Wednesday Morning Rant

My Oligarch Can Beat Up Your Oligarch!

It's no secret that the "oligarchs" (I think "plutocrat" is more accurate, but will not fight the zeitgeist) wield enormous influence and power in the private sector and in various "non-profits," and partner with the government. Whether an industrialist or a tech tycoon or a banker, in the East or the West, they have the means and more importantly, the desire to "change the world" according to their own visions. Governments in every major country on earth are eager to both use and be used by them in a dance of sinister symbiosis.

As should surprise nobody, the oligarchs' vision for the way things ought to be is generally undesirable for the rubes on whom those visions are imposed. The rube class understandably bristles when oligarchs wants to replace meat with lab-grown synthetics, eliminate single-family housing, install robot sentries around the cities, prohibit air travel, etc. The rubes may not know the reasons, but they do know the score, and they generally don't like it. They also know how few options they have to change it.

When an oligarch has different plans - it needn't even be better, just different from what most of the other oligarchs want - he will necessarily make waves. He's still an oligarch and he still has enormous power and influence, but he's also disliked by his own crowd. This is what we see day in and day out with Elon Musk. He's an oligarch who breaks with his brethren and thus gains a lot of support.

There are several reasons for this, some of which are simple. Musk's motives appear to be less sinister and unsettling than those of most of his oligarch peers. He doesn't want to force the rubes into tenements and make them eat nutrient slurries while a select few few labor under robot task masters and the rest get subsistence welfare. Musk apparently wants people to go on with their chaotic selves and be less restrained by censors while they do so. That's appealing. As to his own ambitions, Musk doesn't seem to desire his spot in a dark-paneled room where they divvy up the world. He wants to be the Emperor of Mars. It's brash, ambitious, different and weird - so many find it appealing.

That's all icing, and Musk's appeal and popularity have deeper roots. We're post-republican. Not just in the United States or the West, but in every major country, the traditional means of redress by citizens are ineffective. Voting, lobbying, protesting, etc. result not in reform, but in persecution. The Party and her affiliated oligarchs are not interested in reform. In the post-republican world, they are the game-players and the people are pieces to moved around or removed from the board at their sole pleasure.

In an environment where the Party and the oligarchs rule all that anyone surveys, a new mechanism for reform becomes apparent: get an oligarch of your own to impose his will instead. Musk's popularity isn't merely because of his enormous and bombastic personality, it's because he appears to be different from his peers. He might not be on your side, but he is at least not on theirs. I think this is the real reason for both Musk's broad popularity and the state's regular actions against him.

When having an oligarch becomes a method of redress, people will happily support one who might be able to deliver.

Posted by: Joe Mannix at 11:00 AM

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1 Yeet!

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 14, 2024 11:00 AM (0W2kt)

2 Second and nood

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 14, 2024 11:00 AM (2yu8s)

3 Combat by "Champions"....let's bring it back.

Posted by: BignJames at February 14, 2024 11:01 AM (AwYPR)

4 Beaten by the medical professional.

No dishonour in that.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 14, 2024 11:01 AM (2yu8s)

5 Yeet!
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 14, 2024 11:00 AM (0W2kt)
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When did you retire "meep meep?"

Also, good morning!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 14, 2024 11:01 AM (yjAVs)

6 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 14, 2024 11:01 AM (IXZGh)

7 replace meat with lab-grown synthetics

Sex dolls for the win!

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle to maintain Moron standards at February 14, 2024 11:02 AM (hqSyT)

8 Come greet me!!!

Posted by: Lena Dunham at February 14, 2024 11:02 AM (ZV+pB)

9 I saw Sinister Symbiosis open for...

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 14, 2024 11:03 AM (9yWhg)

10 replace meat with lab-grown synthetics

What happened to you've got to eat the babies?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle to maintain Moron standards at February 14, 2024 11:03 AM (hqSyT)

11 Yup. Well said.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 14, 2024 11:03 AM (RXyKO)

12 Combat by "Champions"....let's bring it back.
Posted by: BignJames

Do you rely on Mike Tyson for investing advice?

Posted by: P.T. Barnum at February 14, 2024 11:03 AM (IG4Id)

13 Lena Dunham shit my pants

Posted by: Joe Biden at February 14, 2024 11:05 AM (Vu7A1)

14 Do you rely on Mike Tyson for investing advice?

Posted by: P.T. Barnum at February 14, 2024 11:03 AM (IG4Id)

Prolly as good as SBF

Posted by: BignJames at February 14, 2024 11:05 AM (AwYPR)

15 But that dick Elon killed Nitter so I'd have to get an account to read threads without wanting to comment them!!!! And then I usually hotlinked the original Xtweet rather than the Nitter one still giving X traffic.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 14, 2024 11:05 AM (2yu8s)

16 But that dick Elon killed Nitter so I'd have to get an account to read threads without wanting to comment them!!!! And then I usually hotlinked the original Xtweet rather than the Nitter one still giving X traffic.
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 14, 2024 11:05 AM (2yu8s)
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It ain't all roses.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 14, 2024 11:06 AM (yjAVs)

17 That's all icing, and Musk's appeal and popularity have deeper roots. We're post-republican. Not just in the United States or the West, but in every major country, the traditional means of redress by citizens are ineffective. Voting, lobbying, protesting, etc. result not in reform, but in persecution. The Party and her affiliated oligarchs are not interested in reform. In the post-republican world, they are the game-players and the people are pieces to moved around or removed from the board at their sole pleasure.

Until the people wake up, unite, and the tumbrels start to rumble. Damn, I sound like Lenin.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 14, 2024 11:06 AM (CsUN+)

18 Did you ever notice when people talk about wanting to live in Medieval Times, nobody ever wants to be a serf

Posted by: SMOD at February 14, 2024 11:06 AM (RHGPo)

19 We would like to endorse CharlieBrown'sDildo's suggestion in the previous Thread that motorboating become a form of salutation.

Posted by: Gerrold Nadler (D-NY) & Michael Moore at February 14, 2024 11:07 AM (a3Q+t)

20 Paul, you ignorant slut.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 14, 2024 11:07 AM (u73oe)

21 Wow. How can anyone ignore Paul? He is a mathematical genius.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at February 14, 2024 11:07 AM (pohLc)

22 In the USA 24 of the richest 20 billionaires contribute to the GOP
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Tell me you're full of shit without telling me you're full of shit.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 14, 2024 11:07 AM (2yu8s)

23 In the USA 24 of the richest 20 billionaires contribute to the GOP

and?

Posted by: BignJames at February 14, 2024 11:07 AM (AwYPR)

24 >>In the USA 24 of the richest 20 billionaires contribute to the GOP

Paul. Covered up in Trucker Sperm and Retard.

But. Mostly retard.

Posted by: garrett at February 14, 2024 11:07 AM (zOR5N)

25 In the USA 24 of the richest 20 billionaires contribute to the GOP
Posted by: Cocksucker at February 14, 2024 11:05 AM (C0ck$)
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LOL. The retard thinks the GOP isn't just an arm of the same complex, and that "support" is binary.

When presented as some kind of defense, that's a lot of stupid packed into one sentence.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 14, 2024 11:07 AM (yjAVs)

26 Combat by "Champions"....let's bring it back.
Posted by: BignJames at February 14, 2024 11:01 AM (AwYPR)

No. The government has unlimited funds to bring in a ringer and will fix the fight anyway.

Posted by: They'll have The Mountain, we'll get a quadriplegic dwarf at February 14, 2024 11:07 AM (/IAkV)

27 3 Combat by "Champions"....let's bring it back.
Posted by: BignJames at February 14, 2024 11:01 AM (AwYPR)

All represented by the losing champion get executed as well, correct?

Posted by: XTC at February 14, 2024 11:07 AM (sm6Pk)

28 19 Did you ever notice when people talk about wanting to live in Medieval Times, nobody ever wants to be a serf
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You can always throw yourself on the kindness of the Crown and be a slave. Look on the bright side of life.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 14, 2024 11:07 AM (DyHJQ)

29 24 of the richest 20 ?

Posted by: SMOD at February 14, 2024 11:08 AM (RHGPo)

30 Posted by: Paul banned at February 14, 2024 11:05 AM (qUxz0)

You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at February 14, 2024 11:08 AM (IXZGh)

31 The globalist borg tells us who's threatening by who they insist we must hate.

I won't pretend to agree with everyone who fights the borg, but I will support them for their specific fight.
For example, I applaud JK Rowling for her unbending rejection of trans activism while recognizing that she is still a total progressive. I support Bill Ackman in his fight against DEI at Harvard and elsewhere while recognizing he hasn't come close to rejecting the Democrat party that has facilitated this in so many institutions, not just colleges.

These people can't be cancelled. About time people with FU money say "FU."

Posted by: Lizzy at February 14, 2024 11:08 AM (RXyKO)

32
It's no secret that the "oligarchs" (I think "plutocrat" is more accurate, but will not fight the zeitgeist) ...

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Counterpoint: While both plutocracy and oligarchy have exceedingly similar meanings -- both may be used to refer to rule by an economic elite -- the latter often has the additional connotation of corruption.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Demoralization Will Continue Until Morale Improves at February 14, 2024 11:08 AM (4n+OC)

33 24 of the richest 20 ?
Posted by: SMOD at February 14, 2024 11:08 AM (RHGPo)
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Give the guy some credit. He only recently learned how to count past ten.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 14, 2024 11:08 AM (yjAVs)

34 24 of the richest 20 ?
Posted by: SMOD at February 14, 2024 11:08 AM (RHGPo)

Forget it, he's rolling.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 14, 2024 11:08 AM (IXZGh)

35 5 Yeet!
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 14, 2024 11:00 AM (0W2kt)
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When did you retire "meep meep?"

Also, good morning!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 14, 2024 11:01 AM (yjAVs)

Meep meep was my tag when PDT was treating the press and the Dems like Wile E Coyote.

Now I just chuck shit and see if it hits the fan.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 14, 2024 11:08 AM (VQQA3)

36 "plutocrat" has too much of a Lil' Orphan Annie & Daddie Warbucks vibe about it, so I go with Oligarch too.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 14, 2024 11:09 AM (i9ffA)

37 "The rube class understandably bristles when oligarchs wants to replace meat with lab-grown synthetics, eliminate single-family housing, install robot sentries around the cities, prohibit air travel, etc."

Speak for yourself! I'd love to see ED209 or Protector 101 or Dalek or Tachikoma lay waste to some gangbanging scumbags. The robots would need a good tagline, though.

Posted by: Elric Blade at February 14, 2024 11:09 AM (iFTx/)

38
Speaking of Elon Musk, the photograph of him and his son at the Super Bowl was taken from a superior height. He is not part of the devil worshiping elite in the sky boxes slamming beer proudly display on the Jumbo-tron for the worshiping crowd.

I like what he has done to X. A lot of people like what he has done and it shows in the month over month increase in views and time of engagement.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 14, 2024 11:09 AM (nIvob)

39 Did you ever notice when people talk about wanting to live in Medieval Times, nobody ever wants to be a serf
Posted by: SMOD

Yeah, but the serfs were necessary for food production, so it wasn't a good idea to kill a lot of them indiscriminately. The King or Emperor could always create new nobles, but new serfs were harder to come by. So, the serfs had a degree of security that the nobles did not, provided they didn't get too restive.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 14, 2024 11:09 AM (9yWhg)

40 Counterpoint: While both plutocracy and oligarchy have exceedingly similar meanings -- both may be used to refer to rule by an economic elite -- the latter often has the additional connotation of corruption.
Posted by: ShainS -- The Demoralization Will Continue Until Morale Improves at February 14, 2024 11:08 AM (4n+OC)
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Fair. The implication is slightly different, I suppose.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 14, 2024 11:09 AM (yjAVs)

41 It ain't all roses.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 14, 2024 11:06 AM

I beg your pardon, I never promised you a rose garden.

Posted by: Lynn Anderson at February 14, 2024 11:09 AM (a3Q+t)

42 5 out of 4 dentists recommend Trident!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 14, 2024 11:09 AM (u73oe)

43
Now I just chuck shit and see if it hits the fan.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 14, 2024 11:08 AM (VQQA3)

You asked for it......

https://youtu.be/fa7nSzCiGXk

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 14, 2024 11:09 AM (IXZGh)

44 plutocrat

I thought Pluto was a dog, not a cat.

Wait.

*squints*

Posted by: spindrift at February 14, 2024 11:10 AM (MqhXY)

45 Now I just chuck shit and see if it hits the fan.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 14, 2024 11:08 AM (VQQA3)
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LOL. Wear your rain slicker!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 14, 2024 11:10 AM (yjAVs)

46 As should surprise nobody, the oligarchs' vision for the way things ought to be is generally undesirable for the rubes on whom those visions are imposed. The rube class understandably bristles when oligarchs wants to replace meat with lab-grown synthetics, eliminate single-family housing, install robot sentries around the cities, prohibit air travel, etc.

What the plutocrats don't understand is, "economy of scale".

What they have now, say, gasoline at $3.00/gallon is ONLY because of economy of scale.

Cut out the majority of users and leave it just for the rich and that $3.00/gal will be $30,000.00/gal.
Oil will become too expensive to drill for or refine.

Those roughnecks that run the rig? Won't. Not when they can't get gas.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 14, 2024 11:10 AM (+6bUL)

47 Speak for yourself! I'd love to see ED209 or Protector 101 or Dalek or Tachikoma lay waste to some gangbanging scumbags. The robots would need a good tagline, though.
Posted by: Elric Blade at February 14, 2024 11:09 AM (iFTx/)
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HAHAHA.

