They say that an adequate leader studies tactics, that a skilled leader studies strategy, and that a masterful leader studies logistics. No word on where a leader who studies PE fits in, but I'm sure it's near the top.

Man, I'm on the edge of my seat trying to figure out who the US is going to war with. Venezuela looks pretty hot right now, but I can tell Trump is still horny for Iran. But he also wants back into Afghanistan, apparently. And then we can't forget Panama. And Canada. Oh, and Norway, of course...

I think the difference between the two parties is that while both Democrats are Republicans would throw you into a meat grinder for a dollar, only the Republicans would throw you into a meat grinder to take a dollar away from everyone else.

I find it entertaining how backwards endorsements work in reality. Like, do we expect that anyone will show up at the polls to vote for mayor of New York and their decision on whether to vote for Zoran will be predicated on whether person X endorsed him? Doesn't feel likely to me. What seems...

The establishment is mad because guns are for murdering children, not advocates of child murder.

Okay, I think the funniest possible outcome here is that the killer turns out to be Paul Pelosi. Fingers crossed!

I guess my feelings on the matter amount to this: You cannot condemn political violence without condemning Charlie Kirk. To do the first is to do the latter.

Oops, had another non-approved murder. You can always tell when the elites actually care, eh?

A video game is basically someone using a computer to remotely hack your brain and cause you to repeatedly perform repetitive motions in return for imaginary rewards.

James O'Keefe made attempt after attempt to trick and secretly record Democrats, failing at every turn. Getting caught almost immediately time after time. Then, for the first time, he goes after a Republican and instantly succeeds beyond anything he's ever done.

Outstanding news that should be shared.

Okay, movie idea. It's called "41 - The part The Bible left out." It's a gritty survival horror set in the woods, after a group of children mock an old man's bald head, and God sends a bear to kill them. The lead is a young girl from some barbarian culture, who evades and eventually defeats the...

If photons are their own antiparticle, does that mean that antimatter would just look like regular matter?

If Trump is serious about wanting to sell more American food to other countries, a good first step might be to ask his DHS head to stop telling everyone it is toxic.

If people are really worried about the possibility of population collapse, I feel like before trying to force people to have more kids, a good first step would be lowering infant mortality rates. Like, that would be faster and easier than a social engineering solution, be uncontroversially...

I think a big mistake people make looking at American politics is that they assume that the Democrats see the Republicans as their opponents. In reality, the Democrats see the voters as their opponents, and the Republicans as a punishment to be visited upon those who oppose them too effectively.

Back in the 90s, everyone talked about EMP weapons, but now when they are a direct answer to so many of the issues facing our future, silence. EMP weapons are the answer to AI, to crypto, to all of the tech bullshit that is ruining our lives and our world.

I think that anti-ICE protesters should probably dress as ICE agents, it would make for better TV. They have dispensed with any kind of official insignias or personal identification, and they already hide their faces. It is very easy to be visually indistinguishable from them.

Since sea shanties employ the voice primarily as a rhythm instrument rather than a melodic one, I think it is more accurate to consider them to be a form of rapping rather than singing.

Arguing about Biden's presidency is so frustrating. It's like we are all sitting around a sewer assessing the turds, and I point to one of them and say "I think that is the best shit here," and people start arguing "but it's gross, it stinks, how can you like it?"

It's kind of messed up that Elon Musk is objectively worse at going to the moon than NASA was half a century ago. Like, he has personally set America back so far it is insane. And not talking about Doge, just talking about his decades of sucking up public money and wasting it achieving nothing.

I know he's done a lot of other bad things, but the destruction that Elon Musk has wrought on 80's retro-futurist aesthetics is perhaps his least talked-about crime. Like, they were due to be cool any time now, and I was looking forward to it, and now they have Musk stink all over them.

I think a lot of people under-estimate the value of owning stock in a company you don't like. If you own even a single share in a company, that company has a duty to you, and failure to fulfill that duty is actionable. And that duty is to maximize your returns. Now, normally, that is a bad thing...

Vaccination is one of those things that seem like they support authoritarianism. Like, polio was wiped out by having the military go door to door, forcibly vaccinating people. It worked, polio was beaten. By contrast, COVID is probably with us forever. People were given a choice, and they...

Under capitalism, there is one surefire solution to every problem - just punish rich people for the issue until they stop causing it.

