Nostr notes by John

A liberal talking about critical thinking is like a 12 year old ...

2026-10-23T20:40:01Z

In reply to nevent1q…6jnu
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A liberal talking about critical thinking is like a 12 year old from a rich family talking about economic policy: they have no perspective worth listening to because they've never engaged in it. Too much is shuttered from their consideration, kept out of sight because it's "incorrect" according to "the data".

Data which, routinely, is being revealed to be manipulated if not outright manufactured (re: pollsters admitting their fraud recently)

It's so hard to even hold onto the absolute simplemindedness ...

2026-10-23T20:37:50Z

It's so hard to even hold onto the absolute simplemindedness of liberals. Like, their ideological purity is wild: if you don't like Democrats, you're Russian or a Republican. If you don't like liberals, you're a J6er or a fascist. If you think bad policy is ::ahem:: bad, you're just some stupid child who knows nothing about anything.

They're actually incapable of considering that someone who disagrees with them...might know more than them. That they may not see things clearly

It's breathtaking

The way that you know there's no such thing as a progressive ...

2026-10-17T15:20:29Z

The way that you know there's no such thing as a progressive rich person is that all the rich people who claim to be progressive spend approximately no money whatsoever on forwarding progressive ideas and goals in the public consciousness. As opposed to fascist rich people, who literally spend many tens of billions of dollars over the last two decades to get their policies enacted.

The only solution is to abolish wealth, something that gives USians the psychological clap.

They should probably be saving that money for their inevitable ...

2026-10-16T18:45:08Z

They should probably be saving that money for their inevitable Epstein trials.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/oct/16/billionaires-fight-california-prop-40

They're right there in your face and you can try to ignore ...

2026-10-08T18:37:47Z

In reply to nevent1q…7j4e
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They're right there in your face and you can try to ignore them but

let's be honest you aren't really.

An added strike against neofascism is that houselessness cannot be solved by *individual effort*. Someone can feed people, give them money for a meal, what-have-you. But an individual can't literally *house* people.

Which means the government can either get rid of the people left behind (what they've tried for the last decade) or actually solve the problem (quelle horreur!)

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It's everywhere: skyrocketing houselessness of the ...

2026-10-08T18:35:15Z

In reply to nevent1q…c2nd
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It's everywhere: skyrocketing houselessness of the *employed*.

(Nobody should be houseless, but the neofascist conceit was always that as long as you are fully employed, you'll have food, shelter, and water, which makes it a fact worth communicating to the empties that 'just don't know' if we should do anything)

When you do food insecurity, it's hidden. Even bad water is mostly hidden. But houselessness has a peculiar feature: the people are *still around* after eviction.

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The housing crisis may be the most surface aspect of the end ...

2026-10-08T18:32:31Z

In reply to nevent1q…zs0v
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The housing crisis may be the most surface aspect of the end stage of neofascism: a largely unregulated market of extremely fungible assets that is easy to manipulate en masse to juice personal net worth. Unfortunately, this absolutely corrupted and filthy market *also* happens to determine if people have *shelter*, which is, like, something living things need to survive.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/08/pedro-sanchez-spanish-voters-housing-crisis-analysis

"If only someone could do something!" - the CA State and ...

2026-10-08T18:22:02Z

"If only someone could do something!"

- the CA State and SF City governments

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/oct/08/san-francisco-housing-ai-boom

YOU LIVE IN A DESERT YOU FUCKWITS HOW ABOUT DON'T LIVE IN A ...

2026-10-07T22:13:54Z

YOU LIVE IN A DESERT YOU FUCKWITS

HOW ABOUT DON'T LIVE IN A DESERT

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/24/nevada-federal-lawsuit-colorado-river

I mean, hyperbole is a common and accepted way of emphasizing ...

2026-10-07T15:11:34Z

In reply to nevent1q…khja
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I mean, hyperbole is a common and accepted way of emphasizing importance in non-formal communication.

But you know go to reddit?

Okay, then maybe examine why you're so skeptical that an ...

2026-10-07T14:23:44Z

In reply to nevent1q…sfke
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Okay, then maybe examine why you're so skeptical that an adenovirus known to cause obesity could have caused an obesity epidemic without biased, racist scientists picking up on it without looking for it.

Bias in science is so prevalent and endemic that to claim ...

2026-10-07T14:20:01Z

In reply to nevent1q…gahy
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Bias in science is so prevalent and endemic that to claim there's bias is not even making a claim.

Women, for example. Black people. Gay people. People suffering from chronic illness. The existence of post-acute sequelae.

The list goes on and on as to how science fails us routinely in ways that kill people, so "missing" such obvious data is as simple as both not looking for it and ignoring it when you see it because, obviously, "we already know why there are fatties".

Gurre Vildskägg (npub1cxg…yhnu)

Why did person A die of COVID and person B just sortof shrugged ...

2026-10-07T14:16:30Z

In reply to nevent1q…e6n6
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Why did person A die of COVID and person B just sortof shrugged it off? Why did person C develop severe, life-altering ME/CFS after a viral infection, and person D has had the same infection three times with no ME/CFS symptoms at all?

The rise of obesity, even in populations with food insecurity and low average caloric intakes, has "baffled" scientists for decades.

"We know obesity is cause by being lazy and gluttonous, but these people have no food!" they'd exclaim

Gurre Vildskägg (npub1cxg…yhnu)

That's just my guess, tbh. I don't have proof outside of ...

