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Every "late stage empire" reaches a point where:
1. The rich find ways to avoid taxes
2. The costs of governing fall on growing numbers of poor
3. Desperate poor are kept in line with authoritarian violence
4. Authoritarian violence can only last until the poor eventually go broke and it collapses.
1. The rich find ways to avoid taxes
2. The costs of governing fall on growing numbers of poor
3. Desperate poor are kept in line with authoritarian violence
4. Authoritarian violence can only last until the poor eventually go broke and it collapses.
December 8, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Every "late stage empire" reaches a point where:
1. The rich find ways to avoid taxes
2. The costs of governing fall on growing numbers of poor
3. Desperate poor are kept in line with authoritarian violence
4. Authoritarian violence can only last until the poor eventually go broke and it collapses.
1. The rich find ways to avoid taxes
2. The costs of governing fall on growing numbers of poor
3. Desperate poor are kept in line with authoritarian violence
4. Authoritarian violence can only last until the poor eventually go broke and it collapses.
"For good things, against bad things"
Compare to a president who actually had a backbone:
Compare to a president who actually had a backbone:
December 1, 2025 at 7:54 PM
"For good things, against bad things"
Compare to a president who actually had a backbone:
Compare to a president who actually had a backbone:
Cool, now talk about SUVs and trucks with worse visibility than an M1 Abrams Tank, where the driver can't even see a child 4m in front of them.
December 1, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Cool, now talk about SUVs and trucks with worse visibility than an M1 Abrams Tank, where the driver can't even see a child 4m in front of them.
Always worth reposting.
December 1, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Always worth reposting.
American economy be like:
November 30, 2025 at 12:55 AM
American economy be like:
Because kids are all suffering disabilities from COVID on top of everything else going on.
Any kid leaving school has probably suffered more repeated COVID infections than anyone else in the working population by now.
It's not a shock they'd be struggling cognitively.
Any kid leaving school has probably suffered more repeated COVID infections than anyone else in the working population by now.
It's not a shock they'd be struggling cognitively.
November 29, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Because kids are all suffering disabilities from COVID on top of everything else going on.
Any kid leaving school has probably suffered more repeated COVID infections than anyone else in the working population by now.
It's not a shock they'd be struggling cognitively.
Any kid leaving school has probably suffered more repeated COVID infections than anyone else in the working population by now.
It's not a shock they'd be struggling cognitively.
"We are the knights who say NI!"
November 28, 2025 at 9:21 PM
"We are the knights who say NI!"
File under "are you fucking kidding me?"
November 28, 2025 at 8:16 PM
File under "are you fucking kidding me?"
I miss being able to replace the battery.
And the entire bottom speaker/USB assembly.
And the entire bottom speaker/USB assembly.
November 27, 2025 at 5:46 PM
I miss being able to replace the battery.
And the entire bottom speaker/USB assembly.
And the entire bottom speaker/USB assembly.
"Country where poor pay have long paid higher taxes than rich wonder if the rich have too much power"
November 27, 2025 at 3:48 PM
"Country where poor pay have long paid higher taxes than rich wonder if the rich have too much power"
"T-publican?"
November 26, 2025 at 3:19 PM
"T-publican?"
Oh look, billionaires buying off another forum to prevent it from being used to criticize them.
November 25, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Oh look, billionaires buying off another forum to prevent it from being used to criticize them.
I just want a decent quality version of this:
And for it to be USB-C wired with a reliable keyboard.
And for it to be USB-C wired with a reliable keyboard.
November 17, 2025 at 5:55 AM
I just want a decent quality version of this:
And for it to be USB-C wired with a reliable keyboard.
And for it to be USB-C wired with a reliable keyboard.
A whole lot of Americans are re-learning how everything Steinbeck wrote was true all along.
November 14, 2025 at 8:23 PM
A whole lot of Americans are re-learning how everything Steinbeck wrote was true all along.
The most important lesson about libertarianism is that nobody's really "libertarian".
The entire movement started off purely based on neo-confederate ideals trying to keep schools segregated.
The mythology of "libertarians" being "economically conservative but socially liberal" was a fabrication.
The entire movement started off purely based on neo-confederate ideals trying to keep schools segregated.
The mythology of "libertarians" being "economically conservative but socially liberal" was a fabrication.
November 8, 2025 at 6:59 PM
The most important lesson about libertarianism is that nobody's really "libertarian".
The entire movement started off purely based on neo-confederate ideals trying to keep schools segregated.
The mythology of "libertarians" being "economically conservative but socially liberal" was a fabrication.
The entire movement started off purely based on neo-confederate ideals trying to keep schools segregated.
The mythology of "libertarians" being "economically conservative but socially liberal" was a fabrication.
Oh look more AI scams.
November 8, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Oh look more AI scams.
"Telepresence slavery" is such a dystopian cyberpunk idea it's weird that hasn't been a bigger theme in novels.
November 7, 2025 at 8:41 PM
"Telepresence slavery" is such a dystopian cyberpunk idea it's weird that hasn't been a bigger theme in novels.