They have every American's shit. Most Europeans too. Spoiler, if your uncle and your random ass 3rd cousin got tests done, then you also basically got a test done. They don't need every single detail to draw a rough "good enough" circle around like "people with these genes in their family aren't worth the cost."

I'm confused about the order of events here.

The worst reading is you were drunk, your boss had you drive him home, and at some point he discovered evidence of you drinking in your car, presumably at work/on the way to work/whatever.

The other (better) reading is you were drunk at work at some other time, today you had to drive your boss home, and he found gin in your car which he took as evidence you are still drinking at work, possibly even while driving. Although alcohol is legal and the mere presence of it in a private vehicle doesn't mean anything illegal or against work rules occurred. Which is why I assume this was a follow up event to the first statement. I'm probably reading too much into it

We knew this dingus was corrupt for his entire time as mayor... the fact it took this long to do anything. It's also for the dumbest shit he did. How about bust his skull like he told the NYPD to bust skulls of college students... Kinda fucked Joe did his this way after all that violence he did to support Joe's foreign policies. I'd be snitching my ass off about Biden admin corruption if I were him. Maybe he doesn't have anything though... mayors are pretty isolated from federal party shit

Hmm, user preference I think. I think the latter version displays more contempt though.

Oh wow just one of ten billion suits the government should have been pursuing over a decade ago.

The fact that these cowards are doing an antitrust suit and didn't just blackbag the CEO and other high up officers in the company when their response to obviously being a monopoly (it's quite literally just Visa and Mastercard and Visa is far bigger) was "pfft. No! Pfft. Look at all these competitors! Like Mastercard! And... did we mention Mastercard?"

It's like Microsoft or Apple trying to claim they don't do monopolistic shit, that they don't hold de facto monopolies in certain sectors, because "Well, there is literally one competitor! So technically just because we hold 95% of the market, that means we aren't a monopoly!" No. That's not how this works.

Well, it does because 1) a ton of people who even see this stuff don't care or very cuckedly (yeah, I'm making that up and using it) support it. And 2) this suit is being brought late in the year immediately before an election when the suit has been deserved since... at least 2008. At least. It's just being thrown out to say "See? Eh? You see that one? We did something! What was the result of our lawsuit against Apple, a clear monopoly holder that charges $99/year to develop apps and locks customers from using their devices which should be the easiest slam dunk "you must allow root access" outcome ever? Stop asking! WE DID SOMETHING!"

How about using just 0.1% of the energy they've been spending on college kids mad about genocide on any of these CEOs if only for personal grievance "fuck you!" reasons. Imagine being the USAG and Visa's top attorney scoffs at you like that when they are absolutely obviously a monopoly. Even if you're a massive paid shill, send that asshole to a blackhole just because, you know, you still can.

"Greek invasion" made me snort.

Not to downplay the seriousness pr whatever. Just the idea of a bunch of overweight, hairy, small diner owners angrily sailing in a boat is funny. Imagine an army of Stavvies vs an army of his best friend (he's Albanian, I forget his name). Would be hilarious.

I think many people forget the origins of "national socialism" aka the Nazis was basically the same as we see now days all over again. The far right appropriating language, claiming to be pro-worker, etc. and finally they just start using the word people associate with the actual groups trying to make things less shit.

"MAGA "communism"" couldn't be more on the nose if they tried.

MAGA movement, make America great again, extremely nationalistic in every sense. Communism commonly used as a synonym for socialism. Especially to Burgers. It's just the same.

Like Peterson using the term "cultural Marxism" as a thin veil for "cultural Bolshevism" which is just a not-thin veil for "cultural Judaism" which, well, they aren't saying it in a positive way, that's for sure.

Can't wait for these two clowns to make a podcast called "Rightovers" or maybe "First Dibs" I dunno. Some play on Leftovers.

They'll have infinite content to discuss where Bonnerama can recount stories from his grandparents about owning slaves and Ethan can be like "hey, at least Israel doesn't want to enslave them!" Dan will probably hang himself after the first episode with a mic cable. Imagine being Ethan's producer over the last year. Jesus Christ.

That's an attack directed at Hasan Piker. He's the only motherfucker who drinks Diet Mt Dew. Has been for years.

"Morally lucky" is a really obvious clue who he's been talking to behind the scenes.

It's a guy with an online name better befitting a stripper (no disrespect to strippers btw, just listing facts)

Who has recently been owned by an 70 something year old Finkelstein, agreed 100% with a Nazi (Ben Shapiro), and has spent ~a year now explicitly supporting a genocide while denying a genocide is happening.

It's a classic Mr Borelli line. Of course he didn't invent it, he's not that clever, but he has used it repeatedly for years as an "own" against those who find themselves on the correct side of things more often than not, such as Hasan Piker. It's a cope phrase to protect the fee-fees of gusanos and Zionists.

"Leftists" whatever that even means in the US (nothing basically) are a non-entity. However, every single policy that this ambiguous "leftist" would support is insanely popular.