Except that they're going to hunt you while letting the scumbags run raids unimpeded.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 14, 2024 11:10 AM (yjAVs)

48 I love you, sponge.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 14, 2024 11:11 AM (VQQA3)

49 It's Oligarch's all the way down....

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 14, 2024 11:11 AM (Q4IgG)

50 Musk's motives appear to be less sinister and unsettling than those of most of his oligarch peers. He doesn't want to force the rubes into tenements and make them eat nutrient slurries while a select few few labor under robot task masters and the rest get subsistence welfare.

nope. he's just telling us that a better life awaits us off-world.

Posted by: anachronda at February 14, 2024 11:11 AM (v3pYe)

51 I love you, sponge.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 14, 2024 11:11 AM (VQQA3)

*smooches*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 14, 2024 11:11 AM (IXZGh)

52 15 But that dick Elon killed Nitter so I'd have to get an account to read threads without wanting to comment them!!!! And then I usually hotlinked the original Xtweet rather than the Nitter one still giving X traffic.
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 14, 2024 11:05 AM (2yu8s)

Nitter sucked goat balls, though

Posted by: Seriously it was kinda crap at February 14, 2024 11:11 AM (/IAkV)

53 Nurse, Sponge, get a room you two. Sheesh.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 14, 2024 11:12 AM (9yWhg)

54 This! Musk seems to want a future of humans striding boldly through the galaxy, and to understand you don't get that on a diet of insects. Most important, from our point of view you don't get that from 15 Minute Cities.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 14, 2024 11:12 AM (nC+QA)

55 What the plutocrats don't understand is, "economy of scale".

What they have now, say, gasoline at $3.00/gallon is ONLY because of economy of scale.

Cut out the majority of users and leave it just for the rich and that $3.00/gal will be $30,000.00/gal.
Oil will become too expensive to drill for or refine.

Those roughnecks that run the rig? Won't. Not when they can't get gas.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 14, 2024 11:10 AM (+6bUL)
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Robots. They think robots will do it.

Plutocrats at the top.
Engineers kept comparatively rich below them, to keep the AI and robots running.
Robots to do the rest of the work.
Pod people on UBI until they die off.

There's the vision. It's inane and will fail, but it's the vision.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 14, 2024 11:12 AM (yjAVs)

56 So, the serfs had a degree of security that the nobles did not, provided they didn't get too restive.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 14, 2024 11:09 AM (9yWhg)

The security that comes from knowing that the Lords and Ladies always need a bunch of people willing to live in mud huts and shovel shit all day long.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 14, 2024 11:12 AM (i9ffA)

57 Musk's motives appear to be less sinister and unsettling than those of most of his oligarch peers. He doesn't want to force the rubes into tenements and make them eat nutrient slurries while a select few few labor under robot task masters and the rest get subsistence welfare.

nope. he's just telling us that a better life awaits us off-world.
Posted by: anachronda

Ok.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 14, 2024 11:12 AM (+6bUL)

58 Give the guy some credit. He only recently learned how to count past ten.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 14, 2024 11:08 AM (yjAVs)

After his shoelaces both broke.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 14, 2024 11:12 AM (tkR6S)

59 Nurse, Sponge, get a room you two. Sheesh.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 14, 2024 11:12 AM (9yWhg)

Don't tease me.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 14, 2024 11:12 AM (IXZGh)

60 And Good Morning to you, Mr Mannix!

Thank you for your thoughtful analysis day in day out.

Now, try to actually post some pretty girls instead of the fake vamp plastic hoors you'd be embarrassed to invite home to meet your parents.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 14, 2024 11:12 AM (4PLHt)

61 Now I just chuck shit and see if it hits the fan.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 14, 2024 11:08 AM

#MeToo

Posted by: Charles "Chuck" Schumer (D-NY) at February 14, 2024 11:13 AM (a3Q+t)

62 'Sentient meat'?

Posted by: Ciampino - Mucho Macho Man! at February 14, 2024 11:13 AM (qfLjt)

63
Now, try to actually post some pretty girls instead of the fake vamp plastic hoors you'd be embarrassed to invite home to meet your parents.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 14, 2024 11:12 AM (4PLHt)

That's hot.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 14, 2024 11:13 AM (IXZGh)

64 The Stangarchs are always getting the Oligarchs into another fine mess.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 14, 2024 11:14 AM (9yWhg)

65 > Robots. They think robots will do it.
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Girl robots.... FTW

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 14, 2024 11:14 AM (Q4IgG)

66 Commenting present until I wake up

Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2024 11:14 AM (fwDg9)

67 The Hill
@thehill
A new report says 1 in 5 active gamers identify as LGBTQ, but the community is underrepresented in video games.

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Like everything else, alternative lifestyles DEI has invaded videogames.

P.S. One in five is LGBTEIEIO propaganda.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 14, 2024 11:15 AM (FVME7)

68 I love you, sponge.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 14, 2024 11:11 AM

Your First?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 14, 2024 11:15 AM (a3Q+t)

69 My dad always used to tell me to wear rubbers so that I did not ruin my shoes in bad weather... I never knew how the two were related.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at February 14, 2024 11:15 AM (ZV+pB)

70 Olevarchy : Rule by a unibrowed dude with the last name of "Olevich".

Posted by: XTC at February 14, 2024 11:16 AM (sm6Pk)

71 Sex dolls for the win!
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle to maintain Moron standards at February 14, 2024 11:02 AM (hqSyT)

They're shooting for widespread acceptance of sex dolls and working diligently on perfecting an artificial uterus. With those in place they'll eventually be able to control humanity. No person-person relationships, no parent-child relationships, only the state. People will eventually come to worship the golden calf and history will repeat.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 14, 2024 11:16 AM (GYIa4)

72 SPONGE!!!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 14, 2024 11:16 AM (YgIxk)

73 "Now, try to actually post some pretty girls instead of the fake vamp plastic hoors you'd be embarrassed to invite home to meet your parents.
Posted by: nurse ratched"

I'm all for zhat. *hic*

Posted by: Hillary's Screaming Liver at February 14, 2024 11:16 AM (/Td2i)

74 I'm happy to see Musk be disruptive in the same way I am happy to see Trump be disruptive. But I don't place much trust in them. Musk mostly offers products and services I don't want and think are bad for the country: nu-Twitter and electric cars. His other well-known preoccupation, space, I'm sure the government will get around to coopting or crushing.

Posted by: Like Trump, I don't think Musk can fix what's broken at February 14, 2024 11:16 AM (pjs7m)

75 The Ruling Class, by Angelo M. Codevilla, is a great introduction to this.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 14, 2024 11:16 AM (gSZYf)

76 >>A new report says 1 in 5 active gamers identify as LGBTQ, but the community is underrepresented in video games.

Unlimited AIDS Prep Cheat Codes in ...3 ...2 ...

Posted by: garrett at February 14, 2024 11:17 AM (zOR5N)

77 Now, try to actually post some pretty girls instead of the fake vamp plastic hoors you'd be embarrassed to invite home to meet your parents.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 14, 2024

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"Hoors"? Is your inner Rooster Cogburn coming out, Nurse?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2024 11:17 AM (J2vNu)

78 In the USA 24 of the richest 20 billionaires contribute to the GOP
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First, you have to get a real understanding of the UniParty.

The UniParty, largely owned by the Chamber of Commence, is there to make it's members rich, no matter who they have to step on to get there. This means things like offshoring, illegal immigration, and hopscotching from country to country are font and center. They done care about ideology of the parties the have to use to accomplish their ends. They "donate" (AKA bribe) to politicians from DC to Beijing.

Members include the Koch Brothers (who hate Trump), Mitt Romney, etc. etc.

Posted by: SMOD at February 14, 2024 11:17 AM (RHGPo)

79 The Ruling Class, by Angelo M. Codevilla, is a great introduction to this.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 14, 2024 11:16 AM (gSZYf)
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Yup.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 14, 2024 11:17 AM (yjAVs)

80 In an environment where the Party and the oligarchs rule all that anyone surveys, a new mechanism for reform becomes apparent: get an oligarch of your own to impose his will instead.

...

When having an oligarch becomes a method of redress, people will happily support one who might be able to deliver.

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My entire reason for supporting Trump in 2016, 2020 and beyond.

If there must be an oligarchy I want the oligarch that most aligns with me in charge.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 14, 2024 11:18 AM (++4z6)

81 Now, try to actually post some pretty girls instead of the fake vamp plastic hoors you'd be embarrassed to invite home to meet your parents.
Posted by: nurse ratched

Mannix has his shtick and FenSpoke has hers. They're yin and yang, and must remained balanced for the chakras of the blog to remain stable.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 14, 2024 11:18 AM (9yWhg)

82 67 Like everything else, alternative lifestyles DEI has invaded videogames.

P.S. One in five is LGBTEIEIO propaganda.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 14, 2024 11:15 AM (FVME7)

So much of this started with the forum "ResetEra" (aka REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEsetEra), where the entire "community" demands fealty to progressiveness (the mythical "Fully Automated Gay Space Luxury Communism").

And developers let themelves be browbeaten by the ResetEra community.

Also, keep in mind that a _lot_ of Troons are computer programmers.

It's probably the most common occupation for them.

Posted by: XTC at February 14, 2024 11:18 AM (sm6Pk)

83 24 of the richest 20 ?
Posted by: SMOD at February 14, 2024 11:08 AM (RHGPo)
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That's how they do negatives in aboriginal-afromath.

Posted by: Ciampino - Mucho Mucho Man! at February 14, 2024 11:18 AM (qfLjt)

84 My entire reason for supporting Trump in 2016, 2020 and beyond.

If there must be an oligarchy I want the oligarch that most aligns with me in charge.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 14, 2024 11:18 AM (++4z6)
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This is one of the reasons we're going to end up with a king.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 14, 2024 11:19 AM (yjAVs)

85 We would like to endorse CharlieBrown'sDildo's suggestion in the previous Thread that motorboating become a form of salutation.

Posted by: Gerrold Nadler (D-NY) & Michael Moore at February 14, 2024 11:07 AM (a3Q+t)

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Motorgunting =/= Motorboating

Posted by: ShainS -- The Demoralization Will Continue Until Morale Improves at February 14, 2024 11:19 AM (4N2M3)

86 Nitter sucked goat balls, though
Posted by: Seriously it was kinda crap at February 14, 2024 11:11 AM (/IAkV)

It worked on my Kindle without Java Script, so I liked that.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 14, 2024 11:20 AM (nC+QA)

87 Now I just chuck shit and see if it hits the fan.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 14, 2024 11:08 AM (VQQA3)

Even sh*t is better than 9mm?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 14, 2024 11:20 AM (gSZYf)

88 A new report says 1 in 5 active gamers identify as LGBTQ, but the community is underrepresented in video games.

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Like everything else, alternative lifestyles DEI has invaded videogames.

P.S. One in five is LGBTEIEIO propaganda.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 14, 2024 11:15 AM (FVME7)
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That's been going on for a while now...Popular games are hellbent on "inclusivity" and "diversity" even when it makes no sense for the storylines.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 14, 2024 11:20 AM (7fElN)

89 The retard thinks the GOP isn't just an arm of the same complex, and that "support" is binary.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 14, 2024 11:07 AM (yjAVs)

Either they're an idiot, in which case your point stands, or they're a controlled mouthpiece, in which case they want to try and bring us back to the idea that the GOP is totes different and has our back and stuff.

No doubt they could inform their paymasters that most of us have moved beyond that mental paradigm but then they'd have to give up this sweet gig.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 14, 2024 11:20 AM (GYIa4)

90 This is one of the reasons we're going to end up with a king.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 14, 2024 11:19 AM (yjAVs)
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I do not mean that to be snarky, though I realize it probably came across that way.

If it's no longer about rights and rules - and it isn't - then it's about power and retribution. "I don't want a tyrant but if I have to have one, I'd much rather it be *my* tyrant" becomes the defining approach. Once you get there - and I think we're well on our way - you'll end up with a king.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 14, 2024 11:20 AM (yjAVs)

91 Prolly as good as SBF
Posted by: BignJames

Point of order; SBF still has billions of dollars. Mike bankrupted himself at least once.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 14, 2024 11:20 AM (IG4Id)

92 When having an oligarch becomes a method of redress, people will happily support one who might be able to deliver.

I want my oligarch to be able to eat yours for lunch.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 14, 2024 11:21 AM (+6bUL)

93 71 Sex dolls for the win!
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle to maintain Moron standards at February 14, 2024 11:02 AM (hqSyT)

They're shooting for widespread acceptance of sex dolls and working diligently on perfecting an artificial uterus. With those in place they'll eventually be able to control humanity. No person-person relationships, no parent-child relationships, only the state. People will eventually come to worship the golden calf and history will repeat.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 14, 2024 11:16 AM (GYIa4)
___________

Sex dolls are coming -- they are already here, in fact -- and that will be the future of sex. I'm not joking. They're not quite realistic enough yet (but close) and the stigma of using them hasn't worn off. But the younger generations will grow up with them being accepted. I predict that within 20 years most sex will be with artificials.

Posted by: Elric Blade at February 14, 2024 11:21 AM (iFTx/)

94 Its Valentines Day isn't it?

Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2024 11:21 AM (fwDg9)

95 ***He wants to be the Emperor of Mars.***
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And practically his every endeavor is related to achieving that goal.

