The Doom Scroll ~ April 2022

 

April was a bit quieter than March was. Almost no one talks about the Ukraine war anymore, and you have to really dig to find any news about it. Typical. Then again I don’t watch TV news, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they’ve completely stopped talking about it there too. Also everyone stopped talking about the Oscars within like three days, even faster than I predicted. Last March may as well have been ten years ago as far as the internet is concerned.  

And I’m 36 years old now as of this month. Halfway to 72. If my life were a cassette I would be close to where you flip it over to side B, if I’m not there already. See if my life were a cassette, it’s one where I have no idea how long it is. Hopefully I am still on side A, hm?

Anyway, time for another blog of political yammering that maybe one or two people will read if I’m lucky! Well that’s also because I’m too shy to share it very widely. Time to scream into the void, as it were. 

The Elongated Muskrat

I remember back in 2016 or 2017 when someone came out with a browser add-on that censored the name “Donald Trump” wherever it appeared or changed it to something else like “Drumpf” or whatever, because everyone but his cult of worshipers was so sick of hearing about him every second of every day. I want one for this bastard. I hate seeing him all over Facebook and Reddit, and even on the space documentary videos on YouTube that I put on to fall asleep each night. I try never to give him the attention he is so starved for, but I suppose I’ll do it just this once. The Muskrat has one of the most punchable faces I’ve ever seen. He almost always has a smug, shit-eating grin on his face. Then he spews bullshit about how if you work hard you might be as rich as him, even though he himself has never worked a day in his life, all he does is take credit for other people’s inventions. All he did was inherit a slave-driven emerald mine from his daddy. He delights in being the most arrogant, smug prick in the world. You know what I bet a lot of his worshipers have in common? I’m sure a lot of them grew up watching Duck Tales, which taught a generation that greedy, rich, selfish misers are the heroes and anyone who tries to make them part with even a dime of their money is a supervillain. Then again I don’t think he has as many fans as he makes it seem, a lot of his online defenders are just bots, not real people.

So the Muskrat bought Twitter recently. He doesn’t have enough money to pay taxes or pay his employees fairly, but he can buy websites for $44 billion or whatever; enough money to make every person on Earth a multi-billionaire, but then it wouldn’t have value and the concept of money itself would be exposed as the imaginary numbers meant to keep humanity trapped in a caste system that it is. Twitter was already a cesspool anyway, I’m glad I don’t go on there. Facebook may suck and is run by another evil rich bastard but at least they don’t seem to have a dedicated internet lynch mob that goes after anyone who says the slightest wrong thing; like what happened to Lindsey Ellis for example. It’s actually designed to manufacture rage. Keeps the working class fighting each other rather than the rich. Anyway, I predict that Twitter will either stay just as bad or get even worse. I’m not hip enough for TikTok so I’ll keep being a boomer and stay on Facebook while longing for the days of MySpace. 

Okay, well let’s do “capitalism” then. “No! That’s socialism!”

Have you heard? Hippie communes are capitalist! It’s so funny when conservatives try to catch the left being hypocritical, when their entire worldview is rooted in hypocrisy. Like “Aha! Didn’t you know that anything good is capitalism and anything bad is communism? Gotcha!” So if it is capitalism then why aren’t we doing this? If you’ve been reading these Doom Scroll blogs I’ve complained about useless lawns in suburban areas and advocated for growing our own food and trading it with neighbors for a while now, which actually was a common practice in rural areas of the United States until around the middle of the 20th century, when the “nuclear family” and “rugged individualism” concepts caused everyone to become estranged from their neighbors and trapped by their 40 hour a week jobs, working more hours than a medieval peasant. Because part of how the corporate class keeps the rest of us enslaved is by controlling the food supply so that we must submit to jobs or starve. This is helped by a large number of idiots with Stockholm Syndrome. It’s not entirely their fault, the school system is designed to keep people stupid, and convince people they’re free when they’re anything but. When Florida passed that “Don’t say gay” bill, for instance, they really just want to ensure most of Florida’s youth will still grow up to be ignorant bigoted rednecks.

