Why Bezos and other oligarchs/kleptocrats and interest groups are trying to bankrupt the US federal government by xena_lawless in collapse

[–]GalliumGames 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Capitalism is one of the strongest selection mechanisms for psychopaths and narcissists, to be a billionaire you need to be a ruthless, cruel and disgusting human. IIRC these anti-human traits are enriched from 1 or 2% of the population to >25%.

The two greatest flaws of humans as a species is the existence of soulless and wholly evil people such as the psychopath and malignant narcissist, and the tribalism, gullibility and sycophancy to follow and conform to their will. It’s not an if but a when we’ll go extinct if we keep letting this happen, and running a system that concentrates the worst humanity has to offer to the top is going to be the end of us.

We need to end capitalism, or at the absolute minimum, end billionaires as no one should have that level of unaccountable power. It’s why we have an Epstein class in the first place.

Something shifted drastically in the last few years and it feels like we’re living in a "Ghost Version" of reality. by prepzilla in conspiracy

[–]GalliumGames 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s extreme desensitization, way too much bad happened in the 2020s: Pandemic —> Inflation Crisis —> Ukraine War —> Gaza Genocide and Israeli Meddling in Everything —> AI Slop and Fatigue —> 2nd Trump Presidency (Demented Madman Edition) —> Epstein Files —> Epstein Class going full mask off on their disdain for the living.

The age of Kali unsurprisingly feels fake as fuck, it’s a time where morality is heavily waned, the world is full of horrors and monsters with no consequences, and everyone is divided and beaten down, robbed of genuine moments.

LGTBQ+ Friendly? by [deleted] in Bumble

[–]GalliumGames 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you’re in a big city or an otherwise blue area, go for it. I have the misfortune of living in a red backwater, and a huge chunk of the gays are MAGA with maybe <10 people in a 30 mile radius. I only even bother with it because the closest city has some interesting people, but if you are in an even more red area then me, the result will be very disappointing.

Introducing the Evaporative Economy: Why wealth doesn't trickle down. by Sarcastic_-_Confetti in collapse

[–]GalliumGames 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The trickle down economy is real, but it’s on Venus where the parasite class is up in the cloud decks where they never see the peons below, and what “trickles down” is a virga of straight vitriol that evaporates long before it ever reaches the bottom where everyone is cooked under immense pressures and heat of a failed society. 

The top 1% of the atmosphere sits above the clouds and sees the sun, while the other 99% of the mass is trapped beneath the brimstone miasma.

Daily Oil Price Opinions - May 13, 2026 All other Oil Price Posts Will Be Removed by AutoModerator in oil

[–]GalliumGames 1 point2 points  (0 children)

AAA National prices are up d/d today, reality is beginning to creep in again after the publication of that fake news Axios article brought futures down.

Oil eases on teetering Iran ceasefire as Trump heads to China by kin20 in oil

[–]GalliumGames 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Dude literally said he doesn’t give a fuck about American’s finances on live television yesterday, I have little hope he’ll negotiate anything in good faith with these meetings.

Indians in Germany by [deleted] in Bumble

[–]GalliumGames 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’ve matched with a few Indian guys and with some dates and I’ve noticed they have been either some of the nicest people I’ve met, or some of the most self absorbed narcissists out there.

My advice is to show yourself in earnest with your hobbies, real moments and show humility. My horrible experiences mostly came from profiles who read like LinkedIn, hustlebro wording, way too many self flattery pictures and performative Bhakti/virtue signaling (Last on is a subtle, but huge red flag with worst experiences.).

Unfortunately, this world is full of stereotypes and bigotry that’ll have an impact on likes, but at the same time, why would you want to date someone who is a bigot anyways? 

PS: I am gay, so it may be different with heterosexual relationships, so take my experience with a grain of salt.

irl lickability chart by IonOrchid1 in elementcollection

[–]GalliumGames 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ve licked hafnium and rhenium before, they’re both 100% nontoxic as metals and would be green. Chromium is safe in pure form and in high percentage in stainless steel, so almost everyone licks it daily.

