January 2025 CE: Black/morbid humor can be a defense mechanism against doomerism

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That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

The years of lithium

https://x.com/NewsWire_US/status/18...ingawful.com%2F

# ¿ Jan 1, 2025 20:45

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# ¿ May 12, 2025 19:41

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

https://x.com/Tom_Winter/status/1874577016692854811

# ¿ Jan 2, 2025 01:12

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

OddObserver posted:

...not a big fan of them highlighting his religious stuff, that tends to go really bad places.

Its The Post, it�s intentional

# ¿ Jan 3, 2025 13:39

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

Duzzy Funlop posted:

Evegoons have distanced themselves from SA because it's "too woke" and full of "cancel culture", sooo...post checks out.

There�s actually a pretty solid group of goons that broke away a couple years back and started Goosefleet, which is decidedly woke and chill.

# ¿ Jan 3, 2025 13:41

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

ThisIsJohnWayne posted:

Realest american culture:
African-American culture, 18th century frontier legends, and

Praise Jesus

# ¿ Jan 4, 2025 10:31

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

https://bsky.app/profile/esqueer.net/post/3lfbp4icbm223

# ¿ Jan 9, 2025 10:51

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

He was a prohibited possessor already

# ¿ Jan 9, 2025 23:49

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

SquirrelyPSU posted:

I have literally not heard about Steve Bannon in 5 years and I'm okay with that.

He was in prison

# ¿ Jan 12, 2025 10:38

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

Stultus Maximus posted:

and I�m okay with that.

# ¿ Jan 12, 2025 14:39

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

Seems like the better fit would have been biodome

# ¿ Jan 12, 2025 21:16

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

fknlo posted:

Kansas City air traffic control center has gone atc zero. They lost everything. Radar, radio, land lines, cpdlc, literally everything. You can go to adsbexchange.com and look at the giant space with almost no airplanes in it to see how impactful this could be if it�s not temporary. I don�t know how this happens without the lines coming into the building all getting cut.

The last time something like this happened was with Chicago center when a tech ops guy cut the lines in the basement, lit a fire, and tried to mill himself. This poo poo doesn�t just happen.

Die Hard 2 was p decent

# ¿ Jan 14, 2025 10:11

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

Chinese government harvesting your data bad. American monopoly corps doing it, good.

# ¿ Jan 17, 2025 19:15

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

AreWeDrunkYet posted:

And let's not forget that the American monopoly corps are feeding the same data to the American government.

Probably selling it overseas also

efb

# ¿ Jan 17, 2025 20:55

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

pmchem posted:

classic identity politics dem pandering, totally useless

No lie this is 100% what I assumed it was before I knew anything more about it

# ¿ Jan 18, 2025 01:43

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

Kesper North posted:

Most of them are closely aligned with large corporations and bill themselves as "business friendly" while closing schools left and right and voting for expanded police budgets, powers and a whole honkin' lot of surveillance capabilities.

This is basically just Neo-lib dems since the Clinton era onwards imo.

E: in better news https://x.com/DurrutiRiot/status/1880267898217992528

That Works fucked around with this message at 11:20 on Jan 18, 2025

# ¿ Jan 18, 2025 11:13

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

I'm gonna keep blaming the Democrats for losing until they fire everyone within shouting distance of leadership for making GBS threads the bed against Trump twice.

# ¿ Jan 18, 2025 19:20

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

Defenestrategy posted:

I've heard this a few times and this I feel this is ridiculous. Joe Rogan "works" because he's a blank slate that doesn't think critically about... well anything that I can tell outside of weed, psychotropics, and martial arts. Dude will nod along with anything outside of the most blatantly obvious 'ism's.

