Doing his bit to serve his real constituency.

And it illustrates the advantages of dealing with a delusional narcissist - once you set aside your tendency toward truth about reality and instead just tell them whatever ridiculous fantasy they want to hear, they’ll go along with anything you say.

I don’t doubt this for even a second.

Codifying insanity and drawing up insane strategies for successfully outmaneuvering competing lunatics.

I’m not an anarchist by accident.

No.

AGI is likely attainable, but if humans are to accomplish that, it’ll have to be the civilization that’s built out of the rubble that ours leaves behind after the ruling class psychopaths get through destroying it.

I can just see him laying on the floor of the Oval Office, pounding his little fists and kicking his little feet and crying, “But I want to expeeeeeeeeeeel him!!”

It doesn’t get much more performative than that.

The Atlantic is owned by Emerson Collective, which is a venture capitalist firm founded by Laurene Powell Jobs - Steve Jobs’ widow.

They invest in “companies in energy and environment, artificial intelligence, digital health, fintech, education, work and media.”

If it’s a plotline that requires and rewards concentration, then, if I’m in the right mood, I can concentrate on it. And if it doesn’t require concentration, then it doesn’t matter - I can wander away for a while, then catch back up later.

Though admittedly one of the biggest reasons that I prefer watching movies at home is that I can rewind them when my attention has wandered too far for too long. And there are times when I just have to give up, because it’s not going to be possible to watch this movie now. And there are some movies that I never have managed to make it through.

Generally though…

I’m sure that’s not an accident but I doubt it was the point. She had (and likely still has) greater ambitions than that.

I suspect that this is why Marjorie Taylor Greene resigned - because Trump is petty and vindictive, and was sure to do everything he could - and everything he could cajole his rich cronies into doing - to destroy the Republicans who dared to try to make an issue of the fact that he’s a statutory rapist.

This is fucking creepy no matter what.

If it’s true, it’s creepy.

I don’t think it’s true though, which in a way is even creepier.

The basic problem here is that this whole western fascist, white-supremacist technofeudalism thing is entirely divorced from reality. There’s no logic, no morality, no philosophy - nothing but emotive gibberish slaved to the shallow self-interest of lunatics. So they just spew whatever lunatic garbage they spew, because their brains are broken and they can’t do anything else, and their followers just sop it up, because their brains are also broken and they can’t do anything else either.

There’s much to criticize about past ideologies and religions (which IMO are just two variations on the same basic theme). They did a lot of harm and included a lot of stupidity and lunacy, but at least they made an effort to have some sort of moral and/or logical underpinnings - to have something solid around which they were built.

This one though? There’s nothing at all there. There’s no central philosophy - no underlying morality - nothing. There’s just gibberish and poison and junk and sludge. And the broken-brained assholes spewing it and the broken-brained assholes sopping it up.

And the rest of us, unable to even wrap our heads around the sheer scale of the lunacy, scrolling day after day in a constant state of “What the fucking fuck?!”

Shame there aren’t any manly patriots in government now - just those candy-ass crybaby MAGA clowns. Back in the day, we used to call that bribery and people went to prison for it, but those weak-kneed MAGA pansies don’t have the guts to even say anything about it. All they’re good for is bowing and scraping and kissing flabby ass.

This is a perfect moment to note:

Unlike socialism or capitalism, fascism does not stipulate a specific economic system. However, there are some qualities that are consistently found under fascist systems, chief among which are a sort of “revolving door” between government and business, such that leaders in one field exert influence or even hold positions in the other as well, the (not coincidental) broad concept that what’s good for business is automatically good for the country, and the socialization of investment, risk and loss, while keeping profits entirely private.

Or in other words, exactly what’s happening here.

Another day, another tantrum from the Toddler-in-Chief.

He really should actually be a great big baby in a saggy diaper, sitting in a high chair with a big sippy cup of Diet Coke and a bunch of blocks to make ballrooms and arches out of, alternately stuffing hamburgers in his face, wailing and crying and saying things like, “But I want Greenland!” and “Stephen Colbert is a big fat meanie!” pooping in his already stinky diaper and randomly falling asleep.

So pretty much exactly like he is now, just without the suit.

Think they’ll find anything wrong with Trump suing Trump’s IRS and then Trump’s Justice Department stepping in to negotiate a $1.8 billion “settlement” for Trump?

Yeah… me neither.

And certainly you can trust the word of a grossly unqualified sycophant.

Thanks I guess for providing an example of one of the ways in which humanity needs to grow the fuck up - reach a point at which we generally actually think about things that people actually say rather than just being bitter slaves to our preconceptions and prejudices.

Hopefully your kids will do a better job of it. Or maybe their kids.

This neatly illustrates why I’m an anarchist - because institutionalized authority has made it such that the United States - a nation of 340 million people - is engaged in overtly destructive and internationally criminal violence and brutality not because the people have demanded it or even desired it, but because a handful of fucking psychopathic pieces of shit have managed to fight and claw and wheedle and lie their ways into positions from which they have the authority to make it so.

And that is, by any reasonable measure, insane.

Any system that allows for such a thing rather obviously should not exist. And that the United States, with its intricate system of checks and balances and its guaranteed freedoms and its strictly mandated adherence to the rule of law could reach this point clearly demonstrates that the problem is not how authority is institutionalized but merely if it is. If it is, then it can be, and sooner or later will be, abused for the questionable benefit of a few and to the detriment of all the rest of the world.

So it quite simply cannot be institutionalized. That’s the only sane approach.

So all that’s left is to wait for humanity to grow the fuck up - to evolve psychologically, sociologically and philosophically to the point that they no longer have or feel a need to have some institutional mommy and daddy to tell them how to and how not to behave.

Maybe in another few centuries…

Generally MAL.

Anilist is the most handy IMO, and if I want quick simple information, I might use it. But if I want more in depth information, reviews, recommendations and the like, MAL is definitely my preference.