DEI is bad, but focus should be on institutions

 The Trump admin schlonging DEI is a welcome relief from the Democrats' knee-jerk praise of this useless program. Racial quotas that promote mediocrities don't really help anyone, let alone minorities themselves (who remain dirt-poor, aside from the lucky 0.1% who land elite jobs). It's patronizing to ethnic minorities to suggest that they can only accomplish things through hand-outs and quotas. It's also insulting to the public to promote incompetent people, who on top of that are just puppets and mouthpieces for those in charge. However, I don't think we should fool ourselves into thinking that this is the only problem facing America or that it'll somehow be back to the glory days once DEI is gone. 

The rot in the US military, and in other institutions, is much greater than hiring the wrong individuals, so it won't be fixed by hiring and firing individuals. That may restore a certain amount of functionality and dignity to the affected institutions, but it won't solve the core problem. It's fundamentally about bloated budgets, parasitic contracts, malinvestment (pouring billions into programs that are of dubious benefit to the public, technologies that are outdated, etc etc etc), overextension across the globe combined with lack of domestic security, unwinnable wars and delusional belief in victory (especially when defeat is beyond obvious and guaranteed by now— Taiwan vs China, Israel vs Iran, Ukraine vs Russia, and on and on). 

Same thing with the rot in the finance sector. The fact that they openly hire mediocrities according to racial quotas is not helping them of course, but they were descending into oblivion long before they instituted those programs in the 2010s— so eliminating them will not prevent the ship from sinking. There it's also about fundamentally wrong ideas: namely, printing up trillions of dollars and distributing the fake money only to the rich. This project has created perverse incentives for corporations, who now have government subsidized growth without having to do any work, dramatically increased wealth inequality (and destabilized America), while also accomplishing nothing— we're now headed into a financial crisis worse than 2008, suffer from sky-high inflation, and everyone is downwardly mobile. Replacing idiot DEI hires with high IQ competent people will not, in and of itself, change things because the incentives and internal structure and focus of these institutions has been compromised.

This is like obsessively cleaning the kitchen, while the house burns down.

In general, I think the aim of the future populist movement, or whatever successor movement arises to pick up the pieces of America, will have to be eliminating all of this accumulated toxic waste in the various institutions. Some of them will have to be shut down permanently, while others will only heal through purges, cutting jobs, slashing budgets, and so on. We may even need to make whole new ones, while abandoning the existing ones, given that they're incapable of delivering the goods. 

Musk/ DOGE

I'm glad I never fell for the hype or joined the cult. 

Elon Musk is a neocon from 2005, just with meme branding. So shocking to the normies, so transgressive, so against-the-grain... 

He wants the government to defund welfare and remove whatever already weak laws protect Americans from being replaced by cheap immigrant labor. 

His actual business ideas are some of the worst the world has ever seen. Multi-billion AI programs that can't draw hands. Self-driving cars that run people over. No cheap slaves from India = no useless cars— but that's where the US gov't steps in and subsidizes that garbage. As with all neocons, anything useful or helpful for the common people has to be demolished, while anything that helps the parasitic elite is sacrosanct.  

Elon Musk, the techbros, and the rest of the Trump Administration will not go after the real waste in order to improve things for the common people in America. Rather, they will continue to undermine the already precarious standard of living of the working and middle classes in order to spend money on doomed pointless wars, stock market bubbles, and all kinds of elitist scams.

The real question now is how fucked are things gonna get, and whether any populist challenge to the current establishment will emerge in the next four years. 

Why a blog?

Why a blog, not social media? 

The majority (if not all) of the commentary on social media is essentially useless for understanding what's going on and what might happen. Not just for this or that topic, but for almost all topics. Social media is primarily about what Team you are on (Team Libtard or Team Conservatard) and then what random fandom you align with within those two larger groups. All of your opinions, policy positions, likes and dislikes, friends and enemies, etc are determined by that. 

Your full-time job is "Owning the Libs" or "Owning the Cons", not figuring out what's going on, what might happen, finding some new angle (or adjusting the theory if proven wrong). You're essentially a propaganda-maker: if MY TEAM does this, then it's good. If THEIR TEAM does that, then it's bad, only filtered for whatever niche group you happen to belong to. You're also somewhat of a therapist, in that you try to present information in a way that will make members of your team avoid suicide and feel like they're accomplishing something meaningful, while preventing the other side's losses as the end / it's over / etc. 

This makes them useless for providing real knowledge, since they're far too partisan, hysterical, and retarded. If your full-time job is creating, and consuming, this (sometimes decades-old) partisan slop, how the hell will you know what's happening IRL? Unfortunately, a lot of that retarded brainrot also leaks out into the real world, where it infects conversations and prevents people from understanding what's happening. 

Social media platforms are also insanely elitist, censored, and restricted. The majority of genuinely popular opinions are not allowed or would get you banned / down-voted to oblivion, and they abound with annoying faggy commissars who live to punish the wicked (anyone who doesn't agree 100% with them on whatever micro-issue). They're some of the least tolerant places in the world, when it comes to diversity of opinion. A blog is a good way of getting these thoughts / emotions out there, but without the inevitable hostility and censorship that comes from joining one of those platforms. 

Almost any site that primarily reacts to social media discourse will inevitably melt down into this kind of tribalism, too, and suffer from these same issues. Think of a blog as a kind of deliberate stewardship / health effort: preventing infection from that kind of garbage. Not to sound too highfalutin, but you know... 

RIP Ukraine!

    I wrote this recently: 

   "Ukraine" is a fake nation anyways, more and more of it belongs to Russia, and the rest of it is just a creation of American media corporations, funded by trillions from US taxpayers, and supported by mercenaries and the military industrial complex. They have no coherent identity of their own, and no group unity or cohesion, which is why they are entirely reliant on a foreign nation. The war in Ukraine is just a repeat of the war in Afghanistan, or the war in Vietnam, and once America realizes victory is not viable, and withdraws funding and support, "Ukraine" will melt away before Russia like the democratic forces in Afghanistan did before the Taliban, or our allies in Vietnam before the Vietcong.

Introduction!

You are all welcome here, low status or high status, white or non-white, male or female. 

Say whatever you want, no moderation (yet). 

I plan on posting mainly about politics, but I might branch out into other stuff too.