This is ridiculous. It's just the dumbest thing I've ever seen: a nation destroying itself to prevent the sale of cheap products. We can't keep getting stupider at this pace, as a species. Within another generation or two we won't be able to speak whole sentences.
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https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2025/02/21/donald-trumps-economic-masterplan-unherd/
And their leader, trump, has trouble speaking whole sentences already.
It's Scottish whisky, Italian sports cars and South Korean technology.
Why are there no aliens civilisations?
Because dumb fucks.
*without being sweary
Genuine question, I'm fairly ignorant to macroeconomics
Then they came for tenses, but I thought fit & fit and spit & spit sounded hip;
Then they came for proper spelling, but autocorrect told me I was wrong;
Then they told me I didn't have to think, 'cause AI sumthin...
The key differences here are that the US have greatly accelerated their own demise as hegemon, and a lack of clarity about who will replace them.
The US is playing on tutorial mode with the Easy Button smashed. "Losing" is gonna be hard.
More like another fortnight.
And here we are.
https://bsky.app/profile/gregor.us/post/3llwipan24k2v
The USA was version 2.0
What's 3.0.going to be
for exemptions/funding?
"I heard the Tories wanted to sell the NHS, and I didn't want that to happen. So I voted Conservative"
I don't think it's *only* America
My half serious proposal is that every ballot paper should have a ten-question multiple choice on the back, stuff like:
Who is the Chancellor of the Exchequer?
1. Rachel Reeves
2. Boris Johnson
3. Prince Harry
4. Phil Foden
.. and people get one vote counted for each right answer.
("Write 'Weltanschauung' in one box only.")
Idiocracy was on the money
Ian there's parts of Brexity Britain were this is already the case.
Wrong solution to the wrong problem.
Trump has the mental capacity of Ralph, the business acumen of Ole Gil, the compassion of Burns' hounds and is left in the dust by the speech writing ability of the Crazy Cat lady.
Well done America
You deserve what you voted for