Some cousin or whatever the fuck was praising Musk and DOGE and my grandmas birthday party. I expected to hear that stuff but I still didn't enjoy it.
they are voting for tech-feudalism. they literally want to become serfs. they enjoy the master-slave relationship more than letting gay and black people occasionally feel good about themselves.SuperJail Warden wrote:
It is genuinely funny how much pain and suffering Americans are in store for. Haha funny because of how voters actually wanted this to happen.
There is going to be a massive retreat in social services for Americans. Things that people have taken for granted and always expected to be there will just disappear. Opportunities just snuffed out of existence.
The part that most cracks me up is the fact that all of this is happening because conservatives wanted the gays and the blacks to sit-down and shut up again. Trump and Elon are literally decimating the federal government to "root out" DEI and redirect money for a massive tax cut. Swaths of Americans are willing to take a massive reduction to their quality of life just to spite people like me. I don't know how to respond to that but just laugh.
The powerful messaging of the republican party at work. DEI is going to lower your (working class white people's) quality of life, so we will take action to reduce your quality of life and position it as getting rid of DEI. Oh and also the rich keep getting richer.SuperJail Warden wrote:
It is genuinely funny how much pain and suffering Americans are in store for. Haha funny because of how voters actually wanted this to happen.
There is going to be a massive retreat in social services for Americans. Things that people have taken for granted and always expected to be there will just disappear. Opportunities just snuffed out of existence.
The part that most cracks me up is the fact that all of this is happening because conservatives wanted the gays and the blacks to sit-down and shut up again. Trump and Elon are literally decimating the federal government to "root out" DEI and redirect money for a massive tax cut. Swaths of Americans are willing to take a massive reduction to their quality of life just to spite people like me. I don't know how to respond to that but just laugh.
Sucks to be you, but the upside is that the 100 trans people in youth sports won't be allowed to play them anymore.
the haters actually hope that the 100 trans people in youth sports and every other trans people will have their rug of access to treatment yoinked out from beneath them (causing a whole battery issues in the process). the veneer over it is of course that they just want to protect and heal trans people of the woke mind virus. for the phobic, making trans people suffer and be miserable while you're "helping them" is a nice bonus, and well worth sacrificing your self-interests if it means the libs cry.
i have a hard time believing the conservatives who act tunnel-visioned on other issues. i have a decent memory for conversations, and while a conservative is ranting about how it's was just about biden and the price of gas that drove his recent vote, i can recall a number of phobic stuff they've let slip in past convos. i do think a significant amount of this stuff is projecting. the harder a conservative man rants about the gays and the trans people and the drag queens, the more i suspect their secret shame is wearing lipstick when they're alone at home. it's 2025, todd, go paint your nails if it makes you happy.
i have a hard time believing the conservatives who act tunnel-visioned on other issues. i have a decent memory for conversations, and while a conservative is ranting about how it's was just about biden and the price of gas that drove his recent vote, i can recall a number of phobic stuff they've let slip in past convos. i do think a significant amount of this stuff is projecting. the harder a conservative man rants about the gays and the trans people and the drag queens, the more i suspect their secret shame is wearing lipstick when they're alone at home. it's 2025, todd, go paint your nails if it makes you happy.
Its funny how Americans are determined to vote themselves shittier and more expensive lives when dangled the carrot of 'muh taxes'
Healthcare is already a shit deal for americans - lower taxes but higher costs which overall are more expensive, plus shit availability, paperwork and the need to go to court to get the insurance company to pay up.
What else can they be conned into?
Reduced spending on road, rail, air travel essentials like filling potholes and emplying enough air traffic controllers?
Vaccination, education are no brainers to convert to user pays models where everyone wins overall.
Healthcare is already a shit deal for americans - lower taxes but higher costs which overall are more expensive, plus shit availability, paperwork and the need to go to court to get the insurance company to pay up.
What else can they be conned into?
Reduced spending on road, rail, air travel essentials like filling potholes and emplying enough air traffic controllers?
Vaccination, education are no brainers to convert to user pays models where everyone wins overall.
