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4 minutes ago, Helobious said:

Eh.. point taken I guess. 

Still, this all stemmed from wood thinking he wouldn’t be welcomed in Isla Mujeres because he’s American. Which is an absurd belief 

Helobious, I appreciate you affirming the validity of everything my former law partner said, as only you can do.

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Thank you SNL, and esp thank you Mike Myers ...

 

at this morning's huddle, the minions had to explain to mr. dotard that the europeans have a plan that does not include Z rolling over

so, let's pivot 180 degrees back to tariffs which were supposed to be a month away, but instead we will bring them forward 30 days with no warning, and of course no preparation

every day is a new wag the dog

total chaos

omaha oracle on tariffs yesterday on cbs:

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/03/business/warren-buffett-tariffs-trump/index.html

 

8 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:

at this morning's huddle, the minions had to explain to mr. dotard that the europeans have a plan that does not include Z rolling over

so, let's pivot 180 degrees back to tariffs which were supposed to be a month away, but instead we will bring them forward 30 days with no warning, and of course no preparation

every day is a new wag the dog

total chaos

omaha oracle on tariffs yesterday on cbs:

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/03/business/warren-buffett-tariffs-trump/index.html

 

Yeah....I'm really looking at converting most of my equities to cash for a time.  Seems like I'm not alone in my thinking:

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Buffett, whose every word is watched closely by investors, drew attention over the past year due to a growing cash pile at Berkshire Hathaway.

Berkshire amassed its cash and cash equivalents to a record $334.2 billion in the fourth quarter, up from $167.6 billion the year prior. Berkshire added to its cash position while selling stock in blue-chip companies like Apple (AAPL) and Bank of America (BAC), raising questions about his thoughts on the US market.

 

4 hours ago, Pig Bellmont said:

Democracy was nice, it’s such a shame to see it gone

If Democracy isn't the freedom to vote in someone who is going to try to do whatever the fuck he wants, then not sure what it is.

If Democracy isn't the freedom to vote for a representative who will cower in the face of someone trying to achieve dictatorial powers, then not sure what it is.

If Democracy isn't the freedom to have judges....well, fuck the Federalist Society.

 

in our noon hour on cnn a pub said "dotard is trying to thread the needle" in that having the reason for the rare earths shakedown is so the us can have an economic presence in ukraine because nato can't & won't admit ukraine or get involved at this stage, and this economic presence is the security guarantee

convoluted, but logical - except if this was the play why the fuck didn't they spin it this way on the 21st of january?

somebody on the inside should get a medal

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in the past hour johnson has said we're not aligned with russia and dotard now says the rare earths deal is still alive

they fucking got their clock cleaned overnight and now they are backpedaling

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the live updates page on cnn has all of it

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The president, in an executive order, has demanded an expansion in tree cutting across 280m acres (113m hectares) of national forests and other public lands, claiming that “heavy-handed federal policies” have made America reliant on foreign imports of timber.

“It is vital that we reverse these policies and increase domestic timber production to protect our national and economic security,” the order adds.

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The order also stipulates logging projects can be sped up if they are for purported wildfire risk reduction, via “thinning” of vegetation that could ignite. Some scientists have said that aggressively felling forests, particularly established, fire-resistant trees, actually increases the risk of fast-moving fires.

“This Trump executive order is the most blatant attempt in American history by a president to hand over federal public lands to the logging industry,” said Chad Hanson, wildfire scientist at the John Muir Project.

“What’s worse, the executive order is built on a lie, as Trump falsely claims that more logging will curb wildfires and protect communities, while the overwhelming weight of evidence shows exactly the opposite.”

Hanson said logging alters the microclimate of forests, creating hotter and drier conditions that helps wildfires, such as the events that recently ravaged Los Angeles, to spread faster.

It'll be an own goal, but we'll just...

 

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Congratulations, UT!

 

What starts here changes the world? Fuck I hope not.

Granted that shit isn't just starting.

3 minutes ago, Valmy77 said:

What starts here changes the world? Fuck I hope not.

Granted that shit isn't just starting.

On the bright side the aggy board of regents is likely pissed the conference isn't in Collie Station. 

