doomer

They're not idiots, they're just ghouls that value their interests. It may appear short sighted, but I think the pandemic showed this too, how you can't even use the bourgeois state to preserve capitalism because that means admitting that using the state to benefit proles was always an option, and that threatens them both short and long term.

I used to think the ruling class, while cruel and malevolent, at least had a plan. I don't just mean "make number get bigger," but some grander scheme they generally agreed upon.

Not really. They're just a bunch of selfish assholes that mostly coexist with each other because of shared contempt for the poors, but slapfight like teenagers during very petty slights.

I used to look around at my peers in high school and have the sudden realization that, oh shit, one day we’re going to have to run this society and be the parents and leaders and teachers and whatever. This realization struck fear into my heart.

Now that my generation is older and becoming parents and leaders and teachers and whatever, yeah I do not have any more trust in these people than I did in high school, tbh probably less.

There are no adults in the room. Any interpretation of the world that imagines a hyper capable cabal of elite individuals pulling the puppet strings is too optimistic. It's a poorly organized mass of individuals chasing down the rewards from perverse incentive matrices that ultimately cause more harm to both themselves and the world around them

it doesn't make me panic per se but it does fill me with a murderous rage that can only be sated with the blood of the guilty

There was a recent trillbillies where they basically said "our leaders believe [evangelical fairytale interpretations of bible] and are leading the country based on that" and i thought about it for days and days after hearing it.

Not really. I kinda just assume I'm gonna die from some completely preventable societal issue someday so that a stonkholder can get a few points on their portfolio. I'm at peace with that

That's what happens when the selection pressure for who gets to be in high-level leadership roles is "who did the most networking at the skull and bones society"

I dunno about you guys but I'm starting to reckon we should give a little thought to alternative societal structures that might have the potential to avoid these issues..

Oh don't worry their habitat and breeding pool has been so reduced through logging, bushfires and highway bifurcation that they've all got marsupial chlamydia and are going to die anyway. WAIT IS THAT A BRUMBY? PROTECT AT ALL COSTS

Embrace jokerfication my friend, embrace jokerfication.

I'm not talking about all the clown world shit the right does, but looking at the fact that our overlords have decided for us that their yachts that they purchased from their ill-gotten gains are worth causing a climate crisis over. Older generations when quizzed on it, will respond with "Well, I'll be dead before climate change effects me. I'm going to pollute because....YOLO!"

You're not alone. The solution is to run for office, or so I'm told. I firmly believe that anyone who does, even with good intentions, becomes corrupt eventually.

nah it’s pointless to care at this hour; I’m just vibing until the mutant water wars begin

I just got used to it

I moreso get panic attacks from the fact that people vote for them, and everyone involved thinks they're all so smart and nuanced.