I am not white washing Bush in any way by pointing out the much more sever things Trump has done.

As an American, I completely agree you should work to limit the damage our country can do to the rest of the world. The people here no longer control it. It is controlled by billionaires, and the corrupt millionaires they purchased in our government. What our oligarchy has done to control social media to obtain election results can and has easily spread elsewhere.

It’s a problem we’re certainly working to fix from the inside. And certainly have enough guns to do so. But it’s going to take a bit.

Bush wasn’t bad enough to use them. But people starving to death after their SNAP benefits lapse unquestionably will.

Last time this happened, just before the great depression, the starving dragged our corrupt leaders and capitalists into the street and beat them mercilessly. We ended up getting FDR who enacted the new deal, and made our country have the economic boom it did as started by WW2.

What we have now is a bunch of greedy oligarchs that have re-captured thar economic strength for themselves and once again will be beaten mercilessly once people start starving again. One just recently got executed, and his murderer will likely go free due to police negligence, I should remind you

Not salt you are tasting, friend. That’s your own premature ejaculation from intentionally being an idiot.

So you can’t explain or define what genius is, yet judge anyone as an idiot who asks for that context?

Genius and brilliant are synonyms btw. Something pretty obvious.

So unless you want to explain the difference between those two terms, they mean the same thing.

Being pedantic about that doesn’t make you right. It very much implies the opposite. You just look like someone that ate billionaire PR bait, and forgot what reality tastes like.

You are not saving face by refusing to go into the details, you just look like you don’t know what you’re talking about.

Something you could easily disprove if you did. Because Geniuses can go into those details. Idiots can only pretend.

So makes sense why you look up to Musk so much. You can only pretend to be smart like him.

Maybe don’t be an onion then?

I reject your claim Musk is a genius.

Prove it to me.

You read two of his biographies, so you should know. (Unless those were both fanfiction he paid someone to write about him.)

Musk has indeed been in close proximity to several large companies and their origins.

But genius is not something achievable through osmosis.

What has he, as a person, done with any skill, to suggest he’s a genius? Aside from osmosis.

Let me drop some really basic logical observations your argument will need to overcome to be truthful:

He’s not a productive man:

• As evidenced by his near average of 100 tweets a day. Confirmed by AI. Which is close to 2 hours a day tweeting, not doing anything of value or skill.
• As also evidenced by his character in Path of Exile, one played in hardcore mode, with the best gear available, that would require nearly 10 hours a day of play to achieve.

There is no difference between this behaviour and a jobless NEET or internet troll. They get shit on for this bevavioir due to how unproductive it is.

It’s just as unproductive when Musk does it.

He’s not an accountable father:

• As evidenced hy his 14 children with 4 different women.

This is literally the punchline of a Jeff Foxworthy “You might be a Redneck if…” Joke.

It’s just as unaccountable of Musk to have this many kids with this many people. He would need to spend a lot of time with each to raise them well, and instead he’s playing video games and tweeting almost all day.

Logically, if Musk actually wanted to go to Mars, it would be a 3 step process:

1. Rocket a person to Mars
2. Terraform and settle Mars
3. Migrate to Mars.

He’s focused on 1, and telling you it’s for the good of Humanity.

But if instead he focused on step 2, he would be fighting climate change right now while developing the tech needed to Terraform Mars, as they are the same tech. That’s what a genius would do.

Instead he’s trying to replace NASA with Space X because money.

He doesn’t use his money to improve society. He just uses it to improve himself while lying to you that it’s for the greater good.

It’s not. And it’s never been.

As evidenced by his Hyper loop being a lie to convince legislators in California to cancel plans for a high speed rail. Something California would now benefit from if not for his interference.

All Musk does with his money is use it to buy PR and good will so he can continue to be someone that uses Twitter and play games all day instead of being a good dad. That’s not genius. That’s greed and stupidity.

He could, even now, solve the world’s problems with his wealth. He literally asked for a plan to solve world hunger, and when presented with one that could have done it for like 8 Billion a year, he refused. Then purchased Twitter for 5 times that amount. Because he wanted to be popular.

