Why did I have to live in the stupidest timeline?
Beavis and Butthead are co-president, the most destructive organization in the world is named after a memecoin, and the anti-vaxxers have effectively won the discourse.
Also, people like Ian Welsh worship Putin, a two-bit thug who still might take over most of Europe.
Get me outta here.
From being a photojournalist and then a blogger for many years, I know that only about 10% of people will read your entire article and of those maybe 5% will understand it. And that is no matter how clearly you write or how much you stress your thesis.
So I don’t really care that much about those who “hate” me as they are hating some version of me that doesn’t exist based on an article or post they did not read fully and if they did, they did not understand.
Not my problem.
The foundations of America’s prosperity are being dismantled.
The US will be a much, much poorer and worse country after this four years. This was not inevitable; it will be a direct result of actions by President Musk and and his lackey Trump.
I have trouble understanding why they are doing this other than the urge to destroy, as these actions will harm even Musk in the end. It seems just utterly pointless. The only hypothesis I can posit is that China and Russia are promising them enough that diminishing the US is worth it to them.
But I have no insight other than that.
The Economist: "In April 2022, following Russia’s retreat from the north of Ukraine, it controlled 19.6% of Ukrainian territory; its casualties (dead and wounded) were perhaps 20,000. Today Russia occupies 19.2% and its casualties are 800,000, reckon British sources." pic.twitter.com/h3hx04S7i4
— Richard Hanania (@RichardHanania) February 20, 2025
Ian Welsh: OMG WINNING SO HARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111
Everyone who is not a goddamn confirmed idiot: Wow, that’s a colossal waste of money and people to achieve nearly nothing.
America is being sold out by its leaders.
Indeed. The probability of another Great Recession is 90%. And I’d put the chance of a depression (1930s equivalent, not 1873 variant) at around 30% now. And that is directly due to Trump/Musk and the destruction they will wreak upon this nation.
All of you Trump voters did FA and now are about to FO. And yes, Harris would’ve been better. Still bad but better.
I’ve apparently gaslit myself about the monty hall problem since learning about it 10 years ago!
What the heck? What would even be the point of the problem if the host ever opens the door with the prize? Goddamn, people are stupid.
This is such an easy probability problem too. It’s dead simple so it’s always mystified me why it confuses anyone.
New Chrome update disables uBlock.
I hate to admit it, but Chrome is finding ways to be even worse and stupider than Mozilla with Firefox.
And that’s kind of amazing. A browser without uBlock is unusable.
Elon Musk buying Twitter and bending it to favor Trump isn’t rigging the election, you fuckin’ numpties.
That’s called “strategy” and the Democrats should try it sometime. Creating a favorable information environment for themselves is something Dems are uniquely terrible at, so I can understand why when another person or entity does it they see it as cheating.
But it’s how you win. So of course they won’t do that.
Any peace “deal” regarding Ukraine would just be there to allow Putin and Russia to rebuild military strength and take the rest of the country in 2-3 years.
Of course. Anyone who thinks anything else is a full-on idiot.
what the fuck does this mean https://t.co/2eTGgdwokX
— Misha, Photographer, Eligible Bachelor (@drethelin) February 18, 2025
Sometimes I wonder if people cannot read or remember things they lived through. Or it’s just some sort of weird trolling or clownin’.
NATO invoked Article 5 after the 9/11 attacks — the only time it’s ever done so. Many NATO nations supported the US afterward as a result of that article’s invocation. That’s what it fucking means, damn.
What’s fascinating about the Fat Acceptance and Health at Any Size movements is that no one truly bought that it was possible to be healthy at 400 pounds, or that vying with a tractor-trailer for mass was anything good. Even the people espousing this did not in fact actually believe it — which was obvious if you merely listened to how they talked about it.
These movements born of despair were always designed to be a psy-op, as much to convince themselves than to sway anyone else.
And now it’s all getting torpedoed by semaglutides.
I understand that those twin crusades sprung from people not feeling like they were regarded as fully human. And trust me, I get it. How much differently I’m treated now (particularly by women) that I look like I stepped out of an Avengers film is telling. It is a different world.
But that doesn’t make being the size of shipping container healthy, or change reality in any other way. Alas.
Literally riding motorbikes over landmines. I assume they must be desperate to try and advance this way https://t.co/l5NQ65IVeq
— David Hambling (@David_Hambling) February 17, 2025
I’ve seen some stupid stuff in my life, but this is next level dumbassery. But that is how the Russians roll…quite literally.
I say this as a confirmed grumpy jerk-ass: this guy sounds like real doofball. Just a terrible person to know and to be around. If I’m the death of the party, this dude is the apocalypse of all parties past, future and present.
Cool, dude, it’s great that you don’t like anything at all but a banjo (?) and penning overwrought articles about how very superior you are to anyone who likes anything. I can’t believe I wasted my time reading this turd but I am going to warn everyone else against it, at least: avoid at all costs.
It sucks that he seems to have decided that nothing will be permitted to move him again, that he is apart from the world and that anything that attempts some artfulness is “pandering,” but good god I did not need to read a thousand words about it.
Just go do banjo stuff. You’re not an apostate or an iconoclast. Just an assclown.
What’s even sadder than the “any age gap is rape” and “full-grown women have no agency” pseudofeminists is the men performatively declaring that to them, Sophie Thatcher or Jenna Ortega looks like a mere child. Why, they might not even be women these monk-like men are so very unattracted to them.
Bro, trust me, it’s ok to find some of the most attractive women in the world attractive. Jesus fucking Christ, fucking losers.
My advice is to not get involved in women’s intrasexual competition. It’s not actually aimed at you and only makes you look like a damn idiot.
What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.
— Philip Gourevitch (@pgourevitch.bsky.social) February 14, 2025 at 8:10 PM
This kind of damage will take 50-80 years to recover from, if it happens at all. At this rate, we don’t have a hope against China.