For me what ruins them now is the shamelessly communist slant on just about any article that touches any political topic. Elon is about to disenfranchise them with some basic competition. I'm sure that'll cause just as many tears as when he fired Twitter's censorship team (about 3000 people). I wonder how many of those Wikipedia donations ends up paying some Leftist to smash-"moderate" any unfriendly Capitalist propaganda. I'll definitely support Grokopedia over Wikipedia once it gets going and I've already pretty much banned using Wikipedia for any non-technical articles. I used to donate to Wikipedia, but I will never do so again.

Sounds a lot like "trust the authorities". Yeah, no. Tell your fucking mama to trust them. I have my middle finger up for your "studies" till the end of time.

Sure maybe everyone but the "authorities" (oh and you of course) are just too dumb. Suuuuure..... but maybe the problem is that corporations and government agencies can pay for and cajole any result they want from "studies" then smarmy "It's not personal" folks like you can "fact check" using "experts". I notice science and skepticism don't really enter into it at all. It's just institutional authoritarianism given a convenient way to shut down any skepticism.

If "team science" wanted to have calm, rational, science based debates they'd have done that instead of screeching censorship and going after folks jobs and other highly personal attacks. I saw first-hand "Team Science" dumped sand and mulch into outdoor skate parks to "stop the spread" (those brilliant geniuses then forced kids inside to play video games, minus the ventilation and UV, instead). They shut down small businesses while letting big business remain open while demanding Churches and right wing protests shut down. More apropos to this conversation, they flooded the journals with flimsy propaganda style papers that were later found to be wanting on all kinds of topics like how effective Hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine were, Ivermectin impacts, origin research, and mask studies. So, fuck your political "studies". Your pathetic "team" already ruined that avenue of argument by diluting their "work" with propaganda whenever they found it convenient (it's called lying, by the way, and it's how you lose credibility). You don't get to point to ginned-up "papers" anymore, cunts, that ended in 2021, if it was ever a valid strategy for arguing or proving anything.

My neighbor lady got scammed by this or something very similar. It was a romance scam but she ended up losing her house. She had to move out and live with her kids in a garage apartment. It was pretty sad. Sure, she was a "sucker" but I felt like it could have happened to a lot of folks like her. She had been a widow for a few years and was probably really lonely. Now, she's lonely, broke, and half-homeless.

Fight for the users!

High rates, sure, but growth came from private ingenuity, not government handouts. Calling me “dunce” while you are ignoring who actually builds wealth? However, that's your norm, once you realize you're on your back foot, you trot out the ad hominem. Since you're a Communist, you're always on your back foot.

No evidence? Post-’70s stagnation begs to differ;high taxes choked risk-taking until Reagan’s cuts unleashed tech booms. Innovators thrived despite rates, not because of them, but the bill came in the 1970's and it wasn't pretty. Simply burying your head and ignoring the point rather than debating it doesn't change anything. You can keep denying the truth and I can keep telling it.

So you troll with the utter MMT nonsense, then cry “edgy” when I call it out? Hypocrisy alert: don’t dish what you can’t take. Ayn Rand said it best: “Wealth is the product of man’s capacity to think.” Government’s a parasite, not a producer. Taxes aren’t theft; they’re robbery with the threat of force and no amount of hand-waving will change that basic easy obvious fact either.

Nice delusion: a 'double handful'? Try dozens of your socialist scum in Congress alone, like AOC, Rashida Tlaib, and the rest of the Squad openly shilling for DSA crap. Bernie Sanders calls himself a democratic socialist and ran the Dem primary twice. The (Dem) activist wing is crawling with these Marx-worshipping morons, pushing wealth grabs and the growth of state control. Yeah, the 'sellouts' vote with them half the time likely because they're scared of the woke mob. Now mind you, the conservative partisans are just as ripe for critisism (and many of them are misguided socialists or crony capitalists). Remind me again how's that Venezuelan paradise working out for socialism's banner of pride ? Socialism is Communism-lite, and both have a bloody and failure-laden history of human misery. They all hang on your neck like a fucking albatross no matter how much rage you try to express (and nobody is scared or impressed, it's just your typical ad hominem that we are all used to). Fuck the state. Fuck collectivism. Freedom.

