“He’s just a dog, Carl.”

It’s simpler than that.

The current US government is a Russian puppet, and the collapse of the US is for their benefit. It doesn’t need to be any more complicated than that.

In a sane world governed by rules, yes… But everyone from the market makers to the banks to the investors to the SEC are complicit in the need for this bubble NOT to burst… It wouldn’t surprise me if the system starts eventually making up numbers out of whole cloth to prevent it.

I hope there’s a stipulation that if you ever come back, the same amount is due as a lump sum.

Vibes of when some nature show was picking the best season and they spent half an hour talking about summer, fall, winter, and spring, and then in the end they picked monsoon season, which had not been mentioned even once the entire episode.

It would also help if they didn’t spend every single interview rubbing their hands together with evil glee while they talk about all the anti-consumer features they want to implement and think Steam is crazy for NOT implementing.

This seems like a great idea, actually.

Let other NATO members deploy semi-permanent forces there as well. Do it under the guise of Trump’s excuse and call his bluff.

“Trump is worried about Russia and China taking Greenland? Fine. Now we’re reinforcing it with NATO resources, shithead.”

It can double as a training exercise.

Freedom. It ends in freedom. And that is unacceptable to people who love restricting the freedoms of others.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER

Tonight… You.

This is a 2000s argument.

In 2026, you don’t need the nurse, doctor, or bed anymore because the profiteering is entirely speculation and stock manipulation, and the selling of a product or service isn’t even necessary. In fact, customers are completely irrelevant. That’s why prices keep going up - it doesn’t matter if you sell anything, as long as you convince investors to keep pumping money in. It’s an incestuous oroboros of providing nothing and creating power and money out of thin air.

Don’t engage. He’s chosen his path and there’s nothing to be said to convince him. Let him be content with his choices without external criticism or validation. It’s like being angry at a bear for shitting in the woods - it’s just its nature. There’s nothing to be gained here. Save your energy for causes that aren’t yet lost.

Always has been. They just can’t hide it now, so they’re out in the open

I’m gonna say that still counts as “cheap assets”

Tell me about it. I thought this was an angry leftist meme at first.

Honestly not sure whom I’m more sick of at this point.

It’s so much worse than it needs to be for no reason. They don’t have the numbers to do anything, but they could at least fucking PRETEND to care that they can’t.

“Well, you guys are trying your best, but there’s nothing you can do without the numbers.”

“No, no… let’s be clear… Even if we had the numbers, we are INTENTIONALLY not doing anything.”

That’s silly.

You won’t get to debate it forever. Just until the purity of your ideology leads you to a starve to death in a gulag.

The Nobel Committee:

But… those ARE the only two use cases.