Yet solving Wolrd hunger would make him worshipped by the people he fed. More popular than anyone. Families would praise his name. And communities would erect statues for him. This is something he certainly wants, yet his way of achieving that goal is to spend even more than 8 billion on PR to convince you he’s a genius.

That’s not very genius like behavior. It’s still just stupid and greedy.

Imagine, for a moment, you’re a Trillionaire. What would you do with that money? Solve the world’s problems? Help your family? Help your friends? That’s what 90% 9f people say when asked.

And Musk does none of that. Just plays games, shit posts on the internet, and convinces you through biographies and large well paid PR teams that he knows what he’s doing and should be worshipped.

His wealth, unquestionably, would be better used if it was in the hands of thousands instead of his. He wants you to think he deserves it, that he’s a genius. When the most casual look at his approaches to problems immediately reveals he’s not. He just a wad of unspent money that wants to use it to take credit for other people’s work instead of fixing the planet.

Time to prove why you think that makes him a genius.

I’ve worked for him by the way. He’s not a genius. He just has good PR to make you think he is.

Agreed. He certainly did. But expanding the executive branch to control congress to take over several Independant institutions like the FCC and SEC fits the literal definition of Tyranny as it changes the actual shape of our government, permanantly, by the whims of a single man.

Bush is bad. But he’s not Trump bad. After Bush there was still elections to win. After Trump there might not be. (if we are to take January 6th as an example of what happened last time he lost.)

It definitley has. But they’re only programmed to support the things they hear will help them while they are already being helped. So once the help stops coming, and they realized WHO stopped it from coming, the GOP will no longer be able to piss on their face while telling them it’s raining. They no longer have a house to protect them from that piss, let alone a job or Healthcare.

The reason the GOP won is because they’ve been using social media and cable news to create a false reality for the past 2 decades.

One where intelligence is bad, and everything America stood for is woke. In this reality democrats and liberals are the defacto bad guys keeping America from winning. Winning what? Whatever game this narrative designed to be played by two political teams. The war on drugs. The war on terror. The war on DEI. All bullshit. All to distract from the reality where those teams are all part of the same government forum designed to enact policy compromises.

GOP members in 2024 didn’t vote Harris simply because they never even heard from her.

Dems have failed to fight the growing false reality built against them. Not even daring to call Trump a bad name when he killed millions.

So the problem is simply that Dems have no accurate representation in this false reality. And it’s a reality that’s now consumed the world. Simple because algorithmic searching for information can be manipulated to present the results you want. So billionaires and their hedgefunds purchased the ways and means of every internet, telecom, media, and newspaper to make sure you never even know what’s real anymore. As whatever they want you to read about the world is the only thing their algorithms will provide you.

So we have farmers getting fucked by Trump while saying Biden and Harris did nothing. Despite Biden and Harris bending over backwards for them.

In this very thread we have someone telling me Biden was president in 2020. 5 years ago. Can’t remember president Trump telling us to eat horse pills instead of getting vaccinated.

This false reality is only enabled as long as the means of the people in it are being met. They no longer are. Trump made sure of it. Publically.

So now it’s really hard to lie to someone now they realize it’s not rain Trump is hitting them in the face with. Gotta have windows to get away with that.

He wasn’t. You’re completely and unquestionably wrong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden

Joseph Robinette Biden Jr.[a] (born November 20, 1942) is an American politician who served as the 46th president of the United States from 2021 to 2025.

This was less than 5 years ago my dude. Enough fingers on one hand to do the math working backwards.

You should, unquestionably, be able to remember Trump telling us to eat horse pills instead of getting vaccinated. Or injecting bleach into your skin instead of getting vaccinated.

Something that actually hurt and killed several people, and was tracked in reality. Something you clearly don’t participate in:

https://www.poison.med.wayne.edu/updates-content/kstytapp2qfstf0pkacdxmz943u1hs

From the year 2020, proving you wrong again:

Accidental poisonings as a result of Americans ingesting bleach or other household cleaners spiked over March and April, nearly doubling as President Trump suggested the chemicals could be useful in fighting coronavirus infections.

