This is the sort of thing you get when you elect an insane moron with the emotional maturity and attention span of a toddler.

There’s a shit event horizon.

There’s always a certain amount of shit-quality posting, but when the conmunity is relatively small, the shitty posters are on their own against a group that doesn’t like them, so they can’t make a really strong or long-lasting inpression.

But as the community grows, the number of shitty posters also grows, and it reaches a point at which there are enough of them encouraging each other that the opposition no longer matters. And then fairly quickly, the quality posters will say “Fuck this - this forum sucks,” and go somewhere else.

And the shitty posters are all rhati left.

This should be his “Let them eat cake” - the quote that goes down in history to neatly illustrate what a loathsome piece of self-absorbed shit he really is.

It’s cynically amusingly ironically pretty much exactly the old cliche about the advent of the automobile putting buggy whip manufacturers out of business.

We’re exactly at that point, and official US policy, under Trump, is to discourage automobiles and subsidize buggy whips. And even a moderately bright child can see how that’s going to work out.

But children have the advantage of not being blinkered by a lifetime of compromises, betrayals, excuses and lies in pursuit of wealth and power.

You say that as if one precludes the other.

Just your daily reminder that the President of the United States is a deranged lunatic.

This is another of those moments when we really need a politician with a spine to stand up and clearly tell Trump to go fuck himself.

Preferably in those exact words.

To further punish Tim Walz for saying mean things about the Toddler-in-chief.

I have to push back a bit that the core of the proper definition of libertarianism is freedom from the state.

I’m not sure why you feel a need to push back against something I didn’t say.

Depends on how it’s defined.

Current libertarianism is just rebranded reactionary conservatism.

Classically though, “libertarian” simply referred to someone who advocated for maximum individual liberty and minimum state intervention. The term first gained popularity in the US in the wake of the New Deal, when the term “liberal,” which had up until then referred to that position of maximum individual liberty and minimum state intervention, was coopted by leftist authoritarians. Since the classical liberals needed a new term, they shifted to “libertarian.” And notably, at that point, libertarians were at least as likely to be left-wing as right, with the two groups merely splitting on which specific government services should be counted among the minimum.

That started to go wrong when the Libertarian party was established, and finished going wrong when the Tea Party was transformed from a series of protests against the Wall Street bailouts to a traveling carnival of hate.

And there’s also the political compass sense of “libertarian” as simply the opposite of authoritarian, by which I’m as “libertarian” as it’s possible to be. It should be noted though that in recent years, mostly through meme communities, even that conception of “libertarian” has been increasingly characterized as more of an alternate authoritarianism.

So there’s a conception back behind each use of the term “libertarian” that is at least close to mine (I’m actually an anarchist). But IMO not coincidentally, the term has been in all cases warped to refer to some form of authoritarianism, which I unequivocally oppose.

Um…yeah. About ten seconds of critical thinking also shows that language is not the same as intelligence.

Imagine - unprecedented corruption in the DOJ of the most corrupt administration in US history.

Yes - Americans should be enraged - but they should be enraged every minute of every day, as they look upon a grotesquely corrupt administration in which a vindictive narcissist, compulsive liar, fragile egomaniac and raging sociopath who’s marching the entire country toward self-destruction to satisfy his wildly misdirected and literally insane need for privilege and acclaim has assembled an unprecedented array of entirely corrupt, amoral, unprincipled, self-deluding shitweasels who can and will carry out his every whim, no matter how much harm it does to how many.

The real tragedy of the US isn’t that Trump and his scumbag supporters are actively destroying the country and everything it ever claimed to stand for, but that so many Americans are standing idly by, or even cheering them on, as they do it.

I really don’t like Newsom much, but I have to admire his Trump-trolling skill.

McDonald’s CEO Chris Kempczinski said the “two-tier economy” was a major factor in the fast-food giant’s decision to revive its “Extra Value Meal” combos last month.

“Traffic for lower-income consumers is down double digits,” Kempczinski told CNBC in September. “We needed to step in.”

Cynically unsurprising that they decided they needed to “step in” by offering a menu of lower priced garbage instead of by paying their executives less and their employees more.

Clearly the underlying philosophy here isn’t “let’s respond to the increasing wealth gap by working for a solution,” but “let’s respond to the increasing wealth gap by figuring out ways to continue taking advantage of poor people even as they keep getting poorer.”

It wasn’t that long ago that I was generally too cynical. Now I can barely even keep up.

I don’t think that internet technological development is even relevant.

Internet sociological, philosophical, cultural and psychological development is about at the level of the Dark Ages, and that’s the problem that needs to be addressed.

Um… no. I’m an anarchist.

And you sound like a helicopter parent who’s balanced on that fine line between hysterical tears and explosive rage because somebody at the playground said something mean about their darling USSR.

It didn’t. And I’m an anarchist.

If you’re going to rely on ad hominems, you should at least try to make them somewhat accurate and relevant.

Stalin was the leader of the world’s first socialist state

Socialist state is a contradiction in terms.

Stalin was CEO of USSR Incorporated.

Funny that this is the exact same “logic” the libs use to try to defend running a pro-zionist, pro-corporate, pro-billionaire slimeball in the last US presidential election - “But Trump was worse!”

The problem is that the ban is one-sided, and generally boils down to “the oppressed are disarmed but the oppressors are not.”