youtu.be/fd-AMqUpoCc?...

so: what do y'all think about poll data?

it would be interesting if being in a democracy would entail every voter having a little button box in their homes, easy to get to, offering much greater poll participation. maybe that way i would trust the poll numbers a little more. it would be the biggest focus group ever.

but all the coverage of the now (and past and everything) is full of "americans think" this or that. do they really? who is being asked?

are y'all counted in the polls the media sources use to give us a clue of who's for or against an issue? i've randomly asked my friends if their voices are part of the poll numbers; most say they are not.

america was already a "godly" nation, welcoming the stranger, caring for the outcast, supporting the widow.. my God (because i believe in God), please help us!

i think there are a few weeds combining at the present. they are helping each other. the technate thing is one, another one relates to xian nationalism and its subcategories (in an effort to make us a "godly" nation). these weeds are fertilized by racism and hate and greed.

imagine life as a garden. right now, there are monster weeds taking over and choking out the natural symbiotic diversity of life. i'm not a fan of using round-up for weeds b/c it damages the rest of the garden. the only way to save the garden is to find and diligently dig out the root.

although i agree with all the things we are so outraged by, i'm not interested in listing all the reasons things are so fucked up. i want to know why. this technate thing appears to be part of the why.

maybe you knew about this already. i didn't. it makes me hyper aware how sheltered my life has been, how much the u.s. (however turbulent it's been here, despite there being more guns here than ppl, despite all the inequalities) has succeeded in keeping the bigger world domination forces at bay.

here's an article about it for those not into long videos:

The Doge geniuses left the back door open.

horrifying is an understatement.
right now my solace is that "they" are showing how incredibly naive they are (by leaving metadata tags in pdfs that point to project 2025 authors in emails trying to get a roll-call of all civil service employees for instance).

all of this is pushing/coercing people to break out of everything we’ve been taught about acceptable human interaction. no!

at first glance i imagined his middle finger up.
because that's kinda what he's saying to the population.