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Captainant

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  1. "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."
  2. I mean, IS there? The Chinese system is at least consistent in that you know they're going to act in their best national interests. It may not always be long-term thinking but it has been consistent. this is bang-on.
  3. Just checked El Presidente's shoutbox, BE COOL! It's a good time to buy There ain't no tariff relief coming yet.
  4. Yeah, China has a MASSIVE real estate bubble that makes 2008 look like tiddlywinks. But their government also literally owns all of those properties, so the risk profile is jacked to the tits. Shit is gonna get buckwild
  5. Tfw toilet paper is produced domestically, and usually within 100 miles of wherever you're buying it. Goddamnit people are so stupid Edit: I guess I'll take panic and runs on toilet paper over runs on the bank
  6. I wonder if a pihole or nextDNS would cover their ads or not... It sounds like DNS-level blocking would do it, if ublock is effective
  7. Lulz it's gonna be a fun ride with running the government like a business, especially when the guy in charge very recently publicly filed that he's a shitty businessman and a number of his businesses go bankrupt and fail
  8. The only way to get """business leaders""" to change their minds is to have a multi-million dollar consulting contract tell you what you should think. So fuckin many of the executives I work with don't know their ass from their elbow and are just cravenly cashing checks and blindly co-signing whatever dumb shit OW or Deloitte are pushing this year. Nevermind that it's just a turn around from the previous direction, which was a turn around from the one prior. They don't know their business, they just know how to dance for the stock market so they'll get their quarterly bonus before they jump ship to the next host for their parasitic existence
  9. Hey guys, think 100% tariffs on TSMC is gonna hurt growth prospects for AI boom darlings? https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-he-told-tsmc-it-would-pay-100-tax-if-it-doesnt-build-us-2025-04-09/ Especially ironic considering he killed the CHIPs act which was literally building fabs in the US to address this grievance
  10. Phone push notifications to surly would be a truly unhinged level of posting. And these are driven by actual interactions with people who are virtually flipping you the bird - not algorithmically driven engagement bait.
  11. Classic "take my ball and go home" as soon as someone takes the time to break it down for you like Bolverk did. Say hi to """either side""" for me
  12. Not sure which thread this goes in, but the FBI is disbanding its crypto enforcement unit https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-justice-dept-disbands-cryptocurrency-enforcement-unit-2025-04-08/ There's been a number of major crypto cases out of this unit, and they will no longer be prosecuting financial crimes done with crypto. Hold onto your butts.
  13. lmfao the feds disbanded their crypto enforcement team. Can't be scooping up the president's family in your scam enforcement actions https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-justice-dept-disbands-cryptocurrency-enforcement-unit-2025-04-08/ I mean if you don't mind holding a tiger by its tail, seems like a great time to jump in. Gonna be lots more money moving around with less legal enforcement
  14. perfomative victimhood has been THE modus operandi of the right for like a fuckin decade now. Daily Texan out front shoulda told ya.
  15. American citizens, deported to El Salvador. """IF""" it's legal lmfao. Yeah, I'm sure Uncle Clarence is getting right on that, working round the clock shifts.
  16. https://www.brusselstimes.com/brussels/1526014/brussels-police-arrest-us-state-secretary-rubios-bodyguard-tbtb A Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) shift supervisor assigned to Rubio was taken into custody after reportedly arguing with staff at Brussels' iconic Hotel Amigo – where Rubio was staying – and fighting with responding police officers, the Washington Examiner reports. The DSS veteran was a senior agent on the advance party to Belgium, which was responsible for securing the hotel and conducting final security preparations at the various sites in Brussels for Rubio's visit. Two sources with direct knowledge of the situation told the Washington Examiner that the agent in question was "behaving erratically" and "became irate" when hotel staff refused to reopen the bar beyond its normal hours, the US media reports. Staff reportedly attempted to persuade the agent to return to his room, but he became physically aggressive. After police were called, the agent got into a fight with responding officers – eventually leading to his arrest.
  17. Crazy. ICE agents are unilaterally deciding who is and isn't a gang member, without any due process https://www.axios.com/2025/04/08/immigration-ice-gangs-deport-decisions Immigration agents are the "principal" deciders on whether a detainee is linked to a gang and should be deported immediately, border czar Tom Homan told Axios in an exclusive interview. If agents determine the answer is yes, Homan said, the Trump administration believes that detainee's rights to due process are limited. Not so fast, the Supreme Court said late Monday. The court signaled that detainees designated as "enemies" of the U.S. could be deported, but should have some way to challenge their removal.
  18. Jesus fucking Christ. But hey Hartzell is doing a great job amirite???
  19. Oh, and attorneys representing protesters and dissidents are getting hassled at customs now. This is tinpot dictator shit https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/wayne/2025/04/07/lawyer-for-u-m-protester-held-at-airport-refused-to-give-feds-his-phone/82978891007/ So be aware, surlyites. ICE and CBP are looking for fuckin any reason to stop and interrogate anyone.
  20. No no no no, I have it on good authority that acting with haste is what the bad guys do, and therefore we cannot do anything but let them run roughshod over justice.
  21. It's not about the cost - it's about making a big fucking scene and daring people to protest it so that he can start deploying blackshirts
  22. Crazy how an $8/mo blue checkmark was able to move trillions of dollars.
  23. Historically speaking, that's usually what happens after an authoritarian fascist leader is in power for an economic collapse. It's just in this case, he had to DIY his economic collapse
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