2026-10-07T07:06:29Z

In reply to nevent1q…r2pt
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That's just my guess, tbh. I don't have proof outside of millions of anecdotal reports of people saying exactly what I'm saying here, and some studies showing that adenovirus-36 causes weight gain and became endemic in the 80s.

I'd guess that medical researchers will continue to say it "slows the stomach" or some bullshit for the next 20 years before "discovering" some serious upstream endocrine deficit in the people who benefit the most from it.

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For most of my life I thought "being full" was when you ...

2026-10-07T07:02:04Z

For most of my life I thought "being full" was when you had so much food in your stomach it was too painful to add more.

Then I started taking GLPs.

"Satiation" as a sensation was alien to me until that moment. Choosing to *not* eat or to stop was simply not possible. Dieting was actual hell: constant gnawing hunger. Every time I ate, it was as though my body were dying of thirst and the food was water.

GLPs treat a serious medical condition. A disabling PAS of Adenovirus-36, I'd guess. 1/

None of this is difficult - if you're not a rigid, ...

2026-10-06T03:17:53Z

None of this is difficult - if you're not a rigid, uncompromising centrist.

You gotta pick: unfettered right wing horror and suffering, or universal education, housing, healthcare, and well-tended and funded public services, coupled with *slightly* less wealth.

I want you to read that again, and try to understand why the right and the left *are not the same*, but the right and the center are closer than is comfortable.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/05/protests-in-france-and-spain-appear-disparate-but-core-issues-are-the-same

"We insist that people recognize that violence is ...

2026-10-05T15:16:40Z

"We insist that people recognize that violence is unacceptable unless it's police literally dismembering children, that's why we've order violent grown men in full body armor to start throwing dangerous munitions at teenagers."

"Can't you see how incredibly dangerous these pubescent, 5-ft tall, 110 lb people are?"

"What do you mean, 'is this a normal country'?"

- French govt officials, at some point in the last week, I'm pretty sure

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/05/schoolboy-loses-hand-police-stun-grenade-french-school-protests

How much you wanna bet that the last two paragraphs of this ...

2026-10-03T21:18:43Z

How much you wanna bet that the last two paragraphs of this article were demanded by editors to "soften" the message?

Almost every commercially produced, non-local grocery food I buy has lost significant quality over the last 5-10 years.

This has driven me to buy the peanut butter roasted and ground up 50 miles away in small batches, and the salsa and chips made less than a mile from my house. They are - no lie - 1,000x better, and bc of inflation no more expensive.

https://www.salon.com/2026/10/03/were-over-restaurant-slop/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

"Immune debt" is probably the most pernicious and ...

2026-10-02T17:44:26Z

"Immune debt" is probably the most pernicious and dangerous lie ever told, and if you think Dems and public health experts are one your side, they're the ones that fabricated it out of thin air.

In the last two weeks, I've heard literally 4 people talk to me about how they have to get sick or they'll get really really sick every two weeks, like they did ::checks notes:: for years after they stopped caring and learned to love the COVID.

RE: https://mas.to/@jackofalltrades/117366884075615451 The ...

2026-10-02T07:00:05Z

RE: https://mas.to/@jackofalltrades/117366884075615451

The reality is that every social movement starts and ends with living conditions. Precarity makes people conservative and security focused. So if you induce precarity and coopt security, you hold all the keys to the castle.

No climate movement can succeed on a message of sacrifice, because most people are barely holding on - *by design* mind you.

Only by improving material conditions for everyone can you alleviate enough pressure to allow people to downshift.

You know, for a media establishment absolutely obsessed with ...

2026-10-01T19:46:49Z

You know, for a media establishment absolutely obsessed with avoiding even the vaguest determination of guilt or innocence, using the word "rogue" to describe the actions of agents directed to hack other companies by their creators (which is absolutely what happened) sure seems to make a determination of innocence for OpenAI.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/01/california-opens-investigation-openai-hack

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@MikeDunnAuthor/117354798070025897 I ...

2026-09-29T14:30:37Z

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@MikeDunnAuthor/117354798070025897

I don't know who in the British ruling class needs to hear this, but if you literally define more than half your fellow countrymen as "terrorists" and arrest them for *peacefully protesting* eventually they're going to realize that the consequences are the same if they do it peacefully...or otherwise.

quoting
note1qsr…dgwl

94-yr-old Jewish lawyer arrested in UK for supporting Palestine

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/labour-conference-palestine-action-protest

Because it could be calamitous. God knows our current ruling ...

2026-09-29T14:03:47Z

In reply to nevent1q…5srr
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Because it *could* be calamitous. God knows our current ruling class would rather wade through a river of childrens' blood and tears than give up even a fraction of their wealth and impunity.

But I gotta tell you, the real calamity is the one we've been sitting in for 50 years of our own volition. The real collapse started two decades before Trump. We're at the *end of the calamity*, not *the beginning*.

And if that's true, how does it change your analysis of the facts in evidence?

/fin

Or, at least, we've been corralled into a very specific ...

2026-09-29T14:02:04Z

In reply to nevent1q…ztwp
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Or, at least, we've been corralled into a very specific perspective where the only future we can see is us getting fucked because we asked for more gruel.

"Please sir, can I haz healthcare?" [world ends]

Wouldn't it be better to just stay here and suffer lightly, rather than go into some unknown future and *definitely* have everything burn to ash and our kids will be raped, tortured and murdered?!?

The Anxiety Lock, like all generalized anxiety, is a real pain in the ass.

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Prediction is cope. I get it. We all want to catastrophize so ...

