There was too much going on today that forced me to be mentally and emotionally distracted all day long. The craziest thing was watching the mob descend upon the Capitol after Trump’s speech that effectively validated them into trying to pull a bizarre coup in preventing Biden from receiving the official affirmation as the next president.

Apparently, around the nation there were mini protests, including one in downtown LA of all places where the so-called Proud Boys attempted to incite a riot and ended up getting battered by police ironically.

The thing though about this whole ordeal is the end result of Trump as the president. I believe it was the beginning of the end for him the moment he hid in a bunker during the time when protestors approached the White House gates. While the majority of the sane world knew he was a loud mouth, what they didn’t realize was that he was a coward as well. That incident effectively eliminated him as a symbol of American leadership on top of the following time when protestors were shot upon during a photo shoot.

While the Democrats have not been entirely on their best behavior neither, the deal with Trump that I’ve come to realize over time is that as far as it looks on the surface, this whole situation for him is a massive game where he sees zero consequences for his actions on himself nor the people around him. The only thing that matters is strictly his ego.

It’s hard to determine what his true end game is at this point. Without a proper investigation against him and his cronies, the world will not know whether or not conspiracy theorists are connect in their assumption that he has somehow been compromised by Russia, which would make some level of sense when looking at how far America has fallen since he accepted the oath.

If that’s not the case, then his end game feels as though he wants to make some form of an imprint in history with his name clearly stamped. But his legacy will be possibly one of the most shameful, at least in the modern era as America practically has been rendered torn in half and left in a state of chaos with the COVID-19 pandemic.

Now, a huge problem in this is the Republican party itself where he has a staunch group of followers. If anything, Trump has damaged the Republican party far worse than most can imagine. It’s so bad that the metaphor used in the TV show House of Cards effectively is being shown here, with the entire deck falling apart one by one and collapsing on itself.

Even now, with Trump throwing everyone under the bus, there are still supporters in his party. But slowly those numbers are dwindling because at this stage it’s plain career suicide by people attempting to justify what was shown by his mindless minions outside the Capitol.

There has been talks of businesses and other people to have Pence invoke the 25th Amendment to quickly depose of Trump just to restore some level of sanity. Already, Twitter and Facebook have revoked his account due to the damage he has been doing online. But in the case of Pence, he really needs to invoke the 25th Amendment to save face because his association to Trump to this last minute practically has killed any future hope of his political career.

One of the things that will be needed within the Republican party is a re-evaluating what exactly they represent in values. Despite what their platform states, the only thing they currently hold any value to is just the name of their party. But despite attempting to remain tight, not allowing any room for individual dissension over time has been their ultimate poison.

Then there’s a group of people that have shown their true face and probably are scarier than any other politician in office: the Trump supporters. I doubt these people understand anything because they lack critical thinking capabilities to be able to make neither intelligent conversation nor possess the ability to question things. Instead, their blind devotion and groupthink is more like an ant colony in effect.

But the truly scary thing about these people beyond that is that they are willing to do anything for their leader, whether or not that leader actually gives a damn about their lives. I don’t know what they actually see in getting out of their actions beyond fulfilling a bloodlust fantasy, which is where I think this is heading.

And it’s really stupid and weird too. These people do not seem educated nor wealthy. Instead, they appear to be of lower middle class at best (vernacular: white trash with some sell out minorities tossed in). I can’t see how they believe someone in the elite class would ever benefit them.

Again, my theory about all this is that these people are so stupid that they only believe in Trump because they watched his goddamn show and believed that they are similar. Trust me; California elected Schwarzenegger for the same reason (and Reagan for that matter)

But in terms of continuing to support him, I’ve seen two main areas that come up: 1) religious fanatical leaders; 2) nutcases personalities (e.g. Alex Jones). The way I look at it is that the religious fanatical leaders associate themselves naturally to the Republican party and create a conservative feedback loop to one another. However, the nutcase personalities like Alex Jones will interject themselves into these feedback loops to help create dissent and chaos, thus promoting themselves in the process.

The two forces in turn generate fear and doubt in creating a dystopian fantasy in the simple mind of the lower fanatics where they are tricked into believing their so-called leader(s) will be able to get them out of their squalid disposition.

Of course, none of that will happen because conservatives don’t do anything beyond giving kickbacks to their buddies and not spend a dime on the lower class. The only thing that the fanatics get is just more arms support from the military industrial complex leaders (e.g. NRA), which fuels their lust for violence and increases their insecurities.

In the end, you really have this mass of serial killers waiting to happen. They want a civil war because they do not know enough history (I doubt they studied it in depth nor paid attention in class) nor do they have empathy for those negatively impacted in the past (e.g. Native Americans, African Americans, the Japanese in internment camps). All they know is that they are not the ones on TV, do not have the million dollar homes, the Mercedes, etc. and blame it on everyone else for their own short comings.

In some way, I think we should have that civil war because there’s just too much bad blood built up between these people and the rest of America. I still think that the country should be divided permanently because I don’t believe these people will ever change.

But with that caveat, I want them all locked up either in the center or in some region no one cares about. Then they can drive around without masks in their SUVs killing themselves with COVID-19, pollution, etc. and their general stupidity and eventually the land will come back to the smarter people as social Darwinism intends.

The other thing is that the world is watching America very intently. After the events in the capitol today, many world leaders scrutinized the irrational behavior of Americans. It was not just a black eye for us as a nation but an embarrassment as a perceived leader in the world.

What this has done is simply tarnished what America represents even further as well as reinforced all the negative stereotypes that the world has of the people here. And it’s well deserved. I’m sure many of these world leaders were waiting for a moment like this because of the incessant jingoistic/manifest destiny posture America has historically taken.

The thing that is clear to me in all of this is that besides resolving the COVID-19 issue, America’s next generation of politicians need to restore the trust between the American public and themselves. Everything leading to this day has been an issue of growing distrust within America.

People like Alex Jones are enabled because of the shady tactics in American government. That shouldn’t happen. Politics and politicians need to be transparent. The people we elect as officials should never have a hidden agenda where they give secret back rubs to their elitist friends for handouts.

Along with the politicians, business leaders (i.e. the elite) must also do their part in re-creating the trust back to the American public. They are a huge part of why someone like Trump has been enabled. Someone like a Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, or companies like Goldman Sachs are not trustworthy because of the wealth they command.

With the COVID-19 pandemic creating an ever increasing level of inequality in the country, the very cream of the crop must contribute back down for capitalism to be looked upon as a positive mechanism of governance. Because at this very moment, what we are seeing is a trickle up economy; meaning, poverty will slowly eat its way upward as people without capital nor influence lose the little they have.

And I think the way this needs to start is that the very top of the wealthy class in this country should donate 50% of their fortune in the form of a national band aid that would allow the government to temporarily allow rent to be ignored, loans to be forgiven, student debt to be erased and the prices of food to drop along with real health care as opposed to health insurance.

It’s a real simple equation to me. If they don’t do this, their wealth actually will shrink because there will no longer be people around to do their bitch work for them. Or the people still around will be resentful and form unions or worse yet, be maniacal serial killers that come in the form of obedient servants for people like Trump and Alex Jones.

