analognoise

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by analognoise 9mo ago
So we chose growth, and now are trying empire, because of memes about our supposed strength on paper, pushed by unserious “conservatives” who can’t form a cohesive argument about anything? We stand a good chance of this totally destroying u
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by analognoise 9mo ago
This; the “originalists” who dress up in wigs and shock of shocks, just so happen to rule contrary to the way things have worked for the last 50 years.
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by analognoise 9mo ago
> On the other hand we have federal district court judges in podunk deciding that they have the unilateral ability to stop the president from exercising executive authority He doesn’t have unlimited executive authority; it makes sense fo
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by analognoise 9mo ago
Hopefully this is satire. It would be a shame if we were gifted such deep cultural gifts and we limit them to turn everyone into zombie engineers, convinced of nothing but profit, as we race to the bottom in a colorless world. Boring.
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by analognoise 9mo ago
Disastrous response from the hacker ethic group. I guess it’s like how the hippies were mostly bought out by the 80’s - what was that saying from SLC Punk, “I didn’t sell out, I bought in”?
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by analognoise 9mo ago
Operation: Epstein Distraction is go.
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by analognoise 10mo ago
We’re one step from harvesting organs from people in rural areas, or hunting them for sport from helicopter, and they’ll cheer as long as “their side” is the one hunting them.
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by analognoise 10mo ago
Did anyone actually buy the line about “industrializing America”? It’s pretty clearly a criminal enterprise meant to enrich the president, his family, and the already wealthy.
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by analognoise 10mo ago
This is such a painfully American response. Nobody can ever imagine a better system, even if it’s used in literally every advanced nation in the world. Nope, instead we have to let Grandpa die painfully to keep those stock prices up. I’m st
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by analognoise 11mo ago
Yes, and we absolutely should.
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by analognoise 11mo ago
Taxing the living shit out of billionaires won’t fix everything, but it’s absolutely the first thing we should do.
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by analognoise 11mo ago
It's funny to me that 1% of poor people is "corruption we need to root out" but having worthless billionaires pay less tax than a school teacher is well and good. If we're going to work out corruption, let's take ev
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by analognoise 11mo ago
Most of the basic medical research is funded by tax dollars. Also, are you sure the bureaucracy isn't exactly the point? If you're too sick to fight off a denial and die, they keep the money. I think we're subsidizing Wall St
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by analognoise 11mo ago
There's no reason we should pay 2x what everyone else does, and live 10 years less (for healthcare). We could accept a good deal of socialism into our system and see only benefits; there are a number of things which should not be profi
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by analognoise 1y ago
No, he’s the opposite of that. But next time people say “we could just seize it”, we have precedent. From a Republican, no less!
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by analognoise 1y ago
> The free market could do that without unions. I suggest doing some reading about labor movements, the Gilded Age, or about current issues - wealth inequality, housing costs, environmental impact, healthcare costs, enshittification. The
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by analognoise 1y ago
If our markets weren’t corrupt, everyone in the AI space would be bankrupt by now, and we could all wander down to the OpenAI fire sale and buy nice servers for pennies on the dollar.
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by analognoise 1y ago
I mean is this kind of thing really convincing? The side that thinks vaccines are a hoax, RFK Jr discovered the cause of autism, wants to burn up satellites we’ve already paid for because the carbon numbers are bad, suggested injecting blea
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by analognoise 1y ago
Is America under Trump/MAGA is really “the West”. If we’re using the federal government to shut down comedians, I think we have more in common with China/Russia/N. Korea? Especially when you consider illegally using the milit
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by analognoise 1y ago
The techno-libertarians I’ve interacted with were always painfully naive, with a simplistic worldview (that they thought was extremely learn’ed - mistaking their technical skill for broad intellect that understood politics to be “simple”).
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by analognoise 1y ago
We don’t have a moral or civil society anyway; we can’t even prosecute Trumps numerous illegal actions (even when convicted!). Can’t get the Epstein files. Can’t even point out Charlie Kirk was not a great person (while politicians said not
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by analognoise 1y ago
Didn’t the President of the United States say he didn’t care about bringing the people together, and has wished violence upon people who don’t support him politically? Where do you think this comes from, and, rather than arm ourselves with
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by analognoise 1y ago
I thought empathy was optional?
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by analognoise 1y ago
This seems a bit too “both sides” for my taste, given Trump being a disaster for America.
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by analognoise 1y ago
Can we stop sanewashing these people? They clearly don't care for legality, constitutionality, anything positive or good.
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by analognoise 1y ago
Agreed; it’s an embarrassing argument.
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by analognoise 1y ago
The Laffer Curve is frequently cited by the same people who refuse to see the failure of conservative-style economic policy over the last 40 years, for some reason. It’s clear all that “don’t tax the rich, they create jobs!” Is just trash.
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by analognoise 1y ago
Some people tried to evade the system - that’s why we have helicopters. We can just grab them and bring them to court, no problem. I don’t think “some people didn’t abide the rules” is reason not to make sensible laws.
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by analognoise 1y ago
That used to be “industrial policy” - it doesn’t need to be individuals at all. In fact it shouldn’t be - they’re concerned with returns, not jobs and certainly not with any technology that requires a longer timespan to complete. The Biden
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by analognoise 1y ago
Considering our success so far, it’s obvious it’s succeeding. You’d have to ignore your eyes and ears to think a multiracial secular democratic country can succeed. What’s amazing is that racists seem to be trying to screw it up on purpose,

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