completely obvious to any outside observer and literally never discussed the media is how monumentally, generationally stupid everyone in the trump administration is. their ideas are fucking stupid. as in, their brains do not work for considering complex problems. because they’re really stupid
a unified theory of Donald Trump’s actions
Everything is awful, but there is something grimly amusing about the xenophobic nationalist begging foreign governments to bail him out of the disaster he created.
god this is going to be awful but they went to war with the childish misconception that they were going to bomb everyone and that no one was going to bomb them
It's 2026 and I am officially out of patience for people who still believe that Cheney endorsing Harris in 2024 was an example of Harris swinging right rather than Cheney correctly thinking that Trump was so dangerous she would rather stand with a person from across the aisle than promote him.
Enshitification ratchet or realignment is basically the ballgame.
Which can come down to this question: can a critical mass of the electorate (both by churn and persuasion) change its preferences?
need a gif that communicates “your argument is basically correct on the merits but you have a clear personality disorder that makes it difficult to publicly side with you, though this is further complicated by said personality disorder probably being the thing that made you able to make this case”
The Israeli government answer to every problem now is collective punishment of civilians and other war crimes.
ABSOLUTE DESTRUCTION, by Isabel Hull, is the book everyone needs to read to understand Israel's descent into batshit insane war criming.
They're addicted to using maximum aggression with no limits as the answer to every problem, and for very similar structural political reasons as the Kaiserreich.
Every day just gets dumber and dumber with no end in sight.
Everyone rolls their eyes and grumbles about dual-storage requirements and four-hour rated fireproof cabinets, but when the bombers are overhead,
Entering my Oblivion NPCmaxing era. The gates of hell are open? Wow, that’s crazy. Have you heard of the high elves? They say Smash and Bash has the best prices in town for warhammers and maces.
real alpha male stuff here
literally the entire reason for their existence and when it's time to shine the lights are too bright? complete frauds man, embarrassing
Why even are geographic combatant commands?
I can't believe how much value i get out of this meme. Truly an evergreen
One of the things that really trips a lot of analysts, including ones with real skin in the game, is that they refuse - absolutely refuse - to accept how stupid Trump very obviously is. He has no knowledge of anything, is incapable of learning, and only remembers the last thing to happen to him.
"I will read the book for Generals Who Don't Think Because They're Failsons, because it's famous, but never question why the Failson Guide got so popular or was necessary to begin with"
Depressingly common mindset, seemingly.
This is because hating the Democrats is a way to build social currency with other Democrats in a way that the Republicans don't do
It's genuinely funny how the only place you run into luddites and anprims is the internet
You are a PhD holder posting on the internet, every single aspect of your current existence is the result of automation allowing for more leisure time for the working class
i think robots doing all the work and people doing whatever they want to do would be awesome actually
i think that's the entire point society should be working towards
Home owners have been at the centre of political power for so long that merely shifting the focus to renters and their wellbeing is seen as an attack.
Electing this guy twice is really bad. But the real reason the US cannot be trusted is that it has been unable to impeach him.
This is so damned stupid.
>Iran has some Tomahawks.
we're going to win and we're going to make the people who did this to him pay
man this makes me tear up
If I understand correctly, the thing propping up the global economy is Wall Street’s collective belief that a man whose father, wife, and daughter we killed would not want to do anything that would impact our 401ks to us and will make a deal so Mr. Trump can have a good midterm.
