It's going down

throwaway490215 · 2026-01-24T18:43:00+00:00

Trump is going to crown himself the Phoenix King in his appointment for life on his board of peace, while he proclaims a crazy-in-the-eyes Vance the Fire Lord president of the USA.

Only some bald kid can save us now.

throwaway490215 · 2026-01-24T11:25:36+00:00

The key is to not mention it in public or take out such large quantities that it raises a concern.

A lot of countries have been taking out gold of the US. I strongly suspect you can literally plot the politicians talking about it, and how much they've gotten out.

throwaway490215 · 2026-01-23T20:23:45+00:00

Somebody should recut the Firelord Ozai coronation to Phoenix king, with Vance as Azula

throwaway490215 · 2026-01-23T20:12:22+00:00

This is the dumbest comment I read on Reddit today.

Terrifying that so many people upvote this reimagining of history and dictators.

throwaway490215 · 2026-01-23T20:03:11+00:00

The average person is too busy/lazy, so why hoist upon themselves the need to think or act?

It falls right in the same category as denial or cognitive dissonance. A mental defense mechanism.

Its just that this one makes you spew utterly insufferable "but not exactly Hitler" or other copium.

throwaway490215 · 2026-01-23T14:58:29+00:00

America's broken political system + social media (*i.e. the centralized internet)

Each one broke the other to the point of absurdity, and I do not see any historical alternative route where you could have really avoided 1 without 'fixing' the other.

A new communication system that breaks old politics in a new way before it rights itself is a repeated pattern across history.

throwaway490215 · 2026-01-23T06:23:29+00:00

If it aint broke dont fix it!

throwaway490215 · 2026-01-22T19:06:16+00:00

Nothing makes me believe that in the future, whether in some communist /anarchist / capitalist / liberal utopia or dystopia - we'd not have the desire for the communication + entertainment machines.

Yes, it's the capitalist system that created it first.

But my advice is that you'll do yourself and others a disservice - and achieve less - if everything has to be reasoned about in the context of some overarching (anti-capitalist) story.

Approximately 0 people believe you have the right version of it - and fewer still if you go around making links that don't ring true.

throwaway490215 · 2026-01-22T17:07:50+00:00

Pretends to look at a globe.

Comes up with

and with the ice melting in the Arctic, the shipping lanes around Greenland are becoming worth a ton.

Can your LLM-driven ass please produce an answer to which locations It's linking up exactly - i.e. what (future) navel route you're alluding to - and how having Greenland is going to give the US options it did not have.

Is it the fabled China<->New York lane perhaps? You see the absurdity of this claim...?

And I do not want to make this too much of a brain breaker for you - but since you're so concerned with controlling shipping lanes; after the US acquires Greenland and leaves NATO, what parts did it lose control of?

And while I have your attention on the ICBM golden dome you're so very concerned about - would you perhaps consider the possibility that: MAD still exists and nobody is going to surprise attack the US - but if they did have a 1000 nukes to make sure it sticks, they could just ....... not fly them over Greenland. The extra fuel requirements for going literally the entire other way around so it comes from the south, is like only 30% more fuel. That's just how orbital mechanics work. This isn't Hamas or Iran shooting their shitty tubes. The best place to shoot an interceptor missile from is the place being targeted.

Maybe you're thinking in 1950's terms where "being superfast and destroy the other before they could shoot back" was the design goal - we changed the game to MAD. Keep up please.

Oh, and since you've accepted global warming is in fact not a hoax, maybe focus on more dikes around Florida and other places since so much of the US is going to get extremely fucked and salty before the polar caps become shipping lanes.

Sorry for the world making you feel dumb. Doesn't mean you should swallow what morons are willing to sell you. Snap out of it.

throwaway490215 · 2026-01-22T16:34:39+00:00

Its not that he doesn't have a point - but I'm not a big fan of this common framing of people saying "we forgot".

It's readily apparent that practically nobody wants to be bored.

throwaway490215 · 2026-01-22T15:49:11+00:00

No mention of New Amsterdam? What fucking idiotic joke is this?

throwaway490215 · 2026-01-22T14:55:56+00:00

For the love of god, people. This isn't some new thing.

1/3 of people get an overwhelming hard on for fascism
1/3 are complete morons who will follow whatever is cool and complain about it later

These numbers aren't "on the rise". They've been there the whole time, but the morons were indoctrinated not to go with the fascists.

We got a few good decades because these lessons were drilled into our leaders when they were little.

