Surely the devil has something to say about all of this?

Step 1: Steal all of the resources.

Step 2: Make everyone forget you stole all of the resources.

Step 3: Give some of the resources back. (Don’t you look so brilliant)

Once you are a billionaire, you get a nationally broadcast pizza party on CSPAN and we engrave your name into a plaque in some “hall of smart winners” somewhere in DC. You are declared a champion of the economy and the President shakes your hand and declares a one-time national day to be in your honor. Or they read your name during the superbowl that year or whatever. Your place in history is locked in.

No, you’ve won the game so you start over with zero dollars on level 2 (someone breaks one of your legs to make it harder).

Congratulations, you are invested in DISASTER CAPITALISM.

What a woke perspective.

I think it’s ironic that Trump and Musk are trying to implement the kind of shock that might wake someone up and bring them around. If nothing else, they are making clear the absurdity of Government and the contradiction that we call democracy. I think there’s something hideously ironic there.

But that is not to say that I deny the pain and suffering of those who suffer from any kind of disability.

I think this is because Trump realised that we’re all disabled. We’re all disabled by the social norms and conditioning that surround us. No one is intrinsically disabled; we are only made to suffer disability by the unreasonable expectations placed upon us from outside.

Trump it taking us one step closer towards waking up.

People will still be alive in four years?

So tell me again why it’s okay for the Government to backdoor encryption.

You do realise that a load of former Nazi officers were welcomed back into administrative and leadership positions in West Germany after the end of WW2, right?

Is this a dead cat?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_cat_strategy

Obligatory Father Ted reference: https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=uoT88hRmpnE / https://youtu.be/uoT88hRmpnE

How many 14 year olds have $50 per month going spare?

Meth. Not even once.

Not one single government cares so much about it tho.

Way to generalise, bro. There are some low lying island states that are going to disappear under the rising sea levels. I think they are taking it pretty seriously.

Don’t bullshit please.

I feel you, but you need to remember that the world is generally a pretty chaotic place and predicting the future when complex systems pass tipping points and transition to new equilibria (as they are at the moment) is pretty difficult.

Invest in yourself, your ability to cope with new and unfamiliar things, and build resilience. Resilience being the ability to bounce forward when you hit rocky patches. Don’t expect to bounce back and end up where you left off, but learn to adjust to the chaos where you need to.

Develop your capabilities until you have a sense of being a competent, worthwhile and dependable person outside of the circus going on around us. Someone that isn’t quite so dependent on the big bad system we are often forced to be part of.

Surely small Government means repealing all that red tape enforcing individual property rights too?

Can’t we make a society people want to live and procreate in instead of slapping a sticking plaster on a civilisation that doesn’t want to go on anymore?

Is this what an out of control madman looks like?

Your brain is constantly processing the inputs from all of your senses and pretty much ignoring them if they fit with what it is already expecting.

Your brain is lazy. If everything seems to fit with what your brain expects then you believe that what you are seing is reality and you generally ignore it.

Generally the mind only focuses on what it believes is salient/interesting/unexpected.