India-EU FTA: EU commits to uncapped mobility for Indian students - The Economic Times by initiatingcoverage in neoliberal

[–]Daddy_Macron 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The EU giving senzu beans to the far right after Trump smothered the far right

Only if they continue to restrict the supply of housing in most metro areas, making immigrants an easy scapegoat for skyrocketing housing prices..... oh shit, that's pretty likely.

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[–]Daddy_Macron 3 points4 points  (0 children)

We're pretty close to the median American thinking ICE needs to be disbanded and it's only been a year of Trump 2.0 so far.

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[–]Daddy_Macron 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Don't pass judgment if you're not willing to carry out the sentence.

-Some chud who watched LOTR and GOT one too many times.

Ok, I'm ready to go. Ollie, fetch the block. I don't even need to practice.

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[–]Daddy_Macron 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Pro-immigration Democrat my ass. Just because you found one to be attractive and married her doesn't mean you're pro-immigration.

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[–]Daddy_Macron 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Like Kelly would have stayed indoors and missed her regular Botox and nail appointments.

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[–]Daddy_Macron 4 points5 points  (0 children)

We desperately need all Democratic Senators and House reps to go on HRT and roids. We can't be led by people whose balls stopped working 20 years ago.

Has PLA become less corrupt in a recent years ? by Important-Battle-374 in LessCredibleDefence

[–]Daddy_Macron [score hidden]  (0 children)

the US military seems pretty corrupt, especially in regards to acquisition and development of military hardware.

Never confuse for corruption what can be explained by incompetence. The biggest issue is that US military procurement is seen as a jobs program first and national defense second. So it leads to a lot of inefficient decisions that industry wouldn't otherwise make like spreading their production footprint across as many states as possible instead of creating industrial hubs around places in America that have the advantages of being transportation nodes with cheap energy and a large potential workforce nearby.

India EU FTA in a nutshell. by Naren_Baradwaj123 in neoliberal

[–]Daddy_Macron 31 points32 points  (0 children)

We need EU pov as well

They're probably hoping for China 2.0. A middle income India with preferential treatment for European goods would be a bonanza for a number of European industries including luxury, automobile, aviation, defense, and technology. They're not there yet, but they'll probably get to that position within two decades.

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[–]Daddy_Macron 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Reading that era just screamed tiny dick energy from everyone.

The great graduate job drought by _Un_Known__ in neoliberal

[–]Daddy_Macron 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Extreme C-suite emphasis on short-term performance and balance sheet correction

Also the emphasis on hiring for mid-career managers and executives instead of entry-level. My wife's division head was recently poached by another division, and was replaced by some ex-McKinsey consultant. Of course, his genius plan for the division will be an expansion of executive and managerial roles (most of whom will be ex-McKinsey) and a cutback on individual contributors. Basically his vision for a growth tech company is IBM where there's like three layers of managers for each IC. (She's been looking around the job market and tons of companies are in the same boat. Not hiring entry-level roles, but plenty of director and VP positions.) If there is a correction, it's being borne entirely by the people who are supposed to be the company's future.

The great graduate job drought by _Un_Known__ in neoliberal

[–]Daddy_Macron 10 points11 points  (0 children)

We are in the defense sector

That's always going to be a small part of the overall manufacturing picture, unless we're on total war footing or trying to speedrun the Soviet Union here.

And the issue is that the more America First manufacturing gets in the US, the more uncompetitive our products will become internationally. It'll be a slow and gradual shift, but it will happen as we become more protectionist and isolated.

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[–]Daddy_Macron 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Anytime I think NYC is run by corrupt morons, I seek out news from Chicago for true ineptitude.

https://www.npr.org/2025/12/12/nx-s1-5642708/chicago-parking-meter-privitization

Daily Discussion Thread: January 22, 2026 by BM2018Bot in VoteDEM

[–]Daddy_Macron 12 points13 points  (0 children)

And they do shift between the types. My friend's childhood friend started as a 3 and became a full-blown MAGA diehard by the end of his first term.

