SteveKirk
16d ago
Very saturated now though. Becoming a fresh right wing Twitter personality puts you up against some very stiff competition. Sadly even the constant struggle to stay on top has burned out a lot of good men: 0HPLovecraft is about to hit -10
SteveKirk
16d ago
I'm more interested in what was with the people trying to convince everyone who doubted it that they were crazy. There was a real hard consensus building push there, almost as forced as "weird" was.
Didn't one of those leftist media assassination groups literally hire a group of people to listen to every Joe Rogan episode to find things they could use to get him kicked off Spotify? I definitely remember that being organized within a few days of him getting the deal, as the pressure groups collaborated with traitors in the company.
SteveKirk
17d ago
Sorely wishing I could join the riots just to score a truck load of free plywood, but I bet it's all quarter inch, and half of it looks like fucking osb.
SteveKirk
17d ago
This is exactly what I meant in my prediction post last night. He's already got everyone playing defense trying to prove reality is real to his satisfaction.
SteveKirk
17d ago
Wait, you're telling me Cadence Owens is with the Schizocore Hyperboria video crowd now?
SteveKirk
17d ago
Seems like the big positive is getting dad active again, right? Depending on how he's feeling about the whole thing that might outweigh everything else.
SteveKirk
17d ago
None from the looks of it, but what's the actual ballot return rate? A few of these guys might put down the bong and go find their ballots in the mail pile, or actually go to the polls on their lunch break.
SteveKirk
17d ago
if Republicans want the answers faster they could allow PA to start counting votes earlier
But you're also defending accepting new ballots days after the election anyway, so that's not a real argument for getting it done faster. It's so transparent.
Yeah. You don't get weird new policies added for dog-bites-man stories, even when it might be a good idea. But you get a horngry weasel down your pants one time and suddenly you're in an OSHA brief.
SteveKirk
17d ago
I wouldn't be so sure. Aren't a lot of his viewers low propensity young men who are extremely unlikely to have already done anything to vote early? It might be timed to get them out on election day itself.
I suspect they're expecting riots no matter who wins. They're organized and funded in advance, and you can't tell the people you've bussed in to shut up and go home without blowing off some steam. Like Hines always talks about, blues just consider it a charming youthful game for their tribe, like Spartan kids playing Pillage The Helots.
If Harris wins the riot can be about Dunkin Donuts' complicity with Israel or something.
SteveKirk
17d ago
I read the labels of coconut and almond "milk" recently, and realized they're literally just flavored carb-water. At least soy milk has a bit of protein in it.
I have terrible news for you about the board members of Euthanasia Trough Ltd
SteveKirk
18d ago
In case you didn't mistype that, please please please don't tell me how an animal sanctuary makes money on onlyfans.
I wouldn't take that bet, because these rules are written with coons, rats, bats, sacks of ferrets, angry geese, and other troublemakers in mind. The weird cases are heavily overrepresented in scenarios where you end up saying "today didn't go at all well, we'd better make a department policy about purse-carried mongooses"
Dem win, as I've been predicting since the biden-trump debate.
Literally nothing matters in this country except the institutions, and they are now as dominated by the ruling party as anything in China. And like in China, any apparent loosening of total control is just a slipup caused by intra-party feuding, like the Connecticut voting fraud case where someone got caught dropping off a garbage bag full of ballots for the wrong democrat in the primaries.
The real difference in this election is how little discussion there's been. I haven't felt the need to debate whatsoever, because it's as pointless as arguing with chatgpt. "Issues" don't matter, reality doesn't matter, only framing and who holds the megaphone matters.
Why get caught up playing the game of "that's misinformation! Well, maybe it's true but it's still malinformation! and anyway you're banned for Hate Speech, read the room." You can see all the moves coming 20 steps ahead, being right in retrospect doesn't matter because you still publicly lost the social power game against the guy who demonstrated his power to rig it, and the only winning move is not to play.
A nonexhausitive list of examples: violent crime & shoplifting rates, the state of the economy, inflation, #s of illegal migrants and the very existence of government programs importing them, Biden's senility, assassins' motivations, "woke and CRT doesn't exist it's all in Republicans' imaginations," Biden's nuclear crossdresser stealing women's underwear, there's no censorship on social media you're just banned for being a bad person, we must criminalize residential school mass grave genocide Denial, leftists don't support Hamas at all you're crazy for thinking so, "yeah well you're weird for noticing!". I could go on and on.
The people lying about all of these didn't lose anything by lying. They actually beat you by demonstrating that they can maintain the lie longer than the truth can stay solvent and then bury it in a ditch afterwards.
Like Scott said about arguing with Vox: they can lie endlessly and force you to burn ever more weirdness points correcting them.
In summary, there’s next to no chance of organized violence by anyone. It is possible that a Trump victory leads to riots in Democratic cities
Democrat militias carrying out organized violence doesn't count as organized violence? They get a complete pass on rioting and burning as much as they want? Why? Why the passive "leads to" instead of "the left will"?
This is the motte. Asking someone to read a 10k word article is table stakes, just don't link "video essays"
Disregard, I am retarded and mixed it up with treatment for a nasty livestock parasite.
I believe the rabies treatment is extremely unpleasant, but maybe I'm mixing it up with something else. It also had a poor success rate
Thanks, that's how I bought both the game and expansion, to avoid them losing steam's 30% cut. Wonder how much Humble takes: when I first bought the game wube were still taking credit cards directly iirc.
Institutions facing internal pressure from vegan activists demanding "mandatory meatless Mondays" and the like (plus external threats from Climate Social Responsibility Rating Agencies that suddenly seem to have control over literally everything).
I linked an activist plan for banning meat recently, and they literally said this was step 2 (after "we're just asking for vegan options, not trying to force anyone, why are you resisting bigot?).
If sexual and then racial grievances hadn't overwhelmed everything else for the last decade, I suspect we would have seen more vegan activism in colleges and tech pushing them to buy this stuff. We may still if it becomes the Next Big Thing after renaming birds for black-trans-palestinians dies down. But hopefully the companies will have burned through their VC money by then.
We've been talking about Musk's management ability, and to prove I'm not sucking his dick I started thinking about the failure modes that will eventually break his personal control of his companies.
His cutting is vulnerable to Yellowstoning, where managers deliberately hurt performance or use cuts as an excuse to avoid responsibility. Right now Musk can personally show up at the office with an audit team to instantly fire a guy he suspects of doing that. But as the org expands and the hierarchies deepen and interlink, internal politics will hurt his ability to excise a bad actor who's spent all his time schmoozing with management.
Worse, his harsh strategies incentivize internal politicking and backchannel dealing among management to mutually reinforce their positions. It's like overusing an anti-parasite drench on a flock: you're accelerating resistance buildup.
(Even worse, the kind of internal politics most effective at subversion through parallel management cadres is the bioleninism of the party that's made him a priority target and allocated massive resources to seizing his companies. I'm expecting some manufactured hysteria along the lines of "Elon Musk Fired LGBT Rocket Scientist Whistleblower For Supporting Environmental Justice Over Rocket Noise Harming Endangered Birds: Harris Administration pledges to arrest him for hate crimes." And if that sounds crazy to anyone, they're nuts for forgetting the exact same scenario played out with Timnet Gebru and google)
They made out incredibly well for themselves in all the panic spending though. Nobody's ever made a full account of all the trillions that ended up going to left wing orgs. I'm sure that more than made up for general economic damage.
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