I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that all the party members who aren’t loyal to him get charged with corruption and thrown in prison. All modern dictators put up a charade of legitimacy. Even North Korea pretends to have elections.

I got recommended Asmongold several years ago before he got political. Dude was dumb as hell, had nothing of value to say and kept making the most annoyingly punchable faces. He’s always been utter trash.

Sure, but the vast, vast majority of the blame should be on the Republicans and their supporters. There were also a ton of people who kept acting like the Republicans didn’t control the House during 2023-2024.

That and all the bad faith arguments about “the Republicans did something terrible; this is all the Democrats’ fault”.

Also, despite how much Trump wants to pretend he’s a dictator, he’s not. Both Congress and the Supreme Court have the power to stop this tariff idiocy at any point if the consequences get to be too bad. Xi is actually a dictator and the likelihood of any other power base overriding him is slim to none.

They’ll never do that because 95% of the company’s value is based on Elon’s hype and bs. If it was valued like the normal car company it is, the share price would be maybe $10

I feel like Andry Hernández Romero is a better victim to promote. It’s ridiculous on its face to claim a flamingly gay make-up artist is some hardened gang member.

At least a few months. There’s evidence big players have been stockpiling inventory since November.

They are forcing you to buy there because every fucking house built in the last 30 years is in one.

I kept hoping the boomers dying off would change things, but it looks like the new generation is even dumber.

Given how well the Minecraft and FNAF movies did, it’s almost guaranteed to happen.

At the rate it’s growing, it’s going to get outlandish very quickly.

“Stay the course” is still the best advice. You don’t actually lose anything as long as you don’t sell. As long as it recovers by the time you retire and start withdrawing from it, it’s fine.

The main problem would be if Trump’s fuckery deals a fatal wound to the US economy and it never recovers. Even then, you can diversify right now into international stocks to mitigate that chance.

They already get $10k from Denmark every year, so they’d get nothing in comparison.

It’s pretty obvious who will win. One is ruled by a dictator. The other by someone who wishes he was a dictator.

Export tariffs are cool though. It’s the only way to keep the UK from taking all my tools, iron and steel and driving up the cost of running my construction sectors.

A large percent of the population tunes out when you talk about real problems. They don’t understand them or don’t want to think about them. They’ll still have some fun making fun of a billionaire who so pathetically craves nerd cred that he’ll cheat at a video game. Now every time Musk does something, one of the top 3 comments, even in non-left spaces, will be people making fun of him for cheating in POE2. It exposes him as a sham and undermines the air of competence he tries to convey.

Is it stupid and shallow? Yes, but so are most people.

Perhaps you should ask why people didn’t give a shit when the US was supporting SA in Yemen but suddenly cared deeply when it was lose-lose for Democrats. Why did Netanyahu refuse to sign a ceasefire until after the election? Why was no one calling Trump Genocide Don back when SA was bombing Yemen or now that he’s announced plans to ethnically cleanse Gaza?

As for what I’m doing, I have zero desire to rehash the same script again and again.

Depends on the rover. Sojourner was tiny. Spirit and Opportunity were about this size.

This is what people need to be concentrating on. The cost of the government borrowing shot up 13% in a couple of days. This stupid fiasco just cost the government $70B in yearly interest payments alone and is why Trump backed down.