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I actually read 1984 because of all the “literally 1984” memes. It’s dry but it does hold up surprisingly well.

This all disappoints me in a way that I have never been disappointed before and it genuinely makes me lose my faith in humanity in its entirety.

I used to think that, in general, humanity was good. There are of course bad people, but humanity as a whole isn’t bad. Then I saw the world’s reaction to covid and had this exact same experience. Humanity is arrogant and selfish. A giant asteroid could be hurling towards the planet with a guarantee to cause the extinction of all humans but if the way to avoid that extinction involves the average person being slightly inconvenienced, we’re all dead.

In a statement on Tuesday, Nadler said that the decision to step down “has not been easy.” “But I know in my heart it is the right one and that it is the right time to pass the torch to a new generation,” he said.

He’s 78 years old.

Benn Jordan’s video, You Are Witnessing the Death of American Capitalism, talks about how American companies and investors operate today.

Lots of companies are no longer trying to convince investors that they can increase profits and, therefore, give a cut to investors. They instead try to convince investors that they can increase their valuation, their stock price. Essentially, if investors buy a stock now they could sell it for a profit later. Who are they going to sell that stock to? Other investors of course! So you really do end up in this game where investors are in their own little world just lying to each other.

Mocking Fascists; Making them look foolish and ridiculing them, works

I once heard “There’s a reason neo-nazis idolize the nazi brother from American History X and not the Nazis in Springtime for Hitler.” One takes the neo-nazi ideology seriously and provides counter arguments. The other is making Nazis look lame.

News stories like this arent helping US tourism, but this lady isn’t a tourist. She lives and works in the US, has a US work visa, and an “I-360” visa. Her work visa was renewed but her other visa was still on hold for some reason. She left the US to visit Canada and was stopped on the way back into the US because her I-360 visa wasn’t valid. Ironically, she works at a maximum security prison.