If you really want to scare a German with Santa Claus, tell them he’s Turkish.

I gotta say, the folks putting up the “Put The Christ Back In Christmas” signs during the holiday season are some of the least festive and most Grinchy on the block.

Because Trumpism is seen as unstable and of dubious logevity, there’s not an enormous rush to build defunct factories for meeting energy demand under inefficient mediums. You’re never going to see another newly built coal plant. Gas plants aren’t coming online any faster, with the specter of Peak NGLs on the horizon. Solar and Wind are the future purely because of their low cost, long term profitability, and rapid ROI.

Delaying these projects when fossil fuel usage is already dropping (gasoline is falling to $2/gal levels not seen since the COVID crash) means starving the electricity hungry digital economy purely out of spite.

Kingdom Hearts After Dark

Germany not calling them “feet fingers” was unexpected.

Listen here’s the thing – I don’t know what you kids are up to, but I do know one thing: laws are threats made by the dominant socio-economic, ethnic group in a given nation. It’s just a promise of violence that’s enacted and police are basically an occupying army, you know what I mean? You guys want to make some bacon?

Epstein was a major bundler and influencer in the liberal establishment, specifically within the US East Coast and the EU West Coast regions. Chompsky was also in this circle of influential political and media figures. Its not crazy that they’d run into each other any more than Epstein hobnobbing with any other Ivy League professors or national media figures or British Royals.

did the book sales for manufacturing consent get him that fucking rich?

More that knowing a guy like Epstein is what gets you regularly syndicated in news columns and invited as a guest onto TV shows. You could say the same about Larry Summers or Steven Pinker.

The two guys calling you a “Tankie” in the comments.

All odd numbers are divisible by 2.

You just get a decimal in the quotient.

Critiquing the visual appearance of architecture sounds like some Woke Leftist Liberal Arts shit to me.

My parents raised me in a hole under a tree stump and it built my character. Now I’m the assistant manager at three different car dealerships. You lefties with your indoor plumbing and central air will never have this much success

Lefty Memes but it’s a day dedicated to Southpaws

You don’t think they are already using the surveillance state/surveillance capitalism in this process?

A lot of people are being picked up at their immigration hearings, at traffic stops, and at their jobs. This is all information already in the public record. You don’t need surveillance to be marked as a legal immigrant.

Two men holding hands? A line of people marching in a pride parade? Anyone with Grindr installed on their phones?

Take your pick.

It’s literally just guys in vans cruising around town snatching people. You don’t need anything particularly high tech for that

I mean, the materials still have to come from somewhere. They could be less ruinous, but when you’re talking about something with the footprint of Manhattan Island, that’s going to leave an ecological mark no matter how you slice it.

When plutocrats don’t get what they want, they have a simple and effective way of torturing the public into compliance.

The next recession will be used to force people onto Crypto and into AI the same way prior recessions were used to force people into mortgages and credit cards and health insurance and automobiles and Internet connections. If you don’t get on board, you’re cut out of the economy.

This isn’t the end. It’s just the beginning.

In another 20 years we’ll be talking about “reforming AI” and “guaranting equal access to Bitcoin” like it’s some kind of privilege.

People aren’t being “disappeared” for nebulous and secret reasons. They’re being disappeared because they’re brown, they speak a non-English language, or they have some minor criminal citation in the public record.

We’re making up hypotheticals to be afraid of surveillance when the modern state is already snatching people up for very superficial and arbitrary reasons

This is in India, but coming soon to a country near you

It came here first

What starts in Gaza demolishes the world

I would simply be in the top 1%