I've been considering throwing the fucking phone in the woods for some time now, and this will be the last straw that forces me onto SIP devices fully.

Certainly the sort of diplomatic coup I would expect in the escalating trade war. The Chinese need an advanced economy to partner with, and the Japanese need cheaper goods. DC bozos are truly delusional if they didn't think this was going to happen.

Same reason the Afghan war was a scam. The only people willing to be Uncle Sam's dogs are sociopathic drug dealing warlords. Which is a good description of a lot of local PDs, so I understand the authors' concern with this particular practice coming home sooner rather than later.

Peering into Goonworld’s darkest corners has convinced me that what we are dealing with here may well be a structural flaw of networked communication itself. Is there a timeline, a regulatory environment, in which the internet does not turn into a highly efficient manufacturer of niche suicide cults? I find it hard to imagine. In the case of the gooners, one can hope—and in more cheerful moments, I do think it’s possible—that sustained overexposure to porn will dampen the medium’s effectiveness as a numbing agent.

Just like "alternative" medicine, people wouldn't pursue substitutes if the genuine article worked. Meanwhile the endless drive to turn society into a prison continues, and all we can do is smear shit on the walls of the cell.

Echoing earlier sentiments by Tone Vays and others.

Promising to drive his chainsaw through the corrupt practices supporting this type of heist, he did the opposite: he followed the heist script to the letter, but with a chainsaw as its new logo.

Just a side note here: Fuentes refers to his “groypers” as “Elite Human Capital.”