America is an example of the narcissism and psychopathy that extreme wealth creates, and capitalism rewards, rotting a society to its core.

It’s most prevalent in America because it has the highest wealth inequality, and the most religiously indoctrinated poorly educated population, but the ultra wealthy tend to be narcissists everywhere; especially those born into extreme wealth, like Trump.

These people are not well in the slightest. They are mentally ill, and capitalism continues to empower their sociopathic megalomania.

The multigenerational operation directly involves the defunding of, and attacks on, education. This isn’t a this or that situation. ALL conservative and neoliberal policy since the 1970’s is about destroying ALL socialist/liberal/democratic advances made to date, and returning the working class to ignorant destitution; much easier to control and brainwash mentally-ill morons (see MAGA).

Rest in piss indeed

When profits are involved, always assume malice.

The only time you should assume stupidity is when dealing with family, friends, colleagues, frontline workers, etc; basically anyone you interact with who wouldn’t profit off the malice (eg the sales person or marketing team will lie to make a sale).

This is not “pettiness”. This is all part of a multi-generational psychological warfare operation to brainwash the working class and implement totalitarian dictatorship — started by the Koch Bros, Roger Ailes, Rupert Murdoch, and other wealthy narcissists several decades ago — and the fascists are winning; facilitated by “liberals” who are mostly a manufactured opposition, financed by the same corporations/oligarchs.

No war but class war, and the capitalist class is winning.

Imagine how much value would have been created if the several hundreds of billion spent on the shitty VR sims went to wages, or taxes, or healthcare.

But no. We should all marvel at the efficiency of the oligarchy!

Surveillance capitalism just wants to completely destroy all anonymity for data harvesting, propaganda, and control purposes.

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Considering Epstein didn’t kill himself, and literally none of his hundreds/thousands of oligarch-customers have faced any consequences, this pedelephant in the room could very well be what chat control, photo scanning, etc is actually all about.

Parent takes photo of their baby/child in the rudey nudey > custom pedo-developed algorithm flags it as potential child porn > sends image/vid to gov server for “verification” > data gets “hacked” by pedos.

Same system could easily be adapted to stealing everyones private sex pics/vids, as the entire idea is that it’s performed by closed source applications in the background, without the user ever being aware.

And with the way CSAM works, governments could easily insert hashes of ANY files — say a whistleblower steals the un-redacted Epstein files — so OS’s/services would identify everyone who had downloaded that file(s), sending the alarm straight to the secret police’s surveillance system; maybe they could be silenced before they’ve had a chance to tell anyone.

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It’s the same Christian fascist lobby groups financed by psychopathic oligarchs and their corporations… I guarantee it. This is analogous to their attacks on wikipedia, VPN’s, DNS, encryption, our private communication systems, and our education, legal, political, and judicial systems.

Their goal is to control or destroy all sources of information on the planet, especially tools that are anti-authoritarian and anti-fascist — like they have been doing in the USA, for decades — one at a time, using every tool at their disposal.

Web archiving tools document fascisms psychological warfare across the internet, so they obviously must be destroyed.

Why should any of us approve of making things easier for technofascists?

They’re going all in on domestic chip manufacturing, and they are catching up much faster than armchair generals, and even actual generals, predicted.

Isn’t capitalism a blast?

Member when “no taxation without representation” was a thing people believed in?

Always have been

Morals are like religion to the sociopathic political and capitalist class; just another tool you can use to lie, cheat, steal, control, and virtue signal.

The catch is you can only commit crimes if you’re a billion dollar corporation!

For bots, by bots

And his narcissism is rewarded with extreme wealth and power.

Peak capitalism.

I checked my phone’s location settings, and sure enough, Instagram had recently accessed this information.

The average tech-illiterate journo is always going to be dogshit at these “experiments” because they don’t understand how most of the underlying tech works.

Other additions to my feed were harder to explain. … One video featured a woman in a sari frying up South Indian dumplings called kuzhi paniyaram — an obscure dish my mum would make when I was growing up.

Yes, numbnuts. Your precise location, plus a hundred other data points you’re ignorant of, associated the account with your mum. This journo probably doesn’t even know that location access likely means visibility of all the wifi and bluetooth devices in your radius.

If this is late stage cap journalism, in the age of omnipresent surveillance capitalism, it’s time to pack it in. We’re well and truly cooked. Welcome to costco, I love you!