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One thing people miss about Star Trek society is that the Federation is Post Energy Scarcity, Cheap Abundant Energy changes dynamics.
That's one way of describing a Kardashev type 2.5 civilization.
isn't this exactly why the tariffs are dumb?
It's a force projection thing, they're finding out what the sharp end of 'Do unto others' looks like. If the US mirrors Canada's behavior in tariffs exactly, Canada will cease to exist as an economic power.
 
Businesses don't like risk.
Nobody likes risk but that's how we fucking got here. We put every policy in place to minimize risk as much as humanly possible.

Here's an example. Why do you think homes are so expensive? Well, we legislated the fuck out of zoning laws to force anyone looking to build homes to be unable to build anything other than unaffordable, million dollar McMansions. None of this was by coincidence. They wanted to minimize their risk on investment and prevent plebs from moving into good neighborhoods. It's the basic foundations of suburbia.

The reality is nearly every economic problem in this country is caused by people forcing through legislature to minimize risk as much as possible. It's never sustainable. We created a bubble. Minimizing risks via legislature is directly responsible for inflation. It's not a correlation. It's a direct causation and that's always been a basic economic principle. There has to be a healthy amount of risk.
 
That's normie memes for you though, they have a very short shelf life because they get spammed to death. Elon's X being a shitpost stravaganza with premium accounts all whoring out for ad revenue will kill memes faster than ever.
I don't think it's just a matter of them being normie memes, though the burn out from overuse is absolutely true as well. There's some sort of effect of meme meeting reality that makes the meme unfunny. It's that sense of cringe when Biden on camera said 'Let's go Brandon." It can't really happen with things like pepe or wojak because those aren't based on a real person who can recreate the meme in reality, and thereby destroy it.

It's the same effect as when you have an inside joke with your friends about another person, and then that other person gets in on the joke. Suddenly, the joke becomes unfunny and is dropped entirely.

I'm sure someone has noticed this effect and put it into a fancier explanation with more academic language, but I think you'd be hard pressed to find a meme that has survived confrontation with or recreation by the subject of the meme.
 
I think Don Jr, if he still wants to continue being involved in politics after his dad leaves office is to act more as a gatekeeper, doner and election strategist.

He's never shown any desire to be in office.
Iirc, Don Jr. holds the distinction of being one of the most effective individual fundraisers in GOP history. Yeah, but muh Elon, but I think that Elon is there so serve as a threat to keep the GOPe in line, as opposed to being an actual check writer.
 

SA truly is a fascinating study on how those who were oppressed before, the second they got power became the oppressors. Hell I'd argue that SA now is more racist than it was during the appetheid, too think all those years of protest and demonad equality onto to finally get it and then use it for revenge. Its also funny to me that SA believed that they have some moral high ground over Israel( again don't like fucknthem) when they also do the same bullshit.
 
Gold-pressed latinum makes the galaxy go round.
Iirc some of the novels mention that only the core areas of the Federation are a cashless utopia because setting up a planetary energy grid capable of supporting billions of replicators is beyond the means of a lot of colonies.
 
I don't think it's just a matter of them being normie memes, though the burn out from overuse is absolutely true as well. There's some sort of effect of meme meeting reality that makes the meme unfunny. It's that sense of cringe when Biden on camera said 'Let's go Brandon." It can't really happen with things like pepe or wojak because those aren't based on a real person who can recreate the meme in reality, and thereby destroy it.

It's the same effect as when you have an inside joke with your friends about another person, and then that other person gets in on the joke. Suddenly, the joke becomes unfunny and is dropped entirely.

I'm sure someone has noticed this effect and put it into a fancier explanation with more academic language, but I think you'd be hard pressed to find a meme that has survived confrontation with or recreation by the subject of the meme.
Good point, but Brandon was always cringe. If Biden somberly said "It's Joever" that would have survived. Joever sums up the whole Biden term.
 
The anti-Tesla protests, arson attacks, and vandalism are funded by ActBlue:
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This just shows that the jews manipulations exist specifically because they are such pussies who take half measures. If ISIS was funding a beef with Elon they would behead his workers and blow the car up with bombs while occupied not whine and paint swastikas on them.
 
Iirc some of the novels mention that only the core areas of the Federation are a cashless utopia because setting up a planetary energy grid capable of supporting billions of replicators is beyond the means of a lot of colonies.
they don't get into the energy issues but yeah post-Gene Rod TNG and DS9 basically the minute they're not balls-deep in feddie territory like Earth, Vulcan, Risa, or a starship then it's very clear that latinum talks and long-winded speeches about how great humans are walks
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cool racketeering, bro
 
It's what makes me think the US was founded via divine providence, the landmass of continental America is insane. We have a fuck ton of natural resources, extremely defensible landmass, separated from the warring continents of Europe and Asian by oceans and two relatively docile neighbors. Very few, if any, general drawbacks as far as what we get naturally.
The Revolutionary Army was nearly defeated, but Washington managed to move his troops away thanks to a lack of wind to propel British boats and a fog that appeared in the morning. You can read a little about it here.
 
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