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Rusty Shackleford

@ RustyShackleford @programming.dev

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  • Racists are now openly targeting Indian Americans

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  • Indian American boomers

  • I made a Super Fun, Open-source Platform for learning Japanese inspired by Monkeytype

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  • Many westerners idolize, fetishize, and fantasize about Japanese culture, history, and people.

    And while the Japanese deserve hearty praise for their aesthetics, cultural philosophy, poetry, martial disciplines, and contributions and achievements in science and engineering, even the most casual of perusal of their history reveals that, for many centuries, and one could argue currently, they have been a society of masochists ruled by sadists.

    Alas, aren't we all, I suppose.

  • My girlfriend is an actual model, just fyi

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  • My wife has more dense layers than convolutional layers nowadays, but father time comes for us all, amirite?

  • Top NYC realtor fired for comparing Zohran Mamdani to Hitler, predicting City Hall will play Muslim calls to prayer: report

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  • I should clarify.

    I'm an American not of European descent. I'm not "white". I'm perfectly aware that I live in a country (one of several) that enslaved my people during the colonial era of western Europe.

    When I was growing up in the eighties and nineties, my impression was that Europe's lower and middle classes had largely evolved past the marriage of conservative economics, might-makes-right, and "fuck-the-brown-people-if-they-get-too-much-money" thinking behind. I'm certainly aware that "god, glory, and gold" did not start in the United States.

    When I moved to the EU, in the Netherlands, I was right about my estimation but I was taken aback by some people's parroting the conservative religious nationalist talking points that's destroying the US currently. It's just that it was much more than I expected.

  • Top NYC realtor fired for comparing Zohran Mamdani to Hitler, predicting City Hall will play Muslim calls to prayer: report

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  • It never stops.

    Once the "others" outside of the tribe have been eradicated, the various sub-groups within the tribe will take the place of the "other", and so on, and so forth.

    Conservatism is a cancer.

  • Shots fired at immigration agents in Little Village as residents confront Bovino, Border Patrol, authorities say

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  • Like an EMP deployed at ICE staging areas?

  • Top NYC realtor fired for comparing Zohran Mamdani to Hitler, predicting City Hall will play Muslim calls to prayer: report

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  • I'm an anti-theist, who profoundly and especially despises the Abrahamic religions, but I'll bet good money this is not about prayer calls and "Islam taking over".

    This is about him being a brown immigrant socialist.

    It's because, still in 2025 in the US, if you want publicly funded social programs for better individual outcomes in a capitalist economy, and you're anywhere left of the fucking Einsatzgruppen, you're a commie pinko who loves getting Eiffel-Towered by Stalin and Mao.

    Being honest, though, I would say this a very American mentality, but since I immigrated to the Netherlands from the US in '22, I'm sad to say, it's infecting Western Europe.

    I'll never understand the perverse allure of this type of thinking. I've had it explained to me. I've read The Righteous Mind by Dr. Johnathan Haight. I get it on paper, but it still seems very alien to me when people go on about "the <insertEthnicSlurHere> breathing up all our air and taking all our jobs and making things easier for the wrong people."

  • Trump pardons former Mets great Darryl Strawberry on past tax evasion and drug charges

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  • Trump Admin’s Racist Halo Memes Are ‘A New Level of Dehumanization of Immigrants’

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  • Nothing will meaningfully change until the wealthy fear for their lives.

  • Trump Rips Out Presidents’ Historic Trees for New Ballroom

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  • In professional wrestling, who was the Undertaker's manager dude with the makeup and goofy voice?

    That's Bannon.

  • What's up with FUTO?

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  • Well, based on what I saw and heard, I just don't think I can make the logical leap to where everyone else is at. There's also a large possibility that I'm not comprehending the subtlety involved in their messaging and language.

    Overall, assuming I understand correctly, the argument is that Rossmann performs damage control for a fascist-adjacent millionaire who has a shitty software license for projects he funds.

    I disagree with that take, and I suppose we just leave it there. Thanks for providing the link, at least.

  • U.S. hits $38 trillion in debt, after the fastest accumulation of $1 trillion outside of the pandemic

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  • And then China, Western Europe, and Russia invade the United States after it initiates massive, aggressive wars to bolster its flailing economy?

    And then both sides launch nuclear weapons to end it all?

    Is this the accelerationist argument?

  • U.S. hits $38 trillion in debt, after the fastest accumulation of $1 trillion outside of the pandemic

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  • Eisenhower was a Republican and he used social programs to build the US interstate highway system and the infrastructure necessary for the predecessor to our modern airport infrastructure and space program.

    The highest top marginal tax rate during Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidency (1953-1961) was 91%, which applied to the highest income bracket. (Note: In 1952 and 1953, the top rate was 92%, dropping to 91% for 1954–1963.)

  • What's up with FUTO?

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  • I watched the whole thing.

    Perhaps in my adult addled old age, my comprehension and cognitive abilities have drastically diminished.

    Which part is the part where Rossmann is "guilty" of what you and others who share your opinion are accusing him of?

  • What's up with FUTO?

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  • Can you link them (if you have time)?

  • What's up with FUTO?

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  • Sure.

  • What's up with FUTO?

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  • The 2nd part is indeed what DeVault is claiming, to be clear.

    "Regularly doing videos" is too strong; this video and 1 other are the only I've personally seen talking about Wolf. This one's in the comments section. The other one he did address, in video, Wolf's financial sourcing just before he moved from New York, I believe. Please post more if you know of anymore, but to me, it reads like you're grasping at anything to find reasons to justify your enmity towards Rossmann.

    If you disagree, of course, that's fine. If you just don't like Rossmann, sure. We can leave it at that. But I don't think he's an "apologist" or "fascist adjacent", as DeVault describes him.

  • What's up with FUTO?

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  • Responding to this part:

    Rossmann doing damage control for shitty stuff Eron Wolf did.

    I disagree that it's "damage control", or that Rossmann is an authoritarian or techno-feudalist apologist.

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  • I disagree, based on Rossmann's own comments about Wolf through his YouTube Channel and watching his content for the better part of a decade.

    I'm prepared to revise my stance on Louis, but I haven't seen any evidence for him "going to bat" for authoritarians and techno-feudalists in any tangible sense, ever.

    It's always young people incapable of nuance who are largely unapologetic authoritarians in their own right presenting flimsy "gotchas" that have no ground under scrutiny, such as Louis' words above.

    Simply put, for some people, it's never enough.