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[PATRICK]

14. When you think about it

or feel it enough where the madness does not drive to distraction and a shrug, the impotence of goodness and compassion versus all- that other stuff ruling the world like a brothel master, what can we accomplish to get rid of this brief period of civilization? The solution offered by Christianity is to mind the next life by TRYING to build it here, but accepting that the power to do so cannot be violent, money based, humanly socially possible, and even the concept of human justice limited if not inaccessible. Hence the cross to bear in this corrupted life. I would like an alternative. Non-violent ones have been offered for a few situations, but not any for the roots of the problem.

Practical research on actual election evils and solutions have been posted about on here. Probably about as many trolls have seen and twisted them to their further advantage as any professional party activists. This is where we have arrived today as JFK said with the most savagely ironic imagery- a trajectory now revealed a very long term plutocracy corruption than leads to the destruction of both modern parties, the shedding of service to the electorate, and inevitable dictatorship. The decline inevitably involved a LOT more enforced stupidity, shortsightedness and blatant crime than cynical prognosticators could ever conceive. Dictatorship bypassed(so far) the military for key club rich guys, dumber than bricks, limbo-ing successfully under the low bar of American politics in its indefensibly worse state ever.

For two years I watched my wife succumb to disease. I could weep with the energy of the sun for all suffering now and the future, but I wept for the loss of hope that she could win a bit more life during our brief victories and endurance. Still do.

I had my rants as far back as Nixon, maybe Eisenhower but that was my father fuming at the televised GOP convention. Nothing as madly apparent as watching the repeats of American history rotting and decaying against all otherwise progressive potential into a swampy soup of mixed rants, violated ideas, ideals, and no objectives. And it is the predators who really lash out! That terrible perverted energy. Those unregulated dragons. Those wasters of the Earth. Those happy few.

[jfz9580m]

15. "swampy soup of mixed rants"

I have been experimenting with my writing lately. Around Feb 26, 2026, I stopped worrying about trivial embarassments. That was the date I found out from a cousin I trust that a sleazy local hospital is indeed as sleazy as I suspected. Good doctors, well run on the surface, totally creepy admins. It is owned by Blackstone now:

Warrantless disclosure of Motel 6 occupancies
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In separate cases in 2018 and 2019, the hotel chain Motel 6, owned by Blackstone, agreed to settle for $19.6 million for giving guest lists to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) without a warrant.[210][211]
Ancestry acquisition and data leaks
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In 2020, Blackstone acquired a majority stake in Ancestry.com, which controls access to millions of people's genetic data, heightening concern about Blackstone's data privacy practices.[212] This data was disclosed to Blackstone, and it has aggressively defended itself against class action litigation relating to misuse of the data of people who did not consent to genetic testing but were affected through direct biological relations or other means of identification.[213]
Illegal child labor
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An investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor showed that more than 100 American children had been working illegally for Packers Sanitation Services Inc. (PSSI), a slaughterhouse cleaning firm owned by Blackstone. The investigation began after a Walnut Middle School teacher in Grand Island, Nebraska, reported a student with hydrochloric acid burns on his hands and knees to the Department of Labor.[214] Under the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Labor Department fined PSSI $15,138 for each minor who was employed in breach of the law, totaling $1.5 million in civil money penalties.[215][216]
Deforestation of the Amazon rainforest
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Blackstone has invested in companies with links to the commercialization and deforestation of the Amazon rainforest.[217][218][219][220]

These are the last people I would share medical or webuse etc data with.

Writing is one way to monitor influences on your thoughts. Nothing can really influence my spending or voting or other serious decisions, but it is the day to day war of economic attrition via attacks on one’s mood, temper, confidence etc which are the troublesome were it stuff below the threshold of active perception..Some of that is probably bullshit and the real roots as you mentioned being different. I thought the Facebook emotion contagion experiment was overhyped bs and the pearl clutching deflection from the real problem, which is an Idiocracy where Facebook, Kim Kardashian etc are taken seriously at all, just because they make money exploiting the lowest common denominator in human taste.

I always thought Facebook was garbage. I read trashy celebrity magazines as a teen but outgrew them by the time I was in my twenties and moved on to other slightly less trashy garbage online (I am a woman of taste and culture 🧐 )..actually not that trashy. Mostly personal blogs, which aren’t quite as bad. But still in no way part of any academic or activist portfolio. But I always found it grating how industry managed to label middlebrow trash from Oprah to Facebook somehow more refined if it is profitable enough. Give me Jerry Springer and something honestly without any redeeming value any day over this bs of claiming Facebook has a point followed by some kind of phony sense of betrayal.

Of course Zuckerberg will be sleazy if you let him..absent a lobotomy I would not trust any of those creeps. I trust EarlG and elad though.

But yeah it is hard to balance work, complaints and monitoring these things, but I must start.

I am sorry to hear about your wife Patrick? How is she? I remember your post in the thread about that old ad where the little girl is playing and it was about nuclear warfare?

Would you know which one I mean? This is one of the few places where I am one of the younger people ..

[PATRICK]

16. The LBJ ad against Goldwater

Simple, short, devastating and effective. Goldwater whined about that being a cheap shot convincing people he would blast away that little girl without blinking in a nuclear war. But he created that opening with his tough talk at the GOP Convention. I am not sure if Goldwater would even have been stupid enough to keep us in Vietnam, but then he was an oddity as were all conservatives to the left of the John Birch society and the oil barons. Now they are a species in deep decline as the now extinct "liberal" Republicans- and the long extinct reform(when reform really meant progressive) Republicans who dissolved into the Bull Moose Party of 1912. Still, simpler times. Chaotic, dumbed down gibberish. Whites only noise. No one to bell the cat. War crimes and crimes against the Constitution galore.

I am burying my dear wife next week.

[jfz9580m]

17. I am so sorry to hear that

I hope you have someone to support you.