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The biggest thing in controlling COVID-19 is to develop trust and respect between the government/state and its citizens. All the politicians have proven is to be empty headed, worthless and thoughtless tools of the elite that only use the lockdowns as a means of protecting themselves. The result has been a growing resentment between citizens and the government since the orders only benefit in a single direction.

Because of the tone used in these campaigns, the government must figure out a way to regain the trust of the public, especially in light of the controversial elections, the Black Lives Matter movement and pervasive problems in the overreaching hand of the government.

My proposal in getting some of that trust back is by incentivizing the lockdown approach. First, anyone who cannot work and is the owner/renter of a household should be disqualified from paying rent or money for property. If you say that the state and city are locked down, then it only makes sense to have no money flow back into the state because you’ve effectively killed it’s ability to do anything.

By removing the cost of rent/property ownership, you will solve a major issue in the fear generated by people who are on the edge of losing the ability to have a roof over their heads, which means that for those who work multiple jobs, they can afford for the time being to not worry about attending a job that might cause them to be infected.

The next thing that is needed is to create a supply chain of basic food and home essentials (e.g. toilet paper, cleaners, etc.) to households. For that you would need to create an online site for people to be able to register their home and detail the number of people per household along with dietary preferences. In turn, markets and major retail stores like Walmart and Target can be converted into hubs for distributing these care packages.

Uber/Lyft can use their driving force to coordinate with these supply hubs where drivers can be provided with tests, masks, etc. to help run supplies to people. In exchange for this deal, the state would grant these drivers full insurance coverage to make up for their independent contract status and offer overtime as a bonus.

Basic utility would be considered free until the emergency is lifted. We need gas, water, electricity and the internet to continue running.

Any kind of business that requires essential workers will get a massive tax incentive to continue operating and workers would have their salaries bumped on top of having access to cheaper insurance. Normally, insurance works the other way, but in this case, we want to make sure those in the field are well protected.

In addition to eliminating rent, there will be a tax credit given for each day a person stays within their homes. This is a per-person deal so that larger families won’t feel trapped and encourage each other to avoid the public. To get a bonus like this, there will be an app that a person can install for tracking whether or not the person is at their place the entire time. It’s optional so people shouldn’t feel that their privacy is being invaded.

Big influencers who have massive parties will be penalized on a per person basis. Instead of just sending these fuckers to jail, I would just issue a giant bill to their doorstep. That’s how you partly will pay for these tax credits.

For owners of property, I would provide massive tax credits in the future for the free rent incentive. The idea is that we scratch your back, you scratch ours. Also, the idea is that if you want a future, you need to invest now.

The big thing is to figure out how to contain the actual virus itself. While data points have identified hot spots, I haven’t really seen much in the way of action. The only thing we know thus far is that the poor are most likely affected and the majority are minorities.

My guess is that not only do these people lack the resources to be able to access insurance, they have poor living conditions and education to combat the situation. Generally, I’ve seen families in lower income areas have a large number of kids (partly for tax purposes/well fare support, but also because they can’t control themselves). So households with larger numbers of people will mean that the risk of catching the disease is higher just based on the crowded space.

While it’s impossible to straight out move people in a time like now from such conditions, what needs to happen is to dig around parts of the issues like insurance and being forced to work multiple jobs that may lead to the higher probability of catching the virus. So again, the tax incentive, free rent and free food should aid in this regard.

But one policy I think should be reversed is the tax credit per child. I would say that children before 2020 should still be allowed credit. However, to penalize large families, I would incur a massive credit penalty to discourage people from having kids right now, especially if their family already is large enough.

The reason this makes sense to me is because:

• More people in this world means more risk for children to die inside of the hospital
• Less available space in overcrowded hospitals
• More risk for parents and their immediate families
• More mouths to feed in a strained situation

Non-essential businesses that demand to be open (e.g. theaters, Disneyland, etc.) can do so but at a monstrous penalty. You effectively want to give them the option but show that they’re damned if they take it.

Small businesses that have been deemed non-essential should be able to file to temporary suspension. What that means to me is that while this lockdown continues, the state must either 1) prevent these businesses from being forced to pay bills that they can no longer afford; 2) be allowed to negotiate away from contracts that would otherwise kill their business; 3) be provided some form of repayment to make up for the lost potential income. What a small business (e.g. small restaurant, hair salon, independent shoe store) should be able to do is provide previous years’ taxes to show what their estimated income would be. In turn, the state should be able to forgive or grant them an equivalent amount so that if/when things return to normal, they are able to do so.

There’s other things that can be done here too. But the message is that the state needs to start giving back if all its doing is taking. While my ideas may sound socialistic in various elite assholes’ minds, the truth is that we cannot live in a capitalistic system in this current period because the current period is not normal.

In order for COVID-19 to be brought down, a new infrastructure must take the place of the current system. Money just doesn’t make sense in a prison state where the assumption is that every person has the equal ability to earn income.  The government shouldn’t just take an imperialistic tone to handle these matters either but must show that they have the true earnest interest in resolving the situation.

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Will Trump Concede Graciously?

This is one of the biggest concerns going around right now. The media says that insiders believe he will fight until the end. Up until this point, he’s acted like a wild child and few can seemingly control him.

Given that there are numerous allegations during his tenure against him, fighting the decision will most likely just make him look worse and set the dogs upon him once his term officially comes to an end. There are some who say that he may concede only to have Mike Pence pardon him. That would seem very extreme but expose a huge hole in our political system and shake the faith for the Republican party.

My feeling is that this whole situation of him crying is a calculated act to not look weak. He has a lot to lose at this point and his only realistic option is to step down graciously. I feel if he does that, Biden will look at him with kindness and effectively sweep the allegations under the rug. It may seem silly but we’re talking politics here.

COVID-19 Response

This one is more than likely going to be the top of the list for Biden/Harris to tackle. It’s one of those rare opportunities where a perceptibly competent politician will want to tackle because their handling of the situation will be what historians will write about. Plus, the best part is that America can once again go to war but against an enemy that the world can all get behind. It really is a politician’s wet dream in the making in terms of being someone to problem solve while unifying a whole country behind him.

Except that I fear the problem is far more complex than what the American government can tackle. Already, Biden has mentioned in his speech how he plans to speak with each governor about mandating mask policies, something that has caused considerable conflict within the country.

Part of that has been due to the poisonous rhetoric inflicted by the Trump administration in politicizing the efforts of COVID-19. However, that poison has sunk deep into the mindset of many Trump supporters to the point where they believe in a god given right to be able to do anything at will.

That makes the efforts of what I believe will happen by the democratic side very tough. First, I see the democratic side akin to your strict elementary school where they talk down to people and make them feel as though their perceived rights are eroding away. So these mandates I think remind people of those days in school.

But why would people resent such an effort? It’s the same reason why those people had aligned with Trump in the first place. There’s a mentality that the government must understand with the population that I believe stems from an immaturity that has lasted from poor breeding.

