Not forever, obviously. But a lot of very small portfolio investors have bought meme stocks in enough quantities to prop up the price for a while. Take DJT, the Trump media stock. The company made less than one well-paid lawyer last year and has no serious business prospects, yet the price goes up. It sure as heck isn’t berkshire hathaway or some big institutional investor buying THAT hot garbage. If someone who rolls coal owns stock in Tesla, it’s not because they believe in decarbonizing the economy; they liked Musk’s nazi salutes and nazi tweets and his proximity to trump. “Owning the libs” is not a tested investment strategy, but my personal opinion is that a whole lotta small-time investors will lose their (very modest) life savings when the stock price of these BS companies eventually collapses.

Whelp, movies just got added to my boycott of US crap.

To a Trump worshipper, this headline reads “buy, buy, BUY!”

If you’re an american scientist, please consider moving to Canada. We value knowledge here, and we need your help. When things completely fall apart in the USA, your shithead president will have to start a war to distract from his evil and incompetence. Any expertise you bring (and deny the fascists) will be a great help!

At this point, my grudge is with the entire board and any investors who didn’t sell their shares when they were over $400 and the CEO was tweeting hate speech and throwing Nazi salutes. Elon can walk away or stay, I don’t care. If you hold Tesla stock, you are either a Nazi or ok with Nazis. I will never pass a Tesla without spitting on it.

There is so much irony floating around. I like to pretend that some big-brained environmentalist bugs-bunnied Trump into doing this: “pwease mr trump, don’t shrink the american carbon footprint! it would be tewible if you ended mass consumerism and geometric economic growth! and pwease, pwease, don’t end american exceptionalism and global hegemony!”

Seriously, though, we have to make sure that the history books emphasize that all this was due to blundering and not calculation, or Trump could forever be admired as the wokest president in history.

If i need wifi, bluetooth, or an app to use a product that shouldn’t need it (eg a toaster, toothbrush) i will not buy it. i also won’t buy a wireless device (say a bluetooth speaker) if it requires an app. I would be willing to pay $500 more to have a tv with no smart features than a ‘smart’ tv. corporations: keep your shitty malware. my phone is a temple.

SCOTUS gave trump blanket immunity for all crimes committed while he is president. In any case, he has already defied the courts with impunity. Cops and military are overwhelmingly Trump supporters, and most of them know so little about the constitution that any pledges to uphold it are meaningless. Your next election will be engineered to have one outcome: victory for Trump. Americans need to realize that there are no longer any legal methods to resist.

Because in the official narrative, China is paying the tariffs, out of the goodness of their hearts. Just like mexico paid for that yuge wall around your country

Best thing Trump has ever done, frankly.

Tents - wow. even the nazis built permanent structures

Totally agree. Especially since in my country, young people are swallowing far-right propaganda at a higher rate than boomers. Canada’s Tater Tots are trying to elect a MAGA candidate right now. Age is not the problem - the well of information has been poisoned.

my god, it keeps getting harder and harder to caricature Trump supporters

Oh Mr. Trump, i wanted you to hurt OTHER people, not meeeeeeeee

Yep. They wanted SOME families torn apart. Just not their own.

When trump finally caves and has to kiss Xi’s ass, every newspaper headline better fucking be “the art of the deal”

That is my understanding as well. I think that our insistence that every person needs to fit in one category or the other is almost the whole problem. I wonder how many people think to themselves “I don’t want to be trans, I just want to be me.”

Life is hard and confusing. Many people are frustrated with the way that the social landscape has changed: relationships, jobs, and economic prospects have all shifted for the worse in developed countries. Young people are the most affected. Every time this happens, a con artist comes along and starts offering easy answers. Sometimes it’s a politician, sometimes it’s a religious leader. Nowadays, it’s often an influencer.

Tate tells men, “it’s not your fault that your life sucks,” and he is right (to a point). After all, people who don’t own houses can’t be blamed for the state of the housing market, right? So who is to blame? According to Trump, it’s brown people. According to RFK Jr., it’s vaccines or food colouring or some shit. According to Tate, it’s women. He tells young men that feminism is surely the reason they are unhappy: the Woke Left is trying to emasculate you! Be an alpha! Follow my simple formula for abusing women and accumulating money and your problems will go away.

Unfortunately, there are no easy answers. This is not a truth that all people can accept. We can fix some of the problems that we are facing, but it will take time, effort, and cooperation. In the meantime, many men are comforted by Tate’s message: women are the reason you are unhappy, and everything can be fixed by returning them to bondage! If you are very young (or just a little stunted), this message is much more palatable than the admittedly challenging option of actually fixing things.

Nobody has to pay me to hate you, you fucking fascist loser. I do it pro bono.

setting aside trans people for a second - is the government going to build separate washrooms for the >1 million uk residents who were born intersex? why can’t we make policy that is grounded in reality? lawmakers shout be required to pass a basic science course