If a tree falls on him in the forest, would anyone hear him squish? Or care?
People wood care unfortunately.
Time for this guy to get taken out…of office.
I really hope to see him buried soon.
Under massive voter disapproval polls and impeachment proceedings.
To quote local shitstain Mike Davis, who was SUPER TOTALLY JUST JOKING “I want to drag their dead political bodies through the streets, burn them, and throw them off the wall.” Which, you know, same to you buddy.
It’s cool it’s OK when he says it.
When the Ents had reduced a large part of the southern walls to rubbish, and what was left of his people had bolted and deserted him, Saruman fled in a panic. He seems to have been at the gates when we arrived: I expect he came to watch his splendid army march out. When the Ents broke their way in, he left in a hurry. They did not spot him at first. But the night had opened out, and there was a great light of stars, quite enough for Ents to see by, and suddenly Quickbeam gave a cry “The tree-killer, the tree-killer!” Quickbeam is a gentle creature, but he hates Saruman all the more fiercely for that: his people suffered cruelly from orc-axes. He leapt down the path from the inner gate, and he can move like a wind when he is roused. There was a pale figure hurrying away in and out of the shadows of the pillars, and it had nearly reached the stairs to the tower-door. But it was a near thing. Quickbeam was so hot after him, that he was within a step or two of being caught and strangled when he slipped in through the door.
Turning the US into Isengard. Nice
Why do you think that company is called Palantir lmao. I wish I wasn’t joking, but it is this stupid if you poke around a bit at the neoreactionary obsessions with LOTR.
Wait, the neoreactionaries actually want to be like Isengard and not like, based trad gondor or something like that? I kinda figured it was just called palantir cause they thought it was a cool reference and cause peter thiel is just naturally sinister like that
All this takes tech investing beyond Silicon Valley into new realms, some of them menacing to many observers. That will not worry Mr Thiel. Palantir is named after a “seeing stone” most often used by Sauron, ruler of J.R.R. Tolkien’s evil empire of Mordor in “The Lord of the Rings”. Evidently Mr Thiel, ever the contrarian, does not view Mordor as harshly as most Tolkien fans do. As he once told a friend: “I’d rather be seen as evil than incompetent.”
If you want a taste of this tech brainrot: https://er4hn.info/blog/2022.08.09-orc_selfidentity/
It’s a thing.
The metaverse is named after a VR program in Snow Crash, in which it is a tool that an evil corporation wants to use to brainwash and enslave all of humanity except for some very rich people. My take is that these dweebs will take any power fantasy they can get, and being the powerful evil organization is a lot easier to actually live out than being the lone hacker with a samurai sword or hobbit or whatever who stops them.
The Metaverse in Snow Crash was largely built and maintained by hacker culture though, and later leveraged as a platform for distribution more then a direct tool for control. Metaverse would still be agood reference for smaller projects like Resonite then evil corpo plot.
Yeah I hate that company and it’s name so much
thiel is obsessed with lotr, thats why he also made/or funded anduril.
Ooh, I was picturing something quite large and chonky. This makes sense!
Lmao putting a nail in a tree is ‘eco-terrorism’
Fuck this country
Truly we’ve always been the baddies. It’s been a capitalist hellscape from day dot, and that is not an exaggeration.
Thanks for the tip!
Teddy Roosevelt is rolling in his grave.
Guns don’t need wood parts anymore. I believe billionaire biomaterials work better? I’d say some testing is on order. We need some billionaires. I believe the bones are probably the sturdiest parts. And their teeth have gold.
It’s an emergency!! We need lumber for… Things. Quick!
Shipping it to Gaza to build his casinos, resorts and condos for his Russian buddies. Israel is just about done genociding so the shipments have to start soon.
The Gaza Riviera.
I wouldn’t go anywhere near it. Those luxury condos, resorts, hotels, and casinos that Kushner has been negotiating for since immediately after Oct 7, are going to be prime targets for terrorism for YEARS, and I won’t be sorry about it at all.
The entire region is going to be a heavily militarized zone. That’s a fun vacation.
Everything else aside… What the fuck is so urgent about cutting down forests that you need a emergency order to green-light it?
gotta find some work to do for the chauvinist american workers
Perhaps to mitigate the repercussions from tariffs on lumber from Canada. We saw a bailout for farmers impacted by his previous tariffs, the administration may actually believe the national forests can save Trump from the consequences of his actions.