Anyway, why don’t we just switch the definition of everything to get the working class conservatives to join the left? Okay fine, communism is now capitalism, and capitalism is now communism. The Nazis were communists, wealthy communists rule the country, get Antifa to change their names to Anticom, and there you go. It would at least work for economic issues, we’d still have to find a way to trick them into agreeing with the left on social issues like racism, homophobia and sexism and the like.

Don’t tread on the boot.

So this guy is either knowingly spreading propaganda by pretending to have solidarity with working class white people (which sadly many of them will eat right up like the obedient little sheep they accuse everyone else of being), or he’s so brainwashed himself that he thinks some higher authority than the over-militarized US police force is actually going to oppress him and take his guns away somehow, or perhaps he just sees “Don’t Tread on Me” as a meaningless conservative catch phrase, which is also possible. Seems like oppressors and white supremacists always want to pretend they’re the victim (see also Turks who somehow believe Armenians were committing genocide against them during WW1), so who knows what he believes. Who do you think would be the ones “treading”? Who has the authority in this country? They should change the wording on the “Don’t Tread on Me” flag to “Tread on everyone else but me, unless you’re rich, then you can tread on me and I’ll just blame it on liberals or minorities.” It’s really too bad the conservatives ruined the “Don’t Tread on Me” flag, it could have been a great rallying cry for the working class, but the fascists tainted it just like they tainted the swastika and the toothbrush mustache.

I knew it would happen.

I’ve mocked the right enough for one post, let’s pick on the democrats, the wannabe left. It is amazing how quickly this topic was dropped when Biden won the election. I remember the liberals wailing at the far left in 2020 that if they dared vote for the Green Party (like me) or abstain from voting they were siding with Trump and damning Latin American children to waste away in concentration camps at the US border (which were actually opened under Obama). And then what happened? The Democrats got their votes, absolutely nothing was done about it, the liberals went back to sleep, and it actually doesn’t matter who’s president because nothing really changes either way. The same shadowy puppet masters are still in charge behind the scenes. And who’s going to be blamed in a few decades when the mass graves at these detention centers are discovered, just like at the Native American boarding schools? Not the ones who deserve the blame. Politics is all just a sideshow. It’s pro wrestling, they’re all actors who are buddies backstage and get their paychecks from the same billionaire. Even your precious Bernie Sanders and AOC. The purpose of the Democrat party is to corral the left into accepting the status quo no matter how awful it is. But at least the big bad orange man didn’t win and is off the TV and Twitter (for now anyway, every wrestling show needs a heel after all, and the political equivalent to Wrestlemania is coming up in 2024). 

What a sick country this is. I wish some American nationalist would “help me pack” like they always say they’re going to do to anyone who’s offended by their flag on their stupid t-shirts and bumper stickers. Maybe they’ll help buy my plane tickets too. Come on, help get rid of a leftist.

Why do people speak in code?

Is this true? Why don’t people just say what they mean? I’ve never understood it. I’ve never been able to read between the lines in social interactions. You know, my son is autistic, and since he’s autistic I’m pretty sure I am also autistic. I’m going to get myself diagnosed whenever I can. My previous therapist said there was “no need” for me to be diagnosed officially because it isn’t disabling. But I would still like to know that about myself for sure. In the meantime I’ve been lurking around in autistic circles online, without saying I’m undiagnosed because a lot of them get really gatekeeper-ish when you admit that. But I’ve been learning a lot about myself lately. My son has taught me a lot about myself. I guess I was most likely always autistic. And it explains so much. I was bullied for my autistic tendencies in school, my first girlfriend dumped me because of my autistic tendencies, it just explains so much about all the adversity I’ve faced and how I never really felt like I fit in with the rest of society. I have always felt different, an outsider. I think differently from the people around me. I used to like to rock back and forth because it soothed me, until I screwed up my spine and tailbone doing it. I get obsessed with random topics for a few months until I move onto the next thing, I have bizarre rituals like keeping track of my top songs each month (as seen on this blog). It’s me, who I am. I thought I was done figuring out my identity, but apparently not.