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What the fuck is going on in the world right now? How can so much ridiculous shit be coinciding?
We just reached a point where they feel confident in going full mask off. They have subverted the american democracy and are poised to do it elsewhere too, and can pursue their hideous goals more openly.
Bingo. We’ve been building toward this moment for decades. The pessimist in me doesn’t think we’ll be able to turn things around without massive upheaval and bloodshed.
If the French could do it, we certainly can as well. At least… I hope so.
The French didn’t exactly do it without bloodshed.
Well I’m good with bloodshed.
So what?
Commenter one: “… Without bloodshed”
Commenter two: “if the French could do it”
I was just pointing out that the French didn’t do it without bloodshed. I swear reading comprehension is at an all time low.
Oh, I understood perfectly. I just don’t care if bloodshed is required.
I mean at least we outnumber them by a literal fuck ton.
Do we? A lot of people have stood on the sidelines and done nothing. They will continue to do nothing under fascism as long as they can live comfortable sedated lives.
I don’t know. That seems pretty fragile these days with so many people barely scraping by. Sure most of us have enough for food but what else do we have? And they seem to be making no effort in improving our quality of life. In fact they are deliberately sabotaging it.
Well, it has been about 90 years since the last time things led up to a world war and societies tend to cycle through stuff over and over again. Now that everyone from that last major conflict is dead it is time for a reboot!
1933 part 2… we already know what happens now
Late stage capitalism.
I’m calling for the depopulation of the ruling class
For those who didn’t read the article, he doesn’t mean the actual cultural elite: billionaires like himself. He means journalists and TV anchors. He wants news reporting to be uncritical of him and his fellow elites.
Dear Zuckerberg.
You have enough money, you have three options.
- Buy an island, build a big mansion, and just live the good life, away from public view, just slow down.
- Do what your friend who created Myspace does, get a camera and a good laptop, and live the life of a nomadic photographer, you have zero money issues, you can just travel and take cool photos.
- Continue being a fucking dickhead, screwing up the world further trying to get a bigger high score, which won’t materially change your life in any way.
Please stop choosing 3, your life will be soo much easier if you do, you will also make soo many other people’s lives way easier.
They are not even trying to hide it anymore. We are officially at the let them eat cake part of the show.
social media users — should “become the new kind of cultural elites.”
I haven’t been on Facebook or other Meta-owned properties for a few years, but if I remember correctly social media users definitely shouldn’t be considered cultural elites.
Here’s the full quote, from this transcript, for anyone interested:
Mark: Yeah, so I think that that’s quite possible. And I do think that there is this cycle that goes on where, you know, within a society, it’s not just the government that has power. There are certain people who, in these culturally elite positions— and, you know, journalists, TV news anchors— who are the people who people broadly trust? They’re not all in government. A lot of people in other positions— it’s like, who are the people that people look to?
I think that basically it needs to shift for the internet age. And I think a lot of the people who people looked to before, they’re kind of realizing, hey, they weren’t super honest about a lot of these issues that we faced. And I think that’s partially why social media isn’t a monolithic thing. It’s not that people trust Facebook or X; they trust the creators and the voices that they feel like are being authentic and giving them valuable information on there. So there’s, I think, going to be just this whole new class of creators who basically become the new cultural elites that people look at and say, “Okay, these are the people who give it to me straight.” And I think that that’s— that’s a thing that is— maybe it’s possible because of social media. I think it’s also just the internet more broadly. I think podcasting is obviously a huge and important part of that, too.
I mean, I don’t know to what extent you feel like you got to be large because of social media, or just because it’s the podcasting platforms that you used, but I think that this is a very big sea change in terms of who are the voices that matter. And what we do is we try to build a platform that gives people a voice, but there’s this wholesale generational shift in who are the people who are being listened to. And I think that that’s a very fascinating thing that is going on, because I think that’s what’s going on here. It’s not just the government and people saying, “Hey, we want a very big change here.” I think it’s just a wholesale shift in saying, we just want different people who we actually trust, who are actually going to tell us the truth, and not give us the bullshit opinions that you’re supposed to say, but like the type of stuff that I would actually— when I’m sitting in my living room with my friends, the stuff that we know is true. Who are the people who have the courage to actually just say that stuff? I don’t know. I think that whole cultural elite class needs to get repopulated with people who people actually trust.
Okay the term “cultural elite” is pretty questionable but within context what he’s saying is reasonable-ish.
I think i agree to the concept but probably in the opposite direction of him. Get some people in there who could care less about killing ceos. Who any going to focus on the meaningless issues, who give us real news and not clickbait.