Maybe because the dumb fuck instituted tariffs that makes lumber prohibitively expensive? I don’t know. Nothing makes any fucking sense anymore.
Have to urgently circumvent Congress.
Profit
I guess domestic demand is high because we certainly can’t export them.
What the fuck is so urgent about cutting down forests that you need a emergency order to green-light it?
Replacing timber we previously got from Canada before the screaming from the industries that use lumber that is now tariffed gets too loud.
I don’t know enough about those industries to know if it’ll work, though.
and its the forests timber is not even good quality too.
I don’t think we have the sawmill capacity.
Almost like they’re fully comforatble with reckless corruption.
They are fully comfortable with reckless profits. Corruption is just the price to pay.
The MDF furniture must flow
probably something to distract the masses, from all the federal cuts, and tariffs from the news,
Building “freedom cities” for billionaires, maybe. In his '23 announcement, it specifically stated:
Freedom Cities will be built on federal land that is undeveloped and not part of any of our country’s magnificent national parks or other natural treasures.
Which I assume means they’ll be built on your parks?
(for anyone scrolling past like, “wtf are freedom cities” - it’s feudalism. The Company Town. Literally lords and serfs type shit. Plenty of good places to read more about it, but here’s one to start.)
‘emergency’ is a word that means the executive does what they want
Nothing. The “emergency order” is entirely so he doesn’t have to go through Congress to do it.
Quickly becoming his go to play. It’s how he pushed through tariffs and how he was able to auto deport all those people. There’s probably more that I’m unaware of but the amount of national emergencies the man has declared so far is kinda crazy
“I can do anything I want if it’s an emergency!”
“And I get to say when it’s an emergency!”
Dang i wonder if we can find example of emergency powers eroding democracy in the past now…
Not from a jedi…
But does this type of EO have legal backing?
It’s kind of a case by case basis is my understanding. The president does have pretty broad emergency powers but the courts can block any individual one if they feel it’s overstepping.
i thought liberal democracies had mechanisms to stop this from happening!
They do, it’s called “voting”. Unfortunately, this “liberal democracy” (which it hasn’t been a true-democracy in over a century) has a large portion of voters that refuse to execute their civil duty as a citizen of a city-state.
Essentially, people want all the benefits of living in a society without putting forth the work required to maintain it. Cracks eventually start to show, corruption leaks in, and that’s how fascism begins to grow in the cellar of Democracy’s home. That’s how we’ve gotten where we are.
Christ - that’s quite the logging order you’ve got there… this is an environmental disaster - just to reduce Canadian imports!?
This is the exact same tactic this regime will use on the 20th of April to declare martial law. I’m really curious how long it took the Germans in the late 1930’s to call it what it was.
This is a coup d’etat. Lots of people will die. The regime - even if DJT dies or gets shot - will go on. There won’t be any more fair elections. I hope these protests go from 5 million to 10 million on Saturday, because only a mass movement can stop this.
Why that date specifically?
90 days since the inauguration and a few other good reasons.
Oh it’s astrology bullshit. I was interested in what you were saying in this thread right up until you posted that link.
I agree that we’re in for a rough time, but don’t post your astrological quackery like it’s prediction with solid evidence on what this the administration is going to in the future. Humans are amazing at finding patterns in chaos an ascribing meaning to it, but it doesn’t mean astrology is at all relevant to anything.
Yeah I read the first sentence of the post in the image, and closed the page. No, the movement of the planets doesn’t mean Trump is declaring martial law on 4/20. For fuck sake…
If you want to go that fast and only look at the pretty picture, maybe go read comic books. It’s not just astrology bullshit. Horoscopes are bullshit, astrology when done well can be scarily accurate. Plus I’m not using astrology as the trend setter, but the trend confirmer.
The key thing you refused to read is that Musk is in charge, he’s a proven neo Nazi, and particularly adores Hitler. The rest you’ll have to read yourself. Or you can pander here for some more cheap upvotes.
PS: please lemmy, can we raise the level of discourse please and not upvote these populist comments? Stay on reddit if you just want to be a walking regex that sees “astrology” + “bullshit” = upvote.
