I listened to that Trashfuture episode about quantum physics and can’t decide if it’s existential implications are more intriguing or horrifying. It seems to be an area of study who’s main side effect is giving it’s practitioners nervous breakdowns.
The only mature and adult course of action is to sigh and resign yourself to getting fucked at every turn, as wise and responsible adults throughout history have done. Any action beyond innefectual snark is a childish tantrum. This axiom somehow does not apply to the actions of the already powerful and those doing the fucking on their behalf. That is simply the natural way of things. Do not ask how they became powerful in the first place.
This is the exact same shit they said about the Viet Minh while incinerating millions of civilians in Southeast Asia. Fascist propaganda never changes.
Meanwhile, Isreal hides behind it’s entire population and uses the conflict it drafts them into as an excuse to commit genocide. Suck a tailpipe, genocide lover.
That’s 2Password2Remember, they sign off every comment that way. It’s surprisingly relevant a lot of the time, though: America has had an almost unrivaled hand in shaping the economic landscape of Japan, from the San Francisco Treaty to the Plaza Accords
I am hearing more and more stories like this that collectively add up to a very bleak picture of terminal institutional rot beneath a nanometer-thin facade
Also I live with one of those bootlickers and all their opinions are exactly as myopic, contrarian and self-aggrandizing as you would think