2026-09-29T13:59:17Z

In reply to nevent1q…u5yl
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Prediction is cope. I get it. We all want to catastrophize so we're "prepared" for when that inevitable calamity descends to fuck up our lives. (Ignore that most of the calamities we deal with are literally directly traced to...the ruling class that benefits from the Anxiety Lock fucking around)

After all, haven't we been told that the reason all the bad stuff has happened in the 20th is because *people weren't paying attention*?!?

It's *common knowledge* that we're fucked.

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And no matter how much you point out how absolutely ridiculous ...

2026-09-29T13:56:52Z

In reply to nevent1q…2775
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And no matter how much you point out how absolutely ridiculous this is, how totally unbelievable and fantastical and driven by delusional fear, people will nod and nod and then grimace and VBNMW or for Trump, because "what if it's real, tho".

And the analysis I'm reading *makes precisely this assumption*: that the asymptotically approaching calamity obviously engineered so you keep yourself in your place is real, tho.

But what if it isn't?

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If you're free from police, you'll be raped, tortured, ...

2026-09-29T13:53:23Z

In reply to nevent1q…2q5e
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If you're free from police, you'll be raped, tortured, and murdered, and so will your kids. And that's *before* the "terrorists" get wind that you no longer have armed State thugs that can kill you without consequence. They'll rape, kill, and murder you and your kids AGAIN, but like, in a *large group*. We're all in danger; the only way to survive is to give up all your freedom and quality of life and health and 60 hours a week to these jamokes with 900-ft superyachts and child rape islands

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"Vote for the lesser evil or we'll get Trump!" ...

2026-09-29T13:51:03Z

In reply to nevent1q…td6x
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"Vote for the lesser evil or we'll get Trump!"

"Vote your heart in the primary but in the general VBNMW!"

"The Democrats will take everything you value, that makes life worth living while you wait, paralyzed, for Jeebus to come back and save you!"

"The [insert minority group] wants to change everything, and we all know that change means calamity and ruin!!!"

etc etc

It's everywhere, locking us into behaviors we will admit are self-abusive but 🤷‍♂️ just can't seem to quit.

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And this state of self-imposed imprisonment in an eternal ...

2026-09-29T13:48:27Z

In reply to nevent1q…qy7l
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And this state of self-imposed imprisonment in an eternal "best of all possible worlds" (where we keep redefining "best" to mean "the freshest Hell we're being subjected to") is a key facet of the social technology that neofascists have used to build their own Dark Age, a vast empire of theft, suffering, cruelty and death, the spoils of which accrue only to the people who, until recently, built it and maintain it through control of the State, and when necessary, creating a calamity or two.

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See, the quality of life in the US is, for most Usians, much ...

2026-09-29T13:46:11Z

In reply to nevent1q…rxwh
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See, the quality of life in the US is, for most Usians, much worse than it is outside of the US; but still Usians will tell you we're *lucky* to live here (trapped by our own fear, wrapped in the Constitution, "freer" than anywhere else to suffer in our 9x9 cell while our kids get shot at while going to math class)

That's just one of many examples of how the Anxiety Lock keeps us paralyzed in a society that can't organize itself well enough to solve pretty obvious and easy to solve problems

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This anxiety is everywhere you look, and it's only when the ...

2026-09-29T13:41:44Z

In reply to nevent1q…a6m2
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This anxiety is everywhere you look, and it's only when the flagrant abuses of the ruling class create a situation so bad that it's hard to imagine there being any possible world *worse* that we start rattling the door to our prisons, apparently unaware that the lock is on the inside and we're the only ones with a key.

But as long as they keep the suffering to between a simmer and a low boil, we seem content to sit in our cells and be thankful we're not outside where it's *really* bad

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"Well we don't know but you should be super afraid of ...

2026-09-29T13:38:29Z

In reply to nevent1q…9hvy
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"Well we don't know but you should be super afraid of it" is the answer they have *pounded* into our skulls since the advent of the Cold War, but turned up to 11 since the manufactured crises of the 1970s led to widespread quality of life decreases in the West.

This *locks in* whatever the current state of "the world" is, because literally any change at all leads to calamity. An "anxiety lock" that let's them fuck around in ways ruling class' have rarely been allowed to fuck around.

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Why is it most trenchant? Because one of neofascism's social ...

2026-09-29T13:35:59Z

In reply to nevent1q…9jrr
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Why is it most trenchant?

Because one of neofascism's social innovations was something I call the "Anxiety Lock": in order to maintain paralysis without overt top-down oppression, they had to find a way to make people oppress *themselves*. To do this, they took the 1,000-year suspicion in the West that Jeebus Is Just Around The Corner and weaponized it.

But it's not Jeebus' 2nd Coming; it's that if we live in the best of all possible worlds, *what happens if we disrupt that world?*

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But it's the third assumption - that a catastrophic outcome ...

2026-09-29T13:23:32Z

In reply to nevent1q…qfj4
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But it's the third assumption - that a catastrophic outcome is the most likely one - that is most recent and most trenchant to our current moment.

Don't get me wrong: people have been predicting catastrophe for as long as people have been around. It's lurid, titillating, and kind of fun to sit around and think about the Apocalypse. The Bible's best-written chapter is the one in which whoever wrote the version you're reading let down their hair and really dug into the End.

Good stuff.

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This despite the facts. Collapse as it is fetishized by Western ...

2026-09-29T13:19:08Z

In reply to nevent1q…z0uf
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This despite the facts.

Collapse as it is fetishized by Western historians is exceedingly rare, and usually a product of a ruling class that decides if they can't have civilization *nobody* can.

