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What does calling farmers “collateral damage” mean?

This post is a response to a question posed in its complete format: “What does it mean in MAGA when Musk calls US farmers as “collateral damage”?”

The term “collateral damage” was first applied by the military when assessing how many innocent casualties would be created when assaulting an enemy.

It was a way of dehumanizing those who happened to be in the vicinity — in the wrong place at the wrong time — and who may or may not have been guilty of collusion with the target but were considered expendable.

For Elon, it means that he views the farmers whose lives he destroys as enemies whom he dehumanizes while waging a war against American citizens to acquire material wealth.

For someone like Elon to use this expression, he’s letting the little people know that’s how the 1% regards the majority of the people, as acceptable casualties in their power games.

He is confirming that the 1% view us all as less than human and as disposable as they have always considered their slaves to be throughout history.

The 1% have been consistent in choosing profit over lives. Elon has admitted it’s not an either/or situation but a situation of strategic intent to destroy the lives of the many to enrich the few.

Everything about the Trump administration is a blatant act of assault against the majority, while robbing us all and killing us in the process, not out of necessity but expedience.

Bonus Question:
What do you think of Musk’s Tesla losing money and Twitter crashing?

I think it can’t happen fast enough.

The best thing we can do for society and the future of humanity is to make the wealthiest man on the planet homeless and destitute.

Why?

Because it shows two things:

  • The wealthy are not invulnerable and
  • We can defeat their corruption without bloodshed.

Can you trust people who hear the voice of god?

This post is a response to a question posed in its complete format: “Can you trust people who hear the voice of god in their head and demand other people follow the words of their god?”

Sure. You can trust them to live in a world of delusion that creates a barrier between their internal narrative and the shared reality we all live in.

You can trust that they will defend their delusion to an extreme that could dramatically harm people who do not support or challenge it.

You can trust that if you’re not hyper-vigilant about their actions and attitudes, they will eventually devise a justification for doing you harm when you least expect it.

You can trust that if you don’t support their delusions, they will trash-talk you to their peers and give them all the reasons they need to become toxic toward you.

You can trust that they will do anything to affect the laws to ensure everyone submits to their delusions.

You can trust that their moral paradigm is entirely self-serving at the expense of anyone who does not submit to their delusions.

You can trust that if you piss them off enough, they will easily justify actions that can end your life.

You can trust that if they can establish and operate within a community of sufficient numbers, they will do whatever they can to undermine the systems they live within to transform their community into a Gilead nightmare.

You can trust that they view their toxic attitudes and destructive actions through a lens of corrupted righteousness, fueling a war under the guise of being an army in service to their delusion.

You can trust that they will identify the most easily victimized and relentlessly attack them as a recruitment strategy for their delusion as they seek to spread adherence to it like it were a communicable disease.

Why are no geniuses like Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, or Bill Gates in Europe?

This post is a response to a question initially posed on Quora, and can also be accessed via “https://www.quora.com/Why-are-there-no-geniuses-like-Elon-Musk-Steve-Jobs-or-Bill-Gates-in-Europe/answer/Antonio-Amaral-1“

Well, that’s easy… none of them are (or were) “geniuses.”

All have been sharks in a tank filled with small fish they overpowered and incorporated their value into their own.

In Europe, people are — or were still somewhat considered “people” whose lives held something approximating value — at least enough to not worship greed above their welfare.

The U.S. is unique in that it places profit above human life.

The U.S. is this century’s Rome, while the capitalist system is the equivalent of a gladiatorial pen where the biggest and strongest gladiators suited up with armour mow down victims by the thousands and the crowds cheer all the destruction.

Hell, the crowds get pissed when one of the little people manages to strike back and give the mighty gladiators a humiliating bloody nose. That riles them up and incentivizes them to hate the little people even more while they add more armour and weaponry to the gladiator’s outfits so that they can do more damage.

All three, with some slight exception of Gates, were just smart enough to spot people smart enough to make them rich, and they added them to their gladiator arena to dominate the competition. At the same time, they did everything they could through legal manipulations to weaken their competition.

Ask yourself how it is that an alleged “genius” would forego cancer treatment in favour of new age woo to address a medical condition and die from it. That’s not very “genius-like.”

Meanwhile, Musk proves every day how much of an egotistical buffoon he is while spending $44 billion on the world’s most enormous megaphone to devalue it to such a degree that it’s now worth less than a quarter of its purchase price. Meanwhile, the competition is heating up over which alternative will replace his Xitter.

Of the three, at least Gates puts some effort into helping the most disenfranchised in the world, even if he’s mainly motivated by the potential of new technologies that can become ubiquitous. (His toilet redesign initiative, for example, can potentially transform the world if he succeeds. That’s a level of billions in profit to rival what he got through Microsoft, and it’s also an initiative he’s relying on the genius of others to make manifest. He’s just financing their efforts.)

Even Jobs understood how his “genius” was not “being a genius” but was not getting in the way of real geniuses he hired to profit from.

Musk, on the other hand, is an absolute idiot by contrast because his ego has blinded him to his shortcomings, and he believes, because of his wealth, that he truly is a genius. At the same time, gullible people lap that nonsense up like ice cream.

Why are GOP voters suddenly alarmed about the stances on H1-B workers?