• Actual anti-imperialist (cloaked in anti-war)

• Healthcare as a human right (cloaked in healthcare coverage for all- call it anything you like)

• Pro abortion (cloaked in "pro choice" and "pro women")

There's a bunch more including immigration (or at least pro-immigrant), actually pro-labor, etc.

All popular stances, all leftwing if properly articulated and executed. They can't be sold as leftwing because insane Nazi country and all that. But if she ran on them, she'd be winning about ~60-80% of the national vote. Assuming the media was arm twisted into proper coverage.

Oh, and anti-genocide of course. She could just say Israel is doing genocide and as POTUS she would oversee the systematic dismantling of Israel as a nationstate... and lose like 4 votes. Because all the Nazis are already voting for orange Nazi man. The libs don't actually care. They care as much as Maddow and Van Jones tell them to care, eg "wow look at these Hamas students!" But they do not actually care about Israel. All it takes is a media narrative shift which the sitting VP/potential future POTUS can absolutely 100% force. Trump does it all the time. They have to cover what she says. She has access to the bully pulpit, although smaller ATM. She chooses right wing though. And it's actually losing her the election.

If you assume both candidates wish to win, and you must assume this otherwise the other path is pure conspiracy theory that doesn't benefit anyone, this is the better analysis. She and the democrats, her advisers specifically, are fucking incompetents. Right wing hacks. Far to the right of the general population. Which, considering America, is almost impressive...

It is stupid, but lots of hobbies are stupid.

What takes it over the top is when people start making actual life decisions based on what they read about "Aires and Gemini relationships" or whatever.

I have an ex whose grandmother would literally call her in the middle of the night to opine on how she should leave me and find a man who better matches her astrology shit. And what could have been a humorous laugh about batty ol' grandma turned into me chuckling while she sternly stared at me until I said "... you're... not really listening to that dumb shit, right?"

Well, that was many years ago, grandma is long dead, and uh, I dunno, maybe the sun knew something. Or maybe she was just using it as an excuse to make hard decisions. Who knows.

I still don't understand anything about organic soap or astrology though. So, maybe she was also right with the whole "you never listen to me" thing. Listening to someone go on about the stars and moon and shit and how it has mystical powers is probably exactly how my mom felt when I was a kid explaining to her how I made gold in RuneScape. Just smile and nod along. Retain nothing. I did try to retain stuff, I really did, but I guess my brain just isn't built for that shit. But I describe in painful detail every boss fight from a raid I did 20 years ago... Brains. How do they work?

If you pay attention, like actually pay attention, and fully comprehend all the terrible shit the US state dept (and its various puppet like the EU, NATO, Israel, etc.) does on a daily, even hourly, basis... this is basically all going as expected and predicted for decades.

Not to downplay the shittiness

Remember that time... when after 9/11... George "Hitler" Bush and Richard "Himmler" Cheney pushed through a bunch of insanely overreaching legislation, executive orders, and got SCOTUS to rubber stamp basically all of it. I remember being told as a teen in those subsequent years into the Iraq War era, that while time period, that those laws that created or beefed up the most powerful intelligence agencies/federal law enforcement agencies ever at the time, and still, were "required" for the moment. We're at war! Once Himmler gasses all the terrorists, we'll just, you know, do that thing which oppressive governments are famous for doing and simply relinquish power, stop the mass spying, the oppression of non-state dept friendly ideas/actions, etc.

What actually happened, as everyone including a (very stupid, but not that stupid maybe) 15-16 or so year old me, said was gonna happen. The laws remained, the provisions they promised were only for "dirty foreign terrorists" became increasingly for "well, domestic terrorism exists too!" and now, as fully predicted, they're just creating more events, pushing people on the edge (but it's not entrapment because we said so!) to do unhinged shit, all to justify the previous laws, which you cannot even question anymore in public discourse btw, good luck if you tried. Fully solidify the past, it was always like that, don't believe those silly cranks who literally lived through that insanity, and btw, we need more funding. More departments with ambiguous names, murky objectives, held accountable only to other federal agencies that will simply say "nothing to see there. Just patriots!"

The right wing used to be against this shit. Ostensively anyway. That old streak of libertarianism that probably would've said like "Yeah I think all these commies deserve to die, but that doesn't mean we need to frame them! If the government can frame them, they'll frame us!" You know, the absolute basic critical thinking required. Well, those guys are totally gone, and now just like "Yeah this is all really fucking bad... bad that isn't being used 100% against commies! Let's just do that!"

Which, one on hand, I can appreciate the sentiment since I would like the power of the US government to also obliterate all the right wing dipshits. But, I also know that 1) isn't happening 2) probably would horribly backfire even if someone tried. That also means that, like it or not, my own mind has slipped from a world where, for example, dissolving the department of homeland security (one of the worst agencies in the US which is packed to capacity with SS units on top of SS units) was a possibility into the current world where that isn't even up for discussion or even much thought at all. Instead the only thought is "How do I point the death cannon at people I hate?"

