[-] DefinitelyNotAPhone@hexbear.net 69 points 11 months ago

I refuse to believe this isn't a troll. There's no way there's a person out there that knows all of these and believes all of them to be false, that level of cognitive dissonance would literally melt a human brain.

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"My estimation, as of this morning, somewhere between $500 to $700 billion worth of market capitalization that should be delisted, taken off the exchanges, add further pressure on the Chinese to come to the table," O’Leary said on "Mornings with Maria" Friday.

You're fighting a trade war built on top of the idea that China has to come to the table to negotiate because they're interlocked with your economy. If you delist all their companies and divest Chinese investors of American assets, you're literally gutting your own argument in favor of gobbling up a short-term gain, dipshit.

"I'm an investor. I take companies public on NASDAQ and the New York Stock Exchange. I pay millions of dollars each year in compliance. I have no choice but to be compliant and transparent and abide by [Generally Accepted Accounting Principles]. And right beside me, issuing shares without any guidance at all, are Chinese companies," O’Leary started.

"I'm competing for that dollar. I'm investing in our markets and being compliant, and my Chinese competitor, same bank I'm using, is going to institutions the same day on a road show and raising money for what's called a shadow share," he expanded. "It's not even a real share. They don't even have any rights. And they're taking my dollar."

Literally complaining he can't make effortless profit because a Chinese investor comes in, makes a deal with an American exchange or investment firm, and purchases a share with zero rights attached. This is a blackjack player complaining that someone else sat down at their main lucky table to play.

I can't tell if American capitalists are just entitled babies or if this is some ploy to shock doctrine half a trillion in domestic investment opportunities so they can snatch it up for cheap.

[-] DefinitelyNotAPhone@hexbear.net 81 points 2 years ago

On the contrary, rule #1 of nuclear war is live directly next to a major target so you get the instantaneous atomization death over the cancer-and-famine option.

[-] DefinitelyNotAPhone@hexbear.net 71 points 2 years ago

Exactly. These peoples' opinions are incoherent because they're the product of a system designed to pump out incoherent, idealist workers. Do something to improve these peoples' material conditions, show them there's an alternative to what they've been stewing in for their entire lives, and a not-insignificant chunk of them will be in your Das Kapital reading group by the end of the year.

[-] DefinitelyNotAPhone@hexbear.net 86 points 2 years ago

The actual mechanisms of the Cuban blockade are that any ship/shipping company that trades with Cuba is banned from American ports for the next 6 months. If BRICS is openly inviting Cuba in, that means that a meaningful chunk of the economic bloc's logistics companies feel comfortable effectively never dealing with the US, which has massive implications for global trade going forward.

[-] DefinitelyNotAPhone@hexbear.net 94 points 2 years ago

Evergreen as usual:

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Mulaney took the opportunity to point out the irony of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs focusing on AI and the future in a city where thousands of humans struggle to live and maintain basic living conditions. “Let me get this straight,” Mulaney said. “You're hosting a ‘future of AI' event in a city that has failed humanity so miserably?”

Mulaney even compared the event attendees to himself and his son playing wiffle ball. “We're just two guys hitting wiffle balls badly and yelling ‘good job' at each other,” Mulaney said. “It's sort of the same energy here at Dreamforce.”

Still a piece of shit for cheating on his wife, but standing in front of Jensen and telling him that his work makes the world a worse place is full critical support.

[-] DefinitelyNotAPhone@hexbear.net 76 points 2 years ago

Shooting someone on Fifth Avenue would be downright quaint by the standards of American presidents. If he did that in exchange for cutting funding to Israel's genocides I'd consider it a strict upgrade.

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[-] DefinitelyNotAPhone@hexbear.net 69 points 2 years ago

Someone once said that fear of AI is just white people being terrified of having someone do to them what they did to the rest of the world, and I think they might have hit that bullseye so hard the dartboard shattered.

[-] DefinitelyNotAPhone@hexbear.net 101 points 2 years ago

Just tearing the copper wires out of the walls without a shred of irony at this point.

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The best version of Skies of Arcadia, including having the villain be a mirror universe TERF.

Just remember, we are thousands of feet in the air.

[-] DefinitelyNotAPhone@hexbear.net 83 points 2 years ago

Bulldozing peoples' homes after forcing them into an open-air prison and then throwing a rave twenty feet from the fence is a war crime and should not be normalized, but here we are.

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[-] DefinitelyNotAPhone@hexbear.net 85 points 2 years ago

NATO tactics assume air superiority.

I keep harping on this point again and again because I really cannot get across how fucking stupid it is: YOU DO NOT ASSUME AIR SUPREMACY OVER ANOTHER NATION'S AIRSPACE, YOU FUCKING INCOMPETENT IDIOTS. YOU CANNOT PROJECT AIR POWER 500 MILES DEEP INTO A NATION WITH A COMPREHENSIVE AIR DEFENSE NETWORK, RADARS, AND SAM SITES. YOUR STEALTH TECHNOLOGY IS NOT INVINCIBLE, AND YOUR SHITTY OVERPRICED BULLSHIT F-35 WILL GET SHOT DOWN AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN AND THIS IS WHY YOU REFUSE TO DEPLOY THEM ON ACTUAL FRONTLINES.

Then again, since NATO keeps doubling-down on this idea it just means they're more likely to get fucking annihilated anytime they fight a near-peer in conventional warfare, so critical support to the failson Wunderwaffen generals I guess?

[-] DefinitelyNotAPhone@hexbear.net 74 points 2 years ago

CTH is a podcast, the subreddit was originally about it but quickly became its own thing. The podcast is your typical Brooklyn leftist hot couch thing where you get a bit of theory mixed in with a lot of jokes and parasocial relationships.

A long running joke is that the subreddit/Hexbear is actually a Citations Needed fanclub, because it's a much a better podcast.

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I had this pop up in a news feed and just laughed at how tone-deaf the whole thing was:

In 2021, the Body Shop gathered a group of Gen Zers who are passionate about the climate to critique the company and provide insight into how to be a force for good at the United Nations’ COP26—what could go wrong?

“The activists that were working with us were pretty critical of commerce,” Davis says, adding that there’s a cohort of extremists who think that all businesses are bad from an environmental standpoint. “We live in a world of trying to balance profit and principles. It’s not so straightforward.”

Although the conversation was colorful, he quickly learned that in order for criticisms from a board comprising bright young minds to actually be constructive, they’d need to be less radical.

“It wasn’t just a question of getting young people who are interested, who are smart, who care about the world, who want to make a difference—that’s actually not enough. On top of those things, you’ve got to bring people in who are on the side of wanting business to succeed,” he says, with the caveat, “but succeed on sustainable terms.”

With a vested interest in the company’s success, Davis imagined their feedback would err on the side of constructive criticism, rather than the company just being “slammed.”

"Sure, we could have a moment of introspection when even the labor aristocracy we surround ourselves with as underlings want our heads for lighting the planet on fire for profit, or we could just ignore that and find sycophants to keep telling us we're doing great."

Still a good sign that the kids are at least a little alright.

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