There’s a good documentary called “the brainwashing of my father” or something like that. It’s very good.
You tapped into things I’ve thought about a lot. Being a salesman, being interested in cults and history (shout out to behind the bastards)
We a rationalizing machines not thinking machines. We have a hunch instantaneously and tend to fight to protect that hunch even when proven wrong. It’s a real problem.
My father went from making videos about the homeless needing help to “a million immigrants a day cross the boarder!!!!”
It was tragic to see him fall. He died a a couple years ago. I rember him as the good man he used to be.
Intelligent people can be tricked and walked down a road into crazy.
I’ve tried to save so of my friends from q- anon. “You want adrenichrome? I can buy it for you online right now, ship it to your door! No one is harvesting children for it, it’s widely available and doesn’t make you immortal!!!”
I’ve seen smart people devolve. That’s the real shame. Stupid people do stupid things. Trump made a lot of smart people stupid as well. Which isn’t good for anyone.
First trump isn’t going to support anyone who comes after, he’s too selfish.
So the party will be picking alone without his support.
The thing is big money might run things if they could “just pick someone” they would’ve done this decades ago.
Again I refuse to compliment trump. He was a mediocre salesman and he “scratched an itch” enough people had. You can’t just throw a dart and replace him with who it hits.
I’ve been a salesmen in some fashion my entire life.
Trump is a salesman, not the best, not the smartest… but that has always been his game. He’s selling the idea of himself and he sold it to nearly half the population of the country.
The idea… of who he is… trump…
No one can walk in and take a shred of that power. Not even his kids with the trump name.
He sold the idea of himself and that’s what people bought. They aren’t going to say “and now jd Vance!”
I have no doubt maga will rally behind another but I don’t think anyone can predict who. And it will just be what’s left of the die hard cultist not the Republican Party itself.
“I don’t think it’s viable as a new currency but I see many useful applications for it. Like keys or other yet to be determined inventions “
The power consumption eventually outweighs the benefits as a currency but a small scale one that’s just “credentials to access this locked room” is feasible.
But by the time we get there who knows what ai and quantum computing will have to crack it.
I do see possible applications for the block chain. Currency isn’t one of them.
He’s frustrating to know about. It’s like not knowing who Andrew Tate is. Probably a blessing to not know.
Edit: we should make a list of people “you’re better off not knowing about them”
So we could all look thru it for names we don’t recognize and if we see a news story with that name in it… we just don’t read it…
We can’t all watch every dumpster fire. Let’s split up the work. Whoever you know about now… just let us know if they start a genocide or something. Anyone you don’t know about right now will be someone else’s job to monitor.
I can tolerate a dirty truck that’s all dented to hell, that person clearly needs their truck for some kind of work. A clean truck that’s large is just screaming “don’t look at my dick”
If the dough in the Bremerton hits me I fly over the hood. The dickless wonder in the truck can’t even see me walking and I’ll roll under the car and die.
I’ve seen Rick and Morty. I know what they do. Grab a shovel.