Thursday, February 29, 2024

Against Stupidity...

Here's my prediction for the future of American films: Disney, like Hollywood in general will (as always) take the wrong lesson from their failures. They're going to start making "male-centric" movies, but they'll approach them from the woke perspective: making pig movies for pigs. The writers, directors, best boys - excuse me, best "persons" - and all the rest will be just as woke and DEI as ever. The idea of hiring great writers and directors irrespective of their skin color, gender, or whatever type of furniture they sexually identify as is absolutely incomprehensible to management. So we're going to see a lot of condescending crap aimed at what they see as stupid, sexist men. They'll almost certainly try to slide in some sly jabs at the stupidity of their audience under the assumption that we're all too dumb to notice.

And they'll fail. Maybe some movies will do okay; they might even generate a few hits. But in the end, crap is crap. So they'll fail again. And once again, they'll blame the audience.

Maybe down the road Bollywood or China will start producing good films for American audiences. But one thing for sure is that Disney and Hollywood are lost causes.

Wednesday, February 28, 2024

A Ceasefire, Of Sorts

I'm absolutely convinced that the "ceasefire" proposed by Joe Biden is a TEMPORARY ceasefire. The plan is to get Hamas to release all hostages, followed by resumption of the genocide by Israel and the extermination of the Palestinian people.

Biden's puppet masters really believe that the public is stupid enough to fall for that. Their contempt for the working class is boundless. We are nothing but cattle, in their eyes.

Monday, February 26, 2024

Bidenomics

 


The Big, Big, BIG Lie

Now this makes all kinds of sense to me. The supposed "great economy" in the USA has been a lie all along. It always seemed strange to hear that claim; it went against everything I've been seeing and feeling. The cynicism behind the claims of the success of Bidenomics would be stunning if it weren't so predictable.

Sunday, February 25, 2024

Facebook rapes privacy

Holy CRAP, does Facebook rape privacy! I was explaining my CPAP machine to my mother, and looked up "CPAP mask" images on Google to show her what they look like. Now, I DON'T have Facebook Messenger or any other Facebook app installed; I use my non-Google browser to access FB instead. And I used the native Google search box in Android to search, not the browser at all.

Nonetheless Facebook is now cramming my feed with CPAP ads. It never did before. So my only conclusion is that Facebook is leveraging their presence in my browser to steal data from unrelated apps on my phone. I'm not sure what to do about that, but I'm NOT happy. This only reinforces my determination to never buy anything I see on Facebook, ever.

Genocide Joe

Gaza isn't the only genocide that #GenocideJoe enables...

https://armenianweekly.com/2024/02/20/why-im-voting-uncommitted-in-michigans-democratic-primary/

Thursday, February 22, 2024

Shortcut to a General Strike?

I just had an odd thought. The oligarchs who rule our world are clearly heading us towards extinction. Either their power must be ended, or the human race will probably be gone within a thousand years, if not considerably sooner.

A sustained general strike would be the least violent way to end the power of the oligarchs. But one possible shortcut to that general strike would be the shutdown of the internet. The idea occurred to me because of the wide-scale shutdown of AT&T's cellular network. That was only a partial shutdown, of course. But what if the whole internet went down, not for a few hours but for days - or weeks?

How would people react? What would they do? What would happen to the economy?

Well, it was just a thought.