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You can thank the DNC for the appalling choices in federal elections, they decided it was best to mess around with race and gender quotas instead of putting forward genuine candidates.

So instead they voted for Trump?

That's like shooting your own foot off. He's always been this person. He was this person in the 70s, the 80s, the 90s, etc. it's fucking crazy to me that anyone, ever, ever, votes for him. It's really opened my eyes to the realities of a lot of folks out there.


THANK YOU.

It’s so strange to me that anyone who knew anything about him even before he announced presidency didn’t find him to be completely insufferable and an objectively terrible businessman.

He has always been incapable of speaking without constantly trying to brag about himself or bitching about how things aren’t his fault, and even before the infamous “grab her by the pussy” tape came out it was already pretty well known that he was a perv.

I do not know how he got any traction. Except, you know, he became even more outwardly racist.


"Look what you made me do", the motto of voters with no agency.

Quotas vs Zero Policy Coherence is your takeaway?

* Product folks over-promise

* Engineers are consulted for estimates to facilitate long-term planning

* Middle management slashes those estimates in half due to pathological myopia

* Executives enforce musical chairs to assert their authority

* Consultants muck everything up while collecting enormous payouts

And yet the business cycle keeps cycling.


They spent billions of dollars on compute costs and they need to pump the PKIs to justify it. That is the only explanation.

It is the same reason every app (be they web or mobile) gets a redesign every year.


That's gotta be it.

At Ignite yesterday they announced that Security Copilot will now be included for free with E5 licensing.

The tool that until yesterday way $50k for a single tenant deployment. Aka, no one bought it, but they need to juice the KPIs so might as well make it free so it looks like someone is actually using it.


One delicious usage is blanching and then blending it into flour for green spaghetti.


Not all progress is good progress, not all cultures are good cultures, and some cultures are worth protecting.


Why in the world do you think you are in a position to decide what is good?


There are valid criticisms of multiculturalism and there are valid merits to Trump winning the elections.


The totalitarian mindset will not even tolerate you “platforming” people who don’t sufficiently agree with it (even if you agree on 90% of things).


It's worse than that, the only authority figure in most kids' lives are women -- there are no male authority figures for over 80% of their upbringing between the ages of 0-18 years old, and most years it is 100%.


That $250M is (societally) better off going to him than being spent on whatever the hell Meta was going to otherwise spend it on.


Truly, the essence of the Democratic Party and its most important constituents is (checks notes) monarchies, dictators, international conglomerates, and etc(?).

Trump 2.0's policies have been a bizarre crisscross of strong-arming of titans of industry (traditional far-left), dismantling of the federal government with reckless abandon (libertarian), and obscene military spending (traditional far-right.)

What is the grand strategy here? Creative destruction?


Making the government small enough to drown in the bathtub? (Grover Norquist's goal)


Big military, big ICE and strong arming universities are not "small government" policies.


These are the pieces controlled solely by the executive branch. The goal is total unequivocal control, not anarchy.


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