I’m saying fuck the system. Social media, and the perception that it’s some kind of open, fair forum, is what’s screwing over the world right now.

I want people to act out however they can as long as it’s not on a platform that literally controls their voice, who else hears it, and how. And I want activists and leaders to stop pondering what’s going wrong out loud as they walk through a sea of people glued to their feeds.

Vindicating Tweets like this article is not helping. It’s like praising party-approved dissent in the Gestapo newsletter.

In short:

Don’t feed the trolls.

I hate these headlines of “social media heroes rag on jerk.”

You fed the troll! You all get a pat on the back. Now go back to corporate controlled algorithmic scrolling and keep fighting the good fight…

People believe that shit, too. Like, I see a lot of sentiment on Reddit for staying on Reddit just to counter the “other guy.” Yes, that is exactly what Reddit wants!

Good thing Trump is a wimp.

As others have pointed out, he may talk loud and roleplay as a dictator hard, but (so far, in the business and political world), Trump shrinks when faced with a fair fight. He’ll jawbone and bully and blow little guys up to look good. He cares about himself, and will brag about every loophole he exploits.

But it’s much harder for him to, say, cross the line of arresting Newsom. Other dictatorships, even modern pseudo ones, feels eerily similar, but look closely, and it appears the leaders pushed the envelope strategically. Hitler, for instance, was relatively tame at first and took calculated, increasingly drastic and brutal steps, wheras Trump consistently backs down from the Machiavellian solution. See: the response to Elon’s betrayal (so far).

At least that’s my hope.

And I hope someone with a spine doesn’t follow in his footsteps. The apparatus built around him is much scarier than Trump.

As I keep saying, America may be a shitshow, but Europe needs to look in the mirror before it happens to you guys too. Far right parties are gaining lots of traction while many assume the EU will be fine, and more war spending is going to exacerbate that.

Both can be true.

It can be true that the FDA was corrupted/captured to some extent and needs more ‘skeptial’ and less-industry-friendly leadership. At the same time, skepticism in science is not the answer.

This is my dillema with MAGA. Many of the issues they tackle are spot on, even if people don’t like to hear that. They’re often right, even when the proposed solutions are wrong and damaging. I think this a lot when I hear RFK speak, nodding my head at the first assertion then grinding my teeth as he goes on.