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Captainant

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  1. GamersNexus, a PC gaming channel of all places, just did some excellent journalism that gets to the nuts and bolts of all of this. It's a big ass 3 hour long video, but the first 5 minutes are basically the thesis and TLDR of the whole thing. The rest is just the interviews with logistics officers, CEO's, presidents, founders, and owners that open their books and share their actual real margins and rates to just underscore how not just the tariffs themselves but the instability is going to kill businesses and probably a few business owners too They even touch on the unreality of "just built it 100% here in America", and multiple businesses explain why it's infeasible for multiple reasons.
  2. On the surface, Mon was just getting drunk and partying but under it all she's grieving her friend. Luthen all but told her he was going to die, and she would not have a chance to say goodbye to him. Mon feels like she put her friend into this position, and now he's going to die because he's not a True Believer in the rebellion. She's doing everything she can just to keep up appearances, and since being a drunk mom at a Chandrilan wedding is apparently a thing it's the easiest outlet for Mon
  3. Yeah, no, I'm not gonna start feeling optimistic until Abrego-Garcia is the first of many to actually receive substantive due process. The courts can huff and puff, but they're only ever heeded by the trumpist fascists when it suits them. Hell, even the goddamn nazis took great pains to stay within the bounds of their legal system. We are on uncharted waters and I couldn't agree more with the "we are native Americans negotiating with Andrew Jackson" sentiment.
  4. [Laughs in Roberts Court]
  5. I'm pretty surprised with how adult this show is. Bix is getting a real rough go of things between the torture and now the attempted rape - which was not a word I was expecting to hear in Star Wars. I was surprised to see the locals sell them out so early too, the writers are really striking a chord with current events considering the whole storm troopers sweeping for undocumented people thing is happening in 2025 and 4 BBY They're really doing the damn thing, huh? Hold onto your fuckin hats everyone. They're dishing some top tier nerd lore dumps and some serious television
  6. This is a fascinating video that's doing good journalism on the actual real impact of the tariffs on margins, down to logistics officers, CEO's, and business owners opening their books and sharing the real impact of the unpredictable tariffs to their landed cost. The whole thing is like 3 hours long, but even just the first five minutes are a really good TLDR
  7. Think of the dumbest, most idiotic arguments made by dumbasses on surly. Now imagine them in the white house. That Helobious-level of thinking is what's steering the ship now. They're probably all jacked up on VAT because someone mentioned it and they latched onto it like a dog with a bone
  8. Not sure if serious.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Bessent The sitting Secretary of the Treasury
  9. This must be the much vaunted free speech protections from the trump administration we heard so much about. I'd tag the shithead waterhead surlyites like MNhorn and Incredulity that cheered on trumpco and musk, but they're already cowards and won't address their previous utility and exploitation by the fascists
  10. yeah but do you even know what the DJIA stands for??? GAWRSH!
  11. Wanna know a fun fact? Popes also died in 1914 and 1939. So ya know, good omens and all that
  12. Hey man, he SAID he was gonna stop drinking so much after he got confirmed so it's all copacetic, capice?
  13. Pope wakes up yesterday, asks his secretary "what's on the agenda today?" His secretary says "you've got a meeting with JD Vance." The Pope replies "uhg, that is the last thing I want to do"
  14. Pope wakes up yesterday, asks his secretary "what's on the agenda today?" His secretary says "you've got a meeting with JD Vance." The Pope replies "uhg, that is the last thing I want to do"
  15. Lulz those war plans and strike schedules were leaking EVERYWHERE goddamn https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/us/politics/hegseth-yemen-attack-second-signal-chat.html (No paywall archive link: https://archive.is/OGtzi) Really ignominious start to the Hegseth era, and unfortunate to needlessly heighten the risk for those naval aviator by leaking their attack plans
  16. Here's an archive.is link for the article (no paywall) https://archive.is/OGtzi
  17. I believe the last scene of Andor is basically supposed to lead into the first scene of Rogue 1, like how R1 handed off to ANH Also @YChang are you at Celebration or something? Great photos, thanks for sharing em
  18. Yeah each 3 episode arc is sequentially 1 BBY before Rogue 1/ANH. So season 1 of Andor was fully 5BBY, and episodes 1-3 are 4 BBY, 4-6 are 3 BBY, etc etc Gonna be very interesting, I can't wait
  19. [imma]but you'll hurt the community if you point out that other people in the community are supportive of and apologists for concentration camps!!![/mac]
  20. Telling people to calm down about the government black bagging people without due process is certainly a choice. It's gonna play nicely when it starts happening to citizens
  21. Show your work with a link, please. No such finding of fact has taken place to my knowledge.
  22. The bigger aspect of that its also hawking a shit coin grift, and using immigrant hatred to target useful idiots to exploit. Honestly not a bad business model. Whenever GRUhorn gets around to making his 30/40/50th new account I'm sure he'll regale us with the coins benefits
  23. Lol y'all are in here feeding a troll. Just ignore him and move on.
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