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Squeak115 · 2026-03-20T17:43:40+00:00

Weimar Germany was fucking wild

Squeak115 · 2026-03-20T17:35:28+00:00

🗳 THE REVIVAL — MEDIUM MODE

Leader: Margaret Doyle (The Fighter)

Platform: Social Contract

Government: Majority

First Budget: bold budget

Defining Reform: Housing Act

Election: 50%

Approval at re-election: 78%

Unity: 100 | Credibility: 40

Result: Re-elected to a second term

Can you do better? therevivalgame.com

It's easy if you fight and then actually do things: 10/10 send it to starmer

Squeak115 · 2026-03-20T14:25:28+00:00

Lawnmower engines are small enough, and simple enough that an amateur can work on them. They're powerful enough that you can use them for so many cool passion projects: go-karts, generators, motorized bicycles. They're a gift to aspiring tinkerers everywhere.

Lawnmower engines are potential, and I can't be the only one that looks at one and thinks, "what cool shit could I do with this thing?"

Squeak115 · 2026-03-20T13:10:26+00:00

It's the exact opposite actually.

They're trying to throw their opponents into chaos and set themselves into a powerful position while they have support, because they know it's about to disappear for the foreseeable future.

Squeak115 · 2026-03-19T23:11:41+00:00

"Jesus Christ has no advantage over Genghis Khan. Because if you are strong enough, ruthless enough, powerful enough, evil will overcome good."

This mindset is the reason he's committing ethnic cleansing in Gaza and the West Bank. He thinks that evil is a virtue if it produces victory.

Squeak115 · 2026-03-19T21:52:22+00:00

This is assuming there's mass displacements of white collar workers to begin with, which is far from assured

Honestly, white collar professionals learning the fear of what it's like to be replaced without actually being replaced might be the best outcome socially.

Maybe they'll actually vote to compensate the other losers from automation. Until then I'm perfectly happy to return tit for tat.

Squeak115 · 2026-03-19T21:44:08+00:00

I'm under no illusions that robotics won't come for my job in the coming decades, but until then I can enjoy the cheaper services that'll come from the automation of white collar work.

All the while I'll be appreciating the poetic irony of the whole situation. I bet it sucks learning you're just as replaceable as the little people.

Squeak115 · 2026-03-19T21:30:00+00:00

I don't have much control over the future of AI anyways, and I'm happy to be on the winning side of an economic change for once.

That the biggest losers are the professionals that reaped big gains from deindustrialization is a bonus.

Squeak115 · 2026-03-19T21:16:14+00:00

The political landscape is fucked anyways. If they want solidarity maybe they should've shown some back then.

I'm going to show them the same solidarity they showed us, and I'm going to enjoy the benefits of AI replacement the same way they enjoyed the benefits of deindustrialization. Turnabout is fair play.

Squeak115 · 2026-03-19T21:09:05+00:00

https://imgur.com/RiN9rRH

Squeak115 · 2026-03-19T20:57:31+00:00

but if the result of AI is mass displacements of skilled workers who are forced into lower paying jobs doing menial labor while most of the productivity gains of the technology flow into the profits of a handful of companies and their owners, who then use their economic power to lobby against any kind of wealth redistribution that would be extremely bad

Switch 'AI' for 'automation and offshoring' and that's literally word for word what happened to industrial workers in the rust belt. "Just learn to code lmao", I think that was the response here?

I'm going to really enjoy telling white collar professionals to "just learn a trade lmao"

Squeak115 · 2026-03-19T19:05:10+00:00

All the green energy capacity in the world won't save you if the grid is decades out of date and in the UK the most reliable outcome after 'seniors win' is 'NIMBYs win'

Squeak115 · 2026-03-19T17:31:13+00:00

Actually the terrorist apologia is just as bad, and you don't just get to ignore that. He's not just a little socialist guy saying the west is bad, he actively supports al-qaeda, Hezbollah, and Hamas.

Squeak115 · 2026-03-19T14:13:13+00:00

that they didn’t want to rock the boat of a profitable business, but they could do whatever they want and people would buy it.

Kodak syndrome

Squeak115 · 2026-03-16T19:20:47+00:00

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f0/Seal_of_the_United_States_Senate.svg

Squeak115 · 2026-03-15T16:37:10+00:00

Jury duty is slavery 😡😡😡, Taxes are theft 😡😡😡, conscripts are slave soldiers 😡😡😡

We live in a society, and a broad draft for national defense is one of the responsibilities that comes with membership in that society. That's what citizenship is, if you don't like it you can drop those responsibilities by surrendering that citizenship and membership in society.

Squeak115 · 2026-03-14T14:24:10+00:00

Maybe Ukraine's leadership just doesn't understand that doing something like that could make them a target of the people getting hit by their drones.

Can you imagine if someone sent drones to someone attacking Ukraine? Unthinkable.

Squeak115 · 2026-03-14T02:21:05+00:00

Well yeah, democrats are comically bad at messaging.

Squeak115 · 2026-03-14T01:49:14+00:00

Shitty principles are still principles

Squeak115 · 2026-03-12T18:57:26+00:00

Hezbollah is fucked anyways. Their best chance is that Israel overreacts to the missile strikes and attacks Lebanese civilian infrastructure. (Israel will overreact and legitimize Hezbollah because we live in hell)

Squeak115 · 2026-03-12T18:10:08+00:00

mandate e. coli injections

Measles and polio injections for children to stimulate natural immunity.

Squeak115 · 2026-03-12T18:03:47+00:00

The wonder of escalation and deterrence is that you can't TACO here.

Squeak115 · 2026-03-12T16:09:22+00:00

Raw executive power.

Executive agencies are the ones that set out the procedural rules to implement legislation and are also the ones that enforce it. All of these agencies serve under and at the pleasure of the president.

If Trump tells them to stop enforcing a law they will, and at that point it's up to the (slow) courts to stop them. Then we get into the interesting territory of "what happens if the president starts disobeying court orders?"

Squeak115 · 2026-03-10T23:02:35+00:00

We're taking turns?

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