Oceans Yet to Burn

collapsedsquid

With Newt fucking Gingrich complaining about Mueller overstepping his investigatory mandate, it’s beginning to seem like we’re reaching levels of hypocrisy that are ridiculous. It feels like it’s exceeding that which can be explained by generic ill intent, it feels like the universe is mocking us.

mitigatedchaos

They’re all hypocrites, every last one of them, and in this moment, I am furious

Not because of some fake Newt Gingrich’s hypocrisy, but because our nation is eviscerated by our own political class’s incompetence

shtpost or is it

argumate

Victoria Police claim they’ve lost 117 police cars to ramming attacks in the past twelve months, which is way higher than I would have expected.

mitigatedchaos

Wow, that’s going to get expensive quickly. It’s essentially an organized attack on the capabilities of the police and the state in that area.

Anonymous asked:

What is your time zone?

~~I have evolved beyond such petty, mortal concerns.~~

I’m out-of-phase with my home timezone, but rest assured, I am a true North American and not a paid poster operating on behalf of the Australian Hegemony.

shtpost 私 moi anons

Anonymous asked:

Why do you think China is about to enter a period of decline?

Well, kind of. They have some serious challenges ahead in the 21st century which exceed those of America’s.

The rivers running red with industrial runoff? The gradual slowdown in economic activity that the PRC has depended on to remain in power? The continued significant corruption, debt, and malinvestment such as the ghost cities? But the biggest one is, of course, the after-effects of the One Child Policy, which dramatically increases the ratio of older dependents to workers, and puts more economic pressure on young people, making family formation difficult/unaffordable.

China can potentially rise to meet all of these challenges, but it will not be easy, and the stress may break the PRC government and result in a civil war.

To do so, it may be necessary to transform their style of government into something new, but if they go the direction I’d go if I were them? That may be one helluva fight for dominance of the 21st century.

(Not sure when I got this ask. In fact, I can’t even remember when in recent times I mentioned this about China. It is important to remember in this and other considerations that the Chinese are not stupid, contrary to what the outsourcing American corporations assured us with “but the good jobs will stay here!”)

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Programmers of rattumb, how much truth is there to the rumor that many programmers can’t program, or that they cannot cross programming languages without specific instruction, or pick up new language concepts on their own?

(@argumate, and maybe @nuclearspaceheater and @the-grey-tribe?)

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elementarynationalism

San Francisco: “Hey, housing is way too expensive. Do you think we should change our laws? Maybe keep some of the safety rules but loosen up some other regulations? Maybe we could copy the rules from some place with high safety standards but also...

Source: paxamericana shtpost policy

mutant-aesthetic

jesus fucking christ, some poor soul shared David Hines’s debut article on Jacobite on /pol/ and the users are really going out of their way to prove his point about the right being incredibly disorganized and ill-prepared for any actual happening

mitigatedchaos

What if people are not stupid because of political ideology, but political ideology is stupid because of people?

…this thought is going to keep me up at night.

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