

Remember when Osama Bin Laden killed all the NYC plutocrats and the US gave up on its imperial ambitions in the Middle East?


Remember when Osama Bin Laden killed all the NYC plutocrats and the US gave up on its imperial ambitions in the Middle East?


It’s the social trade-off to join the in-group. You get membership, but you’re obligated to conform. So long as conformity is easy and light-weight, the appeal of joining the in-group can override your moral imperatives to others. But then the boundaries of acceptable behavior shift under your feet, and suddenly you can’t be a part of the group without concealing or changing some fundamental part of your life.
Like, Reid Newton thinks gender transition and DEI and Critical Race Theory are all bullshit. Has she considered just… divorcing her wife and becoming straight? But no, that would be asking to much of herself. Suddenly, the cost of being a part of the in-group has grown too high, because it’s a deeply personal cost.


I opposed childhood gender transitions, unlawful and divisive DEI mandates, and the excesses of Critical Race Theory.
Never get tired of the “This Far And No Further” civil libertarian.
My personal circumstances always demand a socially protected designation. But everyone who isn’t me? Idk, they seem extremist and scary.
Today, some of those same attorneys I worked with are advocating for my right to marry my fiancée to be stripped away.
Well, but of course. Because it’s “This Far And No Further” for them, too.
What they won’t tell you is that all three take place in the same universe.


Polymarket bets in shambles.


Spain and Italy withdrew access to their military bases


How do you interact with anyone or anything in this country as an illiterate?
Everything Is Computer


in the GDR
Yes, but that’s Evil Communism. Didn’t you see the movie “The Dryers of Others”?


He just TACO’d.


Why would a hospital pay a US physician 200K a year when they can get a doctor from Pakistan to do the same work for 50K a year?
Liability to the hospital if a remote doctor fucks up? Just for starters.
It’s also very difficult to manage remote workers. As a result, that $50k Pakistani doctor needs another $50k Pakistani contract manager and a Pakistani HR manager and a nurse who can communicate fluently with both patient and doctor and software that an IT firm needs to maintain and a lawyer to sort out all the messy details of licensing and practice.
At the end of the day, it isn’t nearly the cost savings you’re promised.
Every outsourcing gambit plays out this way. Which makes it more of a negotiating ploy against local workers. Threatening to outsource is far more profitable than actual outsourcing.


Also there was a time where companies actually cared.
:-/
Planned Obselence was pioneered nearly a century ago. You might have individual service reps or salesman with a soul. But no company has ever carried about more than profits.


Would possibly work worse than when Biden was swapped for Harris.


Fascists do love using lack of citizenship to legitimize violence.


its nominal allies in the EU and the democratic West
Orban has been a cuck for Silicon Valley and the Western plutocrats longer than he’s been a Putin stan.
Given that there’s a straight line between America’s fascists and Russia’s fascists, that shouldn’t come as a surprise.
But liberals keep insisting Putin is a regionalized phenomenon contained East of Ukraine. Not a model for modern fascist politicians the world over.


Tom of Finland could not have produced someone more masculine


The biggest American fairy tale is the Legend of the Moderate Republican.


for a lot of people, participating in a democracy rarely goes beyond voting every cycle
The modern political system doesn’t offer many opportunities to interact with the government outside of the electoral cycle.
But that doesn’t constrain your politics, because people routinely organize outside the scope of government anyway.


Section 4: Declaration by vice president and cabinet members of president’s inability
Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.
Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.
So, in an absolute best-case scenario, we’re asking for a schism between Vance and Trump wide enough such that Vance secures a majority of support among executive departments (a thing that is never going to happen) which only endures until Trump tweets “Nuh uh, I’m fine”. At which point, the issue is deflected to Congress, a body that is fully in the tank for Donald Trump.
Y’all are choking to death on Copium if this is what you’re all waiting for.
FFS, half the Democrats in Congress tacitly endorse Trump’s Iran War. The only real objection they’ve made is that Trump didn’t ask nicely for their blessing before the bombing began. Schumer, Jeffries, and the rest abhor the IRGC and are all in favor of bombing them into a fine powder. The bulk of the DC liberal establishment had no problem funding this war via the NDAA, which passed with a majority of Democrats in favor. They have no problem with killing civilians, as evidenced by their fixation on war costs over human casualties. They have no problem with the high price of energy, as evidenced by blue state governments’ refusal to impose rationing or fast-track alternative energy infrastructure. The liberals are not going to save you.
The “moderate” Republicans in Trump’s own cabinet certainly aren’t going to save you. Mitt Romney is not coming to the rescue. John McCain is fuckin’ dead, bitch. Lindsey Graham is currently in the Boy Tent absolutely flogging himself in ecstasy over this war. Howard Lutnick and Scott Bessent are making eight figure bets on polymarket with his insider info. Linda McMahon is in the cuck chair watching her husband sodomize an intern. Sean Duffy is off finding new train lines to cut because they’re Woke. These are your rational moderates who are supposed to check Trump’s war.
It’s not happening.


The US isn’t the only audience for this defiant display.
There’s a big semi-sentient computer running the government in Idiocracy, which could make it a neat stand in for Skynet.
Idiocracy -> People become overly reliant on automation and complacent to the point of self-annihilation
Terminator -> Computers decide humans aren’t worth the trouble, so they do a mass extermination
Matrix -> The conflict ends in a blotted out sky, which forces the computers to cannibalize humanity