El Pit wrote on May 13, 2025, 15:27:
Trump vs cheap Chinese imports 0-1
NKD wrote on May 11, 2025, 17:53:Jim wrote on May 11, 2025, 17:40:
I'm looking forward to the nothing we get while trump tells us its something along with insisting eggs and gas are now cheap.
That's the pattern with Trump. Claim the status quo is broken and unfair, fuck things up in some attempt to fix it, then claim victory when bringing back the status quo, or often times, just making a small step back towards it. Then he just never mentions it again.
Beamer wrote on Apr 12, 2025, 17:09:
I thought the whole point was to get Apple to start manufacturing here. Guess that's out the window. So, then, the point was either market manipulation or insanity? Can't see any other arguments.
Love when people call him brilliant for fixing the mess he caused for no reason, and brave for capitulating
Simon Says wrote on Mar 20, 2025, 13:04:
Disclaimer: I profoundly despise "Red Skull" and think all of his companies should be tariff'd and banned all over the world for his fascist and anti-democratic actions into bankruptcy.
But...
The vast majority of those Tesla owners bought their car before they knew who he really was. And they probably bought it in an effort to be early adopters of less polluting transport.
They don't deserve to be doxed, except perhaps the Cybertruck owners, you really have to be a douche to buy that useless monstrosity, but I digress.
I put myself in the shoes of the cheaper Tesla model owners, they will especially have a hard time selling, because they probably have budget constraints nowadays about buying a new car.
I fear this website will mostly target innocent people who also despise Red Skull, but currently have no real option of divesting from his products.
jacobvandy wrote on Feb 21, 2025, 01:01:Cutter wrote on Feb 20, 2025, 22:09:Xeth Nyrrow wrote on Feb 20, 2025, 18:59:
Maybe he's hoping Trump, Musk, or even Zuckerberg would hear this tailored dog whistle/Bat signal to buy GameStoop (purposeful misspelling) out.
The overwhelming majority of people - the silent majority - refuted out of control radical left-wing bullshit in America. And it's going to happen in Canada this Fall when the Cons take it all - they already run most of the provinces now. It's happening the world over as well. So, you can whinge about it all you want, but you're in an absolute minority. If it sucks so bad why not move to Africa or Central or South America and see how that works out for you.
Thefuckouttahere with that hyperbole. The amount of votes tallied for the 2024 election winner correspond with ~22.7% of the US population, vs. ~22% for the runner-up... Just so it's made clear that there was nothing 'overwhelming' about it, and that both groups are smaller than the amount of adults which did not care enough either way to vote at all, i.e. ~31.7% of the total population. An 'absolute minority' only exists as the last functioning braincells inside the skull of anyone who believes the boasting of that bloated orange gasbag and his cronies.
Cutter wrote on Feb 3, 2025, 18:18:
Meanwhile your national debt continues to explode unchecked. You guys sure make it easy to loot the treasury because you have zero interest in how your government takes and spends your money. I'm all for accountability of government spending, but I'm weird like that.
Cutter wrote on Feb 1, 2025, 19:41:
Trump isn't a racist because you actually have to care to hate someone. It takes effort. The only color Trump cares about is green. And if you're rich and will make him richer he'll love you no matter your race. Or maybe you missed all the minorities in his cabinet and how he got a lot more votes from minorities this time around because even they are sick and tire of the woke bullshit.
Beamer wrote on Jan 27, 2025, 15:21:Riahderymnmaddog wrote on Jan 27, 2025, 15:16:
Trump can put a Tarff on Deepseeek tokens, problem solved.
For some levels of service, Deepseek offers the same token value for $10 that OpenAI offers for $270, so it'd have to be a hell of a tariff, haha.
If Deepseek is legit, it just popped the entire AI bubble. Not because AI isn't real or valuable, but because it just absolutely deflated the value of being the company building the AI itself rather than the company implementing it as a tool.
Jaysen wrote on Jan 20, 2025, 13:40:(I'm sure I still have a ratty copy of A Splinter of the Mind's Eye around here somewhere)
Do any of you recommend other books by Alan Dean Foster?
