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Captainant

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  1. It's not like our president has a history of running whatever he's in charge of into the ground and then moving on to the next thing. It's hard to predict how a failure will happen, given the variety of unnecessary risks and stresses on the "free" market system, but at this rate there's not gonna be any money left for consumers to consume and participate in capitalism
  2. My family had a beloved Volvo 240, my sister claimed and destroyed every single front frame assembly from Pick n Pull in San Antonio learning to drive it lololol. What a great car to learn how to work on cars
  3. Small businesses owners are the lifeblood of any fascist movement. They always fall for the lie precisely because they think they're temporarily embarrassed oligarchs/billionaires, only to get tossed on the pyre with the rest of the rabble. The 1930s budding reich under Hitler enjoyed broad support from small businesses owners that got him his seat and power, only to get gutted or consumed by state-sponsored cartels ran by the old money ruling class
  4. When """moderate""" means ok with Alligator Alcatraz, fuck those fascist apologists
  5. Private funding is always obsessed with growth above all else, even business model sustainability. When your only goal is growth, and you don't give a shit about outcomes for the people consuming your product/service, you're gonna run that enterprise into ground and ruin everything that made it successful in the first place. It's half the reason I have a career - cleaning up that mess of bad foresight is a very very reliable means for finding work and engagements
  6. Trump is literally a WWE half of famer. He's carnie to the bone
  7. Discussion is much more active in other threads where posting facts and discussing them is less likely to cause crashouts. But seriously, maxwell getting transferred to jail in aggyland is just too fuckin absurd. It's completely ridiculous how the president is protecting this child sex trafficker, but even talking about it too rude for polite company
  8. The qanon crowd exists BECAUSE they lack the curiosity to look critically. Of course they were unaware of empirical facts that were easy to look up. If they weren't, they wouldn't be qanon
  9. Unfortunately, the conflation is intentional by the fascists. It is a means to preempt discourse and discussion on the topic, and ultimately control the dialogue. It's why any criticism of Israel is met with accusations of antisemitism
  10. Your argument is that PBS was crowding out the TV viewership market for wholesome programming? Please say more, and provide some supporting info
  11. Bro, the shareholders would NOT accept a "not for profit" use of their money. Don't you know they're entitled to consistent quarterly growth at all costs?
  12. Gotta say, the moderation rule of "being an idiot is not against the rules" is working out great for discourse.
  13. See: daily Texan ghost town thread
  14. Who knew shit posting was so valuable. Nobody tell imma!
  15. Really, it's just the COVID shock that's fucked us so badly. Of course, everyone taking the opportunity to goose margins and stock up for tariff impact is great for inflation too
  16. thanks, left a comment
  17. That's the most awful thing about the holocaust. It was completely legal under German law. They went to extreme lengths to comply with (or change) the law to remove any potential sources of dissent to their genocide. The Wannsee Conference was just nine years after Germany legalized discrimination against Jews. Timeline-wise we're creeping up on that first mile marker pretty fast.
  18. rarely non-sequitur, apologies for rubbing you the wrong way across a couple threads it seems. In a thread about climate change, tearing out a rose garden to replace with a gaudy ballroom feels pretty emblematic of the Presidential™ vibe
  19. What? I'm riffing along in agreement with you - it's fucked they're renaming the Kenedy Center, and they're also tearing up the Kenedy Rose Garden
  20. I agree - climate change didn't make the flood occur. That area is naturally where excess rainfall is gonna flow. However, the intensity of the storm and volume of water was absolutely made worse from climate change. Greater than Niagra Falls' 24hr flow volume is absolutely bonkers and insane, and is unlike anything we've recorded in Texas before. I would bet that if the rain were half of what it were there would have been fewer than half as many deaths, along the lines of your log curve model reasoning. The maladministration created the possibility for unmitigated flood deaths, and the extreme flood goosed that number even further.
  21. the only way to guarantee the market doesn't wake up to reality is to bet that it WILL wake up to reality. Once you run out of money paying premiums, then it'll wake up
  22. Sorry. Just a little tired of seeing chief executives get away with lying to the public and us all dangerously sweeping it all under the rug in the name of unity. We're all hearing so many lies, we're collectively losing the ability to recognize the truth.
  23. I think tearing out the rose garden, paving it over, and replacing it with a $200,000,000 gilded ballroom is a much more effective and thoughtful "fuck you, you fucking motherfuckers" than renaming the Kenedy center, imo
  24. "IF" tariffs take effect, amirite incredulity?
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