Posted by: Braenyard at February 14, 2024 11:21 AM (UgT8m)

96
Speak for yourself! I'd love to see ED209 or Protector 101 or Dalek or Tachikoma lay waste to some gangbanging scumbags. The robots would need a good tagline, though.
Posted by: Elric Blade at February 14, 2024 11:09 AM (iFTx/)

Soon

http://tinyurl.com/248bw8ed

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 14, 2024 11:22 AM (z+89e)

97 I want my oligarch to be able to eat yours for lunch.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 14, 2024 11:21 AM (+6bUL)
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I'm tanned, rested and ready!

Posted by: Zombie Idi Amin at February 14, 2024 11:22 AM (yjAVs)

98 I'm happy to see Musk be disruptive in the same way I am happy to see Trump be disruptive. But I don't place much trust in them. Musk mostly offers products and services I don't want and think are bad for the country: nu-Twitter and electric cars. His other well-known preoccupation, space, I'm sure the government will get around to coopting or crushing.
Posted by: Like Trump, I don't think Musk can fix what's broken at February 14, 2024 11:16 AM (pjs7m)

Speaking of Musk, and electric cars, I saw a Tesla Cybertruck yesterday on the top deck of a car transport. What an ugly POS! Looks like the Bizarro World version of a DeLorean.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 14, 2024 11:22 AM (tkR6S)

99 Officer empties mag on his own squad car after mistaking a falling acorn for a gunshot 😰

http://tinyurl.com/4vwa2s33

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That's nuts!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 14, 2024 11:22 AM (FVME7)

100 This is one of the reasons we're going to end up with a king.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 14, 2024 11:19 AM (yjAVs)

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Prince Harry & Lady MacMarkle are tanned, rested, ready, Canadian, and available!

Posted by: ShainS -- The Demoralization Will Continue Until Morale Improves at February 14, 2024 11:22 AM (4N2M3)

101 >>> 57 Musk's motives appear to be less sinister and unsettling than those of most of his oligarch peers. He doesn't want to force the rubes into tenements and make them eat nutrient slurries while a select few few labor under robot task masters and the rest get subsistence welfare.

nope. he's just telling us that a better life awaits us off-world.
Posted by: anachronda

Ok.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 14, 2024 11:12 AM (+6bUL)

What, none of you Morons asked about chicks with three boobs?

Sad!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 14, 2024 11:22 AM (llON8)

102 Plutogarchs and Olicrats.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 14, 2024 11:22 AM (63Dwl)

103 One of the things I appreciate about Russell Brand is he brings a perspective on all this that isn't coming from the traditional right/conservative perspective.

So when he looks at the Canadian government suicide program, and brings a stark, clear view of how ghoulish it is, for these coiffed fops, using language about wanting to help the less fortunate... by killing them, it may resonate with people who are otherwise indifferent to a right leaning perspective.

The oligarchs really are trying to kill us, and it's a bit odd to realize Canada is on the cutting edge of implementing the New World Order, but here we are.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 14, 2024 11:22 AM (dGCAG)

104 Do you rely on Mike Tyson for investing advice?
Posted by: P.T. Barnum

No. Jim Cramer.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 14, 2024 11:22 AM (9yWhg)

105 ***He wants to be the Emperor of Mars.***

Imagine having the peak of Olympus Mons as your throne.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 14, 2024 11:23 AM (CsUN+)

106 Speaking of our elites and betters:
Krugman: Why I Am Now Deeply Worried for America. As anyone who has recently spent time with Biden (and I have) can tell you, he is in full possession of his faculties — completely lucid and with excellent grasp of detail...yes, he speaks quietly and a bit slowly, although this is in part because of his lifetime struggle with stuttering. He also, by the way, has a sense of humor, which I think is important.

Trump talks loud and mean. But what about what he’s actually saying in his speeches? They’re frequently rambling word salads, full of bizarre claims like his assertion on Friday that if he loses in November, “they’re going to change the name of Pennsylvania.”

Not to mention confusing Nikki Haley with Nancy Pelosi and mistaking E. Jean Carroll for one of his ex-wives.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 14, 2024 11:23 AM (JCZqz)

107 When having an oligarch becomes a method of redress, people will happily support one who might be able to deliver.

There's a Putin joke here somewhere.

Posted by: DaveA at February 14, 2024 11:23 AM (FhXTo)

108 93 Sex dolls are coming -- they are already here, in fact -- and that will be the future of sex. I'm not joking. They're not quite realistic enough yet (but close) and the stigma of using them hasn't worn off. But the younger generations will grow up with them being accepted. I predict that within 20 years most sex will be with artificials.
Posted by: Elric Blade at February 14, 2024 11:21 AM (iFTx/)

Doesn't Japan already have functioning Sex Robots?

Posted by: XTC at February 14, 2024 11:23 AM (sm6Pk)

109 ***He wants to be the Emperor of Mars.***
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And practically his every endeavor is related to achieving that goal.
Posted by: Braenyard

If he can safely get us there, I'm all for it.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 14, 2024 11:23 AM (+6bUL)

110 Wait, Harry and Sparkles moved to Canada?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 14, 2024 11:23 AM (9yWhg)

111 That's been going on for a while now...Popular games are hellbent on "inclusivity" and "diversity" even when it makes no sense for the storylines

Vidya. Table top rpgs. Books. Movies. TV.

It's so pervasive, why it's almost like it's propaganda.

Posted by: Penis Sipping Inc. at February 14, 2024 11:23 AM (pjs7m)

112 >>> 81 Now, try to actually post some pretty girls instead of the fake vamp plastic hoors you'd be embarrassed to invite home to meet your parents.
Posted by: nurse ratched

Mannix has his shtick and FenSpoke has hers. They're yin and yang, and must remained balanced for the chakras of the blog to remain stable.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 14, 2024 11:18 AM (9yWhg)

So, kinda like 9mm vs .45, or sous vide or not?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 14, 2024 11:24 AM (llON8)

113 Sex dolls are coming -- they are already here, in fact -- and that will be the future of sex. I'm not joking. They're not quite realistic enough yet (but close) and the stigma of using them hasn't worn off. But the younger generations will grow up with them being accepted. I predict that within 20 years most sex will be with artificials.
Posted by: Elric Blade

Doesn't Japan already have functioning Sex Robots?
Posted by: XTC

Cherry 2000.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 14, 2024 11:24 AM (+6bUL)

114 84 This is one of the reasons we're going to end up with a king.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 14, 2024 11:19 AM (yjAVs)

Just as long as it isn't f*cking Curtis Yarvin.

Anyone but that dude.

Posted by: XTC at February 14, 2024 11:24 AM (sm6Pk)

115 Sex dolls are coming -- they are already here, in fact -- and that will be the future of sex. I'm not joking. They're not quite realistic enough yet (but close) and the stigma of using them hasn't worn off. But the younger generations will grow up with them being accepted. I predict that within 20 years most sex will be with artificials.
Posted by: Elric Blade at February 14, 2024 11:21 AM (iFTx/)
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"DON'T DATE ROBOTS!" -- Obligatory Futurama PSA

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 14, 2024 11:24 AM (7fElN)

116 That's been going on for a while now...Popular games are hellbent on "inclusivity" and "diversity" even when it makes no sense for the storylines.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 14, 2024 11:20 AM (7fElN)

Some one needs to market a videogame in which you have to throw trannies into wood chippers to ascend a level.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 14, 2024 11:25 AM (tkR6S)

117 Officer empties mag on his own squad car after mistaking a falling acorn for a gunshot

He seems a tad...excitable. Probably should look into other lines of work.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 14, 2024 11:25 AM (CsUN+)

118 Krugman: Why I Am Now Deeply Worried for America. As anyone who has recently spent time with Biden (and I have) can tell you, he is in full possession of his faculties — completely lucid and with excellent grasp of detail...yes, he speaks quietly and a bit slowly, although this is in part because of his lifetime struggle with stuttering. He also, by the way, has a sense of humor, which I think is important. ...
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 14, 2024 11:23 AM (JCZqz)
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I wonder how a person goes on in a state like Krugman's. He has no shame, no honesty, no honor, no free will. He is a slave who mouths whatever he is told to mouth and as far as these things go, he's not even all that rich or powerful. He's just a soulless cog in a soulless machine, spouting lies and dancing on command.

How does one live a life of total and abject abasement and humiliation without giving up and eating a bullet?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 14, 2024 11:25 AM (yjAVs)

119 WATCH: Female Pastor Punts Holy Bible Across Stage For Super Bowl Sunday

http://tinyurl.com/a9ahc2jn

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So much wrong . . .

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 14, 2024 11:25 AM (FVME7)

120 I read a cheery article in Vox, of all places.

People, including myself, think that the DNC will parachute in a new candidate at the Democratic convention to replace Biden.

The Vox article explains why that is impossible, without Biden's agreement.

Biden is going to be basically unopposed in the primaries, so he will have almost all the delegates pledged to him. (The filing deadlines to run in the primaries have already passed in a lot of states.)

Biden's delegates are required to vote for Biden on the first ballot.

So Biden would have to withdraw, and that's not going to happen. He is an angry, senile old man who is furious that anyone dare question him, and DOCTOR Jill, Hunter, and Biden's corrupt brother aren't going to let Biden withdraw.

Rejoice!

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 14, 2024 11:25 AM (YAtuc)

121
Did you ever notice when people talk about wanting to live in Medieval Times, nobody ever wants to be a serf
Posted by: SMOD

Whenever I hear a young lady say that she wanted to be a medieval princess, I think (but do not say), "Oh, you wanted to be married off at age eleven to someone chosen for you in order to satisfy the dynastic whims of Daddy / Uncle / gDaddy, be cruelly violated on your wedding night with confirmation of the deed by outsiders that very day, become pregnant at age twelve, and then die in agonizing childbirth before you turn thirteen?" THAT kind of princess?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 14, 2024 11:26 AM (xG4kz)

122 Fair. The implication is slightly different, I suppose.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 14, 2024 11:09 AM (yjAVs)

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Once I got to your Elon Musk thoughts, I then was thinking plutocrat -- not oligarch -- as he's not been generally as corrupt (even Ayn Rand argued for taking advantage of government loopholes and/or perverse incentives for which he has been criticized).

Posted by: ShainS -- The Demoralization Will Continue Until Morale Improves at February 14, 2024 11:26 AM (4N2M3)

123 108 93 Sex dolls are coming -- they are already here, in fact -- and that will be the future of sex. I'm not joking. They're not quite realistic enough yet (but close) and the stigma of using them hasn't worn off. But the younger generations will grow up with them being accepted. I predict that within 20 years most sex will be with artificials.
Posted by: Elric Blade at February 14, 2024 11:21 AM (iFTx/)

Doesn't Japan already have functioning Sex Robots?
Posted by: XTC at February 14, 2024 11:23 AM (sm6Pk)
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Yea, but they're still relatively primitive and the best ones cost thousands of dollars. But this is gonna be a billion-dollar market and some company is gonna be first with the "breakthrough" product.

Posted by: Elric Blade at February 14, 2024 11:26 AM (iFTx/)

124 We need commonsense acorn control.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 14, 2024 11:26 AM (9yWhg)

125 What, none of you Morons asked about chicks with three boobs?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 14, 2024 11:22 AM

TBF, that would double the amount of effort needed to say "Hi!"

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 14, 2024 11:26 AM (a3Q+t)

126 The snozberries taste like snozberries!!!

Posted by: Qmark at February 14, 2024 11:26 AM (gasr6)

127 P.S. One in five is LGBTEIEIO propaganda.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 14, 2024 11:15 AM (FVME7)

I could maybe buy 1 in 5 * streamers* are AlphabetHelicopter inclined. That demographic is already *vastly* over-represented in modern games. I don't know how representative I am, but if they increase the amount I won't be getting any new games. After all, I have Baldur's Gate 3 and that has a stupid amount of "alternate" relationships and also should keep me busy for over a year.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 14, 2024 11:27 AM (nC+QA)

128 84 My entire reason for supporting Trump in 2016, 2020 and beyond.

If there must be an oligarchy I want the oligarch that most aligns with me in charge.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 14, 2024 11:18 AM (++4z6)
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This is one of the reasons we're going to end up with a king.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 14, 2024 11:19 AM (yjAVs)

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No we will end up with an elected teenage queen as in The Phantom Menace.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 14, 2024 11:27 AM (++4z6)

129 Biden's delegates are required to vote for Biden on the first ballot.

So Biden would have to withdraw, and that's not going to happen. He is an angry, senile old man who is furious that anyone dare question him, and DOCTOR Jill, Hunter, and Biden's corrupt brother aren't going to let Biden withdraw.

Rejoice!
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 14, 2024 11:25 AM (YAtuc)
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Don't the "superdelegates" have actual control of the process?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 14, 2024 11:27 AM (7fElN)

130 *** Musk's popularity isn't merely because of his enormous and bombastic personality, it's because he appears to be different from his peers. He might not be on your side, but he is at least not on theirs. ***

Musk witnessed his South Africa go from a wealth productive nation to what we see today. He knows our history, our Constitution and knows we are the last hope of civility in the world. He witnessed it once; he is fighting against a sequel.

Posted by: Braenyard at February 14, 2024 11:27 AM (UgT8m)

131 That's been going on for a while now...Popular games are hellbent on "inclusivity" and "diversity" even when it makes no sense for the storylines

Vidya. Table top rpgs. Books. Movies. TV.

It's so pervasive, why it's almost like it's propaganda.
Posted by: Penis Sipping Inc.

Like rust, Satan never sleeps.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 14, 2024 11:27 AM (FVME7)

132 Did Paul buy chocolate for his hand for Valentines Day?

Posted by: Northernlurker at February 14, 2024 11:27 AM (zssUw)

133 the Emperor of Mars.