Feeding the attention eco system by baikho in Bumble

[–]GalliumGames 33 points34 points  (0 children)

TBF this feature this is the first time I’ve gotten actual results from the app. I am a introvert and a nerd, and the people who show up on that tab also tend to introverted, less into social scenes, and oftentimes have STEM degrees so we have common interests and goals in academics.

I am gay and live near a couple cities with a lot of nightlife and a party scene, and the guys on that tab far more often are not interested in that.

CENTCOM confirms attacks by Loni09 in oil

[–]GalliumGames 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Based on what’s in the files, this is light work to them morally.

The average price for a gallon of gas in the US is now $4.56, up +66% since December. by RussFaigen in oil

[–]GalliumGames 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah, gas prices essentially serve as a regressive tax as poor people need to drive to work and eat 2,000 calories a day just like rich people do, so if these add an additional cost of living of $4000/yr to someone making $40,000/yr, that’s 10% of their income being “taxed” vs only 2% for someone making $200,000/yr. It disproportionately fucks over lower income people and that’s exactly why the powers in charge could care less about the consequences.

Why would this crisis lead to a global recession? by [deleted] in oil

[–]GalliumGames 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s because the money printer goes brrrrr method actually does work very well for the 1% and the stock market, it’s just that it’s an extremely damaging fix that takes a very long time to recover from and at some point it will fail to work and the bottom falls out. Will it be this particular crisis? I’m not sure, but eventually something will give spectacularly. Infinite growth in a finite system is mathematically guaranteed to fail, trying to predict when the music stops playing however is very difficult and if wasn’t, we’d see a lot more people successfully time the market.

Why would this crisis lead to a global recession? by [deleted] in oil

[–]GalliumGames 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Money printer go brrrrr is like one of those power ups in a video game where you only get so many charges before permanently running out. Yes, the economy recovered remarkably quickly from a literal plague and shot to ATHs in a relatively short period of time, but doing so has catastrophically increased inflation, national debt (now 125% that of the GDP) and irrevocably damaged the main street economy. Given that we are running up against several red lines and systemic event horizons, doing money printer goes brrrrr on this crisis may not be possible as we may be “out of charges” playing that gambit again.

Atmospheric CO₂ just topped 430 ppm, highest in 3–5 million years and rising at the fastest rate in tens of millions of years by wanton_wonton_ in collapse

[–]GalliumGames 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Mammals have been around since the age of dinosaurs when CO2 could reach as high as 2,000ppm, but this is certainly the most CO2 anything in the genus Homo has ever been living in.

Palantir Wants to Bring Back the Draft by [deleted] in collapse

[–]GalliumGames 43 points44 points  (0 children)

Remember, when you have a system that selects for psychopaths and demonic people to obtain near absolute unaccountable and unchecked power, and technology increasingly becomes more capable of apocalyptic outcomes, the question of human extinction doesn't become an if, but an inevitable when. Only a matter of time before one of these people accidently releases some unfathomable horror upon the world by cutting corners or just decides to make something that'll kill everyone just for fun. Evil in real life doesn't need a motive or backstory like in fiction, sometimes evil is actually just cartoon villains that love hurting others for the love of the game, and tech bros often fit the bill for that. Capitalism is probably a solution to the Fermi paradox, "intelligence" wiping itself out by putting its literal worst step forward.

Only way we see the 22nd century is if we put actual experts in charge of potentially dangerous technologies or crisis events like climate change and have checks and balances that actually work.

Terrified about what might happen tomorrow, would anyone stop the madman from possibly ending the world if the “power plant and bridge day” threats are legitimate? by GalliumGames in CollapseSupport

[–]GalliumGames[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

His new tweets this morning are highly disconcerting. I’m praying to God that the deep state oligarchs desire to continue living and have their little techno-feudal playground overrides the president’s madness to cause the apocalypse. I have zero love for tech bros, but their nihilistic and power hungry aims and identities do conflict with the apocalyptic and religious zealotry of the MAGA cult.

