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uziq wrote:

it was half a classroom. and the thai divers who did it were special forces types. you know, men who actually completed thailand's version of para's training. you cuck.

well they are literally thai navy seals, which one of them died during the dive.

yeah guess that submarine was totes useful when it didnt fucking work lmao

To be fair, the military was probably fishing for anyone it could get who can plug a square peg into a square hole. I imagine the Australian service branches for one would street fight over a prospective recruit with a three-digit IQ.

your own post history, derpy derp.

do you think you're the only one who can call up search results from 14 years ago?

'i would have been a para, honest to god, but daddy advised me against it'.

Brazil having its own Jan 6 right now.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/ … le-rampage

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

Brazil having its own Jan 6 right now.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/ … le-rampage

i think that’s overegging it a bit. this is more of a riot and tantrum than an insurrection. all the senior politicians, lawmakers/judges, media and establishment, etc, have already conceded defeat. in fact, it happened with surprising ease and compliance on the results day. bolsonaro holed himself up seemingly for a few days and hit the phones with his family firm, only to find all his options had deserted him.

jair didn’t even get a chance to mobilise his rubes. the nationwide truck barricades and road blockades seemed similarly impotent. his senior team abandoned him as soon as it became clear lula won.

it’s not like they’re trying to halt the democratic process or ratification of the results, like jan 6, with a cohort of the politicos inside the building, conspiring with them to effect their ends. it’s over for bolsonaro. there’s no route to power legally or via military force.

plus the guy just looks old and sick and weakened, physically as well as charismatically, right now. he’s in poor health. these populist firebrands need to command an image of macho virility to really stoke people. he looks cucked by that little socialist ron jeremy looking dude.

i spitballed this idea before but i think the reason a coup, hard or soft, quickly evaporated and failed to materialise in brazil is because the judicial system there is still very much in overlap with its military-dictatorial junta era. meaning anyone trying to fuck with their process and failing could very easily get very hard time or even the death penalty. trump looks positively indulged and exempted in the US system, by comparison. his downfall? over top secret documents? trump org fraud? that’s lame retribution for jan 6.

Last edited by uziq (2022-12-13 16:39:16)

agree with the general comparison. populist strongman era seems to be more of a momentary delirium than a general trend. trump, bolsonaro, and to a lesser extent, johnson and his ilk, are taking some time in the wings, if not facing permanent expulsion. perhaps wishful thinking with the latter zombified tory party, but johnson is by far the lesser evil in comparison to the the first two, in any case.

plus, putin and xi have been chastened by recent events, i think.

i don't know a great deal about politics on the ground in the US right now but, although i'm sure there's a lot of very strong feelings for trump in the MAGA crowd, surely the mainstream establishment have got to be thinking about their next move after the midterms flop? did any of the more vocal trump anointeds even get elected?

So I've read twitter isn't paying rent on its office space anymore? Need some more popcorn.

e:
Twitter has stopped paying office rent and considering not paying severance packages, report says
https://news.yahoo.com/twitter-stopped- … 34280.html

Last edited by unnamednewbie13 (2022-12-13 21:52:34)

twitter was posting profits for several years until musk took it over. even with a highly bloated staff. all this is literally public record.

in 2017–2020 iirc twitter was profitable. it only posted net losses in subsequent years because of large fines and penalisations. hence why they hired so many compliance staff and sunk so much resources into legal executives. that was their main impedance to posting net profits.

something which, incidentally, musk is displaying a high aptitude for accruing. he is lliterally going to get fined by the FTC and EU again and again if he continues on his present course.

Last edited by uziq (2022-12-14 03:51:04)

What a tool. Why does the world's richest man give a shit about Twitter? Only nerd insecurity would make someone like that feel like they need social media validation.

https://twitter.com/vicenews/status/160 … u4ZzNPx_tQ

sums it up.

all whilst quietly offloading $3bn in tesla stock, whilst publicly making replies on twitter that he sees the ‘long-term’ success of twitter-tesla, etc, etc. in any sober universe a CEO dumping 20,000 shares of their own company would be a cause for alarm.

tesla’s december figures sure are going to be interesting.

He banned half a dozen journalist including a NYT one. That feels like the Rubicon.

It is nice knowing a rich person could fuck up their life too.

he was the richest man in the world with a legion of redditor-type geeks hanging off his every word. the tony stark effect.

now he's halved his own wealth, indebted himself to the russians/house of saud, trashed his public image, and likely will face federal/EU-level fines and investigations in the next 12 months. great job.

his posting his so erratic, too. he'll start out a day with some trite bromide about success and end it ranting about woke warriors being the biggest threat to humanity today. extra sad when you know when of his kids is trans and totally cut him off.