The Decline

And they are only getting started. When US medical guidance says vaccines (or now Tylenol) cause autism, measles is good for you, COVID's not airborne, that's all EBM/GRADE. He who picks the pickers, picks the cherries. They're starting with the NIH, but this plan is being applied to all US science.

The clubby rich pedophile world they're so sad to see gone isn't even "lost" or "gone," it's alive and well in the White House.

Part of how it got there was by the NYTimes running interference for Trump while sitting on the story of a pedophile telling one of its reporters he could ruin Trump.

This is nauseating: “As the emails stretch through the years, they show how that protected realm vanished into the mists of time, pulled under by the rising forces of the internet and the #MeToo movement.” A “Gone With the Wind” framing for sexual abuse and harassment.

A club for what exactly?

An excellent way to get people to do that in addition to pointing out how normal people's tax dollars being doled out to give money to rich people, is to also point out that when rich people get the money they run pedophile rings to rape desperate girls.

“there is a point on the graph where things get Worse, and there you will find Ronald Reagan” stays undefeated

It’s wild that you can just openly bribe the President of the United States with chunks of gold to get
whatever you want, it’s fine, you don’t have to hide it, just say “I am bribing the President with gold,” zero consequences.

A cartoon little girl stands in front of a door with her fists on her hips, the door has a sign on it (unreadable), as she says: "That sign can't me because I can't read!"

Oh it will work.

Why wouldn't it work? Because it's ridiculous?

Never stopped him before. In fact the more absurd the better it works for him. He could mostly start talking in fart noises and it would work.

"Just take whatever steps" may not seem like much of a plan, because it isn't, but it has the beauty of being simple.

Useless, but it's definitely a simple plan. Especially one that no one has thought of before. It takes genius to think like that.

these are not even the files lol

It's so interesting that in the name of practicality we are urged to avoid any practical action; in the name of redemption we are urged to exonerate people who have shown no interest in redemption; in the name of civility we are urged to overlook the cruelty of those who scorn all civility

When you read these Epstein emails, you start to understand why so many prominent conservatives are obsessed with checking the genitals of children. It's a big thing for them!

All these billionaires sound exactly as incoherently semi-literate and uncultured as each other, because their wealth has allowed them to never ever learn or grow as people

Every single social interaction with people who are either paid to be, and/or incentivized via child sex trafficking, glazing.

One of the striking things in Epstein's emails is how fucking inarticulate he is, and how *every other billionaire is just as bad at communicating*.

They're the exact textual equivalents of any interview with Altman or Musk or Thiel etc just fucking babbling incoherent word salad.

Jimbo Jones, a teenage cartoon character bully from the Simpsons, leans out the window of a moving car while filming with an old-school video camera. He says “VIDEOTAPING THIS CRIME SPREE WAS THE BEST IDEA WE'VE EVER HAD!”

TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence!

Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
Attachment: evidence.png

The attorney general and the FBI director, a manosphere podcaster bro, pulled into the situation room a member of Congress best known for getting kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical for drunkenly giving her date a handy, in order to pressure her about the president's child sex trafficking scandal.

All the pedo stuff and billionaires breaking society, sure, but it also applies to the small stuff.

It's the small stuff that adds up to the big stuff. Without the small impunities there are no large ones.

But end the large ones and the small ones follow. Win-win-win instead of lose-lose-lose.

There's a general rule where something like 99% of societal problems can ultimately be traced back to impunity and systemic failures to hold people accountable in the most basic way.

There's that 1%, sure, but it really almost never fails.

It's pushing the UK even more to the far right, and that's the only lesson a lot of people care out of it: it works for them, at the expense of everyone, and that's the whole point.

No one will ever sum up Bari Weiss's career more succinctly than "what's the point of standards"

Joyce Carol Oates quoting a tweet that says “wherever he [Elon Musk] goes, he wants to leave”: "wherever he goes, he wants to leave"-- that's because when he gets there, he has brought his own self along; & whatever club he's invited to join has been devalued by the invitation.

Boy watching Homer beat up the krusty burglar: Stop! He’s already dead!

Watching public health and infection control handle SARS / Covid this is the least surprising outcome ever.

To be fair, it is a position beloved by Republicans. They love this shit.

They didn't think he would do it to them, but it's still hard to say whether it counterbalances the fact that people they hate are also being starved.

They just love hurting people that much.

Every single instance of people hating AI is people hating what it shows of human nature.

It's reflecting back to us our true nature, and people hate the fuck out of it.

But they blame the hammer, not the wielder, because it hides the problem away.

It's us, we're the problem.

AI was a mistake?

Nah, humanity was a mistake.

People are doing this. This is human slop.

Might as well blame the printing press for Mein Kampf.

Lots of talk about alignment but for the most part devious stuff like this is perfectly aligned with common human behaviour.

Being aligned with us is actually the problem. We suck as a species when it comes to ethics. We fix both or neither.