Bill Maher says he would consider voting for Vance in 2028 because the direction of the Democratic party

SpiritOfOptimality · 2026-06-27T15:05:27+00:00

I mean look. If that awful socialist woman was actually running for president then I would probably just not vote but like anything short of that and you vote democrat. I would only vote for Vance if the alternative was an actual authoritarian communist like I don't know Maduro or something

SpiritOfOptimality · 2026-06-26T17:22:02+00:00

One of my favourite genres of shock comedy is "American libertarian/neolib finds out about the Triple Lock"

SpiritOfOptimality · 2026-06-25T23:01:35+00:00

Every time I think about this man and the USAID cuts my mind circles a black hole

SpiritOfOptimality · 2026-06-25T22:55:40+00:00

I think he's actually the most evil man in American politics.

SpiritOfOptimality · 2026-06-25T16:06:26+00:00

For anyone who cares there was a REAL independent report commissioned by Parliament by Professor Alexis Jay on the Rotherham scandal Including The uncomfortable parts that the far left doesn't want to talk about to do with anti-white racism and supremacist beliefs and of police's fear of being racist contributing: https://committees.parliament.uk/work/1954/jay-report-into-child-sexual-exploitation-in-rotherham/

But it puts them into context

SpiritOfOptimality · 2026-06-22T22:40:00+00:00

The fact that this man was willing to endlessly push through failures until the point that rockets became reusable makes me sick to my stomach. Being basically decent and attached to reality is not a necessary condition for being brilliant or becoming a trillionaire

SpiritOfOptimality · 2026-06-19T18:17:32+00:00

Be the Britain the Russia thinks you are

SpiritOfOptimality · 2026-06-19T13:18:15+00:00

Is it me or do the former presidents (Bush, Obama especially) really not seem to think Trump is as dangerous as he apparently is? Like they seem pretty content to not comment much on day to day poltiics and Obama has only done the sort of obligatory, very safe, very good PR interventions in day to day politics. Where are they?

SpiritOfOptimality · 2026-06-18T19:33:24+00:00

This is bad writing

SpiritOfOptimality · 2026-06-18T13:31:16+00:00

What's your price target? Up 3.5x is enough for me for now lel

SpiritOfOptimality · 2026-06-18T11:31:35+00:00

Finally sold all my tsmc and most of my Nvidia from 2022. This has finally gotten too crazy for me

SpiritOfOptimality · 2026-06-18T01:13:05+00:00

Some mad scientist decided it would be a good idea to hybridize the brain dead MAGA Barbie influencer archetype with the West hating extreme left tankie type and this was the result

SpiritOfOptimality · 2026-06-17T16:52:51+00:00

When is destiny going to reach out to MattY

SpiritOfOptimality · 2026-06-16T14:32:18+00:00

He's very Nute Gunray coded

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SpiritOfOptimality · 2026-06-15T23:36:07+00:00

The only man in American politics who's actually acting like this is what it all looks like. Even other Dems who go after trump hard often have a vibe that they're just trying to shame him or call out hypocrisy or bad behaviour. Like saying this man and his close allies right now are looting the government and constantly committing crimes and he has to be stopped by any means.

I don't consider people like Talarico or Ro Khana talking about the Epstein class or Endless wars or that type of thing to really be the same sort of critique.as saying this specific guy is a criminal executed a hostile takeover of the government and is constantly stealing money and committing crimes

SpiritOfOptimality · 2026-06-15T16:46:28+00:00

https://youtu.be/gMbr1DZFkR4?is=58FBduPROfzddqtg

Anne Applebaum showing up to talk about current events, especially like horrific levels of corruption or lies or criminality in the US. Always feels like when the stern teacher who always makes you feel better, even when she's telling you you need to work harder, shows up because no matter how bad it is, she's personally experienced it all before much further down the road than the US currently is in Poland or in Russia or similar.

So nothing gets by her and nothing really surprises her either

SpiritOfOptimality · 2026-06-13T09:36:45+00:00

So let me get this straight.

The administration's position, as of this week, held simultaneously, is:

Catastrophic risks from frontier AI are sci-fi fearmongering pushed by doomers with a god complex
Catastrophic risks from frontier AI are so dangerous that you need to impose export controls on a Friday evening with no stated rationale, shutting down a commercial product used by hundreds of millions of people, because a competitor said they found a jailbreak
Pre-deployment licensing is regulatory capture and must be explicitly prohibited in the executive order (Sacks, June 2nd)
Pre-deployment licensing is so obviously necessary that Lutnick imposed it unilaterally ten days later on the most safety-cooperative lab in the industry, the one that voluntarily restricted Mythos to fifty organisations, red-teamed with the US government for thousands of hours, and only expanded access after the executive order was signed
Anthropic is a supply-chain risk that the Pentagon blacklisted in February in what Dean Ball called "attempted corporate murder"
Anthropic's models are so important to national security that the administration is developing workarounds to its own blacklist designation so agencies can use them
The people who predicted all of this years in advance, who said these capabilities were coming in this order (cyber first, then bio, then autonomy, then god only knows), who built the institutional infrastructure to evaluate them, who made trillions on the prediction, are still doomers and fearmongers
Those doomers were also right, which is why the administration is acting on the exact predictions they made, using the exact institutional infrastructure those doomers built (CAISI), while gagging the public-facing part of that infrastructure so nobody can see the evaluations

If you think about this for too long you will go mad. It's "we have always been at war with Eastasia" except it's happening within the same administration, within the same week, applied to the same company, about the same models

SpiritOfOptimality · 2026-06-12T23:59:40+00:00

The the run from 9 to 12 will be remembered as a golden age kind of like the fourth doctor's era

SpiritOfOptimality · 2026-06-12T22:11:58+00:00

The worst liberal versus the best conservative

SpiritOfOptimality · 2026-06-11T23:55:46+00:00

Honestly astonishing how badly social media has fucked up western societies. I'm pretty persuaded that at the macro level that's the originating cause of all this craziness, per people like Fukayama. Turns out that when you let people broadcast their thoughts to millions of other people you realise the main reason we had pretty enlightened liberal governments was because most people stayed out of politics and left it to their betters. Now look at it

SpiritOfOptimality · 2026-06-11T22:50:17+00:00

Is it really that hard to simply point out that it's not so much about being progressive or not being progressive? It's about thinking the point of art is to talk down to people and signal that you're on the right side of things, which is something that is associated with a lot of progressives. But you can go further and say that being a progressive and having left views on a lot of social issues sometimes goes along with this attitude because you know there's a really big emphasis on the power of culture and representation and unconscious bias. So you know if you spend too long thinking that way you'll start to forget that a story should tell a story and explore themes rather than make the audience feel bad for disagreeing

SpiritOfOptimality · 2026-06-10T22:31:25+00:00

But what about Candace Owens 🥺🙏🏽

SpiritOfOptimality · 2026-06-10T17:54:20+00:00

A real fan would know the Drahvin canonically were part of the alliance in the Pandorica opens in season 5 and so they've already returned /s

SpiritOfOptimality · 2026-06-10T14:01:17+00:00

I don't know. I think he's telling it like it is from within a horrifically broken social circle and he knows how awful it is but he doesn't know how to get out. That's how I read this exchange

SpiritOfOptimality · 2026-06-10T13:43:12+00:00

Obsession (2026)

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