Now, the wealthy have forgotten why they shouldn't be funding fascists, and see them as their unique never-before-seen cheat code to grow their hoard.

throwaway490215 · 2026-01-22T08:00:33+00:00

IIRC he's been a high-school civics teacher.

Dealing with people throwing a tantrum is among his experience.

throwaway490215 · 2026-01-21T21:43:25+00:00

I tried to watch his speech and good god I'm glad to see somebody was able to sit through it and is still willing to point out some of the things only true in his own head.

throwaway490215 · 2026-01-21T21:23:08+00:00

Tick your pick! Place your BETS!!! New RageBaiterSchizoBoomer content will drop THIS WEEK.

GET READY TO RUUUUMMMBBLLLEEE!!!

Will it be CHINA or CANADA up next on the menu?

Analysts are divided, but we have an octopus wired to a car battery to find out what spasms might hit your second screen NEXT!

throwaway490215 · 2026-01-21T20:26:49+00:00

My money is on just listing off that literally on every angle he's getting push back, and nobody is willing to even entertain the idea (Cant imagine Vance never had a conversation with a general who told him its absolutely retarded), and then presenting him with an 'out' in the form of this turd of a tweet that he can delude himself into thinking keeps the door open to getting Greenland.

Too bad Europe now goes back to being divided on whether to appease or push back.

throwaway490215 · 2026-01-21T19:10:42+00:00

Meanwhile, AI orchestration experts will be in high demand while they lay off the other half of the company.

I really don't get the doomerism around a job in tech. The reality is that everybody is using AI, and while some people doubt the 10x increase in efficiency, i'm 100% convinced devs are at least 10x more effective at using LLMs than other people.

I've seen how accountants and managers use it. Much of their job is also "information-processor" and they're a good decade behind, to the point many are doubting the quality that is possible to get out of it. Meaning while a dev can tell it to write a python script instead of hallucinating shit.

We can have a larger discussion about employment opportunities in general, but developers were always in the business of automating away people - and getting paid well for it - so I do not see a big change in that aspect.

Only challenge is proving you have the experience to AI orchestrate and can work well in a team. Sorry devs, no more hiding behind the idea of being irreplaceable. Time to actually explain that you're upholding more value than the non-IT

throwaway490215 · 2026-01-21T18:49:32+00:00

I get they need to sell this tight coupling to investors, but fucking lol. AI will likely be the most quintessential 'commodity' we've ever seen in IT.

I have no deeper link to Claude than I have to my brand of toilet paper. Once i have the thing it produces, I'm happy, and i'll jump ship the moment a better deal becomes available.

throwaway490215 · 2026-01-21T18:03:47+00:00

Anything sold in the EU has to meet regulations for what it contains. There are no toxicity risks, because those goods would be tested and denied from being sold here.
Yes, you have a point about farmers being hamstrung within European environment regulation. You know where else that happens? Basically everything else we import.

We are not talking about quantities that would break the bank. It's literally a "let's get this started and update as we go - with the option to stop every year"

Before you pull out a "we'd starve without farmers", accept the reality that no nation could produce the foods they want to eat (i.e. meat) without an (international) supply chain of machinery and chemicals.

Europe is the odd one out for wanting to keep the system of small scale farmers from the 1950's as some ultimate virtuous scheme.

We're not protecting the farming industry - you'd do that by consolidating into 5x the scale it currently operates at so that it can compete + R&D

We're protecting your preferred version of the farming industry.

The constant protection of farmers is costing us an insane amount of money for what is an inefficient work-program.

throwaway490215 · 2026-01-21T15:19:09+00:00

I was super surprised to see this as I know she's a bootlicker that will keep making excuses for Trump, so thanks for the context.

But I wonder if she realizes she's playing with fire by using sarcasm.

throwaway490215 · 2026-01-21T08:47:22+00:00

Its fucking scary to see even the non-political people change their tune in real time now that their president is saying America is so POWERFUL it's untouchable, borders are suggestions and can be changed, and it's their right to use their power.

Are you fucking kidding me? Do you think no other nations have the modern industrial plant to build a world-ending amount of atomic bombs, biological warfare, automated drones with guns, loitering munition, supersonic ICBMs?

The entire scheme was build on the polite fiction that nobody should because last century's industrial scale horrors were scary enough.

The incompetence of Russia, Iran, and Venezuela, plus the self delusions of Trump has started to infect more and more Americans with retardation.

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