Unchecked corruption and endless media propaganda leading to runaway regulatory capture resulting in an untenable concentration of wealth and power into far too few individuals and organizations.
Edit: also, donkey brains 🫏 🧠
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It all ended w hanging chads
Been watching the train wreck since
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Like... the current state of affairs everywhere? Cause I'm not sure I can take ownership of EVERYTHING.
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My excuse is I shouldn't be alive anyway
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It's above my pay-grade.
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It was like that when I got here.
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Shits fucked
Why would I need excuses? I've been trying to stop this for 20 years. Political movements, organizing, writing and sharing useful information. I don't need excuses. If you want an explanation, I can give you my perspective, but I don't regret not doing more. I did as much as I could and paid dearly for it.
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The answer as always is capitalism. Literally every terrible thing happening can be linked back to the desire for profit.
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This universe is a simulation and nothing matters.
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Greed and stupidity.
The devil made my dog eat my homework
I'm preoccupied with my health and I don't feel like I have a lot of agency to accomplish much. That's slowly changing, maybe.
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Every time someone catches covid they lose 1 IQ point on average. Since (unless you're vaccinated) you don't really become immune anymore, you're likely to lose several IQ points a year. QED.
(That said, things were already going downhill before The Great Lurgy).
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my life is great.
not responsible for anyone else's choices. and sick of weirdos who try to tell me i am, i notice such folks tend to be very unhappy with their own life choices and tend to blame other folks for them rather than take make better choices for themselves.
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