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Here are four things we know: members of Trumps's administration use Signal to discuss matters critical to US national security; their operational security is so poor that they accidentally added a journalist to a Signal group where sensitive plans for a military operation were being discussed; at least one person involved in this discussion was in Russia at the time; Russia is good at abusing Signal's multi-device feature to compromise its security. What are the chances Russia now has acces...

to live in a Russian client state? A lot of people living in the country now, I suppose, properly called Америки are about to find out, I think. ...

You do realise that your idiot president and his moron associates are turning your country into a laughing-stock, right? I mean, yes, we don't quite dare laugh out loud yet because you have nuclear weapons and shit, but you are, nevertheless, no more than an embarrassment right now. The country that put humans on the Moon reborn as Russia's useful idiots. You must be so ashamed of what you have become. ...

It's got to be pretty clear by now that what the Trump/Musk regime is doing to the US is not survivable. It was obvious before they came to power that the US would not be a democracy by 2029. I think it's now clear that, unless something dramatic happens soon, the US will not be a nation in 2029 at all. I don't know what it will be: perhaps parts of it will be Russian colonies? So much for checks and balances. ...

Diversity is a flower that blooms with greater beauty and greater strength each time it is cross-pollinated – The weight of the stars , K Ancrum ...

The US constitution is now rather like the constitution of the Weimar republic: once upon a time it had legal force, but now it is a document mostly of interest to historians and other scholars of the former federal republic that was the United States. ...

How does Musk manage to believe in the cultish SF nonsense that is TESCREAL while also being completely unable to cope with his trans daughter? You'd almost suspect he's very stupid, wouldn't you? ...

US median net household wealth, 2021: $166,900 UK median net household wealth, 2018-2020: £302,500 In 2021 the £/$ rate was on average about 0.73, so converting both to dollars: US: $166,900 UK: $414,380 Median UK net household wealth was more than double that of the US in 2021. I am sure the same is true for several other European countries. And Elon Musk has $400,000,000,000: more than two million times the median US household wealth. Oh, and there's a functioning democracy in the UK....

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When Trump got elected. lots of people were worried that he'd have learnt his lesson from last time and, this time, he'd be a lot more serious, and so a lot more frightening. Well, either that or the people who were behind him would be. Things like project 2025 didn't help reassure people. And now we have Musk demonstrating in public that he's an idiot, Trump's senile mumblings about buying Greenland or Canada, and both of them threatening war if their childish demands aren't met. No, it's n...

Musk has set up a poll on twitter whose question is whether 'America should liberate the people of Britain from their tyrannical government'. That 'tryannical government' being the one the people of Britain elected on the 4th of July this year, an election after which the outgoing government handed over power to the incoming one without accusations of vote rigging or fraud in the normal way that adults do. What Musk is suggesting is, apparently, that the US should invade the UK. He's fallen o...

I am sure that plutocrats have had mental health episodes before, but perhaps this is the first time where it's happened quite so publicly to someone who has had quite so much money for quite so long together with quite so many fawning servants that they can no longer remember what it's like for anyone to say no to them. I almost feel sorry for him. Almost. ...

When the man appointed by your glorious leader-to-be is having public conversations with his own sock-puppets on the vanity web site he spent more than two hundred thousand times the median American's net worth to buy, don't you think you be just a little bit worried about his mental health and suitability for, well, any job at all? ...

Why is Musk falling out with the poorer fascists about immigration? Well, remember that Musk is a financial parasite. What he, and his fellow parasites, do is to suck money out of the society that hosts them to enrich themselves. And they're parasites: they don't care if this kills their host society, so long as they can find another one to move to or complete their life-cycle in some other way. In Musk's case he probably thinks that, when his larval stage is complete, the adult Musk will li...

Here is something else I'd do if I was a bloated financial parasite plutocrat. I'd try to distract people from the fact that I am busily sucking the life out of the society that is my host to increase the size of the vast pile of money that is all that is left of my soul. I'd do that, for instance, by encouraging people to spend their lives getting furiously enraged at things that don't matter at all to anyone but a minute proportion of people. I'd encourage people to become absolutely livid ...

If there’s a nazi sitting at a table and ten other people sitting around the table talking to them, then there are eleven nazis sitting at the table. ...

Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium, atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant. ...

The median net worth of an individual in the US is about $200,000. Elon Musk is about two million times as wealthy. He has already bought power in the US and he is now planning to buy power in the UK. ...

If I was a financial parasite who had become very rich by extracting wealth from a society, I'd be a bit worried about current demographic trends. Birth rates are very, very low: population decline in many wealthy countries is imminent or already happening. And population decline, other things being equal, means relatively more old people: people who need care and financial support coming from a relatively smaller number of young people. What this smells like, if it continues, is either econo...

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This is the end game. The parasites have sucked so much money and social capital from the societies they feed on that they are likely to collapse. So the vampire techbros, plutocrats and would-be plutocrats have stopped pretending: they are now feeding without restraint, trying to extract as much money as they can, as quickly as they can, before their hosts die. Do they have a plan for what they'll do then, once their food source is gone? Probably not: probably they will start feeding on eac...

Surprisingly it seems that pervasive gun ownership can improve the quality of healthcare. ...

Less than half as long as the Roman empire. Less than half as long as the Roman republic. ...

populist noun: a person who offers simple, appealing, non-solutions to complex, unappealing problems. Example: Inflation is high: it's the immigrants. xenophobe noun: a person who fears or hates foreigners or foreign things. Example: Inflation is high: it's the immigrants. Impose high tariffs on nasty foreign goods. The result is high inflation: everyone gets poorer as prices climb to cover the tariffs. Well, everyone except plutocrats who own large corporations who are doing very nicely...

I've written before about the cold war. I argued that the last war the US won was the second world war, that the cold war did not end in 1991, and in fact was not over and that it did not look like the west (meaning, for all practical purposes, the US) was winning it. I think we can call it now. The cold war is over: Russia won. ...

I should have learned long ago. If you come across someone who seriously believes in magic, run far away. Don't 'give them a chance', don't assume that the contagion might somehow only have destroyed part of their brain: run. ...

So Trump has appointed Musk to some government position. Let's hope he does as well there as he did at Twitter X his vanity domain, eh? ...

Hahahahahahahaha. ...

I wish people would just shut up with all the 'Kamala Harris is to blame, because ...' shit: if, when offered a choice between a candidate who promises very loudly and clearly to uphold democracy and a fascist, you pick the fascist, then you are a fascist1. It doesn't matter that Harris was not perfect: she was far from perfect, but she wasn't a fascist, and Trump is. Kamala Harris is not to blame for the awkward fact that there are more than seventy million fascists in the USA. Shut the fuck...

When I was young, I can remember my grandparents (born in the early 20th century) saying that talking to Germans was always awkward: you always wanted to ask them what did they do in the war? In the coming years talking to Americans will be just the same: everyone will want to ask, who did they vote for? Were they, are they, fascists? And they will answer no, of course they didn't vote for him, of course they're not racists, not fascists. But about half of them were, about half of them are. ...