Was discussing politics with a Neo-lib recently, told her, “But when I pointed out Biden was demented, you said, ‘Trump’s just as bad’. Can’t you at least admit you were badly misled by your TV?”
To which she replied, “Trump isn’t all there, he slurs his words at the end of sentences.”
I don’t care what you think of Trump or whether you disagree with him. Please just acknowledge REALITY that, for better or worse, he DOES NOT have dementia, and if you argued that he was just as demented as Biden a year ago because your TV told you so, just admit you were misled.
But what I realized is for that person we are not having the discussion I think we’re having. I’m saying, “let’s get to the truth of what’s going on here,” and she’s saying, “GO TEAM GO!”
In the end, she’s just chanting the fucking fight song she was hypnotized into by the TV. There’s nothing more to it than that.
Wife and daughter are at Target buying clothes. Walked around for a bit but left to avoid killing myself.
Standing outside in the sun shitposting instead.
Starting to wonder whether every business is fake. Like the only reason restaurants are full is that DC and Wall Street types are using printed money to prop them up. Like 90 percent of them couldn’t survive in a real economy. And if they didn’t survive, all the money that flows through them into other areas of the economy would dry up too.
Same with fashion. I remember walking up Madison Avenue one night from like 30th street to 90th where I was staying, seeing all the brightly lit shops, closed for the night, selling insanely expensive things.
It was surreal, like who is buying all that stuff, buying enough of it all the time to keep these myriad places in business?
What would exist in a real economy where everyone had to offer value in exchange for hard money? How much would disappear almost overnight, and what would take its place?
