Lina Khan was the best thing that ever happened to me 🥰

See the problem here is that you are sane and rational.

After the bankers’ gigantic, compounded fraud blew up in their faces in 2008-2009, Obama came on TV and said that the government will not step in to bail out people who were underwater on their mortgages, no matter how fancy and ridiculous the loan terms were. This would have cost approximately $1.3 trillion, and the reasoning was that bailing them out would set a bad precedent; that one could take out a loan (or be the victim of fraud and deceptive practices) and not pay it back.* Instead, it was decided that the banks would be bailed out, and the cost for that has been estimated at between 12 & 16 trillion dollars. I know you know this but a trillion dollars is a thousand billion dollars. Just an insane amount of money, not to mention it’s been 10x the amount it would have cost to put millions of Americans into the security and stability of home ownership. In the spirit of American style central planning, the extremely wealthy were made even more wealthy as a result of their abysmal performance at… central planning (designing an economy that not only allowed but rewarded the actions that led to 2008). Between the policy of “we (the fed) buy your (private bank) trash (debt) for 100 cents on the dollar at whatever face value you (private bank) decide” QE and the fact that the US has a sovereign currency which is the global reserve currency it means that the US can “afford” literally whatever it wants, and “the US” now means Trump and his cronies.

I’m not saying this makes sense (what you are saying is what makes sense), I’m saying that I don’t think it has to make sense anymore… as if the past 20 years have “made sense” financially.

• the PPP loans during Covid were literally “here’s a ‘loan’, you don’t have to pay it back”, and you know who those went to.

Ok yea that makes sense

Oh shit, sorry. Internet connection is spotty and i kept clicking Reply lol.

Very interesting article but it seems to be ignoring the elephant in the room which is that the capitalist is lying in order to fleece the public, not least through a government “bailout” aka give me money for failing. If a reporter (or even an average schmuck in this case) can do quick napkin math to see that the numbers aren’t even in the right ballpark then the capitalist as well knows that, as they are generally obsessed with this sort of thing.

The contract in question—a five-year, $300 billion cloud computing agreement between Oracle and OpenAI announced in September 2025—represents the largest technology services contract in history. It commits Oracle to building, equipping, and operating 4.5 gigawatts of data center capacity as part of the Stargate joint venture, with revenue recognition beginning in 2027. The scale is almost incomprehensible: $60 billion in annual payments, sustained for five years, from a single customer.

That single customer is OpenAI, a company currently generating approximately $13 to $15 billion in annualized revenue while losing approximately $9 billion per year. OpenAI’s internal projections, obtained by Fortune, show cumulative losses of $115 billion through 2029. The math is stark: OpenAI must grow revenue approximately fivefold in two years—from $15 billion to $60 billion annually—merely to meet its Oracle commitment, let alone achieve profitability.

No technology company in history has achieved such growth. The closest comparison is Nvidia itself, which grew from $27 billion in fiscal 2024 revenue to approximately $130 billion in fiscal 2025—but Nvidia sells physical products with clear unit economics to customers with immediate use cases. OpenAI sells subscriptions and API access to customers whose return on AI investment remains, by most surveys, deeply uncertain.

Using Nvidia as the only one that made it in this example is kind of misleading, as the only reason they achieved that growth and give credence to the scam is via the scam itself.

Idk, the attitude of “well golly shucks how in the world will they pull this off?” kind of pisses me off because this is a scam, everyone can see it’s a scam, let’s stop pretending it’s not a scam and take those hundreds of billions of dollars and instead of burning it let’s provide every American with a home that has a (second hand / reclaimed / repaired) refrigerator and washing machine, and a (second hand / reclaimed / repaired) computer with high speed internet. Or even healthcare. Or even fucking enough food…

the need for the AI companies to demonstrate profits.

This is according to capitalist theory but now that we’re in fascist space it’s possible that AI companies are propped up by subsidies (that might “guarantee profits” to dress the operation in capitalist garb and keep the fantasy going) while just being tools for data collection and surveillance to aid in repression and consolidation of power by the aristocrats, or whatever the small ruling class will be called in post-capitalist America.

Hopefully I’m wrong, and wouldn’t it be ironic if capitalism, or at least a need to generate profit, is what actually saves us?

Does Venezuela have good missiles or something… why do you think that? I’m no expert but I doubt it will be boots on the ground where Venezuelans can use their terrain advantage. I think it will be a mix of Gaza 2020s and North Korea 1950s where the US just uses the most advanced military tech in the world (and keeps it based at sea) to demolish infrastructure and… basically everything in a fit of crybullying.

Does Venezuela have good missiles or something… why do you think that? I’m no expert but I doubt it will be boots on the ground where Venezuelans can use their terrain advantage. I think it will be a mix of Gaza 2020s and North Korea 1950s where the US just uses the most advanced military tech in the world (and keeps it based at sea) to demolish infrastructure and… basically everything in a fit of crybullying.

Does Venezuela have good missiles or something… why do you think that? I’m no expert but I doubt it will be boots on the ground where Venezuelans can use their terrain advantage. I think it will be a mix of Gaza 2020s and North Korea 1950s where the US just uses the most advanced military tech in the world (and keeps it based at sea) to demolish infrastructure and… basically everything in a fit of crybullying.

Wait what? Russia buys oil from Venezuela? I thought Russia had tons of oil… or is it only natural gas?

Yea when you put it like that it makes sense. Maybe a better approach would be more granular, like fast fashion taxed like a motherfucker and part of that goes to subsidize the cost of spare parts for people repairing things.

Did you know that producing a single cotton t-shirt requires 2,700 litres of water, or approximately two and a half years of someone’s drinking water needs? A single fucking shirt! And they’re cranked out by the million! It’s totally bonkers.

It’s only fair!

Yes, a habitable planet for humanity would be nice, but have you considered the portfolios of a few selfish assholes?

Oddly enough, Netanyahu might be (ironically) correct in this case.

Rabbi Eli Schlanger, a Chabad rabbi and emissary, had recently sent a letter to Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

In the letter, written after Australia recognized a Palestinian state, Schlanger urged Albanese not to betray the Jewish people and called on him to reverse the decision.

Envoy to the IDF and everything

The biggest cause of anti-semitism today is Israel’s atrocities in Palestine combined with the impunity and favoritism they get from the West.

Excellent research, comrade o7

I had almost forgotten about Israel’s claim that “you don’t qualify for famine if you’re disabled” 🤮 mf you’re literally first in line if you’re disabled

Of course! We want goyim to be religious Christians. Mormon or Evangelical preferred ;)

This is just Zionist PR.

https://files.catbox.moe/kreprt.mp4

I always thought it was because

the lumpenproletariat spend all their time and energy on the capitalist treadmill (their life and their childrens’ lives depend on it) so they don’t have time to read theory, organize, or do anything at all really besides work. Once they see the revolution happening though they’re totally on board, like in Cuba 1959.

But I’m learning a lot from the other responses, good question.

Of course! We want goyim to be religious Christians. Mormon or Evangelical preferred ;)

This is just Zionist PR.

https://files.catbox.moe/kreprt.mp4

Of course! We want goyim to be religious Christians. Mormon or Evangelical preferred ;)

This is just Zionist PR.

https://files.catbox.moe/kreprt.mp4

[CW domestic abuse]

This is such a thorough example of alienation from the political process. Capitalism and patriarchy really do a number on our thinking. Luckily the third leg of the American stool (white supremacy) saved this man’s life and freedom!