Now whether he is a grifter who will bring literally anyone on that will pop a rating and to do that he just needs to sit back and put any idiot on his show, or he's genuinely a curious dude who just wants to interview people and takes the approach, that actual mainstream media outlets take, that it's better to just nod along with the interviewee and only push back if they say something entirely hosed is still up for debate in my eyes. A "Leftist" or even a "Facist" Joe Rogan doesn't work, because such people aren't going to be easy to listen to for joe douchebag on the street.

https://www.reddit.com/r/youtubedl/comments/cjjzeu/list_of_joe_rogan_experience_guests_by/

Rogan puts Nazis online in one of the biggest platforms in his type of medium. A "Blank Slate" that platforms Nazis is a Nazi platform, doesn't matter if he gets Bernie Sanders on there once or something.

# ¿ Jan 18, 2025 19:57

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

Grip it and rip it posted:

I mean doesn't this view of things simply cede a platform to the nazis if they're ever able to get access? when we're talking about someone that has a viewership as large as Joe Rogans, it seems like it would be worth it to try and displace the nazis rather than condemn the entire platform?

For the record I loving hate Joe Rogan and can't stand his fans but they do seem like a large, impressionable group of people. When I was in law school I had to sit through morons repeating talking points that they heard on his show about different topics. If he is as amenable to all sides as some people seem to think, it sounds like a potentially valuable avenue to reach people, nazis or no.

I get your point but going through the list in the link I am not really seeing a lot of leftists etc.

Rogan is one of the major reasons (IMO) that we have people not taking vaccines, etc. The platform does vastly more harm than good. If you want to try to engage with it to take advantage of it, you're still helping perpetuate a platform that signal boosts people that want you dead. I'm not sure how you square that circle. It's like saying Fox News is fine if they just keep bringing out a democrat now and then.

# ¿ Jan 18, 2025 20:20

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

Stultus Maximus posted:

Staying away sure as poo poo did nothing to reduce his reach so maybe we can file that approach away as �failed.�

Is this what happened?

Were people from the left invited and declined to attend in real numbers? Or did Rogan's staff just invite loads of right wingers and throw in an occasional lib?

(legit asking because I don't know. I refuse to listen to Rogan).

# ¿ Jan 18, 2025 20:45

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

Defenestrategy posted:

Look at the link you posted, political dudes of any flavor don't even crack the top twenty guest appearances, and by weight just kinda scanning the list quickly slammed together it's probably far less than twenty percent. It's all comedians, fight nerds, and health grifters. Dudes probably an idiot of some flavor and I think the world would be better off with out his podcast, but the whole "The Left Needs a Joe Rogan" misses the point, because Joe Rogan isn't a politics show, it's just some stoners podcast where he interviews whoever the gently caress.

A "Blank Slate" that platforms Nazis is a Nazi platform. It doesn't matter how many other non-Nazi's are on the show. You've got Alex Jones and Sargon of Akaad and poo poo on there man, poo poo's bad.

e: I'll let it go, I've said as much as I need to on this one.

idk that putting more people on Rogan is the solution. If you look around at basically all other mainstream online content, it's signalboosting right wingers, Rogan doesn't seem to be an exception.

Stultus Maximus posted:

Which is why it's probably better to phrase it as "the left needs to start showing up on something similar to Joe Rogan's show."

I think that would be a good bit better, but you'd need a real audience.

That Works fucked around with this message at 21:28 on Jan 18, 2025

# ¿ Jan 18, 2025 21:26

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

Kith posted:

deliberately abandoning one of the largest and most influential platforms to the alt right because fighting for representation on it is just too hard is the most lib brain poo poo ever. real "we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas" energy. it's cool and all to have lofty ideals about never tolerating the presence of nazis but when you do that by totally avoiding anywhere they gain a foothold all that's going to accomplish is ceding ground without resistance. joe rogan is the world's most useful idiot with an enormous fanbase of politically ambivalent stooges hanging on to his every word and it is 100% on the dems for just letting the other team have total control of that stage

Presuming that JRE is some valuable neutral marketplace of ideas and not already part of the right wing radicalization pipeline is naive imo.

