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Everything is Shit: Tracking the Great Enshittening
Brisketexan replied to 956 Worldwide's topic in Daily Texan
No disagreement there, but the way we GET there is by ensuring that none of those excessive risk takers are large enough to be a load-bearing pillar of the economy, such that their failure would cause larger collapse. Don't make YOUR risk so great that it would materially damage OUR economy. Kind of like we don't let people use their homes as bomb-making factory - because your failure would cause massive harm to surrounding structures. The underlying social contract involves such trade-offs. If we want to encourage people to take large risks in the pursuit of large reward and large "innovation" (and maybe we do, there's definitely a good case to be made), then we should also ensure that they - and they alone - bear the burden of that risk. Because, spoiler: they, and they alone SURE AS SHIT will reap all of the reward if it pays off. -
I mean, that's literally our national motto under this regime, so....yeah.
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Everything is Shit: Tracking the Great Enshittening
Brisketexan replied to 956 Worldwide's topic in Daily Texan
The phenomenon emphasizes the wisdom and need for real anti-trust law and enforcement. Sure, let these fuckers go out there and leverage to the hilt, and crash and burn. Just none of this "too big to fail" shit (which, when you let one or two entity's become that dominant, is an actual thing -- their failure could lead to total economy disaster). It is bad policy to (1) allow an enterprise to get that big/economically dominant, (2) gamble with its own life, (3) lose, and then (4) say "nope, you can't let us crash, we're too big and too important, use the people's money to bail us out." The thing is, item (4) is not untrue in many such cases. So....don't let it become true. But, we have no interest in doing that. As a society, we live to serve monopolies and oligarchies, and you and I have no purpose other than to be a source of revenue for those things. That's fucking fucked. The economy should serve and benefit its citizens, not vice-versa. -
Everything is Shit: Tracking the Great Enshittening
Brisketexan replied to 956 Worldwide's topic in Daily Texan
When the market is skewed by stupid debt financing that creates an unsustainable bubble, that's a problem. It's not like we haven't seen this umpteen times before. Loads of debt financing flows to asset X, inflating the price of asset X which is pretty harmful to ordinary consumers that actually need asset X. Then, the debt bubble inevitably pops, consumers are stuck with asset X that they overpaid for, and we all have to bail out the mega-players who got fucked to the tune of billions of dollars for their Vegas gambles on said debt financing. It's legal. It's just dumb, harmful, and destructive. Unfettered "capitalism" has its downsides. This is a known one, and not only have we done nothing to mitigate it, we've gone under the hood to remove all speed governors and soup up the engine, so when we hit the wall, we hit it at ludicrous speed. Lather, rinse, repeat. -
I'm just sticking around for the discussion of how Immamac is gonna keep this discussion board going in a post-electricity world. I presume we'll be leaving sketches of dickbutt on a cave wall somewhere?
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This. If you show vacillation and inconsistency as a negotiator, then your counterparty will spend their time working on YOU, and trying to change your approach, instead of negotiating on the ultimate issue. Don’t walk in the door all loosey-goosey. Walk in firm and with a united approach.
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They’re too busy covering his room with antifa paraphernalia. There will surely be a file in there saying “antifa to-do list: sent by Joe Biden,” and shit like that.
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Yeah…way to draw out the family’s agony and grief, assholes. Plenty of solid flags indicating suicide. And saying “but suicide doesn’t make sense” is no rebuttal at all: suicide is very often not a rational decision. You could come up with all kinds of reason why the deceased shouldn’t have done so….but those reasons weren’t enough. It doesn’t make sense. Shit, it’s why the word “senseless” exists.
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This story is dead-on balls accurate. For most of the infrastructure you can think of. I’ve heard utility types brag about keeping things working in a maintenance budget that was 10% of what it should have been….because that’s what they were told to do because leadership never wants to raise rates. Those guys can keep shit going with duct tape and baling wire for a LONG time, until they can’t. And then 75 yrs of deferred maintenance comes due. And everyone bitches about the rate hike. It’s our national ethos. Opex is the devil.
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Brisketexan replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
Bingo. Which is why this regime and its supporters absolutely do not want, and are actually 100% opposed, to "merit-based" admissions, hiring, etc. Because it turns out that white men are pretty fucking mediocre. Talk to anyone hiring higher-level professionals and such. They'll tell you that out of the stack of resumes they get from grad programs etc., a vast majority of the good candidates are women and/or minorities. -
"All politics is simp fealty to Trump." - New GQP version
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I'd think poorly - as in, so poorly they could never recover in my eyes - of anyone who DID trust those two absolute in-over-their-head clowns.
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Good question. I pondered that before myself. "Okay...I came up with this calendar. It starts....RIGHT NOW!" "But sir, according to the oracles, and the solstice, and all that other shit, it's the middle of June. So we just missed the first half of the very first year EVER? That doesn't seem right."
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What is sufficient? Being white. That’s it.
