[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

QuickTidal, on 15 August 2025 - 03:14 PM, said:

you can believe what you want to believe man.

Instead of believing what you want to believe, you should genuinely seek empirical truth, even if it contradicts what you'd like to believe (and when you notice an irrational bias of that sort on your part, you should be especially careful to try to prevent it from warping your sense of reality---if your goal is the most accurate understanding of reality and the best ways to rationally respond to it).

Then again, there's also a very strong rational case to be made for the argument that most people would be better off living in their own fantasy worlds, and letting AI run everything (once it's ready to do that). (But letting Trump and his MAGA fascists run everything?... not so much. Especially when they decide (again) that they want to run Canada.)

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 15 August 2025 - 03:39 PM

[QuickTidal]

Before abyss comes and tell us to knock it off, because my replies are only going to get more antagonistic, let’s stop discussing it. We will never agree.

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

QuickTidal, on 16 August 2025 - 01:01 PM, said:

Before abyss comes and tell us to knock it off, because my replies are only going to get more antagonistic, let's stop discussing it. We will never agree.

Well, let me leave at this then: I want to believe you're right, and I hope you're right, but I think the empirical evidence strongly suggests otherwise.

Bit surprised that as a naval history enthusiast you don't seem to have anything to say about Antoni giving interviews with a large painting of the Bismarck as his backdrop. Perhaps it's self-explanatory beyond elaboration (despite being named the Bismarck rather than the Hitler...).

August-2029. Trump is master of America. Only Canada stands before him. The subways of Toronto are now battlefields.

But I think we can agree there's a very good chance he'll drop dead before then... let us pray.

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 16 August 2025 - 01:38 PM

[Mentalist]

QuickTidal, on 14 August 2025 - 01:45 PM, said:

Tsundoku, on 14 August 2025 - 12:40 PM, said:

You're assuming Trump won't use his pet FBI, DOJ and Judiciary to solve the problem for him.


I fear within the next 12 months, Trump et al will be using the apparatus of the Fed Govt to directly and blatantly go after and falsely accuse, convict and imprison his political and economic opponents. Or drive them into effecive exile and political irrelevancy.
A la Putin et al, except on a much faster timeline. Will they have show trials and struggle sessions too? Or just skip that part and go straight to non-public extrajudicial executions?
All the while his supposedly "small Govt" and "I fear the Govt, that's why I have muh gurns" retards baying for their blood. Will be interesting to see if the same fate befalls these modern day Robespierres.

None of this matters when the Media turns on him. Once they realize that the "DJT is a story" is in the past, and "DJT's downfall is delicious and is the new story"....the narrative will shift against him on all quarters. Whether that happens before or after he passes away from Cheeseburger Heart Attack remains to be seen. And once he's gone things accelerate...deceased people cannot defend NDA's...every single piece of information, taper, video tape about this man will come out and the attempt at distancing from it will be swift.

If he has the cops and the courts, the media will shut up, or get fined/sued into irrelevance.

Not like we haven't seen this pattern before.

[Macros]

I think there is a bit of blinkers on both sides guys.
QT, you've been burnt before thinking Trump would fall, and Azath has over predicted on the other side before.

You have to agree to acknowledge that yoh both may be wrong

[QuickTidal]

 Macros, on 17 August 2025 - 07:43 AM, said:

I think there is a bit of blinkers on both sides guys.
QT, you've been burnt before thinking Trump would fall, and Azath has over predicted on the other side before.

You have to agree to acknowledge that yoh both may be wrong

I will freely admit to being wrong, and know that I quite frequently am....but in this instance time is very much on my side. When Trump is gone, the NDAs everyone signed over his lifetime become meaningless...so everything will come out. EVERYTHING. The other aspect of that will be a MAGA civil war...no one will be able to replace that snakehead of the cult....no one...not in our history has a cult leader ever been successfully replaced. The regime will fall. It's just a matter of when.

My problem is that this fucker is affecting my job and my life and my bills....and I don't even live in his goddamn country. I am stuck dealing with tariff bullshit shouted down by the dictator in a neighbouring country because our economies are intertwined. So if I seem extra salty and that I need the hope of this mans downfall, it's because my home and any family may be at stake now...and that's a hard pill to swallow, and it will be a LONG LONG ass time before I forgive Americans for foisting this shit on the world.

[Macros]

There goes the civil lawsuit fine.

Bye bye last shreds of hope that America won't fully kow tow to the orange shit bag, dictatorship ho!

[Garak]

What happened? Also I thought the USA was already well along that route.

[Macros]

The bigly fine he got for tax fraud has just been nixed by a 'very brave'judge