Leaderless horizontal movements, while historically understandable, are unable to move forward as needed to effect change and hold power.

it’s kind of funny how you, oh wise enlightened centrist, are the only one to ever figure out that the thing that makes you comfortable just happens to be always right!

please read the book If We Burn.

We need to learn from Occupy and why it failed, so the next time (which is likely coming soon) it won’t.

Please, Elon isn’t even as cool as a crackhead.

It was ketamine.

AI is obviously a bubble.

That said, Burry has also predicted 6 of the last 2 crashes.

Bonds are a bad call as well, as the US government is screwed on interest and will be inflating.

Gold is a better call, this looks like stagflation coming.

It’s not deterministic.

This is the first thing about LLMs always, and what most people can’t seem to understand.

LLMs are a thing where you give an input and get an output, and it happens to correspond to reality much of the time. But there’s no actual understanding there.

to make the people doing these things afraid of the consequences of doing so, and so not do them

American Christianity, particularly evengelicalism, is pretty much all vibes based at this point. Why let a written Bible tie you down?

oh totally - it’s just that the myth making of US history isn’t new, and part of why these grifters get away with this nonsense is that there’s been a fertile plot of bullshit for a long time.

But yeah, no, America was not founded as a “Christian nation”. Anyone thinking that is ignoring the Jefferson Bible, or the Treaty of Tripoli.

Yeah, but a prime driver of the American Revolution was that the king wouldn’t let the Americans genocide the natives even more than they were at the time.

You’re conflating the Revolution with the “Founding Fathers”, who were actually mainly associated with the constitution.

Which was in many ways the counter revolution, where the rich and propertied (like Washington) decided that the Revolution had gone too far, with Shay’s Rebellion and revolts against debt being the main driver of that.

If nothing else, a riot threatens commerce. People aren’t buying things when there’s a riot, even if nobody is looting.

yeah, if you haven’t noticed, running on support for forever wars isn’t very popular

It makes the protest look like a wild riot

This is not a bad thing. A protest that doesn’t offer the threat of a riot is nothing but a parade.

yeah, but his FBI is now gonna be staffed by animal rapists, so . . .

Hegseth, at 21, getting a rejection letter from his application to The Onion . . . “they’ll regret this, I don’t care what it takes . . .”

oh, did the new rotating villain drop early?

no, some of us are late 40s