Maybe you could just make like a tree and leave?

This is why it’s imperative to fight his fucking ass. You can win. Don’t comply in advance.

He’s like a walking uncanny valley.

He’s the uncle in the zombie flick that swore he wasn’t bitten and is starting to turn.

If she were morally consistent she’d quit her “ministry” and go home.

This was the first thought I had when I read the headline.

No worries guys! It’s not a Holocaust. It’s a whoopsie daisy!

I heard – from right-wing propagandists so you know it’s true – that he had to be deported because he was abusing his wife. I guess DHS didn’t want him taking their job.

I’m 40+ and I wanna go get drunk in a parking lot with you guys.

Good luck selling the salmon at this point if you do that

I feel like most social media is the online version of this.

Stock market manipulator-in-chief

“investors” 🙄😆

Make American Gulags Again

My parents are boomers. Like a lot of boomers they have a pension. In addition, they’re still getting social security checks. A pension for me isn’t even a dream and I’ll be lucky if social security is even around in twenty years.

So, pardon me if I’m a little flippant about some of the “screw you, I got mine” generation eating a bit of shit because they were attempting to draw income from volatile assets that you’re supposed to be in when you are decades younger after voting overwhelmingly for a clown that said for months he’d blow up the market and then did as he promised.

It’ll eventually come back around to screw me in the end anyway in the form of one disaster or another because I’m a millennial: born at exactly the right time to live through every financial, political, and constitutional crisis possible as well as to finance a Domino’s pizza.

I really don’t think this is part of some grander plan. I think he really thinks blanket tariffs are a good idea.

Tariff man is an idiot.

Retirees ‘idiots’ as they keep savings they need to live in volatile asset classes such as stocks.

Federal and local government are likely both involved. With the doge cuts, who knows how many boots they actually have on the ground for this these days?

They get hit in the pocketbook and suddenly now the Constitution matters.

They could implement this by just not charging the duties at the ports in California and see who blinks first.

Yeah I mean there’s that but the reddit demo uses ad blockers frequently and ad-based content on reddit is already probably not that profitable. There’s a lot of people running astroturf campaigns for various things, but how are you seeing revenue out of that? Some schmuck buying the wrong type of portable speaker because of a crappy recommendation won’t add to reddit’s bottom line when it’s the speaker maker’s internal marketing intern. If anything, it’ll just further cause people to lose confidence in them.

The only path they had toward profitability was feeding all of their user data into AIs for revenue from AI companies, but chatbots are also unprofitable and that revenue probably won’t even cover the costs to run the servers, and besides how many companies are going to be dumb enough to pay for that privilege? We’re talking about folks that already stole every piece of artwork, literature, and news article they could get their grubby little mitts on. Why would they continue to pay reddit?

Ultimately the biggest conceit of the “attention economy” is the idea that attention automatically translates into dollars.

(And they’re bleeding attention too.)

This “company” has no real path to profitability to speak of.