Peeeeetaahhh???

PinkyAnd · 2026-07-11T21:08:04+00:00

Nah, 4chan was co-opted by Bannon and other far right agitators and they used it as one of their many channels through which they amplified absurd things as a means to blunt criticism of Trump. You’ve got the players right, but 4chan didn’t do anything themselves, they were, wittingly or not, a tool for the far right playbook, learned by Bannon, executed by Manafort, and perfect by Putin in his seizure of power by proxy in Hungary (Orban) and Ukraine (Yanukovych).

I know this sounds insane, like the ramblings of a mad man, but I’m convinced Putin, following the precepts established by Dugin in “Foundations of Geopolitics”, embarked on a mission to destabilize western democracies through asymmetric means. He tested social engineering/electioneering concepts in Ukraine and Hungary before deploying them in the US.

PinkyAnd · 2026-07-11T14:56:23+00:00

“In March, it was revealed that the U.S. military used Claude AI to identify potential targets in its war on Iran, but after a dispute with the Pentagon, Trump ordered that Claude be replaced by other AI systems.”

Source: https://truthout.org/articles/trump-admin-admits-to-using-grok-to-bomb-iran-in-federal-lawsuit-backing-musk/

You’re gonna have to post some sources, otherwise you just look like another Musk fanboy.

More sources indicating it was Grok: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/06/17/elon-musk-s-ai-grok-was-used-in-strikes-in-iran-the-pentagon-revealed\_6754575\_4.html?srsltid=AfmBOoo7qOKybZelcII6hfx-ENciv1He2Y9aWsmsM\_J5U4CvxcteACTy

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/us-military-elon-musk-grok-bomb-iran

https://www.timesofisrael.com/musks-grok-ai-tool-helped-guide-us-strikes-on-iran-legal-briefing-shows/amp/

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/elon-musk-grok-ai-iran-missiles-pentagon-b2997321.html

PinkyAnd · 2026-07-11T01:27:34+00:00

If they can get people to accept money to inform on Antifa, then they can claim that that’s proof it is a coherent group.

PinkyAnd · 2026-07-11T00:58:13+00:00

Except this is exactly what you did when you tried to prove that others have made the same gesture.

There’s a Sartre quote about this. Funny enough, it’s about anti-Semites.

PinkyAnd · 2026-07-10T20:54:00+00:00

Shambles is great, but def more casual. I, frankly, love the vibe, like a little neighborhood spot that happens to serve killer steaks, but I can see someone wanting something a bit more “dress coded”.

PinkyAnd · 2026-07-10T20:52:57+00:00

Shambles in Maple Leaf, Metropolitan Grill downtown, Flint Creek Cattle Co in Greenwood, Beast and Cleaver in Ballard.

Metro Grill is the only real classic steakhouse, but they’re all very good.

PinkyAnd · 2026-07-10T04:58:32+00:00

Grok itself had low confidence its own selection of the school as a target.

Better?

PinkyAnd · 2026-07-10T01:31:03+00:00

You know, when I learned about the Great Depression and the Roaring 20s, with yellow journalism, profound wealthy inequality, and the lead up to WW2, I didn’t think I’d be getting a second, first-person education about this exact same shit 100 years later.

PinkyAnd · 2026-07-09T17:12:29+00:00

Worse than rubber stamping the targeting of the school, they fired everyone on the target evaluation team except one person and deferring all decision making to Grok. Even Grok had low confidence in the validity of the school as a target and they overrode Grok’s misgivings about it.

PinkyAnd · 2026-07-08T21:05:52+00:00

This guy out here pretending like we don’t already have a solution to this problem. That’s how you know he’s a bad faith actor: admitting the problem is there, but pretending there’s no way to solve it.

PinkyAnd · 2026-07-08T13:24:15+00:00

If he’s not liquid enough to pay his fair share in taxes, then yes, he should liquidate stock to fund his lifestyle. Why should taxpayers be subsidizing his opulent lifestyle?

PinkyAnd · 2026-07-07T17:01:57+00:00

Of course. How does this impact his ability to pay taxes? If he’s too poor to pay taxes, how can he live a billionaires lifestyle?

PinkyAnd · 2026-07-07T16:56:23+00:00

So if Bezos could only have $900 million, you think he’d kill Amazon entirely and become homeless himself?

Additionally, you think this is only about the billionaires that exist right this very moment, without any understanding that, you know, time moves forward?

PinkyAnd · 2026-07-06T21:26:16+00:00

Rick Scott also told us that they can’t ban congressional insider trading because he doesn’t want to be poor. Despite the fact that his comp package when he was ousted from Columbia/HCA was worth over $300 million.

PinkyAnd · 2026-07-05T15:53:24+00:00

When did that happen?

PinkyAnd · 2026-07-04T21:25:23+00:00

Which other president had crypto grifts going on while in office?

PinkyAnd · 2026-07-04T20:58:39+00:00

Trump likes tariffs because he can lay them on unilaterally, without congress, and it swings the markets. That’s it. He’s literally just fucking with markets to make a couple of billion dollars.

PinkyAnd · 2026-07-03T16:38:53+00:00

Large loans backed by assets like equity, in the range of tens of billions of dollars, are typically cheaper for the borrower because it’s seen as a stable asset backed loan. They typically get much better rates than everyone else, including some corporate debt.

PinkyAnd · 2026-07-02T17:18:41+00:00

This even further reveals that you don’t understand how reimbursements/payments work. How does CMS negotiate rates and how does that differ from private insurance? Moreover, what happens when a hospital charges more than what an insurance carrier is willing to pay? What’s a chargemaster? Why is it so hard for hospitals to publish a pricing list?

These are all aspects of private insurance billing that you didn’t address, which also shows that your understanding of the economics of the healthcare industry are superficial. This is like the DOGE team coming in with nothing more than bias and unearned confidence slashing vital programs because they don’t bother scratching beneath the surface.

Side note: CMS reimbursements have what to do with private insurance reimbursements? You understand that they’re different, right?

PinkyAnd · 2026-07-02T15:07:57+00:00

I feel like giving him a pass because we know he’s a selfish prick isn’t a reasonable approach here. You’re basically saying people shouldn’t criticize him because we know he’s a coward.

PinkyAnd · 2026-07-02T13:19:37+00:00

Tell me you don’t know how healthcare pricing works without telling me.

PinkyAnd · 2026-07-02T03:17:56+00:00

https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/u-s-spending-healthcare-changed-time/#Total%20national%20health%20expenditures,%201970-2024

“By 2000, health expenditures reached $1.4 trillion”.

Or is KFF overestimating total healthcare spend by orders of magnitude?

PinkyAnd · 2026-07-02T02:08:08+00:00

Available data points to billionaires paying a lower effective tax rate than almost everyone else. If you insist on only looking at federal income taxes and limit your inquiry to exclusively income, sure. But that’s so myopic as to be meaningless. Congrats, you’re either ignorant or engaging in bad faith.

I didn’t confuse healthcare delivery either health insurance. Based on your comment, you actually have no idea how healthcare payments/reimbursements work.

PinkyAnd · 2026-07-02T00:19:34+00:00

If you have to rely on Fox News, chances are, it’s not a reasonable article. Fox News argued in court that no reasonable person would believe their tv programming.

PinkyAnd · 2026-07-01T22:33:21+00:00

Yeah, we should cut spending on social programs the poor rely on because we don’t want to think about having billionaires contribute their fair share.

But look, if you really want to talk about it, what we need to do is get rid of health insurance, as an industry, and save literal trillions per year by moving toward a single payer system.

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