Cloudosaur

I don’t hold back.

Reflections, analysis, commentary, rants, questions, theories, and some answers, but I can’t promise anything.

  • It makes sense if you think about it

    The United States has become increasingly divided in a slow burn and churn of polarizing events, figures, scandals, and disputes. The 90s was a golden era of relative peace for the USA, and we grew fat and happy. After 9/11, due to our complacency and incompetency as a populous, with a glut of goods flowing in rapidly from other countries, the division began. We had to have glorious retribution. The country became selfish, and we reflected the greed onto our elections. Who can promise the biggest tax cuts, who can hurt the people we want to hurt, who can find the easiest scapegoat and attack them the most viciously. There was a brief moment of “hope” in the mid 2000s, that was quickly quashed. Why elect the “left” when you end up in the same wars and taxes either way?

    Now, the flip side. Imagine you have just lost the Cold War, and your enemy is a strong country surrounded by vast oceans with two large but non-threatening neighbors and a wealth of resources. The normal war strategy of direct attack and confrontations will result in your demise. Now imagine you have access to a Reality TV show host, a popular one with many seasons, who is greedy, manipulative, and loves power.

    Then there’s Covid which conveniently simultaneously sparks material and labor shortages, and triggers tensions between the United States and China. Though the goods keep flowing, it is an uneasy brokerage with tariffs and a leader who inspires anger and mistrust.

    Of course, Trump plus Covid is only half of the equation, the tinder to the spark so to speak. The spark being traditional direct war against the proxies of the United States, so as to drain their resources. Ukraine is the obvious choice since it is fertile land that Russia has historically fought over, and that the United States would pour drones and missiles into in defense of European allies. Palestine is the obvious choice because of Israel, a nation backed directly by USA military might. Notice how Russia only had to start one regional war on one front to achieve a world of chaos and drain the treasuries and stockpiles of their enemy?

    Of course Russia is suffering heavy losses, but if the goal is to prolong conflict, then Russia would not be sending their best until the timing calls for it. Remember, Russia has to play the long game of strategy here, first by dividing the people after 9/11, then by installing an asset as the leader, taking advantage of a pandemic, and finally starting an unprovoked war with Ukraine. It also serves to make them appear weak, which is important for optics. The United States must, at all times, feel as though it is winning on foreign affairs; reality is inconsequential so long as the feeling is there.

    If Trump does decide to pull the trigger and join this war against Iran, then I suspect we will find out reality. Either we are strong or we are weak. Either they are strong, or they are weak. The illusion will be shattered one way or another.

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  • Reverse woke scolding: how cancel culture is weaponized to defend Nazis

    The term cancel culture was invented as a cover for rising Nazism. Hear me out. Calling people out for being racist, homophobic, or a Nazi is not nearly as bad of an offense as actually being a Nazi, but the right wants you to believe that any critique of evil ideology is equal to being worse than the ideology, all in the name of free speech. The false equivalency excuses white boys for vile racism and rewards them with positions of great power, but if someone like Vivek expresses an opinion on race they are immediately cancelled and fired with no recourse. What was once wisdom learned from historical lessons is now seen as woke scolding. After all, if one can’t be free to be vile, is one even free? This “reverse woke scolding” technique was upheld by a social network of talking heads decrying attacks on hatred disguised as “free speech.” The left tries to play by the rules of being good, so they inevitably back down from any attack and are subsequently viewed as weak and ineffective. Their denouncement of hatred is deemed “woke scolding.”

    The right takes advantage of the left’s kindness and weaponizes it: when called out for abhorrent behavior they claim they are bipolar or autistic or otherwise inculpable. This is a safe haven because the left has spent so much time prioritizing mental health that it has become confused in the zeitgeist as an excuse to be a bad person. This distinction – that even mentally ill people can be assholes and should not get a free pass because of their mental illness, but rather firm and kind boundaries must be implemented – needs to be made clear. Until it is, the right will continue to use labels to manipulate people into defending them, and once the masses can be convinced to defend Nazi salutes and “I love Hitler” tweets they can be made to defend anything.

    These tactics of reverse woke scolding and convoluting woke mental health ideals have been shifting the window of politics ever rightward, sea lioning, lying and gaslighting our way into collapse.

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  • What would happen…

    If everyone protested by simply withdrawing their money from the bank. If enough people all did it in one day it would shatter the entire financial system. At this point, radical resistance is necessary. We need to think outside the box and catch the elites off guard. They depend on our pooled money, let’s show them who they are messing with.

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  • What ever happened to the “world wide web?”

    Ever notice how no one calls it the “world wide web” anymore? Saying www immediately dates you as nostalgic for the golden days. What first was hailed as a repository of knowledge so expansive it would free the human race from the shackles of inequity has been convoluted into the ultimate surveillance network. Individuals have effectively been siloed into separate internets, perfectly tailored by ominous algorithms to entrap minds and sway opinion. What was once a vast playground with websites past the horizon and tools that allowed you to stumble upon new treasure endlessly is now Social Media ™️, and by social they mean engineered opinions sequestered by country, race, and privilege.

