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January 23, 2025

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Polly St George: Documenting Bread & Circuses
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Given the:

Trump endorsed meme coin pump & dumps (people lost a lot of money);
and
The acceleration of the Surveillance State via massive data centers tied to mRNA vaccines

I haven't felt this bad since they announced lockdowns.

Trump doubling down on his support for massive H1b expansion today:
Watch the 80 IQ Trumpenproles drool on their shirts as they try telling you how this is 5D chess, that unlimited Jeet immigration to drive down U.S. wages is actually a good thing as long as it’s done “legally”!
This isn’t a sports match, you don’t have to pick a side and stick to it loyally. Support public figures to the extent they support the positions you care about, mock and ridicule them to the extent they don’t. Welcome to adulthood. https://substack.com/@neofeudalism/note/c-87889077?r=o786d indeed, slavishly blind followers of the idiotic Trumpenprole kind are the most pathetic and embarrassing thing ever

Aaron
@AaronInWriting
Don't get too excited about the potential abolition of Federal Income Tax; because once the social credit score initiative and complete monetary system overhaul are complete, we'll pay “taxes” directly according to character and ideology.

“…[𝘖𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘎𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭] 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦-𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘰 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘢 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘤 𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘴.”

“…𝘈𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵, 𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦. 𝘞𝘦’𝘭𝘭 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘶𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘷𝘦.  𝘞𝘦𝘭𝘭, 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘧 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘨𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘨𝘦.”

—Softbank’s Masayoshi Son

“The beginning of our Golden Age”

…Now we know what the Trump administration kept referring to.

Aaron
@AaronInWriting
One can BOTH recognize the benefits and reprieve of a Trump presidency in the immediate sense…AND also cautiously discern the incipient totalitarian theocratic paradigm which it emboldens.

There can be (and often is) a legitimate societal benefit in the short term, yet one which evolves into a terrible beast in the long term.

Such is fundamental to the nature of deception.

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