Popular conspiracy theories are still bullshit.

Epstein was cooked, his life was over; he was a pedo facing the US justice system without his privilege; he was destined to never leave prison. People suicide over this sort of thing all the time.

Their are a few facts that are suspicious. But nothing that could support the notion that he was murdered, much less a grand murder conspiracy from a Hollywood spy movie.

Not only is it perfectly reasonable to believe Epstein killed himself, with the info we’ve got, it’s the only reasonable opinion.

It’s a myth that “anyone” can get wrapped up in a cult. Their are many “filters” to joining a cult. Such as unusual dress, complicated social hierarchies, and tons of jargon. And they hit you with this stuff right up front; it’s not gradual. People who are not looking for community and meaning will be repelled.

So they’re filtering people who are not in a particularly credulous mental state. People who are not in a “joining” mentality. I’m not saying that educated, sophisticated, and intelligent people are immune. This all has to do with adjustment, maturity, and emotional stability.

So anyway, to mitigate the reach of cults, society should be organized to minimize alienation and isolation, while a multitude of sources of community and meaning should be encouraged. Check on the people you care about and make sure they’re getting on. Crush capitalism.

Any platform that’s advertising based is a propaganda outlet. Reddit’s function is to manipulate pubic opinion.

Why not both?

Yea it’s funny to call powerful men gay because that would undermine their legitimacy as a leader and a person!

Just stopping by to point out that murdering, spying, and overthrowing a governments is the most normal President shit Trump has done. If your looking for the “return to normality” of Biden or Obama, this is it.

The oldest praying automaton we know of is from the 16th Century. This is basically that but with more capitalism.

I can’t help but notice how captured the Christian mind is, when even the return of the Savior is a business opportunity; a revenue stream. These people are already robots who can’t worship without a prospectus and a spread sheet.

Is 2021 a good year to study? Not only is this during the pandemic, but it was early when people were still taking the pandemic seriously.

I don’t think Parsons was talking about taxes, but a reordering of society where oligarchs don’t control government. That’s not on the ballot of any State in this Union. And it’s never ever going to be.

Cheap plastic bowl scrapers. Like these:

I use these every time I cook. I use them every time I clean the kitchen.

What the Skyler? We supposed to hate Rose too?

The politics that support minorities and marginalized groups in America still throw untold millions of people into the furnace abroad.

You could argue that supporting a particular US government throws fewer people into the fire, but your you’re still choosing who deserves to be saved.

If I had infinite money, I would create Medicare for All as a private company.

It’d be like shooting all the healthcare CEOs at once.

Nobody’s opinion on immigration has anything to do with legality. To prove it, just ask them if they would be OK with immigration if we legalized all of it.

You will find that “legal/ illegal” is 100% a stalking horse for another opinion they’re not so comfortable espousing.

King wasn’t worried about radical black thinkers, he was in community and agreement with most of them. King was worried about white backlash inspired by black violence.

King thought that taking on the US government with guns was not just philosophically wrong, but tactical and strategic stupidity.

The through-line between slain civil rights leaders is radical socialist/ Marxist thought, not violence. And King was defiantly among those radical thinkers, even though his legacy has been flattened to three or four lines from one speech.

The Luddites were an early form of direct action of working people against the ownership class. They were also an early example of workers rights movement being crushed by State violence.

It’s discouraging that their history in popular understanding is 1000% from the perspective of said ownership class.

I saw a documentary about the ultra rich teenagers in the US years ago. One young girl in that film explained that maintaining friendships with “regular” people was impossible. Her reasoning was that rich people do rich people shit. And you have the choice to pay someones way, which makes for awkward obligation/ resentment. Or you could exclude them, which also causes hard feelings.

That teenage girl? Ivanka Trump.

Communism is young. At this point in capitalism’s history, it was all colonization, genocide, and slavery. Apples to apples, I’d rather live in the Soviet Union under Stalin than a South Asian under the Dutch East India company.

I need windows for flight sims. My problem is not so much the software, it’s the hardware. I have a head-tracking camera, a set of pedals, a throttle, and joystick. All need separate drivers. None support Linux. My throttle is so old that it hasn’t been supported since W7 and it’s work to get it going on W10.

It’s just way easier to dual boot than to try to get all that hardware running on Linux.

Treat capitalists as you find them. Forget morality. What is advantageous and legal is automatically good. What is advantageous and illegal is a cost/benefit calculation.