Its amazing to me that donors don’t seem to think about this disgusting dynamic and force equity adjustments.

Love this guy.

Hrm… Putin wants everyone to think Russia is gonna win no matter what, so the West gives up n pushes Ukraine to surrender… but the numbers say the opposite. This yr Russia has barely gained any ground while losing 40k+ soldiers a month, n Ukraine has actually taken some land back. Russian officers lie to their bosses abt how things r going, Russia can’t recruit enough new troops to replace the ones it loses, n Putin is scared to force ppl into the army b/c Russians r sick of the war. Ukraine is using drones to take out Russian troops b4 they even reach the front… so small Ukrainian units can stop way bigger Russian attacks. Russia is now bombing Ukrainian cities n power plants to break ppl’s will, but that kind of bombing has never made a country quit a war it was holding its own in. Bottom line… as long as the West keeps helping, Ukraine can keep fighting, n the goal should be making the war so costly for Putin that he takes a deal he doesn’t get to dictate.

She is adorbs!!!

• 18 U.S.C. §201 (Bribery) — Paying officials for official acts
• 18 U.S.C. §1951 (Hobbs Act) — Extortion under official authority
• 18 U.S.C. §208 — Conflict of interest, financial
• 18 U.S.C. §203 — Paid representation while employed
• 52 U.S.C. §30121 — Bans foreign political contributions
• 52 U.S.C. §30122 — Bans straw-donor contributions
• Presidential Library Anti-Corruption Act — Proposed library donation limits (not passed)
• No Payoffs for Pardons Act — Proposed pardon-bribery clarification (not passed)

I believe there was another Yalta agreement with Trump, Putin and other dudes at the table carving up the world.

https://dboft.com/ That said, any fascists will get the wall.

100% agree. Protect yourself and your loved ones. Build community and figure it out together.

Zeschuk nails it, and it lines up with something Nate Hagens talked about on The Great Simplification: a company doesn’t need a single villain at the top to behave like a psychopath, it just needs to be structured so that extraction beats CRAFT every time. That’s what “none of these people have ever made a game” feels like to me. BioWare was built on people who loved the work and took the time it needed; the PIF/private-equity model wants annual sports titles and predictable margins. Hagens’ talks about traits out-competing values, so the people with the values (Zeschuk) walk away from the crucible and the people with the extraction reflex keep hammering forward. We ALL have this SAME problem people… wtf are we going to do about it is the question.

Thank you!

I created dboft.com (lemmy server) to try to recreate my reddit feed. They were requiring their mobile app… and thats a no go for me. BTW, I didn’t recreate my reddit feed… but I like whatever this community better.

This is simply payed by anyone who brought Trump a gift of Mammon.

Congrats on being self aware.

More like to ensure executive bonus.

With the Overton window shifting… I’m just not sure anymore.

You’re right about the dual mandate, that’s the traditional mechanism: weak jobs, rate cuts, stocks up. And that plays right into what Trump wants anyway. Bad job numbers give the Fed cover to cut, which is exactly what he’s been demanding. But I think the mandate is being overpowered now. Trump wants rates at 1% or lower. He’s a real estate guy who built his career on cheap debt, and he’s openly said the oil industry is “making a freaking fortune” off high gas prices and “I don’t give a damn.” That tells you whose interests come first. Cheap money flows into assets, and the hottest asset right now is AI, controlled by a handful of tech billionaires who lined up behind this administration. When jobs disappear, their investors read it as proof AI is working, and stocks climb. The market isn’t following the Fed’s mandate anymore, it’s following capital’s story… So in my view, the people outwardly pulling the strings are the asset owners: oil, tech, real estate, and the administration serving them. Bad news for workers is good news for them. That’s what I mean by psychos. Okay, get your tinfoil hat? This next part is pure speculation, but what if… What if pressuring the Fed isn’t just about donors, but part of something bigger? Trump calls Canada the 51st state, wants Greenland, and talks about owning the Western Hemisphere. His envoys are real estate and investment guys holding repeated meetings with Putin about joint business deals, while he waives Russian sanctions. My theory… there’s been a kind of modern Yalta, where the big strongmen quietly carve the world into spheres. The Fed is one of the last independent institutions standing in the way, so it has to be bent. Cheap money pumps up the assets the ruling circle owns. The Iran war drives up oil, which enriches Russia and US oil, hurts Europe, and squeezes ordinary Americans. A squeezed, destabilized population is easier to push around. Every piece of the pattern is there for this… and the people winning is pretty clear.

I’m surprised the authors didn’t mention the means-testing scam Democrats are running. They show how consultants drain the party’s money, but they miss how politicians shrink their promises to the bare minimum. Instead of fixing big problems like healthcare, housing, or prices, they figure out the least they can offer and still win. It’s the same game as the fundraising: it serves the consultants and donors, not voters. They tell us “democracy is on the line,” then offer us scraps. No wonder people feel the party asks a lot and gives little.

Maybe in 2010 but I could argue that’s now how it works today.

Remember, this will cause the stock market to go up because we’re ruled by psychos.

Yeh, that guy…and all the others as well. I think we all know that the US has been doing this for a long long time. Thats one of the reasons why we’re seeing a movement away from centrism.