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Cake day: January 13th, 2025

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  • Trump’s opinions are always based on who he last talked to.

    Yeah, and I feel like we don’t abuse this fact enough for good. Sure, if he talks to Putin today he’ll flipflop, but right now it seems like Putin is foolishly scorning Trump. If members of the EU can just constantly talk with him, maybe they can try and stay the most recent person he’s talked with.

    Really blows my mind that there hasn’t been any push from the left to just manipulate this idiot. Literally the most easily manipulatable president in U.S. history, but for some reason we’ve allowed right-wing grifters a monopoly on his dementia-addled rotten brain.


  • Not entirely sure what the term would be, but feminine men exist who are still men and are not trans. There are also trans women.

    as one, I’m cool with the term femboy. I think there’s still a few people who’d have an issue with the term, but we kinda have our own subculture established and everything at this point, so feels like a strong contender for the label.


  • I honestly feel like Smith gets a real bad rap from undereducated progressives. He would also have hated what the United States has morphed into, and I’m sure he’s spinning in his grave over people using his economic theories as justifications for pure laissez-faire capitalism. “The Invisible Hand of the Market” that conservatives use to justify trickle-down economics and often attribute to him isn’t even really his, it’s from a batshit insane later guy called Paul Samuelson! Smith only referred to it in the context of international investments, never this idea that “domestic corporations will always do what is good for the public.”

    I don’t agree with everything in Wealth of Nations, but it seems a lot of people just dismiss Smith completely out of hand. We should talk about him just like we talk about Marx, his work is not useless nor trivial.








  • and if the Aliens like it,

    I think this is the part I would become obsessed with; trying to figure out what the Aliens actually want. I’m confident that at our current technological level, we could automate a society that supports a million people. I’d start with accomplishing that, and then spend the rest of the time trying to develop a perfect piece of performance art including all million members to try and please the Aliens.