Incitatus was more competent than most of Trump’s cabinet.

You could do this (there are websites you can find easily) but Pelosi isn’t in power anymore and wouldn’t be in the loop on Trump’s corruption which is way more significant than just knowing which company the government is going to award a big procurement contract to or whatever.

The Trump corruption seems to have gone with crypto shenanigans and you can’t track them. We just know that someone made >$100M by doing crypto shorts exactly one minute before Trump posted about more insane tarrifs on China, but there’s no way to know who did that and we can’t track them. They’ll probably make similar amounts of money on the inevitable TACO.

Given what Peter Thiel’s been talking about lately, that’s not all that far fetched.

Yeah I remember a VC guy during the dot com boom was saying they were just about to invest in another start up (following the same plan they’d been doing for a few at that point) and they got a call form upstairs telling them to pull out. The next day the bubble burst.

These bubbles burst not based on random chance. The big guys know the business isn’t sustainable, but if they keep their money in it the shares maintain their value. Then one day they all pull out and pop! The bubble bursts. But they’ll make money on that too by shorting everything.

They make money when the stocks go up and they make money when the stocks go down. And they have enough money to make those stocks go up or down.

He’d be the authority on this subject since he’s a major financial backer of the antichrist.

No I wasn’t saying you’re like Hamas. I’m saying you’re like the KKK LOL.

Pay attention!

I’m not talking about an organization, I’m talking about actual leadership. There’s a difference. There’s no Martin Luthor King for the Free Palestine movement, there isn’t anyone that can call out the bad actors who are manipulating the movement for their own ends.

The BLM movement as you mentioned got associated with a shady organization. There wasn’t a respected leader that can say “we have nothing to do with that shady organization” so it was kinda convincing to some. But since there were enough existing leaders from the Civil Rights era and politicians to explain it, the message got across well enough to many people.

The Free Palestine movement doesn’t have anyone that can do that. There was no one within the movement brave enough to denouce Hamas the day after October 7, so the movement is associated with Hamas. Which means it’s associated with the genocidal acts of Hamas. So the constant screams about genocide by the movement sound hypocritical to any bystanders. There were a few politicians like AOC that had sympathy for the movement that were harrassed for failing to pass the purity tests of the worst people in the movement. The Free Palestine movement is unable to form alliances with anyone. It’s carcinogenic to mainstream politics because no one can trust those within the movement to not say something overtly antisemitic. And those fears are confirmed when people in the movement talk endlessly about it being the Jews preventing them speaking at an event.

It’s gotten to the point where I don’t think it’s possible for there to be a leader of this movement now. It’s not possible to pass the purity tests of the radicals that want to be more radical than everyone else.

The game of one-upmanship has made the Free Palestine movement is completely out of touch with the rest of the world. There’s protests at syngogues, harrassment campaigns against holocaust museums and somehow y’all believe the rationalizations about these actions not being antisemitic. Nobody outside your little group believes those rationalizations.

You’re just a hate group to the people that don’t frequent your online forums.

The problem with activist groups that spring up online is there’s no leadership to keep it focused on it’s goals.

There’s a one-upmanship that happens where everyone is competing to get attention for themselves regardless of whether it hurts their movement. One person hates Netanyahu (understandable) the next hates the soldiers participating in the war and that gets more attention. The next hates anyone that has ever been in the IDF, gets the attention, so the next hates everyone in Israel. On and on it goes until we start seeing people hate any business that has ever had any association with Israel, and any political group with any association. Eventually gets so that only way to get attention is to express hatred of all Jews. Just have to use the word Zionist (no different to how white supremacist types use Globalist) so you can avoid association with the Nazis.

And what was this movement originally about? Helping Palestinians? How does deplorable behaviour help Palestinians? It doesn’t. But it get attention, it gets internet clout which can be monetized.

The Free Palestine Movement is no longer a movement that’s helping Palestinians in any way. It’s just a hate group full of attention whores.

The KKK claims the Jews are doing a white genocide. Are you a genocide denier if you don’t believe the claims of the KKK?

Are e-bikes and scooters not legal? Those have electric motors that are likely more powerful than that.

Seems to me a stern “go home, you knucklehead” would be the appropriate response.

One tank would use enough fuel for a great many of those cars.

Logistical problems in getting fuel to areas near to Ukraine indicates there could also be problems in getting fuel to the front lines.

Even assuming the Russian military is needing to divert the relatively small amount of fuel from nearby gas stations to the front, that indicates they’re in a desperate situation.

It was kinda hilarious that when you disabled the Windows XP file search dog there was actually an animation of him sadly walking away.

Nobody thinks Clippy was good, and that’s the point. In the original video Louis Rossmann does talk about Microsoft’s shenanigans with IE at the time.

The point is that Clippy was widely considered to be bad, and everyone considered Microsoft to be bad at the time, but everything involving technology has become so much worse since. Microsoft would be considered the most ethical tech company in the world if they still operated the way they did in the 90s. It’s not the Microsoft was good in the 90s (far from it!) it’s that Microsoft and all of the other tech companies have gotten so much worse since then.

The clippy thing is kinda genius really. We’ve been boiling the frog on a lot of things and we don’t really think about how much worse things are now than they used to be. People in positions of power now probably did encounter Clippy when they were younger. Reminding them about how annoying Clippy was may make them realize how much more annoying they’re being when making decisions about technology.

Yeah there’s a category on a streaming service I use for 25 year old movies. I saw Fight Club was in that category. “Huh, they put it in the wrong category… wait… well shit!”

There was a push for an international minimum tax rate from some guy. But that guy was old and so people decided to replace that old guy with an old guy that’s a billionaire, but because he’s crazy he doesn’t seem as old I guess. But anyway, it’s highly doubtful something like that will happen any time soon.

That assumes the Democrats will ever be in power again.

Wasn’t he a child getting told to become space Jesus by Marlon Brando when he was still in the space pod?

Lucy Lawless could probably take down Hercules.

Cowards bending the knee to the idiot king.

I’m gonna need you to get all the way off my back with these obsolete tanks.