So... Trump has promised to carry out a coup if he doesn't win. A good coup would be indistinguishable from him just winning... Yet, people keep saying "vote harder." Like, yeah, this is all super important stuff and the more people vote the harder it will be for Trump to carry out the coup... But a lot of people have put in a lot of money to make this happen so he's going to have another coup attempt. This time it won't be a bunch of idiots, it will be Eric Prince and the Academi soliders who got deployed in Portland.
If you are in the US, you need to prepare to fight. If he wins, democracy is over. If he doesn't win, democracy is probably over too since he's already rigged the supreme court so he can steal the election and make it look legal. Police all over the country have already pledged allegiance to him. When you come out to protest they will run you over with SUVs and just open fire on you. They'll shoot at reporters to make sure no one can see what's happening, just like they did during the George Floyd rebellion. But this time they'll just kill people and claim they were violent.
You all need to be ready for the absolute worst. You also need to vote to make it harder, but voting will absolutely not be enough. You need to prepare.
Abusers are often victims first. You can't really look at Musk, or any billionaire, and think, "yeah, this person is totally fine." He's not. None of them are.
Patriarchy and capitalism reward the unhealthy coping mechanism he uses to protect his ego. Patriarchy specifically asserts that those coping mechanisms are not only normal but optimal.
He's absolutely a victim of this system and in a functional one he would be given help instead of power, which is literally the opposite of what he needs to be able to recognize his problems and heal.
He is who he is because the only way he can see himself as valuable at all is if he's basically the savior of the world. Anything less than that is unacceptable garbage. Anyone who believes differently must be manipulated or destroyed.
There's no way he can ever be happy. He needs help. It's tragic that we live in a society where he can't even see how much he needs help.
None of that takes away from the behaviors he expresses. The fact that his manipulation of others comes from his insecurity doesn't take away from the manipulation, the feeling of unreality, that comes from experimenting that manipulation. Both of these things can and do exist at the same time.
That's correct. The reason it was there is that some games were written assuming a specific processor speed. When faster processors came out, the games ran too fast. The turbo button let you play older games on your new computer.
He's a malignant narcissist. It takes a long time to escape that kind of programing. Being in a relationship like that is basically like being in a cult.
"Should we watch the show in East Coast or West Coast time? Or just watch all the episodes for the whole season without ads as they're sending them to local stations?"
"Boy" is only the opposite of "girl" if you're working within the framework of gender binary. One could equally argue that "non-binary" is the opposite of both "boy" and "girl."
Similarly, "Right Libertarian/AnCap" and "Tankie" are opposite ways to justify authoritarianism and atrocities (dictatorship of the "market" vs dictatorship of the proletariat). "Anarchist/Left Libertarian" is the opposite of both because both assert that non-consentual hierarchies are normal and excuse the atrocities that come with them while anarchism rejects the validity of non-consentual hierarchy.
If I were malicious enough to design the system, I would make it a heartbeat. Skip too many heartbeats and your car bricks. It could be written in to the terms of the loan since companies are using in-car computers for repossession.
"Why is my car bricked?"
"Because you tried to disable our payment verification system."
"I live in a rural area."
"You're like 1% of customers. Your loan contact says you have to drive within cell range once a month. Fuck you, we're repossessing the car and keeping the money anyway."
Exactly. His relationship with the US is just as cynical as it is with Russia, and as it is with any country or people (including his own). He will do or say anything that gets him more power. That means he'll be a solid US ally as long as the US is completely stable and functional, and he will take advantage of any weakness (like he did with Trump letting him murder Kurds in Syria).
I think we're in violent agreement about the overall with perhaps subtle difference in the details.
Ok, so you, who have absolutely no context on the situation, keep being told that you're wrong by people who have context on the situation, and your responses is to record all the ways you're told you're wrong so you can gloat about how you keep getting told you're wrong by the ignorant people who actually have lived their entire lives in the place you know nothing about? Cool.
It's kind of like you're listening to the 5 blind people describe an elephant over the phone and you're like, "I have a cat, therefore you also have a cat. You need cat litter and everything you're saying is dumb."
America for Europeans is either Hollywood, major cities, or Europe with rednecks. You fundamentally do not understand the context. You keep comparing to Europe and Austrian, but those models don't work. Europe enclosed the commons generations earlier. It's not possible for Europeans to comprehend America.
I've driven for 6 hours straight with the radio on scan and not even found a signal in more than one part of the US. There are vast areas of nothing with no law and no possibility of control. The vast majority of the US is unpopulated. The closest analog would be Australia or Canada.
Except that Austria and Canada never had an economy that relied on chattel slavery enforced by "organized milita." That's what the "well regulated milita" is in the second amendment, it's slavers. Slavery and genocide are essential to the US in a way they aren't in any developed country. If you want to compare the US to something, you need to look at Brazil.
The US is more like a developing nation or a dictatorship than a democracy the way you think about it.
Americans have all heard the same things over and over again. Your arguments are old and bring nothing new. So what is it exactly you're trying to do here? What is the point if first hand information will change your articles of faith? Are you just trying to feel superior? Because coming in to a place, knowing nothing about it, and telling people they're doing everything wrong is a pretty old school European thing to do and it really isn't convincing anyone.
So... Trump has promised to carry out a coup if he doesn't win. A good coup would be indistinguishable from him just winning... Yet, people keep saying "vote harder." Like, yeah, this is all super important stuff and the more people vote the harder it will be for Trump to carry out the coup... But a lot of people have put in a lot of money to make this happen so he's going to have another coup attempt. This time it won't be a bunch of idiots, it will be Eric Prince and the Academi soliders who got deployed in Portland.
If you are in the US, you need to prepare to fight. If he wins, democracy is over. If he doesn't win, democracy is probably over too since he's already rigged the supreme court so he can steal the election and make it look legal. Police all over the country have already pledged allegiance to him. When you come out to protest they will run you over with SUVs and just open fire on you. They'll shoot at reporters to make sure no one can see what's happening, just like they did during the George Floyd rebellion. But this time they'll just kill people and claim they were violent.
You all need to be ready for the absolute worst. You also need to vote to make it harder, but voting will absolutely not be enough. You need to prepare.