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  • I didn’t know who Trump was until around 2010 or so when I saw interviews with him online (no I didnt watch the Apprentice nor did I even know the show existed until much longer. Also while I did watch Home Alone 2 as a kid his cameo in the film went completely over my head. As far as I knew at the time Kevin just asked a completely random New Yorker where the lobby was), and I heard him mention his tariff plan and all that shit even back then.

    But then I started reading articles written about him and his sorded history and I pretty much came to the conclusion that I wouldn’t trust this person with a single dollar, let alone a company or a country.

    Even cracked.com that had many articles (and I still am unable to find most of them) detailing how full of shit the man was, the comments sections were nearly universal in agreement as to what a worthless man he was. This is rare since comments sections are often toxic shitpiles, but that was the exception.

    The Apprentice alone is not enough to explain his continued existence outside a jail cell, even if it is a big part of it.




  • For a man who is obsessed with space travel and claims we need to go live on Mars. He doesn’t understand how much redundancy is critical to survival in space.

    Imagine a sci-fi spaceship… you are light-years away from civilization and any repairs. What if something goes wrong on your ship? Well? There had better be at least a half dozen back up systems to guarantee that you will survive instead of being fucked.

    You cannot apply just-in-time supply chain logic to space travel. YOU WILL DIE!

    No wonder SpaceX hasn’t been able to get out of low-earth orbit.










  • You know the surveillance state in China? You know those bitch ass tech bros in the US and elsewhere? The ones who claim we need a bigger more invasive surveillance state in the West else China will win?

    They are the ones who salivated at selling and providing all the tech to China and continue to do so. Do you remember when Google initially flat out refused China’s heavily curtailed and monitored version of Google for their own market and Google initially refused because it was too authoritian? Well a few years after that they came crawling back for those sweet sweet Chinese monies and gave them all they wanted and much more.

    So ripping off is bullshit. They playing them like a fucking fiddle and developing their own tech on top of it, which is exactly what happened in all other developing nations. Japan was once seen as nothing but a cheap low-quality copycat from the 1920s to the 1960s before they suddenly became the smartest most creative people in the room… and the same shit was being flung at the Chinese until they became the massive powerhouse they are now.

    China is obviously going to help building infrastructure to benefit their own shit. But the major difference is China hasn’t bombed anyone or established overseas military bases… yet. Anything can happen in the future.

    China will also absolutely want authoritarianism to be spread and have their fingers in the data of all countries they trade with. The west is no different. They have been trying to get Apple to give them full access to any iPhone on the planet, even those belonging to people who have never left their hometowns and never will in countries nowhere near the UK. How is this better than what China wants?