Wandering Adventure Party

@floe there's not really a moment like that. Recall that we leaned in on slavery until it caused one of, if not the, most bloody pre modern wars. Poverty and enslavement are our original sins.

@CapitalB you really don't. Unless you get out of tourist America and really talk to people about their lives, you have no idea.

@samir there's a lot of similarities! But reversed global reputations. Though Indian healthcare isn't as completely deranged as American healthcare.

@genehack fuckin true man

The rest of world never sees the poor and desperate America, they mostly stay in the decently rich bits of New York or California, and have no idea what a "food desert" is.

Europeans don't, maybe sometimes can't, understand the absolute crushing pressure and gaslighting that most Americans are put through to make us the way we are.

It's a decades long effort to turn most of the population into a money and power pump for a tiny elite class, all while grinding us into dust.

We're crazy and scared all the time, and have no idea what's going on in the rest of the world.

There's a reason dying of opiates seemed like a rational choice to a lot of people.

@DoctorDNS @mattsheffield pretty sure you guys don't have any laws governing polymatket.

@mattsheffield @mattsheffield wow, and yikes. One would think there would be laws, but alas we forgot to care meaningfully about the rule of law or common sense recently

...Though that doesn't stop LLMs from being terrible for humanity too

@mattsheffield wow, and yikes.

@CactuarJoe I feel this in my bones.

(Though tbf, I'm face blind, so famous people don't register nearly as much for me as for most people)

I've been trying and trying to get people to understand that the US political crisis is the result of a decades long effort to destroy literacy for most people in America, by destroying education. The right wing played a long game, and that's what got us in this mess. https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/11/22/a-farce-or-a-tragedy-or-perhaps-both/