This post is a response to a question posed in its complete format: “Why are GOP voters suddenly alarmed about Ramaswamy’s and Musk’s stances about H1-B workers compared to locally sourced ones? Weren’t they supporting them and voting knowing that these men would be involved in policy-making directly or indirectly?”

None of their supporters were interested in the sausages their leaders intended to make. All of them have been more wrapped up in being enamoured by the superficial trappings of personality politics.

They voted for Trump because they admire him as a human being, even though he is beyond apparent in his overtly abusive and criminal behaviour.

They believed the only people that Trump, Musk, and their entourage of parasitic human slugs were going to victimize were the people in their imagination that they hated.

They shut their eyes, ears, and minds off to the realities of their words and promises.

I doubt even one of them made the slightest effort to peruse Project 2025 as they dismissed complaints about it as fake news and propaganda.

It’s the same intellectual laziness at play that we see when they make vague references to The Constitution that show they’ve never read it themselves.

They operate purely on instinct, and their instincts tell them to hate the world because they are in pain. Meanwhile, the exploitative parasites in our midst that they trust point out to them who they should hate, and they mindlessly go forth hating the people who are fighting on their behalf to make this a better world for everyone, including them.

They are so lost in the throes of their hatred cult that many will not stop hating their fellow citizens even after significant damage has been done to the nation. They will insist on some nefarious entities, conspiracies, and machinations by their political “enemies within” who are responsible for their policy failures.

If kids get hauled off in cages again, they’re going to rationalize that as a public good in the name of national security. If those kids get sold off to wealthy couples for a profit, they will rationalize that as being a better solution for those kids than being raised by their “filthy illegal parents.”

They will destroy families and lives all over again because they operate on instincts tweaked by paranoia over manufactured fear because the things they should fear are just too overwhelming for them to grasp. It’s much easier to fear and hate defenceless people than to hate the powerful, particularly when they’re all focused on developing sycophantic relationships and worshipping the ground they walk on in the hopes that they, too, will be blessed with unfathomable wealth.

Is it okay to not be okay after damage has been done?

This post is a response to a question posed in its complete format: “Is it okay to not be okay after all people have put you through like the damage has been done?”

Either yes or no, depending upon how one interprets the perspective behind this question.

It’s not okay that you’re not okay, but it’s not okay because of anything you need to be ashamed of. It’s not okay that people have done what they have done to make you not okay.

You don’t need permission to be not okay in the same way you don’t need permission to eat when you’re hungry or use a bathroom when you have to go.

Being not okay with damage done to you is a natural consequence of the damage.

No one escapes being damaged to feel okay, no matter how much they try to shake it off.

Damage is damage.

If your car gets a punctured tire and is flat, you can’t ignore that damage without doing more damage to your car.

Your body and mind are the same.

If you can’t heal and you try to ignore the damage done to you, you will damage yourself and others along with you.

Your highest priority should be to heal, just as if you’ve broken a leg and need to give your bones time to mend.

The mind is no different.

You can’t continue like nothing happened.

It’s not okay that you’re not okay; you need to give yourself time to become okay again.

It’s also not okay for someone else to make you feel like something is wrong with you for needing time and space to heal from your damage.

If that’s the expectation you are facing and what prompted your question, then be aware that such an expectation by others only harms you more.

It’s called victim-shaming, and it’s a heinous attitude and behaviour indulged in by broken people who are not okay themselves. They never took the time to heal, and because of that, they don’t know how to respond to you by doing you damage.

It’s evil behaviour that you should not not tolerate. It would help if you told them that it’s not okay to make you feel not okay for not being okay.

Okay?

As an atheist, how do I rid myself of clinging remnants of religion still existing in me?

This post is a response to a question initially posed on Quora, and can also be accessed via “https://divineatheist.quora.com/As-an-atheist-how-do-I-rid-myself-of-clinging-remnants-of-religion-still-existing-in-me-8“

You don’t in the same way you don’t get rid of scars. They’re a part of you for life.

The injury may no longer affect you, but you will live with a reminder of it until you die.

That’s just life.

There is no point in fighting with yourself over “clinging remnants,” especially when they can still be helpful as shields against the perpetual assaults of believers.

Being aware of your “clinging remnants” gives you deeper insights into the effects of religion on a person’s mind and helps you to develop an objective perspective of yourself while improving your ability to help someone else when they’re struggling with the impact of their conditioning.

Being aware of “clinging remnants” helps you to be more aware of other forms of conditioning or manipulations like gaslighting because you’re more attuned to the subtle implications of words and their meaning.

Whatever may be clinging today may drop off over time to be forgotten while other remnants you were unaware of begin to crop up and occupy your attention. This is a natural part of the healing process that helps you to develop deep insights into the tangled web of confusion that religion weaves into one’s consciousness and unconsciousness.

This deconditioning process is a valuable experience in developing self-knowledge and awareness of oneself in depths many never achieve. They may irk you for a long time, and even for the rest of your life, but you will find moments where their presence allows you to perceive events or a situation on levels of subtlety that surprise you how people can miss what appears evident to you.

The most important goal is not to fight against the remnants but to develop an objective perspective of them. Understanding one’s sensitivities is like a vaccine against being conditioned in other areas and ways by different types of bad actors one encounters.

Good luck.