Quite correct, sir. Quite. Especially the "filth" part. 100% agree. These people are racist filth and should be treated as such, not given a pass because they expressed the "correct" type of racism.

Anti-white racist coward.

We're already inundated with tons of anti-white anti-western messages. Anything that smears the West is automatically hyped and embraced by the odious dying media. I'm a bit surprised they pulled up and canceled this. These Californian troglodytes hate things like Lord of the Rings (orcs were oppressed POC's). They hate fantasy and SciFi, too viewing it as the last refuge of racists and woke-refuseniks. Look what they did to the Hugo. Read the hateful blogs written by NK Jemisin. It's all pretty clear where they are coming from. Teach whitey's kids to hate whitey is the clear strategy. They are racists and hate whites who they claim are all inherently beneficiaries of black slavery 160 years ago. They think these advantages are immutable and the primary factor in success. They have no problem excluding whites from benefits or rights. This includes portraying Western history as an "anachronistic hellscape" of oppression, where Western "colonialist" progress is a facade hiding ongoing white supremacy in a "beyond repair" society. They aren't going to balance the story, either, while ignoring complexities like white contributions to abolitionism or civil rights.

No wonder we had gamergate. No wonder we have these kinds of ridiculous themes coming in to ruin otherwise decent game franchises. Small wonder they'd pick some super-divisive civil war theme like this, too. However, someone must have had a clue that they were about to get woke and go broke and pulled the chain on this one before it could Bud Light the Assassin's Creed.

Liars. The more germane and accurate data paints a far more robust picture of America as a giant fucking magnet for global talent and capital, despite your lame communist fantasies. In the 2023-2024 period alone, net international migration added a staggering 2.8 million people to the U.S. population; accounting for 84% of the country's total growth of 3.3 million and driving the fastest annual population increase (+1.0%) since 2001. This influx has pushed the foreign-born population to a record 53.3 million, or 15.8% of all Americans, with fiscal year 2024 seeing 818,500 new naturalizations; the highest in two decades and a clear sign of long-term commitment.

Even among the high-net-worth crowd that the heavily slanted HSBC survey spotlights; those entrepreneurs with at least $2 million in investible assets; the story isn't one of flight but of net attraction. Henley & Partners' 2025 Private Wealth Migration Report projects a record 142,000 millionaires relocating globally this year, yet the U.S. stands as the second-most desirable destination worldwide, poised to welcome a net +7,500 high-net-worth individuals (HNWIs); trailing only the UAE's +9,800. So, HSBC ... bullshit flag thrown. This follows a strong 2024, when America recorded a net gain of 3,800 HNWIs, including 95 centi-millionaires (those worth $100 million+) and 10 billionaires. For context, that's more than double the net inflows of Switzerland (+3,000 projected for 2025) or Singapore (+1,600), and it dwarfs losses elsewhere: the UK is hemorrhaging a net 16,500 millionaires (who the fuck would stay in the UK if they could leave?), China -7,800, and India -3,500.

Sure, surveys like HSBC's reveal that 57% of wealthy business owners are eyeing additional residences abroad; often for market expansion (67%) or lifestyle perks (63%), with taxes a distant eighth at 33% (yes, I read the fine article and others) and yes, 53% of American millionaires polled in one study expressed vague "consideration" of leaving, spiking to 64% among under-40s. But intent doesn't equal action: actual outbound migration from the U.S. remains a trickle compared to inflows, with that much-more-trustable Henley data showing America retaining its edge (though I sometimes wonder for how long). Far from "everybody fleeing," these stats reveal a nation where borders are being stormed by ambitious newcomers, wealthy and otherwise, fueling innovation and growth that keeps the U.S. at the top of the world wealth rankings.