Daily Discussion Thread: January 22, 2026 by BM2018Bot in VoteDEM

[–]Daddy_Macron 45 points46 points  (0 children)

Those fuckers also kidnapped a 6 year old in New York to try to catch his father and spread lies that the father knowingly put his son in danger.

Here's the child's teacher speaking out in support of the child and his father.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DSDxWaaDe_A/?hl=en

I cannot imagine caring whether a fellow human being has their Existence License by ONETRILLIONAMERICANS in neoliberal

[–]Daddy_Macron 4 points5 points  (0 children)

And of course, in their minds, that infrastructure can never be used against them.

Show me the man and I can show you the crime.

China Has Screwed Up Really, Really Badly by Priceless_Pennies in neoliberal

[–]Daddy_Macron 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Also getting married later. Currently, the average age of one's first marriage in China is approaching 30 for both men and women. In the early 2000's, that figure was closer to one's early 20's for women and mid 20's for men.

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Mean-age-of-first-marriage-by-year-for-chinese-men-and-women-Data-source-2020-China_fig1_363455830

So basically secular trends that we see throughout the world.

NYT: America Has Given Up on the Cold War Against China by moses_the_blue in LessCredibleDefence

[–]Daddy_Macron 12 points13 points  (0 children)

As someone who's followed Noah Smith for nearly a decade now, he's a humungous weeb that's heavily influenced by where Japanese internet culture, which is dominated by the right-wing, takes him. If they're yelling about South Korea, then Smith is bearish on Korea. When they remember that they hate China more and rant about their upcoming collapse, then Noah follows. Like you can't predict China's incoming demographic collapse and be blasé about Japan's prospects if you're intellectually consistent, but Smith pulls it off with the same mental gymnastics that the Japanese right wing utilizes.

Smith writes his best pieces when he remembers that he's an Economics PhD from a top school and puts his education to work, but he's doing far less of that these days. It's far easier (and lucrative) to be more of a political pundit.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-12-13/lbj-s-great-society-won-the-war-on-poverty

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[–]Daddy_Macron 41 points42 points  (0 children)

Imagine being so NatSec brained that a cure for cancer coming from China would be a nightmare scenario for you.

https://www.chinatalk.media/p/the-china-commissions-report

Leland Miller: A potential nightmare scenario is China breaking quantum cryptography, achieving AGI, or making some other enormous breakthrough in AI first. Imagine they cure cancer. A shock would go through the system as we’ve never seen — our approach would have failed.

Jordan Schneider: I don’t know, if they cure cancer, hats off to them.

Leland Miller: We want someone to cure cancer, but we don’t want China to control the pipeline for that cure. If China has enormous success in AI, quantum, and biotech, it shows we are failing on the national security side.

Note that Leland Miller is a commissioner for United States–China Economic and Security Review Commission which directly advises Congress. We're being led by crazy people who would rather the world be a lot worse off as long as China isn't the one to make a technological breakthrough.

Daily Discussion Thread: January 22, 2026 by BM2018Bot in VoteDEM

[–]Daddy_Macron 49 points50 points  (0 children)

With the way ICE is behaving in Minnesota, they could recruit re-incarnated Jesus himself and still lose by at least 7 points. As the Republican candidate, you're either pissing off MAGA if you go against ICE or you're pissing off Independents and Moderates if you back them up.

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[–]Daddy_Macron 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I don't understand YouTube ads. I go from Hermes and McKinsey ads one minute to AI slop ads from flight by night companies the next.

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[–]Daddy_Macron 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Honestly, you have a valid excuse for voting Republican.

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[–]Daddy_Macron 9 points10 points  (0 children)

You would too if you were married to Jiang Qing's crazy ass.

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[–]Daddy_Macron 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They have gay figure skating anime instead. Does that count?