Big Essential Oil ruining the day again.

I think that was the point. To be silly.

I’d argue we should call all migrant workers expats. Unless they’re literally working in a migratory fashion, spring here, summer there, fall somewhere else, etc.

I always saw expats as something between immigrants and tourists. They aren’t trying to switch countries and they aren’t just on vacation. There’s plenty of good reasons for this category, like being sent somewhere by your employer. This naturally creates a community of foreigners who aren’t necessarily worried about fitting in as a new citizen or permanent resident would be.

But yeah, this idea that Western countries have expats instead of emigrants is weird.

If it happens fast enough we can have an Elon as a smaller unit.

Shocked. Shocked I am that it was just a political performance. Again.

Are we going to get another USAID report directly contradicting the decision again too?

I’m not saying they can’t fuck up a lot of things. But at a certain point there’s too many promotions to control. This has always been an Authoritarian problem, and is why you see dictators with “Republican Guards”. Those units get all the good equipment, training, and are highly controlled for loyalty.

Creating something like that takes years though. And will transparently be the end of any claim to be the better party for our military. So in 2026/28 elections will be much harder.

Multiplayer gaming. I love games like Foxhole and they usually have a bit of trouble on Linux.

Until the AI stuff I would have loved to get an upgrade. Now… Not so much. And good thing my computer doesn’t qualify due to their arbitrary standards.

Oof thank you though

You’re still assuming a lot, namely that friendly faces replace the fired ones. And that lower echelons obey orders of a captured higher echelon.

The military is really very resistant to this kind of thing. We have leadership right down to 4 person teams.

There’s a reason Stalin killed or imprisoned the officers he purged.

I know a guy that got white flashers on his truck. Turns out people will move aside for any color of flashing lights?

They can and have.

It’s resulted in lawsuits so we know it has. What’s really scary is what about the people who didn’t manage to phone home?

Oh so now we’re on don’t ask don’t tell?

You’re just hitting all the highlights aren’t you?

And no. You don’t get to tell people they have to leave their home. In your rush to fight a Nazi you’re starting to really sound like one.

Pulls support or bricks the program on those systems? There’s a difference.

How are we supposed to know? You said all messaging was propaganda. So we have two names on a page. That’s it. And yes, people not voting are just trying to be left alone.

You’re advocating for violence against people who just want to go to work, have a beer on Friday, and feed their kids.

So now not only do we have to vote, we also have to guess which one is the correct one with no communication.

And you say there’s not a transitive power here but you keep describing a transitive power. Oh and you’ve called for violence against people who just want to be left alone.

You’re really racking up the motivations for voting.

Oh I don’t like Nazis either. But his political campaign isn’t built on Hitler’s. It’s a pretty stock modern campaign that had better messaging than the Democrats. And before you accuse me of liking his messaging, he won the election. So it was better messaging.

Calling everyone who doesn’t vote for the Democrats a Nazi just isn’t a winning message. That may seem weird to you but all everyone else hears is that you don’t know what a Nazi is, and you’re just throwing a word around.

Especially this new transitive power of being a Nazi by doing nothing. Even in the aftermath of World War 2 you weren’t considered a Nazi without a party number. By the time you’re done accusing people of being Nazis by the transitive power, everyone, yourself included, will be a Nazi. After all, you might accidentally sit at a table with one and then poof, you magically get an evil fashion sense.

That really depends on how we mean dumb. I just mean generally. But yes in the way that we’re all dumb about things we don’t educate ourselves on, voters are generally pretty dumb on politics. They vote mostly based on messaging and vibe. But they aren’t dumb in the way that you could lie to them about how the economy is currently affecting their life. And Biden was either so detached from the common person he didn’t understand the problem, or he tried to gaslight the public.