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"Financial markets are in chaos this morning. The S&P 500 opened 20% lower from
where it was two months ago. Meanwhile the Dow was down, and then was up, and
now it’s down again. And international stocks are glitching out just as bad,
with Japanese and Chinese markets both plunging almost 10%. In other words,
shit’s fucked. Dust off your American Apparel super-V’s, baby, we’re recession
bound.
Unlike the 2008 recession, though, which was — according to what I remember
from watching the movie
The Big Short three wines deep on a plane once —
caused by people in Florida? buying houses? they couldn’t afford? our current
economic collapse is the direct result of our very dumb president and the
AI-generated math his team used to support his completely idiotic
misunderstanding of how trade deficits work. Another famously Bad And Dumb Man,
Dave Portnoy, has started calling today “Orange Monday,” which is,
unfortunately, pretty good.
As we waited for today’s economic carnage, users on X, the everything app,
spent the weekend trying to brainstorm a way to spin the looming market
meltdown as being good, actually. And Max Lugavere, an anti-vegan author who
has claimed that plant-based diets cause dementia, had a big hit, dusting off a
recent right-wing boogeyman to remind the internet’s various lonely men what
this is really all about: violent, seething hatred for women you saw in a
TikTok video once. And a consensus began to form that, yes, actually, one
specific video of women dancing has actually become a bizarre rallying cry for
conservative men and even though video games and smartphones are about to cost
as much as 50% more, it will all be worth it if it means women can’t make cute
internet videos at work anymore. As X user @franzsherbert wrote, “In record
time, ‘tariffs,’ for right wingers, has already ceased to refer to any
real-world economic policy and become yet another locus of free-floating
psychosexual resentment.”"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
