The lie of greatness will dissolve into dust

[myata]

The end result of the stupidity odyssey will not be some glorious moment of greatness far in the past but the new USSR, rUsSiA 2.0: isolated, bitter and absolutely useless for anything good. It would be a sad but entirely predictable end of a great promise, if the sane part of the society will not find the will and resolve to mobilize and resist it. Right about now. Two years down, it'll be a totally different country. They know it and fully count on it. Only minds completely consumed by sleepy complacency, fat and entitlement would be willingly sleepwalking past this line of no return.

[Deluge]

1 hour ago, myata said:

The end result of the stupidity odyssey will not be some glorious moment of greatness far in the past but the new USSR, rUsSiA 2.0: isolated, bitter and absolutely useless for anything good. It would be a sad but entirely predictable end of a great promise, if the sane part of the society will not find the will and resolve to mobilize and resist it. Right about now. Two years down, it'll be a totally different country. They know it and fully count on it. Only minds completely consumed by sleepy complacency, fat and entitlement would be willingly sleepwalking past this line of no return.

Open borders is your lie, and it will always be on your heads. 

You have zero room to talk. 

[herbie]

Endless whining like a baby = greatness? Well in that definition the greatest of all is leading you there.

[Legato]

54 minutes ago, herbie said:

Endless whining like a baby = greatness? Well in that definition the greatest of all is leading you there.

So stop!

[Michael Hardner]

19 hours ago, myata said:

The end result of the stupidity odyssey will not be some glorious moment of greatness far in the past but the new USSR, rUsSiA 2.0: isolated, bitter and absolutely useless for anything good. It would be a sad but entirely predictable end of a great promise, if the sane part of the society will not find the will and resolve to mobilize and resist it. Right about now. Two years down, it'll be a totally different country. They know it and fully count on it. Only minds completely consumed by sleepy complacency, fat and entitlement would be willingly sleepwalking past this line of no return.

They haven't tried actual socialism yet. That might be on the horizon.

[myata]

20 minutes ago, Michael Hardner said:

That might be on the horizon.

It's called corporatism, for corporate fascism

[Michael Hardner]

57 minutes ago, myata said:

It's called corporatism, for corporate fascism

Ok but a corporation is simply a device.  What's makes it fascist or not?

[myata]

1 hour ago, Michael Hardner said:

What's makes it fascist or not?

A clique of heads of very large corporations ruling with no laws, checks or restrains, obscured by a political curtain or even more or less openly.

[Michael Hardner]

46 minutes ago, myata said:

A clique of heads of very large corporations ruling with no laws, checks or restrains, obscured by a political curtain or even more or less openly.

I think the opposite may be coming.

[CouchPotato]

On 3/7/2025 at 1:06 PM, myata said:

The end result of the stupidity odyssey will not be some glorious moment of greatness far in the past but the new USSR, rUsSiA 2.0: isolated, bitter and absolutely useless for anything good. It would be a sad but entirely predictable end of a great promise, if the sane part of the society will not find the will and resolve to mobilize and resist it. Right about now. Two years down, it'll be a totally different country. They know it and fully count on it. Only minds completely consumed by sleepy complacency, fat and entitlement would be willingly sleepwalking past this line of no return.

Do you wake up in the morning feeling this way? I am curious. Does your mind start producing this apocalyptic poetry as soon as you wake up?

[herbie]

7 hours ago, Michael Hardner said:

They haven't tried actual socialism yet

You CAN'T do that, it's just BAD! Bad, that's all you need to know about it. Why, you're not rich so obviously billionaires are smarter than you and should call the shots.

[User]

36 minutes ago, herbie said:

You CAN'T do that, it's just BAD! Bad, that's all you need to know about it. Why, you're not rich so obviously billionaires are smarter than you and should call the shots.

Well, I would wager the vast majority of billionaires are smarter than you. 

 

[Michael Hardner]

1 minute ago, User said:

Well, I would wager the vast majority of billionaires are smarter than you. 

 

Well, 32% of them inherited their wealth, according to a web search I did. 

So the other 68 would all have to be smarter then average, I would say, to make it a super majority. 

This assumes that the someone's intelligence at birth is random, with an enumerated level scattered around the average. 

Just out of curiosity, did you know that that many people are born into billionaireship?

[herbie]

31 minutes ago, User said:

Well, I would wager the vast majority of billionaires are smarter than you. 

I'm at least smart enough to know that's the best response a MAGAtt is capable of.

[myata]

7 hours ago, Michael Hardner said:

I think the opposite may be coming

In what way? And the opposites have been known to attract.

[Michael Hardner]

14 hours ago, myata said:

In what way? And the opposites have been known to attract.

In the early 20th century, the disparity in power and wealth became so obvious that a group of level-headed and pragmatic politicians mobilized a popular movement to restrain the powerful.  Now, that is what the MAGA thought they did... they didn't trust tech bros and the 'elite'... but the tech bros simply donated to the MAGA movement and are now helping to run it. 

[myata]

1 hour ago, Michael Hardner said:

Now, that is what the MAGA thought they did

MAGA is a only a common, regular authoritarian personality cult, it has no ideas or principles other than "eat every peace of sh*t the orange clown will excrete". I honestly can't take it as a fair analogy. Perhaps, at least the voting part of the public century back was more reasonable and intelligent?