Notices by Kalshann (kalshann@mastodon.social)

One of the reasons ultra wealthy & financial elites don't run for public office beyond a certain level of anonymity (aside from exceptions like NYC mayor) is totally because fame isn't something they can fight.

Yeah, musk could curate his fame as a techbro whatever, but he's not a techbro, he's the one pissing on the drapes in the white house right now. Just looking at Tesla will tell you what this type of fame does. It's not controllable, and previous generations knew that. 1/

That's why the successful sociopaths in the business world are the ones hidden from the public.

People like trump aren't the backroom dealers or decision makers, they're the fucking patsy or the fall guy.

He loves thinking he'll be the boss, and the whole presidency is just that, but he's just a mob money launderer & slum lord to the rich and famous.

He's an extra in his own story.

Hence his utter desire for fame and wealth. His myopic focus on appearance and prestige. Gilded as it is. 3/

Yes, modern media is held hostage by the wealthy and is yellow journalism at best, propaganda at worst. So they feel 'safe' that their fellow billionaire owner class types will cover for them. But that's just it. Journalism has always been held hostage, either by government or by the wealthy.

But it never helps them in the end. Rivals spill the beans, intrepid go getters side step gate keepers.

That fame brings their skeletons to light. They can't control it. 2/

I want a culture that doesn't hurt you for who or what you are.
I want a culture that sees suffering as undesirable.
I want a culture that want's to progress but also won't forget.

And I have no ways or means to that place, because of the culture we have.

Make them hate each other - the religious right are two steps from hating the fiscal hawks; and those hawks already hate the white-power terrorists; put targets on their backs and let them fight.

It's how coalition-built rebels win, because we're never going to create a unified leftist front that has power in the current social and cultural climate.

Nazis make plans. Authorotarians, cartels, syndicates - they have back room deals. And we have our share of them - notably trump and his ilk, or the various factions of the gop.

But seriously - it's the whims of a nurse deciding to mistreat someone; the cop beating kids; politicians protecting themselves at the cost of hurting people.

That's why trump feels powerful: a dozen of him and his cartel, and a million fuckless bad actors who don't even care.

[sighs] The US doesn't need organization to inflict terror on minorities. We don't need media owners having backroom meetings, or politicians planning oppressive laws.

We have cops making "secret" murder squads all on their own; we have the media spreading misinformation every chance they get for clicks; we have uneducated lawmakers giving wiggle room for supremacists to game the system; and these independent, stochastic, terror and oppression until it's forced itself into the status quo.

The US is currently controlled under the authority of a white supremacist; the authority of a rapist; the authority of a pedophile; the authority of a fraud; the authority of a felon; the authority of a murderer; the authority of an infantile narcissist; the authority of a fascist.

Act ~the fuck~ accordingly.

One of the things I think about every few days is this:

0.39% of the US population is a cop. One out of every 300 people is a cop.

Despite that they only solve about 30% of the crimes they deal with. 1 in 300, with a 1/3rd success rate?

At a price tag of ~152 billion/year. 30% success. 0.39% of the population.

How? I mean, name a group other than politicians and the tech companies that have a 1/3rd success rate, yet still remain relevant? And are fed more & more resources as they go?

The vanishing mom & pop store is "due to market pressures" or an "inability to compete" - not Amazon, Walmart and their billionaires stealing wealth then leveraging it to buy out everything they can. Successful people being dangerous or evil? "That's unpossible"I hear imaginary people say, mimicing the new's talking heads.

We have thousands of examples of this but the powers that be let the delusion continue to protect donors or because they are part of the danger itself.
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Even then, Conner blames the cheat - the future tech and the scientests & engineers. Not the people who own the company, the military who funds it, the military-industrial-complex or the politicians pushing for it. Nope, just the lone techie who's "responsible" for it all.

Again, slight of hand. It's not an apocalypse if that one person dies. But that's a lie.

We hide the actual threats, because they sit on corporate boards or wear nice suits. We're trained, programmed, to accept it as ok.
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R.U.R (or Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti / Rossum's Universal Robots) has been described as marvelous 'Technological Dystopia' by many.

That term is so... misplaced. The dystopia of the play was caused by capitalism. By oppression. By people. Not the Roboti or their struggle for liberation.

We don't blame the people who built Skynet, we blame Skynet, it's an act of deception, a slight of hand, because Skynet didn't ask to exist! But only the extremist blames the generals & tech companies.
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The sentence "I am the sleepy charcuterie Eucharist of taco goodness, eat my tacos and be saved." has entered my reality and now it has entered yours.

President Carter was the best president of my lifetime.

Granted, 'best' here is doing a lot of work because most of those assholes are worthless fuckless conartists. But he has my respect because he tried (and often failed) to do the right thing. Hell, as anti-christian as I am, I'll even say he was probably a good Christian.

Rest with your god.

When people tell you that things are bad: pay the fuck attention.

When victims say they've been harmed: listen to them you wonder bread tasteless fucks!

When people are dying: ask who the fuck is profiting from it, not who the fuck you're told to hate!

Pay the fuck attention. Because I swear to every fucking god out there you will be on the chopping block as soon as the powers that be are done with the rest of us.

I'm so fucking tired of people pointing to things actually, actively, literally-fucking-happening; shit like prison slavery, immigrant slavery, or whatever shitheel thing the wealthy and powerful do to the poor, marginalized & minorities in this fucking nation - and they have the audacity to reply with "Yeah, I could see that happening" or "Yeah, things could go that way." Like it's only a theoretical question for them. Some fun "what if" like alternate history story or some sci-fi horror story.

So... did trump decide to threaten invasion of Panama (a close damn ally) because he'd been accused of tax evasion in the country?

The fuckery this kkklown does just to avoid paying a few hundred million. [rolls eyes]

@AnthonyJK @blogdiva
Biden never ~never~ respected personal space, especially women - from his "gaffs" to far worse. And it's inline with accusations from decades ago about harassment and assault.

"It doesn't really matter / What you've got to say;
They never fucking listen / To you any way.

So fuck the system / You can bring it down."

"My eyes are made of acid.
And my tongue is sharp with spite.
Attention whore with too much pride,
There's no one I wouldn't fight,"