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I’ve found the most difficult concept to dislodge from the terminally disengaged is that there’s no such thing as taxpayer money at the federal level.

It’s a tremendously useful weapon for those in power to wield when they need to convince the poor to vote against their interests.

A healthy, broadly educated population, which feels safe and secure, are incompatible with, and toxic to, conservative and authoritarian ideologies.

They need you to be sick, stupid, and scared.

5MB of storage in 1956.

The states are currency users, and as such are intrinsically subservient to the currency issuer, namely the federal government.

The US federal government doesn’t need whatever money the states, or anyone else, pays it. Every cent a currency issuer receives is instantly obliterated from the economy, and conversely the origin of every cent is conjured out of thin air by their budget.

That said, the states withholding federal payments could work on the chucklefucks currently in charge, because many of them are likely to believe strongly in the fiction of zero-sum economics, but I’d hazard a critical mass hold a world view built on some other fantastical hallucination from hotboxing their collective farts.

Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.

Low birth rates are only problematic to carcinogenic ideologies.

Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it.

Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it.

The US hasn’t been a country anyone should treat seriously since 2024-11-05, and won’t be again until they can prove their ability to hold another legitimate election.

It’s a coin flip as to whether I’ll see that within my lifetime right now.

Seniority should demote individuals, from positions of power, to those of advisory.

Privilege readily blinds those who experience it.

Authoritarianism is most attractive to the weakest.

Religion is the most destructive human invention.

I’m not into kink shaming, unless practicing it inflicts harm in a non-consensual manner.

I’ve never allowed my TV to have an active route to the internet since I bought it in 2019, it’s exclusively fed over HDMI by gaming consoles and an Apple TV.

The thing is, HDMI 1.4 added HEC, so what’s to prevent media players from serving as an Ethernet switch and providing an internet connection to TVs.

Friends don’t let friends use Facebook[1].

[1]Corporations are the only ‘persons’ it’s acceptable to explicitly deadname.