Watching Ian Welsh become a consistently-wrong Jew-hating Putin-worshiping mega-putz, I hope someone would tell me if I went down such a bad path.
Lord, please tell me. I don’t wanna go out like that.
Clowns
Changing Hate
It’s nice that there is some pushback against the moronic “you just hate change” screeching that sprouted up (mostly) in the tech world as increasing enshittification of all tech products occurred and then accelerated.
Pushed at first by (mostly) paid industry shills, this absurd narrative was also embraced by self-abasing and unpaid pitiful clowns.
Yes, you stupid, stupid motherfuckers, I do in fact hate change that directly harms me. I very much do.
Clined
U.S. faces $90 billion tourism hit as Trump tariffs, deportation push drive away visitors pic.twitter.com/QUJbAaSneS
— NewsWire (@NewsWire_US) April 20, 2025
I mean, who in the fucking world would want to visit this clown show? No one with any brain.
Deportable
You’d have to be absolutely fucking nuts to visit the United States now.
Just don’t do it. Stay far, far away from this absurd police state.
WDCS
this kind of thing annoys me because they think a "big" number makes the argument without any context for how much that really is.
this means it would take 150-300 gpt questions to match the water cost of a single almond pic.twitter.com/LDNDyARCvL
— Aaron (@AaronEstel) April 18, 2025
And all modern data centers (thus, 99.98% of them) are closed-loop so the water cost is basically 0.
The energy cost, on the other hand, is fairly substantial. Which is why we need fucktons of solar, wind, nuclear, etc. We need energy abundance, not this wanker degrowther clown shit.
YESAA
The world's premier weather agency is being eviscerated in front of our eyes.
The U.S. will pay for it in economic loss and lives. https://t.co/DrYm4fZsEo
— Dakota Smith (@weatherdak) April 17, 2025
This helps no one and harms everyone. Fucking idiots. We are ruled by fucking idiots1.
Fed Down
When Trump manages to replace Jerome Powell at the Fed is when things are really going to spiral into absolute chaos.
It’ll be bad before that. After, it’ll be absolutely apocalyptic. That’s when we’ll see unemployment ramping up to 40% and 20%+ inflation.
It’s inevitable now.
Ripped
dawg our whole economy is about to become crypto scams https://t.co/vtOuSxnquI
— Luke Metro – e/he/him (@luke_metro) April 15, 2025
GDP is going to crater, and unemployment will hit 20% within a year or so. It’ll only get worse from there.
Both the economy itself and the underpinnings of the economy are being ripped apart. Any idiot who voted for this deserves to suffer. Unfortunately all the rest of us will, too.
Get your emergency fund up if you can. It’d be best to have 2-3 years of reserves there, but I know that is not possible for most people. Just do the best you can because you absolutely will need it. This is going to be bad in a way that I am having trouble expressing to all of you who do not study history and who have lived soft lives.
Worse From Bad
TLS Certificate Lifetimes Will Officially Reduce to 47 Days.
So fucking pointless and moronic, and will produce a lot of extra work among many, many people for absolutely zero increase in security of any kind.
I hate anyone who had anything to do with this very, very much.
Party Like It’s 1929
a lot of people are still under the delusion that the tariff war is only affecting the stock market and not the “real economy” and they are in for a rude awakening pic.twitter.com/REweFMu47N
— Armand Domalewski (@ArmandDoma) April 14, 2025
Very rude, and very soon. All y’all have no idea what’s about to hit.
Down 40
The American government will no longer collect statistics on levels of lead in childrens’ blood, alcohol deaths, exposures to dangerous chemicals, rates of cancer in firefighters.
The Trump team is so unfathomably stupid and destructive. pic.twitter.com/spCpF66bC0
— Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇦🇹🇼 (@DrewPavlou) April 13, 2025
Their clown noses get bigger and redder every day.
And the depression that’s coming is just looking to be worse and worse. Probably ~40% unemployment at the bottom I’d guess.
Coyo
God we're so fucked https://t.co/qrfSzCOj3V
— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) April 14, 2025
This is what I mean when I say a depression is already baked in. At this moment we’re like Wile E. Coyote who has run out beyond the edge of the cliff, waiting for gravity to do its worst. There is now nothing we can do to prevent the fall into the canyon below. We are indeed so very fucked.
It’s coming. Get ready.
Opp Cost
People seriously underestimate how many problems with the American economy are just caused by stupid shit like nimbyism that we could just stop doing. It’s more interesting to think that there are these structural problems that require radical action
— Aleph (@woke8yearold) April 10, 2025
NIMBYism is one of the worst of these. It’s reduced potential GDP likely by 30%. I’d guess more like 50%.
The Pressure
I expect the US to be firmly in depression by early- to mid-2026. After that, it’s a bit more nebulous but if Trump is still healthy I’d expect a coup attempt in 2028. It’ll probably succeed. That means no getting out of the depression for a long while.
This is now all just rampant speculation, but my guess is that since Trump really has no successor to speak of and likely never will, that we emerge from depression conditions around 2032 when semi-normal elections resume. This will occur of course because Trump is not in office for whatever reason.
I hope this catastrophe was all worth defeating woke? Sure doesn’t seem like it to me. But I hope it does as you and your family are starving with no job and no future.
Amana
these aren't even horribly bloated rocket dev cuts, just research missions that for pennies advance knowledge by miles. profoundly decel. https://t.co/fMGEyl44oz
— psychosomatica (@Xenoimpulse) April 12, 2025
We have become the stupidest nation on earth. America has been trending that way for a while, but we finally made it.
Enoy your refrigerator boxes by the side of the road, MAGA idiots. You’ll be living there soon enough.