1 hour ago, C-Man said:

*If* we have midterms, you mean

Oh, we're going to have midterms.  And they'll be similar to how Russia and North Korea run their "elections."

12 minutes ago, Chopper said:

Congratulations, UT!

 

if anyone is following along on the Star Trek timeline things are a little out of order, the Bell Riots are a little behind schedule and we're way behind for the Eugenics Wars, but I'll be goddamned if we aren't checking the boxes. @atomheartbevo knows what I'm talking about

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I for one, can't wait to have to pay Elon Musk a subscription fee thru X: the everything app, in order to get all the great weather forecast information including severe weather warnings and Hurricane track forecasts that the NWS currently provides as a public service...

2 hours ago, MissingInAction said:

I would expect to get fucked by a donkey.

Sex dungeon, fucked by a donkey, I want to party with you. 

a cat5 with wormsign the likes of which even god has never seen is going to take dead aim at MAL on labor day weekend

god has a plan

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44 minutes ago, Chopper said:

Congratulations, UT!

 

does the tower know about this?  are they going to bring in boots to suppress the protests again?

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It's worth a try.

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1 hour ago, C-Man said:

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ffffuuuuucccckkkkk..that hits

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I don't necessarily agree with 100% of this post, but you sure are on the right track IMO

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All the Tech Bro Billionaires were very happy.

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And of course even the rich swamp rats.

This is a pretty decent read on how the tech bro takeover has unfolded.



"Finally, we've got a third group—the one that's responsible for all the chaos Elon and DOGE are causing. Their agenda is actually far more extreme than either Project 2025 or the [Christian Reconstructionists/Dominionists]. And the scary thing is, they're already implementing their freakish plan at warp speed while most of the country is busy bickering about all the quaint Project 2025 garbage (and Trump's usual unending fire hose of idiotic nonsense).

There's a few key players we're gonna have to cover some backstory for, namely Elon Musk, JD Vance, a guy you might've heard of by the name of Peter Thiel, and a guy you almost certainly haven't, Curtis Yarvin. These guys are all connected in a mildly horrifying way and we're about to unpack it all...

Once upon a time in the 90's, Elon Musk founded a small company called X.com (No, not Twitter—a different X.com. Dude just has an inexplicable fixation with the letter X). X was a fledgling digital banking service that allowed people to transact with vendors and each other without cash, checks, or plastic.

At the same time Musk was building out X, another young entrepreneur, a German immigrant named Peter Thiel, was building a very similar money-transfer service right across town called Confinity. Rather than compete with each other, Musk and Thiel decided to merge their two companies in 1999, with Musk named CEO of the new company. Shortly after the merger, Musk was fired as CEO by the board, who replaced him with Thiel. After Thiel took over, the company's name was changed to "PayPal.” You may have heard of it.

PayPal attracted some of the most promising young talent in Silicon Valley, and its early members wielded so much power and influence in the tech space that they became collectively known as the "PayPal Mafia."

Besides Musk and Thiel, the PayPal Mafia included:

• Steven Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim (co-founders of YouTube)
• Russel Simmons and Jeremy Stoppelman (co-founders of Yelp)
• Max Levchin (current CEO of Affirm)
• Roelof Botha (partner at Sequoia Capital)
• David Sacks (Founder of Geni.com and Yammer, Trump’s new “AI/Crypto Czar”)
• Reed Hoffman (founder of Linkedin, early investor in Facebook, currently on the board at Microsoft)
• Jack Selby (co-founder of Clarium Capital with Peter Thiel)
• Yishan Wong (CEO of Reddit, founder of Terraformation Inc)
• Premal Shah (founder of Kiva, on the board at Change.org)

Plus a dozen others. The PayPal Mafia churned out a Who's Who in the Big Tech space, with nearly everyone involved becoming billionaires many times over. Today, it's one of the wealthiest and most influential collection of individuals, not just in America, but in the entire world.

In 2002, eBay acquired Paypal for $1.5 billion. Although no longer officially with PayPal after being ousted, Elon still held around 10% of the company shares and netted roughly $160 million in the sale.

So that's the Peter Thiel-Elon Musk connection–they co-founded PayPal together.

Now let's see how JD Vance is tied into this crew.

