I’ve always perceived ‘genius’ as having positive / commendable quality to its attributions, so I don’t see the American disinformation and anti-communism project as genius at all, but instead it is vile, insidious, conniving, and treacherous. Negative qualities possessed by the people who conceived it and all who upheld it over the decades. The damage it has done to human spirit and material conditions, the suffering and death that resulted from policies and culture shaped by this ongoing campaign will not be fully understood until this demonic fucking empire is dead and buried.

Nearly all job applications here in Burgerland have an agreement at the end where by signing it, you give them permission to verify all declared dates, places, and sometimes job titles and salaries of past employment, in addition to the usual criminal and occasionally credit checks. You can usually tell it’s being done because you get semi-interactive email updates on its progress and sometimes a pause and request for more info.

So how does some random employer even get info like this to begin with? From shit like LexisNexis, The Work Number, and various other harvesters who maintain lifetime databases on workers, fed in part or in whole by networks of affiliated employers who submit employee histories to them. They are the snitch services who cater these background checks to employers.

They’re permitted their own parking spaces closest to the entrance at some businesses here, probably the same ones that build U.S. flag and troop worship displays out of soda 12-packs, or restaurants like Chick-fil-A that set up empty “fallen soldier” tables:

No, there’s no liberal bullshit that I noticed, it’s a big “here’s what to expect”. I pondered whether it was better posted here or /c/doomer considering it’s like a bad dream that now has high probability of becoming reality.

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Also love that reactionary bit about being Finnish, and history. One of the users in the commit comments took issue with it too, maybe you saw this one already:

A few more good ones that resonate with me:

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The entirety of Torvalds’ angry tantrum in response to the backlash, posted about 17 hours ago (emphases mine):

Ok, lots of Russian trolls out and about.

It’s entirely clear why the change was done, it’s not getting reverted, and using multiple random anonymous accounts to try to “grass root” it by Russian troll factories isn’t going to change anything.

And FYI for the actual innocent bystanders who aren’t troll farm accounts - the “various compliance requirements” are not just a US thing.

If you haven’t heard of Russian sanctions yet, you should try to read the news some day. And by “news”, I don’t mean Russian state-sponsored spam.

As to sending me a revert patch - please use whatever mush you call brains. I’m Finnish. Did you think I’d be *supporting* Russian aggression? Apparently it’s not just lack of real news, it’s lack of history knowledge too.

So, Russia taunts this bitter man in his dreams, it would seem. Russia in his laundry. Russia in his fucking corn flakes. Nanoscale Russian worker gnomes in his CPU changing the words of news articles he reads. It couldn’t possibly be that fucktons of people out there see this political Western-influenced kernel clownshow for what it is, or that they might disagree with Western narrative on global issues. Russia Russia Russia! Dude sounds like the average reactionary USian did when China was at the forefront of COVID news.

In a follow-up he posted:

I’m also not going to start discussing legal issues with random internet people who I seriously suspect are paid actors and/or have been riled up by them.

In asserting that his toys are his and nobody else is allowed to look at them, he sounds like someone who’s been watching way too much Alex Jones.

Yes he is, and always was. His ‘techbro asshole’ archetype was a point of immense pride among his devoted followers, it was most visible on slashdot and newsgroup discussions back in the late 90s to early 00s. My personal take is that he’s an undiplomatic, impatient, total prick, always has been and still is, regardless of whatever personal redemption arc people claim he took on in recent years.

If that old billy be the Devil, I’d have danced with him myself

Did you ever see that ‘investigation’ or insider reveal bit about the mods of 4chan? Their Discord names were all posted, with screencaps of conversations etc. and some explanatory narration about who they were or how they acted. I think this was a few years ago, I don’t remember the details, just recall thinking that at least half of them should’ve been put to the wall immediately, starting with that piece of dogshit head mod with the edgelord screen name.