What I mean by that is that you have all these failures in life who were rebels that could not be controlled by their parents. Maybe they came up poor and took solace in the notion that being the lowest common denominator was something “cool” (e.g. smoking, getting bad grades, flunking entire grades, etc.)

This behavior is further justified as people grow older because they misinterpret being an American as equal to having unlimited rights. That’s why Trump appealed to them. These people are not smart, cannot critically think and would see a Trump (being famous on TV) as someone like themselves, internally rotten trolls that rebel against a system but somehow made it.

Except that these people never really “made it”. They might think they have made it because they have material things that dictate their social standing and are scared of how these things might be stolen by the big bad democrat socialists (I mean god forbid these people ever wanting to share anything with anyone else).

In short, these people never had any desire to help the public at large because these people on average aren’t really a measurement of virtue.  As a result, issuing mandates will only bring greater conflict similar to how the kid who gets detention once, ends up getting more of it over time.

What I’m hoping for is that the response from this government isn’t one of force but allowing the choice to be made. Biden/Harris need to serve as educators or perhaps psychologists to these people. To the person with common sense, of course, the masks help and having a universal vaccine will hopefully restore order in an ideal situation. However, once again the people who they will be fighting against lack common sense and those opposing Biden/Harris within the government will do their part to continue spreading misinformation and encourage these delinquent types to rebel.

The other thing I’m hoping for is that the solution isn’t going to be simply imposing a mandatory, nation-wide lock down in awaiting for a working vaccine. I think that will a horrible disaster. The thing this administration must do is realize that the current infrastructure in place is woefully unprepared and inadequate of handling a pandemic.

We can see that having a thoughtless lock down also affects the economy. And that’s the next topic.

The Economy Infrastructure

The close second major issue that should be in Biden/Harris’ targets once they get into office is taking a serious look at revitalizing the economy as well as the supporting infrastructure. The Trump administration solution has been to simply throw money at people because that solves everything apparently.

Well, it doesn’t. The economy is far too complex for a solution to just hurl money to believe it can be resolved. It’s so interdependent that the domino effect had occurred rapidly once the lock down started. If Biden/Harris gets medical experts on the COVID-19 aspect, they equally require social scientists and economists to take a serious study of how this pandemic effectively destroyed a nation.

My idea is that the lock down could have occurred if people felt secure. Meaning that the fact that we had bills and deal with the horrible cost of health insurance while feeling scared about going to the market, feeling isolation hysteria, having overcrowded and understaffed hospitals, etc. demonstrate just a tiny fragment of the problems at large.

To make people feel secure, they need to feel that they can survive this situation with a great deal of confidence. For instance, to prevent the supply issues at markets and to allow those who are hit by job loss, the government should have issued out meal tickets to give people, regardless of income, a way to feed themselves. These meal tickets might come in the form of guaranteed supply bags where we could create a pandemic type of supply chain that ships directly to households. Households in the vicinity of COVID-19 hot spots could have better access to these types of services.

Next, kill rent. Basically, kill the idea of property tax and whatever incentive for property owners with tenants to charge while a person remains jobless or has been affected inadvertently by COVID-19. Create an IOU type of situation where overtime, the owners can be reimbursed somehow, perhaps through lowering property tax to nothing or some means of giving them money back for their cooperation. And prevent real estate from being able to raise prices during these times and encourage the lowering of it.

For home owners, create a similar situation with the banks to prevent banks from collecting on mortgages from those who are affected by layoffs, etc. Heck, I would go one step further and just shut banks down to make it a real lock down.

I mean, these are just some simple ideas I came up with that I don’t think require any sophisticated technology or know how. Yes, various greedy people will be upset. But I believe surviving a pandemic is far more important than an individual’s coffers.

Healthcare

This one is the real sore spot for me. I read that Biden wants to resurrect Obamacare. I do think that part of his vision is to make Obamacare elective. I think that’s the way to go because the former format of Obamacare was too costly for individuals who did not have access to health insurance and the penalty was ridiculous.

But here’s the thing: health insurance !== health care. Health care to me is a universal system that allows people access to hospitals, medicine, etc. without an unrealistic price tag associated to it. Health insurance is a system of gambling betting that someone will likely get sick, injured, etc.

Obamacare was too tightly coupled to the crooked insurance companies that got bailed out. Rather than correcting the problems with health insurance, Obama, I feel, got his own set of supporters to get a bunch of rich cocksuckers agenda through the mail.

Going back to Biden’s version of Obamacare being elective, it sounds great on paper if it means that a person who opts-out of getting insurance does not get financially penalized. This is the part of “freedom of choice” that people want. Unfortunately, the question is how will this version be paid?

My guess was that the more oppressive Obamacare was paid through those being penalized. That’s just fucked up. If a person wants to get sick, let them as long as they’re not harming others. And while I know a group of people will go, “well, that means COVID-19!” my response is, “Well, that’s why I said that conditionally.” Also, some people just might not want it because they’d prefer to spend their money otherwise and feel that they should be allowed to choose their own destiny. I think if Biden/Harris respects that aspect, they will find more support.

Divided Nation

This is going to be the underlying thing since up until Biden’s election, the nation wasn’t really America anymore. We had a civil war going on that was fanned by Trump and his sycophants. Biden did well to address the African American community in particular as the key to his victory during his speech. That was massively important and showed to me that he is a solid politician in giving this recognition out.

However, if healing is on the agenda, there’s going to be massive reform needed. Even with Obama as president, we had seen similar actions by police and protests. The difference is that Obama had rhetorically tried to be the peacekeeper on both sides. Biden does have Harris in his corner so he’s going to have a lot of support there. But many of the Trump supporters still will fight just because their mind has been made up.

The thing is that words aren’t going to be good enough this time around. If you’ve listened to any of the marches, you’ll know that the reason why these people continue to protests is that they have lost faith in the government at large.

While COVID-19, isolation, cabin fever, etc. all probably have played a major part in continuing the momentum beyond the racial injustices, the reality is that these people are going after democrats as well. And in all honesty, Biden, to a lot of people, wasn’t their real choice as the presidential candidate, but just someone strong enough to knock Trump out of office. More than that, he’s still an old white dude and he will have to do more than talk in terms of making the reparations that these protestors truly want.

I think part of what this administration needs to do is cool both sides down. First, they have to de-militarize the police. Trump lost a good part of the nation because civilians had been fired upon while police with military grade equipment stood like automatons at the wills of the elite. None of that was necessary and just created a bigger barrier between the public and the police at large.

One of the most interesting things I came across during all of this was a write up describing the inefficiencies and need of restructuring the police. The police have become this be-all, end-all response entity with powerful unions backing them. However, the amount of required training for what they’re used for is outrageous. Like protests where you probably just need someone who understands diffusing situations.

And while systemic racism may exist within the ranks of the police, just telling people to not be racists won’t work. You have to realize that certain people won’t change under any circumstances. But if you continue to allow these types of people the same access to power, you’re simply enabling what they can do.

