I'm sure about 1,000 billionaires will make out just fine. That's probably a few multi multi multi-millionaires mixed in there that'll be okay too.

Everyone else is fucked but hey, comedies back right? Which is near as I can tell means you can say the n word as long as you don't quote Charlie Kirk.

Made the point that he can't compete with China not because of their tech or their parts or their processes but because of other things.

The other things were heavily implied to be super cheap labor and the ability to pollute.

It is tough to compete with slave Labor, poisoned groundwater and cancer villages.

You always keep a layer of plausible deniability. It's easy enough if somebody spends a little time to pull back that layer but it's not there for people who spend the time it's there to fool the normies.

The Nazis did the exact same thing before they were in power. Every single right winger follows the exact same playbook the Nazis did because it works.

We're not talking about exchanges here what we are talking about are the memes and online spaces that radicalized him into violence. We're talking about stochastic terrorism and the tricks used to take vulnerable young men and turn them into killers.

When you do that to somebody they can pop off at random. If he had popped off a few months or maybe years later he probably would have shot another Democrat politician and you would be posting memes about it and getting away with it.

He happened to pop off and go insane while he was in the pipeline instead of after he'd been run through it so his Target was basically random.

And as long as it's not you personally who gets hit you're more than happy for that to happen because again, that's how the Nazis did it. Cause violence, maintain plausible deniability and then use the chaos and violence to seize power and money.

The thing is most of the Nazis got sent off to die in wars. You're not part of the end group you're one of the foot soldiers.

And you're just a little further along in the pipeline than that poor kid was. All this for a piece of shit like Charlie Kirk that existed to make money off of hate and anger...

Keep having the day you voted for.

You may not like it but yes he was.

The stuff written on his bullets comes from memes from a right-wing extremist group headed by a white supremacist called Nick Fuentes. They are pseudo anti-fascist phrases said ironically and as dog whistles.

I doubt that the kid was fully radicalized though. He was in the pipeline to be radicalized until right-wing extremism. Which is hardly a surprise because his family are Maga

Not that it really matters. You won man. You got your victory. Jimmy Kimmel just got taken off the air by Sinclair media threatening ABC. They already took Stephen Colbert off the air. They are firing anyone and everyone who does anything but sycophantically praise the great Lord Charlie Kirk and anyone who's so much is considered as quoting anything Kirk actually said when he was alive.

Meanwhile the Department of Justice is getting ready to attack the enemies of the Republican party using the full force of the American Justice system. And we have military deployments in the streets of America.

You won man. This is what you wanted and you got everything you wanted.

I sure hope you have the day you voted for.

Vote for me and you'll never have to vote again. Those were his words.

They aren't planning on allowing elections anymore. Maybe they won't pull it off maybe they will.

They just got Jimmy Kimmel pulled off the air. They already got Stephen Colbert.

Jimmy Kimmel is responsible for saving the affordable Care act. The Republicans were on the verge of eliminating it during Trump's first term and Kimmel's newborn son needed heart surgery. Kimmel of course could pay for it but he made a heartfelt plea for America to save the affordable Care act and all the people who wouldn't be able to afford that.

It worked and the Republicans backed down.

Late night comedy TV talk show hosts have quite a bit of impact on American politics. Just like how the court jester's did back in the day. The right wing recognizes that and they are destroying anything and everything that opposes them in the slightest.

The baby boomers are dying and leaving nothing in their wake. The younger generations are extremely poor and they are not going to tolerate right-wing idiots that offer moral panics and social issues over food on their tables and a roof over their heads.

So it is absolutely critical that the billionaires and their cronies and democracy before the baby boomers are no longer around to vote for shit like abortion or trans girls in sports or whatever the fuck they're freaking out about right now in their mcmansions.

We are seeing a rapid acceleration into fascism. This is the end stage cancer of American democracy. At this point saving it would take a miracle.

