theneverfox

You know, people are regularly un-deported, right? Well at least they used to be... This is a thing that happens

Also, El Salvador isn't refusing... The Trump admin is refusing to ask. We're literally paying them for this service - can the state say "sorry, we can't release this person because they're in a private prison, and that's against our contract with them". No, the contract can be invalidated and the state can be compelled to take reasonable action to fix it

You can't do a shell game to avoid court orders, and that's exactly what the Trump admin is attempting

Nah, it's not... The framers of the constitution put in multiple reset buttons, with the warning that this is for when their systems fail - not if. The question is, can we shake off the rust on one of the methods before we hit the final one

The pax Americana is over, the world no longer trusts us or respects us. They hate us, fear us, pity us... But for a generation to come, they won't trust us

Shit is going to get rough, but it's far from over. The question is will we see the other side of this in our lifetime

Saying someone is doing a 5d chess move is an over-exaggeration of saying they did a 3d chess move, which means to do something that seems incomprehensible at a glance but makes total sense to someone who understands the rules.

The joke is to insist that if you understood the reasoning, it's actually a brilliant move. But it's 5d chess, a game that doesn't exist (and 5d chess with multiversal time travel isn't really 5d chess, despite the name)

What good is a rainy day fund if the dollar becomes worthless?

If you're sure it's about to crash, the smart thing to do is spend it all beforehand

Sure. Wikipedia on technocracy movement

Basically, they want to control all aspects of society on high - no politicians, direct control of the economy, rigidly scheduled work and production, and expanding the borders from Panama to the artic circle.

Imagine centralized planning and authoritarian control of all aspects of society, but by business leaders (who presumably are the smartest and best at listening to science)

Here's the movement described by proponents:

Technocracy is the science of social engineering, the scientific operation of the entire social mechanism to produce and distribute goods and services to the entire population of this continent. For the first time in human history it will be done as a scientific, technical, engineering problem. There will be no place for Politics or Politicians, Finance or Financiers, Rackets or Racketeers. Technocracy states that this method of operating the social mechanism of the North American Continent is now mandatory because we have passed from a state of actual scarcity into the present status of potential abundance in which we are now held to an artificial scarcity forced upon us in order to continue a Price System which can distribute goods only by means of a medium of exchange. Technocracy states that price and abundance are incompatible; the greater the abundance the smaller the price. In a real abundance there can be no price at all. Only by abandoning the interfering price control and substituting a scientific method of production and distribution can an abundance be achieved. Technocracy will distribute by means of a certificate of distribution available to every citizen from birth to death. The Technate will encompass the entire American Continent from Panama to the North Pole because the natural resources and the natural boundary of this area make it an independent, self-sustaining geographical unit.[45]

I don't get how things like this don't get more attention... This whole thing was insane, but it literally did nothing to his career

Or maybe it's a 5D play. If the economy collapses in that time, their state will be in a better position

Sanders? He's doing rallies across the country with AOC, trying to tea party the democratic party to force them left, kicking and screaming

We need to harass our representatives to actually fight back, to respond to the overwhelming public will and resist. And if they don't, to replace them... He's doing something, there's a plan. Will it be fast enough to minimize the damage? I doubt it, but he has a plan he's working towards effectively

I found it super cool. It's dreamlike... There's no enemies so it didn't feel like a nightmare, just like playing a game in a dream

I have a simple rule - if someone makes me feel something positive, I tell them. It started when I was hanging out with friends downtown and a girl ran up to compliment my shoes, then immediately walked off. It felt great, especially because she left before I could wonder what her angle was

So now, I make a point to speak up. If someone says something funny I overhear, I tell them I thought so. If I think they had a cool shirt, I say so. Then I just go back to my own business

It's all plans from the '30s. Canada, the US, Mexico, Greenland, dismantling democracy to install technocrats, crashing the economy to bring back company towns - none of it is new, it's just being implemented in a nonsensical and incompetent way, so it seems random

It's not a good plan to start with, but there is a plan... One the oligarchs bought into, but without understanding how the plan was meant to be enacted

Ah, true... Although the inverse is true too