# ¿ Jan 19, 2025 10:58

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

Defenestrategy posted:

I really get the feel that like half of you, fortunately for you happy for you, where only passingly familiar with Rogan until recently and think its some hour hate fest like alex jones or something. Us nerds who do grapple and punch sports have had this guy infront of us and our gym friends for years.

Dude as far as Ive been able to tell is only critical when it comes to weed, aliens, and fight sports and has some tragic opinions on transpeople participating in gender divisions in fight sports. If you say legalize it, I stand by aliens rights to exist, and mall karate sucks and can keep a high person from going off topic you can sit up there and say pretty much anything. Honestly itd be like saying nbc is a radicilization pipe line because they had putin and trump interviews and the interviewers where milque toast little dweebs

I was familiar with JRE from several years ago, around the time he started promoting antivaxx views.

Despite having multiple people on, telling him he was dumb and wrong about vaccines (Bill Burr masterfully threw it in his face more than once) yet Rogan still is an ardent antivaxxer. So no, I don't view him as some dumb blank slate that only parrots the views of his last guest, because he's been consistent on this point for years, and it's caused real legitimate harm and deaths in our country. So yeah sorry I am not going to view the guy as some benign thing to be leveraged. He's a hostile force that actively harms americans by propagating ignorant views.

If yall are going to keep saying that the Dems need to get on JRE more to make a difference, then maybe show cases where Dems are saying they will not go on the show (not people itt like me who do not matter) , or have tried to go on the show and been denied. The only case of this I can recall is the Harris campaign ended up not going on but this was also in the 11th hour of the race and they were working on a campaign with just a few months prep time instead of the years it normally would have.

# ¿ Jan 19, 2025 21:04

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

pygmy tyrant posted:

I guess it is already inauguration day in China.

lmao that's real?

# ¿ Jan 19, 2025 21:29

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

lol https://bsky.app/profile/dieworkwear.bsky.social/post/3lg4oiwp5ec2z

# ¿ Jan 19, 2025 22:24

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

Zamujasa posted:

the tail is wagging the DOGE

Good thread title candidate imo

# ¿ Jan 20, 2025 10:49

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

Comrade Blyatlov posted:

Hitler salutes

# ¿ Jan 20, 2025 23:27

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

I�m not really sure I wanna try to normalize a Nazi salute as anything but just that from a guy who platforms Nazis, agrees with their views, openly esspouses the great replacement theory etc.

# ¿ Jan 20, 2025 23:50

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

Platystemon posted:

https://x.com/ADL/status/1881474892022919403

I wish that I could send this tweet back to like 2009 and see how people took it.

what the gently caress is this poo poo

# ¿ Jan 21, 2025 00:26

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

Fun fun

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/initial-rescissions-of-harmful-executive-orders-and-actions/

# ¿ Jan 21, 2025 02:27

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

Comrade Blyatlov posted:

ARE YOU loving KIDDING

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/withdrawing-the-united-states-from-the-worldhealth-organization/

Oh yeah, they mentioned that they were gonna do that like months ago.

My big worry is that they�re going to do what they said and have DOGE close the NIH. I don�t think most people at all realize how vital that organization is to basically all of biomedical research and education in the country.

# ¿ Jan 21, 2025 03:02

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

Acebuckeye13 posted:

I've lowered my expectations to the point that if there's still something resembling a country in 4 years I'm going to be pleasantly surprised

# ¿ Jan 21, 2025 03:15

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

Sadly paywalled on WaPo but CDC, NIH etc have been told to stop all public communication.

This includes CDC's morbidity and mortality weekly reports, which are one of the best conduits of information on emerging infection numbers and used by clinicians / public health officials. In the face of a potential bird flu outbreak, this is the dumbest and most nonsensical thing you could do. Like, this is dumber than anything I can think of that was done during covid for public health strategy. If birdflu starts spreading between humans, this will cost lives, for absolutely no reason and make something that we can very very easily contain and control, into an actual problem.

