SubstackNecron
9d ago
his 261 words
At least we know he's not a member of this forum
The hypothetical Democrats who come back and win the 2026 midterms and then run the table in 2028 against JD Vance
I mean there are two radically different timelines that result in a Dem win in those years. The Dems winning because they retolled and redid there messaging looks way different from the dems just winning because the worst-case scenario about the amount of damage Trump could do to the economy came true and they just win by default.
SubstackNecron
18d ago
Yeah money is pretty useless if you are in that position unless you're getting the kind that spends in hell.
you better also account for the thousands or hundreds of thousands of people whose medical care was covered and lives were saved because the company paid for the necessary treatment or cure.'
You build a thousand bridges and no one calls you bridge builder but fuck one kid.......
Now now bud
Sir Isaac Newton
SubstackNecron
18d ago
To play devil's advocate an argument could be made that shareholders are probably only important to a CEO or any major corporate leader if they don't believe their lives are in danger it is Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Any CEO they could hire would just choose to screw the shareholders to mitigate even a perceived 10 or 20 percent chance they would be killed. Once you're already a multimillionaire, it is extremely difficult to induce someone to risk there lives for more money.
SubstackNecron
18d ago
So, an amount you're completely ignorant of?
I guess this is true but I would also guess that if the amount were quantifiable and would be made known to the public in a weeks time there would be a pretty healthy prediction market over the next 7 days with "absolutely none at all" being by far the odds on favorite.
SubstackNecron
18d ago
I feel the exact amount of sympathy for this guy as he felt for any of the thousands of people who died or went without needed medical care due to the rejections the company he ran sent due to spurious reasons.
SubstackNecron
23d ago
genetic engineering
I think most people would support this given the conditions that everyone gets a leg up and it was applied society wide IE the rich are not allowed to just make themselves genetic lords over the rest of humanity.
SubstackNecron
1mo ago
I mean I could but most of what I think of as victories I would imagine you would classify as defeats. The truth is it doesn't matter as more that one person can be wrong at once and as a great man once said "facts don't care about your feelings". No amount of anger at the establishment makes the "Trump is a king and he is going to hit the make the economy good button as well as the decrease prices button" worldview any less delusional.
SubstackNecron
1mo ago
Is there an amount of reality that the world does not work this way that these people could experience that would change their view or would such an event likely be of a magnitude that it would just kill them?
SubstackNecron
1mo ago
1000% agree. I would add the additional sub-lesson is that as long as the lie is phrased at least partially as something they really want to be true it really doesn't matter how obviously a lie what it said is.
SubstackNecron
1mo ago
And treating peasants like peasants is fairly common
It just happened. What do people think Trump just did? If the Democrats take anything away from this election other than "run the most charismatic person you can" and "just tell the bleating sheep what they want to hear" then they are miscalculating
SubstackNecron
1mo ago
feds stop putting roadblocks in front of them
If/When the Dems regain power, especially if MAGA dies fully with Trump, what do you think is going to happen to them long term? My guess is imprisonment or just thrown off a building depending on the fallout of a Trump administration.
SubstackNecron
1mo ago
I would disagree. I think we are going to see full ID Trump tariffs and all. I don't think he has the patience for anyone that is going to tell him no and he's gonna pull the trigger on any idea he has that can pass legally unchallenged though EOs or he can get the legislature to pass. The two things I am most sure of in the next 4 years is that he will 1. hurt the people who believe he is the only one who can help him 2. ruin JD Vances political career through either malice or indifference.
As as aside I also highly suspect Musk overestimates the influence what he has done for Trump has bought him but this is just a hunch.
SubstackNecron
1mo ago
I’m daring to believe that over the next four years Trump and his team of consultants genuinely can start Making America Great Again.
By pressing the make the economy good button along with the make inflation not have happened button? I expect a bit better from the users here no matter who they hoped would win the idea that either of them were gonna effect the economy in any major way in the short term betrays a bit of a lack of understanding.
SubstackNecron
1mo ago
voting mainly on the economy
AKA people who will either vote D or just go back into their holes next election when Trump fails to do any of the impossible things to the economy that he has promised them. If the Dems learn anything this election its that the key to dealing with rubes isn't to talk down to them or try to convince them of anything but to simply tell lies right to their face.
SubstackNecron
1mo ago
He will always be with us in our hearts. Sloot and the other guy only wishes they could thot patrol as hard as ThePizza
SubstackNecron
1mo ago
The odds that the next Democratic presidential nominee is a white male are 100%.
SubstackNecron
1mo ago
the pizzashill
No one is going to get that reference.
SubstackNecron
1mo ago
broad-scale strategic mistake
Closing the country at all during COVID was the biggest broad-scale strategic mistake for the left. Less damage to the economy and more dead boomers is a massive win for them in the short and long term.
SubstackNecron
1mo ago
I would take the under on that one
SubstackNecron
1mo ago
all civic good cheer here
I don't think I have ever had a negative interpersonal experience with another voter while voting. This is been my experience all the times I have ever voted by myself of with my parents as a kid.
SubstackNecron
1mo ago
Anyone who thinks that the median poster on the motte is going to do anything other than duck and cover during real civil strife is kidding themselves. (this is true of most online spaces)
nor do I believe that there is any meaningful number of progressives in positions of power who believe in executing people for expressing conservative opinions.
True but if once we got to the point where we decided as a society "we should start just liquidating inconvenient people again" it might not be entirely clear where that stopped or who would be designated disposable under that paradigm. I am just as I said playing devils advocate here, I think if we got to the point where we were just executing either thieves or conservatives society would have gone pretty far off the rails albeit in radically different directions in those two cases.
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