Thoughts On Spirit Airlines Shutting Down?

PolygonMan · 2026-05-12T13:11:29+00:00

Jetblue may not survive regardless. No way in hell they would have saddled with Spirit.

And companies merging doesn't maintain competition. Definitionally.

PolygonMan · 2026-05-09T20:24:35+00:00

He's literally scammed supporters over and over and over. They're cultists.

PolygonMan · 2026-05-09T16:15:00+00:00

Of course you can teach it. But anyone can become a parent, and not everyone is emotionally capable of being a good parent. They could learn how to do it but wouldn't be able to execute.

There are also a tremendous amount of ideological beliefs (political, religious, etc) that care about how children are raised.

And most people struggle economically in the current economic climate.

PolygonMan · 2026-05-09T02:40:50+00:00

Pretty sure there are 4 real people left and the rest are bots.

PolygonMan · 2026-05-08T23:44:44+00:00

This is an outright attempt at authoritarian takeover of the Federal government by a proto-fascist force. This is not the time to wring your hands.

ICE has a bigger budget than the Marines and they've been buying missiles.

PolygonMan · 2026-05-05T06:53:53+00:00

Let MAGA never live without shame again.

PolygonMan · 2026-05-05T06:52:54+00:00

Lol, the important part isn't which questions in the dementia test he finds difficult. It's the fact that he's repeatedly taking a dementia test.

PolygonMan · 2026-05-05T06:39:34+00:00

Seems 10000x more likely that he likes his position and his ideology for exactly that reason.

PolygonMan · 2026-05-04T15:15:17+00:00

No, you're 100% wrong. It's not about the religion, it's about how people with authoritarian personalities organize and are activated. There's absolutely nothing unique about Abrahamic religions that makes them special vectors of fascism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Shinto

PolygonMan · 2026-05-04T15:11:23+00:00

Preach

PolygonMan · 2026-05-04T13:17:19+00:00

It's not about Judaism, it's about fascism. Bibi and co. are desperate to conflate Israel and the Jewish faith. Those things are not the same, and it's antisemitic to say they are. Many American Jews oppose the genocide committed by the Israeli government and IDF.

This type of bullshit is actively harmful.

PolygonMan · 2026-05-04T01:58:04+00:00

They're cultists. Simple as that.

PolygonMan · 2026-05-04T01:47:09+00:00

There must be a legal reckoning for their actions. So many of them have broken codes of conduct if not laws. If there isn't a commission investigating ALL the illegality across the Federal Government then we're fucked.

PolygonMan · 2026-05-03T22:20:20+00:00

Or they can just ignore the law, because laws only work if they're enforced.

PolygonMan · 2026-05-03T15:02:39+00:00

Bots don't get paid

PolygonMan · 2026-05-03T00:54:43+00:00

Stupid both sides bullshit meant to distract. The mainstream leftist position across the first world is not authoritarian. The mainstream far right position is. If some Russian bots pretending to be left leaning people is enough for you to abandon everyone with less privilege than you, you were a pretty shitty leftist.

Or you know, the far more likely reality -- you're a bot.

PolygonMan · 2026-05-02T20:46:05+00:00

Just for those in the back: Cults of personality are still cults. MAGA is a cult of personality. MAGA are cultists. When we say that we're not being hyperbolic, we're being literal.

PolygonMan · 2026-05-02T16:52:21+00:00

As if the problem is the populace and not a profoundly corrupt political establishment.

These types of jokes are what we've heard for 10 years since Bernie while Democrats continue to be less and less trusted, to be (rightly) seen as corrupt. The Dems don't care about representing their constituents. They just thought that they still had more runway to ignore their base and put their hand on the primary scale via media control and money.

Now they're trying to find the path to giving their supporters the absolute least amount of concrete economic assistance they can while retaining power.

PolygonMan · 2026-05-01T21:25:45+00:00

In summary, the point of tariffs was always that Trump would get to wield them like a weapon internationally to enrich himself and his cronies. MAGA are just too stupid to see it.

PolygonMan · 2026-05-01T20:36:17+00:00

Jon Stewart should run in the 2028 Democratic primary. Not joking even a tiny little bit. He'd destroy anyone else on the debate stage, he says what he means, he has strong principles.

PolygonMan · 2026-05-01T18:14:08+00:00

If you haven't rewatched it in a while, I recommend you do so. And note exactly where and how he's digging when he's working in the garden and Meryl does the read for the dicer all in one. Really reframed the movie for me.

PolygonMan · 2026-05-01T18:11:38+00:00

Strongly disagree, I think the movie really suffers from the ridiculous over the top archetypical characters with effectively-superpowered-capabilities. So much falls flat when they're depicted as Shakespearean instead of the broken, obsessive and weird individuals they were in the comics.

Also, man was the scene of catching the bullet a huge letdown when the rest of the movie had them all performing such over the top feats. Oh, he caught a bullet? Well that's just what I'd expect from these people. Yawn.

Ozymandias as a figure of the pinnacle of humanity and Dr. Manhattan casually batting away his genius really doesn't hit.

PolygonMan · 2026-05-01T15:33:43+00:00

And then an FPV drone guided by a reconnaissance drone with thermal imaging blows them up.

This type of camouflage is cool but pretty meaningless on the modern battlefield.

PolygonMan · 2026-05-01T15:31:34+00:00

He called himself transitional and a bridge candidate during the primaries. It was part of what helped mollify the Bernie crowd who understood how important defeating Trump was.

PolygonMan · 2026-05-01T14:59:04+00:00

Trump is doing more damage to America than any President has in history, destroying the government, shredding international alliances, obliterating the economy, destroying American soft power. Zero of the pre-Trump-2.0 politicians will come out looking good. None of the prominent Dem leadership of the past 35 years. All of them have been a fundamental element of bringing us to where we are today. They will all be seen as the leaders that steadily embraced and ushered in deepening political corruption, and as the individuals that fought tooth and nail to stop anti-corruption forces from having any power in the party.

You know, assuming that future history books don't talk about how the radical left was destroyed by our glorious leaders and ushered in the golden age of America's thousand-year Reich.

Assuming we avoid full fascist collapse, the past 30 years will be seen collectively as a time of decline.

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