“Captain America is a 70s style political thriller”. Yeah, I mean this shot is clearly a homage to Klute pic.twitter.com/5vvNVL2S9p

— David Hering (@hering_david) February 14, 2025

/u/fleurbb please sit on my face

Calling you out @Serenity you have MISUSEd your powers.

Reddit knows the answer

Took a second but cinna is fat gussy saying like every other word and other is black y

Glory to NK!

Gonna buy a new account to own the libs on my favorite bbc subreddit /r/whiteboysex

I dont friggin care!

Americans. Explain to me why this quality of writing disappeared off TV and why do your foids hate funny things so much.

Amarna brought this archetype to my attention and I've never noticed it before. Seems like exclusively Millenials or dirtbag left types say "should have been shoved into a locker" or some variation with lockers. 100% drawn from the TV. Turn it off.

https://x.com/search?q=shove+locker&f=live

Not sure why it's so popular tbh. Trying some pop psych maybe it's peaked-in-high-school adults nostalgically hallucinating a higher status youth. Us vs the nerds. That, "dweeb" as insult and the lunch money thing compose the totally unreal 90s bully media tropes.

This stuff was never done, and the very online don't know it.

or they just tolerated each other because the heat pad was better than everywhere else

Dude bankrupted his entire town. He even drained his daughter's college fund.

previously: https://redscarepod.net/post/340107/being-a-sensitive-young-woman-is

why are women like this

!superheroes

That's all, it was just a funny made up job title for a stupid made up nonsense job.

First, it is simply false to say that treasury payments do not have a "payment categorization code". It is notable, by the way, that he uses this completely invented phrase rather than the actual phrase "Treasury Account Symbol" (TAS). Indeed, it's impossible to find another use of this phrase using an internet search engine in any context, let alone the Treasury context. The far more limited "deficiency" pointed out by the Government Accountability Office report Krause referenced is that information about individual government transactions were recorded in multiple different account entries separately by some government agencies and thus individual transactions could not be readily traced through to all the accounting ledgers they effected.

No chud, the government doesn't need to note where it's spending your money and it was definitely working on a system to fix that by 2028 possibly

On to Musk's next claim: the need for "rationales". The idea of putting a "rationale" for each and every individual payment (or payment file) makes little sense in the context of how the system works. Think of this in your own life: do you fill out a little form that provides your "rationale" for purchasing an item every time you swipe your credit card? If you were required to do so, you would react very negatively for the same reason you should react very negatively here: if you had to put a rationale then someone could reject your spending requests on the basis of providing the "wrong" rationale.

Imagine the right wing uproar when the possibility emerged of restricting purchases of meat through such a "rationale for transaction" system. This should be seen as no different. The "Treasury Account Symbol" (TAS) provides the only rationale that should matter which is that congress appropriated the spending. Of course, if you want to abrogate congressional spending then that is obviously not sufficient and, in fact, counterproductive.

No chud, the government doesn't need to note why it's spending your money

Imagine if the government were buying some groceries and the government's credit card was rejected at the checkout, chud, that would be terrible. What if the government imposed fascist restrictions on you, chud, how would you feel?

This all goes back to Musk's tendency to think that there is, can be or should be a "button" that determines all of this and its corrupt, inefficient bureaucrats preventing this from happening. He simply doesn't understand how complex these systems are or why they are the way they are. Take the Treasury Offset Program (TOP) for instance. It is a Bureau of the Fiscal Service system for collecting delinquent federal or state debts. One former Bureau of the Fiscal Service employee explained to me that there are rules that determine:

Actually, chud, the bureaucratic tumour is a good thing and hasn't metastasized enough

To include my own editorial comment for a moment, this is why it's so alarming to see him talk about updating this list "weekly, or even daily". This strongly suggests to me that he is talking about arbitrarily and rapidly expanding the list of people and entities on lists such as the Office of Foreign Assets Controls (OFAC) list without any due process to block them from government payments. As I discussed the Wednesday before last, the apparatuses for capriciously destroying the financial life of disfavored entities and people has been constructed over multiple decades with active Democratic participation and support. Now they are in the hands of Donald Trump and Elon Musk. Thus, again, Musk's comments hide a desire for unchecked power over others under a false narrative about governmental "inefficiency".

