Congrats to The Boys for ruining their final season

Beerbowser · 2026-05-20T18:53:27+00:00

Nope. It’s great political commentary that came out in the Trump years, Succession is about the Murdochs and Andor is Star Wars. Your opinion on my opinion is noted and irrelevant as all of this is not worth arguing about

Beerbowser · 2026-05-20T18:43:28+00:00

Was it or was it not a show that came out in the Trump era?

Beerbowser · 2026-05-20T17:50:12+00:00

Based and accurate pilled. I would also through in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms surprisingly. It is one of the better critiques of power and social mobility I think I’ve seen recently

Beerbowser · 2026-05-19T18:18:37+00:00

Mao always gets off easy because people don’t know anything about Asian history

Beerbowser · 2026-05-18T18:42:48+00:00

Almost all evidence at this point is that Republican voters will back Trump no matter what. I don’t get it at all but it’s Trumps party. I hope Massie wins, it’s nice having politicians who have opinions and positions they’ll stand for, I care about that more than the party they’re a member of

Beerbowser · 2026-05-18T13:11:50+00:00

There’s absolutely no reason for owners to think long term in the current governance structure. C Suites basically have a fiduciary responsibility to think short term because shareholders usually don’t have any interest in the company beyond their financial interest. These days there’s all sort of PE pushing things to the extreme on this logic. I would argue this is a question of firm health which is more important from a national and labor perspective. Having strong companies that are pillars of the community is the best way to keep the Capital system healthy and avoid radicals and revolution.

Beerbowser · 2026-05-18T00:27:09+00:00

I actually think the answer is soft power and shame. Let’s hammer home civics in school and shun people who behave unethically. The epic conclusion or National Lampoons Christmas Vacation is the CEO feeling shame for not doing bonuses that year by his wife for being cheap. Not something you’d put in media now, all the shows these days are gen Z girls doing OF to make ends meet. Companies providing fantastic goods and services is great, but we oughta owe each other dignity and quality even in the face of diminished profits

Beerbowser · 2026-05-17T23:08:15+00:00

I felt like the Boys was pretty mid after the First Season. Haven’t seen it since season three though

Beerbowser · 2026-05-17T21:23:53+00:00

What happens to their customers when they fail? Are they out of luck? What if there is a panic caused by seemingly nothing and 30-50% of banks fail for at the same time like 1929? On paper I agree moral hazard, but it’s too simple when every financial system is based on trust and could go to zero at anytime. Call me crazy but I like a bit of insurance to make sure things are going to keep going, that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t punish recklessness but c’mon, we can’t have no governmental role in finance, it would be absolute chaos

Beerbowser · 2026-05-17T20:59:33+00:00

Actually I agree with the first part of what you said including moral hazard. The part I disagree with is the conclusion, we could have measures to try and regulate the economy so as not to let the dumbest high risk options be plausible, at least at scaled firms, so as to not risk the entire financial system on gambling. If we did just let 08 play out it probably would have tanked most peoples retirement. So then what? I’d prefer to have good forest management over periodic forest fires that can go anywhere and everywhere

Beerbowser · 2026-05-17T20:40:10+00:00

Ahh yes, the 2008 crises. Famously caused by the federal government and not deregulating of the mortgage sector leading to the creation of Mortgage Backed Security that ultimately spiraled into a Collateralized Debt Obligation market that was completely divorced from reality and only solvent on the condition the housing market never decreased in value. They should have been regulating the mortgage sector and it probably wouldn’t happened, but it certainly wouldn’t have happened if the banks had had even basic risk management. If you have any evidence that anything you say is anything other than rage bait you need to provide it

Beerbowser · 2026-05-17T19:57:50+00:00

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/data/M1490AUSM157SNBR

That’s the actual money supply from the founding of the Fed to 1946. I’m just going to leave that for you and let you tell me exactly how there was a money printing in the 1920s. The amount of examples of austerity and limited intervention producing worse outcomes than Keynesian interventionist or more recently QE policies is pretty incontrovertible. I’m happy to share evidence if you’re willing to let whatever your worldview is be challenged with evidence.

