Well, but that’s impossible. In China, he won’t have any freedom. He needs to stay in the United States where he can pursue research into biology and medic- door bang

shouts of military police

repeated gunfire

screams of terrified research assistants

confused orders from multiple officers at once

more gunfire

moaning from injured civilians

more gunfire

radio chatter from officers

“Yeah, they were armed. Looks like syringes and a bunson burner. Yes. All illegal. Yes, we’re cleaning up now. No need to report this up the chain, they already know. Signing out.”

Less pay, longer hours, and the hiring manager plans to sexually harass his workforce.

So long as there is no criminal prosecution and threat of material jail time against him, Jones is free to keep hiding the fiscal sausage by transferring ownership and shuffling around money between accounts in other people’s names. I’m sure this is an expensive and obnoxious process on Alex’s end. But it’s a small price to pay to shield hundreds of millions of dollars from any kind of court judgement.

Add in that Jones has plenty of friends in the Texas state house and the Austin PD. So he can very easily skirt processors, ignore out-of-state court orders, and glad hand sheriff’s deputies who would otherwise pursue collections against him, simply because he’s got popular clout in his big reactionary backwater.

At some point, the problem isn’t with the courts but the police. Judges and juries don’t do the collections themselves.

Misread that as “boba”

Based and v6 pilled.

I also thought this when I named the post. Oops.

I struggle to imagine JK Rowling resisting the rise of the Nazis if she was a prominent figure during that time

Very easy to imagine Rowling as a British Nationalist who would say we need to kill all the Nazis and then say we need to kill all the Russians and Kenyans and Indian nationalists and anyone else who crosses the UK.

I could see her doing the “Hilter and Gandhi both need to die” speech.

She’s a British supremacist. The only people who get to do fascism are the ones working out of an office in London.

Definitely beats waking up with a massive headache and cramps every day.

I seem to remember this meme ending with a joke about taking estrogen.

Link is in the description

The really funny bit is that Trump sent $200M in aid to Ukraine back in 2018 and that was just the tip of the iceberg.

As of December 31, 2025, the U.S. had disbursed 58 percent of the $188 billion in spending related to the conflict (U.S. spending is first appropriated, then obligated, then disbursed).

Anyone saying Trump wasn’t enthusiastically sending NATO arms and armor to the Ukrainian battlefront is either deeply misinformed our outright lying. The big difference between Biden and Trump, wrt Ukraine, was that Trump loved to get big beautiful photo-ops with Putin where they were both smiling and shaking hands. Meanwhile, Biden preferred photo-ops where he was frowning and shaking his head.

Say what you will about heroin, but it definitely works.

Going to be hell on your teeth.

I am not going on a hiking trip or mailing myself anywhere

Ah, damn. That was my bet.

Not suggesting this will actually happen, but if the current trend continues at the same rate

It never does. Markets move periodically - early slow change, mid-point rapid change, tail slow change - for the most part. Nevermind that a 62% sell-off raises the question of “Who is selling?” versus “Who is buying?” Dollars are still far too cheap for a plunge that steep.

A short period of time before the Iran war started, I pulled all my money out of the market and am 100% in CDs now.

CD rates are shit right now, thanks to low interest rates.

You’d be better off in utilities or REITs. US energy companies have done very well in the wake of the Hormuz straight closure. I dropped a bunch into United Healthcare recently, thanks to their bargain basement price. Doubt it’ll pay off soon. But I see a healthy upside long term.

Fair enough. Hope you made some money on the plunge. I would not have guessed an 8% drop, given the weirdly stubborn endless equities enthusiasm, but here we are.

I can oppose both Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the US/Israel war on Iran.

Two enormous armies in a proxy war on foreign soil is nightmarish for the people forced to endure. All so that the Pentagon and the Russian MOD can have a dick swinging contest without touching tips.

But there’s this insane Westoid reasoning that says Total War is fine when we do it. It only becomes a crime when anyone else cribs from our notebooks.

Why wouldn’t they? We did the same for Ukraine. They get to inflict the same kind of attrition on US forces that we intended to inflict on them during their own disastrous operations.

Each one of these that bite the dust means 5-10 less planes raining bombs on Tehran.

These aren’t just bombers. They’re part of the air force’s command and control structure. You fly one of these planes at high altitude and use it to command a fleet of fighter-bombers. Losing five of them functionally puts dozens of more basic aircraft out of commission.

Americans have wanted to invade Iran going back to the Reagan administration. Trump’s just so zooted up on his own supply that he thought he could make it happen.

That’s okay, though. We’re going to invade Cuba next. We can stop blaming Zionists and point the finger squarely at Florida Billionaires going forward.