Overon wrote on Jan 5, 2025, 15:04:
If I got 10 Billion dollars, I would invest it, and take some of the interest/investement income and just give it away to people. It would be remarkably easy to not be a piece of shit, I could have afford to be emapthetic toward everyone and just give them money to help them. It would life altering money. That 2nd billion dollars is more useful to others than it is to me.
Cutter wrote on Dec 10, 2024, 01:05:
It's too bad all the angry people going out on killing sprees don't take out on the elites. Go storm some boardrooms and lay waste. That's about the only way we're going to bring the oligarchs to heel. If they don't start sharing the wealth it's just going to be another bloody revolution yet again.
Burrito of Peace wrote on Dec 4, 2024, 23:00:WannaLogAlready wrote on Dec 4, 2024, 22:32:
Sorry for the guy if his work was honestly good for the people in need, if not ...
It wasn't. UHC made record profits while claim denial also went up. His paycheck was literal blood money.
cappy wrote on Nov 8, 2024, 14:45:Beamer wrote on Nov 8, 2024, 09:44:
Word on the street is Trump is already annoyed at the sideshow RFK is creating and may just dump him.
Now, I think some of that is wishful thinking from the media, or them writing something based on loose rumors that they know will get enormous clicks, or something that may make Trump change his mind. But at the same time, Trump is pretty well known for making promises to people when they're useful and immediately dumping them when they're not, and in this case, he'd probably find someone worse than RKFJr, like putting Nick Fuentes or Andrew Tate in charge of it. But it'd still be hysterical for that to happen to RFK.
I have already been suggesting this is a strong possibility.
Trump cannot tolerate anyone else grandstanding and claiming the spotlight. He's also not going to like if there is strong and broad backlash against stuff RFK Jr. (or for that matter Musk who wants to gut government spending and cause pain) does or proposes. Both of those are grandstanders who also want the spotlight.
Trump would rather put someone quietly incompetent in charge of something - as he did with putting Louis DeJoy in charge of the Postal Service.
Beamer wrote on Nov 8, 2024, 09:44:
Word on the street is Trump is already annoyed at the sideshow RFK is creating and may just dump him.
Now, I think some of that is wishful thinking from the media, or them writing something based on loose rumors that they know will get enormous clicks, or something that may make Trump change his mind. But at the same time, Trump is pretty well known for making promises to people when they're useful and immediately dumping them when they're not, and in this case, he'd probably find someone worse than RKFJr, like putting Nick Fuentes or Andrew Tate in charge of it. But it'd still be hysterical for that to happen to RFK.
Cutter wrote on Nov 6, 2024, 20:36:
"It was decided by low information "swing" voters"
Right, because anyone who isn't on your side must be an obvious moron. Gee, isn't it strange how the people you insult by calling them idiots don't want to vote for your party? And maybe you live in some exclusionary bubble where prices haven't drastically increased on EVERYTHING in the last four years, but that isn't the case for most people. Food and rent are much too high for most people. Most can no longer afford to buy a house or new car. Poverty has been growing by leaps and bounds. The homeless abound and keep growing. Foodbanks everywhere have been closing because the demand is too high! And that's all compounded by the millions upon millions of illegal aliens the Dems invited in, or maybe illegal aliens don't need food and places to live. They also keep wages depressed for actual citizens. War and instability is everywhere. Then throw in trying to force the radical left woke agenda on everyone and what the hell do you think was going to happen? None of these things were a problem under Trump. In 4 short years we went from peace and relative prosperity to everything going in the shitter, and the Dems controlled Congress for two years and still failed to get anything done - which is why they lost in the midterms. No, it was decided by a bunch of arrogant liberals who think they always know better than everyone else and actually don't.
