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Captainant

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  1. Bump on an old topic of discussion, US tourism is getting obliterated. It's probably a combination of the black bag gulags and the arbitrarily high prices driving them away. And once we finish harvesting the national forests and selling off the national parks there won't be anything to come see anyways
  2. It's so strange how you type out these long diatribes detailing why trump should be allowed to do whatever the fuck he wants, and the government MUST be constrained at all times. Unless trump is in charge of course, and then damn the torpedos and full speed ahead! I just don't understand how your analysis ALWAYS lands in this posture. I understand that YOU don't like what trump is doing, but your apologetics for the completely broken and coopted legal system are fuckin exhausting
  3. I could have sworn the book of Exodus had something about the dangers of golden idols.... Ah well nevertheless
  4. Thankfully we're locked in below 7. And yeah there's gonna be lots of time for us all to take a few rounds in the barrel in the name of LIBERATION
  5. Well for one, we aren't even ACTUALLY collecting tariffs despite kicking the market in the gonads. So there hasn't been an ACTUAL financial hit yet, just the fear of one. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/11/customs-reports-glitch-in-system-used-by-freight-for-tariff-exemptions.html So I wouldn't not call it a crisis, considering we can't even shoot ourselves in the dicks properly.
  6. bro do you even antenna over-the-air?
  7. The judge called bullshit on them on the record Weird how trumpco has managed to turn the shield of a slow moving court system into a sword to be weilded against their targetted "other". It's a good thing we let them get this far all in the name of protecting the norms that are now dead anyways.
  8. The court hearing over this was wild. The defendants (the Government) have not taken any steps to comply with lawful court orders and maintain that things are being asked too quickly of them. If you click through, there's a whole minute by minute recap of the back and forth. It's apparent the government has not taken any measures to determine even if the plaintiff is alive or not.
  9. Pretty awesome how much awards recognition Balatro has gotten. Their acceptance speech for their BAFTA was excellent and was delivered by the clown dude from the commercial. Really funny
  10. It's wild that the market bounced back after tariffs were effectively increased after the so-called "pause" A weekend selloff feels more likely than not
  11. https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-supreme-court-upholds-order-facilitate-return-deportee-sent-el-salvador-error-2025-04-10/ WASHINGTON, April 10 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court directed President Donald Trump's administration on Thursday to facilitate the return to the United States of a Salvadoran man who the government has acknowledged was deported in error to El Salvador. ... The court, in an unsigned decision, said that the judge's order "properly requires the government to 'facilitate' Abrego Garcia's release from custody in El Salvador and to ensure that his case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to El Salvador." The administration, meanwhile, "should be prepared to share what it can concerning the steps it has taken and the prospect of further steps," the court directed.
  12. he's on bluesky too
  13. thank goodness we don't have to worry about $4 eggs anymore! https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/APU0000708111 Now we get to worry about $6 eggs, hooray!
  14. it's like reading Wulaw's posts, incredible
  15. Another body has been found outside the BME building (Dean Keeton and University) https://www.fox7austin.com/news/dead-body-found-university-texas-campus https://old.reddit.com/r/UTAustin/comments/1jvwzod/this_is_not_good_another_dead_body_found_on/
  16. This all broadly tracks with his tunnel-vision focus on growth. He NEEDED China's users to keep facebook growing, and it's 100% believable that he would be overly enthusiastic to help them without thinking about the long-term consequences
  17. Market manipulation, you say....
  18. Good news for @Guadaloopy - you may finally get that feature you paid 5 figures for years ago Financial Times: Musk’s Doge fired self-drive car safety experts at agency that regulates Tesla Maybe don't use it in a neighborhood though, unless your neighbors kids are annoying edit: here's an archive.is link to get past the paywall
  19. If only she could have just held out another decade and worn a red hat to show fealty to the regime, she too could get away with insider trading and market manipulation
  20. Nemek's speech is upsettingly salient. It makes me sad to see surlyites supporting our real-world PORD. "It's so confusing isn't it? So much going on, so much to say, and all of it happening so quickly. The pace of oppression outstrips our ability to understand it and that is the real trick of the imperial thought machine. It's easier to hide behind forty atrocities than a single incident."
  21. ... you do know how we got into this right? It wasn't a fuckin secret that tariffs were coming - it was a central part of his campaign platform. People just didn't believe that he would go through with it. It's why @Incredulity keeps ducking any talk of tariffs
  22. The play isn't to help American consumers. It's to help American oligarchs that exploit those consumers. Enshittification out front shoulda told ya.
  23. 90% of deported people had no criminal record. Where'd you go @ChickenSandwich and @futureman and @52-80? I thought yall were enjoying lack of due process. How bout you @DaggerHorns? You've disappeared now that there's more hard evidence of the shit you denied was happening
  24. "It’s so confusing isn’t it? So much going wrong, so much to say, and all of it happening so quickly. The pace of oppression outstrips our ability to understand it. And that is the real trick of the Imperial thought machine. It's easier to hide behind 40 atrocities than a single incident."
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