So a declassification of police into separate specialized entities might be part of the solution along with a deep look into the efficacy of their unions. Purely defunding the police isn’t a great solution because it will allow unfettered crime. But allowing their existing form is part of the weakness in our fragile economic infrastructure that has failed during the pandemic.

International Relations

This one is going to be really interesting. I think in general most of the world leaders are going to welcome Biden, but only because he’s not some crazy, reality TV host. I think for certain countries like Japan, Canada, Australia, the UK and many parts of Europe, Biden will be a very welcome sight.

Now, the real problems are going to be China and Russia. China’s situation is going to be one of the biggest contentions Biden will have to deal with. I think he needs to be very strong against China and continue to have US companies pull out as long as their current regime continues to behave in that manner.

If there’s one take away that Biden can get from Trump’s original campaign, it was to bring jobs back home. With the economy in shambles here, I’m hoping that more jobs will be onshored and that penalties for offshoring manufacturing jobs to China will be encouraged.

Also, China must allow the world to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic or be pushed out as a trade partner. I mean how this whole shit got started at this point can only be pinpointed to China. So if they want to be exonerated, they need to open up and either accept responsibility or face increased isolation. Perhaps, part of that responsibility might be cutting off the allowed ownership of American land to the Chinese and having that land redistributed to Americans here (meaning give that land to the owners of property to make up for the potential of not seeking rent, etc.)

What about Russia? Russia has become one of the most devious spots in the world with the rise of Putin. Take for example the recent assassination attempt against one of his critics. I think first thing that needs to happen is an investigation to see if Trump and others in the government had been compromised or corrupted.

Next is to isolate Putin and Russia. For instance, the American government needs to support the Belarusian people by condemning Lukashenko and providing aid for Tsikhanouskaya. Already parts of Europe have imposed trade restrictions against Lukashenko so the government needs to continue adding pressure to force him to relinquish his spot.

I think unlike China, Russia is another major wild card. And they don’t play clean. So we need to be extra careful with them.

Climate Change

So this climate change thing seems great on paper but I really hope it doesn’t amount to people not using plastic bags and being forced to drive low emission vehicles. I have a feeling that rather than having a grand task force to truly counter climate change, it’s going to be lame.

What I really hope to see is a solar power revolution on top of fuel efficient vehicles. With solar power, it would be great to see more grids of solar power or mass tax breaks on purchasing solar power equipment as well as more funding towards energy research.

For fuel efficient cars, I don’t want to see a mandate but more of a move to get away from gas and make battery operated vehicles very affordable with high tax incentives.

Along those lines, I would like to see more public transportation projects completed at higher rates and better work from home accommodations moving forward to get away from the need to commute. COVID-19 proved that work from home is very possible and can help the environment but there needs to be more encouragement for it.

Imagine freeing up office space and roads by eliminating most offices. That’s like a freebie for the environment.

At any rate, I really want the upcoming change in government not to be just another 4 years of the same old same old. I want real plans with actions that can be executed. No more talk. I think most people are tired of the same rhetoric.

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I think the fact that Hilly still talks about her loss might be partly a self-awareness issue that she can’t get over. These days, I can’t call myself close to being a Trump supporter but I have been thinking about 2016 a lot more every day in trying to understand the current climate of politics.

I think when Hillary was gearing up for 2016, the democrats had made their biggest mistake in choosing her over others. While she probably had the most recognizable name on that side of the equation, the thing is that I think many Americans did not forget some of the negative stigma remaining from Bill’s presidency.

Of the things that I still recall from Bill Clinton’s days as president, I think of the Monica Lewinsky incident, the various lies about his days of “not inhaling” pot, him taking credit for the economic boom as opposed to the general innovation of individuals that created a huge backbone of the platforms we see today and just the whole PC (political correctness) nonsense that was like a PMRC 2.0 (especially with his corny vice president Al Gore and stupid wife Tipper).

If Bill was the smug, lying orator who won his election by iterating what people thought they wanted to hear, Hillary was just a blithering loud mouth goat that would forever be connected to Bill’s stigma. On top of that, it was a blatant act of nepotism and I think most people saw through her being the equivalent of a career politician, which is what I think many people felt sick of.

Worse yet, her biggest supporters might have been her worst enemy to the election in the end. That is, the feminists. I think many men in this country have felt emasculated with the whole #MeToo movement, the political correctness and censoring of what effectively amounts to “good old boy values” by the democrats. What worse way to take all these values than brazenly shoving them down people’s throats.

With social media, these voices have become a million times louder. I know when I used to do social media, we ended up concluding that women are some of the heaviest users. They are able to effectively connect to their circles, do all the retweets, likes, etc. It’s definitely a mechanism that has empowered them.

But I feel that at the same time, your joe average might’ve felt that his voice got squashed in all of this. His rights and values that he grew up with no longer were modern and he would have to work harder or face big penalties which used to be just thrown away as tasteless jokes.

So when Donald Trump came around, people took to him like moths to a flame. It had nothing to do with whether or not he had any sort of competency in anything. The fact is that people just knew him and liked him from being the empowering man from that TV show which men could idolize and fantasize about becoming (although in truth I think those men are losers but that’s a different story). His words were raw and cutting; not this political BS, but just good, old boy troll jokes that appealed to people’s inner devil.

But that was just the icing on the cake. The whole point was to not vote Hillary. Again, I think the issue boils down to self-awareness and conceit. She doesn’t know what it really is like to be someone without power. The Clintons are powerful people and I think the average American was sick of those that were born into that, despite Trump’s own inheritance that he fucked up.

The thing is that Hillary was damaged in image before she had a chance to do anything. I know some people probably thought that America wasn’t ready for a woman president, especially right after having an African American president.

Perhaps.

But I think that in Hillary’s case it really wasn’t that. I think the people who voted for Trump (i.e. against Hillary) saw Hillary as this aging principal they remembered from elementary school. The one that would be on the playground and screaming for ordinance.

People wanted anarchy. And that’s exactly what they got. The change they wanted was to be free of politics, which is what in theory the GOP is supposed to represent (i.e. hands off politics).

Now, before you say I’m anti-feminist, let me say that with regards to Kamala Harris, I really like her. I read her platform and didn’t see anything super offensive. She seems quite intelligent, speaks well and has a level head. Honestly, I wish she was running for president right now instead of Joe Biden.

What I am for is things that make sense. I think the democrats are flat out stupid sometimes in their choices. Like Biden to me is a dog in all of this. I know they picked him just because he was Obama’s VP. That shouldn’t be how people are selected in these processes.

I feel that if they had a good under dog, someone that understood how to talk to the people rather than at them, they would actually stand a real chance. Also, perhaps not offending the public. Right now the way politics has turned out it’s just an either or. But it’s not even a case of a good either or. It’s a situation of do you want plastic with dog doo or cat poo. You lose no matter what.

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Some of the not-surprising names within the documents are former president Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew and references to Trump visiting Epstein’s island. Outside of Epstein and Maxwell, The name that sticks out to me more than any other though is Alan Dershowitz.

Admittedly, I’ve only casually kept up on the news between Dershowitz and Trump’s legal battles with impeachment. But what is clear to me is that he’s probably going to be the next major player involved in all of this to fall given his role.

