2126 pts ยท March 19, 2026
Apparently stupidity does not always bring losing and death.
Tobias Funke, M.D., ANALRAPIST
Exactly, the idea is that people are free to make a profit from doing things that offer value to other people... and anyone can come along and compete if they have a better idea. What people are calling "capitalism" now is technofascism/technofeudalism, where powerful criminals are above the law, robbing everyone, and blocking any type of free market that might allow someone else to compete with them.
More like if your entire personality and identity is disliking pizza, or liking pizza, either way you are focused on pizza to the exclusion of other things. Both are an obsession with pizza. From the perspective of someone that doesn't think much about pizza, they seem pretty similar. And you can bet that people often jump from one of those groups to the other because both groups share a unique personality trait, that is something you won't see often in people that aren't in either group.
People that feel the need to refute religion and identify as atheists misunderstand or cannot comprehend what religion is actually for, and how it actually works, and they try to refute or reject the simplified version of these religions taught to idiots and children, without understanding that this isn't how intelligent adults that follow the religion actually understand or practice it.
The fact is that just about everyone I've met that calls themselves atheist has made anti-Christianity their entire identity and personality, in the most obnoxious way possible, and I want absolutely nothing to do with that. I also think they are delusional about what Christianity (or any religion) actually is, intelligent religious people don't take it literally, they understand that "spiritual truths" are not "literal truths" - religion is more of a psychological tool than literal "truth."
I'm agnostic because organized religion is something I have zero interest in ever thinking about, or engaging with, even to oppose it, it's just not worth my time. Being "anti-religion" is not part of my personal identity, I haven no beef with religion, and understand how it works for some people, but it's just not for me personally.
That doesn't seem to be the case to me, lots of "atheists" have made being specifically "anti-christian" practically their entire personality and identity, and are aggressively evangelical and dogmatic about it, in the same way the most annoying Christians can be. As an agnostic person that has zero interest in organized religions of any kind, extreme and obsessive hatred of Christianity in particular seems to me, to be essentially a particularly obnoxious and irrational form of Christianity.
In "neo-reactionary/dark enlightenment" circles that drive MAGA strategy, they openly discuss their belief that only wealthy white men should be allowed to vote, and even then only as long as they maintain absolute loyalty to the neo-reactionary political movement and leaders.
They sort of do- it's more that they think people that don't fully support them aren't legitimate people that should have the right to vote, human rights, etc. Anyone that votes for someone other than them are, according to them, by definition "criminals," "terrorists," "illegals," etc. that hate and are trying to destroy America, and therefore these votes are fraudulent and illegitimate. Deeper than a rejection of democracy, they fundamentally reject the right of other humans to have agency.
That standard doesn't quite apply in this unprecedented situation where the perpetrator has seized control of all 3 branches of government, and is using the full force of the most powerful organization in history to protect him, hide evidence, and intimidate witnesses. The fact is, there are at least 28 women that have come forward about sexual abuse from Trump, many before he even ran for office. He was best friends with the most notorious child rapist in history for years. Trump rapes kids.
damnit, came here to make that same joke
Testa's boat is the most seaworthy boat design I know of, little physical comfort there, but he was never in any real danger. It's heavy welded aluminum plate and literally indestructible. He easily weathered an infamous ocean storm that took down a number of massive freighters. He even fell asleep at sea in a hurricane and was washed ashore in massive surf, and the boat was completely undamaged.
If these guys could enjoy anything at all in life other than accumulating money for it's own sake, they'd already be doing it, and would never have become billionaires in the first place. They'll never be able to enjoy being on the boat, so after a few tries why use it again? People go to sea without money if that's what they want bad enough.
True, but having an unfair system that is being manipulated and election fraud are still completely different things. It fits the MAGA/republican narrative to shift the discussion towards election fraud and away from the systematic design problems that legally give them an unfair advantage. It fits their narrative that they win fair and square, but if they lose it's always fraud.
"To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest. Otherwise, you are doomed to a routine traverse, the kind known to yachtsmen who play with their boats at sea... "cruising" it is called. Voyaging belongs to seamen, and to the wanderers of the world who cannot, or will not, fit in. If you are contemplating a voyage and you have the means, abandon the venture until your fortunes change. Only then will you know what the sea is all about." -Hayden
As a small boat ocean sailor, these kind of boats are boring as shit. You can't see any wildlife from your mile high deck, you're pampered like a helpless baby and not experiencing any real challenge or developing real hard-won maritime skills. Even if I was a billionaire, I'd rather be like Serge Testa who sailed around the world in a homemade 12 foot boat and now gives talks about his adventure, than Zuck who probably screams for his support staff to flush his marine head for him.
I'm not going to stop doing the right thing just because other people don't. I'm a parent, and anything other than doing absolutely everything I can to leave my kid a better future isn't an option. If people like Zuck don't care, it means those of us who do care need to push that much harder to both set an example, and catalyze real cultural and political change, period.
