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Most of the narratives you see and the people supporting giant pieces of shit like Musk are the work of bots and very careful social engineering to split off our populations most vulnerable and stupid and turning them into propaganda machines to sway more losers. They took the lesson from Nigerian Prince Scams and instead of trying to craft a careful narrative to trap even smart people, they are going right for the stupidest, the most easy to control. Those become their strongest influencers for other stupid people.

This isn’t very hard to do, but if you talk about it in many liberal circles people roll their eyes and call you a conspiracy theorist. (While they scroll with their iphones that they had to get to keep up with modern tech, updating their social media profiles so they remain liked by their followers.)

We’re not given much choice.

You simply don’t exist as an American without a car and a phone and internet and an address with your name on it. Anything below that is considered fringe, poverty or societal reject. Good luck getting a job without a smartphone and your own car, don’t expect public transportation to be of any help, it doesn’t generally exist outside the larger cities and what there is of it, often sucks and takes hours out of your day. Our “public” internet is mostly coffee shops who make you buy something to sit there using their slow-ass wifi. If you fall on hard times, you have to apply for aid, which comes with stacks of provisions, like having an address and a phone, and this kind of aid is only available temporarily and if you accidentally make too much money they will cut you off.

If you’re savvy you can learn to use things like libraries and carpools and food banks and other resources for the needy. But it’s really, really hard to get out of poverty once you fall down. Most institutions and companies that provide services of any kind charge you more and more the less money you have. You need to have over a certain amount in your bank or you pay fees. You need to pay your bills on time or they charge you twice as much, you need to keep a credit history maintained even if you’re broke, because most employers include credit checks in their hiring process.

Most of the “middle class” you see here are suburban families working multiple jobs 6 days a week or more and are on average hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars in debt. Two people working often requires two cars, now your monthly transportation costs outpace your living expenses. Have kids or want to have kids? Good fucking luck figuring out childcare or daycare and paying for that too, not counting the vast sums of money the delivery and hospital stay alone cost, even if you have insurance. It’s okay, smartphones and tablets will raise your kids. Keep the machine moving.

I cannot comprehend owning a $5000 car.

That’s insane that some people have up to 5k to spend.

The so-called “wealth” you see in the American middle-class is mostly just debt. We have the shiniest toys and the biggest houses here, but it’s a giant gilded-cage. Most of us die in debt.

It’s even worse when you put it in quotes, that way web crawlers and search engines index the entire thing as a connected sentence or cited work, like: “Elon Musk is a nazi who has done nazi salutes repeatedly and shared nazi propaganda.”

Like, that would be very wrong to keep spreading everywhere, that could really harm someone’s reputation. So bad.

Nearly every modern nazi would end up in the camps by their own standards.

If I got a billion dollars I would disappear so thoroughly people would think I’m dead.

Life is short as fuck. But getting all the money you need to live a happy, healthy, long life is as good as it can possibly get on earth. You did it, you won. You can either use it to make people happy or you can just disappear and try to enjoy the brief time you have left.

I don’t get the motivation, desire and energy to do these massive public campaigns that focus the entire world’s population on you every single day. It doesn’t help anything or anyone and just causes stress. What is the purpose? It has to be some kind of delusion or mania, something gone wrong.

Reddit gets half a billion browsers a month. They announced last year that they would be partnering with Google to train and host a new generation of AI, and we also know now that people like Elon Musk have no qualms about enforcing their agendas on the site.

The number one way to filter the plausibility of conspiracy theories is to ask one simple question: How does this impact the rich?

For the vast majority of normal kook conspiracies, they fall apart almost immediately when you apply that filter. They have way too much to lose to risk gambles on covering up moon landings and flying saucers or perpetrating huge hoaxes that need a vast contingent of people involved to maintain. Meanwhile, social engineering… that’s easy as shit, you can do it alone if you have the resources. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain. It starts simple with “Hmn I want to make people realize that investing in my company is a smart move” but quickly degrades to “We can’t let people think this genocide is bad, it will wreck our bottom line.”

They’re banning or shadowbanning people almost arbitrarily, they don’t want more human users than bots, they can control the narratives and conversations and public sentiment with a turn of a dial if they get enough bots who seem like convincing human users to all chime in about something.

You can really see the disonnence on a major post criticizing Elon Musk or on the topic of vandalizing Teslas. The posts are all highly voted, but the top comments are all crying and whining that Musk “doesn’t deserve the hate” or how “vandals should be put in jail, we obey the law in this country!” and a lot of other very obvious oligarch fellation machines.