Dude. You aren’t even talking about Musk. You are entirely talking about what his well paid PR team has made you think of him.

The dude hasn’t done fuck of shit. Just used his money to help others build shit he never bothered to acquire the skills for. Reusable Rockets? That was Tom Mueller you should be thanking. Not the person writing his paycheck. That could be literally anyone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Mueller

Musk uses his money exclusively to get his name on things to take credit for other people’s work. Tesla, PayPal, Space X, now Twitter / X. All the same. Musk lacks any actual talent or work ethic. He just has money to attach his name to those that do, and money to pay PR teams to make his image appear as someone that has skills to create instead of wealth to take all the credit from those that do.

IF you want to respect someone that has enough wealth to solve almost all of the major problems in the world but uses it instead to purchase a social media platform to shit on others and warp elections, then you go right ahead. But don’t expect anyone else with a sense of reality to agree with you.

Trump killed over 1 million Americans through his completely fucked up and politicized Covid response.

Literally there’s more dead Americans from Covid than anywhwre else. AND we’re the 18th highest in deaths per capita despite being so very spread out.

Bush didn’t let everyone’s grandparents die in a pandemic then bail out his corpo friends with an unmonitored 1.7 trillion dollar blank check while the economy was failing.

No one forgot Bush. Trump is the concentrated malignant greed at the heart of how Bush got elected. He is magnitudes worse of a leader in every measurable and conceivable way. He corrupted the GOP from one that publically hated him into one that literally worships him as a king. He literally killed the GOP by converting them to his own MAGA religion, and they let him. So he’s now killing millions through starvation with the death of USAID and SNAP benefits while demolishing the Whitehouse and extorting American corporations for the money to do so.

Bush was no where near this level of fucking insanity.

MAGA is now the face of the GOP. So the GOP is never coming back.

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The point isn’t profit making through competitive better products, but rather taking existing products and making them as terrible as possible while gaslighting the public that it’s still a great product. That way we get worse of everything and the people making everything worse get richer via higher profit margins and the higher stock evaluations that buys them.

Basically, most people realize their product is no longer good, but participating in its consumption is more rewarding to our lizard brains than the product itself. So people buy crap products just to get the feeling of using them as they did in the past.

Unfortunately that’s just the way we’re wired. And every nepo baby with an MBA has driven a truck through that psychological loop hole, destroying anything of value that the US was capable of making best.

No joke. Everythings been in decline for over a decade, but we’re too in love with the ritual of consumption to care what we’re now consuming is no longer of any useful quality. Something our government now 100% reflects.

There will be a time when that ends. And it’s coming soon. As no one born into this mess gets joy from consuming something of so obvious low quality. They never got to enjoy the good product our rituals came from, just the corpse of what our rituals now lament.

There was a time, at the dawn of internet gaming. When the term HPW meant something.

Gone are the days of the High Ping Warriors. Chad’s of patience and virtue lost to time.

Now with modern attention deficit social media disorder, almost everyone’s an LPB, and acts like it.

Ping is and always has been a skill issue.

If people in '99 could anticipate the trajectory, velocity AND ping of an opponent to accurately hit them in the face with a rocket fired a football field away in Tribes, then anyone can tolerate a match in COD under 90 ping in 2025.

Adaptation is how you get good. Adapting to something that’s more than necessary makes you even better at that thing when that weight is removed. Get good with ping, and you get good at every game on the internet that uses it.

But AAA fucks better optimize their code better because you can’t anticipate rubber banding bullshit. That’s just bad netcode.

You’re not making a bad argument. Just the wrong one.

The system we have is now whatever Trump wants it to be. Going back to the system we had previously would now be just as radical as changing it into one that actually benefits us.

The system we had lead to Trump. Period. Why would you want that again?

Ask yourself: when should we go back to exactly?

Back to before the Patriot Act robbed us of our constitutional right to privacy?

Back before no child left behind made our graduating high schoolers functionally illeterate?

Back before Citizens United allowed corpate power to influence every single election for decades denying you minimum wage, universal Healthcare, or literally anything that would detract from corporate profits over public welfare?