jdreyer wrote on Nov 6, 2024, 19:10:InfectiousCheese wrote on Nov 6, 2024, 18:27:Eggs were an example (the cheapest eggs I could buy at the market yesterday were $7.99, but I do live in an expensive area), but it doesn't disprove the facts:jdreyer wrote on Nov 6, 2024, 16:43:ByteCrawler wrote on Nov 6, 2024, 16:10:All of those issues are partisan issues. As I said, those people did not decide the election. It was decided by low information "swing" voters. They aren't paying attention to "rampant crime" (bc it doesn't exist: crime is at its lowest point statistically in decades), trans issues, "supporting terrorists" (no idea what you're even referring to), etc. What they are voting on is the fact that housing prices are 50% above 2020 and inflation has increased by 20% over the same period. It's a shock to have to pay $8 for a dozen eggs, and you don't need to watch Fox News to understand that. The Dems get blamed for that, even though it was caused mostly by supply chain issues and corporate price gouging.jdreyer wrote on Nov 6, 2024, 15:58:Cutter wrote on Nov 6, 2024, 15:45:Nah, it was the 20% inflation that happened during COVID. Voters blamed the Dems for that since Biden was president. It's really just that simple.
The fact you don't understand why the Dems lost is why they lost. But by all means, keep on vilifying everyone who won't drink the radical left's Kool-Aid and see how that works out for you. You better get comfortable with losing from here on in in that case. This wasn't approval of Trump, it was rejection of a shitty and incompetent political party and their far left agenda. Same thing that's happening in Europe, Canada, and the rest of the world. Next time try having an actual open primary and let people pick a candidate they want, not the appointed DEI hire.
Ah yes just inflation. Illegal immigration, draining of budgets, rampant crime, DEI hiring practices, sensationalism, transgenders in sports, shrinking the definition of women (oh wait, unless we're talking about abortion then woman matter again), supporting terrorists, failing social initiatives, instantly demonizing anyone that doesn't agree with you point for point, do as i say not as i do, I should listen to the rich celebrities because they're so relatable, Kamala wasn't snuck in as the candidate just to save Biden's war chest. All these had nothing to do with it. Just inflation...
Cutter was right with his original statement.
And this all this is massive exaggerations. I buy eggs at Whole Foods for $4 per dozen, if you are paying more it's because you want to.
From 2020 to 2024, the total inflation in the United States increased by 21.4%. Here's the breakdown:
2020: 1.2%
2021: 4.7%
2022: 8.0%
2023: 4.1%
Sept 2024: 2.4%
Had COVID never occurred, that would have been around 8%, and nobody would have noticed. 21% is a massive increase. Something that used to cost $40 a few years ago is now $50. That's noticeable. And the average is misleading since some things changed little while others much more: my favorite coffee has nearly doubled in price during that period.
Gas was $2 per gallon in 2020. It skyrocketed to $5 per gallon, and still hovers near that today.
Home prices have increased 47% during the same period driven mostly by the COVID work from home trend adopted by most companies. So that house down the street that sold for $300K a few years ago is now selling for $440K. That prices most middle class families out of the market.
These price changes are shocking. And for average voter that ignores politics for the most part, they're going to blame the party in charge.
GHOB wrote on Sep 19, 2024, 05:45:
Rock Paper Shotgun is not going to be around for long. Their views are way out of touch with the majority of the gaming player base. Gamers are tired of 'messaging' in their games, from both the left and the right.
I personally fully support what the Saber CEO wrote and am happy to spend money on their games if this is going to be their guiding philosophy. Make good games and leave the messaging to the idiots who want their projects to fail.
Get Woke, Go Broke.
MeanJim wrote on Sep 3, 2024, 19:10:ZeroPike1 wrote on Sep 3, 2024, 06:46:A professor I had in college once gave us a piece of advice. He said if you ever get offered a new job and your current employer counters that offer, never take it. They will only keep you around long enough to find your replacement.
On that note one of my coworkers tried to get a job at an airline. She was accepted and was all set to leave. My boss decided to talk her into staying here, where she is unhappy, by telling her she’s too old to start a new career anywhere else. She’s 40 ish. And it doesn’t help she’s neurodivergent, so she is easily manipulated. Pissed me off he pulled that on a vulnerable person. She remains here so stressed out sometimes she has to cry at work.
Labor Day Everyone!