That child could have grown up to be a transwoman.
This must be the genocide of trans bodies that they keep talking about.
Andrew Dobson
It's only a matter of time before one of us here is standing at the supermarket trying to buy groceries, and their cards all get declined with some ambiguous "Unspecified Error" message.
They'll contact their bank, thinking it is just some unscheduled down time, only to discover that all their bank accounts have been frozen. The call center drone will waffle around in confusion for an hour, until our fellow deplorable loses their patience, and decides to make their way to a bank branch in person (hopefully they have enough cash in their wallet to pay for gas).
The bank manager will scratch their head in confusion, before all the blood drains from their face, and they look you dead in the eyes with the practiced look of bureaucrats across the globe, and tell them "The Algorithm says your account shall be blocked."
There will be no recourse for them. No explanation as to why their account was blocked, let alone what they can do to unblock it. Their are no processes or procedures in place for how ordinary people can have this matter resolved, and things will be kept that way.
If things get that way with your current bank account, imagine how much worse it'll become when all your "wealth" can only be accessed and redeemed via some government smart phone app.
I slogged through half of that pitiful excuse of an article before dismissing it as the same old tired victim-complex whinging which sounds like a toddler who wasn't allowed to fill their fists with all the candy they could carry in the checkout aisle.
Over here, the vote was unanimously in favour of continuing to work from home. From the "white dude bros" to the "poor underpaid PoC single moms", no one wanted to have to travel in to the office to perform office work that they've been doing perfectly well for the past two year.
From sitting in traffic, fuel costs, parking costs, garbage public transport, having to deal with the kids' school/sports travel arrangements, and just general shitty open-plan office environment.
If your task for today is to sit in quiet concentration and finish some mechanical engineering design, or reconcile account ledgers, or review an internal audit report, or push code from dev to production on a Friday afternoon, why do you need to waste two hours in traffic to sit in a human battery farm, when instead, you can complete the same task from home in half the time with half the mistakes?
The people who are slacking off at home and being unproductive, are the same people who, when in the office, mastered the art of appearing to be busy, while playing their managers like a fiddle and not meeting any of their deliverables, and instead float around the office distracting and disturbing the people who are actually working.
IMHO, if the issue is employee performance, then forcing bums into seats and having the manager walk up and down like a schoolteacher is an archaic way of attempting to solve the problem. Invest in a proper ticket/action/project management system to track whether work is being done, and let the managers spend their time distributing the work among their team instead of timing their reportees' toilet breaks.
He was making a joke about the new US Justice who couldn't define what a "woman" is because they were afraid of offending the left.
Ahh, this must be the "rape culture" I keep hearing about, right?
crickets
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Right?
As people more articulate than me have said, one day we will look back on this age the same way we look back on the time trepanning and lobotomies were all the rage.
It's such a disgusting cop-out that these people won't even entertain the thought that their ideology might have resulted in someone killing themselves.
Instead, they immediately jump to the conclusion that it is all the fault of people who disagree with them.
And after they die, the usual lot will use their corpses as a soap box to stand on so as to blame their deaths on "transphobia" from all the people who think that people suffering from depression should get adequate and appropriate mental health treatment for their depression, instead of sweeping it under the carpet and promising them that transitioning, hormone therapy, and surgical intervention will cure all their underlying issues.
Every time I see shit like this it makes me want to invest in a wood chipper.
A "rising threat" from the same people who lapse into a bottomless pit of depression when they ask a girl out for coffee and she says "No thank you"?
Sort of related and maybe of some interest:
In William Gibson's novel Pattern Recognition, there is a new market niche in the internet ecology for individuals who have an above average ability to predict which trends and memes will be successful. Marketing and advertising companies hire them as consultants to help "read" the market.
In Vernor Vinge's novel Rainbow's End, there is a job role called "Search and Analysis". As the name suggests, there are people who make their living by being above average at finding information and sifting through all the noise and garbage and propaganda.
They don't do anything at all except well, influence?
Correct.
Their function is to merely amplify and relay whatever propaganda they are given to their audience.
Sometimes, in a rare display of critical thought or original thinking, they might add their own two cents to The Message, but their role is just to extend the reach of the signal.
Edit: To be more generous, I suppose you could consider them as curators, who garner an audience because their particular flavour or offering of filtering and selecting content meets the wants of the viewers.
While other channels might do research, offer insight, invite qualified and experienced experts, and provide commentary, what the former seem to do is merely show their audience "here are some things that might interest you" and leave it at that.
And you better hope that none of your family, friends, neighbours, or colleagues have forgotten to renew their Pledges of "I Stand With Ukraine", otherwise you are guilty by association.
Even the most generous explanations I've seen of CBDCs make them sound like something out of a dystopian novel.
All your wealth held by the government, who can revoke your access for any whim or fancy?
Your ability to pay for food held ransom by a single hiccup of The Almighty Algorithm?
Leading Experts using Established Science:tm: to decide just how much you should be allowed to spend on certain things, and discouraging you from deviating from their prescriptions via penalties and fines?
Bribing Encouraging people to donate and support woke shit by offering them reward points and incentives? "Earn an extra 100 social credits every day by sharing our Totally Organic Cultural Marxist Propaganda on your social media feeds!"
"Sign up today for our WrongThink:tm: Insurance programme that covers you for up to 10000* worth of social credits in the unfortunate case of you voicing or entertaining the wrong opinion on $latest_topic. Terms and conditions apply."
I am so sick of self-appointed busy-bodies with myopic political agendas constantly trying to chew my food for me and tell me what is true and what isn't true.
I've gotten to the point where as soon as I see someone unironically using the words misinformation or disinformation, I can rest assured that they want to force their own lies and propaganda on to me.
And remember, respect is everything
Back in the 2000s when I finished school and started working, all the banks around here rolled out their modern "Know Your Customer" policies. For unrelated reasons, there were paperwork issues with my identification document, and the government department responsible for fixing that took months.
Long story cut short: I was blocked from my bank account because of some clerical issue in a system no one understood and which none of the employees cared about trying to understand.
Fast forward to today: observe how easy it is for banks (and other institutions) to deny you service because some black box algorithm which they outsourced decided to flag your account.
It's one thing to have your social media account blocked for 7 days because some hidden counter hit a threshold because you clicked "Like" on too many problematic posts.
What happens when you forget to turn on your VPN, and your bank decides to confiscate your money, all because you clicked on a link someone posted in chat, and you inadvertently gave page-views to a political dissident?
"You have been fined $1000 for this transgression.
For your convenience, we have automatically debited it from your account.
The proceeds will go towards funding equity awareness campaigns.
Thank you, and have a nice day."
Ah, they've finally begun deploying Anti-Tank Sanction Launchers?
- Break a thing
- We (you) must all work together to fix it
- We (I) must be prioritized to receive repair funds
I've been coming to a pretty similar conclusion myself.
Most people don't want to know the truth, they just want to feel safe. They don't care about understanding things, or knowing what is factually true — they only want to know what is the correct thing to say, to ensure that they stay a part of the In-Group.
They don't want to think for themselves, because if they come to the wrong conclusion, they will be ostracised from The Group. So they would rather defer that burden and responsibility onto someone else.
You explained what happens to the conditioned, but what about the unconditioned?
The only pandemic I'm worried about is this seemingly endless supply of totalitarians.
These people don't care about reading or watching material written by African or Asian writers.
They just want to stop people from enjoying entertainment with white people in it.
Gave you an upvote because this is a completely reasonable question that deserves a proper conversation instead of just being downvoted into oblivion.