Feel free to build your own economy, free from the H1B pipeline, and offer them your already "great" IT services, India.

Shit $2M is a pittance for the kind of vulnerability they are looking for. If you find a remote root bug in Secure Shell, sell it to the government or the mob, but do it carefully as they might murder you for it. I'd start the bidding on something like that at $50M. That's just to start the auction, though. I'd expect it to be worth around $200M - $1B.

Agreed. I'm so fucked up by what happened to me I can't really have a rational conversation about it. I just want revenge I'll never get.

I suspect it's that and having less inflammation. However, medical science and research are so useless after CV19 I don't believe anything they say or study. They all seem to be paid by big Pharma, the government, or an anti-drug organization. If they aren't then then the shell company that funded them will be. It's all a psyop.

Since I can't trust "research" from "scientists" I'll trust my own lying eyes.

Ah, Jack, always a pleasure to tango with the ghosts of Keynes past. Let's unpack this without the red herrings, shall we?

That's the golden era you pine for? Sure, post-war boom times, but let's not cherry-pick: it rode on wartime innovation, global dominance after Europe got bombed flat, and yes, high marginal taxes; but growth stemmed from entrepreneurial fire, not bureaucratic benevolence. Correlation ain't causation, my friend. Fast-forward to the '70s stagflation that followed your "equity" experiments, and the lesson's clear: heavy-handed policies breed malaise, not miracles, just like they actually did. History is a nice reference that way, just like experiments by Lenin, Mao, Pol Pot and many others.

Ah, the classic "they won't notice the cap" fallacy. Incentives matter, profoundly; clip the upside, and you dull the edge of ambition. Why risk it all on a moonshot when the state's skimming the cream? And sure, more millionaires sound peachy, but diffusing capital often means safer bets, not bold leaps. History's littered with garage tinkerers who became billionaires precisely because the potential reward matched the peril. Spreading it thin is how you get a thousand incremental apps instead of one paradigm-shifting SpaceX or young Hewlett Packard, early Ford, many others...

Fair point on syndication, but who seeds the vision? Those "other wealthy people" flock to proven disruptors who've already bootstrapped with their own skin in the game. Cap wealth arbitrarily, and you choke the pipeline of those initial risk-takers. It's not about hoarding; it's about voluntary exchange fueling progress. I know how all that voluntary and freedom stuff makes your jealous blood boil. Heaven forbid people decide how to spend their own money or want to keep it from a half-crazed irresponsible nuclear armed Uncle Sam.

Whoa, now we're in full MMT fever dream/fantasy: government as the font of all value? That's not theory; that's theology for you Communists. As Frédéric Bastiat wisely quipped, "The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else." Your rebate rhetoric lame ly tries to flip the script but individuals create wealth through labor and ingenuity; government merely steals a slice at gunpoint. This is the point you communists always bury your head to not-see. You cannot stand the fact that folks can easily point out that you're ROBBING them with a clear threat of force. Your MMT sermon’s cute, but it’s like saying the sun owes its heat to a thermostat. Government produces zilch! Value flows from people creating, trading, and most of all: risking. Your “rebate” fantasy pretends the state’s a wealth fountain, not a leech skimming off labor. Ludwig von Mises correctly identified this situation: “The only source of the generation of additional wealth is production, not government edict.” Cap wealth, kill incentives, and expect innovation to wither. Why back a system that mistakes the scorekeeper for the scorer?

No one's yelling "all taxes are communism"; that's a straw man on stilts you just fabricated. I'm asserting income taxes (and most taxes) are pure robbery, but that's just a simple fact. Try not paying if you disbelieve me. But when you advocate for engineered "equity" via wealth caps and state supremacy over earnings, it quacks like collectivism, even if you slap a "modern" label on it or try to obfuscate your suggestion of robbery. I'm all for serious debate: free markets aren't perfect, but they've empirically outpaced every top-down scheme. You can shy away from the Commie label all you want, but you're championing the same ideas... Communist.