One of my super smart nephews asked me if all the talk about Hannibal Lecter wasn't code for Data Cannibalism

[malaise]

I am too dumb re this sphere to have a clue.
Any thoughts

[Dave Bowman]

1. Dump is way too dumb to come up with something like this.

He keeps confusing tv and movies for reality. So in his feeble mind Hannibal Lecter was a real person instead of a fiction character. Just my 2 cents.

[magicarpet]

7. Something about djt wanting to invite Hannibal Lecter to,..

.... Mucho Lardo for his lavish all you can eat Thanksgiving Dinner Celebration. Djt did not realize he was a fictional character in a movie.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Can't answer that one

but at times I do feel that a phrase means something else. And they like to dangle it out there and enjoy the inside joke, "ha ha, they can't figure it OUT! ROFLMAO". That is so, so Republican. I grew up in such a community. That is what they are like. Of course, I was always on the outside of the joke, and usually didn't know the joke was going on for many years if at all.

It goes along with saying things that mean different things to different people. During Three Mile Island they told us "There is no immediate threat to the public." True. Cancers were years away. But the public swallowed the Corporate PR hook line and sinker.

We're being fed such doggerel on deregulation. Deregulation is good for business profitability. But it's often bad for people's health.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. It's a clever hypothesis in the info science realm, but tfg's dementia rules it out

He is already far enough down the dementia trail that he thinks immigrants -> asylum seekers -> asylum for criminally insane -> Lecter. Plus he is far enough down that he would have trouble remembering and how and why to say something like a code. These simple surmises accord with known facts and should be assumed outside of speculation.

Back in the realm of data science, what purpose would be served by traitorous felonious guy uttering a particular codeword?

What "data cannibalism" means is AIs being trained on internet traffic that is polluted by the output of other AIs. There might be vicious circles of reinforcement as they find and regurgitate more and more maga crap.

[malaise]

6. He is also dumb on steroids as others

have pointed out

[lame54]

4. It's code for...

Bat shit crazy

[Irish_Dem]

5. It's about Trump's love and admiration for a vicious psychopath serial killer.

Trump likes the idea of torturing, killing, devouring people.
The ultimate in sadism, power and control.

[magicarpet]

8. Like befriending Eloon Musk,...

Djt was hopping Hannibal Lecter could teach him a thing or two.

He so admirers him and his stand-up guy sort of character.

Reminding him of Roy Cohn from his days of youth.

[Irish_Dem]

9. Trump was quite troubled as a child.

His parents sent him to military schools because he got kicked out of regular schools.
Hitting teachers, etc.

Trump has been attracted to others who commit crimes.
Who act out in violent and criminal ways.

So yes he surrounds himself with people like himself.

[Skittles]

10. tell your nephew

Donald Fucking Trump is such a fucking moron he literally does not know the difference between migrants requesting asylum and insane asylums

[malaise]

11. True

[Skittles]

12. I CAN'T TAKE IT I TELL YOU MALAISE

AMERICA IS BECOMING A FUCKING JOKE

[malaise]

13. Still can't process this one

Seriously