DarkCloud

joined 8 months ago
[–] DarkCloud 27 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Being insecure about how "masculine" you are (or by extension the company you run is), is one of the least masculine and secure things one could be.

Just try to be the best of yourself, and in the case of Zuckerberg and Meta: this ain't it!

[–] DarkCloud 29 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

We have a culture that is strong enough to threaten the hyper-wealthy, so they're exhblibiting a totalitarian scarcity mindset phenomena known as "Elite Panic".

What we really need to do is construct a stronger culture that teaches them what needs to be done and why. Why it's important they're generous/humanist, why it's important to help us set up communities of life and reciprocation.

We need to capture them culturally, train them, and strongly habituate them to returning their money to the world in a hyper beneficial way.

...and we need to do this using culture and boycotts alone. Which are after all, the tools the community has.

Whilst doing this, small mutual aid communities should be formed to gain resources and alternative means. The leadership groups should be well armed and organised.

They will be targeted as "terrorists" - so will need to know their legal rights, and become activists.

[–] DarkCloud 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

Worst thing is it's not the end of the world, it's a continuation of a decline.

[–] DarkCloud 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It's an airburst, close by, and they're looking at it, from behind a pane of glass. Probably a state actor, aiming for maximum damage. If they're not blinded by looking directly at it, they're about to get glass thrown at their face. Bad scenario for long term survival, they're likely a goner.

[–] DarkCloud 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Didn't he also make a bunch of death threats and have a plan to kill a competitor?

[–] DarkCloud 27 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I don't feel like Orwell or Huxley are even close.

Orwell was about the party, we have a problem with Capitalist nihilists who aren't party specific. They'd be doing the same thing if Trump were a corrupt Dem (and he was for a while).

...as for Huxley, we live in a sexually repressed society nothing like Brave New World. The outlets aren't done collectively in church like structures, and there's no wild-man sanctuaries to escape to.

So no, neither of them present the model for the current circumstances.

[–] DarkCloud 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Laura Ingraham already did the Nazi Salute on stage at Trump, so we're already into re-runs.

[–] DarkCloud 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Most of the writers apparently didn't like coming up with "technobabble" and would often just marked it in the scripts as (TECH), the science advisor André Bormanis would then be tasked with making up the "junk" phrases and concepts to be used.

The term technobabble was eventually used by the character Q, the writers enjoyed getting to express their frustration with the task through his complaint.

[–] DarkCloud 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

What useful loyalists he'll have! I wonder if he'll form an elite giard in the next few years.

[–] DarkCloud 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Take on me... (Take on me)... Take ME on...

[–] DarkCloud 3 points 1 week ago

He just can't see what he's doing.

[–] DarkCloud 113 points 1 week ago (12 children)

I vote that we test whether this works with billionaires too.

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