The ruling class explicitly set out to turn Americans into “perfect consumers”. They succeeded.

These dumbest people on the planet aren’t a contemptible series of individual failures or an accident, they were grown in a lab.

A system which cannot bear sober scrutiny must stupefy its subjects.

Capitalists want to abolish personal property.
Turns out they’re the ones coming for your toothbrush.

You’d be a fool to trust the US again for generations, regardless of appearances.

I wonder though about the step from hearing to acting.

I once auditory hallucinated a single syllable as I was waking up, like someone speaking loudly, almost shouting from right in my face. That was disconcerting enough. There’s a visceral element to it that’s not just a conversation with an uninvited guest.

Despite the hallucinations themselves by no means implying insanity, it’s easy to imagine them wearing you down psychologically if they’re a regular occurrence. Anecdotes about them range all the way from harmless to anxiety inducing sensory overload.

The premier Great Filter, perhaps.

The standing around with banners is supposed to carry an implicit threat:
“Deal amicably with us peaceful protesters, or you’re going to have to deal with people taking direct action.”

We’ve been educated to misunderstand this.

Almost mentioned that but cut for brevity.
I thought ‘everyone’ learned this around the path of exile fiasco.

You pierced the veil and showed them the writhing eldritch tentacles of the machine and they really said “The machine is getting better :)”

Watching these reruns while the ecological clock runs out is a bit worse than annoying.

I think they actually can’t implement medicare for all, because healthcare in the US is so far gone that M4A would undermine the entire system.

How long now have people been told it’s impossible? How much the relief when profit-seeking is removed from the equation? How many people will then wonder what other lies they’ve taken for granted?

I mean that if someone is intelligent/educated/curious/enough of a mere science enjoyer if not well educated themselves,
to for instance, know that you need radiators to dump heat in space,

how has that person not already noticed Elon Musk showing his ass?

Yeah, it’s not happening without a revolution. And I don’t just say that because I would prefer humanity survive its own stupidity. The way healthcare is organised in the US is so far gone that

M4A would undermine the entire system.

Huh…you told us this was impossible, but here it is, and it actually works far better for the absence of profit-seekers.
Now a terrible burden of socioeconomic pressure has been lifted. Wait…what else have you been lying to us about? What assumptions have I grown up with that were not my own?

It’s the subtext of every public comment made by Schumer criticising the war: Didn’t go through congress, erratic, no exit strategy.

Never a word against the myth-making to justify the war, or that the US shouldn’t be in an offensive war against a country that didn’t attack it.

No, it’s a costly embarrassment, a strategic blunder, an action taken without filling out the prerequisite forms in triplicate.

Going to war (successfully) with Iran has been an unrealised dream of the uniparty for decades.

I know everyone’s got a different set of filters but how does it take one until the cool things in space post to find out, if they’re curious enough to know of space radiators already?

They the Democrats, not one particular head of the hydra.

Whoever replaces them, if they even bother with the theatre.

After seeing them frame going after their supposed political enemies for the illegal bad shit they’ve done as childish and unnecessary so soon after they were voted in I wouldn’t be shocked if they simply didn’t even address this.

You can and should.

A little deliberate compartmentalisation can be healthy. If you can’t make yourself forget for a day, try hours or even minutes. Set yourself some time in which if you think of these things you say to yourself “not now”.

Just like we practised, teleport around at random and take up the whole frame when on camera.

The LLM / image gen AI centipede.

That people would still look at it and call it messing up or fumbling is why they’ve been able to run the same scam for decades.

There are people, it is true—nay, a great many people—who smile at such things, because they are not sensitive to noise; but they are just the very people who are also not sensitive to argument, or thought, or poetry, or art, in a word, to any kind of intellectual influence. The reason of it is that the tissue of their brains is of a very rough and coarse quality.