Now hear this!
Ukraine didn’t start the war.
Tariffs are taxes on consumers.
14 year-olds are not adults.
Immigrants are not responsible for the ills of the country.
That is all!
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What's a Hasty Generation? A grandparent who encourages their grandchildren to have babies at a young age? Parents who give birth to babies in highschool?
Immigrants who move their multigenerational families to the US too quickly without knowing what the US is actually like?
So many possibilities.
Increasingly is that all wars are part some tyrant like Putin and whatever the hell Trump is aside from crazy fascist* and some part the national security state’s out of control defense contracting and war mongering wing. Musk, Erik Prince, Palantir, all sorts of small creepy companies (NSO group, BlackCube) and of course the friendly fascists of Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon etc.
And no doubt Apple which makes my phone 🙄. Opt out was their high point. No ai. No bullshit. They do have better instincts about what consumers want (no bots and no bs) price gougers as they are.
*: I sometimes feel Trump is some sort of mass of animal id..yeah he is very much a product of reality tv.
Putin like Stalin is a specific type of tyrant.
Trump is some kind of confusing chaotic force ..he defies description. He is scary to look at because you feel his buffoonish veneer lulls your brain into. I would find a steely-eyed fascist less scary. Anyway..
Poor Zelenskyy..he has really been made a pawn of these various evil forces. I started watching “Servant of the People”. But somehow it was too depressing to continue. I couldn’t help but think that Ukraine probably looks nothing like that by now. Zelenskyy’s election had been a kind of fu to the oligarchs and then Putin’s war.
Same with Mo Amer and Hashoter Hatav. Though they all had their points. Somehow comedies and war torn parts of the world seemed dissonant? Though they need comedy more than anyone else..
Are there actually people who believe Ukraine started the war? This piece by a doctor Clayton Dalton I read a while back addressed how apparently difficult a shared perception on reality is.
Shrug. I am going as low tech and offline as I can. But without the anxious ocd that the addiction model requires. I just shut off and shut down as much as I can and am blunt about it. That should help refocus on the real world (casual online engagement to shut off stuff like bots and all unwanted tech aside).
Anyway electoral politics and realpolitik are probably not my thing as much as specific issues. I can now see that. And casual academic interest in the whole nightmarish shebang.
And I don’t think hating anyone is good. Life has to be hard enough for Russians with Putin. Probably they can’t express support of people like Navalny since most people don’t want to go to prison etc.
It’s why it is important to pushback early and often at even the start of fascistic shit approaching your life from any direction so they don’t get entrenched so you need to “your” warlord or billionaire or vested interest rather than democracy with all its friction and the vast majority of us NPC squabbling and grumbling and pushing and shoving ahead - graceful and elegant 
. But never dictating, groveling and manipulating or kayfabe (noxious concept). I fail to see why NPC is an insult. PC seems like a template that applies only to politicians/media personalities and influencers or hideous people. I stand with the confused NPC rabble and our graceless progress. NPC rights! We are people too.
I liked the part in The Stepford Wives where Bobbie talks about how she went to a place with normal irate women. Though while I dislike harmony creep style, I am weary of needless friction as well. It would be nice if anything ever worked simply without ignoring unpleasant realities and politics in ways inconvenient to the kinds of people I am permanently cutting out and filing complaints against.
Miscommunication for real between people largely in agreement is guaranteed with these damn many people. It is why I avoid crowds and keep my neck of the woods and part of the grid free of that shit when it encroaches. We don’t want any whatever it is is my motto.
Corporations are not people. Nor are their shills reliable humans.
I actually feel very relieved when I see the NPCs. My people! They usually look confused and alarmed and baffled. I was even more NPC 15 years ago. It’s like South Park’s “Cancelled” and so depressing if an NPC decides to join the collective dance of some gross and creepy Facebook and Google and Pentland curated thing with the option of destruction by an ass like Musk or extortion by those brainless jokes who are Palantir etc as the alternative.
It is just like a flock of birds! No it really is not! Also sotto voce..fuck you..dimwit. Shoving some random NPCs into some foul thing and wondering why they go crazy. Not in my home, street etc. Go annoy just about anyone else.
