nine_zeros

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by nine_zeros 5mo ago
That is the entire basis of the TV show - "The boys" - and the entire reason for no kings in America.
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by nine_zeros 6mo ago
Scotus removed the ability of the JUDICIARY to hold criminal convictions against the president. The JUDICIARY is the branch that lost power, not Congress.
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by nine_zeros 6mo ago
> That's also what Trump was screaming the whole time that Congress is the only way to hold POTUS accountable. And this is just wrong - anyone can see that every branch must be held accountable by other branches. This supreme court
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by nine_zeros 6mo ago
"Lies" is a standard operating procedure under this administration. The court should just call the bluff by passing an order "Every CBP official and their hierarchy up to the President will be fined $1 million/day until
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by nine_zeros 7mo ago
I think the fear narrative in America is just completely out of whack. Besides gun shooting and ICE, there are no real threats. The politicians have made it seem like there is a lot of there is so much threat but realistically normal people
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by nine_zeros 7mo ago
Yep. The money exists but in the hands of the people who don't want to improve the lives of the many.
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by nine_zeros 8mo ago
It is a 96b loss in market cap, not revenue or profits.
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by nine_zeros 8mo ago
> Let me fix that for you. This is all happening because the institutions in America failed to deliver for working-class people for over four decades, and Americans got fed up, elected a billionaire willing to be a bulldozer of those ins
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by nine_zeros 8mo ago
> Macron is making up numbers So is Trump. This is all just response to bullying. "I got big muscles" "Oh yeah, I got big muscles too" This all is happening because America elected a criminal clown, twice.
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by nine_zeros 8mo ago
> And why shouldn't it when there is zero negative ramifications for being completely fucking unethical? This is at the crux of everything in America. There are zero punishments for corporations and executives but there are bureaucr
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by nine_zeros 8mo ago
Their bet is that they will not follow the law, nothing will be done about it, and Americans will be ok with it. So far, that has been the case. The constitution has become meaningless thanks to maga, and you're better off recognizing
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by nine_zeros 9mo ago
If anyone ever wondered how third world democracies become corrupt, you don't have to wonder any longer. Just observe the current USA.
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by nine_zeros 10mo ago
> but it's still capital. It should be spent on meeting people's basic human needs, not GPU power. What you have just described is people wanting investment in common society - you see the return on this investment but ultra-ca
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by nine_zeros 10mo ago
America is a third world thug state where people are being targeted just because...they showed up on a computer system.
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by nine_zeros 10mo ago
> The twentieth century spent a lot of intellectual and moral effort glorifying labour because economies needed people to show up every day. The twenty-first century is starting to build machines and systems that do not need quite as man
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by nine_zeros 10mo ago
> By 2026, Nvidia was the beneficiary of a de facto Ponzi scheme. Investors were excited about AI. One reason they were excited was Nvidia's revenue growth. So they invested in new AI startups and cloud hyperscalers. The startups an
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by nine_zeros 11mo ago
While I don't 100% agree with his policies, I cannot be more excited for someone completely opposite of the corrupt establishment Republicans and Democrats. I was sold when he was willing to back down on some of his own views publicly,
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by nine_zeros 11mo ago
> For example, Massachusetts rates are way up because New England politicians have spent more than a decade fighting natural gas infrastructure, especially pipelines that would bring cheap North American gas vs. LNG that is in short supp
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by nine_zeros 11mo ago
The lesson you learn is that screaming is a one-way street, can be done only in one direction of the org chart. A junior engineer embarrassing a senior principal is a big no no.
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by nine_zeros 11mo ago
> Snap, Chip, ssi, ssdi, medicaid, medicare (since recipients don't pay their way), ACA subsidies, progressive income tax (half of us pay no federal tax at all), 1-12 schooling/daycare (often with free lunch, sometimes also fre
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by nine_zeros 11mo ago
I'll tell you why you are wrong - you are wrong because you think that real socialism is only one that maps exactly to a prior example. You think it can't be real socialism if there is even one edge case that differs from a pre-ex
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by nine_zeros 11mo ago
The US literally purchased shares of Intel - thus owning means of production. The US also bails out a group of people all the time. The group is called the rich. Furthermore, it subsidizes select groups like big ag. Except these, the US is
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by nine_zeros 11mo ago
Libertarians and Conservatives can all wish for a smaller government and slash things apart in America - it's not going to change the fact that America is a corrupt socialist country which runs semis, bails out billionaires, subsidizes
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by nine_zeros 11mo ago
*has moved
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by nine_zeros 11mo ago
The fact that you chose to not disagree with the attempted coup is welcome. I am not going to go off topic on Weimar republic - but it has been known since the time of Socrates - BC era - that a brainwashed populace is the one that enables
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by nine_zeros 11mo ago
> I see some violent protesters, but I don’t see a violent coup. You’re welcome to call that distinction without a difference, but it’s really not. We’ve had years of violent protest, that’s not what a coup is. The motive and the locatio
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by nine_zeros 11mo ago
> I see a some violent protesters, but I don’t see a violent coup. You’re welcome to call that distinction without a difference, but it’s really not. We’ve had years of violent protest, that’s not what a coup is. A violent protest could
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by nine_zeros 11mo ago
Lots of wrong assumptions. - If you think the other side isn't armed, you are foolish. - The number of deaths doesn't define a failed coup attempt. - The accusations are not accusations once you see the violence: https:/&#x2
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by nine_zeros 11mo ago
> Have you watched any of the videos from January 6th? All I saw were a bunch of clueless morons behaving badly, but not violently, in the capital building while Trump literally told them to go home. Ok, I will give you evidence that it
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by nine_zeros 11mo ago
What they mean by "allowed" is that the President can and should be convicted of treason for preventing constitutional processes such as elections. Brazil had the balls to do it. The fact that America didn't just shows that A

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