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I'd say that's a very rational anger. Lean into it. :)

JohnMakin 2y ago
I appreciate the sentiment, but may I ask why, or for what purpose? Some of this makes me extraordinarily angry because it isn’t just the ridiculous arbitration clause thing, it’s the symptom of a much larger problem that over the past couple of years I’ve deemed completely hopeless. Voting - doesn’t really work in my mind, partly because politicians are in the pockets of big companies or lobbies, and even if they werent, they control most of the information the voting populace consumes and control/inject narratives as they please. Not even to mention the courts, or the impossible nature of the current 2 party climate (USA) protest - first requires a critical mass of enough people being mad to actually do something about it (see corporate bootlicker comments all over the web for evidence why we’re nowhere close). If that critical mass is achieved, you may still get punished severely by the state in the form of riot police or other forms of police harassment, especially if youre an organizer crime/sabotage - not particularly appealing to me because I loathe the idea of prison, but even if it weren’t for that, this is a powerful enemy you have no hope of beating and I think would be the least effective journalism - this probably has the most chance and something Ive been working on on the side, writers like Ed Zitron have done a very good job so far at screeching into the void about how effed this is, but this also faces similar issues as protesting or voting - the state has methods to intimidate you into stfu’ing, and companies have methods to make sure you’re never heard by a significant audience last option, I guess, is to just be extremely angry and bitter, which isn’t great either.
- trod123 2y ago
  Voting - First-pass-the-post fails mathematically once two majority parties come to power, no third party can win, and if both parties are subverted (into one hidden party with a hidden agenda) democracy then fails. We are seeing a perfect example of this with regards to Harris/Trump. Trump closely aligns with Fascism, Harris policies closely align with Marxism/Communism. You only have a choice between the two, is that even a choice? Protest - Has always relied on the inherent threat of violence and leaders being responsive to the groups involved. It has been shown in the last 20 years that the threat of violence no longer works, and leaders have learned to be no longer responsive at all once they have been elected so long as they don't commit any crimes or scandals that would force removal of them from their positions. Additionally, when protests occur, surveillance of any protest guarantees government retaliation moving forward for all individuals involved. Surveillance is never by itself, there is always government harassment associated with it that are often impossible to prove. Any protester has likely seen the telltale signs of this, and it never ends. (i.e. mail goes missing, both sending and receiving, communications/cell phone calls become unreliable in ways ou can't know a message was sent, internet services may throw weird errors on a continual basis, email/submissions dropped silently (i.e. job applications/resumes, or other high importance items like taxes). Crime/sabotage will increase as its one of the only viable response mechanisms, actual violence too because of the increased cost imposed through broad surveillance efforts. Protesting is protected under the law, but we don't really have a sound rule of law right now since surveillance allows attacks on individuals without attribution. Journalism - not viable because state run media under the trusted news initiative can outspend and crush competition, and they violate journalistic practices (i.e. they don't distinguish or separate opinion/facts/must-runs from head office in their news broadcasts). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fHfgU8oMSo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fHfgU8oMSo All this means is that the systems and society will slowly erode and fail, and wise people are preparing now because when order fails so does food production. In a grid down situation you need food, trusted people, and guns (to protect from the food being stolen). Since you are into SRE/DevOps you are very familiar with cascade failures, and resiliency design as am I. If you have not read Mises, you might enjoy his works on socialism (written in the 1930s) as a structural analysis of how centralized systems involving people fail. While it is an intractable problem at this point, it isn't hopeless, because it is not the end, but rather a new beginning. There will be dark times ahead, but being forewarned is being forearmed.

I appreciate the sentiment, but may I ask why, or for what purpose? Some of this makes me extraordinarily angry because it isn’t just the ridiculous arbitration clause thing, it’s the symptom of a much larger problem that over the past couple of years I’ve deemed completely hopeless. Voting - doesn’t really work in my mind, partly because politicians are in the pockets of big companies or lobbies, and even if they werent, they control most of the information the voting populace consumes and control/inject narratives as they please. Not even to mention the courts, or the impossible nature of the current 2 party climate (USA) protest - first requires a critical mass of enough people being mad to actually do something about it (see corporate bootlicker comments all over the web for evidence why we’re nowhere close). If that critical mass is achieved, you may still get punished severely by the state in the form of riot police or other forms of police harassment, especially if youre an organizer crime/sabotage - not particularly appealing to me because I loathe the idea of prison, but even if it weren’t for that, this is a powerful enemy you have no hope of beating and I think would be the least effective journalism - this probably has the most chance and something Ive been working on on the side, writers like Ed Zitron have done a very good job so far at screeching into the void about how effed this is, but this also faces similar issues as protesting or voting - the state has methods to intimidate you into stfu’ing, and companies have methods to make sure you’re never heard by a significant audience last option, I guess, is to just be extremely angry and bitter, which isn’t great either.

trod123 2y ago
Voting - First-pass-the-post fails mathematically once two majority parties come to power, no third party can win, and if both parties are subverted (into one hidden party with a hidden agenda) democracy then fails. We are seeing a perfect example of this with regards to Harris/Trump. Trump closely aligns with Fascism, Harris policies closely align with Marxism/Communism. You only have a choice between the two, is that even a choice? Protest - Has always relied on the inherent threat of violence and leaders being responsive to the groups involved. It has been shown in the last 20 years that the threat of violence no longer works, and leaders have learned to be no longer responsive at all once they have been elected so long as they don't commit any crimes or scandals that would force removal of them from their positions. Additionally, when protests occur, surveillance of any protest guarantees government retaliation moving forward for all individuals involved. Surveillance is never by itself, there is always government harassment associated with it that are often impossible to prove. Any protester has likely seen the telltale signs of this, and it never ends. (i.e. mail goes missing, both sending and receiving, communications/cell phone calls become unreliable in ways ou can't know a message was sent, internet services may throw weird errors on a continual basis, email/submissions dropped silently (i.e. job applications/resumes, or other high importance items like taxes). Crime/sabotage will increase as its one of the only viable response mechanisms, actual violence too because of the increased cost imposed through broad surveillance efforts. Protesting is protected under the law, but we don't really have a sound rule of law right now since surveillance allows attacks on individuals without attribution. Journalism - not viable because state run media under the trusted news initiative can outspend and crush competition, and they violate journalistic practices (i.e. they don't distinguish or separate opinion/facts/must-runs from head office in their news broadcasts). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fHfgU8oMSo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fHfgU8oMSo All this means is that the systems and society will slowly erode and fail, and wise people are preparing now because when order fails so does food production. In a grid down situation you need food, trusted people, and guns (to protect from the food being stolen). Since you are into SRE/DevOps you are very familiar with cascade failures, and resiliency design as am I. If you have not read Mises, you might enjoy his works on socialism (written in the 1930s) as a structural analysis of how centralized systems involving people fail. While it is an intractable problem at this point, it isn't hopeless, because it is not the end, but rather a new beginning. There will be dark times ahead, but being forewarned is being forearmed.