the weirdest part to me: > A button within the app allows users to “text President Trump,” which autofills a text bubble reading “Greatest

by CM30 4mo ago

This just feels like the weirdest part to me: > A button within the app allows users to “text President Trump,” which autofills a text bubble reading “Greatest President Ever.” It feels like something you might see from the government in a banana republic/authoritarian dictatorship.

netsharc 4mo ago
Reminds me of the story of a parliament full of apparatchiks clapping their dictator, with no one daring to stop, because it would mean a lack of loyalty, for which they'd be dragged out and shot...
georgemcbay 4mo ago
> This just feels like the weirdest part to me: >> A button within the app allows users to “text President Trump,” which autofills a text bubble reading “Greatest President Ever.” Have you ever watched any part of any of his cabinet meetings? They are just 3 hours of people telling him how great he is in the most cringiest ways possible, each person trying to one-up the last with the ass kissing. So this autofill doesn't seem weird at all to me. (I'm not saying its normal, I'm saying its expected). > It feels like something you might see from the government in a banana republic/authoritarian dictatorship. Well.. I mean, yeah. That's about where we are.
- autoexec 4mo ago
  It's not even the authoritarian dictatorship that scares me as much as it is how many regular people with nothing to gain and everything to lose happily and fully support it.
mrguyorama 4mo ago
That's because the Trump administration IS a banana republic/authoritarian dictatorship, at least in spirit. Like, if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, puts people in prison for a 100 years for going to a protest like a duck, it might be a duck!
quantified 4mo ago
Titillating, and cringey, and par for the course. But the concerns run more like this: > An investigation by NOTUS found that the app incorporated widgets created by a Russia-based company called Elfsight, which exposed the personal information of White House officials. Elfsight did not respond to a request for comment. At the time of this reporting, the White House said Elfsight had been made aware of this vulnerability.

by CM30 4mo ago

netsharc 4mo ago

Reminds me of the story of a parliament full of apparatchiks clapping their dictator, with no one daring to stop, because it would mean a lack of loyalty, for which they'd be dragged out and shot...

georgemcbay 4mo ago

> This just feels like the weirdest part to me: >> A button within the app allows users to “text President Trump,” which autofills a text bubble reading “Greatest President Ever.” Have you ever watched any part of any of his cabinet meetings? They are just 3 hours of people telling him how great he is in the most cringiest ways possible, each person trying to one-up the last with the ass kissing. So this autofill doesn't seem weird at all to me. (I'm not saying its normal, I'm saying its expected). > It feels like something you might see from the government in a banana republic/authoritarian dictatorship. Well.. I mean, yeah. That's about where we are.

autoexec 4mo ago
It's not even the authoritarian dictatorship that scares me as much as it is how many regular people with nothing to gain and everything to lose happily and fully support it.

mrguyorama 4mo ago

That's because the Trump administration IS a banana republic/authoritarian dictatorship, at least in spirit. Like, if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, puts people in prison for a 100 years for going to a protest like a duck, it might be a duck!

quantified 4mo ago

Titillating, and cringey, and par for the course. But the concerns run more like this: > An investigation by NOTUS found that the app incorporated widgets created by a Russia-based company called Elfsight, which exposed the personal information of White House officials. Elfsight did not respond to a request for comment. At the time of this reporting, the White House said Elfsight had been made aware of this vulnerability.