He could rule the Antarctic now with readily available equipment and get better weather.

Posted by: DaveA at February 14, 2024 11:28 AM (FhXTo)

134 So Biden would have to withdraw, and that's not going to happen. He is an angry, senile old man who is furious that anyone dare question him, and DOCTOR Jill, Hunter, and Biden's corrupt brother aren't going to let Biden withdraw.

Rejoice!

That's not the point. The right question is "how do you get a presidential candidate to WANT to withdraw". You can bet the DNC has lots of potential options.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 14, 2024 11:28 AM (CsUN+)

135 We need commonsense acorn control.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 14, 2024 11:26 AM (9yWhg)
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You can take my acorns from my cold, dead hands!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 14, 2024 11:28 AM (7fElN)

136 So when he looks at the Canadian government suicide program, and brings a stark, clear view of how ghoulish it is, for these coiffed fops, using language about wanting to help the less fortunate... by killing them, it may resonate with people who are otherwise indifferent to a right leaning perspective

The original German was more succinct: lebensunwertes leben.

Posted by: The anti-fascists sure are a lot like fascists at February 14, 2024 11:28 AM (pjs7m)

137 Two hawk-eyed Senators are asking the Attorney General and his special counsel a big question: Did you guys just pull another fast one?

Sens. Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson say the same special counsel report that called Biden forgetful, old, and guilty of stealing and keeping highly classified documents left out a big chunk of evidence. They’re wondering what happened to nine boxes full of documents that Joe Biden illegally took and then sent to his lawyer’s office, and that were then picked up by the National Archives.

The contents of those files and documents were not in the Hur report, and they want to know why.

Posted by: SMOD at February 14, 2024 11:28 AM (RHGPo)

138 "Did you ever notice when people talk about wanting to live in Medieval Times, nobody ever wants to be a serf

Posted by: SMOD"

Did you ever notice when people talk about living in harmony with nature nobody ever wants to be dinner?

Posted by: Ripley at February 14, 2024 11:28 AM (JojsZ)

139 Whenever I hear a young lady say that she wanted to be a medieval princess, I think (but do not say), "Oh, you wanted to be married off at age eleven to someone chosen for you in order to satisfy the dynastic whims of Daddy / Uncle / gDaddy, be cruelly violated on your wedding night with confirmation of the deed by outsiders that very day, become pregnant at age twelve, and then die in agonizing childbirth before you turn thirteen?" THAT kind of princess?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 14, 2024 11:26 AM (xG4kz)

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There's a DIEsney movie in there somewhere ...

Posted by: ShainS -- The Demoralization Will Continue Until Morale Improves at February 14, 2024 11:29 AM (4N2M3)

140
Yea, but they're still relatively primitive and the best ones cost thousands of dollars. But this is gonna be a billion-dollar market and some company is gonna be first with the "breakthrough" product.
Posted by: Elric Blade

Why, the "replacement hymen" sales alone will be worth billions!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 14, 2024 11:29 AM (xG4kz)

141 >>> 107 When having an oligarch becomes a method of redress, people will happily support one who might be able to deliver.

There's a Putin joke here somewhere.
Posted by: DaveA at February 14, 2024 11:23 AM (FhXTo)

Poo Tin failed to deliver the exposure of the bio-warfare labs in KEEEEV and surroundings.

Support status:
[ ] Yes
[x] No

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 14, 2024 11:29 AM (llON8)

142 What, none of you Morons asked about chicks with three boobs?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

As long as the third one is in the middle of her back.

That way you have something to hold on to while dancing.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 14, 2024 11:29 AM (+6bUL)

143 Whenever I hear a young lady say that she wanted to be a medieval princess, I think (but do not say), "Oh, you wanted to be married off at age eleven to someone chosen for you in order to satisfy the dynastic whims of Daddy / Uncle / gDaddy, be cruelly violated on your wedding night with confirmation of the deed by outsiders that very day, become pregnant at age twelve, and then die in agonizing childbirth before you turn thirteen?" THAT kind of princess?

Also, so when your husband tells you to STFU, you did, because not to was risking your head.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 14, 2024 11:29 AM (CsUN+)

144
I don't get the 'colonizing' Mars thing. After a few generations isn't everyone screwing a cousin or something?

Otherwise, you have to have a steady stream of newbies at tremendous cost to transport.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 14, 2024 11:29 AM (nIvob)

145 OT: Johnson is holding firm, so the "discharge petition" is being floated. Every person should call/email/social media EVERY R member of the House to refuse to sign a discharge petition.

Put the pressure on Uniparty House Rs...and don't let up.

Posted by: Nova Local at February 14, 2024 11:30 AM (exHjb)

146 127 I could maybe buy 1 in 5 * streamers* are AlphabetHelicopter inclined. That demographic is already *vastly* over-represented in modern games. I don't know how representative I am, but if they increase the amount I won't be getting any new games. After all, I have Baldur's Gate 3 and that has a stupid amount of "alternate" relationships and also should keep me busy for over a year.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 14, 2024 11:27 AM (nC+QA)

More than 1 in 5 streamers.

A big part of the reason there are so many troons now is because young dudes wanted a piece of the eThot pie.

They saw how much money an Amouranth or a Belle Delphine makes, and they want that too.

Posted by: XTC at February 14, 2024 11:30 AM (sm6Pk)

147
Did you ever notice when people talk about living in harmony with nature nobody ever wants to be dinner?
Posted by: Ripley

Merely saying, "I want to serve", implies assent to becoming the main course.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 14, 2024 11:30 AM (xG4kz)

148 Why the hell did I wake up in the night and worry that children will plug up the USB ports on those electric yellow school buses with gum, and won't be able to charge their phones on the way to school. weird.

Posted by: Colin at February 14, 2024 11:31 AM (/z/eU)

149
Whenever I hear a young lady say that she wanted to be a medieval princess, I think (but do not say), "Oh, you wanted to be married off at age eleven to someone chosen for you in order to satisfy the dynastic whims of Daddy / Uncle / gDaddy, be cruelly violated on your wedding night with confirmation of the deed by outsiders that very day, become pregnant at age twelve, and then die in agonizing childbirth before you turn thirteen?" THAT kind of princess?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 14, 2024 11:26 AM (xG4kz)

Best Disney Princess song ever

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 14, 2024 11:31 AM (z+89e)

150 Yea, but they're still relatively primitive and the best ones cost thousands of dollars. But this is gonna be a billion-dollar market and some company is gonna be first with the "breakthrough" product.
Posted by: Elric Blade at February 14, 2024 11:26 AM (iFTx/)
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I'll take the other side of that.

Without women, there is no ambition or production. If synthetic women become good enough - especially if they also contain artificial wombs - they will be immediately banned and producing or possessing one will carry a death sentence.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 14, 2024 11:31 AM (yjAVs)

151 Sex dolls are coming

Lol.

That might seal the deal, alright.

Posted by: Did you feel the earth move, Sexbot 6000? at February 14, 2024 11:31 AM (pjs7m)

152 I don't get the 'colonizing' Mars thing. After a few generations isn't everyone screwing a cousin or something?

Otherwise, you have to have a steady stream of newbies at tremendous cost to transport.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 14, 2024 11:29 AM (nIvob)
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I suppose you could bring along some prepackaged frozen embryos to add genetic diversity.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 14, 2024 11:31 AM (7fElN)

153 Live in an apartment, take the bus, eat bugs.
The oligarch’s vision of the future for the masses.

Posted by: Montec at February 14, 2024 11:31 AM (bWsRe)

154 Did you ever notice when people talk about living in harmony with nature nobody ever wants to be dinner?

Posted by: Ripley at February 14, 2024 11:28 AM (JojsZ)

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Heh.

Nature be cruel, yo!

Posted by: ShainS -- The Demoralization Will Continue Until Morale Improves at February 14, 2024 11:31 AM (4N2M3)

155 A new report says 1 in 5 active gamers identify as LGBTQ...

Gotta be honest, I would have guessed higher than that.

Posted by: Oddbob at February 14, 2024 11:32 AM (sNc8Y)

156 I don't get the 'colonizing' Mars thing. After a few generations isn't everyone screwing a cousin or something?

Otherwise, you have to have a steady stream of newbies at tremendous cost to transport.

Why? You would simply ship sperm and eggs to the colony. By that point, we'll probably have artificial wombs.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 14, 2024 11:32 AM (CsUN+)

157 144
I don't get the 'colonizing' Mars thing. After a few generations isn't everyone screwing a cousin or something?

Otherwise, you have to have a steady stream of newbies at tremendous cost to transport.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 14, 2024 11:29 AM (nIvob)
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All reproduction would almost certainly be by AI using stored sperm/eggs/embryos.

Posted by: Elric Blade at February 14, 2024 11:32 AM (iFTx/)

158 Don't the "superdelegates" have actual control of the process?

I believe that they changed the rules so the superdelegates don't get to vote in the first round.

The Vox article:

http://tinyurl.com/4yn8pz8j

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 14, 2024 11:32 AM (YAtuc)

159 New York city will resemble Caracas inside of 18 months.

I'm referring to the level of violence and criminal gang control of the city.

Posted by: I've got bad news for you at February 14, 2024 11:32 AM (mSUe2)

160 Jean-Pierre on Biden Not Taking a Cognitive Exam: The President Proves Everyday How He Operates, How He Thinks

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Yes he does.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 14, 2024 11:33 AM (FVME7)

161 159 New York city will resemble Caracas inside of 18 months.

I'm referring to the level of violence and criminal gang control of the city.
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Any news on what NYC's vacancy rate on commercial real estate is currently?

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 14, 2024 11:33 AM (tlsIq)

162 I think your analysis is spot on, Joe. I’m a bit leery of Musk but I certainly have more positive feelings about him than all the rest…. Mainly because of what he’s done with X and because he drives all the right people nuts.

BTW…. I make no claim about knowing a bunch of history, but I don’t think this is new. Julius Caesar…. I think he was at first an oligarch and then discovered a sort of populism and the result was the Ides of March….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 14, 2024 11:33 AM (1jdMT)

163 Morning.

Posted by: Robert at February 14, 2024 11:34 AM (1Yy3c)

164
I don't get the 'colonizing' Mars thing. After a few generations isn't everyone screwing a cousin or something?

Otherwise, you have to have a steady stream of newbies at tremendous cost to transport.
Posted by: Divide by Zero

"Aggzhually, all of us here on Erf are cousins out no further than to the 50th degree of removal at most."

-- Genealogical Pedant (Gonna Pedant)

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 14, 2024 11:34 AM (xG4kz)

165 Jean-Pierre on Biden Not Taking a Cognitive Exam: The President Proves Everyday How He Operates, How He Thinks

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Yes he does.

That woman is a neutron star of density.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 14, 2024 11:34 AM (CsUN+)

166 Without women, there is no ambition or production. If synthetic women become good enough - especially if they also contain artificial wombs - they will be immediately banned and producing or possessing one will carry a death sentence.

Not to worry, the stigma will never go away. The "dildos and vibrators for me, your lotioned hand for thee" lobby will never permit sexbots to be socially acceptable. They're robotic misogyny, don't you know.

Posted by: The Rabbit is Different Because Reasons at February 14, 2024 11:34 AM (pjs7m)

167 Yea, but they're still relatively primitive and the best ones cost thousands of dollars. But this is gonna be a billion-dollar market and some company is gonna be first with the "breakthrough" product.
Posted by: Elric Blade at February 14, 2024 11:26 AM (iFTx/)

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Except you will have to agree to user terms and agreements for the company to take all your information collected, and pay for a subscription service and a maintenance contract. Also certain features will end up costing extra (oh you wanted it to do a blowjob, that's an extra $10,000 to unlock that feature).

Once it becomes an actual business, expect it to be only slightly less expensive than actual marriage.

There are also people using AI boyfriends/girlfriends that have complained of behavior changes when updates are made.

It all sounds good, but actual implementation will be not better than any other expensive internet connected device.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 14, 2024 11:34 AM (++4z6)

168 Excellent post and yes average people have run out of avenues to effect reform. I won’t comment on musk because i don’t know or understand his motivations.

Bye-the-way “ in a dance of sinister symbiosis”, I’m stealing that line!.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at February 14, 2024 11:34 AM (KwvbG)

169 Posted by: BurtTC at February 14, 2024 11:22 AM (dGCAG)

Starting to think Hitler would be impressed with how well Canada has implemented his vision. UK too. And we're always just a little behind the UK in these things, so it's on its way here too.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 14, 2024 11:34 AM (nC+QA)

170 Amusingly, my Senator was one of the two Senators to oppose the foreign aid bill - since he opposes aid to Israel.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 14, 2024 11:35 AM (YAtuc)

171 Being gay/trans is trendy for Zoomers. They're the first generation raised where it's not just tolerated, but celebrated, and they've grown up on social media where it's amplified x1000. Hopefully most of them grow out of it before long term harm sets in, and they'll look back on it and laugh like other generations being emo or goth.

Posted by: brak at February 14, 2024 11:35 AM (25k9m)

172 @thehill
A new report says 1 in 5 active gamers identify as LGBTQ, but the community is underrepresented in video games. ...
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 14, 2024 11:15 AM (FVME7)
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Impossible on its face.

The video games industry is worth about $185 billion per year and they ship scores of millions of units. It's bigger than movies by a pretty wide margin.

