douglas lain is so fucking stupid and annoying. "the imperial presidency reaches its apotheosis" or "dark FDR motherfuckers" mighta been tangentially insightful but "business as usual, they're not crazy enough to touch entitlements and the leftards are just being hysterical" is just contrarianism

the model of the ideologically advanced vanguard party is not entirely inaccurate, and steve bannon (RIP) did call himself a Leninist

i think he sincerely believes in it, it's just that he has thrown his hat with people like Peter Thiel and Curtis Yarvin who primarily care about establishing their horrible postdemocratic, postegalitarian neoreactionary utopia right here on Earth

so we give up both privacy (from the state *and* each other) and control (even democratic control). what's the advantage again?

but this doesnt matter; you can't make currency be currency unless the issuer monopolizes violence and threatens ppl with it. satoshi nakamoto has no aircraft carriers

when you look into an abyss that says assnozzle turdmonkey President Cheetorino faux news fuckin reThuglicans, etc

the entire legitimacy of people rests on selling themselves as the authentic voice of the suppressed silent majority

she has the ghost of a point in that every stalking horse for US imperialism has no organic support

look at me and all the cancer i don't have

laws against insider trading are unwarranted market interference and disrupt honest price signals. honest injun

how the hell did the Eagles win the superbowl. they must be all like 70 years old by now

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look. the key insight that everyone who's really good at law knows is that it's made up and fake. everyone from Johny Cochran to Clarence Darrow, the desegregation ppl and the ppl who killed Roe v Wade. the goodies and the baddies. they start with "made up and fake" and go from there

the rich aren't like you and me. they have more money

best cat ever

1. the lion's share of tax dodging is done by people on the top of the food chain (they do it just fine without hiding money in crypto) 2. every coin ever made is basically a tool for speculation and wealth extraction. the BTC network is accomplishing the aims of the ruling class

why would the US government fund a project dedicated to breaking bitcoin's cryptographic framework and making it worthless

if crypto wasn't a speculative vehicle for wealth extraction what would be the point of it

once you realize its a cheesy Turkish pop song the dominant Phrygian mode suddenly starts making sense

would an ebook version of House Of Leaves be readable or worth having

when i find myself in times of trouble
mother nature says to me
speaking words of wisdom
1.5C

people unironically say "faux news" here. i've been dragged back to 2008 GBS and The Rally To Restore Sanity

twitter for me has completed its transition into a time sink shithole with nothing to redeem it. every second spent on it actively detracts from my life and would be better used on literally anything else

but bluesky's kind of boring. what do

the chief justice has made his decision now let him bla bla bla

i keep saying this but if they were vanguard sleeper CCP moles trying to bring the usa down they couldnt possibly be doing a better job. so well done lads im right behind you

they're really good ads for great products too. sometimes they promote SNL affiliated audio dramas called "does this murder make me look gay"

specifically the mechanical engineers, because they were likely to give objections grounded in boring physical reality

is there a reason they aren't touching DoD expenses

i mean it's not like JT is going to be asked to show receipts or anything, he just can say he's gonna do it and not bother