And probably call the elected congress a coup attempt

That’s an inherent risk when your assets are managed by an external party. Cash in a bank is seemingly always accessible because its “liquid.” Liquid means it is a ledger that almost everyone uses.

If no ledger is available to show how much the bank can give you when you ask for it, OR the bank no longer HAS that cash on hand - they can’t give you that asset.

Every asset requires a special ledger. Destroy that ledger or that asset… the asset is effectively gone.

We know exactly what happens when these situations occur. If you obliterate a house, there better be a ledger showing you purchased insurance in the case of loss, otherwise you are SOL. If people lose faith in a bank, and a bank run occurs - the cash gets exhausted and people are SOL until cash comes back.

If all of your physical and cash assets are stored in a physical vault, and the vault is destroyed, those assets are gone.

An interesting way to do one, but in practice, yes.

That is not all they have. Please don’t become complacent.

They operate through fear. They need people to be anxious of anything insignificant and unlikely to be harmful. If its not the LGBTQ+ community, its the Hispanic community, the Black community, the Muslims, the educated, the credentialed, the disabled. If they can point to a group and say “The other party supports these people that are a threat to you” and they all say it, they’re more likely to believe it, and ignore what the true cause of the problems is.

Well, yeah. It’s usually not the principal that gets out of hand anyway. It’s always the interest that gets ya.

While we can be wishful, conservatives will always exist, and it would be better to prevent them from doing more damage.

It would, however require constitutional amendments that would essentially neuter the Unitary Theory of the Executive.

1. In my head, it would give each branch of government it’s own physical law enforcement.

2. And money generated or excess received by the branches must still be appropriated by Congress without exception.

3. the electoral college should be ended and ranked choice become required.

4. Undo citizens united

5. Do something to get people with actual brains running for office. No idea how to do this one though.

I keep getting “They Live” vibes from this administration and it keeps getting more and more unsettling as time passes.

They aren’t going to get to a population of 100,000,000 by being pro-life, that’s for sure.

Man. I’ll tell you, looking around the desktop training hardware that nVidia now sells, they better fear that their business models are toast.

If nVidia walks away from all this stupid wealthy, fine. The hardware we can give each engineer is worth it.

Edit: For late arrivals to this if you’re curious why someone anti-LLM could be happy with this - its because the hardware is model agnostic. Whatever data and training algorithm you give it, it will be able to work with it. That expands the domain beyond signal generation (what Generative AI does) and gives engineers the ability to feed data intensive problems to it that we have long desired to make sense of.

Ah, thats a good point. An animal caught in a trap has no use for the limb if it’s dead. Gnawing it off gives him a chance to at least keep fighting for survival, even if that chance still leads to him bleeding out.

Errrr… who do you think I’m referring to as authoritarians? It’s certainly not socialists or anarchists.

Yeah, that lines up, the new Kremlin shills are also way more obvious than they used to be.

Combine it with the measly $500m purchase of Russian diesel, more valuable targets in Russia getting hit. Putin is seeing walls close in, and the oligarchs he has to keep happy… won’t be.

Prigozhin was just too early.

Undoubtedly. I mean normal people don’t worry about being assassinated so much that they try to control the entire population.

They’re authoritarians? That’s not a political disagreement, thats a human rights issue?

Edit: I’m sorry to whoever is offended by this, but having the political stance that anyone else has no say isn’t a political stance, its a problem.

Believe it? No. I mean, its really just phallic humor. Being authoritarian comes from a place of anxiety though, that I believe. Obviously correlation doesn’t equal causation, but every authoritarian ruler in history has been anxious about being removed from power.

Which… clearly makes sense, because they aren’t immortal and doubling down on your oppression only works so many times.

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I didn’t say they should be, I said they probably are.

Like, we know authoritarians are inherently a detriment to society. I don’t think there is a single example in history where people benefited from authoritarian rule equitably to the ruler. Clearly cognitive dissonance is required to support authoritarians, and cognitive dissonance is a defense mechanism commonly found in anxious disorders. Projection is another one.

Given the focus authoritarians have of defining masculinity on things that have little benefit to any gender, they are projecting insecurity about their own masculinity, and performing all sorts of mental gymnastics to avoid the remaining anxiety.

Mix in a little of phallic humor that has at least existed since ancient times, and one can come up with the idea that they simply are insecure of their penis size.

Physics used Angular momentum!

It’s super effective!

I’m conflicted in that theory as time goes on. Prior to 2020, I would have agreed with you entirely.

Now, I’m not so sure. He fought against the invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union, defense is and easy thing to understand. His goals with the US are much less clear to me. If it was to merely punish the entirety of US citizens and weaken US international influence, I say yes, easily.

But that doesn’t make sense, as it has been confirmed that the US provided military training directly to bin Laden but military aid was not sent directly to his militia and funneled through Pakistan. I dont know enough about the guy, but it is quite possible that he was entirely unaware of the indirect nature of the aid to him. So he just could have been retaliating for the perception that the U.S. gave him training and abandoned him.

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Idk what that says, but its pretty funny the different ways I look at it.

Im not saying they’re biologically inferior though. Anywhere in that post

Having a small penis doesn’t make someone biologically inferior. It also doesn’t make them an authoritarian.

Overcompensating for your small penis by being an ass with demands on other men to conform to your manliness makes you have a problem with your thinking. As in, authoritarians have a problem with themselves that they can’t change and project it onto other people.

That doesn’t make them inferior. It means they need a LOT of work.