There are as many ways of organizing people and living together - many more successful than the West's, albeit less indifferent to death and suffering - as there are places that people have lived together;

The "present" is not necessarily "the best of all possible worlds" (thanks Candide!)

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It doesn't help that in the West we're acculturated and ...

2026-09-29T13:14:35Z

In reply to nevent1q…64hz
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It doesn't help that in the West we're acculturated and educated toward a "calamity-biased" vision of how human beings have always lived: the idea that there's only "civilization" and "collapse, decay, and ruin"; the idea that every society across the world throughout history shares the West's peculiarly deranged way of seeing things; the idea that, for example, the "Dark Ages" were a time of horror and failure, held up only by Monks in their towers of stone (of course it was the Monks!)

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Because we live inside of this assumption after ~500 years of a ...

2026-09-29T13:10:45Z

In reply to nevent1q…hmdf
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Because we live inside of this assumption after ~500 years of a vicious cycle -

in which increasing "defensive" cruelty leads to degradation of the human condition across increasingly large groups of people, who (understandably!) eventually explode into a combination of rage, (often poorly targeted) violence, and monstrous atrocities, thus proving that we need even MORE "defensive" cruelty

- it can be super hard to see how it skews our perspective to discount entire eras of human history.

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A lot of analysis across a wide range of subjects right now seems ...

2026-09-29T13:05:35Z

A lot of analysis across a wide range of subjects right now seems to 1) have extremely specific ideas of what "human nature" is, 2) the ideas seem to boil down to "it ain't great", and 3) they seem to assume that the catastrophic outcome is the most likely one.

The first and second are explained by, well, the West's long obsession with how Sinful people are and how that requires Disciplining, usually by people who are even *more* Sinful but also extraordinarily cruel.

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If only there were money in the SF bay area. But everyone there ...

2026-09-28T15:25:49Z

If only there were money in the SF bay area. But everyone there is, notoriously, extremely poor. Not a single rich person in the SF Bay area. Never has been.

What a poor city, full of only poverty and no riches. If only they were the center of multiple global industries; then they could afford basic shit like public transportation.

But alas! Maybe if they didn't have to carry cities like Cupertino and San Jose, but 🤷‍♂️

Let's all weep for SF.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/26/san-francisco-bay-area-public-transportation-bart

And the right wing rises in power because the liberals' take ...

2026-09-22T17:48:20Z

In reply to nevent1q…e4c6
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And the right wing rises in power because the liberals' take is basically "you fucking idiots stop being so fucking stupid I hate you vote for me" and

well

That doesn't really endear people to them?

Every piece of news about the ruling class' plans re: ...

2026-09-22T13:52:43Z

Every piece of news about the ruling class' plans re: "AI" goes like this:

"Despite 99.89% of people being vehemently opposed, leaked documents show that politicians plan to hook up every child in the country to the Torment Nexus in an attempt to open a gate to the Realm of Suffering, where they will gain the power of Oouglou the Fetid.

'If we don't,' says an anonymous poilitical consultant, 'China will. And we don't want to be left behind to become Oouglou's thralls, now do we?"

Indeed, upon reflection, it seems obvious that queerness is the ...

2026-09-18T17:00:18Z

In reply to nevent1q…0vgd
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Indeed, upon reflection, it seems obvious that queerness is the essence of anti-fascism. A queer person or a trans person literally *negate* fascism by their mere existence. This cuts across all ethnicities, cultures, countries, regions, religions, races, and any other strange way we've cut ourselves into pieces, and because of that it's a bit different than anything else in its relationship to tyranny.

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I think the reason queers and trans people are always at the top ...

2026-09-18T16:57:56Z

I think the reason queers and trans people are always at the top of the list when fascists start fashing is because being queer and/or trans is *fundamentally liberatory*.

As in, the mere existence of such beings *proves* that liberation is possible and desirable, that happiness is not a curse, and freedom that is separate from social mores is not only possible, but exciting and dynamic and inspiring and gentle and good.

And if this is so, then fascists have no place in the world.

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We really do live during the era in which "haha we tricked ...

2026-09-17T15:04:34Z

We really do live during the era in which "haha we tricked you!" is literally the core business model of like at least 80% of companies

Personally, I think it's their exit: If it's "too ...

2026-09-14T15:02:01Z

In reply to nevent1q…ze8w
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Personally, I think it's their exit:

If it's "too dangerous to pursue", they can plausibly get the government to "buy" the technology, both taking it off their hands and putting all the wild, unfulfillable IOUs they've made in...the public's.

Everyone knows the grift is reaching its end. They're probably making the case to the government that 1) it's too dangerous and 2) they're too big to fail.

That these contradict is 🤷‍♂️

Democrats, man. JFC. Listen, if you want to build credibility and ...

2026-09-14T14:56:59Z

Democrats, man. JFC.

Listen, if you want to build credibility and make people believe you when you say you're going to help them -

which is, absolutely, Democrats' biggest political problem right now: a total lack of credibility

- you don't start by looking at people who have mostly always voted for you and select the groups you feel like you can betray so the fascists like you a little more.

Let's put it this way: if Newsom is the nominee in 2028 *I will not vote for him*.

Period.

You literally can't be "more or less" genuine. ...

2026-09-13T13:34:57Z

In reply to nevent1q…keec
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You literally *can't* be "more or less" genuine. That's not how the word "genuine" works.

My refusal to "hand it" to Democrats, let liberals off ...

2026-09-13T13:30:26Z

My refusal to "hand it" to Democrats, let liberals off the hook for the results of their ideology's catastrophically bad and embarrassingly lazy ideas, or engage in delusional cope over lesser evil electoralism, really separates me from a LOT of otherwise obvious allies in this fight.