It is impossible that a market that big is 20% alphabet people.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 14, 2024 11:35 AM (yjAVs)

173 Amusingly, my Senator was one of the two Senators to oppose the foreign aid bill

Er - Democratic Senators.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 14, 2024 11:35 AM (YAtuc)

174 I had posted that ...

Mitch McConnell‘s sister-in-law, Angela Chao has died in a car accident

Now, I find out ...

the Turtle's sister in law just drove her Tesla into a lake

Posted by: SMOD at February 14, 2024 11:36 AM (RHGPo)

175 Can we take Biden to the park and let him play with the kids?

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 14, 2024 11:36 AM (tlsIq)

176
Jean-Pierre on Biden Not Taking a Cognitive Exam: The President Proves Everyday How He Operates, How He Thinks

"Why, the mere fact that I am here before you shows that he rides the short bus, wearing a hockey helmet, and licks the windows."

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 14, 2024 11:36 AM (xG4kz)

177 dollars. But this is gonna be a billion-dollar market and some company is gonna be first with the "breakthrough" product.
Posted by: Elric Blade at February 14, 2024 11:26 AM (iFTx/)
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I'll take the other side of that.

Without women, there is no ambition or production. If synthetic women become good enough - especially if they also contain artificial wombs - they will be immediately banned and producing or possessing one will carry a death sentence.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 14, 2024 11:31 AM (yjAVs)
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There isn't much ambition or production as it is. Have you seen the under-20 set? And this is how the establishment wants it. If you are correct that "no girls equals no ambition," then the elites will do everything possible to push moving all or most sex to artificials.

Posted by: Elric Blade at February 14, 2024 11:36 AM (iFTx/)

178 Yea, but they're still relatively primitive and the best ones cost thousands of dollars. But this is gonna be a billion-dollar market and some company is gonna be first with the "breakthrough" product.

And as with any business sector, someone will try to be the low-cost producer, the Kaboom of sexbots. I shudder to think about how wrong things could go.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 14, 2024 11:36 AM (CsUN+)

179 As Adam Carolla says California is 5 years behind Canada. And eventually the rest of the country adopts California’s idiocy.

Look to Canuckistan for the near future of our reality.

Posted by: Montec at February 14, 2024 11:36 AM (bWsRe)

180 >>>> And we're always just a little behind the UK in these things, so it's on its way here too.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 14, 2024 11:34 AM (nC+QA)
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Absolutely Polliwog, 5 years tops.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at February 14, 2024 11:37 AM (KwvbG)

181 I don't get the 'colonizing' Mars thing. After a few generations isn't everyone screwing a cousin or something?

Otherwise, you have to have a steady stream of newbies at tremendous cost to transport.
Posted by: Divide by Zero

We're going to Mars. Not Alabama.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 14, 2024 11:37 AM (+6bUL)

182 I don't get the 'colonizing' Mars thing. After a few generations isn't everyone screwing a cousin or something?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 14, 2024 11:29 AM (nIvob)

You wouldn't talk shit if you saw the tits on my cousin.

Posted by: Robert at February 14, 2024 11:37 AM (1Yy3c)

183 There isn't much ambition or production as it is. Have you seen the under-20 set? And this is how the establishment wants it. If you are correct that "no girls equals no ambition," then the elites will do everything possible to push moving all or most sex to artificials.
Posted by: Elric Blade at February 14, 2024 11:36 AM (iFTx/)
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No. The ruling class wants a controlled society populated with deprived slaves, but they don't want *no* society at all.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 14, 2024 11:37 AM (yjAVs)

184 >>>Mannix has his shtick and FenSpoke has hers. They're yin and yang, and must remained balanced for the chakras of the blog to remain stable.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus
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Hear, hear, here the chakras must flow.

Posted by: Braenyard at February 14, 2024 11:38 AM (UgT8m)

185
I saw some video on X of someone who thinks that the egg has the ability to shun some sperm and has a say in which one seals the deal. The egg then releases some sort of magic potion that keeps the rest away.

IDK if it's true, but it's kinda interesting.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 14, 2024 11:38 AM (nIvob)

186 LgbtqxYZABC123 is the equivalent of getting an ear pierced or a nose ring from 30 years ago. It’s cool and meant to piss off your parents.

Posted by: Montec at February 14, 2024 11:38 AM (bWsRe)

187 It is impossible that a market that big is 20% alphabet people.

I'm not at all sure that "identifies as" means the same thing as "is." In fact, I'm fairly sure it doesn't.

Posted by: Oddbob at February 14, 2024 11:38 AM (sNc8Y)

188 You wouldn't talk shit if you saw the tits on my cousin.

Ah, AOSHQ, the home of sophisticated humor.

Yeah, I laughed.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 14, 2024 11:38 AM (CsUN+)

189 My entire reason for supporting Trump in 2016, 2020 and beyond.

If there must be an oligarchy I want the oligarch that most aligns with me in charge.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 14, 2024 11:18 AM (++4z6)
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This is one of the reasons we're going to end up with a king.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 14, 2024 11:19 AM (yjAVs)

I'm not sure we'll get a King exactly. But, I suspect two things:

1) Our Betters shout their intentions at the same time paying for what, if this were WWII and they the Nazis, would be called sabotage and treason. They often do this in collusion with foreign nations and foreign fellow oligarchs.

I have no doubt that they've technically broken a shit-ton of laws in their starve the normies, deprive normies of energy, and jobs, allowing active invasion through the borders, support domestic terrorist organizations like antifa and blm. Sabotage and treason charges are just a start. Simply by following the law, these people could be taken down very quickly.

2) Would anyone really care if the WEF/Davos/China-gimps were taken down and imprisoned or even sentenced to death? Nope. Even their "allies" would cheer cuz they (con't)

Posted by: naturalfake at February 14, 2024 11:39 AM (nFnyb)

190 >>Mitch McConnell‘s sister-in-law, Angela Chao has died in a car accident
Now, I find out ...
>the Turtle's sister in law just drove her Tesla into a lake

Do you make a woman driving joke?

Do you make an asian driving joke?

Posted by: garrett at February 14, 2024 11:39 AM (zOR5N)

191 175 Can we take Biden to the park and let him play with the kids?
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 14, 2024 11:36 AM (tlsIq)

His daughter has a diary explaining how he "plays" with "kids."

Posted by: Your daily reminder that Joe Biden is a daughter-fucking rapist at February 14, 2024 11:39 AM (pjs7m)

192 185
I saw some video on X of someone who thinks that the egg has the ability to shun some sperm and has a say in which one seals the deal. The egg then releases some sort of magic potion that keeps the rest away.

IDK if it's true, but it's kinda interesting.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 14, 2024 11:38 AM (nIvob)

Didn’t a Republican lose a senate race for saying that a while back?

Posted by: Montec at February 14, 2024 11:39 AM (bWsRe)

193 I saw some video on X of someone who thinks that the egg has the ability to shun some sperm and has a say in which one seals the deal. The egg then releases some sort of magic potion that keeps the rest away.

It's true. IIRC, the cell wall of the egg becomes stiffer after a sperm penetrates it, so others can't follow.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 14, 2024 11:39 AM (CsUN+)

194 Without women, there is no ambition or production.

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Truth. While a boy, virtually all of my ambition owed itself to escaping poverty; however, my post-pubescent ambition owed itself primarily to a testosterone-driven sex drive and pursuit & "capture" (as it were) or winning of a most desirable mate.

I'm blessed to still possess that still on the wrong side of 60, although I've expended much energy & effort to remain physically & mentally healthy -- and for the very same reason.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Demoralization Will Continue Until Morale Improves at February 14, 2024 11:40 AM (bm+w0)

195 Now, I find out ...
>the Turtle's sister in law just drove her Tesla into a lake
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Shocking.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 14, 2024 11:40 AM (tlsIq)

196 This Asian in a bikini doesn't relish being a pod person who's survival is nothing but a function of the whim of a depraved oligarchy:
http://tiny.cc/p6auwz

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 14, 2024 11:40 AM (yjAVs)

197 Without women, there is no ambition or production. If synthetic women become good enough - especially if they also contain artificial wombs - they will be immediately banned and producing or possessing one will carry a death sentence.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 14, 2024 11:31 AM (yjAVs)

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A guy named Aaron Clarey wrote a book with that exact theme.

He posts stuff on YouTube too:

No kitty, now work: how sex powers economies.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 14, 2024 11:40 AM (++4z6)

198 Now, I find out ...

the Turtle's sister in law just drove her Tesla into a lake
Posted by: SMOD at February 14, 2024 11:36 AM (RHGPo)

You could probably get a fair long way in, too, until the wheels broke traction. The electric motors will continue to run, for a while, when submerged.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 14, 2024 11:40 AM (tkR6S)

199 It's true. IIRC, the cell wall of the egg becomes stiffer after a sperm penetrates it, so others can't follow.
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My boys can swim.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 14, 2024 11:41 AM (tlsIq)

200 BTW…. I make no claim about knowing a bunch of history, but I don’t think this is new. Julius Caesar…. I think he was at first an oligarch and then discovered a sort of populism and the result was the Ides of March….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 14, 2024

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In his early days in the career politician track, he made a point of holding lots of games to get the voters on his side. Is that populism? But then, once he'd crossed the Rubicon, literally, and took over Rome and had to eliminate many of his enemies, the surviving opponents thought he planned to set himself up as a king.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2024 11:41 AM (J2vNu)

201 This Asian in a bikini doesn't relish being a pod person who's survival is nothing but a function of the whim of a depraved oligarchy:

I feel a bout of yellow fever starting.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 14, 2024 11:41 AM (CsUN+)

202 Finally, some common sense economic legislation!

Rep. Barbara Lee Argues for $50 Minimum Wage

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 14, 2024 11:41 AM (FVME7)

203
the Turtle's sister in law just drove her Tesla into a lake

Posted by: SMOD at February 14, 2024 11:36 AM

My generation drove a Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 14, 2024 11:42 AM (nIvob)

204 If we’re gonna do $50 why not $1000? Go big or go home baby.

Posted by: Montec at February 14, 2024 11:42 AM (bWsRe)

205 The administrative state wants docile and dependent citizens.

The 20-somethings today are close to what they want. Imagine what a 20-something is going to be like in another decade or two.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 14, 2024 11:43 AM (Q4IgG)

206 This Asian in a bikini doesn't relish being a pod person who's survival is nothing but a function of the whim of a depraved oligarchy:
http://tiny.cc/p6auwz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

She looks dejected.

Posted by: Northernlurker at February 14, 2024 11:43 AM (zssUw)

207 >>Mitch McConnell‘s sister-in-law, Angela Chao has died in a car accident
Now, I find out ...
>the Turtle's sister in law just drove her Tesla into a lake

Do you make a woman driving joke?

Do you make an asian driving joke?

Posted by: garrett at February 14, 2024 11:39 AM (zOR5N)

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Do you make a cocaine joke?

Posted by: ShainS -- The Demoralization Will Continue Until Morale Improves at February 14, 2024 11:44 AM (cY4QW)

208 This Asian in a bikini doesn't relish being a pod person who's survival is nothing but a function of the whim of a depraved oligarchy:
http://tiny.cc/p6auwz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Her position on the bed is, how you say? Inviting.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 14, 2024 11:45 AM (eYF7X)

209 http://tiny.cc/p6auwz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 14, 2024 11:40 AM (yjAVs)

She really wants her senpai to notice her. I noticed her. Goodness gracious!

Posted by: Robert at February 14, 2024 11:45 AM (1Yy3c)

210 Ok, Babs. Sounds good.

$50 an hour. I'm in. Where's my money?

Oh, i see. You don't mean that YOU would pay that much.

You just want someone ELSE to pony up money they don't have so you can give it to someone who hasn't earned it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 14, 2024 11:45 AM (9UlRk)

211 She looks dejected.
Posted by: Northernlurker at February 14, 2024 11:43 AM (zssUw)

I volunteer to disappoint her.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 14, 2024 11:45 AM (tkR6S)

212 I won’t comment on musk because i don’t know or understand his motivations.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at February 14, 2024 11:34 AM (KwvbG)

Musk views himself as a Heinlein character. He's said as much, but most of the "journalists" covering him are too young and too mal-educated to understand what he means by that.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 14, 2024 11:45 AM (nC+QA)

213 (con't)

hate the rich.

Now, would I like that as our future?
No, not particularly. I believe in America and the American system.

But, if we're to have a King/tyrant, I definitely want now who promotes energy production, jobs, food production including yummy meat, I want crime controlled and punished. Law and order. I want an end to teaching kids perversion and insanity in schools. I want Green business to be no longer subsidized- let it stand or fall on its own. etc etc etcA strong military. etc.

Instead, of what the Democrats/WEF/Davos?China/Communists?Socialist?Progtards have told us outlaid what they want for us.

They seem to want America to no longer exist and are working toward that goal. When the scrum ends

Posted by: naturalfake at February 14, 2024 11:45 AM (nFnyb)

214 And as with any business sector, someone will try to be the low-cost producer, the Kaboom of sexbots. I shudder to think about how wrong things could go.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 14, 2024

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The knockoff of the "Young Nicole Kidman" model from the top producer will be called "Nicholle," and will have a snub nose, burgundy hair, and flat feet.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2024 11:46 AM (J2vNu)

215 You could probably get a fair long way in, too, until the wheels broke traction. The electric motors will continue to run, for a while, when submerged.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

And then it lights up like a Roman Candle.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 14, 2024 11:46 AM (+6bUL)

216 196 This Asian in a bikini doesn't relish being a pod person who's survival is nothing but a function of the whim of a depraved oligarchy:
http://tiny.cc/p6auwz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 14, 2024 11:40 AM (yjAVs)

Body of a woman, head of an Asian...