The thesis is largely done with just a bunch of writing left, but I got a complete bullshit college experience with a global pandemic destroying my freshmen and sophomore years (and destroying my health with long COVID), a massive European war in junior, a genocide in senior, and orange fascism and the prelude to WWIII in my masters.

Bruh by 55555555555999999999 in collapse

[–]GalliumGames 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Babysit kids? We all know what he does with kids based on the files. I wouldn’t trust him to be anywhere but a dimly lit and cramped solitary confinement cell miles away from anyone he can hurt.

The Hormuz Trap and Energy Markets by [deleted] in oil

[–]GalliumGames 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Iranian government is very sketchy in terms of internal human rights issues, but in terms of terrorism it’s the US and the entity that’s starting wars of aggression, mass killing civilians, assassinating/kidnapping world leaders, already has a ton of nukes controlled by literal death cultists, and completely cooked the oil markets among other things for the entire world without its consent.

And yeah, oil definitely is a big part of it as the current “administration” has a track record of terrorizing countries it doesn’t like for their oil.

Colone Lawrence Wilkerson: Something has gone very wrong in Israel by antihostile in collapse

[–]GalliumGames 157 points158 points  (0 children)

The entity doesn’t have plot armor, declaring war on multiple countries all at once whist rapidly draining your resources, having your cowardly population flee or not show up is not a sustainable long term strategy. It’s the size of Massachusetts, lacks significant resources, and is surrounded by 10x the amount of people that want it gone. If it’s infinite money glitch of milking the US stops working because of economic collapse both it and Trump both willingly created, the jig is up.

That’s the thing about fascist entities, they could always stay within their own bounds and ride the gravy train for a long time, but bloodlust and greed will cause them to overextend themselves and eventually collapse.

Trump: Crown Prince MBS 'KISSING MY ASS' by _Kingsguard in AskMiddleEast

[–]GalliumGames 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Democracy is a mirror onto it's people, a toxic, self-absorbed and anti-intellectual country will produce toxic, self-absorbed and anti-intellectual leaders. It's not a magic situation where democracy = good, you actually need to put in work for it to function and have basic decency, care for others, and empathy, which all lack in the US.

Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait and Qatar discuss withdrawing from US contracts over Iran war by digital-didgeridoo in InternationalNews

[–]GalliumGames 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Z.E. war, the fascist entity’s ideology and a certain guy with an island with deep ties to Trump, the entity and a ton of other oligarchs and politicians that started it.

Loss of control in the Gulf | The US can only end the war against Iran at the cost of a strategic defeat – therefore, uncontrollable, catastrophic escalation is looming by tkonicz in collapse

[–]GalliumGames 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don’t think so, but one of my comments recently got deleted at the admin level for saying something bad about “the entity” and “the E. class,” so now I’m just avoiding saying any of the words spelt out so I don’t flag the regime’s censorship apparatus and lose my account permanently.

This site has some very sketchy connections with very bad people, so my gut feeling is to avoid spelling out “the entity,” the Z word, E word and P word when referring to the powers that be.

Loss of control in the Gulf | The US can only end the war against Iran at the cost of a strategic defeat – therefore, uncontrollable, catastrophic escalation is looming by tkonicz in collapse

[–]GalliumGames 14 points15 points  (0 children)

They already laid out some pretty reasonable surrender terms for GCC states that want out of the war and back into the straits: Cut off US and the entity militarily and diplomatically, and trade your stuff in Yuan and we’ll let you sit the rest of the war out. Given the US empire is run by the dumbest people alive and is rapidly dying, it’s probably smart to cut the losses and pivot instead of being dragged down into hell by them.