The importance of Dershowitz is that his ties to Trump maybe one of the major cracks in Trump’s defense. This is effectively the house of cards tumbling down. But what else will this expose?

Another major piece to come out of these papers is the FBI’s role in all of this. From what I’m reading, the FBI was aware of the situation and did nothing. If anything that might be a bigger reveal than any single names in all of this because now it’s implicating a critical section of the government.

And again all of this raises the real question of what more is corrupted in the government?

Or perhaps, I should re-phrase this question as what is left in the world that isn’t corrupted at the elite level?

While a global pedo prostitution ring is outrageous, you have to realize that the real story is how the elite have worked to stifle all of this and used their power to cover up their dirt. More than that, it makes you wonder what else might be going on? Who can be trusted that’s left?

Perhaps, the who isn’t as important compared to what can the average person do to protest the elite and powerful. What is clear to me is that the system in place is corrupt on a global scale but it depends on the powerless to keep it running. With COVID-19, we see part of the system failing in that for the most part there has been little to no protections put in place to protect the less fortunate.

The protests are an absolute threat to government control. Their need for the economy to be maintained for them to retain power is reinforced by how the people like Trump have attempted to step in and send in troops to quell these protests.

The real threat to the elite is their ability to maintain the illusion of whatever political philosophy is supposedly in place that supposedly maintains society. The reality is that the dominant will forever remain dominant and only continue to re-create this veil to allow them to maintain control over the populace.

I think the average person can fight back in all of this. The way you do it is stop paying for things like taxes and support local communities. I feel that the super structure needs to fall and move back into smaller, more visible pieces that are actionable and allow individuals to no longer be apathetic as a result of their feeling of helplessness. To do that crippling major pieces of infrastructure that have long been corrupted like Wall Street is the key in real reform.

In my view, the protests aren’t effectual as the elite themselves will only do what they can to protect their roost. If anything the protestors themselves put themselves at risks for both COVID-19 and the elite to act against them.

Just targeting the government themselves at this stage is not helpful. You need to target their major supporters which are the elite/power players. That’s when people will listen and truly act. The officials in charge are just scared puppets but will turn on the public once they’re off their lawn again.

I know that this has been a long thread that deviated away from the core topic. But I really believe that what we’re seeing is the slow unveiling of the global elite, their links and one manner of how they control the populace. What’s needed is to expose more and find more connections to demonstrate the deep levels of corruption and gradually extirpate this virus.

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I call myself a survivor of the LA Unified School district. That district, in my view, is probably the worst educational piece of bureaucracy that I could imagine. The system is plagued by inner city school kids being bused in while mixing with local students, teachers of questionable quality, career politicians who manage to vote themselves raises, almost zero budget for decent books and supplies and a vastness that pumped money back only to those bureaucrats’ pockets. To not go crazy or avoid being permanently broken or killed somehow by the various obstacles in that system are reasons why I call myself a survivor as opposed to a graduate.

Back in the day, even as far as elementary school, I never felt safe attending school. While kids always would be kids, the real fear that affected me was increasing gang violence. I would recall how a car or two would patrol around the school grounds just in elementary school itself, waiting for something or someone. In junior high, one idiot I knew threw gang signs at a car and ended up getting shot. In high school building up to the point of the LA Riots, there were fights on a daily basis. And walking home as a latch key kid along Sepulveda Blvd or Western Ave, I once saw some hispanics pretend as if they were shooting at me.

What was shocking and saddening is that I learned it wasn’t just my shitty hometown’s school that was affected. A friend of mine told me a similar story where he grew up when he walked home. Some supposed gangsters drove up with guns to his friend and him and were about to shoot him. For no good reason outside of the fact that they were there at the wrong time. How fucked up is that?

Once I got to UC Irvine, I thought I was safe. The campus was filled with intellectuals, people pursuing higher learning. Then I learned that one of the neighboring dormitories had a bullet hole from some moron who took out his gun and accidentally let out a bullet. There weren’t more incidents from that but it was shocking that it would happen (he got suspended apparently)

Now, in truth, I’m not entirely opposed to guns. Guns were created for a reason. It would be quite medieval if suddenly society swapped back to using armor and swords, which sounds far more violent. But the way guns are handled in the US is definitely an issue.

I had the opportunity to live in Japan/Tokyo for 5 1/2 years. I never felt endangered except for the occasional freak. But you can always run away from a freak or even a knife. You can’t easily run away from a bullet and most certainly you’ll have an impossible time dodging someone with an automatic.

And I was almost involved in a mass murder incident where some nutjob crashed his vehicle against a group of pedestrians in Akihabara years ago. I read arguments that if people were armed, they could’ve taken him down. That’s nonsense because most people wouldn’t have known he intended to kill people until it was too late. More realistically, the guy probably would’ve been someone who would’ve attempted to gain possession of a gun as he jumped out of the vehicle with a knife and went after people.

In the current situation, the idea of students walking out in protest of teachers arming themselves is perfectly reasonable. Obviously, the people who want teachers to be armed are the NRA and the gun manufacturers. But in reality, would an armed teacher really solve anything?

The answer is no because you can’t guarantee that the teachers themselves are sane. You can see how corrupt many teachers are with their students just in the various articles that have sprung up more often with regards to pedophilia. Imagine what could happen when you arm people of a certain mental disposition!

I’ve known crackjob teachers all my life. Just because they are a school teacher does not mean they should be put on a pedestal. They are normal humans just like everyone with the same propensities towards sin. Arming them only allows some to reach deeper with insecurities in how they handle students. And it won’t be long if such a law is put into place where the teacher might abuse their gun privilege and kill a student (or maybe the student finds the gun and kills the teacher). It’s not a solution at all.

The real problem lies at the two foundations where it starts: education and the family. The public education system in the US just sucks for the most part. Teachers are underpaid and underappreciated with low barriers to entry at the pre-college level. The result is that you have a mix of personalities that can cause students unnecessary stress because of the wrong environmental mix. Also, students are not allowed to question teachers prior to college. Teachers are viewed as deities in a very demonic manner. The result is that there’s a blend of god complexes that teachers get while students, who have good intuition, may tend to critique.

The second problem is something that almost never gets addressed which is the family. I see pre-college as a way for busy parents to hand off their responsibilities to someone else. Think about it. You’re essentially putting your children in the hands of strangers without oversight into their methods as well as putting them into a cesspool of other children with questionable backgrounds. If a kid goes to a public school, then it’s 13 years minimal of hell.

And of course a lot of the mental problems that may ensue with a child can and probably does result directly from how they are raised. Yet whenever an incident arises, it’s quick to point out the flaws of everything BUT the parents. The music did it. Violent video games did it. Horrible movies did it.

Yet let’s be real. You as the parent decided to have the kid. And if you didn’t want the kid, you could’ve gotten an abortion or set the kid up for adoption. No matter what though, the birth of a kid was absolutely in your control. And you have to take responsibility and admit that the failure to raise a kid properly was your fault.

