The science job market is also unsurprisingly crashing. Current advice is to stay where you are if you still have funding and try and ride out the disphit storm.

Horrible for innovation lmao

Could not have happened to a dumber bitch.

Disagree on the Putin part. Putin is one of the richest and is the most powerful man in Russia, so he’s included in your rich cabal, but he’s also signaled for years that he’s a geopolitical colonizer and wants to reunite Soviet Union states. His main opposition is NATO which he’s able to dismantle with the help of Trump, thus opening up the door to further fracture resistance to his actions.

There’s a substantial amount of circumstantial evidence pointing to Trump being a Russian asset, his latest policies only further confirm that.

The rich cabal you’re talking about absolutely hitched their wagon to Trump to make money in the instability to come, but they don’t give a shit about Greenland. It’s a pawn that they don’t care about, but their friend Putin does.

I’ve never been to Amigo/King’s Classic so I’m not a good source for that comparison lol.

I think the closest comparison I could make would be a rundown off-the-highway Waffle House in the South

Steak N’ Shake was always the dirtiest burger place, no matter which Midwest city you visited. This is just another reason to avoid it lmao

So far into the Kool-aid she might as well just go to Jonestown

[email protected] is curated bad faith arguments (from recent weeks experience). We have that here as well.

So what do you recommend?

Another comment here is saying this is an introduction to stronger boycotts. Small achievable goals first.

Genau. Trump liebt deutsche Wörter wie Gleichschaltung und Lebensraum.

Republicans are themselves bad-faith actors in all respects, like Putin. Their words mean nothing.

That’s what they’ve done at least since Reagan so…

I feel like there’s a common ground between schadenfreude and outreach to MAGAts that we should find.

You’re right in that this would be the moment that people might change their minds because of the consequences they wrought upon themselves…. But if someone voted for others to get hurt, and instead hurt themselves, there’s humor in that irony.

I agree that we have more in common than not, I point that out to every dipshit I talk to, but the amount of disrespect I’ve personally received when trying to discuss philosophies in good faith is ridiculous, even from family.

Half the time they start shouting angrily and the other half they start gaslighting. It’s truly hard to not outright say “yes you’re a fucking idiot” when someone gets defensive and says “well I guess you think I’m stupid, huh?”

There’s some rage we all collectively need to work through lmao.

100%. Their corruption knows no bounds.

Once the lawsuits rack up they’ll pass immunity laws for ICE.

I bet it will happen within the year, faster if there’s a major incident involving ICE

I’m pretty sure they always have been. IIRC you’ll find op-Ed’s praising Hitler and Germany leading up to WW2.

They also deliberately slandered the guy that broke the (CIA admitting cocaine from Nicaragua into the US to fund right wing militias) story that often gets told as “the CIA introduced crack into black communities”. They effectively discredited the story, which turned out to be true.

The Behind the Bastards episode on it is p good

Yeah, the delusion is only growing. I saw a woman involved in a state Republican Party post that she “saw through Newsmax’s liberal bullshit” and that while her husband still likes them she “knew the truth”.

We’ve far surpassed dangerous levels of delusion.

💯💯💯💯💯

If they were solely a propaganda piece of Oligarchs, I would have imagined they wouldn’t have the US keep dropping on their index of freedom lists and not have all the European nations listed as high: https://www.cato.org/human-freedom-index/2024

I think they believe their own bullshit.

They’re silly libertarians, but even they can see the authoritarianism that’s on the rise.