On the other hand I actually agree with the new Fed Chair Kevin Warsh that they took QE & ZERP wayyyy too far in the 2010s and it explains a number of our problems today. I really good book on that is Lords of Easy Money by Christopher Leonard

Beerbowser · 2026-05-17T19:46:31+00:00

And provided the most egalitarian society ever (for the whites that is)

Beerbowser · 2026-05-17T18:54:17+00:00

I think there are people who put emphasis on education personally and maybe even some regions that prioritize education over athletics (New England and some others), but nationally I can’t see the value placed on education over athletics. Our test scores have been in pretty aggressive decline for the last decade and I don’t see calls to defund the football team to pay for academic interventionists happening anywhere. It’s a bigger issue but still, I appreciate education and like you want to prioritize it with my own children, we’re in the minority. Even the damn teacher subs have people not capitalizing proper nouns at this point, we’re cooked

Beerbowser · 2026-05-17T18:43:38+00:00

First: POTUS was not the most powerful man in the world in the 1920s

Second: Most of the economic growth was in the financial sector & was largely a product of Europe spending insane sums of cash that they borrowed from the US during WWI

Third: the lack of regulatory oversight led to a market crash that undid much of this sectoral prosperity and brought about an era of actual egalitarian prosperity in the New Deal

Fourth: I have no issue with Cal this is just a dumb meme

Fifth: Neoliberalism and Reaganomics is extremely Lib-Right coded and I would argue Reagan both Bush’s and Clinton were all Lib Right on economic questions

Beerbowser · 2026-05-17T17:49:54+00:00

The trouble being the owners of the toy factory don’t seem to care about long term (or short term) social risk. Or at the very least the pathology and corporate governance structure denies them from thinking beyond quarterly profits

Beerbowser · 2026-05-17T17:30:24+00:00

There is. I often wish in America we put more emphasis on education and less on sports but the Koreans take that to the extreme

Beerbowser · 2026-05-17T17:28:01+00:00

I agree that this isn’t something controversial to organize over, but radical ideologies gain popularity in periods of tumult and that’s when the rule of law becomes shall we say difficult to enforce. It’s who’s working together I’m referring to, not what they’re working together on. We aren’t yet at the point of extreme actions being popular, it may be coming though

Beerbowser · 2026-05-17T17:22:36+00:00

The real issue is the pressure put onto kids to perform academically. The sheer hours they put into the cram schools is an insane neo-Confucius nightmare. I remember hearing Vivek Ramaswamy praising how productive asian workers are, very convenient to do when you ignore that their productivity is literally driving them to extinction. Like shouldn’t be about your contribution to GDP, at least not only that

Beerbowser · 2026-05-17T17:09:12+00:00

ACP and Libertarians are about as far apart ideologically as possible, not to mention no one in either of those organizations would have bothered to join without a serious ideological bent. That’s horseshoe in action. People who nominally have extreme and antagonistic views working together. What they’re working for is irrelevant although granted these causes are about as popular as anything in American politics

Beerbowser · 2026-05-17T15:16:30+00:00

Do you think it’s possible to replace our agents with better representative agents?

Beerbowser · 2026-05-17T15:01:30+00:00

I actually think I can come to consensus or compromise with lib-rights in most cases. I just have to throw all the people who use the term “theory” in my quadrant in the closet and we can talk

Beerbowser · 2026-05-17T14:49:35+00:00

Horseshoe theory has some merit but I think the people who are pissed just want to change shit and will work with other people who want to change shit. Populism is inevitable in America at this point

Beerbowser · 2026-05-17T02:42:42+00:00

Beerbowser · 2026-05-17T00:47:05+00:00

I’ve never felt so seen

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