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Captainant

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  1. A dictatorial leader, taking unilateral actions that fuck over small businesses and SBO's that helped put him into power? I swear I've heard this one before...
  2. When you're generationally wealthy, your brain rots and you kind of lose perspective
  3. ICE is disrupting entire school campuses with how much tear gas they're deploying on nonviolent protesters https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-ice-chemical-gas-public-school-portland-1235413558/
  4. You should show em some of their historical work to really drive home how enabling they are for fascists Literally a century of it
  5. Isn't El Yunque in Puerto Rico the only US rainforest?
  6. He is desperate for everyone to forget about his child rape and partnership with Epstein
  7. Counterpoint: "fuck you I won't do what you told me" - Zelensky https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/08/24/7527605/ "We're using our domestically produced long-range weapons. Lately, we've not been discussing such matters with the United States. It used to be the case. You remember various signals regarding our retaliatory strikes after they [the Russians] attacked our energy system. That was a long time ago. Today, we don't even mention this."
  8. National Guard is going to be mobilized in 19 states now: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Wyoming. Trump must have raped a whole shitload of kids with Epstein to go these lengths to bury the Epstein files
  9. So weird how all the people who cared more than anything about government overreach and "picking winners and losers" are conspicuously absent 🤔 It's almost like those criticisms have always been in bad faith or something
  10. We're just following the 3rd Reich play book at this point, right down to filling the armed forces with sycophants
  11. God bless America. May everything be ever more financialized and extractive
  12. This game is a clown fiesta and I am HERE for it
  13. God I missed football
  14. It's fascinating how there's such a dichotomy between one party where words mean nothing and the nonsense gives them power, and another where words mean everything and articulate definition drains their strength.
  15. https://www.trendforce.com/news/2025/08/22/news-trump-reportedly-spares-tsmc-micron-from-equity-grabs-after-chipmakers-ramp-u-s-investment/ U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick confirmed in a CNBC interview that the administration is seeking a 10% stake in Intel, sparking fears of broader equity grabs from CHIPS Act recipients. But according to The Wall Street Journal, Washington has ruled out moves against major investors like TSMC and Micron. A U.S. official cited by the report said Thursday the administration has no plans to seek equity in chipmakers like TSMC and Micron that are ramping up U.S. investments. Firms not expanding their pledges, however, could be asked to hand over stakes in exchange for subsidies, the report adds. ... TSMC Reportedly Mulls to Return Subsidies if U.S. Seeks Stake As the Wall Street Journal points out, Lutnick told CNBC that unlike the Biden administration, which “gave Intel and TSMC money for free,” Trump wants equity in return for subsidies: “If we’re giving you money, we want a piece of the action,” he added. In response to this potential move, TSMC, which was awarded up to $6.6 billion for its Arizona fabs that began production in late 2024, has reportedly discussed the option of returning its subsidies if Washington seeks a stake, as per the Wall Street Journal.
  16. Hah just realized - the bars on trump's jacket are the exact same as sadam's
  17. I've been on pocketcasts forever, it's a good android option, but I dislike how they started taking away features and put them behind a subscription paywall. I'd gladly pay a one-time fee, but fuck subscription models in the face.
  18. holy hell, default embed sizes are ridiculous lol. It took multiple "scrolls" to get past this longcat video on desktop
  19. Lulz makes me wanna go back and count how many times I got told I was overreacting for saying the same thing here on surly.
  20. [Laughs in Hoover] Not like the FBI has ever been involved in illegal and totalitarian behavior
  21. The kicker? Nearly half of US GDP growth has been from AI data center spending. Spending which doesn't increase profits or drive revenue, and yet it's growth has been the main engine of economic activity since 2023 or so
  22. Wow I didn't know you wanted to deport the first lady, falsifying visas is deadly serious business
  23. It's wild to think that he's just poisoning a town in Tennessee with his power gen for data centers so that he can hornypost and goon to AI slop. Like, a whole town has significantly higher nitrogen oxide levels in their air because of all the extra power being generated onsite https://time.com/7308925/elon-musk-memphis-ai-data-center/ They're building a new data center that's twice the size of the existing one right now, and have already flown in SIXTY SIX natgas turbines for the project. Most power stations use three or four, or a big one uses a dozen. That's a horrific amount of power for a racist shitposting chatbot
  24. “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”
  25. he fails his history check - failure to hold fascists accountable only guarantees that they will soon be back. And in greater numbers.
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