This is fucking retarded

think there's an element of that in all of them. but I do think Trump, for better or worse, has his own agenda.

I've given up convincing brainwashed people that Trump is just a president to be evaluated on the merits like any other, that he'll do some good, some bad, that one should only believe what one can verify, etc. The TDS is so crazy now, there is no hope to get through. So I'm stepping back and trying to convey the depth of the TDS to people who don't have it, so they understand the extent to which people have been brainwashed in this regard. Again, it's not really about Trump per se -- he's just a politician, he's not your friend or family or anyone important in your life. But that people can be so thoroughly brainwashed about what's going on is dangerous. Voltaire's "those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities" is in play. People, normal, regular, "upstanding" people believe absolutely insane shit, and I'm not talking about denying the moon landing (I'm 20 percent in that camp) or flat earth -- those beliefs are not a problem and actually good for the discourse. Question everything, trust nothing, etc. What's insane is people believe political edicts, believe other people are evil, it's like we're in the pre-enlightenment middle ages, and the church is telling them to burn the witches and who will wind up in heaven and hell. I'm not sure if it was the mass formation psychosis during covid that traumatized people and pushed them over the edge, or whether it started earlier the race hustling of the Obama years, the election of Trump in the first place, the excommunications from polite society if you said the wrong thing on social media. It doesn't really matter when or why. I'm just getting a bit uneasy with how many people's brains are truly broken beyond repair, the impossibility of ever getting through and the weaponization of this zombification. People worry about CBDCs or surveillance or whatever, but those things are all downstream of a compliant populace, and the easiest way to get people to comply is have them believe in an insane narrative that is impossible to puncture or challenge. Maybe I need to stay off Twitter and stop talking to people about their worldviews as it relates to geopolitics, but then you wonder whether you wake up one day in a dystopia that people not only wanted but insisted was essential -- for the greater good.

per *se*

Don't know why but have been shocked especially of late by the brainwashing. Was talking with someone with TDS, asked her what policies specifically are you against, she said putting people "in cages" "treating them like animals". I said you know Obama deported more than Trump. She said, yes but he deported bad people, Trump's deportations "are not vetted." I asked what basis she had for believing that, and she admitted there was none. So Obama deported more people than Trump, and forced deportation of someone who presumably doesn't want to be deported entails holding facilities (cages) and force. I asked why the emotional language (animals, cages) around Trump's admittedly lower deportation rates, she says, "Just because the other guy did it, doesn't make it right!" I said, yes, but you never once mentioned Obama's deportations, and when I asked you about policies, you mentioned Trump's and used emotional lanaguage (cages, animals). She said you can't really think the people around Trump are smart, that Hegseth, he's the worst! I know it's comical in a way, but I'm feeling a little disturbed how deeply this runs. I don't care about Trump per say, but they have turned people into unthinking zombies.

The extent to which you are convinced your beliefs are good, and opposing ones evil, that's exactly the extent to which your beliefs actually are evil.

No matter how much I know about propaganda, no matter that we lived through covid and the vaccine sociopaths, I still find myself surprised to learn some people think they are *good* because of their political beliefs. Don't get me wrong, I have beliefs too, and I might think yours are retarded. But I don't think I'm *good* and you're *bad* because we disagree about what's happening in the world. That's the part that shocks me -- these fucking midwits think processing the information available to them in the correct way makes them *good*. Like if there were anything worth knowing they'd be telling it to you on TV, you subtard.

Was on Twitter, giving me an outrage headache. Just can't take it anymore. Like eating too much candy and you start to feel sick. Nostr sucks too, but for a different reason. Like going for a run in the city or something. It's not good, but at least you don't regret it. Remember when Elon wanted to "maximize unregretted user minutes?" They are almost all regretted.

You might want to turn on this Djokovic match -- insanely high level, now in the fifth set.

that's exactly what I was getting at -- all the EV is in the long tail that you'll never see.