Baffled European

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  • Racists are just idiots

    It’s time to take a stand against racism. The president signed an orange order back in February to address a brewing humanitarian crisis. This is the atrocious way that some whites have lost out in South Africa.

    It breaks the heart. To see these fine specimens, descendants of the great Aryan race, reduced to their present state of online influencers and lifestyle coaches. To make amends for this historical slight, the USA is chartering a jet to fly 49 across the Atlantic, where they can go back to the good old days of blacks being second-class citizens.

    The South African government treats this as the silly political point-scoring that it is. But freedom of choice and all that – they can go if they want to. Probably it will be a relief that they no longer have to deal with a bunch of pampered whiners.

    OK, I have a couple of questions.

    First, why is this necessary in the first place? These people are obviously racially superior. Their pure Nordic stock is clear to all who see them. So why are they doing so badly? Why doesn’t their race simply raise them above the subhumans around them?

    Second, since the US government is explicitly recognising the evils of racial discrimination, why don’t they stop being immensely racist in all their other policies?

    Can’t complain too much. They can make themselves look stupid and squander money. Go ahead.

  • Rubber stamp

    Congress doesn’t have much to do these days. Mainly it is a forum for Republicans to coo over their dictator, while Democrats cluck disapprovingly, writing their strongly worded letters.

    It has only passed six laws in the first hundred days. The mob isn’t particularly interested in new laws. There are plenty on the books that they can ignore or abuse. One of these six laws is the Take It Down act. Melania herself wanted this, who could refuse?

    In any normal world, this new law would be a good idea. Designed to take down “deepfake” and revenge porn, it is intended to protect people from onling bullying and persecution. To a tyrant, the law is an effective method of government censorship, a way to clamp down on the free speech of his opponents.

    The key to it all is in the enforcement. Take Twitter, for example, which is owned by Elon Musk. Any violation of the new law will be policed by the FTC, which is currently controlled by Elon Musk.

    Much of the traffic on Facebook nowadays is bots sharing AI pictures with each other. Since Zuck has sworn fealty to the emperor, he has nothing to fear from the law.

    Smaller companies however will be hammered, or merely comply without question. Wikipedia will probably be the prize target.

    Many writers yesterday were complacently assuming the regime is burning out, that it is running into implacable opposition. It’s only just started.

  • No idea

    International backup day today apparently. Done it, good. Maybe I should do it more than once a year.

    I’ve been trying to understand maga and what they believe, but I don’t get it. It seems to be defined entirely by what they don’t want, rather than any idea of what they do.

    Mainly, it seems to be about exceptionalism, that USAians are somehow intrinsically superior and uniquely suited to running the entire world. Why and how is not clear, it just seems to be an accepted belief.

    Then there’s “owning the libs”. Liberals favour consensus and reality based policies. Climate change, LGBTQ+, public transport, sustainability, this sort of stuff. Maga rejects all of these things. Because the libs are in favour.

    If anything, they genuinely seem to blame these policies for all their perceived problems in the world. They believe that being nasty to the gays will improve the economic performance of the country. Or that shouting aggressively in people’s faces is the best form of diplomacy, it’s just that nobody has tried this before.

    It’s all so incoherent. We get decades of dogma about “free markets”, now it’s overt protectionism and they cheer along without missing a beat. Endless calls for tax cuts, then huge rises, all greeted enthusiastically. The latter is rationalised by the government itself that “tariffs are a tax cut”.

    I find it all so hard to understand because none of it makes sense.

  • Modern trade negotiations

    I’m going to burn down the supermarket. I’ve had enough.

    Basically, I’ve realised that although I buy a load of stuff from them, they don’t buy any goods or services from me.

    I go into the supermarket you see and they are nice people there. Fine people. Good people. I’ll tell you, it’s a great place there. And they do a great job. But people come up to me and they say to me Kim they say, that supermarket is doing better than you. Look at teh freezers they got. And I tell you they got freezers, But I got freezers two and you want to look at the differences between their freezers and the freezers i got its you know right now we got 2025 but its not just freezers its major logistical operations ! they got thse major logistical operations you seee andd they wont let me in to theyr operations i can do major llogistcal opreations as well i did them bakc in 2016 and everybody told me they said he cant do that but you konw here we are and we protectionism like you never seen not freezers though i got billion freezers great dont enforce Lidl subsidise god bless mrakets einkauf bigly hilary got i anis thor qpyc covfefe mulzvmmnas .öjsgvqs oatgniu ga g z j! @#~ how could anybody ever possibly vote for this rubbish its a disgrace