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    Best believe this backlash is already factored into Flock’s equations

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        Arrogance has little to do with making these strategic considerations. If anything arrogance is a strategy that comes from dealing with things like backlash etc. The cause is not arrogant people, or people lacking self awareness because of arrogance. It’s simple economics in a way.

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          It is arrogance in not thinking they have to fear the people, or the government.

          It’s the same reason our politicians are now openly corrupt.

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            the people

            Who exactly is “the people”? What constitutes “the people”? Aren’t the bosses part of “the people”?

            the government

            Are they not the government?

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      And our governments.

      Half these shit ass companies got funding from the government to do exactly what they do. I don’t get why people chug on left right and center dick when it’s all attached to the same monster culture.

      It’s almost as if the mentality of western culture as a single unit, is moreso the problem than the government… We have all been groomed to live our entire lives to keep this monster growing. It’s not even about political parties, cops and these microcosms… There’s people with good intentions and bad intentions in all aspects… Left right or center. Why? Because they are all groomed since birth to live for something universally unatural that requires constant oversight and war to maintain. They choose to live against the universe in order to control the narrative instead of choosing to work with the universe and nature to simply exist without greed.

      But we’ve built the monster so big that if we leave the culture we will end up being treated like Muslims and the middle east. Isn’t it clear we rape anything that isn’t loyalty to the mindset we created for control? And then the same people that fund it have the gaul to go out and protest the same evil they participated in living for. It’s like a mental illness. When are people going to wake up and realize not participating in this culture is the only minimally and slightly real path to stopping it…? We really already gave up humanity to monsters so in truth is say genuine natural honest humanity is already dead. Democracy is owned by those that understand psychology and have the means to manipulate. Democracy hasn’t been authentic for decades. It’s literally theater now.

      I think this guy summed up modern western culture perfectly. I copied this from another post I made… So no YouTube link…

      In my other comment I linked a YouTube video… I forget the guys name… But the channel is Middle Nation.

      I wanted to share a summary of the first 4 minutes because I thought it hits so well. (Via YT ai).


      In the first four minutes of the video (0:01 - 3:52), Shahid Bolsen argues that the flamboyant and nonsensical rhetoric coming from the US government and mainstream media is a deliberate tactic, not an accident.

      Key takeaways from the opening segment:

      The Filtering Mechanism:

      He draws an analogy to email scammers who intentionally include poor grammar to filter for the most gullible targets. He suggests the US political and media establishment is doing the same thing: they are no longer trying to persuade intelligent, critical thinkers, but are instead sorting for a niche audience of loyalists who value belonging over truth (1:00 - 1:59).

      Loyalty over Logic:

      The speaker claims that the messaging has become a loyalty test. The goal is not to win support from the broader public, but to identify those who will blindly follow the official narrative regardless of how absurd it appears (2:00 - 2:31).

      Abandoning Persuasion:

      By relying on theatrical, infantile, and disconnected messaging, the power structure is essentially conceding that they no longer view the informed population as part of their legitimacy. They are building a “stupid club” for individuals who lack discernment and want to be told what to feel (3:02 - 3:52).

      This concept is a about left right and center.

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        Pretty much. As someone who dedicated my life to language it’s been particularly unpleasant to watch its use as communication medium and meaning-making thing die over the course of a decade or less. I hate everyone involved.

        At least they’re full of passionate intensity.

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        Democracy hasn’t been authentic for decades. It’s literally theater now.

        I regard most voting as giving your okay to have decisions made for you and not by you. The owning classes wouldn’t OK their democracy shpiel if it didn’t play a vital role in sustaining the system at this point. It’s as if they’re trying to say “oh, just go to the voting booth. We are one people and we are totally not divided through opposing interests. My interests are totally your interests, now go and vote for the candidate that managed to receive enough funds to compete, which is btw everyone on the ballot”

        I don’t think voting is terrible, on Wikipedia it seems to work quite well (and is not overused) because there is no real social stratification on that site like in the real world and everyone is united in the goal of creating a decent, stable source of knowledge. But a lot of democracy, even many direct forms of it, have shown themselves to be tools to legitimate state terrorism and to condition popular support from the people most negatively affected by present political decisions.

        Here is a semi decent video about the futility of the whole thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM_AFv5Z7qI