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JD Vance: You Europeans need to start thinking for yourselves. Stop being such obedient little lapdogs. It’s embarrassing. Now, here’s a list of things you need to improve on—Presto! Europe: But we have been doing what you want us to do. JD Vance:: No, no, no, that wasn’t us. That was them. I mean it was us but it wasn’t really us, it was them you understand? We are the real us. That was the impostor us. The confused us. The us that didn’t understand itself. It looked like us, it sounded like us, but deep down, it was a not us. A shadow us. But now—you have the real us! The true us! Understand? So yes, it was wrong to follow us before, but it is right to follow us now, because this us—the current us—is the correct us. And if, in the future, a new us appears and says something different, you must never follow us, because that us will be the wrong us. Unless, of course, that us wins, in which case it will become the real us, and you’ll have to pretend this us never existed.

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The pearl-clutching over Vitalik’s comment seems to imply that all those crying foul are the ones who’d be out of moves and scrambling for a new hustle if crypto ever manages to design democracy as a self-executing machine.

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Post-Westphalian America first crypto is a highly flammable compound

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Watching The Hound of the Baskervilles with Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. Absolutely baffling how they made movies back then with zero fucks given for modern streaming necessities. No bathroom breaks, no snack intermissions, no “Are you still watching?” judgment pop-ups. Just a relentless, uninterrupted story unfolding at a steady pace, as if people were actually expected to just… sit and watch. It’s like they thought people could handle a movie without doing other stuff. Truly barbaric. 😵‍💫

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Strategic adaptation means recognizing what is truly defensible and where a fight is unwinnable, so resources aren’t wasted on a Maginot Line scenario while preparing for a potential Dunkirk moment if necessary. The Maginot Line failure serves as a lesson in misplaced reliance on outdated defenses. If the Elon/Project 2025 movement bypasses expected resistance points—whether through legal loopholes, social engineering, then traditional defenses (laws, institutions, legacy media) might prove ineffective. Defending institutions without adapting them would be like expecting trench warfare when the invasion comes through blitzkrieg. Meanwhile, if a Dunkirk scenario is a year away, that means the fight is already compromised, and the priority shifts to strategic withdrawal and preservation of key forces.

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Reality’s API is unstable. Don’t trust the patch notes

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Hopefully, DOGE can pick up where USAID left off, streamlining the global drug trade and ensuring the proceeds are properly re-centralized. With their help, cartels and the Taliban might finally get a more efficient supply chain for cocaine, fentanyl, and heroin—without USAID’s Byzantine skimming operation slowing things down.

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Elon, Andreessen, and the new converts have misread what went wrong at the end of ZIRP. They’ve built a narrative that their struggles were due to government interference or lack of support, but the real issue was their own overleveraged, free-money-dependent corporate structures, which were unsustainable once interest rates normalized. Going back to ZIRPlite isn’t a viable play—it’s just a desperate attempt to revive an unsustainable system. The problem isn’t the rates, but the underlying business models that rely on artificial conditions to survive.

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I have a feeling that the U.S. folding to Elon is probably a little bit like the Afghani government folding in three months to the Taliban. If Elon’s effectively seizing treasury—whether that’s government contracts, subsidies, or even direct financial influence—he’s doing it with a mercenary class rather than a bureaucracy or a true political movement. But holding power is a whole different game. Trump’s week shows that there are many ways dementia manifests. The Gaza thing, is full-blown delusional, even by Trump standards. Proposing to make Gaza a U.S. colony in 2025 is like stepping into a time machine back to the 19th century, but without any of the practical mechanisms that made colonialism “work” back then (not that it ever really did in the long run).

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DraftKings takes my money with the cold efficiency of a mafia accountant. Crypto takes my money with the chaotic incompetence of a coked-up startup founder live-streaming a train wreck in slow motion

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Chuck Schumer. Yes, the trap is sprung. We have the president where we want him. Isolated in the White House for the next two years. With no help coming for him, surrounded only by executive branch, the Supreme Court and a party that will twist itself into pretzels to defend whatever gibberish comes out of his mouth. We have engineered the ultimate checkmate: making him sit in the most powerful office in the world… like a stranded, adrift, castaway scratching out SOS in the Resolute Desk with a dull fountain pen, waiting for the Democratic Senate Majority Leader to rescue him. Then mark my words he’ll have no other choice than to deal with us in a couple of years. And then you'll see when he finally reaches out a trembling hand. “Chuck,” he rasps, “I’ll deal.” Aide: Masterful Gambit, sir

