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What I came to ask. He should be here.

I fucking love the default video. Classic.

“This too shall pass.”

So is this just like Olestra all over again? It technically works but you get explosive greasy shits?

That’s indeed the goal. I’m waiting for the shoe to drop where I lose my cancer medication, which could be as soon as January 2027 depending on how things shake out in my life.

To me him being “reasonable” is my main issue with him. He’s doing the whole “if we just explain things to Republicans with reason and rationality they will change their minds.” These people didn’t use reason to get into the positions they are in, and reasoning has not and never will work to get them out of those positions. They are not true Christians as much as they use Christianity as a shield for their shitty behavior, and so reasoning using religion won’t work on them either.

Jasmine Crockett is imperfect, absolutely, but she brings the fight and the fire. She isn’t afraid to get down and stoop to their level and not hold back. They call names, she calls names, they talk shit, she talks shit. It’s not perfect, but it’s a way stronger way to fight back than this mealy-mouthed “we just need to explain it to them again” that the Democrats have been doing for my entire fucking lifetime of over forty years and has never worked once to make these people see reason.

Even reasonable religious people aren’t enough to change the narrative, and I thought his discussion with Boebert proved that. Because she would just agree with him at every step of the way, and he wouldn’t and didn’t call her out directly, instead allowed her to weasel out and act like it’s other people not living up to Godly standards. He didn’t call her out and say “how is vaping and mashing your boyfriends dick in public with your tits half hanging out Godly behavior, ma’am?” Crockett is willing to play that game and get down, mean, and real. She was one of the few people who seemed to have left Pam Bondi speechless during those hearings recently, because she brings the fire, she doesn’t back down, and she’s willing to get into the mud with them so to speak. On the other hand, Talarico let an easy target, Boebert, walk all over him and he left mountains of ammunition against her on the table and let her pretend she wasn’t exactly who he was talking about.

Talarico is just more milquetoast “reasoning” with unreasonable people. He’s right on the message, wrong on the delivery.

all about the mindset

all about the mindset

Because most people, even including people who aren’t complete idiots, want to be told what they want to hear more than they want to be faced with hard truths. Simple as.

It was always there, the internet just gave them leverage to find each other and make professional sounding networks of absolutely rock stupid fucking people.

It’s honestly the biggest downside of the internet.

Because pro-asbestos and anti-seatbelt people existed, but they didn’t have megaphones to reach the whole world.

Right, I agree that DoorDash is a bad example, I was just pointing out that the article makes some clear points about how our economy is organized and the investor class panicked not because they realized our economy is a house of cards built on unnecessary friction, but rather that they might have that house of cards taken from them.

It’s how the Middle East gets away with slavey

…and soon how the US will reinstate slavery beyond the bounds of the 13th amendment as well.

I mean I daresay that’s the fucking goal here, to create stateless unpersons, including anyone who critiques the regime.

The wealthy are multinational. They will just leave the USA, liquidate their companies and holdings here, and use their wealth to purchase new ones elsewhere. They don’t see borders the way we do, they are bleeding the US dry to leave it behind when they’re done.

I mean certain parts of this article indeed seem stupid, but some minor statements give away the game in ways I wish were more clear to every day people.

Over the past fifty years, the U.S. economy built a giant rent-extraction layer on top of human limitations: things take time, patience runs out, brand familiarity substitutes for diligence, and most people are willing to accept a bad price to avoid more clicks. Trillions of dollars of enterprise value depended on those constraints persisting.

We had overestimated the value of “human relationships”. Turns out that a lot of what people called relationships was simply friction with a friendly face.

This shit should be shouted from the fucking rooftops even without AI in the picture. Our entire economy is a house of cards built on rent-extracting through introduction of pain points that may not have previously existed. Creating a problem and selling a solution.

It’s honestly laughable because it means on some level the investors reading this are absolutely aware that this is what they do and they are fucking fine with it. They think making things harder and extracting money from people for it is a good thing. Fucking ghouls.

republicans are terrible at managing the economy.

No, no, wrong takeaway. They’re great at managing the economy for the 1%, the wealthiest in the country, at the expense of literally everyone else.

People need to stop missing that a large number of corporations are making out like fucking bandits right now.

Even if refunds are handed out for tariffs, the bulk of that will end up on corporate coffers as instant profit and won’t be trickling down to the workers anytime soon.

Everything is rigged to help the wealthiest do anything but lose.

So, in that respect, he’s doing a bangup job. People need to start recognizing when Republicans talk about a “good” economy, that they mean for them and their buddies. The Big Club that We Ain’t In. Of course it seems like our economy sucks, but we’re not the economy they give a shit about doing well.

To be fair, yeah, a large chunk of humans are pretty fucking stupid:

People keep joking about how AIs majorly fail the “I am going to wash my car, should I walk or drive to the car wash” question, but 28.5% of humans when asked the same question in the same way with no additional context also answered “you should walk to the car wash.”

So roughly 30% of people are absolute fucking tools no matter what, apparently.

Investors are obviously stupid fucking people spooked by any old horseshit and who buy into any old horseshit.

Unless there’s AI magic going on behind the scenes we’re not being told about, autonomous AI agents are nowhere near a reality and won’t be because LLMs are a dead-end in regards to that.

Seriously our world is run by the people least fucking fit to do so. I’m just some random asshat who knows fuck-all. I’m not smart enough for the people who run the world to be this fucking stupid in comparison.

Like, here’s a quote from beginning of this Substack post:

The sole intent of this piece is modeling a scenario that’s been relatively underexplored.

But has it though?? Can’t anyone with a fucking brain extrapolate that if AI replaced all workers that we wouldn’t have an economy, we would have the people who control the AI owning all that’s left in the world and the huddled teeming starving masses ready to build gallows in the streets for the people who caused all this? How is this new and shocking to these people? How have none of them ever considered the endgame before?