If you believe violent video games are at fault, then why do you give them access to a computer or buy them a mobile device? If you think violent movies are the cause, then why do you allow them to watch them with you without supervision? And if your kids are having bad influence from those around you, then why not move?

Yes, it’s not easy to simply get up and do these things. But as a parent you have the hardest job in the world, which is to properly raise your kid. If all you wanted was sex, consider getting it chopped off in some form. Because the kid doesn’t deserve that. Society doesn’t deserve this. And I don’t want to deal with other people’s problems.

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PCH and the 405 are two of the worst roads to travel. PCH is constantly clogged with its tiny lanes. Part of it might split into Sepulveda Blvd or Lincoln depending upon the part of the city you’re in. And the 405 is notorious as one of the worst freeways to have to deal with on a daily basis. It’s so bad some people refer to it as the 45 (meaning a minimum of 45 minutes to get anywhere using it). In both cases, they run north to south and are jammed by constant construction, car accidents, confusion (because of how elastic the lanes can get) and intermixed with all the assholes that are created every time someone gets a new license here.

Despite having these problems for ages, the city has done really little to mitigate it. I feel that some form of politics play a huge role in not correcting the fundamental issues that are obvious to any native Angelian (or those who have lived here for a reasonable amount of time). It’s as though a combination of unions, the car industry and rich people essentially tell the city’s denizens to fuck off in making any reasonable attempt at fixing the issues. Outside of a disaster on the scale of a Ronald Emmerich to force the city to rebuild this clusterfuck.

What’s worse is that some moron signed a deal to increase size of the ancient, sprawling and obese behemoth known as LAX. The city had an opportunity to move a good portion of the core issues to either Burbank’s airport or Ontario but instead chose to place all the eggs into a single basket. Why on god’s earth would anyone want to do something insane as create a massive target or potential disaster like this?

The result of this eyesore is that you have an extreme amount of wasted space simply protruding like flab in between some of the most critical areas to traverse. And there’s not a lot of options to get around this monstrosity. Yet when you get a scenario like a few nights ago where the drop off/arrival area got seriously backed up, you halt a huge section of traffic. This is at fucking night.

The people of Los Angeles deserve far better. We pay far more taxes for the most useless services than anyone I believe. And we have to deal with an incredible amount of bullshit that makes just getting to work a nightmare. The only apology the city can give is a proper subway or (in this case) a Metro line that runs from San Diego all the way up into the valley to remedy some of these issues.

My proposal would be to have two lines in fact. One for PCH and one for the 405. We already see an example of how the city can run a Metro parallel to the freeway with the 110 (and to the 105 to an extent). But with the growth of the so-called Silicon Beach, a lot of businesses now are propping up along the coastal regions like Playa Vista, Santa Monica and Westwood. Those areas are a commuters’ worst nightmare (especially Santa Monica and Westwood) despite providing the potential for some of the best jobs.

Yet without proper commuting options those businesses are in danger of not receiving the best talent as a result of people being unmotivated to drive there. The area surrounding those zones are often old and overpriced. In the case of Playa Vista, the apartments go for prices that are starting to match the Bay Area, except being nicer.

However, many people simply want an affordable spot or better yet a place that they can own rather than just a room that they rent and are being ripped off from. Unfortunately, the only affordable options exist so far out that you have to balance between dealing with a 1+ hr commute or a crappy, overpriced shack.

Those with families have it worse as housing and schools may not be in a convenient location depending on what the family is willing to sacrifice. But for those that want to start a family, it’s harder yet. Then you have to deal with choosing good neighborhoods, schools and an area that can support other needs (e.g. maybe Asian markets for instance).

Right now, the only places that provide any affordable housing that is decent are way the fuck out in the Valley or in the far east like Temecula. Unfortunately, neither are really ideal and even spots that are reasonably close like Torrance remain a hassle commute-wise and price-wise.

Sadly, most companies seem to not want to compromise on issues like telecommuting or having offices in less popular spots. That leaves the vast majority of people struggling to deal with stuff that they really have no control over.

Thus, the only real solution is for the city to be more pro-active and stop pussying around when it comes to things like the Metro. Certainly, we’ll hear stupid excuses like the fault-line or needing tons of research. But for the city to scale it requires the overall management to stop being so damn inefficient. Earthquakes can’t be helped but ensuring that buildings and structures are up to code can be. And if the libtards by the seaside are so insensitive about being able to see their precious blue skies, just remind them that their narrow mindedness is simultaneously making the sky gray due to all the pollution.

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I started becoming apathetic partly because of George Carlin’s comedy shows. In one of his specials, he talked about how he was just an observer at this point, someone who lacked a stake in anything and just watched for entertainment. He managed to figure out that the game is rigged and how most people are nothing more than pawns for the true power players (whom he labeled the “Owners”). He mentioned how by not participating, he could not be blamed for the poor choices the rest of the country would make in electing these officials. And the funny/ironic thing is that he’s right.

Prior to returning to America, I had watched the US election from abroad in Japan where McCain and Obama faced off in 2008. I figured that if Obama could win, it would, indeed, spell positive change for America as everyone rallied to his call for change. I even wrote a rare email on his website pledging to work hard if he succeeded in procuring this mystical, abstract change that people were imploring.

Obama/the Democrats won and I returned to America, feeling proud that my country could move forward since his presidency symbolized a huge moment in history for men of color. However, there was something else in the back of my mind that had been bothering me. What if in this election the change that people so badly wanted wasn’t the change in their minds? What exactly did the public want? Things change all the time. But they do stay the same. How do you reconcile an abstract idea if there’s concrete definition? Doesn’t that imply a certain level of convenience?

In my head, the “change” I wanted was more money in pocket. My father had passed away a year or two before and my mom wasn’t in good condition. I think everyone wanted that “change”. But is that really a “change” or just an improvement to our already materialistic and ultra capitalistic condition?

The idea in my head that started to manifest was that in truth neither party would institute the desired outcomes in our minds. I’m dead certain that most Americans wanted things like less violence, pulling out of the global wars, less taxes, more money for themselves, improved lifestyles, being able to download without persecution, going out and partying. You know, all that hedonistic tendencies we’re taught to worship by the players in Hollywood. And I forgot to add, less hours in the office.

Instead, what was the real result? Just more of the same as the past 10 years except more technology. But the technological advances cannot be politically attributable as these changes were being done by individuals in a faster pace technology realm. My money went up only a slight bit but you can nod that to inflation as prices has spiked across the board.

But how about the recessions that came and went. Well, guess what? The tax payers ended up bailing out companies that should’ve went under through the approval of the government. I’m damn sure I didn’t vote for that and people still get sued for copyright infringement in downloading movies, etc. In short, corporation lobbying still hasn’t died out if not become even stronger.

So what gives?

Nothing really. Because nothing has changed.

People are just fools for believing in a very savvy rhetorical environment where mass media and data have formed a symbiotic relationship in being able to give insights into what people think they need to hear. As a result, these candidates use that rhetoric to polarize each other but do enough to galvanize the net into believing that voting is absolutely necessary.

Maybe.

