This was posted during the first Trump admin and, if I recall correctly, yes this poster was being glib and knew the empire was half inspired by the US (the other half was Natzi Germany).

More tangential, but I wish timestamps always showed the full year date. None of the massive blog companies will do that though because reposting old screenshots as if they're fresh is a percent chunk of engagement they don't want to lose out on.

Gotta assume the whole of hexbear is already banned?

“I have told this to few people, gentlemen, and I suspect I never will again, but one day when I was a young boy on holiday in Uberwald I was walking along the bank of a stream when I saw a mother otter with her cubs. A very endearing sight, I’m sure you will agree, and even as I watched, the mother otter dived into the water and came up with a plump salmon, which she subdued and dragged on to a half-submerged log. As she ate it, while of course it was still alive, the body split and I remember to this day the sweet pinkness of its roes as they spilled out, much to the delight of the baby otters who scrambled over themselves to feed on the delicacy. One of nature’s wonders, gentlemen: mother and children dining upon mother and children. And that’s when I first learned about evil. It is built into the very nature of the universe. Every world spins in pain. If there is any kind of supreme being, I told myself, it is up to all of us to become his moral superior.”

I think it's more than just ideological, there's a material reason why the tech industry has this tendency. Software in the 21st century is all about obscuring labor. Taking the worker and hiding them from view, creating the illusion of surplus and service conjured through a user interface. I suspect this role has kinda overtaken the more straightforward use of computers; machines for calculating, tracking, and transmitting information. Click a button, package on the porch. What happened in between the click and delivery? Don't worry about that. There goes a self-driving car!^[remotely supervised and course corrected] Of course, when you know to look for it, it's obvious all the human labor is still there. But these guys don't think about that, don't know to look for it. The mythology and the obfuscation make for a vicious cycle.

Any other liberal I'd assume they were saying this cynically to point attention away from their PAC donors. But Hunter may actually believe this and thinks its a really cutting insight into the Republican psyche.

Distinction without difference, of course.

it's almost like the big list of stocks all the retirement funds buy into requires a seasoning time for a reason

imagine that

A bunch of car dealership owners took the week off to rush into lobby of the capital building, then wander about aimlessly waiting for a cutscene to start. What is that, if not funny?

You're gonna have to explain to millions of women across the country why there is a national abortion ban and they no longer have a constitional, fundamental right to an abortion.

The democrats had the house, senate, and presidency when Dobbs went into effect. They didn't even try to enact a legislative solution. Fuck off.

My kids want to spend real money on a silly gambling game, how do I address this?

By issuing currency, of course!

father of the year

But he said the launch also raises questions around how Huawei managed to launch the phone when it has spent the past four years under US restrictions banning access to 5G technology. “While access to 5G for the chipset is one thing, I’m not sure how the company managed to source all the other components that need to go into a 5G smartphone, such as power amps, switches and filters,” he said.

Love that America's 21st century cold war is fully predicated on the assumption that China does not have the ability to develop its own productive capacity.