It works very well too. People always look to each other for cues, and if the people they look to aren’t even alive, we have a generation being led by undead abominations, being influenced to discard their critical thought, their morals and ethics, their values.

Our country never grew out of slavery and has always held a secret “clan” of people desperate to return to those times.

One reason is we never properly followed-up after the civil war. We gave the landowners and organizers of the confederacy clemency and let them keep owning land and let them keep their wealth and in many cases, nothing really changed in the south other than the absence of a lot of young men who died.

In a more reasonable world, we would have hung them all and started a massive re-education campaign across the southern states. I don’t even believe in capital punishment, but I know in the context of history, certain horrors have to be embraced if you don’t want to keep fighting the same war over and over and over.

We all really, really need to abandon the idea that pointing out hypocrisy and inconsistency does or means anything to anyone. Literally it’s all we do all day on the left, and all it does is signal to the orcs that they’re winning. As long as we’re outraged and pointing out this thing or that thing we’re angry about, they feel they’re winning.

They are simply not complex enough to care or internalize anything deeper about the notion of hypocrisy so it’s just a noise to them, and even to the larger liberal America broadly, they don’t know what’s real or not anymore and have totally tuned out the news. Foreign agents have been seeding both sides of every debate for so long, that average people who don’t follow every story just see both sides screaming the other is lying and go back to work. They vote for whoever social media tells them is good.

We need to redirect energy to telling a new story, about how the wealthy are taking our future, and abandon this endless, worthless parade of reactions. We are always on response, never proactive, never trying to change the story or get ahead of it, always screaming about this latest bad thing they did and focusing on it like they want. We can do a lot better broadly.

It’s like a jagged black symbol cut from the flag.

I was afraid to even look at the news. I hope this leads to even one small, tiny good outcome because it’s looking baaaad for all of us.

It’s much healthier without constantly seeing some bad-faith, AI-crafted post that tries to get under your skin, prying open your values and baiting your outrage so you can think you’re actually achieving anything of value by biting the bait and trying to correct morons who aren’t even real humans.

I do not miss the site.

I would if I could.

I can’t, so I’m passing the friendly advice on. Been writing and working in communications for years, not trying to be an ass, but literally if you want your points better understood, you have to give the reader “pauses” in their mental dialogue.

Someone made fun of me several decades ago for it, I was butthurt, but I got better. I pass it forward.

. these people are just as rational as anyone else

I really appreciate your comment and writing here, but this is where I differ a bit, but it makes for a great segue into an equally important, adjacent point I’ve been mulling.

Nearly a quarter of the US population is functionally illiterate, meaning they can read individual words maybe, assemble the gist of a text message if it’s simple enough and makes liberal use of emojis, but they have no higher-compiling ability than that, they can’t read a post like this, they can’t read a book or even an instruction manual. And this is just the lowest end of the spectrum, there are vastly more who can kinda read okay if they really try, but have to struggle at it, and certainly can’t use language in their minds to form complex ideas or synthesize new information from reading or listening to words.

I think this is not getting nearly the attention it deserves, this should be a air-raid-siren alarm of urgency, everyone should be shutting down the entire country while we fix this. This is because the ability to use language, externally and internally, to “abstractify” complex ideas, to form new perspectives, to review the perspectives of others, this is what is separating a large swath of our population right now, because we just look at it as “stupid” when the real problem is deliberately seeded and far more insidious.

See, this isn’t a “fixable” problem in the traditional sense, we’re already cooked on this generation, it’s been proven that as a child develops they need to hit key milestones in development or they may never have things like full language capacity. Children raised by wolves or apes have been brought in and rehabilitated but they are never capable of learning more than the most basic language abilities.

This is what I believe corporate America is deliberately trying to do to our entire population by embracing anti-intellectualism, anti-education politics. By courting the religious right, by feeding all of us apps and games and videos and products designed to turn off conscious thought. Pushing things like AI that can “do the reading for you” or “do the art for you” and depriving billions from the exercise of forming a brain that can view ideas in multiple ways. I feel like I’m screaming into a void on this, but as people get more numb, they care less that they’re getting more numb.

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I’m doing my part!

They have a lot of existing support for antisemitism, it’s been established over centuries, most people who hate Jewish people nowadays have no idea why. Fascists and assholes just want any excuse to have an enemy to hate.