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You can just post things

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The events are exaggerated and unrealistic, the characters are extremely real. Basically if you went to college and/or have worked a white collar job in a major metropolitan area you know these people.

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They want to make fun of their attitude to the locals or not being exactly intellectual enough to make them seem more petty bourgeoisie and/or like that one Republican guy from college. Very funny underrated part of this season is how the one closet Republican woman is the only normal character

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There are a lot of PMC types who want White Lotus to be “satirical” so that they can say “wow look how exaggerated and unrealistic these characters are” to avoid the realization that they are these characters

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Holland is a huge influence on how I think about this, Dominion was very good. This was also very interesting https://open.spotify.com/episode/4sky4iXkHik0Oj1TpCtsBe?si=rclktDAAT16443Rcq08pWQ

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Past week has revealed one thing for sure: USG has been on autopilot for 60 years. Good and bad, this is what actually governing looks like

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You did trust the plan didn’t you anon?

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We recognize how Christianity created liberalism, the enlightenment, progressivism, libertarianism, human rights, etc. But there’s a huge Christian thing that people used to do, we still do it, and we don’t think it was Christian influenced? The counterpoint is that eastern religions, Aztecs, etc have this cyclical mentality built in. Maybe in the west the Christian influence raises the stakes for us and we’re not just existential about our own lives but about society and the world at large

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People talk a lot about secularization of Christianity that then influences everything around us without us realizing. But apocalypse isn’t one of them. These Christian end of world panics happened all the time, a big one every 100-200 years. I think we still retain that mentality without the religious aspect of it

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Yeah it’s a fair point but I don’t really know. Too many variables, alternatives, and piece meal scenarios where some things decline, some things improve. I think short term that’s 100% true. Medium to long term, companies won’t just take it on the chin they’ll do other things to mitigate it. Idk how effective those things will be and maybe everybody is poorer long term but idk if I necessarily see a catastrophic result

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Need one of those zoomer style sigma grindset compilations of Scott Bessent not flinching at all on tariffs

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Kind of an “other than that, how was the play Mrs. Lincoln” but what leverage does the CCP have over the US besides treasuries? Taiwan invasion? Cyber attacks?

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I’ve seen enough people say this that there must be something to it I guess but I just didn’t get that vibe. I think the first 2 seasons had pretty similarly paced buildups, I didn’t see what the difference was

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It is absolutely insane that White Lotus got criticism for being “too slow” (same pace as first 2 seasons, pure counter signal) But Severance didn’t? 5 episodes where nothing happens?

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Florida Trusted the Plan™️

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You need to be Monroe doctrine maxing. America belongs together. We were all born out of colonial emancipation into a new world separate from the old. Reject the EU. Reject China. Reject Russia. It’s the responsibility of the USA to protect everything to the north and to south. Arctic circle to Patagonia.

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Beyond my element, but agree with the principles here. Specific value judgements on this are for the devs who know better than me

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Knowing your niche @fun this is a very solid vein of ideas ^ Guessing integrations can probably be built with AI tbh. Getting influencers to build around your infra would be massive. Just foreign workers or AI building clip compilations is probably worth experimenting

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