This story is everything that's wrong with this civilization.
One of the most successful, profitable companies in human history is losing speculative value among speculative gambling bookies because it continues to make lots of tangible profit on its tangible products/services, but it isn't metastasizing aggressively enough in the speculative-growth nascent nation-state way that gives the financier-bookie class the morning jollies.

Absolutely helps his cause. Because your comment will be upvoted and it will therefore keep his comment visible and a handful of people will click on the parent comment to get the context and then click on the conspiracy site and fall down the rabbit hole as intended.

The problem is we lost the media war. Psychopaths bought up all the mass media outlets and are using them to promote insanity so that they can seize power by offering Insanity in place of real economic solutions.

So you don't get affordable housing or accessible Health Care but you can indulge in conspiracy theories about the Illuminati tracking us with microchips in vaccines.

This has been very well studied. Basically the world is a horrible and chaotic place and people want to make sense of it in a way that makes them feel like they have some semblance of control. So they turn to conspiracy theories to get that feeling.

In America especially elections are very close so if you've got two or three percent falling into those conspiracies you can win elections with them. That's why Robert f Kennedy Jr is currently running our healthcare system.

It appears to be there American website. If I go to their Australian website and look at a hardcore it keeps the Australian path.

In terms of who's going to see this article the most this is going to be viewed by Americans and an American English the word pledge has a very specific context.

So yeah this is absolutely manufactured consent.

Especially in journalism. The use of the word pledge here was not an accident.

America needs to work on its critical thinking.

In English that word is used in conjunction with donating the charity. This is just him investing for a return.

Really kind of creeping me out on all this manufactured consent around AI.

Even the crown thought he was pushing things. But fuck that product that is time shit. Human beings didn't develop empathy in the last 200 years we've had it for at least 20,000. People knew what he was doing was wrong but they did it anyway. And I don't give a shit about the times. Bad people or bad people regardless of the times.

If we use the times as an excuse we can always kill people horrifically any time we want and just say well, I was having a bad day. That's only a mild exaggeration. Your argument means that I can build death camps if the economy goes south. Which is exactly what America is doing

You can literally just look up the history of the horrific things he did which were documented by himself and his people because they didn't think there was anything wrong with it. You will not find a single historian denying any of that because Columbus himself didn't think he was doing anything wrong so he documented his own shit which was horrible.

Don't know where you get this single source nonsense but that's just not true. Like the Nazis he documented what he did because he thought it was fine. To be honest even the crown thought what he was doing was a bit much though.

Christ we're at the point where we have Christopher Columbus apologists.... There really isn't a lot of Hope left for this country

That 12-year-old bullshit.

Let me explain it in terms you can understand. Think of government as a box of loaded rifles sitting into town square.

You've got two options. You can pick up a rifle and defend yourself or you can do what anyone who picks up the rifles says you're going to do.

You cannot have small government. If you try to have small government large corporations will just build power structures identical to large government and make you say. And then you are nothing more than a slave to Kings that used the word CEO instead.

You are going to have to form a large centralized government to protect your rights. And it has to be a large centralized government because small decentralized government is prone to being taken over by those large corporations. They even have a phrase for it, small enough to drown in the bathtub.

You also need a large centralized government to protect minorities. And at some point in time everyone ends up being some kind of minority. We can all be broken down into an out group that the in-group can be turned against.

With a large centralized government it's difficult to create little fiefdoms where the minorities get oppressed because the minorities can form voting blocks that become relevant in a national centralized government. That's how we got the civil rights movement and how black people got rights.

You fundamentally do not understand the world as it actually exists. You have a vision of the world that you want to be that isn't real and never can be because that's just not how human beings work and how we organize societies. You're either going to get over it or you're going to die in a fascist hellscape. With your property taken by trillionaires.

Honestly I think it's going to be the latter. I don't think there's any hope left for this world or let alone this country. I would love to be proven wrong but we're a nation of 12-year-olds.

Or house cats. The old saying is true for sure, libertarians are like house cats, convinced of their fierce Independence while utterly dependent on a system they neither understand nor appreciate. Chesterton's fence.

Simply put the additional debt with out tax increases that goes straight to the 1% is going to spook the bond market.