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“Look, folks, a lot of people are saying that making Incitatus a consul was a crazy idea. Fake news. Total hit job. But let me tell you, Incitatus is a tremendous horse. A winner. Probably the best horse Rome has ever seen, okay? Incredible stamina—much better than some of the losers in the Senate, swamp creatures, believe me. Now, some people, very dishonest people, not gonna name a names cause I’m classy, they say, ‘Oh, you have lost your mind, you want a horse in government!’ But let’s be real—have you seen the Senate? Total disaster. Corrupt. Incitatus would’ve done a much better job than half of them, no question. But you know what? Fine. If people were offended, if the elites got upset—okay, I’ll say it: maybe it wasn’t the best move. Maybe Rome wasn’t ready for a horse who works harder than half the politicians in history. Sad! But we learn, we move forward, and we keep making Rome great again. That’s what we do. Maybe take Incitatus to Troy. He’d en great as horse in Troy

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The American way was always spitting on kings and living to tell the tale

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I have seen bootlicking before. Hollywood has its share of grovelers, yes—but at least the actors had the decency to get drunk and punch photographers. Rock stars, even at their most debased, had the sense to choke on their own vomit rather than kiss the ring of some generally upward moving swine

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Never in the history of American culture—not in the golden days of jazz, not in the anarchic explosion of the 60s, not in the coked-up arrogance of New Hollywood—has an entire class of so-called “creatives” debased themselves so thoroughly in the presence of power. The so-called “masters of disruption, who once sold themselves as renegades, now scurrying like toads not just kissing Trump’s ring, but getting down on all fours, tongues out, licking the boot, the floor, the very dirt beneath it—smiling all the while is really something else

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My Chinese New Year’s resolution: slap a 25% tariff on noise and become the algorithm’s worst nightmare. Drop 10,000 AI-generated tracks titled “SEO Optimized Surrender.” Flood Spotify with “Utopia (feat. ChatGPT)” and “Revolution in E Minor (Ad-Sponsored).” Tag everything #viral #trending #apocalypse until even bots roll their eyes. YouTube? Jam it with AI reaction videos reacting to AI reacting to AI, a feedback loop so recursive it explodes. TikTok? Carpet-bomb the feed with #AIcore clips, 0.2-second dopamine crumbs engineered for maximum nothingness. Farcaster? Run machine-generated crypto hot takes about machine-generated crypto hot takes until the entire token economy collapses into a JPEG of a monkey. Make the platforms choke on their own logic. The algorithm eats itself. I watch. I laugh. I carry on.

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Remember when everyone became a 'photographer' once digital cameras got cheap? That's LLMs right now. Same energy, different pixels. JFC those host a at party who'd corner you with their 'professional shots' for 20 minutes? That's what LLMs feels like now - everyone's got their 'essential perspective' they're dying to share. Same trapped feeling, different decade. 📸→📝"

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MAGA doesn’t care about tariffs on fruit and vegetables because their food pyramid is made entirely of steak and tears. Vegetables challenges their sense of self and go against a their desire for indulgence. I think the Bronze Age Mindset is as an overcompensation for something as simple as refusing to eat vegetables. You would probably argue that MAGA is an attempt to reject all the “soft” rules imposed by society (including, say, a balanced diet). Instead, it glorifies a return to a mythical place that never really existed, where men are warrior-kings who don’t need fiber because their digestive systems are as strong as their convictions. Nietzsche might chime in and say this is classic ressentiment: the rejection of a perceived weakness (in this case, things associated with health, moderation, or civilization) in favor of an exaggerated embrace of raw, unfiltered vitality—. But deep down, isn’t that just the insecurity of a guy who’s afraid of a salad?

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Consider the humble water beetle who, seeing the lotus leaf float, made its own vessel. Did it steal the lotus's secret, or did it honor the flower's teaching by carrying new life across still waters? The merchants of the Western shores cry "Thief!" while the Eastern kingdoms celebrate innovation. As the ancient text reminds us: "The river does not apologize to the cloud for borrowing its water, if it returns it to the sky with interest." Thus the wise one knows: When the student surpasses the master's technique, adding his own brush strokes to make the painting greater, is this theft or tribute? The answer lies not in the taking, but in what new gifts are returned to the world.

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The race is essentially about who can position themselves as the “drone” in the CUDA/OpenAI F-35 metaphor.

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