I think it’s really more of the case that people feel no kinship, we’ve been programmed since birth and since basically centuries to only see ourselves as islands, working only for ourselves and to “get ours”, believing the lie that if only everyone fends for themselves then everybody will benefit in the end… Somehow.

Nothing can or will change as long as we are shackled by capitalist rule.

Not the first totalitarian government people have felt like that about…

They develop IC on iPhones?!!

“The whole point of a Doomsday Machine is lost if you keep it a secret!”

Half the passengers want to do just that and install a captain who is hell-bent on chasing a white whale and wants to institute forced cannibalism for anyone on board with navigational skills

Like these for example:

* Lowest unemployment numbers since 1969, economy seeing strong growth in GTP, wages, stock market returns, household net worth
* Expanded overtime guarantees for millions
* Established the Office of Gun Violence Prevention awarding $286 million towards student mental health
* Made transition to green electricity a priority and accelerating approval of renewable energy projects
* Sealed nationwide Infrastructure deal for $1.2 trillion for roads, waterlines, broadband networks, airports, et c
* Opened for over-the-counter birth control pill (in stores in 2024)
* Issued a sweeping crackdown on junk fees and overdraft charges from banks
* Effected anti-redlining frameworks preventing discriminatory mortgage lending
* Forced Chinese companies to open their books
* Issued the Inflation Reduction Act, authorizing funds to jump-start the transition of American agriculture toward less carbon-intensive practices
* Helped broker a deal to save the Colorado River
* Signed an executive order directing agencies across the government to promote competition and take on monopolies
* Loosened federal restrictions on cannabis
* Instituted penalties for college programs that trap students in debt
* Enacted the CHIPS and Science Act, offering more than $50 billion to subsidize construction of new microchip facilities in the U.S
* Aligned U.S trade policy with antitrust actions against big tech firms
* Brokered a deal to halt conflict between Rwanda and Congo to stall impending Cobalt crisis
* Released a new national cyber strategy, strengthening international cyber diplomacy, securing emerging critical technologies and taking more aggressive steps to disrupt hacking groups
* Countering China with a new alliance between Japan and South Korea
* Reinvigorating cancer research to lower death rates
* Making medication more accessible through telemedicine initiative
* Installed union-friendly allies on the NLRB board who have adopted positions that boost workers in confrontations with businesses
* Issued a national radio frequency spectrum strategy to fix 5G chaos
* Empowered federal agencies to monitor AI
* Strengthening military ties to Asian allies
* Creating a new agency to investigate cyberattacks
* Forcing airlines to pay up when flights are delayed or canceled
* Expansion of Benefits and Services for Toxic Exposed Veterans
* Stood up against Russian aggression by direct support for Ukraine
* Protected marriage rights for LGBTQ couples
* Historic student debt relief for middle-, working-class families
* Implemented aggressive climate and environmental justice agenda
* ...

Sources: https://www.vox.com/politics/24094752/biden-trump-strong-economy-2024-inflation https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/02/02/joe-biden-30-policy-things-you-might-have-missed-00139046 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_policy_of_the_Joe_Biden_administration#:~:text=His Inflation Reduction Act was enacted in August 2022.&text=Biden’s first year in office,the pandemic recession of 2020. https://www.whitehouse.gov/therecord/ https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2021/politics/biden-executive-orders/

Joke’s on you, they were already depressed!

“Vote for me or the other guy will eat your children to death” is closer to what’s going on.

(“vote for me instead, I will only eat the tallest of your children!”)

Imagine if in this metaphor, the captain of the ship was swapped out every four years, with their completely own itinerary.

I’m not sure I follow, are you claiming that no political parties in liberal democracies are against violence on college protesters?

“The sooner we sink this ship, the sooner we can build our own where we are the captains!”

Kill the beast while it’s weak.

MRGA, fuck yeah

Literally siding with Russia against the American people… After all those wars against communism, this is where we wound up.

The official sponsor of this election is Russia.

Ours goes to 11.

Queensbury Rules init.

You know… In my life I’ve had to talk a few people out of scams.

I know they were scammed, it’s blatantly a scam, the evidence is overwhelming, my experience is solid, everyone I know of’s experience says the same.

Yet they will argue with you back and forth and never really be satisfied because they want to believe it so much, and I imagine it stings a good bit being told you’re being ripped the fuck off and you’re too stupid or inexperienced to understand that.

I’m never confrontational about it, I just make it very perfectly clear that proceeding would be extremely ill advised, and that even their own worries brought them to me asking for my opinion because they trust my judgment.

It scares me how long it takes to convince them, and how often in the end they come to me a month later and I ask them how it went, and they went and bought it anyway, for whatever far fetched rationalization they managed to construct for themselves.

Psychology is real, psychology is simple, all it takes to control humans is to have no care for anything but yourself.

WELCOME TO FINANCE! There are no rules, and if we break them, we remake them!

This is a case where I literally both hate the player and the game.

It’s a bit tounge in cheek, nobody actually got mad at the arch namedropping. More like “I’m a platinum level player in LoL”. Lol.