We can now be completely certain that the US government has not made contact with aliens, because if they had then Trump would have rolled them out to the public to distract from his Epstein association by now.

Isn't it fucked up that we know the solutions to the majority of the problems that plague day to day life, but because the solutions that are easy and cheap and effective would be inconvenient for, like, 1% of the population, we just accept that the problems are unsolvable instead.

For anyone not keeping track, Trump has publicly stated that Epstein liked girls even younger than him, and also that the youngest girl he would have sex with is 12.

A good shorthand to determine if an idea is good and would benefit society is to see who is criticizing it as socialism. If conservatives are doing it, the idea is probably good. If liberals are joining in, it is probably great.

I think the question of voting for centrist liberals is a lot like dealing with a hostage situation. Like, ideally, you should never give money to kidnappers. But, refusing can mean having your loved ones brutally killed, and that has to have some weight in your calculus.

"I didn't vote for this!" -- people who voted for exactly this, but didn't think through to the point where it affected them.

Has anyone noticed how nobody every suggests racial profiling as a way of finding child molesters, even though the people who talk the loudest about wanting to catch child molesters are also the people who advocate most strongly for racial profiling? Seems weird is all I'm saying.

Does anyone else get the impression that the reason the Democrats don't effectively oppose the Republicans is because they feel that Republican policies are the punishment Americans deserve for failing to support them enough?

A rarely mentioned fact in modern discussions of anti-Semitism is that the Palestinian people are, in fact, Semites. Attempting to exterminate them is definitionally anti-Semitic.

People are always quick to repeat the Bible verse about "whatever you do to the least of these, you do to me," but they never expand on that logic with "The Republicans plan to feed Jesus to alligators 65,000 times."

Has that "It Can Happen Here" podcast changed its name to "It Is Happening Here" yet?

Sometimes you argue with people, and after a while you realize that they would be defending making Hitler arch-chancellor of Germany as a necessary compromise in the face of the failure of the communists to fall in line behind the social democrats.

If your Democracy doesn't have recall provisions, it isn't a real Democracy, sorry.

The best thing about Jesus was how much he hated rich people, if church had focused more on that stuff and less on hating sex, maybe I would be a Christian today instead of an atheist. Some food for thought for all those pastors out there with shrinking congregations.

I think it is important to note that billionaires avoiding taxes is not about them keeping the money. That money makes no real difference to their life. It is about preventing the money from benefitting poor people, and thus making them harder to exploit.

People often talk as though getting rid of a government department made the government less powerful, but that is ridiculous. The whole function of a government department is to narrow the focus of government power, to limit its uses to constructive ones. If it isn't doing that, it needs fixing...

It's amazing how many videos there are of the form "I voted for Trump, and I love most of what he is doing, but in the one specific area where I actually know what I'm talking about, he is wrong."

I am curious how flexible the pardon power is. Like, if I were to somehow become president, despite not being an American, could I issue a pardon for "any crime or crimes committed by any citizen against a recipient of a pardon from the previous president"...

I am pretty sure that the real distinction between 'hard' and 'soft' sciences is whether elites prefer to accept or ignore their pronouncements.

Okay, I hate to do this, but I agree with Trump on taxing foreign investment. Foreign investment is literally selling your future for a quick hit of cash today. It is literally just taking out a large loan that the lender gets to spend, but you have to repay.

Private property is just the continuation of armed robbery by other means. That's why everyone with a theory of private property co-incidentally theorizes that private property only became a thing after they got done murdering or dispossessing everyone who lived on the land they wanted.

The hardest part of all this is that we all know that if liberals regain control, there will be no consequences. They will say "Oh, we need to look forward, not backwards. There is no place for revanchism here, we need to focus on fixing things." And so the seeds of the next tyrant will be planted.

Imagine being the richest man in the world, and currently when people talk about you it is mostly about how you blamed your kid for a black eye you got from a coworker you attacked after he called you out for being full of shit. And also sometimes about how much you suck at video games.

My issue with this whole TACO thing is that it is calling Trump out for doing the rational thing. The tariffs are bad. Even pro-tariff economists don't like the way they are being implemented. The bad thing he should be criticised for is doing the tariffs, not backing off them.

I think a lot of America's problems are because many Americans can't distinguish between intelligence and dishonesty.