If Taiwan is invaded, all the chip fabs will be blown up by the Taiwanese and the world will enter a global depression. This stupid motherfucker is going to doom us all.

Paula would rather we do nothing, apparently. Such brave leadership.

And the response to “but future administrations might come after you!” Is:

Ahh yes, famously the power of the purse rests with the president.

The oil companies need a guarantee they won’t be left holding the bag if this doesn’t work out for them. Otherwise they won’t invest.

Unfashionable leaves of delusion here.

This place is turning into a cesspool. Echo chambers are bad, and there’s no neutral space left. Fuck.

ChatGPT writing Platner’s speeches?

Levels of delusion I can hardly fathom. Trump is an aberration, this military operation is not. Biden probably would have done it too. This doesn’t mean I am personally cool with it, just that no president will ever be under threat of impeachment for this type of thing.

It would have been irresponsible not to check with the oil execs given the plan. This is like complaining about someone sharpening their axe when the actual crime was cutting down a tree they didn’t own. It’s entirely beside the point and to be expected.

This is the biggest problem now. He’s emboldened because of the success of the strike and will go looking for nails to hit with his shiny new hammer. But the MAGA bros aren’t going to be happy when their cocaine quadruples in price lmao. Trump really doesn’t understand his uneducated constituency?

This is what I am talking about. Ukraine and Poland were extensive land invasions with significant civilian casualties and plans for genocide. This is edgelord level bullshit that minimizes horrific tragedies at scale and does not compare in any meaningful sense. Shit analysis for the vibes.

Ahh so they do have a backchannel and a deal. Wild. Was Rodriguez the CIA source?

The indictment was from 2020. I am sure they have evidence. If not it will be hilarious when he goes free and gets deported to Venezuela.

He wants to liberate Cuba and sees a vessel in Trump to do that. I think it’s just that simple for Marco.

It’s a terrible time to have a foreign policy and international relations background. Everyone talking all this shit they don’t understand. Legality. Precedent. Differences between this and other conflicts. Everyone claiming this is somehow uniquely evil from Trump when Biden would’ve done it too.

This is funny, but we really don’t need to whitewash the Chavistas because Trump sucks. Their crimes are far worse and more brutal than what Trump has done! (So far anyway)

They fall prey to believing they can control outcomes. This makes them believe they can act in a morally consequentialist way. The absolute moral wrong of invading a country is subservient to the greater normative outcome that these elites believe they can impose. They are not always wrong though.

They have a pretext they have explained clearly. If you aren’t aware of it then you need to expand your information sources. This isn’t to defend the pretext, but it does exist, and they are putting him through federal courts so they presumably have evidence on drug and gun charges.

It strikes me that this looks very different from past blundered invasions. It took months to capture Saddam. They rolled a huge ground force into Baghdad. They fired the Iraqi army. If they can transfer control to a legitimate actor in short order, this could be seen as a huge success. Will they?

Taiwan is not ruled by a dictator, does not have hyperinflation, invites foreign investment, supplies the most advanced technology to the rest of the world and will be defended by the US because an invasion of Taiwan would destroy economies worldwide. These are very important distinguishing points!

This is how you do it. Highly salient.

This. Never. This is not to argue that they shouldn’t, but advocacy is unlikely to make any difference on that front. Better to spend your energy demanding accountability for direct crimes on US soil.

The action in Venezuela is entirely consistent with the Washington Consensus that elites have supported my entire life. No one is bringing Trump to “justice” over Venezuela. His direct crimes are far more salient to our culture in terms of demands for justice IMO.

Yes, there is no accountability for foreign military actions taken under paper thin or just made up legal cover. This has always been true and will continue to be as long as we feel secure to fuck with other countries. It won’t change for any number of reasons. Obama did it too!

It won’t be Trump running Venezuela, it will be the econ department from the university of Chicago.

Because it’s not about *taking* the oil. It’s about getting it flowing, and Saudis already took extensive foreign development from the US to jumpstart their petro infrastructure in the 1930s.

Note the boot on a person’s face. Totally normal and not unhinged at all.

The sneaking suspicion she’s gonna pull an FDR and get into the Oval on the basis of AI-driven unemployment. "They are unanimous in their hate for me—and I welcome their hatred"

THIS. 100%. There should have been absolutely no delay.

This nonsense post has more likes than Tyler has followers. The incentives for anti AI sloganeering are off the charts.

Still remember seeing this band on the college circuit my freshman year. The bassist played an upright! But I gotta vote for Cake:

Oh no. I don’t even want to look lmao…

To be fair, no one thinks Oracle has the juice to win in this space. Marketing and legal departments notwithstanding of course…

They aren’t smart enough to even know they are supposed to manufacture consent.

I’m convinced that some proportion of people out there don’t realize how easily other people can catch feelings. Not all people experience people in the same way! No one can help this. We are all prisoners of our biochemistry.

First time parents of newborns absolutely do not know what they are doing. This is actually a really great use case for AI! This fact is lost on Ken because he hates AI and is therefore engaged in motivated reasoning such that he pretends first time parents “always knew how to” raise an infant. 🤦‍♂️

While I love the entreaty to keep things weird, deciding what to do or like based on social vibes is not a virtue but a self imposed cage. The computer is cool if you think it’s cool!

He looks like a big boy who got just what he wanted for his birthday!

This is probably fake nonsense, but the reactions are real, and depressing. Everyone looks like the asshole here. The anti tech left is not ready for what’s coming and apparently has a poor grasp of the law (or just doesn’t care?). Everyone needs to chill the fuck out. Vigilanteism is actually bad!

They should be allowed to own index funds, muni bond funds, etc. (securities that don’t give you insider edge) and nothing else. They’ll be just fine.

Totally hinged. As someone in healthcare AI I just have to shake my head at the ignorant luddite bandwagoning and conflating of all things AI. Claims of theft are cover for fear of irrelevance. These same people were celebrating Napster and decrying the evil record companies when it was convenient.

Buttigieg and Newsom are both extremely talented, this doesn’t surprise me a bit.

Completely predictable consequence and it won’t stop here.

I doubt Matty is suggesting we eliminate rules around things like pollution. There is in fact plenty of irrational overregulation driving up the cost and timelines for new builds. Nimbys love hiding behind environmental reviews.

The people we gotta reach, who aren’t on this website, are more influenced by identity affinity than by policies. Newsom could be the shiny package that could deliver progressive policies to DC. Is this a trauma response on my part? Probably… I could be very wrong, luckily it’s not my decision.

He didn’t think the leopards would eat *their* faces? Come the fuck on….

Wow he’s just as much of a nepo baby moron as Trump. Birds of a feather.

I’m not defending Hanania and have no idea if his supposed conversion (from vile racist to shitty conservative) is real. But how can anyone be invited to change their mind and achieve any form of redemption if we disallow it a priori? I do believe people can learn and grow. I know I have.

Imagine the arrogance of coming to another country as an immigrant, becoming a citizen, and then having the audacity to publicly say you're ready to destroy their constitution. He should have lost his citizenship awhile ago.