Commencing the naval operation by tooting my Warp Whistle

Europe has an enormous surveillance state, increasingly modeled (and managed) by Israeli surveillance systems used in Palestine.

Germany, France, the UK, and Spain already have some of the most advanced facial recognition imagine in the world deployed in their surveillance networks.

And the EU just expanded their legal use

Maybe you’re safer from an American tech company. But not from the local police.

How people allow themselves to be gaslit like that over and over

Other guy is worse. Yes, it’s the same guy who has been running for president since 2016, but he’s worse so you have to vote for our guy no matter how awful he gets.

Trump’s going to run again in 2028 and you’re going to be expected to vote for the Democrat for this reason alone, again.

2016: “Vote for the shit sandwich”

2020: “Vote for the shit sandwich”

2024: “Vote for the shit sandwich”

Can’t understand why the Democratic Party isn’t more popular.

angry Solomon Grundy noises

It’s this endless litany of “Just because our guy sucks…” and I can’t imagine what that message is going to do to turnout in three months

If you’re going to propose a communist paradise as an alternative

Claiming that paradise is preferable to purgatory is not the same thing as knowing the road out of hell.

The kinship networks of pre-agrarian indigenous groups worked just fine when everyone knew each other.

One of the most effective methods for instituting an enduring state of capitalist exploitation is alienating you from your neighbors.

The worst that my country wants to do with my data is attempt to sell me shit I don’t want.

Facial recognition technology and the growing power of artificial intelligence

In some other countries, drawing parallels with certain emperors and certain A.A.Milne characters could cost me my freedom and possibly my life.

Of course. Always in other countries. Never in mine.

you dont have any clear call to action

There isn’t a clear path forward. It’s a complex problem that is made deliberately intractable by the people who benefit from the current system.

Very hard to get rid of all the rotten drywall if you’re not willing to swing the hammer

Start at the bottom and work your way up.

Or just become a Senator at the age of 30 by selling out to your state’s massive insurance and legal community.

Chase wants to completely get rid of all tariffs, so, I mean, some of his policies aren’t the greatest

He makes a compelling argument against tariffs as public policy. But he’s still a business-first libertarian, which means his views on environmental regulation and labor rights and various federal public services also suck.

Guns? Great. Drugs? Great. Crime and punishment? Great.

Eh. I wish his immigration policy was as laisse-faire as his guns and drugs policy.

But most of his power and economics policies would completely dog-fuck the US economy

Our economy was dog-fucked ages ago, when we deindustrialized the midwest and plowed endless subsidies into FIRE and Tech sectors. Now we’ve got a bunch of computers churning out trillion dollar digital nothings, while investment cash flows like a waterfall into finance, insurance, and real estate, but our actual industrial capacity remains in a vestigial state.

We can’t even make enough new silicon chips to feed our antiquated ICE engine automotive industry.

I don’t think Oliver really has a path out of that mess, but its hardly his fault we got here.

Its weird, but the game felt like it was going to be adding maps and combat zones with relative frequency. But I agree, the game got stale fairly quickly. It was fun, but not meaningfully more fun than Counterstrike or DOTA

It sucks, and is something we absolutely need to fix in the future…

But we’re literally picking the new head of the HR department. And every head of HR before this person was picked this way, because of the policies set by that HR department. Like, the only way you could change this rule would be for 37 of our 50 departments to come together and agree to change the rules as part of a company wide convention. And all of them run their HR systems the same way, so that doesn’t look too likely.

I just want to point out there’s a third guy running and he’s only got a mild case of brain worms.

Joe Biden is either the singularly greatest president to have ever lived and our only hope for the future or the worst president in history, a total disaster, possibly the entire reason everything bad has ever happened.

I haven’t decided who I’m voting for yet, so I can’t tell which.

Wonder when they’ll apologize for spying on campaigners in the '00s, '10s, and '20s.

Calling back to the We Surround Them attempted grassroots movement by Glenn Beck that flopped face first into the mud after the 2009 Presidential election.

The DNC can rewrite the rules before the convention and nominate anyone they want.

The DNC is an organization stacked with Joe Biden loyalists. And that’s before discussing the fucked vibes of an 11th hour rules rewrite on the eve of what was supposed to be a lay-up nomination. Weeks of people arguing over who gets handed the Prez nod without a single primary vote cast in their name would be an absolute disaster.

The thing that makes folks pull their hair out is that we’ve known Biden has been sundowning for years. But in the run up to the 2024 primaries, we got this endless bullshit gaslighting of “Actually I think he’s at the top of his game, never better!” articles coming out of the Dem establishment and Dem-friendly media.

So he ran virtually uncontested. And then he spent three months doing photo-ops with Dark Brandon laser eyes, trying to get people pumped up for November. And then he explicitly demanded a debate with Trump before the conventions were even held. And then this shit happened.

Now there’s no normal democratic mechanism to pick a replacement candidate. So we’re either stuck with Biden or we get some smoke-filled room full of superdelegates and mega-donors to make the decision. And that’s what will fuck up the Dems’ chances in November. You’re talking about putting a guy on the ballot who never even went through the primary. Someone whose sole qualification was Biggest Insider Suck-Up. Someone who will have to square off against a legitimately popular candidate in a year when “Democracy is on the line!” is a thing the Democrats are asserting.

It’s actually a great strategy.

Its a fucked strategy, because the easiest line of attack on this new person is “Who the fuck is this asshole and why didn’t they compete in a primary back in January?”

I’m sure the DNC and the party elders will never attempt something so obviously effective since they are terrible at politics

Holding a coronation rather than a primary was the DNC’s big mistake. Now its too late. There are no savvy brilliant moves left to play. You’re stuck with this lame duck through November.