Fuck Israel
even liberal and enlightened americans are susceptible to brain rot though. it’s not just the patsies in the flyover states.
the crazy thinking in silicon valley circles is just another brand of very american credulousness and exceptionalism. there’s just something in the water over there. i mean, it sounds absolutely mad to even pay attention to this stuff. the paypal billionaire (thiel) who is materially funding so much of this weird online alt-right/tech-accelerationist/nazi-eugenicist moment literally believes in things like the antichrist and armageddon. all these crazy ideas are in the water somewhere. what started his supervillain arc? being outed as gay by gawker.com and the hollywood blogosphere. now edgy privileged hipsters in new york are converting to esoteric forms of catholicism and pro-natalism is somehow ‘cool’. weird white supremacist couples in connecticut with 10 kids are being paid to edit mouthpieces by thiel. i mean how fucking bizarre is this world we are all subject to?
then on matters like education, you’ve got things like the (very) late senator diane feinstein’s husband’s ed-tech company basically capturing the UC university system. he’s now some big cheese in the university administration and has pushed his AI learning crap out to like 3 of the world’s best public universities. all for profit. there’s a few other families at the very top of the republican party who derive all their wealth from these for-profit ed-tech scams too. this weird tech fetishism mixed with shyster capitalism.
it’s so much more than the little guy gladly voting to make his life worse. elite ideology is totally fucking nuts too. there’s a deeply cretinous and creepy aspect to the coastal elites. the liberal ivy’d WASPs and blueblood brahmins have taken their totemic beating in the populist era, but the MIT-stanford-Caltech types are seriously fucking weird too. just look at all the financial crime and cult-like shit with SBF (parents profs at stanford, MIT wunderkind). the thing is, they’re not just crooks: they genuinely label themselves as ‘effective altruists’ or ‘rationalists’ and deeply believe they are some sort of secular calvinist elect.
and i don’t even need to get into the musk thing with his dark enlightenment/vengeful white settler worldview. the guy wants to seed mars with his progeny and rule over a new human society like a sort of god-CEO with an AGI holy ghost. when he’s not picking fights with model practical-scientific experts (divers, astronauts), he’s using IVF to create broods of boys with names like windows XP-era worms and trojans. there is something deeply off-kilter in the top echelons of the new tech overlords.
the crazy thinking in silicon valley circles is just another brand of very american credulousness and exceptionalism. there’s just something in the water over there. i mean, it sounds absolutely mad to even pay attention to this stuff. the paypal billionaire (thiel) who is materially funding so much of this weird online alt-right/tech-accelerationist/nazi-eugenicist moment literally believes in things like the antichrist and armageddon. all these crazy ideas are in the water somewhere. what started his supervillain arc? being outed as gay by gawker.com and the hollywood blogosphere. now edgy privileged hipsters in new york are converting to esoteric forms of catholicism and pro-natalism is somehow ‘cool’. weird white supremacist couples in connecticut with 10 kids are being paid to edit mouthpieces by thiel. i mean how fucking bizarre is this world we are all subject to?
then on matters like education, you’ve got things like the (very) late senator diane feinstein’s husband’s ed-tech company basically capturing the UC university system. he’s now some big cheese in the university administration and has pushed his AI learning crap out to like 3 of the world’s best public universities. all for profit. there’s a few other families at the very top of the republican party who derive all their wealth from these for-profit ed-tech scams too. this weird tech fetishism mixed with shyster capitalism.
it’s so much more than the little guy gladly voting to make his life worse. elite ideology is totally fucking nuts too. there’s a deeply cretinous and creepy aspect to the coastal elites. the liberal ivy’d WASPs and blueblood brahmins have taken their totemic beating in the populist era, but the MIT-stanford-Caltech types are seriously fucking weird too. just look at all the financial crime and cult-like shit with SBF (parents profs at stanford, MIT wunderkind). the thing is, they’re not just crooks: they genuinely label themselves as ‘effective altruists’ or ‘rationalists’ and deeply believe they are some sort of secular calvinist elect.
and i don’t even need to get into the musk thing with his dark enlightenment/vengeful white settler worldview. the guy wants to seed mars with his progeny and rule over a new human society like a sort of god-CEO with an AGI holy ghost. when he’s not picking fights with model practical-scientific experts (divers, astronauts), he’s using IVF to create broods of boys with names like windows XP-era worms and trojans. there is something deeply off-kilter in the top echelons of the new tech overlords.
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