Cuts

October 6, 2025, 5:46 PMOctober 6, 2025, 5:46 PM Chill Prediction, War

Remember: if China really chooses to go to war against us, you won't learn about it through blaring headlines and social media posts. Unless you're at the highest levels of government, you'll learn about it through the unexplained digital silence you suddenly experience. https://t.co/98xE1Hxeae

— Tom Shugart (@tshugart3) October 3, 2025

Yes. China’ll be taking out satellites, cutting undersea cables, hacking infrastructure and bombing data centers.

How do I know? Because that’s what I’d do, and I’m awesome at this shit.

Pother

October 6, 2025, 4:56 PM Chill Evil

Communism crashed in the 90s and then 9/11 happened, and the Left decided that Islam was the next globally ascendant challenger to the West, so they decided to make an "alliance" https://t.co/Bji810ZMPC

— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) October 5, 2025

I think that gloss is basically correct. To be fair, the left has more than a few good proposals. This alliance, though, was fucking atrociously terrible, will probably ruin Europe for 300 years, and has significantly harmed the US too.

So, fail, and kind of negates all their other decent ideas.

Obtain

October 6, 2025, 4:42 PM Chill Clowns, Evil

Yes. The right has responded to this type of thing with fascism, terrorism, and outright mysticism. That is a bad response that will only hurt us all.

But they weren't responding to *nothing*. https://t.co/5MN2c4jEoK

— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) October 6, 2025

Agreed. Both sides have basically gone insane. As I’ve said many times before, we needed New Minds and did not get them.

That’ll mean war, calamity and mass death before we do.

Gave Up

October 6, 2025, 4:24 PM Chill Politics

The new Prime Minister of Japan on Russia, from earlier this year.

"The U.S.-Russia-led ceasefire talks remain deeply concerning. If the world accepts border changes through military force, the global order will collapse. Without guarantees for Ukraine’s security, any ceasefire… pic.twitter.com/KyqWojOnEH

— Jay in Kyiv (@JayinKyiv) October 6, 2025

She’s dead on. Knows what’s up.

Bubble Pop

October 6, 2025, 1:16 PM Chill Annoying, Clowns

The housing market bubble is about to burst as badly as the Internet bubble.

It’s fascinating to read these comments from 2004, about a year-and-a-half before the housing bubble did in fact burst. Mostly to avoid legal prosecution, a successful propaganda operation was launched post hoc claiming that no one could have know there was a bubble, etc., so now the fact that tons of people (including me) knew in advance has been memory-holed.

About half the people in the comments are claiming that a housing bubble does not exist or that it was impossible to even have a bubble while the other half are claiming — correctly — that the market was a bubble ready to pop.

The level of denial in some is interesting: