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23. I really go facepalm at these stories

I hate it when stupidity is somehow vaguely seen as left.

I always make it clear that I am an Indian educated in the US and mostly comment on issues in the US in the context of the US affecting the whole world. And not wanting to see China and Russia rise - two outright dictatorships.

I am on the Current Affairs Mag/Yasha Levine type of left because as left as they are they aren’t crazy or clueless.

I have to file some complaints and I am not thrilled at having to do so and was looking at this to make myself feel better about it:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/george-orwell-snitch-list-reactionary-grass-blacklist-communists-information-research-department-ird-government-celia-kirwan-a8414066.html


It’s like that movie Hitman. Except I didn’t set out to entrap a series of Darwin Awards candidates who copy crazies and have bogus grievances. And they are probably totally crazy.
I tried to scare them off, but it is no use.


This is the lunacy of thinking that the Flatland that is the internet and its dynamics carrying over more and more into the real world because an idiot like Zuckerberg says stuff like “normalize data leaks” and an ass like Andreessen calling the real world the “real world” means anything.

Many of the idiots who do all this are not even left or democrats etc. They are people, like many libertarians, who think like scammers and to whom taking advantage of daft people seems smart. Then there are people who try to help daft people and get mired themselves.

And finally fatalists like me who are sure it will all end badly, try to escape repeatedly, try to insulate themselves and finally give up. And prepare to file complaints. Goddamn canary in the Idiocracy. I knew some complaints couldn’t be avoided. But I wanted to minimize them.

It will be so awful. I will have to go to a court and my various profanity laden posts and emails may be pulled up. I have no idea how such things go.

Now I am a police informant. Dammit.

Edit: one plus of being human, being able to read human behavioural cues (honest and dishonest humans, bullies etc ) and 15 damn years of this bs by tech oligarchs and the unfurling of Trumpian idiocy is that I realized that marijuana is largely a maguffin.

But using its tentative legalization to throw in scammy Elizabeth Holmes style bogus crap; thinking Trumpism really means you its open season on women etc, big mistake. These guys are idiots. I am a worry wart more than not and even I have concluded this is like Jan 6 2.0.
If “given enough rope they will hang themselves” applied to anyone it is these guys and the types who take Trump, Musk, Zuckerberg etc seriously.
Hell Curtis Yarvin even gets it:

https://sfstandard.com/2025/10/07/citing-fear-democratic-vengeance-curtis-yarvin-says-may-flee-u-s/


It must be hard to be completely solipsistic and unprincipled when things change and to have all these inane stereotypes about the left. Complacency is stupid, but there is no way these guys are going to prevail. It is just how much more collateral damage