It went so quiet around 10pm. A different kind of quiet evening and start of a night. I kind of knew what that meant.
I do not understand what journalists are doing besides wasting everyone’s time. They interact on a dude’s platform (who they hate) when they should absolutely not fucking do that. And they keep doing it! Social media is the purest drug for all those folks.
It’s disappointing that most people still don’t understand that presidents have basically no say in the economy, which is a gigantic system led by a few oligarch who own all politicians. The “media” cannot help to decipher that as they are on social media drugs 24/7 for crumbs of engagement.
The only way to get people to turn the other way, is to go hard on UBI (first time it was proposed, 1797; it’s fucking 2024). Dems should be real about this instead of ordering another trial for 300 folks that will say “yeah, people love that shit when they can live a decent life, who would have thought???” How come they can’t do that when that would absolutely make red people go “OK. I’m listening.”? Instead it’s complacency and condescendence towards people scraping their finances to buy some food. It can’t work and it didn’t.
Inflation be damned. It’s odd to talk about this as if it mattered. No one can actually define it in an easy way! Inflation is incredibly complicated to calculate and rests on many variables, some being outside of the US. The big issue is that inflation hurts most people while wealthy people can always deal with price increases. I still don’t see how printing money directly for people who need it right now, is bad. It’s not.
This election is another argument about how for the past ten years people living more and more in their phones, in bubbles of lies and complacency, has been destroying democracy faster than anything prior. Leveraging pettiness to levels of toxicity never seen before. Tons of engineers working at those tech companies know that very well. We’ll have “memoirs” about that at some point.
How come Mexico, a rather conservative and religious country just voted in unprecedented numbers and virtually at 90% for an atheist, feminist, scientist woman? I don’t know, but I love them for that and things can change. And they will in America. But first, four years of pain. And probably a good decade at the very least, to get the supreme court back to looking supreme. Sigh.