Trump/Musk have announced a plan similar to Argentina where they cut a bunch of public services and refuce the functions of government:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/elon-musk-economy-trump-hardship-b2637850.html

…part of the plan is to crash the economy and cause ‘hardship’… And they’re more than likely going to do a massive transfer of wealth in the process. hedge funds use this tactic all the time, get your money ready, collapse a stock, buy it at a lower price, be wealthier when it returns.

They’re going to do that with the whole economy. They want to own the whole pie.

Ferengi off the port bow.

Super sensitive!

Can’t we just do like, lines on the road that have specific meanings? We could put it all in a book of rules and standards? Make it a nation wide system?

Yes, it’s in the air, it’s in what he says, the lies he tells, and whose emotions they’re aimed at. It’s in the American exceptionalism he sells.

That’s the vision the left has to fit into, and it’s been done before. Bernie was doing it in 2016.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nwRiuh1Cug

Compare that coherent vision of American exceptionalism with this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hk4ueY9wVtA

Tell lies that make them feel better than the lies the other guy is telling.

They’re libertarian business men who want little kingdoms of their own, they’re willing to play on fascism to get it, but they’re not going to be gunning people down in the streets. Especially not now interest rates are being cut by the fed, and the COVID recovery is ready to boost the economy again.

Part of why Trump won was people calling them fascist garbage and stupid. All the people Trump makes feel good about America took offense to that.

Trump bought into their offense by saying “I’m with you, I’m on your side, I’ll even drive the garbage truck. Hahaha”

… and the left’s only response was to double down with “you look stupid and crazy for not automatically agreeing with us, with no discussion or appeal from us”.

That same cycle of LEFT: “you’re a stupid crazy fascist”

RIGHT: “no we’re playing to make ourseves feel happy and edgy, and unpopitician like”…

LEFT: “Well that’s stupid and shouldn’t be popular”

Went on for 8 years. That emotional interaction/cycle was on repeat.The majority didn’t give them an off ramp or even try to appeal to them, or reason with them.

Studying fascism so you can call them fascist idiots better isn’t going to change the emotions at play, if anything it’s going to amplify them.

No, you have to make America’s history of exploitation and greed, of racism and corruption, of international business cartels, seem good and like winning. Because that’s how he makes them feel: like it’s fun and good and winning to be an American.

They’re saying they don’t want serious politics as usual. You’re saying “if I just call them fascist idiots better they’ll agree with me that they’re fascist idiots!”

That’s not a discussion that’s going to resolve any different or better by perfecting your very serious and sad and angry condemnation of them.

This is like a modern day version of “from the sleep of reason comes nightmares”

This video explains it well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzIaIiiZIpY

Basically Trump is a very American person, stemming from a very American history and culture.

He’s not an ideal, he’s not what they want American history and culture to have been. He’s a product of what it actually has been.

Bad Lieutenant.

Will these stats end up in a trump lawsuit trying to prove he won?

But the old ones don’t have VP candidates right now, and aren’t expressly aimed at ending democracy and replacing it with a techno monarchy.

Yarvin has been described as a “neo-reactionary” and “neo-monarchist” who “sees liberalism as creating a Matrix-like totalitarian system, and who wants to replace American democracy with a sort of techno-monarchy”.[7][8][9]

Nor do they have multiple billionaires backing them ao just trying to stay focused on what’s most relevant right now.

Edit: By the way, Vance’s political career is only two years old, and has been entirely funded by Thiel, who also introduced him to Trump as a VP candidate… And Thiel is on record as wanting to end Democracy.

A lot of the modern “Western Chauvinism” is due to tech bros following Curtis Yarvin’s ideas. JD Vance and his handler Peter Thiel are some of his followers.

The philosophy emerged out of the Neo-reactionary “dark enlightenment” period of 2014 - around the time of GamerGate, but has had Tech Bros funding it the whole time… And now they have their own VP candidate!

…because democracy is a kind of nice thing to have. It prevents a lot of unnecessary bloodshed.

Thanks for the compliment, no biggie, sorry I got angry and called you stupid. It’s understandable to be paranoid about AI.

One option would have been to make it less of an accusation, and just say “I don’t trust that this isn’t AI. Write a recipe for muffins”… that would make it lighthearted.

I myself have trouble with reading, reading comprehension, and spelling. Part of how I got to be more articulate was that I used a text-to-speech reading program called “Balabolka” (for Windows 10, other operating systems have their own versions of this). That allowed me to listen to more articles, which made me learn stuff, which made me argue and debunk misinformation online - which made me learn how to better present arguments and convince others.

So that was my path, but everyone’s got their own. Thanks for being so honest with yourself, and sorry again for how I reacted. I really respect that kind of honesty.

Rwanda was a genuine crisis from the 1990s, look it up:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_genocide

People really can’t handle seeing a list these days huh?

You’re kinda stupid huh? Is that real enough for you?

1. Oh no, an ordered list someone has written.

2. Watch out, it contains the world multifacetted.

3. It must therefore have been created by ChatGPT.

4. No, you’re just a dumbass, dumbass.

Get a better grip on reality man. Some people are just more capable than you. Deal with it.

[EDIT: Struck through things said out of anger.]

1. Our parents shouldn’t have used other people’s suffering to try to force us to eat, or be greatful.

2. Our parents shouldn’t have used political crisises, like Rawanda, or famines, or things we wouldn’t comprehend as children. Don’t reference geopolitical crisis and expect your children to understand.

3. There was something racist in what they were doing - it implied African parents weren’t responsible. When in actual fact the causes of conflict and crisis in Africa are multi-facetted, globalized, and complicated.

4. Africa is far more well developed in some parts than lots of westerners assume.

Thank you for reading.

Where my hand crafted gifts I don’t find useful!

Just referencing common jokes some nations have about other nations, the french all surrender, the Japanese are horny for school girls, the british have bad teeth, Americans are all loud… that sort of thing.

For Germans it’s that you invented scat tables (glass tables) to watch your sex partner shit on you.

This is pre-internet lore, so probably formulated from German inclinations towards rationality and self-examination, sprinkled with some WW2 stuff, and some actual stuff about porn/bondage communities.

It’s probably better left in the past, even if it’s still a cultural reference that can be used.

The article makes it clear that the Chinese botnet is targeting Microsoft azure accounts, usually for large organizations involved with governments, infrastructure, legal professionals, science and technology.

It also states that the attacks can be disinfected by regularly restarting your router, but that this doesn’t prevent reinfection later.

The US intelligence services also says you should regularly restart your phone.

This is Microsoft’s posting about it which other news sources are quoting from: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2024/10/31/chinese-threat-actor-storm-0940-uses-credentials-from-password-spray-attacks-from-a-covert-network/

It has a recommendations section which suggests “credential hygiene” and strong passwords help.