MerryJaneDoe

Seems like a bit of a “pickme” post. You do you, don’t worry about your 2 million updoots on reddit.

Yeah…you’re going to have to remind me again what point you’re trying to make?

That democracy and democratic socialism are outliers and fated to be a footnote in the history books.

The unfortunate truth is that hate and violence almost always prevails over peace and love.

Right now in 2026: Russia. The Middle East. Most of Africa.

Geographically speaking, half of the world is currently at war in one form or another.

Personally, I prescribe to Carlin’s philosophy. The problem will take care of itself.

https://youtu.be/UTPlKwkryEk?t=461

Deadpan sarcasm doesn’t translate well from a verbal medium to a written medium.

Unless you’re in an echo chamber…

It’s not though?

1,000,000,000/50,000,000 = 1:20 ratio

It’s like $20 vs. $1

Except it’s still not that. Because whether you’ve got $1 or $20, it’s still a negligible amount of money.

$50 million is enough money to easily collect $1,000,000 in interest every year. Use that as income, keep the rest invested and it would still grow.

Generational wealth. The kind of wealth that creates people like Donald Trump. More money than any single person needs.

Right, thank you.

So, are planning to vote in the midterms or not?

ALL MEN SHOULD HAVE THEIR SPERM HARVESTED AT 18 YEARS OF AGE, THEN BE CASTERATED.

I’m so sorry, you forced my hand.

It cracks me up that people are like “Hoarding a billion dollars is just morally wrong, so I’ll hoard $50 million instead and be a good person.”

Pick a lane, people. Hoard the wealth or don’t hoard the wealth, but stop feeling guilty about an imaginary scenario.

I would invest it. Every year, I would withdraw the profits, so that my net worth stayed approximately the same.

I would throw an event in a different city each year.

I would get that money (“earned” from doing nothing more than investing it) IN CASH.

All the cash would be loaded up in a plane and dropped in a public place. It would be a spectacle. No advertising needed, word of mouth and social media would be more than enough.

At each event, I would remind people that the money dropping from the sky is merely the crumbs from a single billionaire. Money that I did not earn. Money that was taken from the fruits of their labor and added to my stock portfolio.

I would ask them to imagine how much more money billionaires are hoarding. I would then bid them a fond farewell until next year.

Oh, and also, maybe a nice condo in southeast Asia. Thailand, maybe. Somewhere chill and fairly inexpensive. Not because I deserve a nicer place, but because fuckyouallI’mrichbitchstillnotatotaldickheadthough.

Or you could just move to Sweden and save yourself some money?

I know a lot of people who hate fascists and communists. It’s kind of a thing, in democratic countries, to be wary of extremists.

I’m not saying this fully describes Ted, obviously he had mental issues. But pushing away extreme lefties with one hand and extreme righties with the other doesn’t make Ted any different than your average American.

“The more I work in tech, the more I wish I was independently wealthy.”

I love how people use the word “just” when making statements about the simple life.

Simple ain’t always cheap…

This is fact. Source.

there are better authors who have made those same points without all the fucking reactionary and eco-fascism tied to it.

Seems like a great reason to discuss Ted’s viewpoints. We should definitely discuss the ineffectual extremists. Compare and contrast. Weigh and measure. That’s what truth-seekers do. Telling people not to read a particular author borders on censorship.

But asking people to expand their reading list and providing actual recommendations - that is wonderful and commendable. Thank you for that!

It’s been 30 years and people are still talking about it. He’d probably consider that a win.

He predicted that technological advances would lead to extensive and ultimately oppressive forms of human control, including genetic engineering, and that human beings would be adjusted to meet the needs of social systems rather than vice versa.

Kaczynski stated that technological progress can be stopped, in contrast to the viewpoint of people who he said understand technology’s negative effects yet passively accept technology as inevitable. He called for a revolution to force the collapse of the worldwide technological system, and held a life close to nature, in particular primitivist lifestyles, as an ultimate ideal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kaczynski

He hated leftist views, he hated fascism. He seemed to advocate a technological level somewhere between Native American and Amish. Call him an isolationist libertarian, I suppose. His solution to the problem is like something out of Fight Club - a one man “Project Mayhem.”

tl;dr: His methodology was pointlessly cruel and ineffective. But his assessment of the human condition wasn’t too far off the mark.

Wow, OP, your post history is just…something special. This one in particular.

Think of it as a big clit. Which, biologically speaking, it is. So is yours.

Clitoromegaly

How can this be true if it’s not a category on PornHub?