POG Politics Thread Version 3
Come on in! Since Dustin is taking his ball and going home, it's time to start a new politics thread.
Rickroll,
I dislike you attacking people and not their ideas. I'm fine WW expressing his ideas. I actually love it.
Do you read what filthy posts? It doesn't get more fringe than that. And who doesn't enjoy them? Awesome.
fringe ideas like a govt for the people, by the people
zero memory of that. but I can't remember ****. my brain seems to be getting worse lately. its concerning actually.
Rickroll,
I dislike you attacking people and not their ideas. I'm fine WW expressing his ideas. I actually love it.
Do you read what filthy posts? It doesn't get more fringe than that. And who doesn't enjoy them? Awesome.
they are not ideas though, it's just word salad backed by frabricated ai slop nonsense
filthy is an amazing poster - this is not against fringe
How dare you accuse our friend Ww of frabricating this is outrageous.
When you have yeed your last haw
Chapter 4 lulled a little, identifying the macro-economic maladies and financial hooliganry of 21st century desire-capitalism (my term) that enabled the Cloud Aristocracy (he's calling them "Cloudalists") to emerge
pretty good hesiod reference* towards the end, though:
"every new age forged by some revolutionary technology yields a generation who never rest from labor and sorrow by day or from perishing by night" (Varoufakis)
"For now truly is a race of iron, and men never rest from labour and sorrow by day, and from perishing by night; and the gods shall lay sore trouble upon them" (Hesiod)
Chapter 5 is getting interesting again:
distinguishing the arithmetically similar "rent" (passive income derived from privileged access to desired goods) from "profit" (active income derived from material or process innovation)
calling out Apple as the first "digital fiefdom" through its creation of the Apple Store - on which developers could sell apps subject to rents paid to Apple for platform access - in large part propelled by harnessing the power of "brand loyalty" through marketing and bespoke design
"rent" (passive income derived from privileged access to desired goods) [to] "profit" (active income derived from material or process innovation)
this was the moral victory capitalism promised over feudalism
a progressive, not merely successive, stage of economic organization
I get a little triggered when people are like "who's your mt Rushmore of blah blah blah?" like 3 point shooters, or novelists, or whatever tf...
and it's like you dumb ****, do you have any idea what mt Rushmore represents? like "who's your mt Rushmore of genocidal racists carved into a ****ing sacred mountain stolen from people they slaughtered?"
and that's not a fringe idea. that's just straight up ****ing reality
good morning
who's your mt Rushmore of genocidal racists carved into a ****ing sacred mountain stolen from people they slaughtered?
fwiw this is exactly what that question means to me now, thanks to you.
idolaters thrive on human sacrifice
You breed kids like a stray dog but can't hold a wife 'cause you're a narcissistic shithead. Suck a bag of dicks and **** off to your red planet.
Ice obtains access to Israeli-made spywa...
The Department of Homeland Security first entered into a contract with Paragon, now owned by a US firm, in late 2024, under the Biden administration. But the $2m contract was put on hold pending a compliance review to make sure it adhered to an executive order that restricts the US government’s use of spyware, Wired reported at the time.
Okay, so we're just using it for legitimate purposes like national security, guarding against election interference, preventing human trafficking, etc. Cool.
An executive order signed by the Biden administration sought to establish some guardrails around the US government’s use of spyware. It said that the US “shall not make operational use of commercial spyware that poses significant counterintelligence or security risks to the United States government or significant risks of improper use by a foreign government or foreign person”.
Yeah but what about --
Paragon broke off its ties with Italy after it was revealed that 90 people, including journalists and members of civil society, in two dozen countries, had been targeted with the spyware. The individuals who were targeted by the Italian government included human rights activists who have been critical of Italy’s dealings with Libya. Several journalists were also targeted, though it is still unclear who ordered those hacking attacks.
damn.
That pause has now been lifted, according to public procurement documents, which list US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) as the contracting agency.
Spoiler
/2025/sep/02/
damnnnnn
I like when the audience boo'd him at Dave Chappelle, and then he tried to say the audience didn't boo him.
every single person in the ****ing world should be booing these mother****ers every second of their ****ing lives, non ****ing stop.
my caffiene experiment is affecting my posting.
I'm glad eyebooger hates Elon. hopefully Elon doesn't run against a Republican and make eyebooger support him :p
boo or *luigijpeg*
inflation of lesser of two evils over time:
I can steal one dollar from you or two
I can steal two dollars from you or three
three dollars or ten dollars
trump or harris
can't remember if I was telling you about this, or posting here, or telling someone else but....
when Michael parenti died recently, I was listening to some of his lectures, and he said something like "our ideas are not extreme at all. we want equality and justice, sustainability. we are opposed to exploitation, greed, suffering..."
made me change my mind about thinking of myself as an extremist.
supporting a dem or republican is extreme... and even more than extreme, its just insane and immoral.
like supporting the USA govt is just absolutely inexescuble. and I realize that's not an extreme position for me to take. it's really similar to saying "supporting the Nazi govt is just absolutely inexescubale"
I want a luigi t shirt
I read Murray Rothbard and Ludwig von Mises and all that stuff so I speak of Libertarianism from a place of deep knowledge. It doesn't hold up for me.
My "politics" is mostly that everyone needs to be taken care of. Someone just said nanny state and I think that's exactly what the state should be. A lovely fat nanny.
How exactly you accomplish that I don't know or care and it not actually possible for any system to rescue Late Stage Capitalism so that's not a burden your thoughts have to meet.
I read Murray Rothbard and Ludwig von Mises and all that stuff so I speak of Libertarianism from a place of deep knowledge. It doesn't hold up for me.My "politics" is mostly that everyone needs to be taken care of. Someone just said nanny state and I think that's exactly what the state should be. A lovely fat nanny.How exactly you accomplish that I don't know or care and it
that's a comforting thought
I get a little triggered when people are like "who's your mt Rushmore of blah blah blah?" like 3 point shooters, or novelists, or whatever tf...and it's like you dumb ****, do you have any idea what mt Rushmore represents? like "who's your mt Rushmore of genocidal racists carved into a ****ing sacred mountain stolen from people they slaughtered?" and that's not a fringe idea. t
see mark, this is incredible posting
