We are essentially in an infrastructural time bomb where the entire American economy is held together by a few thousand boomers who refused to teach anything to anyone and just held their cushy job until they were 80.
People forget that when an east coast oil pipeline was hacked during Biden, Congress dragged the managers of the pipeline into a hearing and asked why they didn't run it manually and the response was "everyone that knows how is either retired or dead."
I saw a post on Reddit that said that “The underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.” And I don’t think I’ve ever seen AI described so incisively.
Breathing in hefty lungfuls of smoke as I get explosive diarrhea from salad, the sky turns apocalyptic orange while oil companies drill in protected lands, screwworms are eating cattle alive and the president just paid $6 million for rape. And I’m also able to bet on all of it!
It is the natural end result of a hyper individualized society, and the "fuck you got mine" mindset we're all infected with. If "others" have what I have then it must've been given to them, whereas I had to work hard for it, and that isn't fair, so they can't have it.
a lot of people, especially westerners, especially-especially americans, conflate considering others with being controlled & respond with defiance. it’s very weird behavior.
Platner is a example of both the failure of the Dem establishment to field a competent candidate and the consequences of progressive populism untethered from a organization like DSA that can responsibly vet and develop cadre candidates over years to run for office.
Hasan Piker: “The idea of loving America has been totally held hostage by some of the worst fucking figures that unironically destroy America with regular frequency whether it be the Republican Party, whether it be Donald Trump, whether it be the parasitic capital owning class. America the entity has not served Americans. I fight for the American people, I fight for the working class. I don’t fight for America the entity especially if America the entity does not serve the interests of it’s people and it clearly does not”
My whole life has been defined by climate anxiety. From childhood to today there hasn't been a single day where it hasn't at least been at the back of my mind, weighing on me ever heavier with every passing year.
"All human beings on earth are undocumented Americans" goes so hard, it should legitimately be the political aspiration of progressive forces in the US in a nutshell