PASTA wrote: Mon Jan 20, 2025 5:44 pm
DaveA wrote: Mon Jan 20, 2025 4:34 pm
Don't Let The Bastards Get You Down
came here to say just this. Embrace your community and those you love. Create, build, communicate.
It's more than OKAY to take a day or two with your head in the sand, resting, to prepare for what ever is next. (self care is critical if we have to fight)
Be the small thing that brightens someones day.
Yeah. But I would add that more than a day or two is also fine, depending on one's situation and goals. Unplugging indefinitely isn't the end of the world, in a lot of cases. A person doesn't have to react to each and every low blow or hellish new policy. Not that there would be something wrong about this! But it seems clear to me, what with Trump's laughably incompetent cabinet picks, these early executive actions, and this opening salvo of obscene gestures that more than a couple of these things have been done for the express purpose of getting a rise out of others. That's what they want: attention, reactions, outrage--en masse. In one sense, they become less empowered when normal people see them for the massive needy dorks that they are, that they've been
all along. One of the reasons Musk, Zuckerberg, Bezos, and these other ultra-rich fools have gotten in the mix with Trump's politics is that they've realized there's something a bit empty about just acquiring money; in addition to this, they want to be on "the winning side," their end game is to have
influence. They want to shape the country, and the world, irrevocably, and when these out-of-touch people's values are pooled together it will almost certainly be for the worse. (For instance, if Musk and Zuckerberg can barely run social media sites, do you want them in charge of the global AI arms race? Did everybody forget about what happened in
The Terminator? Laugh now, but poor overall judgement and unprecedented advancements in technology are almost never good bedfellows.)
I first saw the notion of a maximum wage being floated about twenty years ago. Since then, the world has seen more billionaires come about than ever before, in the entire history of humankind.
In the next ten years, we will have the first ever trillionaires, of which Musk, Zuckerberg and Bezos will be among. "Everyday people" should keep this in mind when they go to the grocery store and do a double take at non-luxury items' price tags.