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Do you think he’s grasping there’s a link between political ideology and outcome though?

He’s the kind of guy who assumed Beijing in 2024 was going to be like Hong Kong in 1985. A lot of what stunned him was the level of public safety, cleanliness, and greenery.

Will he come out of this thinking “Maybe the immortal science of Marxist-Leninists-Maoism has something to teach us?” Or will he simply conclude Chinese people are ethnically a master race? Idk. We’ll see.

all sorts of excuses about culture and whatnot for their positive experiences.

Did not fill me with confidence when he floated a few comments about how homogeneous everyone was. “China is good because all Chinese people look the same to me” would be a very depressing conclusion to his journey.

More like the Holey Groaning Empire, amirite?

You’re assuming an open organization to infiltrate. This just looks like marketing and crowd work to me.

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They just go about their life doing what they want or what they’ve trained themselves to do and are perfectly content for the most part.

I’ve seen what social isolation does to people and it’s never struck me as good. People gradually lose the ability to communicate with the outside world, they tend to suffer economically as they are, and they develop any number of psychological issues. I’ve known people who developed anxiety, depression, OCD, even schizophrenia.

Some folks manage better than others, but it always takes a toll.

As long as you’re not spreading misery, you do you boo boo.

Internalized misery isn’t something I’d applaud or celebrate.

Georgia: We’re holding a referendum on joining the EU. Please select from the following options

• President Olaf Scholtz, my country yearns for freedom. Please send in the ECB to liberate my people.

• I am a Russian apparatchik. My vote doesn’t count.

Oh my goodness, the election has been rigged by Russian interference. Time to send in the tanks and defeat the Tankies.

Country with some of the cheapest electricity in the world also has the bulk of the manufacturing.

Sounds like a recipe for success

doing things like advocating to vote for the worst possible option is not

Unless you’re suggesting Joe Rogan or RFK Jr or Aaron Sorkin or Lin Manuel Miranda are accelerationists, I just don’t think we’re talking about a meaningful input into election results.

the accelerationists taking part in and actively pushing the far right further

I don’t think this kind of person exists in a meaningful way. Actual corporate fascists are pushing conservatives rightward.

He’s not even in office yet. Can’t start breaking things until you get your into the China Shop.

Ireland’s economy is heavily predicated on it’s allies and neighbors using them to dodge taxes.

I don’t think you come out ahead when the burgerlanders go broke and McDonald’s no longer has any dollars/euros to stash in your banks.

advocating for worse conditions is abhorrent

What if you’re not advocating for them in a material way, because you lack any real input into your socio-economic future? What if you’re just trying to claim you can see a silver lining in the face of an incoming storm?

And what if the folks in government and media and business who denounce “accelerationism” are the ones prosecuting the policy, while blaming anyone who looks at the catastrophic results and says “Maybe this will turn out for the best in the end” are secret foreign influenced enemies of the state?

Screaming “You’re not using enough dollars!” at everyone outside the country while I demand my friends and family only pay me in bitcoins.

Using AI to read the tens of thousands of resumes submitted by applicants who used AI to write them.

Then entirely outsourcing your HR to a call center in the Philippines. And outsourcing your IT to India. And outsourcing finance to some tech startup. And selling the IP to a cutout in Ireland and renting it back so you can off-shore your profits.

By the end, its not even clear what business you’re in. You’re just a generic middle man.

Our most senior intelligence officials cannot confirm whether the North Koreans are getting shit faced on cheap vodka, going out clubbing with hot single MILFs in their area, and dancing the night away.

Would be funny if the US exits NATO first

Sounds like a great environment to form a union

Dems tried to make “All Trump’s old friends say he likes Hitler” a thing for about five minutes in late October, but it flopped.

The GOP made a big fuss about Peanut the Squirrel for the last week of the election.

For a brief moment the dems had them cornered

It was all a mirage. National media ran a bunch of cucked polls to try and lathe an upset.

But Harris was never as popular as she was portrayed. Republicans had their home states locked down too tightly thanks to decades of disenfranchisement. And “wow, look at how weird this couch fucker is” played far better on social media than inside the voting booths.

Encircling the cities from the oil and gas fields. Roughnecks vote and there’s a ton of them.