But in my view, when you’re left with a turd sandwich and giant douche, you’re going to lose no matter what. Luckily, we do have a concrete third option which is like my view on population growth: pure abstinence.

Voting to me is a waste of time especially since none of the candidates have your back. The only thing you’ll receive is an eventual court summons for jury duty because of how registration works. But real voting only entails voting for a representative who cast your vote for you; that simply is how the American government works. Thus, the popular vote nor independents will ever stand a chance (with Jesse Ventura being the sole anomaly).

In this year’s coming election, neither side for certain cares about the people at large. The Clintons have always been about gaining power. For Trump, it’s all about ego. Even if Trump loses at the polls, he still wins because he’ll have his name engraved in history books for even being able to make it. How can either candidate be sane for a country like this? How can anyone ever want people like these to represent them to the world or at the micro level?

It won’t matter who gets elected because the real issues have already been drafted. Corporate lobbyists will dictate what laws truly get passed. The high level agenda items that both candidates talk about are just hot air being spewed to get people to side with one. The real agenda items that get executed aren’t ones that the public at large push into the president’s hands to be rubber stamped. The only difference is which items get signed off faster, depending on the candidate. But at the end of the day, the wrong issues will make it through and make the country worse.

At best, either candidate will just be a vocal point for how the rest of the world reacts whenever a global matter is at stake. People might become extreme and point to the president’s ultimate authority in times of war, but I doubt we would go down that road. Even if a verbal nutjob like Trump gets into power in that manner, I cannot see him retaining it. Some extremist(s) would probably put a bullet through his eye rather than allow him to have that much authority. But more likely either the public would demand his resignation or worse yet simply stop following him and do their own version of Brexit if push comes to shove.

But this internet argument I’m having with myself is exactly why I’ve chosen to remain apathetic. We’re at the point where any joke of a person can rise to represent a whole nation just because they have some pull or money. But is that fair?

It isn’t yet my belief is that everything is staged. I’ve read conspiracy theories where Trump is merely a puppet helping Clinton to become president. Even if Trump ends up on the throne, I can’t see his radical ideas being executed. I mean, let’s take Arnold Schwarzenegger’s term as California’s governor as an example. Arnold entered with the people behind him. Yet the politicians were not and he failed to enact many of the policies he originally thought he could enforce through sheer physical muscle and intimidation alone. Trump, if this whole thing isn’t a sham, would still find enough political opponents to make his life hell. And there really isn’t a lot he can do as a president regardless besides talk a lot.

Nevertheless, it’s just going to be business as usual once November clears. We’ll still have inflation, gas prices will soar, food becomes more expensive, health care cost rises, the elderly will need more medicare (coming out of an ethereal bank account), Wallstreet will continue to gamble on the public’s money, America’s debt will skyrocket and no real social change will be made.

That said, I do believe that apathy is a way to kill people. Think to that episode from South Park with the Dog Whisperer. Cartman is rendered nearly obedient because the Dog Whisperer teaches his mom to become dominant and ignore Cartman’s incessant whining. I believe the same principal can be applied to politicians. You can’t physically make them go away, but you can diminish their worth by doing your best to ignore that they exist and affect your life in some way.

Right now, Trump is like a Cartman. If he gets elected, your best option is not to feed him because Trump is the 2nd best troll in the world (I claim #1 spot). Giving attention to a troll is the way they are empowered. The minute that type of person realizes that their spot in history will be erased is the moment that we have won.

Ultimately, my thing is that I have a general distaste for politicians because they really don’t rise from us. They have a career that allows them to move up. It’s not like someone who everyone rallies around because they’ve heard great things that this person has achieved and helped the community at large. It’s impossible for me to respect people who aren’t in the trenches dealing with the issues themselves but managing them from their 10k mile high glass citadel. It’s even worse when the person gains the attention because of the power and money they already possess that gives them a huge advantage over everyone else. But that’s how these people gain any traction here and why I refuse to bend a knee towards this farce.

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As logical as that might sound, there is something ethically incorrect about how it’s being handled in America. Wars are no longer won by what’s right through common sense but by backdoor payments and rhetoric as well as connections. This puts many people at a distinct disadvantage since the average person lacks any of the above to help them in life. A father, whose wife runs away with his son, might be wrongly accused and be prevented from ever seeing his son again just because the wife managed to put a restraining order on him first. Rather than allowing the father to take matters into his own hands, he’s forced to deal with the law, which might not protect him nor his son from a psycho ex-wife.

But that’s just a basic example of how messed up the system is. The system is so convoluted at this point that the essential real help that the country and average person needs is unavailable because of the horrendous bureaucracy established, which merely ends up just supporting government jobs and the lawyers/politicians who reinforce this pathetic infrastructure. And the thing is that these people in charge have zero desire to change any of these issues.

I feel that the current government infrastructure is inadequate to survive for the next 20 years. I was reading how the real issue will end up being the medical cost that are ballooning up. No one seems to have a good answer for this problem…at least a good answer that satisfies the people who get a cut of the action (i.e. the doctors, FDA, lawyers, etc.) But that’s just one example of a critical issue that the government is incapable of providing a solid solution.

For myself, I feel particularly vulnerable and that the government cannot protect me. Patriots blindly will point to how soldiers protect our lives on a daily basis. But the thing is that there are other countries which are not involved in wars whose people are better off. Our standard of living is actually pretty low; it feels as though we measure things in America by assets rather than the quality of life we lead. But that’s the part where the government pushes you towards because they want you in this capitalistic system that forces you into a hyper consumer model.

In truth, we are no better than slaves at this point. We are incapable of owning anything these days and everything is moving towards a rented/subscription based model. In short, you have to continue paying and working to live in this country. Maybe on the surface people will say, “Well, duh!” But when the jobs are being sent overseas and there’s no guarantee for life time employment along with mandated health care laws and the diminishing social security, it’s clear that the average person not only has to run the rat race but must squash his neighbors, friends, family and loved ones to survive.

The first thing America needs to do is remove all the bureaucrats and eliminate the unnecessary dead weights called lawyers from the system. Money has to be reworked such that it discourages the current model. The way pay works is absolutely nonsense. Perhaps, you do allow for certain people to rise but the barriers to entry is far too great, especially since it plays into the extreme favoritism of this system.

Another thing is that the system does need to collapse. I was hoping that the shutdown would occur and that we’d go into a financial crisis. Instead, we’re going to get a duct taped system that does not bode well for future generations. I predict what will happen is that slowly America won’t be owned by Americans anymore; in fact, America really isn’t owned by Americans as other countries now own pieces of it like Saudi Arabia and China. We have effectively sold ourselves out such that only certain people were able to get their percentages.

But what’s really scary is the thought of how America will collapse. We’ve already seen parts of Europe and Egypt erupt as a result of the various financial issues in their respective countries. Will America be the next stop? We have seen in Los Angeles and Louisiana how America can rear its ugly side.

