For all the concern trolling about muh crime rate done by annoying bougie people, I think it will pale in comparison to what’s coming. I think the AI bubble bursting is gonna be the flashpoint where all these other crises converge into one and give a lot of people nothing left to lose, even the ones with nice lifestyles who think they’re immune to it. Tons of people fell and never got back up after 2008.

When that happens the democrats are just going to see a bunch of pissed off, desperate people and sit on their asses and wait for them to crawl to them for help like they’ve been doing forever. That’s the beauty of liberal democracy, it’s a bear race where you don’t have to be the fastest, you simply don’t have to be the slowest.

It’ll blow up in their faces of course. Or maybe not, and they get to fritter away another 4 years and then do it all again.

Or that the guys who lived in that ugly, glorified plantation house carved their faces into a sacred mountain (overseen by a KKK member no less). For fun.

Yeah I’d have to agree. It’s the same logic as the argument that plantations should be preserved for history. They were the Mcmansions of their era and ugly af anyways and if the ancestors of the people enslaved there want it destroyed, we can take pictures of it and put THAT in a museum.

not saying you or anybody else here is doing it, but seeing even the self-identified “leftist” yankees scream blue murder over this is so funny lol. The people who live there have been destroying ancient cultural heritage sites longer than any of us here have been alive but sure, let’s weep blood over a ballroom that’s not even 100 years old getting bulldozed to build another, fancier ballroom.

Yeah it kinda just seems like “value comes from supply n’ demand!!1” type shit with some mysticism about how business owners are built different thrown in lol. Defining capital as just stuff that makes work more efficient sure is a… choice. I feel like so much of bougie business just boils down to “reduce cap-ex to make profits higher cuz it’s always cheaper to piss in the lemonade and charge the same price than do anything else.” And then Forbes writes like 4000 words on how innovative and august the capitalist in question is.

Z has this annoying, hangdog attitude (undoubtedly carefully cultivated to make him seem as likable and put-upon as possible) that Trump probably finds super fuckin irritating, yeah. I know I do lol

I definitely think the White House will shit out a trillion or so dollars and give it to the pentagon to give to Nvidia or whomever, but I don’t think that’ll work either because it’ll make stagflation even worse and also because where is all of this energy gonna come from? China is leaning into AI but they can afford to since they’re generating more and more energy each year (largely cleanly to boot) and also because they’re trying to use it in ways that actually make things more efficient. What’s gonna happen when the US spends all that money and gets nothing in return? If it can barely create value in businesses I really don’t think it can deliver results on the battlefield to pay for itself. So I guess they’ll just be throwing money into a bottomless pit for something that is largely useless and that nobody wants to pay for or even can, and burdening their already creaky af energy grid to do so. I’m reminded of the joke about the two economists who pay each other to eat dog shit.

I love how whenever one of these financial bubbles forms we’re all forced by western media to humor the idea that it could simply never ever pop and just keep inflating until the sun explodes lol. We all have to say “if” the AI bubble pops because if we start talking about “when” it pops it would scare the investors and become a self-fulfilling prophecy. What an awesome, stable economic system.

This is just getting sad.

/lh

real parasites are far easier to exterminate, sadly

that’s just an average summer vacation for Jordan lol i feel like this happens every year. Bro’s body is falling apart like the end of The Substance.

lol yeah I was literally about to say, this shit is just The Enclosure of the Commons: The Squeakuel

lol I love how they piss and moan about sINgLe ToPiC isSuEs and then go straight to talking about fuckin Epstein shit. Who. Cares. About. Epstein. The ruling class is never going to act on that shit because they’re all-in on it. It literally is just politainment. Anyone who is still closely following the Epstein shit as if anything will come of it is a fool, sorry.

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That’s why I think future historians will view the Ukraine debacle as a lethal miscalculation for the Atlantic powers and the beginning of the end. They ran the same playbook that they’ve done a million times but historical conditions had changed so much that it wasn’t just ineffective, it actively accelerated the rise of multipolarity. Ditto with Isn’treal’s genocide.

oh you mean the Sahel Alliance doesn’t wanna be policed by a body that has totally failed to stop a blatant genocide and whom European officials outright stated was designed to punish “Africans and thugs like Putin”?

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