Trump just tried the same thing with Russia, China, and India and even he admits it was a failure. But who knows, it might be compelling to people worried about the sound of helicopters at 3 AM?

In so many ways ‘Donald Trump’ is a victory of liberalism. Arrogance and incompetence flourish in societies where the beneficiaries of great wealth and power are two or three generations removed from the people who were clever enough to steal it in the first place.

And America has been such a place of abundance for the highborn for so long. Their blatant criminality is tolerated and normal. Is it any wonder that people who’ve never faced meaningful consequences have trouble with making big decisions?

I think it’s interesting to contrast Germany’s fall into Fascism coming from humiliating loss and economic ruin, to America’s slide from a position of global dominance and unimaginable wealth. Maybe second time as farce?

We need more racists like you who are out and proud. I’m so tired of dealing with the crypto motherfuckers, blatant racism is kinda refreshing.

Violations were not brushed aside. Soldiers are criminally accountable when we break the law. That accountability is what separates professional soldiers from mercenaries.

Bullshit! Lt. William Calley was convicted of murdering 22 people at My Lai, and he served 3 years. Nobody else was even charged with the 200-500 people who were massacred (and raped).

That accountability is what separates professional soldiers from mercenaries.

Also not true. The Nisour Square massacre saw 4 Blackwater employees convicted of murder, manslaughter, and guns charges only to be pardoned by Trump.

Just this year, the Trump regime reinstated the Congressional Medal of Honor awards to the solders who perpetrated the massacre at Wounded Knee.

The United States has a terrible record of holding soldiers to account for war crimes.

The Barber’s hair is long because he’s not allowed to cut it himself.

I’m going to guess that passions, rather than reason, motivated this vandalism.

The files are a distraction from themselves.

Everybody is worried about which powerful people will be embarrassed. Nobody is asking: does this sort of thing still go on? Or How can we prevent billionaires from snatching teenagers off the streets?

Because our society only pretends to care about the victims of sexual abuse. We talk about how we hate rapists and pedophiles, but our actions betray the truth.

Windows is being re-written from the ground up to be ‘agentic’. This means that Copilot is not going to be a feature of Windows, Windows is going to be a feature of Copilot.

Oh, and Copilot is going to be writing the code too. Microslop brags that 30% of their code is AI.

When I read articles like this a Jimquisition episode starts playing in my head.

The “population cliff” is a made up boogeyman for capitalists. That’s because they’ve relied on population growth for market growth. What’s the harm in population stagnation or even decline?

And I don’t want to hear about young people supporting aging populations. That’s a man-made problem that has solutions. Just not the kind of solutions capitalists can abide. (and if you think about it, it’s a temporary issue anyway).

One of the biggest victories of capitalism during my lifetime is how consumerism has swallowed ethics. I’m not saying that buying stuff from shit-heel companies is OK, or that boycotts are useless. But the mentality of shopping as ethics reduces moral agency to consumer choice and spending habits. Its gross.

Has anyone else noticed this? We don’t shop anymore, we support businesses now. Maybe the reason Americans are reluctant to protest is because we already feel like an activist for spending an extra dollar on cage free eggs.

I’ve heard a variation on this where you count out 40 beans and discard the farty-one.

I’ve always thought that policing Kirk’s grief was gross. And the kind of thing that conservatives worry about. I’m comforted that so many here recognize gossip-slop politics.

Satya Nadella (Microslop CEO), has said that they’re engineering this exact thing for Windows. Not a chatbot that runs in Windows, but Windows as a chatbot. It will have access to everything and be able to take actions on your behalf. And they’re doing it all by vibecoding Windows from the ground up. The figure I read was 30% of Microslop’s code was AI and they announced that like they were proud of it.

Loads of people care what celebrities think and do, silly. If people didn’t care about celebrities, they wouldn’t be celebrities.

If you’re going to express that you’re above it all, try not to say anything silly because us mortals will make fun of you.

This works on libertarians too.

If you could reason with gun-brains, they would cease to exist.

It’s so sad to see people on the left swallow NRA mythology. All these gun owners are now safe from ICE, just like Alex Pretti.

Your mistake is accepting that the American war for independence was a revolution. It was more like an “under new management”.

Conservatives, at their core, are and have always been monarchists.

I read a book called The Reactionary Mind, by Robin.

It’s thesis was that if you survey Western conservative writings from the French Revolution to today, the only consistent value is hierarchy. God, guns, small government, capitalism, and traditional family values may all be jettisoned, but never hierarchy.

I’ll point out that this week, Trump pitted gun rights vs. enforcement of the out-group and the American Right shuddered.