So um, I'm in old fart but one of the reasons I like owning a computer is that I don't need to add 0110 to 0010 in my head. I did that shit in college and a little bit in high school but it's not something I ever used again except once in awhile to do some testing the sanity check something.

And it wasn't long until I didn't need the sanity check basic shit.

One of the problems with work in general is when you go to get a job everyone wants you to do all these things that you never do in the job. It's because we have more people than we have work and we're too stupid as a species to do less work. So we have to compete to decide who gets to work and who gets to die in the streets.

That are designed to take disaffected young men and convert them into extremists. There's a handful of spaces on Facebook and Twitter, there's a bunch of discord channels and then you've got the chans.

If they're going after valve it's because they're going after video games. They have been wanting to go after video games for years and years and years. There is something about the right wing where they really hate video games. TV and movies too. And they aren't too fond of books.

A big part of it is they want to control your media choices so you don't have any. I don't think they ever really got over the printing press.

And they want you at church. Tithing.

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It's crazy how much money is being thrown behind this. All of it in service of Christian nationalism, white supremacy and fascism.

It's also funny how many people think that they're going to get to join the in group.

Right now one of the few reasons they allow us lower life forms to have roads is they occasionally use them themselves.

If you think your commute sucks now wait until the ruling class can fly above it All.

Plus it's not like they aren't easily replaceable. If you kill a billionaire their kid or there was spouse just gets the money and goes on doing the same evil shit.

Meanwhile they are crashing into our cities with several tons worth of high-speed metal and plastic.

The problem in California is that private lawyers realized they could sue almost anybody for failure to warn about carcinogen risk. The result was that everybody (both private individuals, companies, and government facilities) stuck a warning on virtually anything. The initial intention of the law was good but very badly worded.

And they do not seem like anything a human being would write. It's going to be interesting when those texts get submitted to court.

But even if they're true everything I wrote is still correct.

The kid was still radicalized in right-wing spaces specifically designed to pipeline him into radical right-wing extremism.

As I have already pointed out he snapped before the pipeline was done pointing him at the right targets that's all.

That is the danger of stochastic terrorism. When you create a environment of violence in order to seize money and power you never know when one of the random crazies you have been encouraging to do violence is going to pop off and go after your side instead of your intended targets.

All you've done is tell me that you do not know what stochastic terrorism is. You should google. You need to learn to think critically and Google competently.

Dude nobody is standing in front of a home Depot you get deported if you do. And they could care less if you are a citizen anymore. They have quotas to meet.

Yeah but it's a Doomsday job. It's backbreaking work in the literal sense of the word. It's not something most people can do until retirement and even if they can it pays so little you can never afford to retire.

The reason we have to bring in a constant stream of immigrants to do that is that they are a resource we are consuming. Anyone taking those jobs knows that they're on borrowed time. And the sheer brutality of the work means that unless you're some sort of superhuman you aren't going to pull yourself up by your bootstraps and overcome it.

However you do get to wash your hands of all the misery that you've created by telling people to go work on a farm so there is that...

Every CEO in every single company on the planet is going top to bottom through their entire organization to find things they can automate.

Maybe they will do it with AI and maybe they will do it with nothing more than a simple Pearl script but there's a massive automation push going on right now because of it and that's going to be a lot of dead jobs.

Even if you think you're going to survive congratulations you now have hundreds of thousands if not millions of people gunning for your job.

Your boss knows this and it means best case scenario you're not going to get a raise and worst case scenario you're going to get a pay cut. Even without a direct pay cut high inflation caused by tariffs and the monetary policy needed to combat the mess they are causing means you're going to have less buying power and a de facto pay cut

One of the things that sucks about being an American is everybody thinks of themselves as king of the castle.

But the reality is we are all completely dependent on thousands of interlocking systems we just like to pretend don't exist. I guess the existential dread from facing how things actually work is a bit much though.

I think the idea here is that yeah it's bad to breathe in cooking fumes even the stuff coming off what you're cooking but it's still better to reduce those fumes by not using gas unless you have proper ventilation.