Posts by Zeke@elonsucks.org
(DIR) Post #AYKhu1izCMsUXcd8Do by Zeke@elonsucks.org
2023-01-25T00:41:15Z
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Peter Turchin's concept of long-term secular cycles and elite over-competition that pitches those in power against one another. Late-stage capitalism cannibalizing markets and desperate for new speculative ventures (nfts and e-currency). The US is a bellwether bc we're so far along in so many ways -- but we see mass violence, ethno-nationalism and fundamentalism rising worldwide. See RW populist parties and creeping rates of "deaths of despair"
(DIR) Post #AYKhu2dhnUFRNXAQd6 by Zeke@elonsucks.org
2023-01-25T00:51:54Z
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Case and Deaton's work on deaths of despair is instructive: First we saw rising rates of alcohol and drug deaths and suicide among middle-aged white men (those most reeling from economic+social factors that, rightly or wrongly, were most visibly affected by deindustrialization, globalization, and social progress). No longer can a HS graduate make a living off one paycheck. But white men are not unique and similar woes occur in segregated immigrant communities and oppressed minority groups.
(DIR) Post #AYKhu4VypBFzC9ZHrk by Zeke@elonsucks.org
2023-01-25T01:00:41Z
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As the past decade-plus proceeded the lives cut short from alc+drug abuse and suicide extended to women, youth, and nonwhite racial+ethnic groups. John Q. Public is struggling. Trust in public institutions has cratered simultaneously as govt has grown increasingly unresponsive to non-wealthy constituencies. Trust in one another and a sense of place and purpose has declined as communities atrophy. Religion used to supply us with mores and strictures such that we could make sense of reality....
(DIR) Post #AYKhu7BWtfgHTb1UuG by Zeke@elonsucks.org
2023-01-25T01:08:58Z
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I believe faith in free markets and liberal democratic norms -- in short, humanism -- substituted for a time, but no more. Society is now viewed as conflictual; consensual norms about what constitutes a good life and how that is obtained have fallen by the wayside and others are now viewed suspiciously, driven by ambition, greed, and the heartfelt sense of things falling apart. Our political opponents are fascists, groomers, liars, cheats. All politics are now morally contested.
(DIR) Post #AYKhuA3qCiJUOcRtq4 by Zeke@elonsucks.org
2023-01-25T01:18:36Z
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We are all indicted by a system that supplies us with neverending cheap crap sourced from slave labor and abhorrent work conditions overseas. We help to maintain a system wholly dependent on fossil fuels, environmental degradation, and overconsumption as we attempt futilely to keep up with the Musks and to make ends meet. We must avert our eyes or otherwise become paralyzed by these horrors. We would care but lack the time due to back-to-back work shifts and degrading employment.
(DIR) Post #AYKhuB3WVNeZTvJ9yy by Zeke@elonsucks.org
2023-01-25T01:27:34Z
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Family and close interpersonal relationships are no longer guaranteed as marriages end and parents and children are split apart; the state becomes increasingly punitive and carceral as public funds and investment dries up. The world can now witness every act of police brutality--each instance of the state exercising its legal monopoly on violence. They must have had it coming, we rationalize, as otherwise we might be forced to reckon with a lived xp that is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish +short
(DIR) Post #AYKhuMhHDuzLaOzYyO by Zeke@elonsucks.org
2023-01-25T01:31:18Z
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Solutions and scapegoats are proffered everywhere. We latch onto those that feel right, and give no latitude to those who think otherwise. The world is cold, or on fire, and there is no sympathy or empathy to extend to the political other. They are mad, evil, or ignorant.
(DIR) Post #AYKhuRZf5ersiET3IW by Zeke@elonsucks.org
2023-01-25T01:45:53Z
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We must not allow them the least bit of aid nor comfort, or else they will gain the upper hand. We are terrified, terrified that they will crash planes into our buildings, abduct our children, poison the water and air, proselytize white supremacy and scientology, roll back human and civil rights only recently afforded.The news is all blood, violence and vitriol. Is this all there is? We seek refuge pursuing the few comforts available to us: television, VR, shopping, drugs, violence.
(DIR) Post #AYKhuZIEOLg8eUNFEu by Zeke@elonsucks.org
2023-01-25T01:59:23Z
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There is pleasure to be had in others' misfortune. Condemning others is one way to make friends and prove that we're one of the good ones. We are able to demonstrate our virtuosity in the things we purchase, drive, wear, and tattoo on ourselves. All the world is a stage so dance, monkey! It doesn't count if there isn't an audience.We grow greyer and warier as the world changes faster. The biological imperative forces us to bring forth more grist for the mill.Ad nauseam until the world burns
(DIR) Post #AYKhwgPssUddK9xhr6 by Zeke@elonsucks.org
2023-08-02T21:40:03Z
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@chainsaw_appreciator looking forward to it. You'll thank me later
(DIR) Post #AYKhxYmQksl7vivTUm by Zeke@elonsucks.org
2023-08-02T21:34:25Z
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@pyrate @adam you will never date a woman
(DIR) Post #AYKi1XT9ZT6P1So4Ey by Zeke@elonsucks.org
2023-08-02T21:41:17Z
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@CatLord let me guess you love cats and have never talked to a girl
(DIR) Post #AYKi9iTiWVntU1yB0a by Zeke@elonsucks.org
2023-08-02T21:35:01Z
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@TheWanax @adam @shedinja good for a chuckle I suppose. Go back to Rhodesia
(DIR) Post #AYKiPF1fnIZKlvFsUi by Zeke@elonsucks.org
2023-08-02T21:42:15Z
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@Heil_Honkler someone would have to take "heil honker" seriously before you hurt their feelings. You know why that's not going to happen, right?
(DIR) Post #AYKiSsnIOTLyymGaSe by Zeke@elonsucks.org
2023-08-02T21:46:39Z
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@PorkCow @adam @LovecraftEnthusiast congratulations for rising up to run your employer's social media account. No where further but up for you?
(DIR) Post #AYKjM1LWIbe5QiZBLM by Zeke@elonsucks.org
2023-08-02T21:42:56Z
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@bot nope, just another one of your delusions
(DIR) Post #AYKjWpJDORu7Hadnlo by Zeke@elonsucks.org
2023-08-02T21:56:48Z
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@Senator_Armstrong @ImperialAgent@mugicha.club senator from Rhodesia, right? You checked on your constituents lately, boss?
(DIR) Post #AYKkB20Hc93cEnxNsO by Zeke@elonsucks.org
2023-08-02T20:35:01Z
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@YTFoidLover1488 feel free to jerk off to the cartoon
(DIR) Post #AYKlKqSZUKzBHlQq3s by Zeke@elonsucks.org
2023-08-02T21:54:41Z
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@dcc @ChristiJunior@detroitriotcity.com or what you're kicked out of the club?
(DIR) Post #AYKrQpz8lWhlH9uFv6 by Zeke@elonsucks.org
2023-08-02T20:53:04Z
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@AlabasterBrick how much do you get paid to post? Bet your very real wife is happy with her choices in life