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Captainant

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  1. lol you're a pussy that is too much of a coward to own your position and opinions. You still haven't answered the question, I guess you're waiting for 60 votes to do so?
  2. ICE goons are going to start getting return fire as they continue to escalate and assualt and brandish at anyone and everyone who DARES question them, or ask why they're breaking into a cemetary
  3. Tell me you've never had to schedule a specialist appointment without telling me. American medicine through insurance companies is a worse experience by far. Because you get loaded down with medical debt and they will deny all but the barest and most basic shit. My problem is that you're labeling "rent seeking and extracting wealth" as "unabashed capitalism". American capitalism does produce massive profits, but it drives horrific inequality - worse than the divide during the French Revolution. 75% of US corporate profits have gone to stock buybacks, not into the business or to their workers or anything that actually grows the economy. It's all been masturbatory paper value creation, that gets converted into tax-free liquidity via loans. It's all bullshit and superior if and only if you're on the extractive side.
  4. There's a whoooooole lotta Cyril's in America
  5. You goddamn SOCIALIST!
  6. Alas, he is infected with MAGA brainrot and can't even spell his deflective insults correctly. It's equally SAD and LOW ENERGY!
  7. Hey @Incredulityhow does it feel to be demonstrably dumber than MTG?
  8. bLeSsEd ArE tHe PeAcEmAkErS!!! [JDAM's another boat in another country's territorial waters]
  9. What's there to be optimistic of wrt/ genAI? It's the new flavor of off-shoring/outsourcing jobs and it's being used by the idiot executive class to attack workers and justify layoffs. They're incredibly useful and powerful for doing data condensation and information recall - IF you take the effort to build a vector store of knowledge. But soooooo often I see FIRSTHAND the trend of people using it for every problem, even things that have extremely mature machine learning modeling techniques. And since the idiot executives don't know what their workers actually DO, they're more than happy to believe the magic box that they bought with company money. It's so SOOOOO massively oversold and leveraged to the tits with fat leveraged bets made with money from mark-to-market "windfalls" as companies sign deals to build new data centers. The revenue just isn't there to support the level of capex expenditures that are currently propping up our gimped GDP
  10. I have as much say in stopping our government's descent into fascism as I do for improving our o-line. We can sunshine pump all we want but I'm not sure what if anything you or I can do to directly affect a change. Further, shitting on discussion and discourse does nothing but reinforce the status quo as "normal". So that's probably a big part of why you're getting the reaction you've been enjoying. But seriously, I've canvassed for candidates I like, called my reps and senators (lmfao, right?) to express my position as a constituent, but sadly I lack the millions in disposable political speech (read: millions of dollars) that enable my voice to be truly heard. It's a lot easier to not be a downer when everything isn't going to shit while a group is dedicated to accelerating that trend. It does suck that it's not the early 2000's and we still had a semblance of class mobility and market fairness, and a football team that didn't crumble in the face of adversity, but alas. We fuckin don't.
  11. Our economy is NOT strong - an ever smaller group of consumers and businesses make up a significantly larger percentage of spending. It's a K-shaped economy with the top getting exponentially bigger while the bottom gets steadily smaller. The stock market is strong, but individuals are fucking struggling. Hard times and complex problems make people look for simple solutions, and trumpism and blaming nonwhite people is a simple answer. I joked earlier this year about trump DIY'ing his own economic calamity to enable his fascist takeover, and goddamn it's happening before our eyes
  12. TFW modern policing started out as slave catching patrols "just enforcing the law". And yeah, we've been operating in a semi-fuedal means for as long as housing as been out of reach for the average/median American. Lords of the land seek and extract rents from the workers who live on their land. If you don't have a home, you are criminalized as a homeless person and pushed further down the social hierarchy. So, you MUST go find a job in order to give the majority of your earnings to a landlord just so that you can avoid sliding further down. Remember, to them, the only value that you intrinsically hold is how much money can be extracted from you. Nothing more, and absolutely nothing less than extracting wealth and funneling it to the oligarchs
  13. You should really read a history book about 1930s Germany and how often the nazis fucked up their plans and pissed off their citizenry until their schemes caught on through cultural normalization. There can be all the resistance you want, and then DHS will helo-rappel down and go Fallujah on them. The State has a legal monopoly on violence, and they have been ratcheting up with zero check on their power. I really wish I had your optimistic mindset, but brother, America is as cooked as our o-line is.
  14. Speaking of Doctorow, he just did a long interview with Adam Conover on the subject of enshittification
  15. One step further, Sergio was a whistle stop for GW Bush and catered for his fucking campaign events! The entire point of these actions is to terrorize nonwhite people and create an underclass of person that is unprotected by the law but still subject to it. https://www.texastribune.org/2025/10/07/texas-waco-chef-deported-sergio-garcia-ice-undocumented/ He was a well-known business owner who had won an international following in the years when President George W. Bush brought hordes of journalists and politicians to Waco. Within 24 hours, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents had Garcia deported across the border into Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. He was separated from his four U.S.-born adult children and wife, Sandra. Sandra Garcia, also undocumented, would reunite in July with her husband in Monterrey. The detention and deportation abruptly cut short an American dream 36 years in the making. It came as a shock to customers and fellow business leaders. The news rippled through Waco’s immigrant community and brought a sense of fear and vulnerability, said Mito Diaz-Espinoza, president of the Cen-Tex Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. “Deportations like Sergio’s — to fixtures of the community — are making people think, ‘This could be me next, or my favorite place next, or somebody who I talk to every day’,” he said. Garcia, originally from Veracruz, Mexico, rose from selling ceviche in Styrofoam cups to earning writeups in Texas Monthly and catering events related to President Bush’s Western White House in the 2000s. A box of thank-you notes at the family’s Waco home includes signed letters by a Baylor University athletic director, Waco Independent School District and countless customers through the years.
  16. Aren't you enjoying the historic levels of hype???
  17. The problem is that the courts are too slow to handle their fascist schemes. They can do damage and destroy public services without legal backing. They simply go and do it, and are shielded by the sheer audacity of it all. It's the classic fascist playbook man. There are hundreds of missing persons from their Florida concentration camp. It's not even a year into the administration. You shouldn't focus on where they're blocked, but on the damage being wrought on an international scale. We will have no allies except for other dictators and strong men
  18. He's Trump's goebbels
  19. It really illuminates the empty and crass mindset you carry with respect to community and one's "worth". People aren't just machines to extract value out of and with. They raise children, build friendships and relationships, and make up the culture of a region through expressing themselves. Just because you think he's untermensch doesn't make it so. Your argument is akin to what slave catchers used - "duh law says so, so we havtuh go treat this person like an animal". Go eat a bag of dicks and die in a fire you fuck
  20. Im about 99.999% sure that's the latest GRUhorn sock, fwiw.
  21. Almost like Jesus had a parable on that exact topic, or something (Luke 18:10-14)
  22. yikes, watch your cornholes empathetic Christians
  23. the content is interesting, but goddamn I cannot stand the AI voiceover that has become endemic to YT
  24. and his imminent pardon of his partner in pedophilia, Maxwell
  25. You should post this in your Shame Gillis thread to really demonstrate his point lol
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