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Charlie Kirk assassinated at an event in Utah (by a 22 YO groyper)
Brisketexan replied to msbesq's topic in Cloak Room
Yep, my son made that exact point. He actually told us that he has cited the Bible recently, in the context of discussing text/dogma that has influenced particular positions.....and he cited not just specific chapter and verse, but also third-party sources that validated the assertion that said chapter and verse was a basis for the particular belief. In other words, the basic blocking and tackling of any researched paper. These fuckers are pure sophistry -- their source for damned near everything is "because I say/believe so." It's self-validating. How do we know what you say is true? Well, I said it. Therefore, it's true. I cite myself. Fucking idiocracy. -
Charlie Kirk assassinated at an event in Utah (by a 22 YO groyper)
Brisketexan replied to msbesq's topic in Cloak Room
My son spotted this story the other day. As he is in the midst of writing multiple senior-level papers for his classes, his comment was "I read her submission. It got a shit grade because it was shit research and writing. If I turned in something that poorly written, I'd get a shit grade too." He also commented that he met an OU student on exchange last year (and he's connected with him on social media), and saw he "liked" the main post on this. His comment was "I did a project with him, and yeah, it's safe to say OU isn't a place of intellectual enlightenment. He was quite dull." Even in Germany, people figure out that OU SUCKS. -
The cultural messaging the regime has been sending these past months is truly incredible. Bottom line, if you fuck over people on a grand scale: fraud, corruption, bribery, massive drug trafficking.....those things are no longer crimes (if your policy is to remove all consequences for those acts, you have functionally decriminalized the acts). I cannot adequately express how damaging all of this is. The powerful now have license to do whatever they want, with no restrictions or consequences. The image of blind lady justice with scales needs to be permanently retired. It's over.
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Look up the story of Kaoru Hasegawa. A pilot attacking American ships off Okinawa in 1945. Shot down. Ended up floating in the water. Rescued by the USS Callaghan. Fucking hell. These fucking assholes who puff out their chests and call themselves "warfighters" and such bullshit, only to commit acts of cowardice and false bravado and power over the powerless....fuck those fucks. They are not fit to be within a mile of the uniform or the US military. You win war with weapons, you win peace with values. We're working on destroying everything we built for a century in a matter of weeks. And Trumpers think that's a good thing. The men of the USS Callaghan - men who actually saw and went through hell, and had just been attacked (that is, they weren't sitting safely in the Pentagon or Florida, watching shit on a screen) - would say differently. I'm with them. Not the cowards who think that a title gives them honor. No, you fucks, ACTING with honor makes you honorable. Nothing else does.
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Again....duh. There's never any complexity with this bunch. Imagine the straight-line dumbest/most criminal thing they could do....and that's the thing they do.
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Duh. It's been known that's exactly what happened for quite a while. Not really ambiguous. We executed German officers for doing exactly the same thing. The individuals responsible for this should end up in Leavenworth until they turn to ash and bone.
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I already pointed it out. It's more money. MUCH more money. And it's OUR FUCKING MONEY. These dollars come right out of the US treasury. The entire Regime and Trump crime syndicate is openly operating to siphon our money out of the US treasury and into their pockets. They are, quite simply, looting the treasury. Not wasting the money. Not spending it unwisely. Just flat-out looting the treasury. And all of these fucking idiots who support him think that this is "draining the swamp." Dumbest. Fucking. Humans. To ever. Fucking. Exist. And understand that I am using "human" in the broadest sense to include all hominids. These fuckers are dumber than Lucy. WE HAVE NO FOREIGN POLICY. "Do whatever will enrich the Trump crime syndicate" is not a foreign policy.
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Yeah.....nevermind the horror show plastic surgery, look at her arms and legs. Eating disorder and manic exercise seems to be the order of the day there. That's fucked up.
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This. Full stop. I've negotiated with plenty of irrational, maximalist opposing parties. And once they have given you enough indications that is their approach, your only appropriate response is "fine. You know how to reach us when you're ready to talk." Then, you do two things. First, you stand fast against everything they throw at you. Don't back down. Second, counter-attack and score some wins: bloody their nose. Opposing parties like this don't come to the table until their pain threshold is exceeded. It is the only thing that will motivate them to seek a deal. Any moment until then doing anything else -- and any moment that you are not devoting to doing the only thing that will advance the ball (that is, punching them in the nose repeatedly) -- is a waste of time. Russia will deal either when Russia breaks/Putin dies, or when the pain becomes too much to bear. And they can bear a lot of pain, so you need to inflict a lot of pain. Well-to-do Russians freezing in their apartments in Moscow this winter, that sort of shit, is how you advance the ball.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
Brisketexan replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
There is a 100% chance Grok has been fed data Musk lifted from the federal government when he was doing DOGE shit. Soon, Grok will give you the banks account number of every person who has ever received a SS check or IRS tax refund. -
Don't I know it. That's why I only kidnap blonde and brunette chicks for my sex dungeon. Wait, we're in open forum here....shit....too late to edit. Just kidding!
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