The government can borrow as much money as it wants as long as it's pouring it right back into the economy because it comes right back out.

The trouble with Trump is that he's going to borrow $5 trillion dollars and just hand it to the top 1%, who will use it too by a competitors and jack up prices.

The bond market rightfully understands that's a recipe for disaster so they will invert the yield curves and basically crash the bond market.

That will weaken the US dollar increasing the price of imports and The increased inflation coupled with high interest rates and the constant layoffs that plague our entire economic system will lead to a massive crash.

This is before we talk about all the deregulation that's going on that leaves Wall Street open to do pretty much anything they want.

I've said it before but half the people reading this or going to be home listen 4 years, maybe six depending on how much equity they have in their house before the bank takes it. They'll get you with the healthcare system. You'll lose your job and you'll need healthcare so you'll mortgage your house to pay for it. You won't be able to get Medicaid either and there won't be any work for somebody pushing 50. But the system will be designed to prevent you from accessing healthcare unless you have a job, which as I mentioned above you can't get. So you will mortgage your house to pay for the medicine that keeps you alive and then eventually fall behind until the bank takes it.

And that seizure of property is going to be how we get our first trillionaire.

It's entirely possible the person you're replying to really isn't living in the same world as you. There's a phenomenon from last year called sane washing where the entire news media protects Donald Trump and the Republican party at all costs and anyone who threatens them gets fired immediately.

I watched dozens of journalists fired last year for trying to call Donald Trump to task on the things he's said and done

Stephen Miller wants them arresting 3,000 people a day when they're barely doing that in a month. It's why they keep pulling actual US citizens off the streets.

Seriously if you have a tan you could easily find yourself locked up for two or three weeks. Let alone if you are actually Latino or Hispanic. And they could care less if you are a US citizen.

Also the whole thing is really there to get us used to having a heavily militarized police just kind of walking around. We are gradually being conditioned to expect people in full camo with covered faces and assault rifles walking around our cities as if it's normal. It's another aspect of project 2025.

It's a scam just like recycling his old scam to keep the plastic industry going.

One of the things that frustrates me is an adult is how we have all these bizarre fucked up scams that make up our civilization and society that we all just kind of shrug our shoulders at and allow.

It's the old boiling of frog trick. If you took a kid and you told them how dishonest adults are they'd be pretty fucking pissed but you grow up learning one scam after another.

The one that got me first as a kid was Christopher Columbus and finding out he was an absolute monster. Like Adolf Hitler grade son of a bitch. There are plenty of others though.

Most notably the h1b. So if you make good money you can expect that none of this is going to have any effect on you. We are rounding up a whole bunch of Mexicans and Hispanics, honestly mostly Hispanics Mexico's median income has been going up, who work in low tier shit jobs but we are still bringing in a fuck ton people to take middle class jobs.

Also Trump is already working on figuring out how to bring in more people on little skill work visas without pissing off his base. The bill he passed that cuts somewhere around 15 million people off Medicaid is extremely unpopular, so he waited until after the midterms. But the fact that he passed it anyway indicates that he's not going to need any votes in 2028. And no that's not because it's his second term. We will be seeing a third term of trump unless he happens to die.

The only thing I find hilarious, and it's going to get me down modded into pulp, is that in case you were wondering why all these numbskulls voted to get rid of the workers they needed for their farms it's because they're kind of racist and they thought that the black people would come back to the plantations as it were.

Russia barely has an air force. They're corrupt government had been basically pocketing the money for their military for the last 20 years and so it turned out they didn't really have the kind of air force that could overwhelm a country.

It is extremely impressive though what Ukraine has done here. Even with all the corruption Russia does still have a hell of a lot of weapons and a hell of a lot more people. Although it is telling that they keep pulling North Koreans and I think now people of Laos into The fray rather than risk a full-scale draft for this useless war.

Remember all failing empires eventually try to expand their borders in order to fill their emptying coffers caused by incompetence and corruption. America will be there eventually. When it happens you can expect a draft.

Name recognition is name recognition. As the saying goes there's no such thing as bad publicity.

And if it's one thing the last 6 months has taught me it's that the public has the memory capacity of a forgetful goldfish.