But what I need people to understand is that if you're busy doing those things you're begging for a return to a more comfortable fascism (for you), not an *end to fascism*.

A "Joe Biden"-style ICE, as it were.

"more or less" is doing a LOT of work here

2026-09-13T13:22:08Z

In reply to nevent1q…gdv0
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"more or less" is doing a LOT of work here

Deeply unpopular pedophile and fascist: "So, as the economy ...

2026-09-11T15:15:00Z

Deeply unpopular pedophile and fascist:

"So, as the economy tanks and prices skyrocket because of my war I started that's super unpopular, and my out-of-control gestapo ravages cities all over the country, I want you to imagine I'm on the ballot. When you vote Republican, you vote for Trump.

Also, how about $5,000?"

These people man. Hyperfascists just can't stop winning.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/11/donald-trump-republican-midterm-convention

Throw this motherfucker out of the caucus so he can't make ...

2026-09-10T18:13:55Z

Throw this motherfucker out of the caucus so he can't make you look like he wiped his asshole with you when you get a bare majority and he switches sides.

FFS have a *little* pride, Democrats.

And you wonder why nobody likes you. Dems are so pathetic I'm surprised they can get out of bed and dress themselves in the morning.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/10/john-fetterman-republican-midterm-convention

Understanding this about right wingers helps me step outside of ...

2026-09-08T14:36:20Z

In reply to nevent1q…z3cs
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Understanding this about right wingers helps me step outside of the hypocrisy merry-go-round and focus on figuring out what will destroy the right wing.

Do I know? lol maybe maybe not

People who are not exhausted all the time and food insecure are harder to hoodwink and harder to dominate. People who are healthy and not infected with brain-destroying viruses twice a year are harder to manipulate through fear. People who have what they need have the agency to resist tyranny.

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What signals pure dominance more than *changing what they say ...

2026-09-08T14:34:15Z

In reply to nevent1q…6h4t
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What signals pure dominance more than *changing what they say every five minutes and people breaking their necks to adjust*?

What signals dominance more than forcing people into a constant state of cognitive dissonance by contradicting their furiously stated beliefs with their own behavior?

"Disbelieve your own eyes and ears" is pure dominance.

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...seeing it this way resolves the apparent chaos of his ...

2026-09-08T14:30:28Z

In reply to nevent1q…z6td
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...seeing it this way resolves the apparent chaos of his behavior: his desire to be liked, his desire to rape people, his desire to conquer, even his cowardice and lack of follow through is classic bully dominance behavior (he's also very lazy lol)

But this also underlines why centrist appeasement simply fuels the fire: it's not their policies they want implemented - it's *the appeasement*, stupid. That's what they want!

They want people to bow down and do what they say.

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If you ascribe any other motivation to Trump, for example, stuff ...

2026-09-08T14:26:12Z

In reply to nevent1q…nsha
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If you ascribe any other motivation to Trump, for example, stuff gets confusing. You start to convince yourself that there's a deeper thought process going on; is he, in fact, a genius? you wonder.

But the reality is that literally *everything* he does is in search of greater dominance and more public obeisance to his whims.

Sure, he's surrounded by people who are extremely adept at manipulating this impulse into pursuing their own cruel ends through him.

But...

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I've been thinking a LOT about this lately, because I've ...

2026-09-08T14:23:58Z

In reply to nevent1q…57ka
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I've been thinking a LOT about this lately, because I've been seeing more and more people doing victory dances around apparent right wing hypocrisy, and it shows me that people really don't understand the *why* of the ascent of right wing politics, or how distant right wing pols are from right wing hoi polloi.

This is just my opinion, obv, but I look for common threads that drive behavior and goalsetting, and *Dominance* is the common theme across all right wing political movements.

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But all of it is derived from a kind of ur bigotry; a pure form ...

2026-09-08T14:20:23Z

In reply to nevent1q…r0gh
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But all of it is derived from a kind of *ur* bigotry; a pure form of bigotry stripped of its limiting factors. A pure hate of people who do not submit, translated a million ways, cynically, so that the ruler can have an army of willing hate-slaves harming themselves and their neighbors.

Trump doesn't hate any minority group any more than he hates anyone who doesn't submit to him. AfD doesn't hate immigrants; they hate their solidarity, their community, and their lack of obeisance.

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This desire exists outside of any particular target for many of ...

2026-09-08T14:16:47Z

In reply to nevent1q…0ydq
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This desire exists outside of any particular target for many of them; the target many right wing leaders choose is a convenience, a shorthand that allows them to corral larger and larger groups of people into both supporting the right wing pol and willingly submitting themselves to be dominated.

And don't get me wrong: there are right wingers who legitimately hate these minority groups, esp when the political tradition has been allowed to exist for multiple generations.

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When people point out that a right wing politician is ...

2026-09-08T14:13:46Z

When people point out that a right wing politician is anti-immigrant but married to an immigrant, they think they're pointing out some damning hypocrisy.

But it's actually much worse and more interesting than hypocrisy, which is both boring and universally present in all people.

What they're putting their finger on is a universal quality of right wing pols/leaders that forms the backbone of every decision they make:

A desire to *dominate*.

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"AI" has always been a half-cooked tech combined with a ...

2026-09-06T13:36:23Z

In reply to nevent1q…epyx
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"AI" has always been a half-cooked tech combined with a horde of people in the global South hiding inside a tin suit.

I remember reports on this from 2 or 3 years ago that just got quietly snuffed out.