Astrology should be derided to an extent that it’s hard to even quantify. It sounds like conspiracy theory forums are more of your jam
Don’t worry it gets downvoted there too.
Hitler was an occultist and into numerology, so is Musk. I don’t know why this is so hard to understand.
This is the typical peasants fighting among themselves while they are steamrolling their Project 2025 in broad daylight.
astrology when done well can be scarily accurate.
LOL no.
Well, argued I love your scientific methods I need no further proof, thank you
Yeah that’s not how science works.
You are the one making the claim (“astrology is real”) and therefore the honus is on you to provide evidence. And the saying holds true. “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”
And you cannot provide that because it does not exist.
Edit: I just had another thought about your initial claim… You said that it works “when done correctly.”
I’m wondering, how does one know if the astrology was done correctly aside from the prediction ending up being correct? So wouldn’t that be a tautology?
It would be like saying that, “if you flip a coin correctly, it will always end up on tails,” with the only measure of success being “it landed on tails, therefore you flipped it correctly.” Therefore, by definition, flipping a coin “correctly” has a 100% success rate.
Do you see how meaningless all of that is?
I know Musk is a neo Nazi, that’s not new information, and couching that fact in astrology destroys the credibility of that fact.
I did read your whole posted link and I’m still calling bullshit, because any time you invoke astrology, all credibility is out the window. This isn’t a “populist” opinion, this is a simple fact: astrology is a ancient system for applying humans’ overactive pattern regocognition, and correlating real world events to the movements of planetary objects against an arbitrary selections of stars.
It doesn’t matter what you believe you don’t have to try and convince other people that you were right and other people
I was merely using astrology to corroborate something that was already pointed out with an abundance of other really good arguments.
To me you’re just a Muppet who will dismiss the discovery of a cure for cancer because the researcher said he found a cure of cancer on his birthday. Babies and bathwater and stuff
If you think that the wealthy and the powerful of the world don’t use astrology to time their events, that’s when you lose all credibility with me.
Thank you for taking in this discussion with me
*mass armed movement they don’t care if 100 million person manifest if they fear nothing after that and no they don’t need a reason for martial law still gonna happen with only peaceful protest
I thought when talking about the USA the arms and violence is implied. Though, historically it is curious how the French with a notorious lack of weapons wreak more havoc than them 2nd amendment folks.
This person is a FUCKING FASCIST AND IS SPREADING WHITE REPLACEMENT BULLSHIT DONT TRUST THEM ON A SINGLE FUCKING THING
This person is a FUCKING FASCIST AND IS SPREADING WHITE REPLACEMENT BULLSHIT DONT TRUST THEM ON A SINGLE FUCKING THING
This is the exact same tactic this regime will use on the 20th of April to declare martial law.
Just stop with this. You are basing this off astrology, as you pointed out in your other comment. I’m not saying there’s no chance it won’t happen, but spouting that opinion like it’s an informed fact with concrete evidence is
dangerously close tomisinformation.Lol, as I just pointed out in my other comment, you’re someone who sees a picture and jumps to conclusions. Don’t brigade and attempt to rob others who want to read the entire linked article.
What’s on April 20…?
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I’m really curious how long it took the Germans in the late 1930’s to call it what it was.
In Germany, by 1934 the regime had publicly admitted murdering hundreds of their opponents without trial.
And written a law after the fact which simply stated: “The measures taken on June 30, July 1 and 2, 1934 are lawful as state self-defense.”
Germans knew.I agree. But I’m just wondering if they went to the butcher to get a bit of meat if they were a acknowledging that they were living under a dictatorial regime right now?
Up until late 1944 or early 1945, most people basically just kept living their lives normally, while making some secret jokes about the regime, being annoyed by the constant air raid sirens, complaining about food shortages, actively looking away when their Jewish neighbors were arrested, and mourning their dead sons, yes.
What do they claim the emergency is?
We’re importing too much of our lumber from a foreign country (Canada), which is a national security risk to the lumber-consuming parts of our economy. I wish I were joking.
I love that this map still has the Gulf of Mexico.
I hate that this will be done to our national forests. They’re a natural treasure and should be protected for so many reasons.
Trees are woke
It’ crazy how republicans are framing cutting down forests as a “good way to prevent arsons”