I'm not into Asian women (cue Hunter jokes). They just don't do it for me. I can recognize why others may find them attractive, I just don't.

Which led to a very odd occasion one evening when dining out with my parents. Asian waitress and I could see why people found her attractive.

Think my father made some comment about attractive women making good tips. I made some crack about not finding Asian women attractive. That's when my freaking mother piped up, "You don't?!"

So there I was, trying to defend my position against both parents. Very strange. Penny lane...

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 14, 2024 11:46 AM (KbCG3)

217 I prefer a reset revolution to a king.
The thought of either is revolting but the ruling class keeps driving us to one or the other. Maybe they think they are going to be the king maker. SURPRISE!

Posted by: Braenyard at February 14, 2024 11:46 AM (UgT8m)

218 Good rant.

News Nation, July 2, 2022 - Oligarchs: Inside the minds of this country’s wealthiest people

It begins, "(NewsNation) — Russia may have given “oligarchs” a bad name, but other countries have them too. They’re private citizens who are unbelievably rich, unbelievably powerful and seemingly unavailable to their fellow citizens.

This week NewsNation’s “Banfield” did a deep dive into the oligarchy of America, which has more of these people than any other country on earth. NewsNation’s Brian Entin spoke with former employees of the oligarchs, journalists and technology experts about these mysterious billionaires.
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The oligarchs were Musk, Bezos, Gates, Zuckerberg and Ellison for purposes of the article.
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I'm good with Musk out of that crew. My theory for now is he has many children, hopefully is not engaged in exploiting children (digging mines, etc.) in other nations & is not looking to end at least half of our civilization, but rather to create stuff & enhance lives. Again, I'm hoping.

Posted by: L - And now the King of BS can't remember last evening so let it go at February 14, 2024 11:47 AM (GshMh)

219 Elephants aren't the only ones with a crocodile problem:

http://tinyurl.com/3yc82dwp

Posted by: Archimedes at February 14, 2024 11:47 AM (CsUN+)

220 And as with any business sector, someone will try to be the low-cost producer, the Kaboom of sexbots.

North Korea.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 14, 2024 11:47 AM (+6bUL)

221 "28 19 Did you ever notice when people talk about wanting to live in Medieval Times, nobody ever wants to be a serf
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You can always throw yourself on the kindness of the Crown and be a slave. Look on the bright side of life.
Posted by: Pudinhead"
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Years ago while touring Donegal Castle, as we walked through the great banquet hall my buddy remarked that it would have been great to live back then and dine in there. I told him that he and I would have been lucky to have been guards outside the door.

Posted by: Cosda at February 14, 2024 11:47 AM (fbK4k)

222 "I don't get the 'colonizing' Mars thing. After a few generations isn't everyone screwing a cousin or something?

Posted by: Divide by Zero"

Besides that , seems like a lot of it is about escaping the coming environmental catastrophe. Do they really think it will be so bad here they would rather live in a planet without water (maybe some ice here and there), air you can't breath, no plants or animals and temperatures that range from cold to worse than arctic conditions?

I don't think they have put much thought into this. Just reacting to environmentalist fear mongering

Posted by: Ripley at February 14, 2024 11:48 AM (JojsZ)

223 Musk views himself as a Heinlein character. He's said as much, but most of the "journalists" covering him are too young and too mal-educated to understand what he means by that.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 14, 2024 11:45 AM (nC+QA)
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I picture him as a Stephen Baxter character myself (Reid Malenfant) but that's just me.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 14, 2024 11:48 AM (7fElN)

224 The Kaboom of Sexbots is just a cow milking machine with a sears catalog taped to it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 14, 2024 11:48 AM (9UlRk)

225 Washington Dems Slap Surprise "Hamas Amendment" on Holocaust Education Bill

"A bipartisan bill on Holocaust and genocide education in Washington state has had a “Hamas amendment” slapped on it by State House Democrats that would guarantee that antisemitic and pro-Hamas talking points are taught to public school children."

http://tinyurl.com/bdj3npsw

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Seems diverse, equitable, and inclusive.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 14, 2024 11:48 AM (FVME7)

226 Most oligarchs are incompetent, and inherited their wealth and position. Someone like Musk, who built his own empire, is worthy of respect but not slavish devotion. The invisible hand of the masses makes far better decisions than any "leader".

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 14, 2024 11:49 AM (vj/YW)

227 No. Jim Cramer.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Inverse Cramer ETFs make money.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 14, 2024 11:49 AM (IG4Id)

228 >>224 The Kaboom of Sexbots is just a cow milking machine with a sears catalog taped to it.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Autoblow with an Ipad attachment.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 14, 2024 11:50 AM (eYF7X)

229 This is one of the reasons we're going to end up with a king.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 14, 2024 11:19 AM (yjAVs)

I'm not sure we'll get a King exactly. But, I suspect two things:

Dukedoms arose through Dark Age Western Europe as the highest ranking commanders left behind as the Empire fell apart were men with the title of Dux, a regional military commander After a couple of generations, the title came to be venerated and hereditary. (and of course the Scandinavian cultures were ruled by Jarls, which also became hereditary)

So say hello to the Duke a' New York,

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 14, 2024 11:51 AM (i9ffA)

230 When do we get the Tay Tay sexbot that will write a song afterward about how disappointing you were?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 14, 2024 11:51 AM (9yWhg)

231 Howdy, Folks.

Signing off AOSHQ for Lent, so I'll see you after Easter.

I just pray that there's a world to come back to after my Lenten sabbatical. I'll leave something in the tip jar for the COBs and The Boss on the way out the door today.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at February 14, 2024 11:51 AM (p7pH3)

232 The invisible hand of the masses makes far better decisions than any "leader".

Generally true, but the masses can be, and often are, another word for the mob. Second look at benevolent dictators?

Posted by: Archimedes at February 14, 2024 11:51 AM (CsUN+)

233 When do we get the Tay Tay sexbot that will write a song afterward about how disappointing you were?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 14, 2024 11:51 AM (9yWhg)
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A robot with both the SexGPT *and* SongGPT integrations will cost more.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 14, 2024 11:52 AM (yjAVs)

234 He could rule the Antarctic now with readily available equipment and get better weather.
Posted by: DaveA at February 14, 2024 11:28 AM (FhXTo)

there appears to be gobs of water frozen on Mars, and there are people saying that it appears the atmosphere was blown off Mars about the time of the Earth's Cenozoic era and they can show you why they think that.

I doubt it will be like Total Recall, but it might be easier to terrform Mars than it seems from here.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 14, 2024 11:52 AM (D7oie)

235 BTW, many of the current class of Russian oligarchs came from little to nothing before amassing great wealth.

Posted by: L - And now the King of BS can't remember last evening so let it go at February 14, 2024 11:52 AM (GshMh)

236 Oligarch, George Bush junior.
Plutocrat, George Soros...will his son be an Oligarch?

Posted by: Seems Legit at February 14, 2024 11:52 AM (JeYYB)

237 Besides that , seems like a lot of it is about escaping the coming environmental catastrophe. Do they really think it will be so bad here they would rather live in a planet without water (maybe some ice here and there), air you can't breath, no plants or animals and temperatures that range from cold to worse than arctic conditions?

I don't think they have put much thought into this. Just reacting to environmentalist fear mongering
Posted by: Ripley at February 14, 2024 11:48 AM (JojsZ)

The nice thing about colonizing mars is that there is no authority with power to stop you from doing whatever you need to do to make it habitable.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 14, 2024 11:52 AM (tkR6S)

238 Signing off AOSHQ for Lent, so I'll see you after Easter.

That's actually a really good idea, Darrell. See you on the other side.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 14, 2024 11:53 AM (CsUN+)

239 >And it's not like Ukraine's leaders have been as pure as the driven snow.

Zoolenskyy has had more driven snow than Scarface.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 14, 2024 11:53 AM (cf/0E)

240 "I don't get the 'colonizing' Mars thing. ..
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Besides that , seems like a lot of it is about escaping the coming environmental catastrophe...

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I've thought quite a bit about it, and I honestly think Musk just wants to be able to claim he's Emperor of Mars or something similar. Look at all he's accomplished, and he's not driven to murder people with bioweapons or force them to stop eating meat and live in closets. He's fairly "chill" as the kids say.

I think Emperor of Mars is about all that's left for him, and I'm fine with it.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Do you remember when our sun used to be yellow? at February 14, 2024 11:53 AM (0+Kup)

241 >>>The invisible hand of the masses makes far better decisions than any "leader".

Generally true, but the masses can be, and often are, another word for the mob. Second look at benevolent dictators?
Posted by: Archimedes

Conundrum; The Wisdom of Crowds versus The Madness of Crowds.

It's all fun and games until power is up for grabs, i guess.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 14, 2024 11:53 AM (IG4Id)

242 Generally true, but the masses can be, and often are, another word for the mob. Second look at benevolent dictators?
Posted by: Archimedes

I totally agree about the mob. That is why I fight for the constitution. Decisions about what we eat, drive, or live in are not to be made by anyone other than the user.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 14, 2024 11:53 AM (vj/YW)

243 Colonizing Mars?
No authority...so far.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 14, 2024 11:54 AM (zdLoL)

244 The nice thing about colonizing mars is that there is no authority with power to stop you from doing whatever you need to do to make it habitable.

I think one of the first things the terrestrial overlords would do is nuke any uppity types on Mars.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 14, 2024 11:54 AM (CsUN+)

245 The Kaboom of Sexbots is just a cow milking machine with a sears catalog taped to it.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 14, 2024 11:48 AM (9UlRk)

The catalog will provide variety of visual appeal. Don't want to get to that point of "damn, I got some regular old crackers".

*hopes someone catches that reference in quotes

Posted by: Doof at February 14, 2024 11:54 AM (a3s5O)

246 When do we get the Tay Tay sexbot that will write a song afterward about how disappointing you were?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

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I'm pretty sure that's just college. You never get to hear or read the song, but still.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Do you remember when our sun used to be yellow? at February 14, 2024 11:54 AM (0+Kup)

247 I think one of the first things the terrestrial overlords would do is nuke any uppity types on Mars.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 14, 2024 11:54 AM (CsUN+)

Talk about charging up-hill....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 14, 2024 11:54 AM (9UlRk)

248 Generally true, but the masses can be, and often are, another word for the mob. Second look at benevolent dictators?
Posted by: Archimedes at February 14, 2024 11:51 AM (CsUN+)

. . . And Bukele is the worst human being ever, since he has a bunch of Venezuelans who fled Maduro's repression and are acting as the El Salvadoran President's "Kitchen Cabinet" teaching him all of Hugo Chavez' tricks for controlling a country's opinion!

Posted by: Kindltot at February 14, 2024 11:54 AM (D7oie)

249 I just read Ace's thing about Tucker Carlson in the sidebar. Wow.

Piss on that guy.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at February 14, 2024 11:55 AM (woPEM)

250 The nice thing about colonizing mars is that there is no authority with power to stop you from doing whatever you need to do to make it habitable.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 14, 2024 11:52 AM (tkR6S)
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I wouldn't be too sure about that...Some idiot will plop a base on Phobos or Deimos and start chucking rocks down at Mars bases that get too uppity.

Next thing you know they've open a literal portal into hell and there goes the neighborhood...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 14, 2024 11:55 AM (7fElN)

251 ‘ Do you make a woman driving joke?

Do you make an asian driving joke? ’

She never had a chance, did she?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 14, 2024 11:55 AM (jbnUc)

252 Women do make men do crazy things, it's what made the world go around

Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2024 11:55 AM (fwDg9)

253 If it's no longer about rights and rules - and it isn't - then it's about power and retribution. "I don't want a tyrant but if I have to have one, I'd much rather it be *my* tyrant" becomes the defining approach. Once you get there - and I think we're well on our way - you'll end up with a king.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 14, 2024 11:20 AM (yjAVs)
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I have some sympathy for the view; however, I am not sure the world is moving in a way to favor the economic elite. The world is actually in the process of getting much bigger. Controlling finance and info as the means to power and riches is in the process of changing to making actual stuff. I think the Davos crowd realizes it - and I think the uniparty realizes it. Hence their very silly and almost panicked response to the changes happening. Their favored groups are in the process of losing status and stature. Going to be bumpy.

Posted by: Black JEM at February 14, 2024 11:55 AM (GZYu7)

254 Sex dolls are coming -- they are already here, in fact -- and that will be the future of sex. I'm not joking. They're not quite realistic enough yet (but close) and the stigma of using them hasn't worn off. But the younger generations will grow up with them being accepted. I predict that within 20 years most sex will be with artificials.
Posted by: Elric Blade at February 14, 2024 11:21 AM (iFTx/)

YAAAAYY!!! We're so excited!!

Posted by: Nerds And Geeks everywhere at February 14, 2024 11:55 AM (iODuv)

255 >>>He wants to be the Emperor of Mars.

Musk doesn't really want to be Emperor, does he? More like CEO? Or coach?