The wildest part of all of this is that in 10 years, everyone will have always known they're garbage and been against LLMs since the beginning.

when you make the consequences for not working suffering, ...

2026-08-31T17:04:02Z

when you make the consequences for not working suffering, sickness and death, unemployment is a form of eugenics

Americans need to rediscover the idea that someone can simply not ...

2026-08-26T18:19:03Z

Americans need to rediscover the idea that someone can simply not have credibility, and therefor you don't believe anything they say.

Someone without credibility makes an argument that sounds credible! What do you do!?!

You tell them to fuck off and go about your day as though they never spoke.

Are they stating a fact you know to be true?

Tell them even a broken clock is right twice a day, and a parrot that can only say one thing will eventually answer a question truthfully.

And yes: the vast majority of doctors think of themselves as ...

2026-08-25T17:04:46Z

In reply to nevent1q…uyse
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And yes: the vast majority of doctors think of themselves as "businesspeople" before they think of themselves as healers or servants of medicine.

The optimization of practices is not necessary unless the partners want to be millionaires.

The deals with pharma are not necessary unless the partners want to be millionaires.

The "plus-ups" that they push onto patients bc of labrynthine deals btw insurance companies, medtech and pharma companies, and doctors practices are NOT NECESSARY.

Unless.

It is going to take... 1) someone dying because of "AI" ...

2026-08-25T17:02:38Z

It is going to take...

1) someone dying because of "AI" medical notetaking mistakes

2) that someone being from a prominent, white family

3) that family spending resources to sue the absolute living fuck out of the hospital that murdered their family member

4) an award of $50-$100 million at least

...in order for doctors to stop using "AI" note takers.

Before that happens, it will just get shadier and shadier.

Never forget that in the US, healthcare is a business, FIRST.

There's no FDR sitting in the wings; the neofascists made ...

2026-08-25T01:49:34Z

In reply to nevent1q…s6g6
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There's no FDR sitting in the wings; the neofascists made sure of that by nuking them or suborning them any time they started to come up the ranks.
I'm hopeful this time around we'll see what would have happened if FDR hadn't played unwelcome class savior.

Yeah, but this is all in the context of a global system that only ...

2026-08-25T00:52:37Z

In reply to nevent1q…j7hw
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Yeah, but this is all in the context of a global system that only exists because the US anchors it with the petrodollar; the second the ruling class betrays the US and the system goes haywire, all the decadent third-generation oligarchs will suddenly NOT have the world as their playground anymore, and being a billionaire will be a lot less fun/safe, and they'll all be like "whoa wtf happened"

I'm not predicting they'll go away, but the rich will be a LOT less rich, too

Great point

2026-08-24T20:40:11Z

In reply to nevent1q…vk7j
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Great point

We are extremely well-trained to ignore people disappearing: ...

2026-08-24T20:31:15Z

We are extremely well-trained to ignore people disappearing: people disabled by COVID have disappeared by the tens of millions from society. People still being cautious so they aren't disabled have disappeared.

What did you think was going to happen if you normalized disappearing tens of millions of people for reasons of plague?

You want people to change behavior to fight fascism but not to fight eugenics, and in the confusion (they're the same thing) folks went to brunch instead. 🤷‍♂️

The Trump admin's reaction to the bond market's natural ...

2026-08-24T18:50:58Z

The Trump admin's reaction to the bond market's natural reaction to the petrodollar unraveling and the US' economic interests evaporating shows how weak the hyperfascists are. Their position has gone from unlikely to extremely tenuous, and we're about to live through some shit that will be recorded in history books.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/aug/24/treasury-bonds-trump-administration-debt

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My galaxy brain is telling me that there's some reason the ...

2026-08-24T17:37:49Z

In reply to nevent1q…metp
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My galaxy brain is telling me that there's some reason the Dem party in WI wants a Republican governor, but my experienced political observer is telling me that this is just "classic Democratic party hubris assuming they'll win no matter how bad their candidate because of the cycle"

Yes to all this. But Democrats feel like they can't lose this ...

2026-08-21T16:57:29Z

In reply to nevent1q…2zzx
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Yes to all this.

But Democrats feel like they can't lose this year. And whenever a Democrat feels like they can't lose, they start to show their real face: callous, cruel, indifferent, corrupt, cynical, mendacious and right wing.

They start to throw races where they don't like the candidate; after all they're winning big enough it won't matter, right?

Democrats are like if a mean freshman ran for student council President and tried to win by giving swirlies to everyone.

Never did [Meme of astronaut with gun]

2026-08-21T00:19:42Z

In reply to nevent1q…sqty
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Never did

[Meme of astronaut with gun]

This is why 2024 freaked them out so much, and why so many of my ...

2026-08-20T19:09:29Z

In reply to nevent1q…tdws
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This is why 2024 freaked them out so much, and why so many of my Dem partisan friends are having mental breakdowns right now.

The political kettle of the last 34 years has been brutal, and a lot of us were wondering where the line was that would make people stop VBNMW and empowering the corruption and evil of Democrats.

Turns out it was genocide and social murder and flagrantly lying to everyone and nativist bullshit and destroying all the progress we made during the pandemic.

🤷‍♂️

there's a part of me that thinks this is fodder for a ...

2026-08-19T13:59:30Z

In reply to nevent1q…72m7
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there's a part of me that thinks this is fodder for a military coup

I can't really imagine what it's like to be a US soldier right now or a mid-level commander or cpt of a ship, but I can't help but think if Trump or Vance were anywhere near them it would get spicy really quick.

