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Cake day: March 23rd, 2022

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  • “I’m not sure what the dumbass is even trying to do in the end.”

    This might be a pedestrian opinion, but I wonder if being the world’s nominally richest person isn’t enough for him, or that he at least understands how ephemeral that status actually is. His wealth is largely based on speculations of the runaway success of his “revolutionary/visionary” businesses and “innovations,” and he may be coming down from that high. Seeing as he’s not going to actually colonize mars, the hyperloop is old news, and no one wants to buy a cybertruck, Twitter didn’t pan out super well, etc, he might feel that the jig is up. Getting a foot in the door of more traditional power structures by being Donald’s sycophant and the latest MAGA darling could be his attempt to concretize his “wealth” into actual power.







  • Trump getting shot like JFK might actually destroy the country, but it honestly can’t be ruled out. It’s one thing to have a senile incompetent buffoon in charge, and another to have someone vigorously obstinate. Joe’s staff just held his hand while he absentmindedly rubber stamped all the genocide paperwork. Donald seems like he’d categorically refuse anything that he didn’t personally come up with as a point of pride. It must make it impossible to get “work” done.


  • Pretty sure he thinks soft power is woke or something. He just needs to look tough, regardless of the actual outcome. It explains threatening to double existing tariffs on Columbia over a dozen or two deportees. Backing down would make him look weak, and that wouldn’t animate his base, nevermind the economic consequences of doing that to a country that grows all our coffee.

    It’s funny how he wants essentially the same thing as all these other ghouls, but wants to take the most unsubtle and ineffective route to get there. Maybe he is the harm reduction candidate?


  • They equivocate between these two tendencies, but always with language that places the emphasis on fighting communism. It is not “Fascism is just communism of a different color,” it’s the reverse. You’re supposed to think of how evil the commies are, not the fascists. Strangely, everyone who speaks this way lives in a country where communism is marginal and fascism is just the water they all swim in.




  • I guess it must work on some level… “China does some bad things” really is enough for many. I remember getting in an argument on feddit on some gardening subreddit. A guy got shipped some “strange” seeds he claims not ordering, saying they were shipped from China, and someone chimed in insisting it was an invasive species which served as a bioweapon, deliberately hurting our ecology or some other nonsense. I prodded him to give evidence, and he furnished the Hong Kong riots as a demonstration of how evil they were, so why wouldn’t they engage in some completely unrelated villainy? Very bizarre.