“Influencers” are very often just self-obsessed slot machines.
14.03.2026 00:48
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“Influencers” are very often just self-obsessed slot machines.
Representative democracy is not all that bad. However, even within the insanely anti-democratic FPP system, Americans are very often not permitted to vote for a candidate they prefer. Procedural tricks means your entitlement to vote is conditional on the political lean of your local meshblock.
Those would be the “suckers and losers”, then.
“It’s not easy being a cop!” —Shooty and Bang Bang.
I figure there is little hope for the happy ending of By Dawn’s Early Light.
Given the stakes, it is worth poking the perpetually self-absorbed US politicians towards doing the right thing. www.qasimrashid.com/p/the-war-on...
The Americans so base as to adore Trump are the Toclafane.
FFP voting systems are a way for loathsome politicians to pretend that the percentage of people voting for them reflects the percentage of people who would want them politicians elected.
Calvinism and with it, the adulation of the richest ad cruellest and the assumption that wealth and cruelty demonstrates fitness to rule.
FPP is an abysmal voting system: As the saying goes, “All votes for anyone other than the runner-up are votes for the winner.” Not voting in the case of an obviously evil major candidate, of course, is an evil choice: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
It’s probably be a soldered-in SSD to make the machine electrically fragile and unserviceable. I think it’s intended to be a slavebook, a sort of dumb terminal with outrageously capricious terms of use.
I wonder how much of the time Americans step out of the US, they do it just to treat the rest of the world and the people in it as more television or a Disney park theme ride.
A secondary reason the US imprisons children in schools, if Supersize Me is anything to go by, is to feed them horrifying school lunches decided by junk food companies and keep the kids from finding better food elsewhere. (I nearly threw up when I saw the school food in Supersize Me.)
Trump is acting like he intends to provoke Nine-Eleven Times a Thousand. I guess that is why he is so keen on acquiring Ukraine’s interceptor drones.
...and an inordinate fondness of flags and tattoos featuring their favourite rotary garden sprinkler.
Gasoline prices have decreased from $2.94 to $3.45. Chocolate rations have increased from 20 grams to 18 grams.
From watching Keegan Tatum’s videos about MAGAts, I guess that Right Wing types in general are deeply submissive to authority and demonstrations of power.
I feel like some American tourists treat other countries and other people as just more television or products to be consumed. It is _so_ unfair for a consumer, a member of the Master Race of TV Shoppers, to be inspected and judged by a mere product!
War is the source of American wealth, so to Americans, endless war is an investment in endless prosperity. To avoid uncomfortable thoughts about that, they rely on the myth of American Exceptionalism to explain their relatively good fortune.
Those acts seem like predictable behaviour for followers of a American consumer grade Christianity,™ the McDonald’s Happy Meal of religion marketed to narcissists to whom the world is just more television.
The prayer is not valid until Trump ceremoniously poops in the Oval Office chair.
Hopefully Trump meets a most ignominious nemesis, such as a banana peel on an escalator while a vengeful AI couch deals to Vance, a 44 gallon drum of Gun Oil™ accidentally falls on Hegseth and a tragic toothbrush accident obliterates Nosferatu.
I believe Hegseth is a Super Christian,™ the sort to harvest orgones at the Super Adventure Club.
All of those robots have shares in the military and reconstruction business, I gather.
I think he means that the Epstein class are offering to US troops the exciting prospect of state-condoned seventh degree marriages.
I expect Trump to send some of Ukraine’s interceptor drones and firmware to Russia to be reversed-engineered.
Putin juxtaposed with “Frank”, an equally pathetic looking robot.
One picture of Putin reminds me of “Frank”, an equally pathetic looking robot which appears on the album art for News of the World by Queen or the original as pained in Astounding Science Fiction in 1953 (where the robot is holding a very obviously dead man, saying “Please... fix it, Daddy?”)
1/11 Trump’s operation in Iran is not just reshaping the Middle East.
It is dramatically altering the geopolitical calculus for Ukraine.
For Kyiv, this new conflict is a massive double-edged sword.
Here is a breakdown of the very real upsides and downsides 🧵
It seems that by militarily forcing the return of Jayzus,™ the man-deity who said “I come not to bring peace, but an assault rifle”, the Super Christians™ hope to finally have their miserable mortal lives ended.
I believe Andrew Tate is Keegan Tatum’s idea of a deeply submissive person, submissive to authority.