WatDabney
@WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Appreciate the effort, but I can't handle my own shit. much less a extrovert instigating a million things to do on top of all that. 2 hours ago:
It goes even beyond that.
Extroverts are for all intents and purposes vampires.
They aren’t “rescuing” you. They’re capturing you, so they can feed on you.
- Comment on Decades Ago, Columbia Refused to Pay Trump $400 Million. Note That Number. 1 week ago:
Just your daily reminder that the President of the United States is quite seriously a raving lunatic.
- Comment on Threats Rise Against Judges Overseeing Trump Policy Cases, Fueling Safety Concerns 1 week ago:
The brownshirts are assembling.
- Comment on What's wrong with a technocracy? 2 weeks ago:
There are two levels of problems with a technocracy.
The first is a problem that’s common to all hierarchical systems, entirely regardless of their specific nature. They will, each and all, sooner or later come to be dominated by people who hold the positions they hold solely because they most lust for those positions and are most willing to do absolutely whatever it takes to gain and hold them.
It makes no difference what sort of limitations or stipulations might be in place - if there is a position that holds authority over others, it will eventually come to be held by the most vicious and conniving bastard in the organization, because they will be willing and able to go to lengths to which nobody else will go.
The second problem with a technocracy is ancillary to the first, and common to all hierarchical systems that focus on some specific philosophy or identity. The positions of power will still come to be held by the most determined psychopaths, but unlike in a more general system, the abusers in power will have an additional claim to legitimacy by paying lip service to the ideal. They’re generally able to act even more destructively than other psychopaths, since they can hide their malevolence behind the philosophy or identity both before and after the fact.
Or more simply - peoblem 1 is that you end up with psychopathic assholes, and problem 2 is that you end up with psychopathic assholes who have even more power than your run-of-the-mill psychopathic assholes because, after all, they’re experts.
- Comment on Trump Sees Antisemitism in Only One Direction: On the Left 2 weeks ago:
“Antisemitism” is a particularly bizarre thing if viewed through the lens of MAGA right-wing autocracy.
The thing is that it requires two completely different but oddly complementary lies.
The first is the standard ludicrous notion that opposing the policies of the Israeli right somehow equals antisemitism.
The second is the at least equally ludicrous notion that holding generally negative opinions of Jews in general - a thing that’s not coincidentally quite common among MAGAites - somehow does not equal antisemitism.
So MAGAites live in this bizarre mirror universe in which falsehood is truth and truth is falsehood.
- Comment on The Words Federal Agencies Are Removing From Their Sites Under Trump 3 weeks ago:
Unwords.
- Comment on Jamie Dimon popped off at the 1,200+ JPMorgan employees fighting against full-time RTO: 'I don’t care how many people sign that petition' 1 month ago:
I think this is only partly about the need to keep the value of commercial real estate inflated.
I think there’s a more fundamental psychological motivation.
The illusion that the C-suite actually contributes value sufficient to arguably justify their obscene salaries depends in large part on them sitting in offices at the top of a building full of workers.
If the building is not full of workers, that threatens the illusion.
- Comment on Exclusive-Musk Aides Lock Government Workers Out of Computer Systems at US Agency 1 month ago:
The “choice” to give up your money to avoid physical harm isn’t a choice at all
Exactly as the “choice” to accept a severance package in order to avoid being fired isn’t a choice at all.
And you know that. But you’re too dishonest to admit it.
soooo happy that Trump won
This from the poster who claimed to be a socialist during the campaign…
- Comment on Exclusive-Musk Aides Lock Government Workers Out of Computer Systems at US Agency 1 month ago:
It’s really sort of astonishing sometimes how complete your lack of integrity is.
Tell me - do you apply this “logic” in other situations?
Like, for instance, if someone were to walk up to you on the street and say, “You can either give me all your money or I’ll beat you up and take it from you,” and you were to then give them your money, that would somehow not count as a robbery since you “accepted” their “offer”?
Ah, but that’ll have to just be a rhetorical question, since the one thing that you’ll never do is actually answer it honestly…
- Comment on Exclusive-Musk Aides Lock Government Workers Out of Computer Systems at US Agency 1 month ago:
It’s really sort of astonishing sometimes how complete your lack of integrity is.
- Comment on Exclusive-Musk Aides Lock Government Workers Out of Computer Systems at US Agency 1 month ago:
Looks to me as if an active coup is currently under way.
And we’re going to find out if there’s anyone in Washington who’s going to try to stop it.
- Comment on U.S. Army Plans to Eliminate Office for Reducing Civilian Harm in War 2 months ago:
Of course they are.
Under Trump, civilian harm is going to become their primary mission.
- Comment on Fires Incinerated the Facade of California Governing Competence 2 months ago:
If you ever want to grow a bit of integrity, ask yourself why you’re avoiding what I said and focusing on the fact that I said it.
- Comment on Fires Incinerated the Facade of California Governing Competence 2 months ago:
Yes - assholes who see every tragedy as just another opportunity for another partisan pissing match make me angry, and especially when they’re also fucking tunnel-visioned hypocrites.
When this civilization collapses, it’s going to be in no small part because they’re in there, day after day, diligently chipping away at it. You’re fucking right that makes me angry.
- Comment on Fires Incinerated the Facade of California Governing Competence 2 months ago:
It’s not in and of itself.
Did you really not understand what I said?
- Comment on Fires Incinerated the Facade of California Governing Competence 2 months ago:
Right… a less-than-perfect response to unprecedented wildfires is grounds for sweeping condemnation of California governance.
Meanwhile, Texas - the darling of conservatives - can’t even manage to provide power during a cold snap. But that’s okay somehow.
It’s not even so much that you miserable fuckwads have this desperate and entirely destructive need to politicize everything - the really loathsome thing is that you can’t even manage to be honest while you’re doing it.
You’re everything that’s wrong with the world, and your grandchildren are going to piss on your grave.