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Cake day: February 16th, 2025

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  • I really don’t know where this good guy idea or narrative comes from besides propaganda and Hollywood obviously.

    It’s such a short lived nation and during that time it’s conducted a genocide(s) of natives, coups of democratically elected governments, war on almost every continent on earth. It’s the only nation ever to nuke two cities of civilians. It created a ‘war on drugs’ to incarcerate blacks. Has the highest prison (legally slaves) population of any western nation 1.8 million!!. It forced neoliberalism on Europe and the west in general. Had and has the highest per capita carbon impact in the world. Actively suppressed climate change knowledge and mitigation research the world over. Oh yea and chemical weapons on the Vietnamese, rape and torture of detainees and civilians.

    And that’s just a few tid-bits and not including anything the orange one has done and will do.

    I’m not saying other nations are spotless. The US has done some great things but clearly it’s institutions are fragile and it can only do great things in brief periods e.g. where it dominated the world economically and industrially after WW2. Reading the history of the US it is just a faster version of European powers development. Nothing special and it’s got a king back after all that bleating on about freedom.

    I liked the USA as a child. I love the idea of it but the reality is nowhere near that idea and further everyday. It’s just another banana republic and we unfortunately have to watch the fire sale.



  • Yea he obviously doesn’t know much about parenting. Also probably doesn’t have much empathy or mental space he’s willing to commit.

    However that is pretty damn normal. I see hundreds of parents and kids each year. The ones who doit properly are few and far between.

    The point is why the hell are we talking about it? He’s literally orchestrating a fascist takeover and indirectly killing thousands, why are we wasting our energy on outrage at a minor shitty behaviour than most parents are guilty of?


  • I’m all for the hate musk train but that one was manufactured bullshit and actually opened my eyes at how manipulated I had allowed myself to become.

    In the whole clip he comes back for little X and it’s a total nothing burger. Obviously he’s a psycho and that kid is fucked but leaving him to navigate some stairs for 2 seconds is irrelevant. I guess maybe Americans are more helicopter and precious about kids but in the rest of the world we let them get on with it and that is totally fine.





  • I absolutely think this new DEI hobbyhorse is just for the Magats to get to be racist pieces of shit but if I had to construct a coherent point against the concept of DEI hiring it might go:

    It’s obviously true that certain groups don’t have the advantages of others: the primary indicator of financial success is social-economic background. As such this is a long term vs short term decision. If we (an institution) want the best performance now we should hire in a meritocratic manner. If we want to raise our performance in the future we should apply DEI principles. This will inspire underrepresented groups into the field and this increase our pool of great minds. Given time this can be one of many tools to raise the maximum number of our potential workforce to their highest performance. However we want best performance now so we disregard that stuff in favour of performance now.

    But I don’t think it’s as black and white as that.