Posted by: m at February 14, 2024 11:55 AM (KpWJP)

256 I have some sympathy for the view; however, I am not sure the world is moving in a way to favor the economic elite. The world is actually in the process of getting much bigger. Controlling finance and info as the means to power and riches is in the process of changing to making actual stuff. I think the Davos crowd realizes it - and I think the uniparty realizes it. Hence their very silly and almost panicked response to the changes happening. Their favored groups are in the process of losing status and stature. Going to be bumpy.
Posted by: Black JEM at February 14, 2024 11:55 AM (GZYu7)
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It doesn't mean the king will come out of their ranks. He's likely not to.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 14, 2024 11:55 AM (yjAVs)

257 Taking girls to big feed for lunch.

Posted by: Eromero at February 14, 2024 11:55 AM (3z0Oi)

258 Yo.

Posted by: gp In Chicago at February 14, 2024 11:56 AM (HsBed)

259 Kinda OT, but were any Star Trek episodes (any of the series) set on planets of our solar system (other then Earth)?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 14, 2024 11:56 AM (9yWhg)

260 BTW, many of the current class of Russian oligarchs came from little to nothing before amassing great wealth.

Posted by: L

I was in Russia shortly after the fall. Many of the oligarchs there got sweetheart deals on former state run enterprises. Party connections, or brute force - some of both.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 14, 2024 11:56 AM (vj/YW)

261 As to his own ambitions, Musk doesn't seem to desire his spot in a dark-paneled room where they divvy up the world. He wants to be the Emperor of Mars. It's brash, ambitious, different and weird - so many find it appealing.

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ha. Sorry Joe Mannix, but I didn't read the content and it's funny that we seem so similar on this.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Do you remember when our sun used to be yellow? at February 14, 2024 11:56 AM (0+Kup)

262 I doubt it will be like Total Recall

Friend of mine recently returned from the Antarctic.
He says penguins smell. But also?
Lack of three-titted whores. So Mars has that going for it...

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 14, 2024 11:57 AM (zdLoL)

263 Yeet!
Posted by: nurse ratched

YOOT !

Posted by: JT at February 14, 2024 11:57 AM (T4tVD)

264 I doubt it will be like Total Recall, but it might be easier to terrform Mars than it seems from here.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 14, 2024 11:52 AM (D7oie)

Total Recall…. One of Arnie’s underrated movies IMO. I’ve watched it multiple times over the years

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at February 14, 2024 11:57 AM (1jdMT)

265 Sex dolls are coming -- they are already here, in fact -- and that will be the future of sex. I'm not joking. They're not quite realistic enough yet (but close) and the stigma of using them hasn't worn off. But the younger generations will grow up with them being accepted. I predict that within 20 years most sex will be with artificials.
Posted by: Elric Blade

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Women have had them for what, 50-75 years or so?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Do you remember when our sun used to be yellow? at February 14, 2024 11:57 AM (0+Kup)

266 "The nice thing about colonizing mars is that there is no authority with power to stop you from doing whatever you need to do to make it habitable.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon"

The EPA will have Mars outposts and lawsuits ready long before the colonizers get the terraforming up and running.

Posted by: Ripley at February 14, 2024 11:57 AM (JojsZ)

267 15 But that dick Elon killed Nitter
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 14, 2024 11:05 AM (2yu8s)

nitter.moomoo.me

Posted by: m at February 14, 2024 11:57 AM (KpWJP)

268 Tim Poole showed a video of a 26 year old who was shocked that you could pick lemons off a tree and use them. She kept asking, don’t you have to do something to them before using them? These people are so fucking clueless about the world around them. It’s incredible.

Posted by: Montec at February 14, 2024 11:58 AM (bWsRe)

269 I think one of the first things the terrestrial overlords would do is nuke any uppity types on Mars.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 14, 2024 11:54 AM (CsUN+)

Easier said that done. Of necessity, the first Martian colonists will be well dug in. And they are going to have better space flight chops than the ground pounders on Earth. In a nuclear exchange between Earth and Mars, who has the most to lose?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 14, 2024 11:58 AM (tkR6S)

270 261 ha. Sorry Joe Mannix, but I didn't read the content
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Do you remember when our sun used to be yellow? at February 14, 2024 11:56 AM (0+Kup)

!!!

Posted by: m at February 14, 2024 11:58 AM (KpWJP)

271 This Asian in a bikini doesn't relish being a pod person who's survival is nothing but a function of the whim of a depraved oligarchy:
http://tiny.cc/p6auwz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 14, 2024 11:40 AM (yjAVs)

Body of a woman, head of an Asian...

I'm not into Asian women (cue Hunter jokes). They just don't do it for me. I can recognize why others may find them attractive, I just don't.

Which led to a very odd occasion one evening when dining out with my parents. Asian waitress and I could see why people found her attractive.

Think my father made some comment about attractive women making good tips. I made some crack about not finding Asian women attractive. That's when my freaking mother piped up, "You don't?!"

So there I was, trying to defend my position against both parents. Very strange. Penny lane...
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 14, 2024 11:46 AM (KbCG3)

I'm surprised that you're surprised.

Stuff like this sounds racist, whether that's your intention or not - "Body of a woman, head of an Asian..."

Yikes. To get the idea, imagine if you said-"Body of a woman, head of a Negro..."

Anyway, no surprise here.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 14, 2024 11:58 AM (nFnyb)

272 Generally true, but the masses can be, and often are, another word for the mob. Second look at benevolent dictators?
Posted by: Archimedes

I totally agree about the mob. That is why I fight for the constitution. Decisions about what we eat, drive, or live in are not to be made by anyone other than the user.

People like Washington, Madison, Hamilton, and Jay* knew full well that the masses were prone to emotional swings and lacked information on which to act. They assumed that a Republic, consisting of wise, accomplished men to lead the masses by persuasion was the best solution to that problem. It's hard to argue.

*Read The Quartet by Joseph Ellis.
http://tinyurl.com/3js6ente

Posted by: Archimedes at February 14, 2024 11:58 AM (CsUN+)

273 The nice thing about colonizing mars is that there is no authority with power to stop you from doing whatever you need to do to make it habitable.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 14, 2024 11:52 AM (tkR6S)

Apparently there is a huge body of "iinternational law" dealing with outer space which seems to have as much clout as the "Treaty of Tordisillas" ever did -- and that was mostly justification to exclude any third country from colonizing the new world, and never actually worked at that either.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 14, 2024 11:59 AM (D7oie)

274 238 That's actually a really good idea, Darrell. See you on the other side.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 14, 2024 11:53 AM (CsUN+)

It's a smart idea, but as for me, I need you hardasses to keep me from ever wavering.

Posted by: XTC at February 14, 2024 12:00 PM (sm6Pk)

275 I don't get the 'colonizing' Mars thing. After a few generations isn't everyone screwing a cousin or something?
Posted by: Divide by Zero

I think the idea is to have enough genetic material to work with, aka several thousand people. Remember, there were multiple die-offs in human history. At one point there were fewer than 100k humans, IIRC. And we're all related if you go back a few thousand years.

It's an old libertarian sci-fi trope/obsession; 'if the few of us actualized individuals can simply escape the feral masses, we'd live in paradise.' It's one part anti-human autism, and one part exasperation with the human condition.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 14, 2024 12:00 PM (IG4Id)

276 Apparently there is a huge body of "iinternational law" dealing with outer space which seems to have as much clout as the "Treaty of Tordisillas" ever did -- and that was mostly justification to exclude any third country from colonizing the new world, and never actually worked at that either.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 14, 2024 11:59 AM (D7oie)
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They'd have to project force. That's a tall order. Getting to Mars at *all* is a tall order. Settling it is a taller one. Conquering a settlement after the fact is much, much taller.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 14, 2024 12:00 PM (yjAVs)

277 Musk is gonna hafta get permission from the Face on Mars before he can do anything. That face really runs the place. Like Vaal.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 14, 2024 12:00 PM (9yWhg)

278 Time and distance makes even the moon challenging to work at. Mars... even the comms takes a while to make the round trip.

Asking for help? Yea, no... good luck with that.

And we're still doing missions when the earth and mars are aligned to use minimal fuel and take minimal time. Until shit like that changes nobody's colonizing mars.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 14, 2024 12:00 PM (Q4IgG)

279 The oligarchs were Musk, Bezos, Gates, Zuckerberg and Ellison for purposes of the article.

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I believe Larry Ellison of Oracle and America's Cup sailing fame is a conservative.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Demoralization Will Continue Until Morale Improves at February 14, 2024 12:00 PM (JDUvv)

280 Peel lemons before use.

Posted by: gp In Chicago at February 14, 2024 12:01 PM (HsBed)

281 Viscount Healey has a nice ring.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 14, 2024 12:01 PM (eYF7X)

282 What is needed is another look at the Spanish Anarchists.

It's 2024, what do people need government for and why.

As far as violent crime goes, allow the victim to kill the perps would go a long ways to having a civil society and provide jobs in someone will need to do the clean up, etc. and free up the need for prisons.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 14, 2024 12:01 PM (JF/W5)

283 Look at all the people quoting the troll!

22 In the USA 24 of the richest 20 billionaires contribute to the GOP
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Tell me you're full of shit without telling me you're full of shit.
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 14, 2024 11:07 AM (2yu8s)

23 In the USA 24 of the richest 20 billionaires contribute to the GOP
and?
Posted by: BignJames at February 14, 2024 11:07 AM (AwYPR)

24 >>In the USA 24 of the richest 20 billionaires contribute to the GOP
Paul. Covered up in Trucker Sperm and Retard.
But. Mostly retard.
Posted by: garrett at February 14, 2024 11:07 AM (zOR5N)

Posted by: m at February 14, 2024 12:02 PM (KpWJP)

284 >>> I doubt it will be like Total Recall, but it might be easier to terrform Mars than it seems from here.

Posted by: Kindltot
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Mars is a stepping stone and a step up from the moon. We will learn a great deal about transforming available resourses into a habitable area. From that point other spheres are like stepping stones.
A 'Stairway to the Stars'

Posted by: Braenyard at February 14, 2024 12:02 PM (UgT8m)

285 Apparently there is a huge body of "international law" dealing with outer space which seems to have as much clout as the "Treaty of Tordisillas" ever did -- and that was mostly justification to exclude any third country from colonizing the new world, and never actually worked at that either.
Posted by: Kindltot

Glenn Reynolds writes and links a lot of stuff about space law.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 14, 2024 12:02 PM (9yWhg)

286 Viscount Healey has a nice ring.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 14, 2024 12:01 PM (eYF7X)
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Are you a VEE-count or a VIE-count or a VIZ-count?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 14, 2024 12:02 PM (yjAVs)

287 Maybe the result of the American Experiment is that an aristocracy stabbing each other in the backs in a desperate scramble for the throne is a better check on their power, and a better guarantee of liberty, than an easily subverted vote for temporary omnipotent aristocrats.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 14, 2024 12:02 PM (9UlRk)

288 ha. Sorry Joe Mannix, but I didn't read the content
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!!!
Posted by: m

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Mainly because of the reality of time. If you get to a thread after comment #50 or so then it's usually already moved well beyond the post. Best to dive right in and start paddling.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Do you remember when our sun used to be yellow? at February 14, 2024 12:02 PM (0+Kup)

289 268 Tim Poole showed a video of a 26 year old who was shocked that you could pick lemons off a tree and use them. She kept asking, don’t you have to do something to them before using them? These people are so fucking clueless about the world around them. It’s incredible.

Posted by: Montec at February 14, 2024 11:58 AM (bWsRe)

The insulation from the real world is why developed nations like ours can enjoy the societal downfall we're experiencing today.

When you have all day to consider which gender you'd like to be without having to worry about food, I guess you take advantage of it.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 14, 2024 12:03 PM (KbCG3)

290 Bad news: Mars will speak Portuguese.
Good news: Brazilian music!

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 14, 2024 12:03 PM (zdLoL)

291 The EPA will have Mars outposts and lawsuits ready long before the colonizers get the terraforming up and running.
Posted by: Ripley at February 14, 2024 11:57 AM (JojsZ)
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This is a minor plot point in Patrick Chiles' "Frozen Orbit." Astronauts find proto-life on Pluto and the EPA (or some government agency) uses that as an excuse to ban any further exploration of possible life in the solar system. They aren't even allowed to research the proto-life that's been discovered.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 14, 2024 12:03 PM (7fElN)

292 "When a girl buys a vibrator, its seen as a bit of naughty fun

BUT when a guy orders a 240 Volt FuckMaster Pro 5000 blowup latex doll with 6 speed pulsating vagina, elasticized anus with non-drip semen collection tray, together with optional built in realistic orgasm scream surround sound system, hes called a pervert?"

