dRLY

I am glad that I started listening to Trillbilly Worker's Party podcast to learn that she isn't some pure angel like she is always painted. She has obviously put in waaaaaaay more work to get from nothing to something compared to many rich people/celebs. But the pedestal she is always placed on really blinds people to things she doesn't seem to care about. Sometimes people like her are actually far worse on the working class and poor because they happened to have "won" and therefore the others just need to be working harder. But they never seem to want to actually be part of breaking that cycle of abuse. She may have been one of us back in the day, but she hasn't been one of us in a long time.

I like that the article spends so much text talking about the importance of suicide prevention and mental health stuff. But otherwise is just acting like it isn't beyond weird for there to be that many on the same day. If these pigs weren't about to leak something or had stumbled onto something they weren't meant to. Then I still think it could be some kind of attempt to get both some level of sympathy from the public AND more importantly get extra funding. The money would be marked for "mental health" stuff, but would actually be used for other shit of course.

Being honest, I hadn't really thought about it until now. Seeing how Japanese work culture is and how in a lot of cases (specifically the "businessman" type office jobs) many young people might just see it as the beginning of no more "life". So if all the freedom and fun of basically everything college or lower ed levels is where the concept of "young" just ends, and old age means no longer being able to do anything other than boring work. And while not an excuse for adults lusting after actual kids (it isn't), it could be a weird reaction to the mass desire to be/feel "young" again when looking at it from an "old" POV. So maybe the hard shift in basically all of Japan's work culture vs free time to just do more free time things could help in shifting both the idea of what "old" is as well as turning fixation of lusting after or otherwise yearn to "feel" young again.

But I also can't say that the headspace of the US is much better in how our work/life systems are getting any better and might start shifting into a weird clone of what our own corpo overlords want to copy from Japan (or other SEA nations). We already see more and more articles about how corps and many small businesses either openly or imply that you should be finding ways to bring work into "free" moments in your non-work portions of the day. How not doing that shit is signs of "just not being motivated to succeed". And how even those moms out there are getting pressured into getting back to work sooner or be quietly replaced for not being as available due to now having kids.

I am not convinced that all his actions since being forced to follow through with the buyout hasn't been to do just that. He is the kind of person that always has to feel like he won (if only to himself), while also being "important/cool" enough to be in the spotlight. He wanted to bluff Twitter while trying to look like he was "fighting against censorship". But Twitter called his bluff and tried to make an example of him so other rich folks wouldn't go around doing shit like that. Which also blinded them to the kind of crazy rich dick Musk is and how far he is willing to go to "win". So they forced the buyout and were likely thinking that the massive influx of money would be overall a good thing and just be ready to make some minor changes here and there if Musk really pushed as the main shareholder.

Which might have worked if he were a "normal" liberal capitalist. However he immediately came in and tried to either quickly cut costs in order to drive stock prices up as investors or folks trying to pull a new GME rush so he could sell off and get money back. Or to make sure that the folks that forced him to buy are able to see him slowly and publicly drag the company down and turn it into a laughing stock. While also maybe trying to eventually change it into the "everything" network he has dreamed about ever since he got the "X" domain. With all the other extreme and sudden changes done on whims, it isn't exactly a bad time to just say wild ideas to see how people react.

Since lots of people are most certainly not going to pay for "Blue" every month. $1 a year does "seem" like a small enough number to convince lots of normies that are already conditioned into thinking everything should be a monthly/yearly subscription. Which could (if everyone were to actually pay in addition to normal ad-rev) also be an attempt to pump stock prices as it would be one of the only chances of the company making money and therefore allow him to sell off.

I wasn't aware that he had been acquitted. How did that happen? Were the victims talked into settlements due to legal/court costs?