When Trump's siphoning hundreds of billions from the US but his soldiers are essentially starving on metal boxes 10,000 miles away, that's gotta go hard.

When you start growing your own food, you realize how much of a ...

2026-08-12T17:11:39Z

When you start growing your own food, you realize how much of a vegetable or fruit's edible lifespan is spent being transported thousands of miles, stored for weeks, and only brought out days before they start to turn.

I suspect that AOC/Sanders didn't endorse because there's ...

2026-08-12T15:16:47Z

In reply to nevent1q…jztp
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I suspect that AOC/Sanders didn't endorse because there's a quiet power struggle going on between DSA insurgents and prominent progressive Democrats already in office, who have to one extent or another accepted the "play nice or be media killed" deal that Dem neofascists offer progressives when they get elected.

AOC's first year in office was basically daily attack articles in liberal rags, as she was rattling cages.

It was when she aligned that they stopped.

Coincidence?

I've been trying to figure out if Dems are just bad at optics ...

2026-08-12T15:12:22Z

In reply to nevent1q…hyzn
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I've been trying to figure out if Dems are just bad at optics because of their ideological blinders, or are deliberately throwing the match because right wing policies are most closely aligned with their priorities than progressive/left ones.

COVID helped me come closer to understanding, because Biden et al. erased the pandemic with ruthless efficiency in ways I had never seen Democrats operate before so flagrantly.

Turns out they're betrayers and cynics, not incompetents. 🤷‍♂️

I literally can't unsee this bitch giving COVID to everyone ...

2026-08-11T17:43:05Z

I literally can't unsee this bitch giving COVID to everyone on her cast and crew in 2022 by hiding her positive result during a shooting day, so 🤷‍♂️

Trash.

https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/a73344846/jenna-ortega-interview-2026/

...is truly enraging. And now that people have stopped letting ...

2026-08-11T17:20:29Z

In reply to nevent1q…9n6c
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...is truly enraging.

And now that people have stopped letting them do it without calling them on it, they're shutting down and blocking out everyone else. All because "the left and the right are the same and they're both crazy". Because "crazy" equals "disagrees with me", and the way we're the same is that we disagree with them.

Turns out horseshoe theory is simply liberals dividing the world into "people like me" and "people unlike me".

Who knew.

Imagine being called crazy and being mocked literally every time ...

2026-08-11T17:16:51Z

In reply to nevent1q…ltdw
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Imagine being called crazy and being mocked literally every time you try to engage in debate. Imagine that happening for decades, to the point where you just get so angry you want to destroy the arrogant pricks who are completely ignoring you.

I'm not handing it to the right wing; they are wrong on basically every issue because of real socialization/cultural issues that trigger baked-in preferences.

But liberal/neofascist *disregard* for other ideas and reliance on ad hominem...

About the time liberals started incessantly bullying and abusing ...

2026-08-11T17:13:37Z

In reply to nevent1q…ux05
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About the time liberals started incessantly bullying and abusing me for ::checks notes:: politely disagreeing with them on policy priorities and voting strategies, I started to realize that the tricky part of dealing with the right wing's rage is that a part of it is *justified*.

Neofascism's great Cultural Innovations include the sanist reframing of policy disagreements as "sane vs. crazy". You can see it in how frequently they reach for "realistic" as a defense.

Every time I read about how Unions can only be formed via NLRB ...

2026-08-11T15:58:27Z

Every time I read about how Unions can only be formed via NLRB election, I think about how the State saw Unionizing and was like "we gotta get in there somehow" and how this can't be a good thing tbh

But it's like the NLRB was founded by FDR during the New Deal, obviously to prevent communist rebellion and as a sop to labor organizers on the left. So much of the New Deal was an attempt to patch up capitalism after 50 years of brutal oligarchic rule.

Next time you're going to say "personal brand", ...

2026-08-10T18:21:24Z

In reply to nevent1q…artx
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Next time you're going to say "personal brand", instead say "reputation" and see how different it hits.

It just struck me how much work the term "personal brand" ...

2026-08-10T18:18:44Z

It just struck me how much work the term "personal brand" does to both strip us of our humanity and accelerate our individualist cultural psychosis, while mediating our relationship to our honor, reputation, and standing in society as something that can be remediated through money, propaganda, and "positioning".

Wow. Just monstrous.

Luckily, Joe Biden is dying painfully of metastatic bone cancer.

2026-08-03T06:06:57Z

In reply to nevent1q…ucrn
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Luckily, Joe Biden is dying painfully of metastatic bone cancer.

I'm just a failed opera singer and house husband and I knew ...

2026-07-29T18:56:16Z

In reply to nevent1q…cmws
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I'm just a failed opera singer and house husband and *I* knew that COVID was airborne, bc of the science. I knew that masks were essential, bc of the science. I knew the initial vaccine's efficacy against Omicron was marginal, bc of the science. And I knew the second Biden and Fauci started blaming the unvaccinated, despite 60% of Omicron deaths being among the vaccinated, that he was going to empower the anti-vax movement & kill hundreds of thousands of people

Bc of the science.

I blame him for lying to the public during 2020-25 about airborne ...

2026-07-29T18:50:15Z

In reply to nevent1q…vsna
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I blame him for lying to the public during 2020-25 about airborne illness, the efficacy and necessity of masks, the safety of SARS2 infection after the initial vaccine, and the danger of Omicron. In each case, his position was informed by politics rather than by public health, and he played a key role in establishing SARS2 as an endemic virus, vitiating the public's view of masks and vaccines, and enabling the death of over 250k people in the US.

