I like to think that some small part of him knows this, and that's why he expects to be poisoned.

It wouldn't surprise me if there isn't an election in 2028 if Trump wins.

Marketing latched onto “AI” because blockchain and cloud and algorithmic had gotten stale and media and CEOs went nuts.

Notably, this also coincided with the first higher interest rate environment in the broader economy in over a decade.

Not every dictatorship is fascist.

EDIT: Besides you were originally making the argument that there could be a "more competent" Trump which is what my reply was talking about. Fascist governments are, in my opinion, inherently incompetent. Even the whole "Mussolini made the trains run on time" crap was just rhetoric and propaganda.

There are other forms of government by effectively one "chosen" person (i.e. dictatorships), and I don't think they necessarily have to be fully staffed up with incompetents in the same way fascist regimes naturally have to be.

Maybe a leader with the same goals but without brain rot would’ve taken over, and not made critical blunders.

People always say this, but I think it's a rather facile analysis.

Fascism when fully instituted basically doesn't work as a governing ideology. Many countries have tried it and many countries have found that out.

Sure, there's sometimes encampments; there's sometimes secret police; there's sometimes using the military on your own countrymen; there's sometimes genocides; there's sometimes surveillance; there's sometimes lots of things...but you know what it always breeds? A government full of distrusting, incompetent, loyalist boobs that are slaves to one man's dumb ass ideas.

There is no competent version of fascism because one man alone cannot "fix it". Even a singular genius cannot rule a modern country based upon just his own ideas, he has to have a group of competent people surrounding him, triaging issues, and analyzing different things...those type of people don't tend to want to work for the type of backbiting, dark triad narcissists that nearly always sit at the center of fascist government.

Fascism leads to dark, terrible things, but it's basically always, at its heart, a kakistocracy.

I was referring to closely guarding shit online mostly. In real life it’s just kind of absurd.

Ah yes, online, where you can keep everything closely guarded...

What are you even talking about? Keeping something "closely guarded" online is perhaps more absurd than trying to do so in real life, where at least the people had to show up physically.

I just bought a breathalyzer so I can know my BAC when out having a couple at happy hour and be safe to drive home. It works standalone because it has a button and screen, but all over the place it's like "it has an app!!! It can connect to your phone!!!" who the fuck would ever want to do that?

Any popular libertarian movement is destined to be co-opted by larger groups if it’s not closely guarded, and libertarians suck at being exclusive to ideas.

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Who would've thought that "rugged individualism" doesn't scale well, and that collectivism of any sort in politics (a fucking popularity contest with real world stakes) will obviously trounce individualism politically? /s

"If not closely guarded"? What does that even look like? A tiny political party destined to get 0.25% of the vote? Politics is a numbers game, it's not your favorite indie band, or a recipe handed down from your grandma.

It reminds me of political posturing on other issues, like everyone says they believe the climate scientists but they sure as fuck ain't acting like it.

Here too it really seems like those sounding the alarm aren't alarmists at all. Trump is a fascist. But everyone's still pretending like it's completely fine to lose to him.

We did it everyone!

One of his better nuggets for this crowd is his suggestion that they "take the guns away first and do [sic] process later".

The headline quote reminds me of some of the more bone chilling scenes from Schindler's List.