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"Goonernomicon: Grummz | Part 1" just dropped! Posting this as a stub because it's only adjacent to the ordinary purview. A+++ chud hater content.

full disclo: I did not know who Grummz was before this

Is Japanese really that strict

my Japanese uncle that works at nintendo says yes. If you write わ instead of は they make you 切腹 in front of all your friends

Nothing like attending a rally at Kurt’s Krazy Karts!

That’ll look good in my portfolio next to my biotech startup with a personal touch YouGenics

also make sure you get a 100% gold buttplug and sleep with it in. that way you always have a stash on you in case the left take over the government and storm your house

Oh hey, a classic troll farm comment. Did you just wake from cryosleep? Facebook is thataway ->

I haven’t spent a lot of time sneering at transhumanism, but it always sounded like thinly veiled ableism to me.

This deserves its own thread, pettily picking apart niche posts is exactly the kind of dopamine source we crave

You are absolutely right. I guess Pearl Jam came to mind as it is a euphemism for, well, the result of gooning.

I agree, to some extent, but with the caveat that I have second order cynicism that might present as hope or naivete. I think a lot of the messaging from mainstream US politics is that “this is the only way, there is no alternative.” Of course this extends to weaponised foreign aid.

The way that I look at the US (when it is not operating under trump*) is that it is a machine that is trying to maintain and/or grow its hegemony. To that end, the CIA is a vital part of that machine. Is it the centre of foreign policy? Well, barring some sort of conspiracy, no, the US State department is the centre of foreign policy. However, the CIA is categorically the foreign intelligence-gathering arm of the US. As incompetent as I'd like to pretend the US is, I don't think the State Department is operating without CIA intelligence and analysis. In sum, I don't believe that the CIA is a shadowy evil organisation secretly controlling the US; I think the US is a shadowy evil organisation trying to control the world, and the CIA is part of it.

I think the thing that sucks about all this is that, on paper, USAID does good! They provide a ton of aid around the world, and that's great. However, they have enough blemishes on their record that show that the US isn't necessarily purely charitable in its actions. Aid shouldn't be weaponised!

*trump and his goons, of course, are just stripping the US of its copper wiring for a quick fix, while letting the establishment lapdogs deal with the drudgery.

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