yks
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- yksNo one is surprised about that guy, those comments usually point out how "the 2010 tea party", and everyone else from the decades, if not centuries, of the conservative milieu, are suddenly all in on this.
- > How would they keep everyone under control? You won't find that many people eager to participate in satellite regimes or new social experiments, like you had in post-WWII.
Through cynicism and propaganda, just like they've been doing at home, and the same way it works in the US now. Everyone can see the corruption and depravity of the current regime, it might as well be a Russian satellite (many people would claim it already is), and yet we all collectively do nothing about it.
- Why wouldn't it happen? America's new direction is that Europe is the enemy, and massive resources will be poured into propelling the already popular right wing parties, which are Russian puppets, into power. They don't need boots on the ground to conquer the continent, they just need a cynical population that doesn't see the difference between good and bad, just like in the US.
- I believe if Americans want to abandon their allies because of the culture war propaganda, they should be also shown how much of the labor force in their new, alleged white savior friend, Russia, is made up of non-white people.
- 1. It's not like America didn't benefit from the arrangement. 2. While it's fun to kill geese laying golden eggs, the question Americans should really ask is what awaits them on the other side of their actions, and whether the upcoming arrangement is really going to benefit them more.
- AI assistance is a gold rush — promotions are to be made and huge complex system to be over-engineered in Big Tech. The race to stake out the future empires is underway, and there is no time to think about the quality control, UX etc. But who am I kidding though, there is no time to think about those things during the chillest of times either, as any user of Power Automate can concur.
- Every time I see post-DOGE kvetching about foreign governments' hacking attempts, I'm quite bewildered. Guys, it's done, we're fully and thoroughly hacked already. Obviously I don't know if Elon or Big Balls have already given Putin data on all American military personnel, but I do know, that we're always one ketamine trip gone wrong away from such event.
The absolute craziest heist just went in front of our eyes, and everyone collectively shrugged off and moved on, presumably to enjoy spy novels, where the most hidden subversion attempts are getting caught by the cunning agents.
- I am surprised that rent increases aren't banned everywhere, and that things like Prop 13 haven't been voted in elsewhere outside of California. Because the fundamental proposition of "I reap handsome benefits, but some unnamed future newcomers to my country/state/city will have it tough" appears to be quite irresistible.
- Ah yes, those famous warmongering Europeans, attacking Gleiwitz all over again
- > military leadership actually do have a pretty solid loyalty to the constitution
Even if so, the tricky part of course is the SCOTUS that declares anything that Trump wants "constitutional".
- the government doesn't need to be opened for a budget to pass though, "clean CR" is not a prerequisite for anything
- That's why the future looks so bleak. Republicans support absolutely any amount of crime and corruption, because "some" crime and corruption has happened under Democrats. Meanwhile half of the rest of Americans wouldn't support Democrats because "some" crime is infinitely worse than "no crime" in their view. Criminals enjoy an absolutely stunning structural advantage in this country.
- Blame “secular reaction” all you want, but with the New Apostolic Reformation the temporal loyalty becomes a pre-requisite to the loyalty to God
- You might as well imagine that in the US it’s going to be forbidden to develop the AI that’s not holding fascist views. See Grok’s owner struggles with it. So American firms might not reap this advantage.
- Yeah, "those others are less ethical than us Americans" doesn't pass muster in 2025. Reminds me of the anti-immigration arguments from the days bygone, that the immigrants coming from the corrupt authoritarian countries will vote against democracy in the US. While it might be even true(!) voting against democracy certainly came from the natives first, fast and furious.
- "Immigration question" doesn't have a solution because without the immigrants the economy collapses. And, besides, not having it solved allows Republicans to run on the platform of solving it, as you said. But if there is a single politician in the US history who is not only willing to kill the economy, but has an unquestionable approval from the voters to do it, that's Trump, so who knows.
- I mean, you can ask this question about literally every war. It ends with a heavily armed border, and uneasy peace until Russia gets a leader that realizes that wars of attrition destroy attacker's nation wealth just as much as defender's. Maybe Putin achieves the immortality he's dreaming about, or maybe Russia never gets a leader like that, well, at least Ukraine would get an opportunity to build up a nation that is too costly to invade.
- There will be no "reaction" to Trump, because all such policies would be struck down by the SCOTUS. This version of America is the one we're going to live in for a while.
- In practice the tier 1 has the tech and know-how to convince the tier 2 to remain cooperative against their own interests. See the contemporary US where the inequality is rather high, and yet the tier 2 population is impressively protective of the rights of the tier 1. The theory that if the tier 2 has it way worse than today, that will change, remains to be proven. Persecutions against the immigrants are also rather lightweight today, so there is definitely space to ramp them up to pacify the tier 2.
- Russia perfected the ethics of "you don't need to be good, you just need everyone else to be bad", Americans are just bringing the state of the art home.