The reveal showed that the site was deliberately and knowingly steered toward neo-nazi and reactionary dominance in discussions and mod actions. /b/ with its juvenile nO rULeSSszZz had been like an open barn door to something like that happening for years and finally it did. A fucking gold mine for psy ops of the CIA and FBI, ever in pursuit of their anti-communist wetdreams while they pretend to be impartial to any political affiliations in all their PR.

Yeah the Federal shit doesn’t ever go away, they’ve become notorious for being one of the few (only?) types of debt that generally can’t be cancelled in a bankruptcy. I don’t know if you’re already aware of them, but try to get one of the income-based repayment plans for the Federal loans. I’ve been in the ‘below average’ and ‘below poverty’ brackets of income for years and have been on $0/month repayments the whole time.

That’s a possible result of a civil lawsuit, it usually ends in wage garnishment though. To reach that point roughly means making no payments for many months, followed by a long period of being in default while you and whatever family or friends they have contact info on are harassed endlessly, then the loan servicer filing civil lawsuit against you, then having the judge rule in their favor and ordering wage garnishment (or opening of your banking accounts and listing of personal assets if no employment claimed/found). Unless you’ve moved into a cabin in the woods, you’ll be well aware of this whole process as it happens and it’s not quick.

In the U.S. I believe wage garnishment is capped at 25% of earned income. The HR people at the employer get a court order and then start sending whatever % portion of direct deposit off to whoever was listed in the order.

DEATH PANELS!!!11!!1

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If it helps any, you’re not suffering alone. The only texts I get are directly from and for whatever job I happen to have, or an appointment I’ve made somewhere. I’ve tried starting and keeping some texting going with a couple of people I grew up with as close friends, it never lasts more than a few days, and then over a year passes in silence. It has happened several times already and I’ve given up on trying any more.

The cylinder in which porky and pals sat was the center segment that imploded and shattered. The hemispherical end cap (not pictured) and tail portion which held the support hardware (shown in the screencap) were bolted to either end of the deathtube.

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I present to you capitalism’s finest, the whitest and most divorced man on earth:

Deadbeat, sexist, transphobic, absentee father of multiple children, multiple divorces:✅

Less rational and emotionally mature than the average tween:✅

History of reactionary political posts that stoke existing right-wing and dudebro bigotries in his army of bootlicking acolytes:✅

Owner or controlling interest in several multi-billion-dollar bazinga corpos, material value and benefits to society dubious:✅

Fifty-fucking-three years old and memelording shit like this daily as if he’s still in primary school:✅

Yes there has been a consolidation over the decades into few large, corporate operations. You can still buy fresh produce and other farm goods locally from the same people who grew them in “farmer’s markets” in towns and cities, but these are only in limited times of year and locations. For most Americans the food they buy and eat will have come to their supermarket from some massive factory-like supply chain, average distance of over 1,000 miles away, or something like that (I’ve not read up on this topic in many years).

The documentary Food, Inc. narrates a surprising and dark picture of the state of farming in the U.S., and it was filmed 17 years ago! So food production has progressed further into profits-at-all-cost corporate hands since then. Similar things happened with smaller, often local, goods stores disappearing during 1980s-1990s due to emergence of large shopping malls and multi-department corporate chains like Walmart and Target (you may see this referred to as the Main Street “ghost town”).

While I regret that our health care system regularly forces people to consider cost when making life-or-death decisions, I’m grateful that insurance will help my husband and me pay for the health care we need.

Still love the truck, though!

The level of self-submission to ruthless, cutthroat capitalist ideology on display here is astounding, not surprising any more but astounding. I would even classify this as self-harming thought. The people of this country are utterly beyond hope.

I want to believe Kamala Harris is right when she says “we are not going back” to a time when every calamity leaves us on our own.

I, too, am pumped to see what other progressive, highly beneficial bangers the “2.7% interest rate reduction on Federal/non-private student loan debt while operating a charitable business for >3 years in a disadvantaged community” capitalist comes up with next.