At this point… basically only on doddering idiot dem voters who still think Bill Maher is worth listening to.

… I wonder if there are more detailed numbers on how his viewership stats break down…

I want to see them literally in a supermax prison.

As in, structural components of the walls.

Toss em into the framing, who cares if they get impaled on the rebar, pour the concrete.

Better idea, don’t do that with a prison, just make a new monument or something, the shame cube.

Its also just complete horseshit.

Anybody remeber how David Hogg was actually trying to do this, 9 months ago, earlier than that?

And… basically 0 large parts of the Dem fundraising apparatus got involved in any way?

And… because Hogg tried to do this… he got ousted from his position in the party?

https://www.aol.com/david-hogg-pledged-unleash-20m-193729589.html?guccounter=1

You uh, you coulda said something at that point, Cory.

Flamethrowers for the ratfuckers, that’d how they clean em up in the sewers of NYC, I hear.

I can only imagine the thought in his head is:

If I say this first, and loudest, it therefore cannot apply to me, because I called it out.

Fucking terminal shitlib brain; everything is optics, history and context don’t exist beyond when I want to A/B test some rhetoric.

They’re building a nobility class for the technofeudal future.

It’s just their ideas are inbred and dysfunctional this time, as opposed to their genealogies in days of yore.

As fucking insane as Scott Adams turned out to be, he was onto something with the whole ‘people get promoted proportional to their general incompetence’ thing.

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

They’re actively self selecting for people who acclimate to the corpo work climate, because to these people, that is their primary identity, its what gives their lives meaning… its far more important to be at work, than it is to actually accomplish anything.

I really don’t see anyway that you could be aware of the current state of LinkedIn and not agree with this.

These people are like… actually fucked in the head, totally delusional narcissists.

They legitimately got so lost in the sauce that corporate culture became primary to actually being able to do their jobs.

Being a corporate wonk … became the signifier, and they literally forgot how to perform the thing it is supposed to signify.

They’re a parody of productivity, but the performance of that parody is superior to … basically everything else.

This is a big reason why basically all companies could not fucking handle the idea of a mass work from home paradigm shift.

It literally doesn’t matter to management that productivity broadly increased, that introvert employees became much more productive, that morale went up, that people overall were saving tons of money and time not commuting, that the company could save money with less need for physical office space.

What matters is they don’t get to be helicopter parents to their adopted cubicle children, they don’t feel special, important, that they can’t walk back to their corner cubicle with a sense of elitism that they get a window view after a meeting that could have been an email.

They have to feel superior to people in their primary social environment.

That’s what is most important, their lifestyle of malevolent, materially destructive narcissism.

Make sure to squat with proper form, don’t wanna pull a muscle.

Oh there’s a lot more than just something.

Ya’ll want weirdo creepy shit?

My Dad made a thing of taking me, a 12 year old boy back in the early 00s, to Hooters, for a while, and would encourage me to oogle the servers.

This is… previously, before this, I was raised extremely prudish and right wing nutjob style Christian.

My Dad just snapped, internally, at some point… alcoholism followed this.

… my parents are still married, for some reason, even though they have clearly hated each other for a very long time.

… Maybe if you just dive straight into the main course instead of enjoying the appetizer first…

Wrong answer?

… they lactate.

Sometimes you just get thirsty.

To an extent, embrace it.

You’re disposable to other people?

Other people can be disposable to you.

Other people treat you like you are inadequate?

Their cruelty is their deficiency that makes them inadequate to you.

If people do not respect you, your boundaries, your minimum requirements, reject them.

Not out of malice or a misplaced sense of revenge.

Out of a safety mechanism for yourself, to prevent you from becoming too attached to people who are likely to fuck you over.

Become more self-reliant, become more functional without depending on others who extract more from you than they give in return.

You are not nothing, other people are not nothing.

I’m not saying ‘fuck everyone, everyone is awful, you don’t need anyone!’

But every particular person is much less necessary to be a part of any other particular person’s life than you would think.

There is a happier, more stable middle ground between total rejection and closing yourself off from the world entirely, and gloming on to anyone who even just once shows you the slightest kindness.

You’ve got a lot of experience with shitty people.

On the one hand, that’s immensely traumatic and destroys your self image, and that needs help to recover from, process, understand.

But on the other hand, its given you a strong sense of red flags that shitty people display.

After you’ve processed the harm that’s been done to you… view that as a kind of fucked up training guide for the kinds of people to be wary of, not become attached to or dependant on in the future.

Become a greater degree of self-reliant, capable of existing and doing more and more things, experiencing more things, on your own. This will bolster your sense of self, and it will give you practical tools to avoid bring abused in the future.

That’s not to say to look all gift horses in the mouth; helpful people with good intentions do exist, and can benefit you.

But you need to learn who you really are, what your values really are, what boundaries you really need to feel like a stable and competent and respect worthy individual are.

Its a journey that lasts untill you die, not a goal that you just a accomplish at some point.

Keep doing the right stuff, you’re already on the right track. Learn, not so much to love yourself unconditionally, but instead, how to respect yourself.

Develop a fair standard that you hold yourself and others to equally. Be forgiving to both yourself and others for minor deviations from that, but be wary of those that repeatedly deviate from it, or massively transgress it.

In defining yourself, you gain identity, confidence, and practical means to avoid being exploited again.

I’d classify that as more of a Hell Mouth than a Glory Hole.

I’m excited, anon!

I may or may not love the soup itself, but I love that you tried, and that you offer it as a gift.

=D

Not it isn’t.

Arguing that fission power won’t do anything is objectively incorrect.

Arguing that a general strike would be more effective than weekend rallies alone is objectively correct.

Your analogy is not analagous.

Beyond that, arguing against doing something is not the same as arguing for doing something else, in addition to /or/ instead of the original something.

You just keep killing enough people down the chain of inheritance of the money.

They use mob tactics, we use mob tactics.

How, how exactly are you going to ‘take their money’?

With a … law? A wealth tax?

They control the system that would implement such things.

Social power structures and incentive systems have always operated through more than just the plainly stated, officially emphasized mechanisms.

I would argue that actually the reason why more common people don’t act more ‘forcefully’ is the reasons you outline as applying to the billionaires.

Set it up as a modified game theoretic prisoners dilemma.

The average person, despite standing to lose absolutely much less, is much more afraid of losing what they have, because they determine that they much more likely to be caught and punished.

So, every common person thus ‘defects’ against every other common person, despite them all standing to gain massively if even a minute percentage of them learn to become Great Value Brand Agent 47.

Of course, there are a number of multi millionaires and even billionaires that already recognize that when enough common people do not fear death, we will just kill them.

Thats why a good deal of them are building bunker complexes… but also another subset of them choose the strategy of basically begging to be taxed.

Morality totally aside, trying to determine actual true beliefs vs outward actions aside … it would make strategic sense to reward those begging to be taxed for at least outwardly displaying more humane behavior, by not going after those ones.

… I think I need to lay off the stuff for a bit, sheesh.

I was talking about the ‘and then sue them’ part.

Sueing someone… is an ‘offensive’ legal action, its something you initiate, not ‘defend’ against.

I am actually surprised, normally when I say something like this, a whole bunch of people pop in to call me an insane hypocrite coward terrorist.

But uh yeah.

The whole point is to dispense with the formalities.

Because the formalities… are the system.

The system that is run by… apparently, largely a lot of literal child fucking murderers, who just also happen to have a lot of money, from fucking people over in slightly less literal ways, as a lifestyle.

Right, because everyone can afford those legal fees.

And its sure to be worth the time and money, netted out.