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Cake day: January 22nd, 2024

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  • When one of the two biggest black holes for cash on the entire planet promise to make things better for you if you just do this thing they want to happen, you shouldn’t be surprised if at the end of the process you have less money and they have more money. Elon Musk is expert at making money move from you to him. So is Jeff Besos. It doesn’t have to be direct from you to them via a payment, just know that they are sucking up the money, and if you ever, ever, ever do something they want you to do, you can be 100% sure it’s because after they’re done, you have less money and they have more.



  • I was especially amused at the characterisation of the only two real world choices for president as a false dichotomy! You’re so living the stereotype of an ivory tower theoretical communist.

    Now that we’ve been all around the houses and you’ve evaded the real life D vs R question literally every time I asked it, I’ll just put my original point here:

    I have the feeling that you would be inclined to deny the distinction between the Biden presidency and the trump presidency that followed it.

    I don’t think you’ve proved me wrong in any meaningful way whatsoever.

    You are unable to coherently make any genuine criticism of Mr Trump without watering it down to the extent you can switch blame onto Biden or the Democratic Party for it.

    This is not because there aren’t extraordinarily stark differences, nor that you’re unaware of them, but because you refuse, despite evidence to the contrary, to shift from your belief that in politics there is black and there is white and there exists no grey.

    Maybe someday you’ll realise that the real world isn’t perfect and that if it were, we wouldn’t need socialism or communism in politics anyway! Maybe you’ll realise that awful comes in different degrees as well as different flavours.


  • I think you’ll find that I’ve mainly been asking you questions rather than misquoting you, but OK.

    I thought it was very very clear indeed what the two alternatives were for who is in the Whitehouse, and I’m sure we’d agree that they’re are theoretically much, much better alternatives like actual left wing parties, but no, I wasn’t asking you a theoretical question about parties that had no chance of winning in the USA at all, I was asking you about the real world. I’ll try again.

    In your view, is it better for America to have a Democrat in the Whitehouse than a Republican, or not really?

    Would it have been materially better for Harris to win rather than trump?

    Would it have been better for Biden to win than trump?