Most ultra wealthy people have really well stocked fridges even if their chef or nutritionist or whoever shops for them. They open their fridge and see groceries

Trump grabs McDonald’s or goes to restaurants. I honestly think he doesn’t understand the concept of groceries, it’s so neat to him because he just learned where hamburgers come from

I like that idea a lot

Plus with water, we can just say fuck you, you don’t get to run the tap constantly for cooling, it’s a total waste of clean drinking water. Build more solar panels and figure out a less insane way

You’re also putting money in Google’s pocket… They’ve been caught doing things like this to cheese their metrics

Once a customer burns through their ad buy and sees they got a ton of clicks, they’re going to think “oh shit, this worked great”. Even under closer inspection, it looks like the ad worked, but that they’re failing to make the sales

So they’re probably going to buy more

This idea only works by helping inflate the advertising bubble, until it pops you’re just supporting ad services

It’s basically just burning through the credit they’ve paid Google and making their numbers look like the ad was effective, but conversion was low

Google has been caught doing similar things to make their metrics look better

This does hurt advertising in a nebulous kind of accelerationist way, but it does end up with more ad money being given to Google

Well that’s a misleading title

Same as it ever was

I don’t disagree except where we are in this process

Pelosi resigned, Schumer went missing, Higgs is doing talk show circuits, and everyone turned to AOC and Bernie for comments

This was the leadership failing. The old guard has lost control of the party

Umm… Yeah, I think that’s already happened

They threw all the money and burned through all the remaining goodwill trying to keep us from getting to what happened Tuesday

Lol. Come on, keep your dreams in the realm of possibility

Trump will die never facing consequences for his many crimes. But it will be soon

Nope. When I said quietly, I meant it… This got very little media attention. Also, search is pretty much dead at this point, I can’t find shit I read a week ago - there’s too many results around Jan 6 no matter how specific I query it

But essentially, the top brass created a voicemail for trump, there’s a bunch of deleted texts between the military and secret service, and then Trump was conspicuously absent during the handover process

They will go to unimaginable lengths to learn the wrong lessons, don’t get me wrong. And they’re doing their very best

They’re testing literally everything except being more progressive… Everything from working with MAGA and bringing out Obama

But none of their bizarre mixing and matching of everything imaginable, including testing fucking Hunter Biden for a presidential run, have paid off at all

I just think it’s finally obvious, and urgent, enough that the leadership is going to turn over. At the end of the day, the leadership might be willing to go down with the ship over this, but the rank and file won’t

The military basically removed him from power quietly after Jan 6 and worked with Pelosi to do the transition

Did you see the part where the defacto leader of the party didn’t show up to his own press conference, so the reporters asked Bernie (who was just watching from the back) if he’d answer questions?

The Democratic establishment fought Mamdani (and progressives generally) along with Trump and the oligarchs and lost massively. Both parties are in chaos right now, because it’s obvious that money is no longer enough to win elections, even safe ones

They’re all going to be quiet for a while before the other shoe drops, hopefully the infighting will make it easier for progressives to rise to prominence

The more popular plan among them seems to be this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy

If you read through it you’ll find a lot of the things in project 2025 that came out of nowhere (like taking Canada, Greenland, and Panama) are actually goals of the movement

Oh, and Elon’s Grandpa was in the movement, and the heritage foundation was started by the same group

They’ve been there for more than a generation, and they’re not occupying the country, they’re basically just a group of weird neighbors

Everything is normal when you grow up with it, and their contact with the troops is going to be exclusively when they’re off duty and likely looking to spend money

How? An airtag isn’t going to work from inside you, and they’re going to search you. They also like to bounce people around to make them hard to track, so that tracker is going to end up wherever the person was processed

This just isn’t practical with current technology

It’s an exaggeration to illustrate a point… It’s not literally true

But it is pointing at something that is true

Sure, because that’s the norm for humans

I’m sure you could find specific subcultures elsewhere that don’t do this, but it’s the default everywhere else. It’s not just close family friends or people you grew up with, any friend from a generation up is Uncle or Aunty

I’m sure there’s a reason for it, and it’s probably a very interesting one

Like every other culture uses familial terms for an extra layer of casual address, white people are the only ones that don’t

Say he’s brown without saying he’s brown lol