The anti-proof https://www.dailypress.com/2026/04/23/trump-prediction-markets-profits/

The Italian purse company?

All of that falls apart in more ways than one for a lot of people once they can’t maintain a quality of life at all.

Agree with you on this, itsomg been a question of "how bad does it have to get before people stop swallowing bullshit. We still aren’t there yet, so it hasn’t fallen apart.

This is completely ignoring the majority of people to make your point. It also ignores the last 70 years of politics and economics which explain how we got here. There’s more too it than “we convince them to vote against their own best interest”.

The majority of people, voters anyway, have supported the bullshit and lies which is exactly how we got here.

I would subscribe to your newsletter. All I want is ruthless, merciless cutting through the bullshit, keyword stuffing, buzzword clickbait.

Billionaires have bought enough of the media, governmental and legal apparatus that they have repeatedly convinced:

• the poor to vote for a billionaire business owner who came from wealth
• religiously fervent to vote for an atheist who regulaly, publicly and aggressively breaks any religious canon
• “law and order” voters to support him as a convicted felon
• women to vote for a rapist, misogynist
• those who want to “protect the children” that his long and personal friendship and association with an aggressive child sex trafficker was benign
• descendents of slaves to vote for a candidate whose leading campaign contributor is an apartheid supporting white supremacy
• those with tenuous legal status or those related to those with tenuous legal status to support a platform bent on demonizing immigrants, legal or non, in a country built by immigrants, while his own wife is an immigrant
• veterans to vote for a candidate who said those who serve for their county are foolish
• veterans who may have actually fought in WWII to vote for a guy advocating appeasement against a dictator who militarily invaded and is currently occupying Europe
• rabid Mccarthyists to vote for a candidate who has ongoing ties, financial transactions, security concerns with the Russian dictator
• corporations who say their most important lobbying need, every single year forever in any industry is “certainty” to give generously to a candidate and administration that has never had a plan for economy other than their own grift, and has unilaterally destroyed their international trade markets, supply chains, competitive edge and the value of their currency

…there is so much more. That’s just off the top of my head list of getting people to vote against their interests and passions. Getting indebted, youth who you have aggressively cut back government funding for education on to swallow a turd of disempowerment and fascism isn’t even difficult compared to some of the above.

Can’t imagine why Americans are all on anti-anxiety and anti-depressant medication. What when you factor in predatory financial system, inflation/gouging, and permanent income instability.

Jesus, they are sprinting to kill the Internet before others do rather than offering an alternative.

This centralizes information, decisions, and removes humans from the web. Shitty website? Poor writing? Illiterate population? No penalty, someone else’s AI will summarize it for your victims users. You can just insert someone else’s AI token you can buy that shares content that some other AI told you is “optimized” and when the AI summarizes itll be something users respond to or engage with. Just like short form video, it doesn’t mean it’s correct, true, useful, insightful, complex or wise, but as long as they come back and stay on the treadmill who cares?

Also, when your innovation is akin to “ShakeWeight” you want to go back to the drawing board…

“All humans are equal, but some humans are more equal than others.”

but rich C-suite aliens managed to buy into the entire illogical chain.

When many decision-makers are incentivized to only care about their next quarterly bonus or stock grant, just like the subprime crisis, people will absolutely set their company up to fail regardless of the consequences. Companies have trained people they are disposable so why would they act in the long term interest of the company? Economics, that is, incentives, are undefeated in making people do things. It may not be what someone intends, but being naive about economics is why adults are needed in designing reward systems (from government policy to company programs).

Break off the party for god’s sake.