In 2011, Peter Thiel gave a talk at Yale where JD Vance was attending law school, changing the course of Vance's life, as JD recounts it. Vance called Thiel "possibly the smartest person" he ever met, and decided to pivot from a career in law to one in venture capital. In 2015, JD joined the Thiel-founded Mithril Capital, with Thiel as his personal mentor.

In 2016, Vance published "Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis," thrusting his name into the national spotlight for the first time. It was at this same time that Vance, unencumbered by any political aspirations or pretense and therefore free to speak his actual mind, sent his Yale roommate an email regarding America's leading presidential candidate, Donald Trump, that read: "I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn't be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he's America's Hitler. How's that for discouraging?")

Vance left Thiel's firm in 2017 and joined a D.C.-based investment firm. Then he launched his own VC firm, Narya Capital, in 2019 with financial backing from Thiel, billionaire VC capitalist Mark Andreessen, and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt.

For reasons we'll get to in just a minute, around the time the pandemic was starting to wind down, Peter Thiel decided it was finally time for him to own a U.S. Senator and start pulling some long-awaited political strings. He figured that since he'd funded Vance's VC firm and essentially owned Vance already, he'd just migrate that ownership from the private sector to the public.

Because JD Vance had been an open critic of Donald Trump during Trump's entire first term, Thiel invited Vance down to Mar A Lago to smooth things over in hopes of getting an endorsement from Orange Jesus. Thiel informed Vance of his plans to make him a Senator, so Vance scrapped all his previous principles, decided power was “more gooder” than having any convictions, kissed Trump's ring, and earned the endorsement.

Thiel, for his part, poured an ungodly amount of his own money into Vance's Senate campaign—about $15 million—marking the largest donation to a single Senate candidate in American history. In addition to his personal $15 mil, Thiel also recruited 10 major donors for Vance, including a couple old tech buddies from the PayPal Mafia who chipped in a million each.

So, if you ever found yourself wondering how the author of "Hillbilly Elegy," a lawyer-turned-venture capitalist with no political experience or aspirations and a vocal critic of Donald Trump came out of nowhere and managed to snag Trump's endorsement and win a Senate seat in his first foray into politics, there's your explanation: Peter Thiel orchestrated, arranged, and funded the entire thing. A tech billionaire bought himself a Senator.

Now, the next question is Why? This is where it starts to get scary. It's time to meet the final character in our story, Curtis Yarvin.

Yarvin is a software developer and tech entrepreneur who started the Unqualified Reservations blog in 2003 under the pen name Mencius Moldbug. He's perhaps best known for founding the anti-egalitarian, anti-democratic philosophical movement known as the Dark Enlightenment or neo-reactionary movement (NRx).
Like most people, Yarvin sees a ton of problems in society. But unlike most people, the problems he sees—and his solutions to those problems—are dystopian fringe at best, and democracy-ending suicide at worst.

In a nutshell, Yarvin's Dark Enlightenment political worldview is that the REAL power in the U.S. resides in an informal collaboration of universities and the mainstream media (that he calls "the Cathedral") which collude to sway public opinion. He admires the former Chinese Communist leader Deng Xiaoping for his "pragmatic and market-oriented authoritarianism," believes America's commitment to equality and justice "erodes social order," and advocates for an American "monarch" to dissolve elite academic institutions and media outlets asap.

A regular speaker at various Libertarian and techno-fascist conferences, Yarvin's position is that democratic governments are inefficient and wasteful and should be replaced with sovereign corporations whose "shareholders" elect an executive with total power over the country/corporation. As Yarvin explains it, "Unencumbered by liberal-democratic procedures, the executive could rule like a CEO-Monarch."

And just in case it still isn't abundantly clear what Curtis Yarvin thinks is the solution to what ails America, here it is in his most straightforward phrasing: "If Americans want to change their government, they're going to have to get over their dictator-phobia."

Yes, Curtis Yarvin is an unapologetic proponent of dictatorships since "there's no real difference between a dictator and a CEO, and corporations under the rule of a CEO appear to work just fine." As he puts it, "Nations like the United States are outdated software systems" that need to be "broken up into smaller entities called 'patchworks' which would be controlled by tech corporations."

As he put it in an interview with the NY Times on Jan 18, "Democracy is done."