Back before Reaganomics then?

Maybe further back before the business plot of 1933 to overthrow the government in place of business nepotism?

Or maybe before all the Tariffs we passed in the 1920’s that accelerated the great depression?

100 years later we literally have the same problems. Just without the benefit of actually stopping them from destroying our government.

Half the white house is missing. An elected congress person isn’t being sworn in. Our own military is in our cities and it’s to protect masked police deporting some citizens with no due prosses.

This is not a future we reached by mistake. It is a future that was inevitable given the limitations of our existing system, combined with the centuries sociopaths have had to game it. We should not go back to it. It will just lead us here again.

It would be far better to use as a model for a better system. Certainly many other countries already have. But do not let nostalgia blind you to the fact that the problems in the system we have are inherent, and they are not fixable from within using the systems tools. They allow for exploits to grow, and after a hundred years, fail entirely in containing them effectively.

During WW2, a very difficult decision was made to use nuclear weapons. Killing hundreds of thousands to stop millions from dying. If they were not dropped the losses in the south pacific would be well over 8 million dead.

The argument you are currently making, given the WW2 context, is for us not to drop the bomb. Despite us already being at a point where Orange Hitler is about to destroy Snap benefits killing millions more than USAID closing and COVID already have.

There is no more normal course of action given the current situation. And there hasn’t been for quite some time. Just because Democrats haven’t noticed that in decades, doesn’t mean they ever will. This article confirms they won’t, and was written as PR for people like you to believe otherwise.

Just following up from my previous answer: MOST officers only need to pass training on use of firearms once a year. It does vary per department, and some officers use their access to training and ranges to hone their skills. But MOST of them only follow the guidelines, and most guidelines only require recertifying firearm use once a year.

By policy, it’s different per police organization. But overwhelmingly the biggest orgs only force training once a year. And the metrics they use to pass for accuracy and use are lower than most concealed carry courses.

100% couldn’t agree more.

We have an indie game they declared “woke” because it has a non-binary main character. That main character is a half drawn stick figure. Never drawn with pants or a dress, or even two arms (they have just one).

But this half drawn childrens stick figures with no identifiable gender is too “woke” for this person.

Media literacy is indeed dead.

Edit: Name of our game is INK INSIDE.

As someone who used to create judgemental use of force firearm training simulators for law enforcement, I can tell you right now you’re likely a better shot than 90% of our police force too.

The problem with that strategy, was that Republicans were not doing that.

So it was a bad strategy. End of argument.

If you are actively strategizing, planning around what your enemies are NOT doing isn’t strategy, it’s stupidity. And it is what Dems have been doing for decades. They just want to blame Republicans for their complete lack of foresight rather than ever be accountable for letting the GOP cuck every single policy of theirs. Now to the point of undoing hundreds of years of legal precedent and progress.

The time for integrity and thoroughness had long since passed before Biden took office, so using it to defeat Trump was about as effective as using a fax machine to share memes. Being anything but aggressive after an active coup attempt that miraculously failed is astronomically naive at best.

But Biden was handed a literal democracy destroying shotgun with one barrel labeled “complete legal immunity” and the other “infinite executive authority” and he looked at that gift from the Supreme Court and decided it was best left to the next president to use. Oops wasnt Kamala. So now instead of Biden expanding the executive branch to control congressional decisions such as how many members of the Supreme Court there are, Trump is doing it to consolidate complete power and authority.

Our Supreme Court built a political Nuclear Bomb, that was 100% going to be used by Trump to destroy this country, and they gifted it to Biden first. His decision to not benevolently use it to destroy the holes in our Democracy MAGA has infested doomed us to be a corpse eaten by those MAGAT’s.

This article is PR for those who failed to protect our country to feel better about it. They failed. They sucked at their job by using clearly outdated strategies, and they did it despite our literal democracy being on the line. I do not blame the unstoppable force that is the MAGA GOP, I blame the Democrats who acted as tin cans for decades when they swore they could be immovable objects. Glad this article clears up the fact they literally never could be.