And the thing is that Americans are bred for war. If you read the conspiracy theorists, it’s said that the three dominions of the world are the Roman Catholic Church, America and the Royal Crown in the UK. The Church represents the spiritual side, the Royal Crown the leadership and America is the military arm. If you doubt me, examine the rhetoric of every day life in America. America is inherently a war hungry nation. The fact that people want to carry arms for their own supposed safety shows a huge mental issue. Hollywood movies have extreme amounts of violence and TV/movies are filled with anxiety. Our cops are forged into weapons and our military spending is exuberant. Even our passion for games are nothing more than trainers to fill our lust for killing.

If you doubt what I say, try living abroad for a while. Many people will accuse you of having ultra violent rhetoric. You probably never consider such things because of how natural it comes to you and the fact that most people employ unfiltered language.

Once the pressure starts to heat up where Americans no longer can support their basic necessities, that’s when the eruption will occur. I believe that the government is preparing for that day. Again people have cited internment camps around the country for such an event. But will it work?

That’s a crucial question. There are two possible outcomes in all of this. The first is that most Americans will end up fearing for their material possessions and shallow lives and become obedient. Only those who have nothing to lose but are forced into a corner will rebel. But I think the government never has cared for those people and want to eliminate them in the end to help curb the population problem.

Another option is that America goes into a military coup. If you look at other countries in the world where something similar has taken place, it seems that what happens in the end is the rise of the military power. Iran and Cambodia immediately come to mind as examples. The thing with America is that it has the military power to take control. I personally think that part of America is actually under military control right now but that it’s not recognized publicly in fear of causing hysteria in Americans.

However, as we have seen with the Snowden drama, the government isn’t exactly against lying and spying on its own citizens. Of course, that caused many people to distrust America and that relationship is being strained continuously. For me, it was just a public verification of what I’ve known and what many people have known.

Now, the thing I feel is the biggest problem (outside of bureaucrats and lawyers running the country) is that America just is too big. America is similar to the problems you see in many large companies that have failed in recent years where the size prohibits the country from handling every little issue without affecting another part. Yet it wants to micromanage everything on the federal level, which becomes confusing since the state level often times conflicts.

As much as I’d love to see America formally split, the truth is that will never happen. Yes, we have states but there’s just too much conflict that occurs that imposes such huge burdens on the individuals in this country. Since the people on top refuse to relinquish their power, we won’t ever see what needs to happen, which is smaller, more manageable states that focus on local communities rather than worrying about the broader picture. At this point, the broader picture is that the current situation isn’t sustainable and will crack. But I honestly don’t want to be around here when that happens.

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Yet the issues are deeper than these facts. Part of the issue is that the social networking platform over time has introduced numerous of controversial changes that caused people to lose faith in the company. As the company is concerned about revenue, Facebook has focused a lot of its efforts in terms of marketing and advertisement, two elements that the average user of such things tend to find intrusive. For instance, instead of seeing information from your friends, you only receive selected information with ads and other intrusive elements flooding your news feed.

I feel that most people who go to Facebook are concerned about what their friends are doing rather than having irrelevant information constantly being blasted at them. Since the top items are algorithmically selected as well as those which people pay for, chances are that people miss out on a great deal of important information and updates from their friends.

In Japan, people faced a similar situation with Japan’s premier social network (or rather former premier SNS) Mixi. Many people ended up becoming burnt out and eventually quit. Perhaps, Japan’s situation provides a prophetic glimpse of what will happen to Facebook. Even with such an example, we have other social networks like Friendster and Myspace that grew, evolved and even went away. In those cases, something simply better appeared and people ended up jumping boat.

With Facebook, the primary assets it contains are the users and the relationships between those users then people’s photos. The idea here is that the people have invested a great deal of time and effort into locating their friends and uploading photos to the site. So the question is whether or not people are willing to do it again similar to how people migrated from Friendster and Myspace?

From a personal note, I’ve noticed that more people are deleting or deactivating their accounts. Some of the more tech and news savvy people felt the NSA blow up easily motivate reasons to remove themselves from Facebook. Even before the NSA scandal broke out, I knew people who quit because of (false) rumors that Facebook intended to charge their users. In other cases, people end up deleting or deactivating their accounts for personal privacy reasons such as avoiding stalker or preventing their companies from prying into their lives.

And though Facebook claims to be focusing more on mobile, they might already be too late. Worse yet the recent discovery of how the Facebook Mobile app uploads users’ phone information and contact lists without their consent just puts another massive damper in Facebook’s already suspicious trove of dirty laundry.

The other thing is that just from a technology point of view, Facebook really is crap. Whatever innovations they are performing seem to be utterly hidden from the average user. Certainly, we see the constantly morphing UI but there really isn’t much that you can say is special or useful/must-have features. These are just iterations that are forced onto users without any warning. Take the giant search bar as an example. Visually, it might serve some purpose but there isn’t anything great that has come out of it.

Then you have the shifting backend APIs that most developers dread using. Anyone who had the misfortune of integrating any aspect of their system like Facebook Connect can attest to the unnecessary complexity and the almost whimsical moving target of their system. If more users slowly depart from Facebook, then implementing the single sign on feature will end up being an ineffective, high cost headache.

Beyond all these aspects, Facebook internally is a mess. Outside of the recent departures of various notable executives, Facebook still exist in a start up mentality yet with the size of a fairly decent sized company and the accountability of a bank. A friend of mine talked about the security on their campus and how he was constantly patrolled while visiting for a meeting. Naturally, a company with the secrets to a good deal of the world’s population must guard its information well. Yet this seems contrary to the atmosphere the company wants to exemplify.

Add to the fact that Facebook has a pretty rigorous hiring methodology as well as notorious long hours. I’ve read reports that people are expected to work 6 days a week, 15 hours a day. The Hack-a-Thons that Facebook has popularized are nothing more than an euphemism for unpaid extra hours. I’ve heard how employees tend to be belligerent towards each other on the tech side at times and even their development system is one of a negative feedback loop. Certainly, for a veteran, non-high end developer, Facebook looks quite uninviting.

Ultimately, Facebook puts itself in danger because of their practices. Facebook biggest risk is that they can lose everything they’ve created in a second the moment a superior competitor arrives or if somehow they alienate their audience (which they are slowly doing). As a company, you always must ensure the trust between yourself, your product and your customers. With all the malpractices well documented, Facebook constantly does little beyond your average PR work to comfort their users.

Here’s the thing though. Facebook is incredibly useful as technologists in general have a need for a universal user database. Facebook comes closest to this notion of a single sign on type of platform. However, my feeling is that just like the internet, there should not be a single body that houses nor governs this type of technology and information. Since the information is collected from people around the world, the platform itself must remain neutral for it to act as a truly viable service. It cannot reside in any country nor be owned by anyone specific at the end of the day. Facebook violates these principles, which makes it a clear threat.

If Facebook wants to continue in its mission, it must abandon itself as a corporate entity within the US, Mark Zuckerberg must step down, the company must relinquish its status in the stock market and the technology running Facebook must be spread around the world and housed in all markets, locked away by a neutral body. It should be operated exclusively as a charity or self-funded somehow. Further progressing on its current course, Facebook will most likely be threatened by another upstart with a better platform suited in the interests of the users.

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