My sources are also very skeptical that any career Treasury employee told Elon Musk that half of the expenditures that constituted "entitlements payments to individuals with no SSN" were "unequivocal and obvious fraud". It's hard to say more without knowing the context. This is the difficult thing with government by the pronouncement of Elon Musk. He can say stuff without any corroboration much faster than anyone else can check facts or correct falsehoods.

There's no fraud chud, my sources are 'skeptical'

In the meantime, it is exhausting how much effort is required to deconstruct one Elon Musk tweet. He can lie about very complex and technical systems much faster than he can be answered, but nevertheless it's important to periodically critically assess what the richest man in the world is saying as he continually tries to justify chopping the government up and selling it for parts like this is a private equity takeover.

Actually Musk is just lying, chud

!dinochads

!foidmoment

US President Donald Trump said Kyiv "essentially agreed" to provide mineral rights – rare earth elements in particular – in exchange for Washington's continuing support in a Monday Fox News interview.

"I told them that I want the equivalent of like $500 billion worth of rare earth [minerals], and they've essentially agreed to do that," Trump said.

Earlier, President Volodymyr Zelensky said he is open to a deal in response to Trump's earlier proposals by saying, "If we are talking about a deal, then let's do a deal, we are only for it."

"The Americans helped the most, and therefore the Americans should earn the most … And they should have this priority, and they will. I would also like to talk about this with President Trump," Zelensky added in his interview with Reuters.

Rare earth elements consist of 17 elements, the deposit and monetary values of which remain classified information in Ukraine. It is also unclear if Trump also referred to other sought-after metals found abundant in Ukraine, such as lithium and titanium.

average reddit response

Fr fr Ong

Yes, that M203 40mm grenade launcher.

I was in Iraq 2007-09. On one of our first patrols, a LT ordered one of his platoon members to patrol with a round in the chamber. Patrol went off without any problems, they returned to the outpost safely. Anyway, fast forward a couple of hours and this soldier was cleaning his weapons and accidentally fired a live HE grenade into his thigh. These rounds generally have to rotate about 8 times to arm before they can explode, so it just embedded into his thigh about 3 inches and stopped. Luckily, the Blackhawk pilot of the medevac had balls of steel and decided to fly him out with unexploded ordinance inside the patient. The grenade was removed and the soldier came back a couple of weeks later, just in time to get a field grade article 15 (punishment). If that round would have missed his leg and bounced around the room, the results would have been terrifyingly different.

neighbor fired a grenade into his thigh

!firearms

mark fisher predicted the current cultural stagnation and how it would infect people's thinking too: a society where the populace is hyper-judgemental, rigid and rejecting of any true deviance from the norm. but even he probably didn't anticipate just how blind people would be to their own lameness. at the time he talked about how leftist spaces had turned into moralizing purity tests that would suffocate discourse, but this mindset isn't limited to the libs anymore, everyone is in on it now too. the political consists of fake resistance; libs calling people names and nazis (drumpf, elmo), chuds spamming wojaks and pepes like its the 2012 reddit rageface era.

the culture industry isn't exactly new either, but it's impressive how it keeps optimizing itself. the biggest pop culture movement is swifties - the most boring, anti-art, corporatized fandom phenomenon in human history. mediocrity has never been more carefully distilled and refined than in her person. rap, once a supposedly vital genre, is currently making headlines for rappers having small peepees and being addicted to bussy and porn. the best youth culture can come up with is either idolizing already dead millenial culture or mass producing brainrot.

mass culture has been trapped in endless nostalgia loops for years, but even the internet - which used to be a wild, chaotic place - has finally been reduced to either hyper-policed, corporate-moderated mush (reddit dot com) or irony-poisoned wastelands where every conversation either degenerates into the same three wojak memes (ding ding ding, this is where we are right now) or is suffocated by asking of the reader to withhold their habituated responses.

this isn't just stagnation, it's full on social decay. if it took on physical form we could observe the brain worms slowly digesting our frontal lobes. I thought I could deal with cultural stagnation but I honestly didn't expect it would become this authoritarian and that its rulers would be this lame.