As a USian, trust me, you don’t want to become one, brain worms are bad!

No, no they won’t

See I would compare it to the permanent dread of bringing children into a world that you knew would not be a good life for them given the trajectory we are locked into now.

Came here to ask the same question, any SAM would do really :)

Post-based social networks feel like such an aged-out technology. I’d almost respect it more if they said, We’re building a TikTok competitor and we have engineered the savviest content algorithm of all time.

This kind of thinking is why I still think U.S. tech companies and Silicon Valley in general has still not found the bottom and if I was rich I would short the entire industry still. How pathetic do you have to be to look at Social Media and decide that after For Profit Businesses tried to monetize the idea of digital community spaces and it failed spectarlularly to the point that kids don’t even think it is cool anymore… that there must be no other way and “post-based social networks” are on there way out?

Literally the only thing we have tried is structuring social networks so that they must make a massive profit for investors and are all universally owned by insane billionaires. That is the first pathetic thing, the second pathetic thing is all the people who are looking at something like this and shaking their head saying “social media is old news!” after ONLY trying that.

Not it isn’t, social media is incredibly important, people use it all the time and there are a million ways we can choose to structure, fund and democratize digital communities, there could be no more blatant statement of a bankruptcy of vision as a commentator on this kind of thing then casually pointing at “post-based social networks” and saying there is nothing new there to find when there is a cambrian explosion of new federated social media softwares growing on the fediverse (along with bluesky pretending as hard as it can to be a federated, decentralized social media).

You know how you know someone is full of shit? They point to things other people are doing and say “why are they doing that, that isn’t the trend?” when the question at its heart wasn’t about following a trend or not it was about a vision for the future.

This is what catastrophically losing a class war with the rich and weirdly refusing to talk about it looks like.

Your intelligence is fine, you are beaten down is the problem.

The saying goes scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds

All Elon Musk has ever done to earn a living is charge people rent and own valuable things and you and are telling me I should believe Elon is against the idea of charging people rent for digital things?

lol

When the rolling blackout comes during an intense heatwave and the people in charge have to choose between cutting power to the elderly, people at risk with their health, and the poor vs. cutting power to their rich friend’s data center that is turning a mean profit do you think they are even going to think about that choice? No, they will cut off power to the poor.

This isn’t just a bad idea, it is constructing a dichotomy that can and will be used to justify mass death in the arid, hot areas of the US.

If you live in a place like this, move away as soon as possible, the writing is on the wall.

Rank Of Preferences of what I would most prefer to do after reading this, starting with most preferred!

1. be shot by a firing squad
2. die by lethal injection
3. visit south carolina

No I just didn’t realize how naive you were about your privilege.

I know this is the kind of hyperbole that leads to markets crashing spectacularly, but honestly, sell your bonds, get the fuck out of the U.S., this place is cooked. DO NOT RELY ON THE U.S. FOR ANYTHING IMPORTANT for the foreseeable future.

Centrists strangled any hope of mitigating this disaster by spending all the democrat/left’s political capital on meaningless handwringing about the parlimentarian and whether well should we be so radical so as to suggest free healthcare… and well should we really keep feeding the poor isn’t that handouts?

Now centrists in U.S. culture learn why the leftists they have been angrily tone policing for being too negative where just describing in a sad voice the future that was heading for us like a freight train, covered in fascists hooting and hollering.

It is going to be bad, and I am very sad.

Yes which is why warfare is a struggle where you make your enemy so completely devoid of any desperation that they cannot fight anymore.

if I were to move to Europe and get the exact same job and free Healthcare, I’d be making a fraction of what I do now.

facepalm dawg you can’t just compare how much you make in the two places, how do you quantify the stress that comes from never knowing if medical problem is going to end your life… because it will bankrupt you and your family not because it will kill you directly?

I know that my quality of life is likely to tank in the coming years, and if it doesn’t it is because I got lucky where others didn’t, but damn is it hilarious seeing how fucking stupid centrist business bros and tech people are in the U.S. right now, they are JUST NOW realizing the boat is sinking, when only half of the boat is still above the water… it is fucking hilarious honestly and I don’t take joy in this happening, I mean I do, but I am not happy it is happening I am rather so sad that if I don’t laugh about it all I will do is cry.

beep boop

I was hoping to marry one of the robots that will manage the robots screwing in tiny screws and thus not have to work

bro like seriously, you would think we would get tired of winning but we just can’t stop winning, it is all winning

Larry Fink, chief executive of BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, said Friday that today’s dense fog of uncertainty, triggered by Trump’s tariffs, is reminiscent of the 2008 global financial crisis.

“We’ve seen periods like this before when there were large, structural shifts in policy and markets — like the financial crisis, Covid-19 and surging inflation in 2022. We always stayed connected with clients, and some of BlackRock’s biggest leaps in growth followed,” Fink said.

We’ve seen periods like this before, Larry Fink, because scumbags like you have purposefully and wrecklessly fucked over the middle class and poor in a class war by exploiting a manufactured crisis like the 2008 crash, or exploiting a pre-existing crisis like Covid in order to enrich people like yourselves.

Fuck you Larry Fink.

Look it isn’t that I won’t consider not supporting genocide, it is that your tone and the manner that you bring up the fact that I support the genocide makes me feel bad so out of spite I will continue to support the genocide, and now how do you feel?

This is all your fault.

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