It "makes them" corrupt in the sense that it logically implies/proves to us (observers) that they are also corrupt. Makes in this context doesn't imply anything about the underlying cause of the corruption, but the result of a deduction.
That's pretty much how power has always worked, the people with actual power set up a puppet/fall guy, and manage to stay in power behind the scenes even when it seems to be changing hands. Trump is the perfect puppet/fall guy because he never wanted any real power, as a narcissist he is content with simply appearing powerful to other idiots.
Curtis Yarvin, who wrote the blueprint for Trump to dismantle democracy literally wrote out his ideas on how to take guns away from the population as part of his playbook, in his public online blogs. His idea is to require all guns to have a device that allows them to be wirelessly deactivated by the government.
This is why I still only use 1950s vacuum tube computers, none of that WOKE transistor BS for me. Some WOKE scientist tried to convince me that my cells have transmembrane proteins, but I shut that down real quick. Maybe your cells buddy, not mine.
blue heeler mix?
Gonna take a wild guess after taking in this entire scene, and say this has got to be Florida
You can tell this is how RFK and his entire HHS thinks. With the "MAHA report" it hallucinated studies supporting their nonsense conclusions, so it is clear they are producing "scientific" reports using AI, by instructing the AI what final conclusions to draw, and asking it to "find" the evidence to support their existing (false) conclusion. All of MAGA lives in a delusional world where reality is whatever they wish it was.
It's the name of the capitol city of Baja California.
You are right- somehow I didn't see the few frames at the end that give a better view, they definitely broke off a huge chunk of the oil pan. It looks like both the coolant and engine oil are flowing out.
That's not what that is, the E30 325 oil pans are right in the front center and vulnerable, but they have fins that don't look like that, and the cast aluminum is too thick and brittle to twist up like that, they'll just crack. What you are seeing there is probably a chunk of the steel sheet metal frame rail under the radiator.
The fluid leaking out is coolant from damage to the bottom of the radiator, it's not oil despite looking brown. In older German cars people often use an HOAT antifreeze, which is orangish yellow when new, and turns brown like this quickly, especially when there is some rust flakes in it. Could very well have broke the oil pan also, but that isn't what the fluid is.
He identified a tiny subset of the problem and convinced himself it was the whole problem, the part that can be understood through the eyes of an economist, without realizing how important the other parts are to understand if you wanted to come up with solutions that work.
Apparently stupidity does not always bring losing and death.
Tobias Funke, M.D., ANALRAPIST
Exactly, the idea is that people are free to make a profit from doing things that offer value to other people... and anyone can come along and compete if they have a better idea. What people are calling "capitalism" now is technofascism/technofeudalism, where powerful criminals are above the law, robbing everyone, and blocking any type of free market that might allow someone else to compete with them.
More like if your entire personality and identity is disliking pizza, or liking pizza, either way you are focused on pizza to the exclusion of other things. Both are an obsession with pizza. From the perspective of someone that doesn't think much about pizza, they seem pretty similar. And you can bet that people often jump from one of those groups to the other because both groups share a unique personality trait, that is something you won't see often in people that aren't in either group.
People that feel the need to refute religion and identify as atheists misunderstand or cannot comprehend what religion is actually for, and how it actually works, and they try to refute or reject the simplified version of these religions taught to idiots and children, without understanding that this isn't how intelligent adults that follow the religion actually understand or practice it.
The fact is that just about everyone I've met that calls themselves atheist has made anti-Christianity their entire identity and personality, in the most obnoxious way possible, and I want absolutely nothing to do with that. I also think they are delusional about what Christianity (or any religion) actually is, intelligent religious people don't take it literally, they understand that "spiritual truths" are not "literal truths" - religion is more of a psychological tool than literal "truth."
I'm agnostic because organized religion is something I have zero interest in ever thinking about, or engaging with, even to oppose it, it's just not worth my time. Being "anti-religion" is not part of my personal identity, I haven no beef with religion, and understand how it works for some people, but it's just not for me personally.
That doesn't seem to be the case to me, lots of "atheists" have made being specifically "anti-christian" practically their entire personality and identity, and are aggressively evangelical and dogmatic about it, in the same way the most annoying Christians can be. As an agnostic person that has zero interest in organized religions of any kind, extreme and obsessive hatred of Christianity in particular seems to me, to be essentially a particularly obnoxious and irrational form of Christianity.
In "neo-reactionary/dark enlightenment" circles that drive MAGA strategy, they openly discuss their belief that only wealthy white men should be allowed to vote, and even then only as long as they maintain absolute loyalty to the neo-reactionary political movement and leaders.
