Damus

Recent Notes

Ame profile picture
If blacks actually voted instead of just getting ballots filled out for them, this would get the GOP to at least a healthy 30 percent.
Ame profile picture
Netanyahu's pretty popular there, and Trump doesn't like him, but on the other hand they probably know the value of expressing approval of whatever the U.S. executive is in polls.
Ame profile picture
Memecoin gambling presents the opportunity to double, triple, or 10x what you put in. Assuming 5% annual yields after inflation, the best case scenario is the difference between living on $50k a year (doable, if you have a house and know how to cook) and living on $500k a year, both with no working at all. It's an entirely different order of life, the same as a homeless guy trying to win $10k so he can buy a trailer and not be homeless. Even if you've got a billion dollars, being a ten billionaire makes you a lot more powerful, reorients your social circle, puts you on the radar for reshaping politics at a high level. Unless comfort is the only thing you care about, there's always a reasonable calculus for betting it all to try to add an order of magnitude, assuming you think you know the odds.

Don't get me wrong, putting money on a memecoin at the height of its initial pump is rarted, but the appeal of gambling in general is clear. By the time an upper-middle class White guy is in his mid-30's, if things go okay and he does well, a seven figure net worth is in the cards, and that's a decent life, but he's not going to ever have eight figures barring extraordinary circumstance, and it'd take multiple generations to break into the next class up, which would open up a whole new suite of opportunities for his children. A shortcut straight to a multigenerational status goal is evopsychological crack.
Ame profile picture
The really fucked part is that there was already a Trump crypto meme thing and he could have just looked at that to spot the trend. Beyond that, memecoins always shoot up and then gradually fall off.
Ame profile picture
New from Lolcow News:

THE TROONOCAUST HAS FINALLY BEGUN!

> Troons officially are just men with bizarre fetishes. They have no legal standing.
> We apparently only hate disgusting pedophile freaks who walk around in fetish gear in public streets because of religion. News to me.
> The faggots are next. The niggers are next.
> We are on target for Holocaust 1.0 in FY2028, provided the jeets in the accounting division don't fuck up.
> Elon is secretly Hitler. Trump is secretly Hitler. I am secretly Hitler.

Ame profile picture
That's just the same establishment boomer 'influencers' stirring up conflict to try to sabotage the incoming administration and/or fracture the Right.

The Kochs just learned that the GOP base is not okay with H1Bs and that Trump hates them on a personal level; they're causing as much chaos as possible out of spite.
Ame profile picture
4 is a bit of a paradox. You could automate fast food in a first world, high-trust nation, but the cost of doing business here, along with regular vandalism, makes it impractical in any country that has a sufficient third world population.

The solution, of course, is just to deport the third worlders so we can then implement automation.