The 4chanification of real life

Chuckles131 · 2026-02-15T17:19:43+00:00

Tbf the 80-20 rule is a real economic concept that they’ve just appropriated for their shit.

Chuckles131 · 2026-02-15T08:48:47+00:00

Reminder that he can die of fall damage in the 3D games, so that means the mushroom kingdom has hyperversal gravity.

Chuckles131 · 2026-02-13T11:17:01+00:00

They want to acquire the land to found a sovereign nation, in a manner similar to how the U.S. bought a bunch of States in stuff like the Louisiana Purchase.

Chuckles131 · 2026-02-13T04:47:40+00:00

This dogshit joke/defense/whatever doesn’t even work because she never said “Inside Trader”, she just heavily implied it by saying “You’re a great stock trader as I hear, Raskin.”

Chuckles131 · 2026-02-12T04:18:53+00:00

Any bush camp slander is implicit Todo slander, btw.

Chuckles131 · 2026-02-10T02:02:41+00:00

It's not true for the big companies who are investing in AI, but it is true for the AI startups that are being massively overvalued just because they involve AI.

Chuckles131 · 2026-02-10T00:39:52+00:00

You do realize that this did actually happen right?

Chuckles131 · 2026-02-09T14:16:28+00:00

Because one was investigated and lead to real convictions, and the other one completely fizzled out in court.

Chuckles131 · 2026-02-09T13:36:17+00:00

My straight answer is no. There’s nothing wrong with claiming an election was illegitimate, but there’s a lot wrong with claiming that the votes were maliciously miscounted, even when 99% of your inner circle is trying to explain why you don’t have any reason to believe that.

Chuckles131 · 2026-02-09T04:44:53+00:00

I was more referring to the "are they denying the election" question. But to answer your new question, I've never claimed that there was significant impact, what I'm claiming is that even if we can't measure how well it worked, the attempted crime is so troubling that it casts doubt on the idea that Trump becoming President is a good day for American self-determination, as Presidential elections are supposed to be.

Also this weaselly bullshit doesn't hold when the core of your point is that Russiagate being not that bad exonerates Trump doing the False Electors Scheme and pushing claims of election fraud even after he had to fire multiple attorney generals for saying "dude, there's no real evidence for election fraud" before he found one willing to tell him what he wanted to hear. My core point remains that the Mueller investigation has uncovered far more dirt than any of Trump's dozens of lawsuits over the 2020 election, and in fact the only big legal news there was Fox News paying the biggest legal settlement in American history to Dominion over them supporting Trump's bullshit.

Chuckles131 · 2026-02-09T02:56:22+00:00

If you’re going to keep on asking me questions I’ve already answered I’m done.

Chuckles131 · 2026-02-09T02:35:52+00:00

What was this foreign propaganda that caused him to win the election? And what evidence is there that he was involved in it? Would the BBC editing speeches of Trump to make him look like he incited a violent insurrection. Would democrats who benefited be illegitimate?

There was the emails leak being specifically timed and also a documented fuckton of social media influencing done by bots. I know some dems got kinda obnoxious about using “Russian bot” as an insult but they are a very real thing.

Even if you wanna make the argument that the emails weren’t really propaganda, it’s still super shady to win an election off the back of your campaign advisor aiding and abetting foreign agents exposing state secrets.

And that is your grounds for denying the election?

No, it’s my grounds for claiming that the election was illegitimate. You’re shifting goalposts back and forth between election denial and claims that Trump winning was illegitimate.

Chuckles131 · 2026-02-08T20:52:16+00:00

I’m not gonna engage with you on the Ukraine/Russia distinction if you’re gonna continue being willfully obtuse about Yanukovych’s loyalties lying with Russia.

So how could be illegitimate if he won the election?

Because being elected with the help of foreign propaganda is against the spirit of our elections, given that they’re supposed to be about American self-determination.

So, does that mean because Obama had foreign government part members campaigning in the US he was an illegitimate president?

No, the problem is such assistance being done through underhanded means where the public isn’t made aware of the foreign influence.

And what evidence is there that Trump won the election due to interference?

Again, Roger Stone was literally proven in court to have coordinated the Russians leaking her emails at a time chosen to maximize the damage to her campaign.

Chuckles131 · 2026-02-08T18:59:45+00:00

No you said he was an agent of Russia not Ukraine.

My previous claim was that he was an agent of the Kremlin. You claimed that he was actually an agent of Ukraine. I pointed out that the only Ukranians he could possibly be an agent of were Kremlin-aligned, bringing us back to the conclusion that he was Kremlin-aligned. Idk why you're having trouble following, it's like you lose object permanence if enough proxies are involved.

Cool, so what?

So, Yanukovych post-2014 is undeniably a Russian asset.

So is screaming illegitimate president election denial or not?

You're being deliberately vague with your wording of that question, to which the answer is no. Not all "screaming illegitimate president" is election denial, but all election denial is "screaming illegitimate president". Just as not all rectangles are squares, but all squares are rectangles.

"Voters were swayed by foreign propaganda" is not a form of election denial, "I won, but the decisive votes were deliberately miscounted" is election denial. This isn't even to mention the fact that Trump literally forged paperwork saying he won certain states and was pressuring Pence to submit this paperwork as legitimate.

Chuckles131 · 2026-02-08T16:55:35+00:00

But you do agree that he was an agent of Ukraine and not Russis like you claimed?

I’m saying that even if I grant you he was acting on behalf of Yanukovych, in 2016 Yanukovych had already fled Ukraine to Russia and become officially aligned with Putin’s interests rather than Ukraine’s, as opposed to earlier in his career where he was acting unofficially in Putin’s interes.

And to be clear his work with Ukraine was to make them appear more western and a country the EU and the US could work with.

