What they really want is to be cool and have people respect them, and they’re not getting that

You’d think so, but no. Project 2025 can be traced back through the heritage foundation to the Technocracy movement, which was a bunch of proto-tech bros like Elon’s Grandpa

They thought they were the smartest little guys and so they should control all aspects of society. They wanted to carve the world up into economic zones, and they wanted America’s to be from the Panama canal to the artic, including Greenland, so they could control shipping through the artic and across the Atlantic

They were really big about shipping lanes, which is why South Africa randomly comes up too

I’m saying it’s nice to think about how people could be better…

But office workers absolutely do not all know how to touch type. When you find yourself working at an office, your typing speed tends to get faster, but if you don’t already know how to touch type you just peck faster

It’s why I’m so militant about my young relatives learning it. It’s not that hard to learn, but you have to learn it before you actually need it or you never will

They’re kinda locked in on the “reign of terror” tech tree

The state holds the keys to power that grant it the monopoly on violence. In a democracy, those keys are pretty spread out, in an oligarchy, they’re less so.

Any one of the oligarchs could take over at basically any moment, and with shit hitting the fan the way it is, Putin can’t show weakness or own failure at all

And everyone should understand basic science

But they don’t, do they?

Exactly.

Gerrymandering gives a 5-10 point advantage. If can backfire, and I think it’s going to

It’s not going away. Why do you think Congress members have resigned this post month? It’s not because they care, it’s because they realize being an incumbent is a liability at this point

Us, right now?

This isn’t a unicorn. Literally the entire Senate voted to release the Epstein files, that unanimously passed law in the Senate was not followed

No he doesn’t… He doesn’t give a shit about them. He’s abandoned so many loyalists it’s crazy

He talks shit about them even. He relishes when they get punished in his name

Yes, but really no.

They impeached him, which is the name of the procedure to remove an official from office, but then they didn’t have the Senate votes to remove him from office

Congress. They can just impeach her

I mean she could refuse to leave, but then she’d be committing all sorts of crimes on a daily basis

That’s individualistic bullshit.

The collective is what matters! It’s the whole point of all of it!

You can’t do collective action independently. It doesn’t work that way. A million people marching separately is just a million people going for a walk

You have to have a group. It doesn’t need hierarchy or organization, but it does need an immune system. You need bad actors to fall in line or be expelled. You all have to point in the same direction, even if you’d rather be a little more to one side or another

Because it’s a farm subsidy.

You thought it was about starving people? Fuck no, that’s basically coincidental, it’s for the farmers! You know how they get when they don’t get endless subsidies

Because no one cares about Pam Bondi, but the American people care about the Epstein files

Who’s going to defend her? She made the administration look bad while also pissing off the public

What should the consequences be?

You need to be very loud about your answer to that question, that’s how the world works

That’s not the problem. America is just desperate for change, and the Democrats are allergic to using power

Obama won on promising change, but did nothing except put healthcare into a death spiral (the ACA came from the heritage foundation, also known for hits like project 2025)

Biden won because of the pandemic, and then the Democratic party quietly fiddled with the dials a little. But they were still so allergic to rocking the boat they didn’t prosecute Trump for attempting a coup

Then Biden/Kamala ran on the platform “everything is actually already perfect, you’re just too stupid to realize it”

Recently they refused to release the autopsy of the election, because it said the one thing they refuse to try… Meaningful change. To take a stand against the billionaires and make some enemies

Trump is different. He got up there and said “our county is on fire, and I’m going to fix it”. And then he said the most incoherent meaningless shit, which was then sane washed through the billionaire controlled media to say dozens of different things

But he’s already spent the trust of the people too now. They’re not going to buy into that kind of rhetoric again for a while, but they’re also done with the gaslighting and empty posturing

What we need is someone who will use their power for good. No more empty promises or consultant pilled drivel. Clear, simple to understand plans. Crisp messaging. Explicit promises.

The current Democratic establishment is floundering in their attempts to find some formula where they can copy the energy of change, but still do the centrist uniparty bullshit.

We don’t need to get over Trump, we need to get past the Democratic party leaders and their ratfucking of progressives

The Gasby party while they withheld snap, tearing down the Whitehouse, the hunger games… It’s so on the nose a grade schooler would pick up on the symbolism

Seriously… They can stop physically performing metaphors, we get it!

But honestly, it’s probably because I have ideasthesia. I feel ideas tactically

Bad code feels slimy, problem areas feel like sharp angles, good code feels clean and smooth, like a smooth river stone with clean even grooves that gracefully curve

Best advice I can give is to strive to write elegant code. I don’t strictly follow style guides or do docstrings… These are superficial. I try to match the style of the project, but my code is consistent even in projects that are not

Elegant code is pretty, regardless of formatting. You’ll know it when you see it, junior devs will follow the patterns without instruction. It does not require explanation, it does exactly what you think it does, and it makes complex problems simple

Yeah, that sounds about right.

Do you ever wonder if we’re in hell?