Now, I know what you're thinking.

"Shane, this Yarvin dude is clearly off his rocker. Nobody in their right mind would take this "Corporate Monarchy" nonsense seriously. Why are you wasting everyone's time explaining in detail the techno-fascist-manifesto ramblings of some internet pop philosopher who calls himself 'Mencius Moldbug?' Dude sounds like he's living in some Matrix-meets-Hunger-Games dystopian fantasy world. Surely NOBODY takes this dude's crazy ideas seriously!"

That's where you would be wrong.

Perilously wrong.

Two of Curtis Yarvin's biggest disciples and advocates for his technocratic ideas are...

Peter Thiel and Vice President JD Vance, the MAGA heir apparent.

The three of them have been friends since at least 2009 after Yarvin's writings and ideologies became super popular within the PayPal Mafia circle. (If you’ve got an hour and a half to waste, here’s Vance on the Jack Murphy Live Podcast name-dropping Yarvin and spewing a few of his more sinister ideas.)

See, people forget that billionaires have political ideologies just like everyone else. And remember, most peoples' political ideologies are generally tailored to improve the life of the person holding them. Democracy sounds great if you're a peasant living under a king with no say in how things are run. But in what way would democracy improve your life if you're a multi-billionaire who can buy politicians? Once you're up that high on the food chain, democracy is no longer a step UP, it's a step DOWN.

So, all these filthy rich, filthy powerful tech bros have jumped on board with turning America into a corporation run by a CEO with authoritarian power. According to them, the masses don't need to be voting – the masses are idiots. (Or as Yarvin puts it, "The masses are asses.") The PayPal Mafia has no interest in becoming beholden to the whims of a bunch of blue collar workers from Appalachia. If they're gonna be free to live their best lives, they're gonna need to unshackle themselves from the "masses who can't even figure life out enough to afford groceries."

Put bluntly, those who can write a check for a few $billion and not even notice it's gone are not interested in the opinions of those whining about the cost of 12 eggs.

As Peter Thiel once wrote in a Cato essay, "I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.”

Now, supposing they were actually going to attempt to pull this techno-coup off, what would that look like in practice?

Thankfully, Yarvin has had the plan mapped out for years with a little strategy he's given the acronym RAGE: Retire All Government Employees.

It would look exactly like what we're all looking at.

Elon's "haphazard, chaotic coup" of federal agencies is anything but. This has been the plan all along by these Yarvin acolytes: gut the federal workforce—either by mass firings or incentivizing them to resign—crippling the entire government in the process, at which point Big Tech corporate solutions that just so happen to already be on hand can step in and take over the reigns of running our government.

Since you could never get away with doing this as a blatant hostile takeover, you just frame the entire exercise as an "audit to weed out fraud and corruption," then watch the gatekeepers roll out the red carpets and cheer the whole takeover on!

I know it sounds like tin-foil-hat conspiracy, but LOOK at what's happening in front of your eyes.

Isn't it a little weird that JD Vance came out of nowhere to win a Senate seat? And weirder still that Peter Thiel managed to convince Trump to make this virtual nobody his running mate even though Vance was the most unpopular VP pick in polling history?

Wasn't it a bit strange that Donald Trump told a bunch of Evangelicals at a rally, "Vote for me this one time and I'll make sure you never have to vote again?" What the hell did that mean?

Isn't it slightly too coincidental that Peter Thiel's original business partner Elon Musk is currently running roughshod through the American government doing EXACTLY what Curtis Yarvin said needs to happen?

This isn't conspiracy land at this point. These dudes told everyone what they wanted to do, and then they started doing it while we all watch dumbfounded. The Left is going, "Surely they can't be doing what it sure as hell looks like they're doing—taking over the government!" and the Right is just...cheering them on because it "makes the libtard snowflakes cry."

So there's your explanation.

Elon Musk, JD Vance, and Peter Thiel are executing a long-planned agenda to take over the government. Donald Trump is just a dementia-addled old man along for the ride, ranting about windmills and magnets and taking over canals, and content to just sign large pieces of papers for the TV cameras all day.”

Don't know if Icono/Macklemore is into the tech part of this shit, but it sounds akin to the New Right monarchy he's obsessed with.