I too feel the effects of the gaslighting actively happening. A friend of mine deeply believes the still completely unverified bits about babies being beheaded all because "eyewitnesses on the ground". Which turned into a heated back and forward where I tried reminding them of as many similar lies and misinformation as I could. Also trying to remind them of how so many people have been sent to prison and/or death-row all from "eyewitnesses" either just making it up or otherwise not realizing the trauma of a situation caused them to misremember. One of the larger things I brought up was how almost literally the same kind of fake story was used to get the final nudge for getting people behind invading Iraq in the 90s. Also that fascists on the ground can say they saw all kinds of shit, but of course they will because the fascists always try to use very extreme fake stories or add extreme lies to an event that did happen.

In the end I think my friend will just mark it as me being a useful idiot (as they do for literally anything China related) or just denying bad shit. The "proof" is always on me, and never "correct" (again basically anything China). But they refuse to see how if everyone just blindly spreads shit on those really extreme stories and fully embrace allowing real evil things to keep being done (like 9/11 did/does for the US). And ends up with no amount of information and investigations that find otherwise will be enough to change their minds. Ignoring that the for-profit "news outlets" push these stories because profits go nuts, and even if full proof is found not anywhere near as much effort (or any at all) is put into retracting/correcting the misinformation. So the last thing the average person remembers ever is just the claims of fucked up shit being "true".

In the end I will continue to not simply run away from efforts to push through with them or anyone I care about. Because these things matter and if I can't keep trying with them, I can't say that I am also a revolutionary. Fear at all levels is used to keep the masses fighting the wrong enemies and is how fascism is manifested and allowed to win.

I am now picking up on the bit now that you are pointing it out (my dumbfuck ass missed the obvious tells lol). So I responded initially with my very basic attempt at working with socdems, which is also dumb the more I think about it. Though I do personally believe that getting more normie people to un-register for either party and be unaffiliated would be interesting to see how they responded to it. I am deleting my post as I would for sharing an Onion article without seeing where it was from. lol

Agreed on that. Though I will give them credit for not just re-skinning a Linux or BSD based OS and calling it a day like lots of "new" distros do. I thought it was some kind of Chromium OS distro based on the look, and was happy to see it is just the current look for the UI that is running a completely new OS. The bold claim does seem a bit much, and does remind me of how Google advertised the early versions of Chrome. Which of course was also much faster than the other browsers, but that was because it also didn't have most features of the "slow" browsers. After it got extensions and much more fully working versions of features from other browsers, it became about the same from a speed/resources standpoint. Since it seems to be like one guy, I am willing to be a bit more forgiving as it is about on par with many other new projects trying to get attention for funding so they can quit their regular jobs and focus on just the project itself.

I love how often that same line of "thought" is and has been used just in my lifetime. We are told that the best "feature" of capitalism is about supposedly having so many choices because of competition and all that. While at the same time we are just never even told of any potential or existing options. Also used as an excuse to keep things from other places away from us. All because someone in a corp somewhere at some points in time keep claiming that "Americans just can't possibly understand something". Which also re-enforces the culture of praising ignorance and just always assuming we are correct and nothing is better (or allowed in some cases where we missed some cool tech). I know the real point is because they don't want to provide choices. But shit is a broken record for us not know of or be able to use other options.

I feel like that realization had more to do with the part where it just kept going even after the whole overthrowing Saddam bit by a lot. Especially after all the reasons given for going in were one by one shown to be wrong from the jump. Even with all that, I think the libs were more embarrassed about how much money was used in "nation building" while the US economy tanked. And not so much for the reasons that we constantly hear from them about "cost of human lives" or whatever pretend moral shit. I think most of them would still resort to adding something to the effect of "well even if we were lied to, it was still worth getting rid of Saddam" after front loading how they were lied to.

So this time the big "gotcha" bit of smugness will still be about how "evil Russia has always been". So it will be still considered America helping "protect freedom" is the "correct" and "moral" choice (even with the price tag that would never be treated as "sooo important" for helping poor US citizens at home). Hell, they still like to call the FSB the KGB. So real "lessons" will not matter outside the same talk but no actions shit they do every single time. They did all kinds of talking nice words for BLM protests (not the org), but their actions were to paint anyone that wasn't "correctly protesting" as bad and over-funded the pigs more. And the cycle continues.