It was thick with MLMs and reactionary evangelicalism. Didn’t hurt that the Mormon Church was heavily embedded in the national leadership.

Imagine thinking it’s true.

The Boy Scouts of America had to be dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century by way of multiple sexual abuse scandals, a dwindling membership, and repeated bankruptcy.

This isn’t DEI, it’s a desperate appeal for more warm bodies in the program to shore up a dying movement.

It’s BAD in the sense that Scouting has largely become (arguably always had been) an MLM run by and for the benefit of a few connected business savvy insiders. And drawing in more grist for the mill only delays the inevitable failure of this corrupt and sclerotic institution.

Russia running into all the same problems of a prolonged ground war that plague any imperial power.

Strangely, I see so many of these posts indicating this as some kind of weakness Ukraine should be expected to exploit. However, you can see all the same problems of conscription on the opposite side of the front lines. Ukraine has increasingly turned to South America for expendables, with 40% of new recruits coming from across the Atlantic this year. Incidentally, a lot of these recruits are coming from the drug cartels.

we’re just shitheads picking shitheads

Where are the non-shithead options?

It is a bit dizzying to see how hard they fought Mamdani, only to believe RCV is going to save anyone

The anti-natalist folks and the pro-natalist folks are clearly in some kind of competition to produce the shittiest ideology imaginable.

Congrats for putting points on your side of the board.

Reading them, no. But fuckers love buying them and handing them out. Nothing a conservative uncle loves more than sliding a copy of Atlas Shrugged across the table and saying “Read this if you want to learn about Real Communism, kid”.

Imagine how many copies this sold

They say AI can’t replace us, but that’s exactly what I’d tell my boss

Maybe she gets a slot on Bari Weiss’s 60 Minutes and a credit on the next Mission Impossible film

Sort of like how “Al-Qaida in Iraq / Syria / etc” wasn’t a real organization, just a way of publicizing the War on Terror in a language Americans reflexively accepted.

We’re going to see random people persecuted as “Members of Antifa” in the same way we spied on and harassed anti-War Quackers and anti-Genocide college students by affiliating them with “terrorist groups”

إن شاء الله

When the revolution comes, I’ll change my views to fall in line with the party line established by the Glorious People’s Republic of JoeRoganStan.

On the other hand, I’m not sure most of what we call intelligence in human behavior is any more intelligent than what LLMs do.

Human intelligence is analog and predicated on a complex, constantly changing, highly circumstantial manifestation of consciousness rooted in brain chemistry.

Artificial Intelligence (a la LLMs) is digital and predicated on a single massive pre-compiled graph that seeks to approximate existing media from descriptive inputs.

The difference is comparable to the gulf between a body builder’s quad muscle and a piston.

Real Genius runs on cigarettes, coffee, and cheating on your cousin-wife.

How can we know if the AI is intelligence unless we can prove it is horny?

She’s a different kind of stupid I guess.

She’s going to get a dozen book deals from conservative publishers. She’ll land a talking head spot on FOX News. She’ll hook up with Steven Mnuchin’s cousin or get Baron Trump’s baby in her or just marries a party mega-donor. Maybe she runs for AG in Virginia in 2029 and rides in on a Republican reactionary wave after President Pete Buttigieg shits the bed. If nothing else, they’ll be posting jerk-off material of her on Grok for the next twenty years. I’m sure there’s a way to monetize that.

If you think that’s stupid, you’re thinking she’s playing a different game. Her card is punched.

Okay, but in their defense, Lindsey Halligan is an absolute smoke-show. She’s going to make a great replacement for Jeanine Pirro in another two years.

Poutine backed Trump’s campaign

It’s so weird to see guys like the Mercers and the Adelsons put up hundreds of millions of dollars in support of Trump. FFS, the Qatars donated more money via the Kushner back door. Nobody seems to give a shit. It’s always Putin, Putin, Putin. Like, the entire domestic O&G industry is backing this guy, but nobody seems to give a shit about Exxon or Chevron or Energy Transfer LP.

The Nixon situation is a drop in the ocean

My Brother In Christ, please at least pretend to learn about the Vietnam War, the Chilean Coup, or the 1971 campaign to conduct a nationwide pogrom against brown voters and liberal organizers under the guise of the Drug War.

Nixon isn’t a drop in the ocean, he’s the mushroom cloud in the distance. You’re only now feeling the shockwave and the radioactive burn.

Asking my TikTok nephew for a loan to cover rent this month and I have to listen to him rap at me for ten minutes before handing over the cash in crypto.

Will Smith is officially banned from attending the Oscars for 10 years. He’s also lost the ability to produce new projects, with his IMDB credits drying up almost entirely after 2022.

One of the only people in Hollywood who you might seriously claim faced consequences for deplorable behavior. We can only speculate as to why.