Matt Christman and many others have spoken on the same basic idea. Nothing unique. Just rather sad when you analyze your past self and present self and realize that while you hold certain ideals somewhere down there, the perception of what is plausible has changed around you, and thus changed you as well.

"Sad!," in the word of a dang Cheeto.

I think Uber might be the pinnacle of a vaporware tech corporation.

Remember they were gonna make self driving cars? (On paper anyway) Like that was the original selling point idea thing. Then it just became "oh, well, we drove all the taxis out of business... now we have slaves essentially. Well, this works too! Oh, btw, they aren't our employees. Oh, also btw, we will absolutely still be collecting our massive chuck every time a ride happens."

Another situation I try to sort out like "ok. Cool. So, all the drivers should just use an open source app "Not Uber" which is literally just Uber, but, you know, not." They could even charge the same prices to riders and the drivers keep all (maybe minus some minimum amount to maintain the app) the profits, perhaps boosting them to almost a fair wage.

As it stands, drivers assume all the risks, must have insurance, are responsible for cleaning their vehicles, gas, normal wear and tear, apparently also will be responsible for taxes (self employed I suppose?), etc. Uber does absolutely fuck all except they made an app like 10-15 years ago, were first to market (first big anyway) and dominated by offering artificially low pricing to customers.

But this would require some sort of Mass Effect style or Borg shit where the leader assumes direct control and tells people to stop using the Uber app and instead use this other Not Uber app... but in that case, why not just also command them to embrace communism?

Which leads me to my new solution for the world: communism brain worms. We get a sample of that RFK Jr worm(s), we find out how it made him cut the head off a whale, and we reprogram it to cut the head off... well, some sort of head, who can say what head?

I think about doing shit like this all the time (like turning an audiobook into a movie) but never even get close to follow through

What an incredible effort. Also, am I about to listen to season 1 for the 4th time? On Chapo, Will did say Brendan and presumably Noah will be on Soon ™️ with their new season announcement/yearly shilling

If we're talking literal cavemen, like hunter gatherer societies that hadn't really discovered the technology of farming yet, then I'd believe the world was fucking ending for about an hour. Then be like "oh... it didn't... back to figuring out how to not die today."

The US government (and EU for that matter) can't even find their sacks to make Apple stop being a monopoly and anti-consumer as fuck (no, this does not mean Google, Microsoft, etc. are better).

The US is going to collapse under its own house of shit because people listened to a demented, "god fearing" failed actor circa 1980 and never figured out how full of shit he was and how much damage was done by undermining union labor and then passing NAFTA (Clinton did it aka Reagan term 4 and 5)

He spoke at the end of the recent True Anon/Chapo (w Hasan Piker guest) live show with like a very short prerecorded cameo. He sounded basically like his old self there.

Obviously I don't know anything more specific than anyone else outside his family/friends, but strokes now days can be recovered from almost 100%. There might always be something "off" about the person post-stroke, but it's generally expressed how we saw Fetterman (as a public example) immediately after the stroke with aphasia. With therapy the symptoms can be almost fully overcome in a lot of people. With all medical stuff obviously it's statistics and just because like 80% of people live basically normal lives doesn't mean... well, you know. But based on Amber, Will, Chris, Felix's statements over the past year or whatever and the fact he can even make a video at all. Seems promising.

Here's a pubmed paper on stroke recovery if interested. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8189855/

Heart related medical science has really come a long way even in my lifetime. When I was a kid, a stroke basically meant you were paralyzed for life. My grandmother had one and she used a cane until the day she died because her left side was so weakened. Now days, my next door neighbor had a stroke and I see his old ass power walking with his dog every morning. So, anecdotal sure, but it's also sort of the reality now. (Obviously assuming a person has access to modern medical facilities and trained physicians, etc.)

This type of revisionism is off putting to "normies." I don't know if that will change with widespread normalization, but, for the current time, people are still (correctly) primed to respond with "wait... what the fuck?"

Anecdotal: I was discussing with a friend who isn't tuned in to basically anything explicitly "political" especially online Nazi shit. It came up due to a meme where girls were asking guys how often they thought about Rome. And I was like "yeah, for a few people it's probably for actual historical comparisons, but for most of them that's a red flag. They're just obsessed with the power and the glory aesthetics from the past. Like the Nazis."

Then I was continuing on with something like "many of them ironically agree with the Nazis, although they will always say they do not. A fundamental thing that they agree on, a core aspect of fascism and Nazism, was their hatred for communism and specifically the USSR in the case of Nazis. A lot of them have spent time trying to pretend that the Soviets were as bad as the Nazis. There's no actual basis for this, it's known as Holocaust revisionism which is akin to holocaust denialism, but they will say it nonetheless. Perhaps unaware that they are just saying Nazi talking points."

Her only response was "what the fuck? Why?"

I just let her wonder why/place that puzzle piece as she feels fit... but if you're just saying Nazi talking points and making shit up to make their crimes seem less significant, well, I know what I call those people...