A masterful surf on a tsunami of wtf. That researcher/journalist was a beast and I’m amazed she put together so much crazy in one perfect length explanation for someone as completely out of the loop as I am.
Still stuck on “freedom cities” tbh. It’s so stupid, it’s hard to get your head around. But I haven’t had to deal with listening to excessively funded tech bro wisdom in well over a decade.
Anyway, I wanted to leave a quick comment to thank you for linking it here. This quick doc is fantastic and I’ve already passed it on, though as she said, it absolutely makes me seem like a crackpot. Meh. Better to know.
[edit bc I can’t spell]
I know, I feel crazy recommending it, but these billionaires are just outright saying what they intend to do and are doing it before our very eyes, and still nobody believes it’s happening. Moderates and independents have their heads in the sand.
I know some very intelligent people who, because they lean conservative, think what’s going on is normal. They don’t pay attention to it because they have families and work to deal with.
What happens to the United States of America when youve rolled back all regulations and fired all government employees? When there is no confidence in the services the national government is supposed to employ, why would people turn to them instead of state or private resources? What does being united have to offer each state anymore, if funding is frozen? Nothing.
That leaves 50 divided states and a national army controlled by one person. America is cooked beyond belief.
Seriously crazy shit afoot. Solidarity from north of the border.
just outright saying what they intend to do
Part of the problem is they’re SO hard to listen to. Culty circular logic, the smarmy prep school punk attitude, so impressed with their own middling intelligence. The “marketplace of ideas” type language. They’re very easy to tune out (and I usually do).
Even in this doc, I had to pause and recommit to watching to the end a few times, because every time one of them starts expounding, my monkey brain screeches “DANGER this person has no soul and would murder you for a toonie!” And the video is less than half an hour long. Your conservative-leaning smart acquaintances face so much more conditioning they need to break through on top of that.
[edit bc nobody needs to read me speechifying after watching that doc]