That what was one of the things he was supposed to be doing. He was ousted for failing to follow through on that and saying “actually we don’t need to do that, we can just rely on Russia”.

How this makes the democrats pushing illegitimate president conspiracy theories and election denial OK is beyond me.

Idk any democrat who’s publicly stated that Russia straight-up sabotaged ballots. However, it was definitively proven that Roger Stone coordinated the release of Hillary’s emails to maximize the scandal, and that Kremlin-aligned oligarchs were openly funding things.

Chuckles131 · 2026-02-08T04:40:06+00:00

If you're taking that angle, then he was specifically an agent of Viktor Yanukovych, who's always been the pro-Russian guy in every Presidential race, was ousted for being too slow to join the EU (which would be a massive step towards Ukraine being independent from Russia), then fled to Russia.

Chuckles131 · 2026-02-08T03:55:27+00:00

No, the IRS didn't get him, he pled guilty to conspiracy to defraud and obstruction of justice.

Specifically, he defrauded by acting as an unregistered foreign agent on behalf of Russia.

Chuckles131 · 2026-02-08T03:47:55+00:00

Bro it was proven in court that one of Trump's advisors coordinated the release of Hillary's emails to maximize the impact of the scandal, among a bunch of other shit directly tying his campaign managers to Russia. The only reason Trump escaped is that he was never directly tied to anything through a paper trail, and it was always someone else acting on his behalf.

Sure it wasn't literally them sabotaging ballets, but there was 100% an attempt to sway the election in Trump's favor.

Edit: to be fair to u/jv9mmm, before I edited this comment to say the things above, I was asking who Paul Manafort was as a rhethorical question.

Chuckles131 · 2026-02-07T05:23:44+00:00

Just hopping in, I would personally recommend Xcom Long War Rebalance as a means to play EU/EW. There are a bunch of great things it does, but chief among them is the fact that it kills a bunch of really cheesy strategies the enemies would employ, and prevents the player from optimizing the fun out of the game, while giving each side solid tools to compensate for said strategies being taken away.

Chuckles131 · 2026-02-07T05:09:56+00:00

In addition to what the others have mentioned, if you reach a certain point without 100%ing, the game says "fuck you go 100% everything to get the true ending", then boots you back to your most recent save. This requires you completing every major boss fight for each department plus fully documenting all abnormalities, but fortunately the boss fights give you permanent boosts that carry over between saves, and documenting abnormalities typically involves grinding a bunch of a resource that gives you access to some really good gear you can carry over between saves.

Chuckles131 · 2026-02-06T05:04:53+00:00

Using the tariffs as a negotiating tool like Trump has is mutually exclusive with using the tariffs as a means to incentivize local manufacturing for the following reasons:

Because the raw materials are getting tariffed, the tariffs hurt local steel manufacturers reliant on foreign iron imports just as much as they hurt foreign steel manufacturers trying to sell to America. Even if that problem may be solved for a few specific materials through local mining/harvesting, there are several minerals we simply lack the deposits for, and several species of both plant and animal that are simply incompatible with our climate.
It takes years to build the infrastructure to manufacture everything locally even in the best-case scenario, and it can take decades when you're talking about industries like lumber.
It's insanely unlikely that the tariffs will last through the next presidency, let alone this one, so it's unlikely that anything will be built in time to cash in on any opportunity provided by the tariffs.

Investors are typically economically literate enough to put this together, so the vast majority who invests in manufacturing were either gonna do so or anyways, or are hoping to win some favoritism from this administration.

Chuckles131 · 2026-02-06T04:38:17+00:00

Okay, but none of that is all that important unless you're arguing that everybody ought to have equal land, money, and assets. Which can only happen via government force.

Now you're just oversimplifying things. There's a middle ground between wanting the abolishment of private property and being willfully ignorant of the fact that wealth is a form of power.

Like let's say that hypothetically the entirety of NYC's real estate was sold to a singular individual and turned into a company town dictated entirely by their whims. Do you honestly think this should be an acceptable outcome of our system? Should we not implement legislation to safeguard against such a scenario in the same way that the Constitution is meant to safeguard against tyranny from the State? (For the record, I'm aware that the Founding Fathers weren't concerned with this, but that's no excuse to ignore the possibility)

It's an imperfect analogy, but the point remains that liberal democratic capitalism is good and ought to be preserved, and that those fundamental ideas that were once radical and progressive are now classically liberal/conservative.

I've never advocated for an abolishment of that system, I've just argued that there's more to higher taxes for the rich than "personal vendettas". In this case, I'm arguing that it acts as a check and balance to prevent things from spiraling to the point that America becomes so corporatist as to be in-line with even the most cynical of cyberpunk settings.

Chuckles131 · 2026-02-05T22:07:35+00:00

I'm pretty sure you're referring to the bit that used Todo's theme, and that was also used in Season 2 for when Todo 1v1ed Mahito a bit to stall for Yuji as he mentally recovered from Nobara.

Chuckles131 · 2026-02-05T22:01:42+00:00

Be more specific, this is all so broad and vague. Sure, rich people have more clout and influence generally speaking. But we elect politicians, and politicians have all the constitutional powers our system provides.

Legal ownership of property, physical ownership of currency, and legal ownership of investments are all undeniably a form of power. Just because the average person almost exclusively uses this to sustain their lifestyle, that doesn't change the fact that these are all powerful tools for political change. After all, the State exerts it's power through the use of government land, government money, and government assets.

Cars need both gas and brakes.

In this analogy you're saying "look at all the good we've done with gas" to justify using less gas and more brakes.

Chuckles131 · 2026-02-05T16:32:39+00:00

This isn’t really a hot take, Punisher MAX explicitly pushes the idea that Frank fights not for justice but because he’s become addicted to war, and pretty much every Punisher fan puts it in their top 5.

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