Posted by: brak at February 14, 2024 12:04 PM (/u/8b)

293 Bad news: Mars will speak Portuguese.
Good news: Brazilian music!
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 14, 2024 12:03 PM (zdLoL)
++++
Best news: Dejah Thoris

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 14, 2024 12:04 PM (yjAVs)

294 The EPA will have Mars outposts and lawsuits ready long before the colonizers get the terraforming up and running.
Posted by: Ripley

The shark-manned satellite laser array says no.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 14, 2024 12:04 PM (IG4Id)

295 I doubt it will be like Total Recall, but it might be easier to terrform Mars than it seems from here.

Posted by: Kindltot

My distant memory of planetary physics tells me that Mars doesn't have the mass to hold sufficient atmosphere.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 14, 2024 12:04 PM (vj/YW)

296 Apparently there is a huge body of "iinternational law" dealing with outer space which seems to have as much clout as the "Treaty of Tordisillas" ever did -- and that was mostly justification to exclude any third country from colonizing the new world, and never actually worked at that either.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 14, 2024 11:59 AM (D7oie)

Exactly. You land there, and start a colony, you own the place. Antarctica is a different deal altogether. There is an international treaty, mostly observed, that prohibits and permanent settlements or resource extraction. Any entity, national or private, that tried to establish a settlement there would get turfed out. Or else there would be an international scramble to grab pieces of the place.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 14, 2024 12:05 PM (tkR6S)

297 She kept asking, don’t you have to do something to them before using them?

Well, you do have to peel them, at least partially. Probably good idea to wash them, too.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 14, 2024 12:05 PM (9yWhg)

298 Peel lemons before use.
Posted by: gp In Chicago at February 14, 2024 12:01 PM (HsBed)
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Lemon zest is a nice addition to quite a few recipes.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 14, 2024 12:05 PM (7fElN)

299 >>Are you a VEE-count or a VIE-count or a VIZ-count?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

My wife tells me she got me at a DIS-count, like a bag of socks you see on sale at Costco.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 14, 2024 12:05 PM (eYF7X)

300 My distant memory of planetary physics tells me that Mars doesn't have the mass to hold sufficient atmosphere.

Nor the magnetic field to shield it from cosmic rays, because the iron interior of the planet, unlike earth, is not molten.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 14, 2024 12:05 PM (CsUN+)

301 My wife tells me she got me at a DIS-count, like a bag of socks you see on sale at Costco.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 14, 2024 12:05 PM (eYF7X)
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LOL

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 14, 2024 12:06 PM (yjAVs)

302 I bet it's something like "1 in 5 gamers that play games on this specific list that included pro-gay content is LGBTQ"

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Do you remember when our sun used to be yellow? at February 14, 2024 12:06 PM (0+Kup)

303 Metric system will be mandatory on Mars.

Posted by: gp In Chicago at February 14, 2024 12:06 PM (HsBed)

304 It's an old libertarian sci-fi trope/obsession; 'if the few of us actualized individuals can simply escape the feral masses, we'd live in paradise.' It's one part anti-human autism, and one part exasperation with the human condition.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 14, 2024 12:00 PM (IG4Id)

It is one part "founder effect" to create better beginning points, and one part "recreating the garden of Eden" without the snakes, which is the really dangerous part.

Once people eliminate the snake from the garden, they begin to try to eliminate it from each other. To paraphrase, "the killings must go on, once we have rooted out the obvious traitors and saboteurs, we must find the clever ones who know how to hide"

Posted by: Kindltot at February 14, 2024 12:06 PM (D7oie)

305 When do we get the Tay Tay sexbot that will write a song afterward about how disappointing you were?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 14, 2024 11:51 AM (9yWhg)

I'll pay extra for the Shakira version

Posted by: Doof at February 14, 2024 12:06 PM (a3s5O)

306 These people are so fucking clueless

One might almost think you don't read these threads, or the ONT, or 1WP, but one is not that fucking clueless.

You cannot beat the people you already know for surprising instances of fucking cluelessness. Indeed, one has seen some from a poster with a fake white rapper name, Moan-tecque. Fucking Cluelessness is not generational. It may be contagious, especially in warm moist environments.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 14, 2024 12:07 PM (zdLoL)

307 My distant memory of planetary physics tells me that Mars doesn't have the mass to hold sufficient atmosphere.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 14, 2024 12:04 PM (vj/YW)
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Over the long term that's probably true. Gravity is only about 38% of Earth, I think. That will cause long-term problems for colonists, even living in a domed environment.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 14, 2024 12:07 PM (7fElN)

308 This is an elementary, but pretty good, introduction to what would be required to terraform Mars.

http://tinyurl.com/5ebr443b

Posted by: Archimedes at February 14, 2024 12:07 PM (CsUN+)

309 Seems like it would be pretty easy to defend Mars from folks that can't figure out how to get to Mars.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Do you remember when our sun used to be yellow? at February 14, 2024 12:07 PM (0+Kup)

310 Sometimes I'm asked by people to define "bathos"....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 14, 2024 12:08 PM (9UlRk)

311
I was in Russia shortly after the fall. Many of the oligarchs there got sweetheart deals on former state run enterprises. Party connections, or brute force - some of both.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 14, 2024 11:56 AM (vj/YW)

Former KGB officers did exceptionally well in the breakup, as you can imagine.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 14, 2024 12:09 PM (n+4am)

312 NOOD

Posted by: Doof at February 14, 2024 12:09 PM (a3s5O)

313 @306
Did someone forget his lithium?

Posted by: Archimedes at February 14, 2024 12:09 PM (CsUN+)

314 Seems like it would be pretty easy to defend Mars from folks that can't figure out how to get to Mars.
Posted by: Moron Robbie

Just wait until the giant mutated tardigrades from the Moon show up. (The descendants of the ones that were left there in that failed Israeli craft.) Hoo boy.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 14, 2024 12:09 PM (9yWhg)

315 My distant memory of planetary physics tells me that Mars doesn't have the mass to hold sufficient atmosphere.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 14, 2024 12:04 PM (vj/YW)

People who are actual physicists have done the computation and figure that the amount of atmosphere required to maintain water at a liquid state on Mars could not be ripped off by the solar wind as it is calculated today in the period they think has elapsed since Mars had liquid water.

I will direct you to this truly insane paper about the whole thing.

https://www.scirp.org/pdf/ijaa_2023062115280080.pdf

Posted by: Kindltot at February 14, 2024 12:10 PM (D7oie)

316 304 Once people eliminate the snake from the garden, they begin to try to eliminate it from each other. To paraphrase, "the killings must go on, once we have rooted out the obvious traitors and saboteurs, we must find the clever ones who know how to hide"
Posted by: Kindltot at February 14, 2024 12:06 PM (D7oie)

Even some who don't intend to be snakes, will become snakes.

They will find themselves to be not strong enough, not smart enough, not industrious enough, to hack it on their own, and then regardless of original intention, will become a drain on the rest.

The only way they can avoid becoming a snake is to end their own life first.

Posted by: XTC at February 14, 2024 12:10 PM (sm6Pk)

317 It's an old libertarian sci-fi trope/obsession; 'if the few of us actualized individuals can simply escape the feral masses, we'd live in paradise.' It's one part anti-human autism, and one part exasperation with the human condition.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 14, 2024 12:00 PM (IG4Id)

This sounds a lot like the Pilgrims coming to America and their experiences leading up to changes that led to the first Thanksgiving and America in general.

SPOILER: Isolated Christian Socialism ain't the way to go, son.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 14, 2024 12:10 PM (nFnyb)

318 “Our base cannot possibly know what’s at stake at the level that any well-briefed U.S. senator should know about what’s at stake if Putin wins,” Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.)

Do better N.C.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 14, 2024 12:10 PM (eYF7X)

319 @293 Best news: Dejah Thoris dancing to Brazilian music!

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 14, 2024 12:11 PM (zdLoL)

320 It's not that folks today are ignorant of how things work, it's that they could care less. All they care about is Taco Bell, Whatever Crapfest video game they are playing and Tay Tay's menstrual cycle.

They just do not give a fuck about the real world and have no desire to live in it.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 14, 2024 12:12 PM (JF/W5)

321 272 Generally true, but the masses can be, and often are, another word for the mob. Second look at benevolent dictators?
Posted by: Archimedes

I totally agree about the mob. That is why I fight for the constitution. Decisions about what we eat, drive, or live in are not to be made by anyone other than the user.

People like Washington, Madison, Hamilton, and Jay* knew full well that the masses were prone to emotional swings and lacked information on which to act. They assumed that a Republic, consisting of wise, accomplished men to lead the masses by persuasion was the best solution to that problem. It's hard to argue.
Posted by: Archimedes
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The Framers were by and large practical politicians rather than utopians. That is why they originally rejected putting a Bill of Rights in the Constitution itself. They also realize that republics have a sell by date but as Franklin said, keeping a republic was up to Americans at a future date.

Posted by: whig at February 14, 2024 12:12 PM (9FrDg)

322 Did someone forget his lithium?

I'm also drunk most of the time, Nazi Cow says.
Keep fucking that monkey, jagoff. Your kids will turn your switch off.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 14, 2024 12:13 PM (zdLoL)

323 Look, big Trump supporter here, but does he HAVE to shoot off his mouth about telling Putin to "do his worst", and give the fucking Medicrats something to talk about every fucking day instead of Joe Biden's latest derailment?! Especially something that plays right into their cherished Russia, Russia, Russia meme?!

Jesus H. Christ, isn't enough that my Bidenoid family thinks I'm a right-wing loonie, Don, without you reinforcing it?! Don't you listen to anybody on your staff, dumbshit?! You have fucking pissed me off!

Here's a little secret- don't claim all the smart people know you were speaking hyperbolically. So what, most of the smart people are voting for you anyway! You need to think how your words sound to the DUMB PEOPLE! Capice?!

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at February 14, 2024 12:14 PM (8Ta2Y)

324 234
Remember Mars has no metallic core, no protective shield and Man will probably have to live underground. The low gravity contributed to the loss of the atmosphere.

Posted by: Ciampino - Gamma Ray suntan at February 14, 2024 12:15 PM (qfLjt)

325 320 It's not that folks today are ignorant of how things work, it's that they could care less. All they care about is Taco Bell, Whatever Crapfest video game they are playing and Tay Tay's menstrual cycle.

They just do not give a fuck about the real world and have no desire to live in it.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy
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Rectification always happens and a society that is too broke, too me-first, too nihilistic to defend itself falls from within.

Posted by: whig at February 14, 2024 12:15 PM (9FrDg)

326 Generally true, but the masses can be, and often are, another word for the mob. Second look at benevolent dictators?
Posted by: Archimedes{/i]

I guess the closest to a benevolent dictator that we've had recently was the guy who ran Singapore for so long.

Acck...I forget his name. Anyway, that guy.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 14, 2024 12:15 PM (nFnyb)

327 Links to twitter/X are all exactly the same as those to Facebook -> to be ignored

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 14, 2024 12:16 PM (cOq4q)

328 318 “Our base cannot possibly know what’s at stake at the level that any well-briefed U.S. senator should know about what’s at stake if Putin wins,” Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.)

Posted by: Maj. Healey
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If Putin wins and puts out the information on what true monsters US Senators are, those well briefed senators may well swing from gallows. That is why Tillis and his monstrous colleagues fear losing Ukraine.

Posted by: whig at February 14, 2024 12:17 PM (9FrDg)

329 Kinda OT, but were any Star Trek episodes (any of the series) set on planets of our solar system (other then Earth)?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 14, 2024

***
No. Their production budget wouldn't have allowed for effects needed to reproduce Venus or Mars, or a moon of Jupiter. The characters would have needed space suits (which we finally saw in the last year). Everything was either a Class-M (Earthlike) planet, or an engineered, artificial station like the mining setup with the Horta.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 14, 2024 12:18 PM (J2vNu)

330 320
"..... it's that they couldn't care less. "

Posted by: Ciampino - Gamma Ray suntan? at February 14, 2024 12:18 PM (qfLjt)

331 @158

>>I believe that they changed the rules so the superdelegates don't get to vote in the first round.

Uhmm, I'm going to say it again, as odious as it is to utter, The Meat Puppet is the President of the United States, he's not some cog that can be swapped out by party apparatchiks for someone that is not the current VP.

And the VP cannot be demoted in the line of succession or sidelined.

This whole f**king nonsense about swapping the POTUS/VPOTUS around like they are some ersatz chess pieces is a grotesquery.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 14, 2024 12:19 PM (rc3Z7)

332 9 Did you ever notice when people talk about wanting to live in Medieval Times, nobody ever wants to be a serf
Posted by: SMOD

Yeah, but the serfs were necessary for food production, so it wasn't a good idea to kill a lot of them indiscriminately. The King or Emperor could always create new nobles, but new serfs were harder to come by. So, the serfs had a degree of security that the nobles did not, provided they didn't get too restive.

BS, they were slaves and the nobles could do as they wished with them, which included rape and
Murder

Posted by: Gonzotx at February 14, 2024 12:20 PM (MwHgU)

333 I guess the closest to a benevolent dictator that we've had recently was the guy who ran Singapore for so long.

Acck...I forget his name. Anyway, that guy.

Posted by: naturalfake
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Singapore was an ethnically mixed area expelled for having too many Chinese compared with the native population. It was also a run down poor afterthought to the British Empire prior to independence of Malaysia. Lee Kuan Yew quite frankly set out to make the place authoritarian in order to use prosperity as the guiding light for Singapore and being a trade facilitator.

Authoritarian governments arise when homogeneous populations breakdown from an influx of outsiders that have quite different cultural ideas about how things should be run.

Posted by: whig at February 14, 2024 12:22 PM (9FrDg)

334 >That's all icing, and Musk's appeal and popularity have deeper roots. We're post-republican. Not just in the United States or the West, but in every major country, the traditional means of redress by citizens are ineffective. Voting, lobbying, protesting, etc. result not in reform, but in persecution. The Party and her affiliated oligarchs are not interested in reform. In the post-republican world, they are the game-players and the people are pieces to moved around or removed from the board at their sole pleasure.

Lincoln did not spend a moment to weep over the ashes of the whig party.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 14, 2024 12:24 PM (cf/0E)

335 Mars has enough iron to produce a magnetic ionosphere. It has to be heated up first. After that an atmosphere is possible to create.

When Elon joked about nuking Mars, this is what he was thinking of. Step 1 of terraforming.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 14, 2024 12:26 PM (cf/0E)

336 Same applies to Donald Trump.

Posted by: SDN at February 14, 2024 12:56 PM (2gqBa)

337 Don't forget what happened to the Gracchi.

Posted by: MichiCanuck at February 14, 2024 12:58 PM (yw91Q)

338 Impressive that you used so many words to say that you want to suck Elon off. Live your dream, queen.

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