Something like 80% of all commercial products are the result of government research. Which Trump, working for China and Russia, is currently trashing.
Evil
Traitors
They really do work for the Russians, huh. https://t.co/lP78n25D6F
— Noah Smith
(@Noahpinion) March 28, 2025
Indeed. That’s been pretty clear. And the Chinese, too.
Enemies
Every American should watch this. We did this. For no good reason. Everyone is worse off, except our enemies. https://t.co/lrxKWDom7w
— BuccoCapital Bloke (@buccocapital) March 28, 2025
Huge self-own that made China and Russia stronger while weakening both Canada and the US. Fucking moronic.
Our enemies are now in control of the country. And I don’t mean conservatives. I mean (obviously) China and Russia.
RTO Joke
Corporate said anyone within 50 miles of an office needs to return to office by May.
I told you all years ago WFH would not last. That’s because MBAs love control more than productivity or anything else; it is why they became MBAs in the first place. They’d demand RTO if it tanked productivity and profits by 90% (which in some companies it probably will, as you lose your best people immediately).
Without butts in seats and a kingdom of visible and compliant slaves to lord over, why even have a company?
Gatherers
Always remember all Chinese companies must assist with espionage. Treat them all like subsidiaries of the CCP. https://t.co/8FwMx6LQdw
— Michael Ron Bowling (@mrbcyber) March 26, 2025
People claim the US does the same thing. Sometimes, sort of. But the difference is that any Chinese company is actually under the full control of the CCP. They are all extended intelligence-gathering operations by design. It is one of their primary purposes.
And who would want that?
Reportedly
Woman-on-woman sexual harassment. Has anyone experienced this?
Was told this never happens. Probably far more common than we think because I bet it’s almost never reported (far below even male-female harassment report levels).
By way of anecdote I’ve personally known two women who were being sexually harassed by other women and nope, they never reported it.
DOGE Gone
I’ve been planning for Social Security not to exist when I retire and looks like DOGE might make that happen. Glad I started planning for that more than 20 years ago.
Poverty rate is gonna jump and elderly are gonna be dying in the streets. But we all knew it was coming. Well, the smart ones did. The rich absolutely despise Social Security and covet that money. It was only a matter of time before they stole it all.
Thus Malthus
Worse than that — the degrowthers are making every effort to resurrect the Malthusian trap. It’s one of the many reasons I hate them so very much.
Stifler
The answer is yes. pic.twitter.com/S29RRl6KL1
— Ashley Rindsberg (@AshleyRindsberg) March 17, 2025
Of course they did. No one wanted to look unfriendly to China. It’s still happening, too.
Blast
Our elections are about to get a lot more Russian.
Can I move to space yet?
Down Is Up
Covidians: THERE WAS NO LOCKDOWN! IT’S A MYTH! A LIE!
Anyone sane: Looks like a fuckin’ lockdown to me.
Of course the clown-ass crazy-fuck Covidians mean that no one came around welding your door shut as occurred in China. Which was their greatest wish, their fondest desire. They only care about taking things away and harming people so of course that’s what they wanted.
Let’s be glad we didn’t cede that much ground to those barking-mad bullshit artists.
Pill Bugs
Feelings of despair in America now peak in our youth. It didn't used to be this way.
Whatever's causing this, I think Bernie probably speaks to these feelings. (I believe the largest single driver is phones/social media, but we don't know) https://t.co/el6nmAx1Zd pic.twitter.com/FygIyTm8rd
— Hunter
(@StatisticUrban) March 9, 2025
Probably is the smartphone/social media combo. That’s a cognitive poison pill we’re wholly unsuited to deal with.
Gyre
Recession chance is 90%. Great Recession II chance is 85%. Depression chance is now an also-depressing 80%.
Given the above 80% chance of depression, the further likelihood it’ll be Great Depression-like is 60%, Long Depression-like is 40%.
He Found the Self-Destruct Button
Great question https://t.co/ae5gq8WuNE
— Noah Smith
(@Noahpinion) March 14, 2025
I thought the idea absurd in 2015-2016 that Trump might be a Russian agent, or least on their payroll. Now I think it’s probably substantially true.
Has a country so large ever destroyed itself so quickly? Maybe Germany in the lead-up to WWII, but even that was slower if I’ve read my history correctly.
Early Onset Alzheimer’s
We still aren’t taking the effect of phones and social media seriously.
We should be focusing on it the way we focused on cigarettes in the 80s or lead in gasoline before that. https://t.co/6X6mCkVxbG
— Saikat Chakrabarti (@saikatc) March 14, 2025
Smartphones and social media are enormous cognitohazards that are now actually destroying intelligence too. Not surprising, but more than alarming.
Phone addicts, cry harder.