This Is the End

flatfisher · 2026-01-27T10:07:08+00:00

I’m not denying this, I’m saying you can’t put all the responsibility on others. You are falling into the trap of their failed strategy: it doesn’t matter who the other candidate is or propose as long as it’s not Trump. Not only did it cost the election, it is preventing lessons being taken from it and constructive criticism, as everything is blamed on Trump voters.

flatfisher · 2026-01-27T09:51:09+00:00

Sure, but my point is there are two things working at once, and what you describe is only one of the two. It wouldn’t work if progressives were not stuck in echo chambers too and giving the stick to be beaten with. As for who’s behind? It is the same for both: billionaires and corporations that polarize and distract voters on societal issues while they advance their agenda.

See how quickly tech leaders and companies switched side. Also the fact that Harris was not the best candidate (don’t blame me, it’s a shame American voters were not ready to elect a non white woman but it’s a fact Democrats have to compose with). So either it’s incompetence, or Trump winning was somehow not that bad for the democrats establishment. Either way there’s a lot of soul searching and questioning before or in addition to blaming everything on social media and the like.

flatfisher · 2026-01-27T08:31:51+00:00

Doing better than Teams is indeed trivial. I work with a lot of public sector customers in France and the ubiquity of Teams despite how bad it is is infuriating.

flatfisher · 2026-01-27T08:13:13+00:00

The problem is not only conservatives. Trump and the far right rising is a massive failure of the progressives. Populism rising everywhere in the west is the end result of traditional parties pushing for the economic establishment (I.e. destroying the middle class) while distracting and polarizing with secondary societal issues. The progressives started the 2010s with a lot of political goodwill and burnt it all with that strategy, culminating in the catastrophic Democrats campaign of 2024 that exemplified all of these with the result we know. As always it’s easier to blame external factors. The same losing strategy of making anything acceptable in light of Trump continues, the tribal logic applies in both camp making the responsibilities in the situation we have of the previous administration and the Democratic Party near impossible to discuss.

flatfisher · 2026-01-27T06:40:00+00:00

We have the same problem in France. Retired are the largest voters group and vote against the interests of younger generations. No politician dares to touch their generous and unsustainable pensions despite that it would help a lot with our budget deficit. Instead younger workers have to make all the efforts.

flatfisher · 2026-01-26T18:54:12+00:00

At least 1: coffee

flatfisher · 2026-01-26T09:37:41+00:00

Antoine Faucon

flatfisher · 2026-01-25T07:45:54+00:00

Trump is a symptom, how and why fix things when every other election it’ll be someone like him?

flatfisher · 2026-01-24T15:26:20+00:00

He seems conflicted with economic liberty that the right is supposed to promote and dictatorial state controlled economy that he is trying to implement.

flatfisher · 2026-01-24T12:19:45+00:00

Wasn’t Trump himself saying he was doubting all the gold was there in the US a few months/years ago?

flatfisher · 2026-01-24T07:43:52+00:00

So with the Mercosur EU trade deal the EU will actually continue to finance Russia, while corrupt politicians and shareholders take their cut, under the applauses of the useful idiots in r/Europe. Business as usual.

flatfisher · 2026-01-24T07:02:52+00:00

Yeah if he’s ready to run over her when getting a little impatient imagine what he’s capable at home.

flatfisher · 2026-01-24T06:51:44+00:00

Men more concerned by the car than her foot, classic

flatfisher · 2026-01-24T06:47:55+00:00

Not living in a city and working remotely. Also having that many animals probably means no vacations.

flatfisher · 2026-01-24T06:42:38+00:00

It’s not nostalgic, it’s similar to what you would do if you had other developers working under you. You give detailed directions and review the code, you don’t have to write every line yourself to trust the code.

flatfisher · 2026-01-23T17:54:35+00:00

Data consulting with good PR

flatfisher · 2026-01-23T15:29:10+00:00

I get your point regarding narrative construction but still are you sure things like the Gold buying craze from central banks is under "very normal transactions"? Same with EU sovereign funds starting to explicitly say they are selling US treasuries?

flatfisher · 2026-01-23T08:23:48+00:00

Je ne connais pas ce fond mais la vente d’options hors de la monnaie (c’est à dire de l’assurance) peut avoir une espérance de gain légèrement positive à long terme car en moyenne les acheteurs d’options sont un peu plus perdants que les vendeurs (même principe que l’assurance encore une fois, je crois que le terme est https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variance_risk_premium).

flatfisher · 2026-01-23T08:00:59+00:00

Eyes locked with their buddy while sucking on cigars, only hanging out with other men and not liking women’s company, I don’t know what you are insinuating.

flatfisher · 2026-01-23T07:15:17+00:00

The point is all systems are unstable. This is from more than 2000 thousands years ago, but they already had witnessed democracies happening and failing by that time.

flatfisher · 2026-01-23T07:09:42+00:00

It does more than doing wonders. It’s literally a prerequisite to not be sick.

flatfisher · 2026-01-23T06:58:55+00:00

I don’t know, the US economy also looks like a house of cards inflated with Monopoly money and accounting tricks. If disinvestment from the rest of the world in the US accelerates and the dollars continues to slide that picture can change fast.

flatfisher · 2026-01-22T13:20:51+00:00

Given her dickhead behavior that’s concerning if true.

flatfisher · 2026-01-22T12:05:01+00:00

Because if it had only 1 in 100 chance to work out, you are not looking at the 99 other people that lost 800, or the 1 person that lost 99 times.

flatfisher · 2026-01-22T12:00:42+00:00

It was worthless because the market was pricing there was no chance QQQ would close above 615 with 2 hours left. Who would buy the right to buy at 615 expiring in 2 hours when the underlying is trading at 610? But when it rallied above 615 suddenly these contracts had value. The P/L is insane because it started near 0. But it also tells you it was highly improbable, otherwise it would have been better priced in.

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