The framing of Fauci invoking the 5th Amendment as "refusing ...

2026-07-29T17:57:48Z

The framing of Fauci invoking the 5th Amendment as "refusing to answer" is deliberate and bullshit.

Don't get me wrong: I think Anthony Fauci is largely responsible for the ongoing COVID pandemic, along with both of his bosses and their political parties.

But it's his *Constitutional right* to invoke the 5th Amendment to not answer questions under oath. He's not in contempt of Congress. He's not "refusing to answer". He's answering.

Just not how they want him to.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/29/anthony-fauci-senate-hearing-covid

I'm seeing a lot of establishment media saying "Trump has ...

2026-07-29T17:55:12Z

I'm seeing a lot of establishment media saying "Trump has lied for years about election fraud to explain his previous losses" or thereabouts, and it's actually a big deal for the limp noodles that work at the big media properties to use the word "lie".

"It's working" is misleading: there's nothing in ...

2026-07-29T17:27:22Z

In reply to nevent1q…m6lr
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"It's working" is misleading: there's nothing in the article about whether or not the PR effort of the last 3 years, including "AI" slop propaganda, has done what they want it to: reclaim their smoke-and-mirror reputation from the smouldering ruins and piled bodies of the Gaza genocide.

If recent polls are any indication, these efforts have done nothing but increase the disconnect between *actual people* and our political and media classes.

I mean, you skipped the whole "totally unreliable" part. ...

2026-07-22T20:52:53Z

In reply to nevent1q…fddy
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I mean, you skipped the whole "totally unreliable" part.

But even including "gives you exactly correct and accurate information with context every time", what you're really asking is "what if I could change LLMs *entirely* into a new technology that didn't have any of the failures and externalities of LLMs and wasn't just a sophisticated Markov chain but actual AI?"

and sure why not 🤷‍♂️

IN short, it turns out that people will oppress themselves if ...

2026-07-18T19:30:06Z

In reply to nevent1q…w550
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IN short, it turns out that people will oppress *themselves* if you culturally prime them to perceive their only options as oppression, or calamity and deprivation, and accept levels of imposed suffering and self-harm that previous generations of humanity would have balked at.

If we ever shifted our perspectives to consider that not all ...

2026-07-18T19:27:27Z

In reply to nevent1q…6dfp
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If we ever *shifted our perspectives* to consider that not all resource distribution must follow a transactional framework and that efficiency is an *outcome* not a *goal*, a significant number of things that right now seem "unsustainable" or "too expensive" would suddenly be very sustainable and affordable.

But these things, you'll note, would also require/cause the neofascist imperial system to disappear, so....

We've been acculturated to not include them.

When we make statements like "medicine for [x] is ...

2026-07-18T19:23:54Z

In reply to nevent1q…tv66
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When we make statements like "medicine for [x] is unsustainable" we're expressing two cultural technologies that form the basis of our perspective (for purpose): 1) efficiency-forward thinking, which feeds into eugenics, voluntary service triage, and ultimately profit centrality, and 2) transactionalism, which feeds into a false scarcity designed to split us into groups with the priority of maintaining material wealth to avoid ever-looming class-position implosion.

Most of the treatments that cost "millions of dollars" ...

2026-07-18T19:13:30Z

In reply to nevent1q…cqvw
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Most of the treatments that cost "millions of dollars" actually cost hundreds to produce. Many of them are based on research done at public institutions using public money, and then literally *handed* to pharma companies.

Everyone in the world could receive the top level of care possible for a fraction of the money if it was forbidden to make profit from healthcare.

Normalize leaving, blacklisting, and talking shit about ...

2026-07-17T13:08:50Z

Normalize leaving, blacklisting, and talking shit about "esteemed" institutions and organizations when they jump the shark because of $$$

You don't spend three weeks hospitalized for "tests". ...

2026-07-15T12:50:43Z

In reply to nevent1q…9fcx
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You don't spend three weeks hospitalized for "tests". 🤷🏼‍♂️ That's not a thing.

The funniest part of Trump "demanding" that the ICC be ...

2026-07-14T19:47:52Z

The funniest part of Trump "demanding" that the ICC be "dissolved" is that the US has never been a signatory or supporter of the ICC, has nothing to do with it, and has no power over it.

It would be like me demanding that the Mayor of Shanghai start wearing yellow pants every day. Not only would it not happen, it wouldn't even register.

Trump is just feeding the media the kind of meat they like so they don't do journalism, which is haaard. Easier by far to just fart out POTUS's latest.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@Javvad/116885896446967984 Don't ...

2026-07-08T20:59:24Z

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@Javvad/116885896446967984

Don't fuck with kids.

Why is this *so hard* for business numbnuts like Zuckerberg to figure out?

Nobody cares if you fuck with adults (they probably deserved it amirite) but both culturally and legally you just can't do the business version of luring a kid into a van with a candy bar.

Who's Zuck gonna bribe to make this go away? I remain glued to the screen.

quoting
note1hsm…zyql

Meta faces $1.4 trillion in damages for hooking kids on purpose. The company's market cap is $1.5 trillion. They're arguing the number is unprecedented in consumer protection history, which is technically true. It's also the first time anyone built a $1 trillion business on deliberately addicting children.

https://gizmodo.com/metas-teen-safety-case-just-became-a-1-4-trillion-existential-threat-2000782306

In retrospect, people just adopting the language of marketing to ...

2026-07-06T21:53:23Z

In retrospect, people just adopting the language of marketing to describe their everyday identities and lifestyles may have been a clue we should have noticed.