In a nutshell, Yarvin's Dark Enlightenment political worldview is that the REAL power in the U.S. resides in an informal collaboration of universities and the mainstream media (that he calls "the Cathedral") which collude to sway public opinion. He admires the former Chinese Communist leader Deng Xiaoping for his "pragmatic and market-oriented authoritarianism," believes America's commitment to equality and justice "erodes social order," and advocates for an American "monarch" to dissolve elite academic institutions and media outlets asap.

A regular speaker at various Libertarian and techno-fascist conferences, Yarvin's position is that democratic governments are inefficient and wasteful and should be replaced with sovereign corporations whose "shareholders" elect an executive with total power over the country/corporation. As Yarvin explains it, "Unencumbered by liberal-democratic procedures, the executive could rule like a CEO-Monarch."

And just in case it still isn't abundantly clear what Curtis Yarvin thinks is the solution to what ails America, here it is in his most straightforward phrasing: "If Americans want to change their government, they're going to have to get over their dictator-phobia."

Don't know if Icono/Macklemore is into the tech part of this shit, but it sounds akin to the New Right monarchy he's obsessed with.

In a nutshell, Yarvin's Dark Enlightenment political worldview is that the REAL power in the U.S. resides in an informal collaboration of universities and the mainstream media (that he calls "the Cathedral") which collude to sway public opinion. He admires the former Chinese Communist leader Deng Xiaoping for his "pragmatic and market-oriented authoritarianism," believes America's commitment to equality and justice "erodes social order," and advocates for an American "monarch" to dissolve elite academic institutions and media outlets asap.

A regular speaker at various Libertarian and techno-fascist conferences, Yarvin's position is that democratic governments are inefficient and wasteful and should be replaced with sovereign corporations whose "shareholders" elect an executive with total power over the country/corporation. As Yarvin explains it, "Unencumbered by liberal-democratic procedures, the executive could rule like a CEO-Monarch."

And just in case it still isn't abundantly clear what Curtis Yarvin thinks is the solution to what ails America, here it is in his most straightforward phrasing: "If Americans want to change their government, they're going to have to get over their dictator-phobia."


Sounds like Communism.
Just now, Woland said:


Sounds like Communism.

Well if Deng Xiaoping if your model here...

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Kind of fitting that Americans voted for the one candidate most fitting of proving that democracy no longer works, because we are terrible enough to vote for that guy, and it  ceded all power to all the "democracy doesn't work" tech bros mafia

They didnt even have to wait a month.

 

We have a serious problem with CEOs and politics.  Even generally, before these times.  Everyone knows someone that was at a company that got a shitty CEO that ran it into the ground for no reason except they were shitty, made cruel shitty decisions and then golden parachuted out with zero consequences.  Break laws, polllute, kill people, -if you are a CEO type- no consequences.  It breeds such a pathology of entitlement.  Rule with an iron fist and then some "dumb" regulation hinders you getting your every whim and you get angry.

 

I feel we are far too late for the guillotines.  By a decade or more.

CEOs and corporations in general are just accountable to nobody. It is crazy. They can do things that would get the owner of a private company sent to prison seemingly without any pushback.

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3 hours ago, Chopper said:

Congratulations, UT!

 

 

abbott / patrick / paxton approved !

 

31 minutes ago, Born to Run said:

I feel we are far too late for the guillotines.  By a decade or more.

What's the expression - "The best time to build a guillotine was twenty years ago.  The second best time is now."?  Something like that ... anyway, I think we should give it a try. 

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I was told how much FEMA sucked under the Biden administration.

 

 

 

5 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

I was told how much FEMA sucked under the Biden administration.

 

 

 

South Carolina, you say?

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Canceled aid to Ukraine and looking into sanctions relief for Russia. 
 

We couldn’t be more on the wrong side of history if we tried. 

7 minutes ago, Constant said:

Canceled aid to Ukraine and looking into sanctions relief for Russia. 
 

We couldn’t be more on the wrong side of history if we tried. 

 

But by God, we are taking care of those damned brown skin folk and trannies.  

 

 

54 minutes ago, Jack Handey said:

Is that Sark’s dad?

Show some respect towards Uncle Bob. The man had a plastic testicle for god’s sake! 

