Does this influence your analysis at all?
swlabr
joined 1 year ago
Ok now where does this fit on my red string chart that links david gerard to X Æ A-Xii/Techno Mechanicus
Apologies for the screed:
Quick recap:
2016-2020: executive orders every day, non-elected positions being captured by conservatives, dems just hand-wringing and tweeting. but Dems get lucky with a pandemic and trump loses
2021-2024: weekend at biden’s.
Where was the election reform? The dismantling or reform of the electoral colleges? The extra seats on the SC? Bribing the public with stimulus packages to boost the economy?
Remember when we pushed Biden left? Remember when the dems preserved abortion rights, prevented the invasion of ukraine, and stopped bankrolling Israel’s genocide?
“exercise your democratic rights and voice by voting for our candidate that wasn’t democratically chosen as our candidate”. “vote blue and do not voice any critical thought”. “any vote that isn’t for the party that didn’t meaningfully reverse or prevent conservative actions is a vote for trump”.
In sum: the bad guys didn’t do anything new.
The closest we got to a trump loss was some republican spook who went to a trump rally with a gun because it was closer than the harris rally.
and for 2032:
Hope is a mistake 2028!!!
My hope is that either more progressive third party options become more viable OR the dems finally understand that being essentially republican is a bad strategy and actually become progressive. I know the reality is that the dems will learn nothing from this as they have clearly learned nothing from 2016.
Unfortunately there aren’t enough mind altering, ego-killing drugs out there for either of these dicks to understand and internalise the (common usage of the) words they posted.
Two fun lil things in an overall gratifying episode:
- TIL Sam Harris is a nepo baby! His mother created golden girls
- SSC mentioned, and by extension, that Scott, as “the SSC guy”
a real web3 moment if there ever was one.
Silicon Valley and Wall Street invent collateralized GPU obligations. Surely this will work out fine
The big short circuit
Damn, beat me to it! I’m glad I checked new.
I like posting the buzzsprout link as it eventually has the transcript of the ep.
This is like 30-90% of why I’m a mars hater. Not only should we rehabilitate earth first, the fact is we are dehabilitating it instead and are not making any meaningful effort in the other direction.