They sort of do- it's more that they think people that don't fully support them aren't legitimate people that should have the right to vote, human rights, etc. Anyone that votes for someone other than them are, according to them, by definition "criminals," "terrorists," "illegals," etc. that hate and are trying to destroy America, and therefore these votes are fraudulent and illegitimate. Deeper than a rejection of democracy, they fundamentally reject the right of other humans to have agency.
That standard doesn't quite apply in this unprecedented situation where the perpetrator has seized control of all 3 branches of government, and is using the full force of the most powerful organization in history to protect him, hide evidence, and intimidate witnesses. The fact is, there are at least 28 women that have come forward about sexual abuse from Trump, many before he even ran for office. He was best friends with the most notorious child rapist in history for years. Trump rapes kids.
damnit, came here to make that same joke
Testa's boat is the most seaworthy boat design I know of, little physical comfort there, but he was never in any real danger. It's heavy welded aluminum plate and literally indestructible. He easily weathered an infamous ocean storm that took down a number of massive freighters. He even fell asleep at sea in a hurricane and was washed ashore in massive surf, and the boat was completely undamaged.
If these guys could enjoy anything at all in life other than accumulating money for it's own sake, they'd already be doing it, and would never have become billionaires in the first place. They'll never be able to enjoy being on the boat, so after a few tries why use it again? People go to sea without money if that's what they want bad enough.
True, but having an unfair system that is being manipulated and election fraud are still completely different things. It fits the MAGA/republican narrative to shift the discussion towards election fraud and away from the systematic design problems that legally give them an unfair advantage. It fits their narrative that they win fair and square, but if they lose it's always fraud.
"To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest. Otherwise, you are doomed to a routine traverse, the kind known to yachtsmen who play with their boats at sea... "cruising" it is called. Voyaging belongs to seamen, and to the wanderers of the world who cannot, or will not, fit in. If you are contemplating a voyage and you have the means, abandon the venture until your fortunes change. Only then will you know what the sea is all about." -Hayden
As a small boat ocean sailor, these kind of boats are boring as shit. You can't see any wildlife from your mile high deck, you're pampered like a helpless baby and not experiencing any real challenge or developing real hard-won maritime skills. Even if I was a billionaire, I'd rather be like Serge Testa who sailed around the world in a homemade 12 foot boat and now gives talks about his adventure, than Zuck who probably screams for his support staff to flush his marine head for him.
I'm not going to stop doing the right thing just because other people don't. I'm a parent, and anything other than doing absolutely everything I can to leave my kid a better future isn't an option. If people like Zuck don't care, it means those of us who do care need to push that much harder to both set an example, and catalyze real cultural and political change, period.
It "makes them" corrupt in the sense that it logically implies/proves to us (observers) that they are also corrupt. Makes in this context doesn't imply anything about the underlying cause of the corruption, but the result of a deduction.
That's pretty much how power has always worked, the people with actual power set up a puppet/fall guy, and manage to stay in power behind the scenes even when it seems to be changing hands. Trump is the perfect puppet/fall guy because he never wanted any real power, as a narcissist he is content with simply appearing powerful to other idiots.
Curtis Yarvin, who wrote the blueprint for Trump to dismantle democracy literally wrote out his ideas on how to take guns away from the population as part of his playbook, in his public online blogs. His idea is to require all guns to have a device that allows them to be wirelessly deactivated by the government.
This is why I still only use 1950s vacuum tube computers, none of that WOKE transistor BS for me. Some WOKE scientist tried to convince me that my cells have transmembrane proteins, but I shut that down real quick. Maybe your cells buddy, not mine.
blue heeler mix?
Gonna take a wild guess after taking in this entire scene, and say this has got to be Florida
You can tell this is how RFK and his entire HHS thinks. With the "MAHA report" it hallucinated studies supporting their nonsense conclusions, so it is clear they are producing "scientific" reports using AI, by instructing the AI what final conclusions to draw, and asking it to "find" the evidence to support their existing (false) conclusion. All of MAGA lives in a delusional world where reality is whatever they wish it was.
It's the name of the capitol city of Baja California.
You are right- somehow I didn't see the few frames at the end that give a better view, they definitely broke off a huge chunk of the oil pan. It looks like both the coolant and engine oil are flowing out.
That's not what that is, the E30 325 oil pans are right in the front center and vulnerable, but they have fins that don't look like that, and the cast aluminum is too thick and brittle to twist up like that, they'll just crack. What you are seeing there is probably a chunk of the steel sheet metal frame rail under the radiator.
The fluid leaking out is coolant from damage to the bottom of the radiator, it's not oil despite looking brown. In older German cars people often use an HOAT antifreeze, which is orangish yellow when new, and turns brown like this quickly, especially when there is some rust flakes in it. Could very well have broke the oil pan also, but that isn't what the fluid is.
He identified a tiny subset of the problem and convinced himself it was the whole problem, the part that can be understood through the eyes of an economist, without realizing how important the other parts are to understand if you wanted to come up with solutions that work.