    The left, after much struggle, have finally capitulated to the rise of the techno state and the dark implications of a world wide web. There are two dark sides to the Internet conundrum coin.

    The first being that now tech billionaires like musk, thiel, Zuckerberg, bezos, and other less known of their ilk, have established their complete control by purchasing the Internet. They are the puppeteers of the public to the point where the revered framework of our government, our “infallible” Constitution, has been perverted. We have a figurehead president, and an unelected billionaire actual president. Elon knew he could never be elected under our constitution, but that doesn’t matter now. All the oligarchs has to do was make sure the Internet each person saw in their country was different from what the rest of the world saw, inundate the stream with propaganda, and chip away at common sense.

    The other dark side of the coin is the instability of the Internet. Even with data storage like the way back machine, there is no way to promise that the information will never be altered. Orwell could never have dreamed of such a streamlined future; in his novel entire departments of drone workers slave away altering paper and physical media artifacts to reflect whichever new reality the party desired. In our modern times, no such major effort is needed. This makes it even easier for the oligarchs to succeed, since they can eliminate much of the administrative class and only have to sway the public opinion of the proles- a task made easy by the shrinking of the Internet landscape into algorithm based social media feeds.

    Install loyalists into key positions, eliminate the bureaucracy, and manipulate the masses. This is the plan and it is going swimmingly for the modern day Nazi party.

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  • If you want to know EXACTLY what is happening right now in our country, watch this

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  • Conspiracy? Or theory… Time will tell.

    A little history, some context. Before the industrial revolution there was a different order to the world, the resources and networks belonged to a different group of countries and industry leaders. When the industrial revolution happened, the established order changed and the desirable resources changed, resulting in a few world wars to settle the matter. A new order emerged, and all was going splendidly for the American capitalist until the great depression introduced regulations meant to protect the common person and the pool of resources from the greedy elites. This is where the right wing campaign to malign the common good goes full swing. Somewhere along the way, all these powerful countries and leaders realized the outcome of their insatiable greed was going to be the destruction of our world as we know it: the right wing of wealth chose the path of profit, every man for himself so that only the wealthy and powerful get to survive the oncoming disaster; the left wing of wealth chose protecting everyone to the best of their ability, hoping that the more people survive, the more likely they will survive (while still making a decent profit and protecting their own assess first of course, because being wealthy both results from and results in greed). The reason we are now having world turmoil again is because people at the top of the pyramid are making a mad dash to the end, a race to the resource finish line, and the rest of us are being left in the dust. In the country controlling the biggest empire, the right wing path has won and the left has capitulated. Now the rest of countries will duke it out amongst each other, bolstered or kneecapped by our empire’s network as we see strategically fit for our own success.
    The reality of climate change would of course be known to the president and to the wealthiest among us, including Biden, Trump and the oligarchs. Within the last decade it has become clear that strategic moves will need to be made for the benefit and continuation of the empire, therefore it makes sense that the United States as an entity would desire to acquire Canada, Mexico, and Greenland. The USA will incorporate Greenland first – it is the low hanging fruit – followed by Canada when they are crushed by economic factors. That leaves the complicated matter of Mexico. The regime has spent their time convincing its citizens that Mexicans and brown people are dirty evil illegals, prone to rape, and as a result genocide becomes a likely outcome. Our more liberal southern sister will be consumed at some point and it will be bloody.

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  • The secret stash of hate theory

    All these years the far right has been pointing to incompetence and blunders on the left and claiming they are intentional malevolence (on occasion yes they are, but on the whole progress is made under democratic leadership), while actively asserting their own intentional malevolence is in fact buffoonish incompetence (ie with gw. bush, the tea party, qanon, MTG). They know in their hearts they are on the selfish path, assume that everyone else is also secretly harboring the same selfish thoughts, and therefore assume that the only thing holding us back from our “true nature” is some woke agenda that’s brainwashed us. They don’t understand that we genuinely do not have some secret stash of hate that’s kept under wraps by social pressure, unlike them. The right quietly dismantles the structures that help people do they can suck all the resources from them (like public schools or medicare/Obamacare), all the while saying “look at these democrat run cities!” and performing incompetence. It’s a performance – each individual stupid sounding comment or seemingly in-poor-taste act is actually very calculated. They scream “those Democrats/leftists/libs are pedophiles! Satanists! Terrorists! Communists!” Over and over, and at first like with the tea party everyone laughs. I can see Russia from my house is so funny! Those foolish idiots, ha ha ha no one takes them seriously! His spray tan, her bad makeup, that gaff, those clowns! They’ll never get anywhere. Ignore them… (No one is laughing anymore…). Finally, after years of this bombardment of twisted reality, after involvement from all the oligarchs who own the government and run social media now, you have a population that all believes “both sides are equally bad” so they might as well vote for the guy who wants to blow it all up, right? If the left is assumed to be secretly hateful with faulty rhetoric that’s upheld by all social media, and the right is openly hateful, and you yourself have just a smidge of hate in your heart, why not just embrace the side that’s “honest” and open about it, right? There is no “good,” it’s all an act by people infected with the woke mind virus being dishonest about their true nature, so lean into it right? And that’s how you get Trump and the modern day Nazi party rising to power.

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