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What is Trump, a fucking park ranger, man?

 

Imperial Order to Slash Forests

 

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Donald Trump has ordered that swathes of America’s forests be felled for timber, evading rules to protect endangered species while doing so and raising the prospect of chainsaws razing some of the most ecologically important trees in the US.

The president, in an executive order, has demanded an expansion in tree cutting across 280m acres (113m hectares) of national forests and other public lands, claiming that “heavy-handed federal policies” have made America reliant on foreign imports of timber.


 

 

 

Monkey Wrench Gang has again become required reading. 
 

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Trump has instructed the US Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management to increase logging targets and for officials to circumvent the US’s Endangered Species Act by using unspecified emergency powers to ignore protections placed upon vulnerable creatures’ habitats.

This move is similar to recent instructions by Trump to use a rarely-used committee to push through fossil fuel projects even if they imperil at-risk species. Experts have said this overriding of the Endangered Species Act is probably illegal.

The order also stipulates logging projects can be sped up if they are for purported wildfire risk reduction, via “thinning” of vegetation that could ignite. Some scientists have said that aggressively felling forests, particularly established, fire-resistant trees, actually increases the risk of fast-moving fires.

“This Trump executive order is the most blatant attempt in American history by a president to hand over federal public lands to the logging industry,” said Chad Hanson, wildfire scientist at the John Muir Project.

“What’s worse, the executive order is built on a lie, as Trump falsely claims that more logging will curb wildfires and protect communities, while the overwhelming weight of evidence shows exactly the opposite.”


The Cruelty is the Point.

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9 hours ago, Fastbreak said:

The problem is much deeper than Trump or MAGA. Those are just smoke screens to keep people distracted.

The real problem is the takeover of the country by a small set of billionaires who each rule kingdoms that they feel should be free of government and public interference.

They (people like Peter Thiel, Curtis Yarvin and Leon - there are many other mostly Tech Bros) want to rule their fiefdoms as they choose. Just like all kings do. No king wants to take orders from anyone. Human nature hasn’t changed, those in power want to keep power. Those with power, do not wish to share it.

Tech Bro Kings aren’t concerned about equality or fairness or anything much to do with the public as long as what is due to them comes to them. The price of a dozen eggs means nothing when you can buy the entire egg industry. When you can easily buy senators, vice presidents and presidents then democracy is just a fun ruse.

Slashing the govt (with Elon out front) is just a way to make the public believe that the Tech Bro Kings have the answers. Planes are crashing? Starlink will fix it. Mail isn’t being delivered? Amazon has the answer. National Parks can’t be booked? AirBnB has a system. Want an education? Google has all the info you need. Each thing that is given away just strengthens the kingdoms.

Unfortunately there is no going back. The battles are lost. Democracy is dead. The only hope is one day the kingdoms will come in conflict with each other (which always happens) and they will destroy themselves and something better will rise.

Just to be clear, Curtis Yarvin is not a billionaire, or probably even a millionaire.

He's a weirdo crank that is a philosopher-god-king to those toolbags.

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At least Bill Gates and Steve Jobs knew they were fucking weirdos and mostly kept to themselves.

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9 minutes ago, Degenerate Gardner said:

Monkey Wrench Gang has again become required reading. 

Instruction manual

With what I have seen over the past few days...

Short term, we're fucked.  Mid term, reasonable adults will rise up.  Long term, we'll cleanse ourselves of these dipshits.

The executive branch needs an enema at this point.  Followed by a thorough cleasing with several hundred gallons of bleach.  Oh yeah, one of these dipshits recommended drinking bleach during COVID.  He needs a cupfull now.

 

14 minutes ago, boilerhorn said:

With what I have seen over the past few days...

Short term, we're fucked.  Mid term, reasonable adults will rise up.  Long term, we'll cleanse ourselves of these dipshits.

The executive branch needs an enema at this point.  Followed by a thorough cleasing with several hundred gallons of bleach.  Oh yeah, one of these dipshits recommended drinking bleach during COVID.  He needs a cupfull now.

 

Voters must compel Congress to perform their constitutionally mandated duties and expel members who continue to cede authority to the executive branch.

1 hour ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

I was told how much FEMA sucked under the Biden administration.

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