# ¿ Jan 22, 2025 14:10

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

facialimpediment posted:

For what it's worth, I read earlier that the communications pause isn't a huge surprise, as that happened with the 2016 transition too. There are a few experts chalking it up to a messy / disorganized transition on the Donnie side.

What's weird and different is the open-ended communications pause with no unpause date. That's completely new and a big ol' red flag. And naturally the pause isn't clear about what continues and what doesn't, since it's an RFK Jr wingnut now in charge of comms. The relevant portion:

As always, I hope you are correct.

The biggest issue with the "pause" apart from if its temporary or not is that tomorrow was going to be one of the first bigger reports on H5N1 going out and now that is not happening. Putting out fires or epidemics works best if you do it at the beginning, so delaying and blocking information up front can make a small problem into a big one.

bird food bathtub posted:

*shrug* It's the fascist playbook.

*shrug* last time their mismanagement in this area killed over a million americans. I think its worth a mention.

# ¿ Jan 22, 2025 15:34

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

bird food bathtub posted:

I'll cop to that sounding more rear end in a top hat-ish than intended. I read this thread for this kind of content and appreciate it. Just not expecting any kind of public outrage or marching in the streets protest about any of it this time. It's normal now that the president fires off blanket pardons for violent cop-killing insurrectionists. A million more can die from whatever we're cooking up next with a warming climate and we're just, kinda, going to accept it. That's how things are now. FOX will spin up the hate machine and blame the perfidious Dems for it or what the gently caress ever and round and round we'll go.

Sorry for the snark there, just had to deal with a long time friend trying to tell me that Covid wasn�t really a big deal and not really anything important happened, etc.

Related news, my friends at NIH that I was going to see at a conference next week will not be there because there is now a band on federal travel for them.

# ¿ Jan 22, 2025 17:17

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

You think DOGE is going to look at the Pentagon and go "we have an army, and we have a navy, why does the navy have an army?" and delete the Marines?

# ¿ Jan 22, 2025 18:26

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

Comrade Blyatlov posted:

is there a way to only get invaded by like, insanely sick mexican restaurants and food

In the part of Kentucky, I now live in. It�s already happened. I am happy about this.

# ¿ Jan 22, 2025 21:29

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

https://www.science.org/content/art..._source=Bluesky

quote:

Donald Trump�s return to the White House is already having a big impact at the $47.4 billion U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), with the new administration imposing a wide range of restrictions, including the abrupt cancellation of meetings including grant review panels. Officials have also ordered a communications pause, a freeze on hiring, and an indefinite ban on travel.

The moves have generated extensive confusion and uncertainty at the nation�s largest research agency, which has become a target for Trump�s political allies. �The impact of the collective executive orders and directives appears devastating,� one senior NIH employee says.

Today, for example, officials halted midstream a training workshop for junior scientists, called off a workshop on adolescent learning minutes before it was to begin, and canceled meetings of two advisory councils. Panels that were scheduled to review grant proposals also received eleventh-hour word that they wouldn�t be meeting.

That Works fucked around with this message at 00:42 on Jan 23, 2025

# ¿ Jan 23, 2025 00:40

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

GD_American posted:

Random thought- besides the obvious gimme of Walter Peck (Ghostbusters), which fictional bureaucrat would almost certainly be part of the Trump Administration

Gary Oldman alone has played a few

# ¿ Jan 23, 2025 23:37

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

Just got to watch ICE raiding some shop while I was driving by. There's been a couple a day here in Louisville.

Weird the companies hiring undocumented aren't getting charged with anything or fined though...

# ¿ Jan 24, 2025 20:12

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# ¿ May 12, 2025 19:41

That Works: Jul 22, 2006; Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy

Fauci�s security detail just got cut. Wonder who�s more at risk, him or Bolton?

# ¿ Jan 24, 2025 21:58

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