MonkeMischief

It seems the Ukraine conflict and the U.S's plans to counter China's push on Taiwan indicate that the future of warfare is:

....Just...a gazillion, never-ending swarms of coordinated, "cheap", militarized drones....

doesn't make any sense.

My theory?

The real conspiracy: It always goes back to the desires of capital.

Why is it always that climate change is a huge con job and it's all a secret control plan that we...need to stop burning and breathing known carcinogens?

Oh, because the evil shadow government orgs like the EPA and OSHA want to take all our good ol' jobs (tey derk er jurbz!) with their "regulations" and "standards" and "penalties for pollution" right?

And they're trying to make America "less great" by no longer being a mass-polluting post-war economic powerhouse! Think of the lost profits! Think of the widespread misery and poverty wrought by a secret New World Order of...(Paper flip) corporate regulation! What's next? Unions?!

Yes, chem trails are ultimately a path to such horrors as a less wealthy C-suite and not putting clean air on the commodities exchange market. (gasp)

...And all these conspiracies are seeded and peddled by the very sources that told people to take veterinary dewormers or inject sanitizer to cure a virus, have brought us the highest unemployment rates seen in a century, dismantled and fired safety regulation and watchdog agencies (deh DERK-A-DURRBS!), are trying to bring back child labor and company towns, and conveniently rail against taxation which they dodge anyway.

EDIT: Sorry for the essay LOL.

I really appreciate your take and efforts to be compassionate about the loads of people who simply were let down by a lack of, or sometimes learned cultural opposition to, education. We're paying for it so hard right now.

I mean, yeah, MK-Ultra was a very real program, for instance. The Cold War Era was loaded with shadowy nonsense conducted by spooks, all over the place! Real conspiracies totally happened!

But people on the whole crave sensation and don't have the logic or education to discern between whistleblowers and grifters.

I think the part that is so painful is that there's just so much noise.

It feels like conspiracy theories generally used to be...More harmless? More often the stuff of kooky neighbors and not always dangerously deluded basement militants and chart-topping podcasts.

Now it's a carefully engineered, algorithmically driven pipeline from the former to the latter.

Now, thanks to social media, they're politically weaponized psy-ops: Get the masses all riled up about aliens, mind-control vaccines, and satanic child-farming underground pizza delivery chain networks...

...And they won't bother to focus their energy any real and "boring" conspiracies, like monopoly-forming, price fixing, shrinkflation, planned obsolescence, cop unions, the insurance industry, manufacturing consent, stock market manipulation, wage theft, billionaire bunkers, car-required civic planning, surveillance normalization, gerrymandering, Cambridge Analytica, McKinsey, class warfare, too-much-to-list about Boeing...

Because those are very real problems perpetuated by very bad powerful people, and they take a ton of very risky work to fix.

And those conspiracies are so very boring and predictable, because it's a massive shell game with a million little nodes that all lead to countless instances of "Someone is doing these bad things to amass more money or influence."

Last note: It's also really odd and telling how the ones who are SO adamant about government conspiracies don't tend to care much about corporations.

Government mind control chips in water (to make us more... subservient or something?) Totes!

But ad companies listening to your devices to figure out when you're at your weakest to push ads for foolish purchases?

Naaaaah!

And sometimes like this!

I learned this word from Roller Coaster Tycoon as a kid lol.

Weird tangent on the main post but I just got one of those "bum guns" off one of those unsold merchandise auctions and it's been life-changing. Ridiculously simple to install. Literally like one of those kitchen sink sprayers just T-jointed onto your toilet water supply. Why isn't this standard?!

I now no longer fear the bizarre crisis reaction of the masses that is "Make a mad rush to hoard all the TP."

And I'm hoping being nicer to myself will avoid unnecessary embarrassing future doctor's visits...

Reportedly this is where some kids found gems like Roller Coaster Tycoon in just a CD jewel case, too. :D

Alright, folks lock the thread, we have a winner. Lol

God, there's a huge part of me that hopes this isn't real, but I've also been on the 'net long enough to know better.

As a human being that shares this earth with the rest of us...I don't see anything wrong with this. You were practicing lots of Yoga, and it was significant enough for you to outwardly mark yourself with it, you can back up the fact you studied and immersed in that (sub)culture.

You clearly didn't just spot it on the wall and go "lol that looks cool." While drunk or something lol.

I am white as the driven snow.

It sounds like this is where some perceived guilt is coming from. Contrary to what sections of the internet will tell you, there's nothing wrong with consciously adopting a culture that meant something to you. Even if you're "white."

There's this weird expectation that white folks should only be able to get tattoos of like, what, the Wonderbread logo, or Elvis or something LOL.

they all seem to like it

This speaks volumes in itself. It's obvious to the people OF that culture that you're not just some poseur ripping them off to self-aggrandize. They seem thrilled to meet someone who saw it and said "I want to learn from them!" This is why humanity is beautiful.

The world's a smaller place now. People move. Cultures evolve now as they always have. That's how traditions like Yoga or Kung Fu traveled across the world in the first place right?

I'm just some guy on the internet, but It sounds like a cool tattoo, and I hope maybe you can feel less burdened by it, especially when it doesn't cause anybody else any harm.

Sounds like the opposite, actually! It seems like it gives you a connection to others and has started a lot of conversations, when you'd otherwise be seen as an outsider!

Reminds me of this talk about black holes I saw recently... And an odd theory that our perceived universe might be located inside one already.

Neat to think about, the idea that these things might be a means of travel between other universes, but you can't know for sure and couldn't tell anybody after the trip.

https://youtu.be/A8bBhkhZtd8

Get this man some comfortable shoes, oversized zippers, a magical duck, a strong but dumb dog, and a keyblade!

For real though that's quite a unique trait, thanks for sharing with us. Your attitude about what makes you different says you're a pretty cool guy. :)

I had one retail manager who constantly kept using "moving forward" for everything. It was so freaking grating!

I hate that I've learned to censor myself around these soulless void-skulls by replacing "problem" with "challenge." No, I don't "solve problems", because to acknowledge something as a problem is negativity we just don't need here at Emperor Clothing Inc! I "tackle challenges"!

It's so freaking goofy and they just eat it up. Everything needs some sort of business-positive spin or they lose their minds and think you're not being a "team player."