*shrugs*
I mean it's not that I don't think nazi billionaires are planning on looting the US treasury, or even that I disagree with people who're saying they're crashing the dollar to get rich/obtain more power. It's just that fascists use the whole cow, and constantly searching for reasons why folks in what amounts to a reactionary techno-fascist death cult don't REALLY mean to transform society into a dystopian sci-fi novel about oligarchic fascism is imho, an unhealthy impulse right now.
You're right, it's about the money, but if you don't think it's also about the power, or their intentions to enact a Longtermist (read nightmare dystopian fascist) agenda, you're telling yourself polite fictions. They're absolutely robbing the world, and they absolutely intend to place themselves in permanent control of a fascist police state through force. Both of these things are true; so assuming the fascist stuff is all window dressing and the heist is what matters is just another form of wishcasting.
Look I dunno how many times I have to say this, but this shit is really. We really have hit the end of the line, the planet really is on fire, and we really are at a point where either capitalism goes or billions of people die horribly. The billionaires are embracing fascism and a technocratic-death cult precisely because all of this is true. They've already made their choice; billions of us are gonna die so they can maintain their (capitalist) way of life if they have anything to say about it. And you can't do that, even a faux democracy, without altering the social contract in some pretty horrible ways. For over ten years now people have been telling me I'm talking conspiracy theories but dawg, they say this shit in the open, you just have to take them seriously even though it's hard because they sound like Bond villains. How do you march billions of people to their deaths for a tiny handful of nazi billionaires can keep getting richer even as the planet burns? Well you ain't gonna do it DEMOCRATICALLY; people aren't going to CHOOSE to die for your profit margin. So you need fascism, and they have constructed an elaborate belief system and a plan to take over the entire Pig Empire, to justify and enact that fascism.
I get that it sounds like a dystopian fan-fic, but this is reality and it's unfolding right in front of your eyes. And if you're waiting for for-profi, Pig Empire media owned by the VERY SAME fascist billionaires planning to kill you and your family for pennies on the share as the world burns, to TELL YOU that all of this is real - you're a fucking mark.
Mood for president's day and for all time: Do Keum-Yeun, a Korean woman who spent years fighting to keep the USA military from taking her community's land:
#PresidentsDay
My life has been greatly improved just by paying attention to bird alarm calls. Anytime I'm out and hear some chickadees or crows making a fuss, I always make sure to investigate! Sometimes I get to see cool predators, raptors or mammals, and whether I do or not there's just that feeling of a little bit of connectedness to the world, that I can understand and pay attention to some simple communication from other species.
Mircosoft misogyny for over 30 years
https://e926.net/posts/2676254
Source 1: https://twitter.com/wereshiba/status/1352370435061637124
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"Automattic confirmed to TechCrunch that when the migration is complete, every Tumblr user will be able to federate their blog via ActivityPub, just as every WordPress.com user can today."
https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/11/tumblr-to-join-the-fediverse-after-wordpress-migration-completes/
don't let transphobe matt mullenweg and his corpo buddies in! sign The Anti-Automattic ActivityPub Accord, Or, FediPact 2: The Car Hammer Explosion Pact and pledge to defederate them from your instance today!!!!!
uspol
All this talk of staying informed and marches, we are so past that we need riots, revolution, community support locally and nationally.
#uspol
Biologist
Love old tech and anti-authoritarian praxis
RISC and singlecore CPUs
#runbsd
Lots of body no worky Just a puppy