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It is good to see Anastasis in his bag fighting the “semi-anti-vaxxer” fight vice foreign policy and defense policy knower. Adcom?
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The thing is that the GOP and thus America has the soul of a car dealer. Rent-seeking, grasping, anti-competitive, dependent on stacked decks, and convinced that they were born on third because of their innate talent and competence. The car dealer is the American feudal lord or nobility. The car dealer is given a territory which he possesses and which is inheritable, a larger lord may buy his right or marry into it but the peasantry can’t purchase an RMA. The great houses only get bigger, the minor nobles only shrink, the bloodline only becomes more incestuous. It is inherently rent-seeking and is extractive, neither the manufacturer or client receives a benefit and the car dealer’s position is ultimately secured by the government. And yet the car dealer believes their little fiefdom and the rents they pay extract are the essence of the free market. Imagine an entire economy and government with the mentality of the grubbiest Hyundai dealer in a mid-major metropolitan area. That’s what we have.
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Moving feds out of NCR to red states (this is the plan) is going to be a sort of poison pill because it will turn red districts blue in a hurry.
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
956 Worldwide replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
It’s kind of radicalized me to be honest, I used to think these were complicated legitimate grievances that we’d not done a good job of validating and addressing. But it turns out that it’s just anger and wanting to make other people hurt cause you’re angry. “We are going to end all the good jobs in your shit town, we’re gonna make it impossible to get a new hip, we’re gonna raise prices at the WalMart, we’re gonna make online shopping prohibitive! But— no trans in the bathrooms and the fed next door will be just as poor and unemployed as you!” Ok, have at it. Fuck you, enjoy it: -
The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
956 Worldwide replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
All arguments with MAGA end when you realize that only first principles that exist are spite and willing ignorance. -
The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
956 Worldwide replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
Really enjoying the new MAGA post office discourse and the complete lack of awareness that Amazon, FedEx, and UPS don’t function without USPS. But I honestly hope this happens. Between once a week mail delivery, cutting government jobs, slashing Medicaid and Social Security, and tariffs it’s almost impossible to imagine a program designed to inflict more pain on MAGA’s voter base. Enjoy it, rural old America. It’s even funnier because you’re all too dumb to realize you did it to yourselves. LOL. -
Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
956 Worldwide replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
Absolutely. People need to understand that things like the National Parks, libraries, city green spaces, good public schools, museums— are an affront to Elon and his ilk. They truly hate the fact that something like America’s Crown Jewels are just there available for basically anyone to enjoy. Exclusivity becomes the highest value of being extraordinarily wealthy and nothing can be a bigger flex than ensuring only the supremely wealthy have anything approaching a decent quality of life. The super-rich literally cannot enjoy the view from Big Bend’s Window with the knowledge that you can enjoy the same view. -
America's Foreign Policy & Other Shit Going On Around the World thread
956 Worldwide replied to bolverk's topic in Cloak Room
Gangster mentality— everything is leverage, nothing can be mutually beneficial, terms can always change. Even talking about this is deeply irresponsible. It is true that the U.S. is the major supplier of intel for sharing but FVEY divides responsibilities along thematic and geographic zones and losing its capabilities would seriously disrupt U.S. awareness. Also— it’s hard to see the rest of the Anglosphere accepting Canada getting the boot. -
Elon is Schrodinger’s DOGE administrator, both the head of DOGE and not at all related to DOGE depending on who looks in the box. This is a repeated pattern in that all across the agencies there are people in roles who exercise real power beyond their defined titles and boxes. All administrations do that to some extent, but the scope is unprecedented as is the willingness to not even pretend like there is someone actually correctly exercising authority. And of course, very dictatorial. Foreigners will begin playing Kremlinology with this admin although instead of the May Day parade, it’s who is playing golf or sitting at the POTUS table in Mar-a-Largo.
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This is the most stupidly online admin in history. I cannot believe that SecDef is interacting and responding to “LibsofTikTok.”
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The thread where Anastasis discovers that Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014.
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America's Foreign Policy & Other Shit Going On Around the World thread
956 Worldwide replied to bolverk's topic in Cloak Room
Correct. The Kremlin BSW project barely missed the cutoff so CDU and SPD can make a red-black coalition. Much easier than trying to cobble together one with the Greens, too. -
So, running the numbers. 3 million feds. Average salary of 106k per year (54.36 per hour). 90 cents per minute. One minute to read the email, five minutes to draft a response on average (Elon’s best guess on X). DOGE costs the government about 14.5 million in duplicative performance management processes not including the time spent by various employees figuring out WTF is even required.
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
956 Worldwide replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
But why are you making it sound so glamorous and fun? -
Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
956 Worldwide replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
Elon accidentally acknowledges that the stock market and everyone’s 401k or equivalent did very well under Biden. -
America's Foreign Policy & Other Shit Going On Around the World thread
956 Worldwide replied to bolverk's topic in Cloak Room
Merz has for all his career been a dyed-in-the-wool Transatlanticist and this speech is pure Gaullist. These are incredible things to hear from a CDU figure. I don’t think people understand that we are actively destroying a world where the single largest and wealthiest common market is friendly and aligned with us. In one month. -
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Everything in the American government is non-stop performative imbecility. Just a pressurized stream of soggy content precision-guided to target absolute dolts and pudding-heads. Trump was elected by a coalition of people who buy drop-shipped “I am very badass” t-shirts off of Facebook. It’s their country now and we all have to live in it.
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Anastasis’ presentation of “history” and context is at the level of a movie set, it exists only to drive narrative and isn’t real. Doors open to nowhere, layouts that can’t exist in the physical space, rooms unconnected by hallways. The illusion of structure and coherence.
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Office of the Secretary of Defense also said not to respond. All of DoD sending what they do and who they report to via the unclassified system, what could go wrong!
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They aren’t looking for fraud, they’re looking for stuff they can run through AI and then call “fraud” on Twitter. The “copy supervisor” is interesting because with that DOGE can map out reporting structures, staffing patterns, and sub-units again, via AI. All that exists at the agency level but doesn’t exist in a consolidated space on an unsecured server at OPM because it is a counter-intelligence nightmare. This whole exercise is a counter-intelligence nightmare. Even Kash Patel intervened to tell the FBI “don’t think about it.”
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America's Foreign Policy & Other Shit Going On Around the World thread
956 Worldwide replied to bolverk's topic in Cloak Room
German elections are notoriously complex— a first round of direct first past the post geographic districts and then a proportional second round. The numbers to watch are 3 (direct seats) and 5 (percent)— the threshold to actual be seated in parliament. Parties that don’t get the threshold means that seats in parliament are reassigned proportionally to parties that make it in, so CDU for instance will get more seats than the percentage vote they get. Too early to see how things shake out and it’s important to say that The Left and BSW are also very pro-Kremlin, populist, anti-Europe. They are constitutionally more like AfD than SPD. A grand deal between CDU, SPD, and Greens could happen and maybe FDP gets across the line. But these grand coalitions are inherently fragile as it’s a marriage of political enemies with deep policy differences. No one is happy and all parties jockey for more power. The dysfunction feeds discontent and populism. It is a dangerous time for basic liberal values. And the warning signs had been blinking in Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, and Slovakia for easily a decade but the collective West chose to drive with the check engine light on.
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