It’s not all bad. Sometimes, over the fog of nonsense that crowds most of the broadcast channels, there are explainers who know what they are talking about and make useful observations.
I think I mentioned Sarah Taber some years ago as someone who comes well-reputed. I don’t try to follow her (or anybody else) regularly, but this popped up on my feed, and sounds realistic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=badGHJLDpP8 Why Farmers Voted For Trump youtube.com For me, one useful little bit of clarity on who’s out there, and how they are making their choices. Eric > On Oct 7, 2025, at 16:28, glen <[email protected]> wrote: > > I can't get the phrase "tone deaf" out of my head: > > AmEx "There's nothing like platinum" > https://youtu.be/KjYyG4FgmPQ?si=XukUoeky00YT_cs5 > > Battlefield 6 Trailer > https://youtu.be/LqWVp3p-FPk?si=VCbhrJ1xdZBRl3ba > > Andrew Tate Car Collection > https://youtu.be/DDSlF3iI2-s?si=pGAzZJfUCjbXiTD7 > > Maybe it's just me. But these things all seem wildly outside the zeitgeist. > And that's in spite of my disgust, registered here, with people like Sabine > Hossenfelder for her blatant shift to the grift or Lex Fridman's > self-aggrandizing sycophancy > (https://youtu.be/Z1Ua1hVRtdE?si=e5-SJeSPI11svpqV). > > But I guess it's an obvious next step after the hustle culture we've forced > ourselves into. Success is measured by your accumulation of status symbols, > shame be damned. There are some glimmers, though. E.g. > > ICE List > https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2ficelist.is%2f&c=E,1,QANFi6FQr9QcCSo11t5g_ffDhED7dVTWyJDjJB0ZjDcRFXHLSrNfrtF2jC6SpBxMoZnTdB6u9EWa3eHzFyqIpKFOrshXRcXWkYoD5-ZTdxWa&typo=1 > > The Reckoning > https://www.youtube.com/@PFthereckoning > > DDoSecrets > https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fddosecrets.com%2f&c=E,1,pfIZjkK9sn_mYQUuM8ZrBmRVVRRIfxs7KJTHf0YPsAbLNbkHalceJ5qUElLk6XQ-6JA2wUOVMQbrnpqT6mKqr4hMoQVSBTHgnY3DeC0HPg4,&typo=1 > > The purpose, though, is not to decrement the status but to hone in on > whatever "accountability" might mean now. How can we, each of us, understand > what it means? > > > On 10/7/25 12:27 PM, Santafe wrote: >> Yeah. Nice. >> I just got back in the country a few days ago, and got to experience the >> White-Nationalist ICE recruiting ads that I gather started fairly recently. >> Like recruiting ads for war criminals, or those who hope for the chance to >> be. I guess they are being run everywhere, as a quick google search shows >> local news reports from a bunch of cities in many states. >> The impressive thing is how belligerently, flamboyantly trashy it all is. >> It's like, anything anybody ever considered low, degraded, or depraved, they >> scent-roll in, just to binge on their ressentiment. If I were trying to >> think of ways to mock somebody for being stupid and ugly, I would never have >> the imagination to put together the scripts they use. >> It almost feels superfluous to spend time thinking about how to deal with >> the people in various offices, when they are ballasted by a sector of the >> public that thinks this is what they have wanted for so long and can finally >> have. Unless one could figure out how to rehabilitate that disease to any >> kind of state of health, it’s very hard to see what, short of a heavy >> collapse that just clobbers the whole country, will thump them hard enough >> to push them back into whatever corner they came bursting out of, and let >> the rest of the public get coordinated enough to re-establish some agency >> over how the country operates. Not that the “rest of the public” knows >> what to do; the status quo ante was the python squeeze that got us into this >> whole mess, and we can’t be aspiring to go back to that. But something >> short of the whole country’s pouring gasoline on itself and setting itself >> on fire would be nice. >> I have thought, too, that americans are going to get to experience something >> that many of my Russian friends have known most or all their lives: how do >> you go about trying to be a good and decent person, in a country with a >> uniformly bad government (corrupt, cynical, and murderous with no mitigating >> benevolences toward anybody) that you don’t see work for yourself to change? >> Eric >>> On Oct 7, 2025, at 14:48, glen <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fweval.org%2fanalysis%2fsycophancy-probe%2fad51e9a522f01e98%2f2025-09-04T17-50-49-741Z&c=E,1,RyTKGFwr1wjARn9k5vTd-WC-XLWBsqDCtuIl7B4-zdfEGde94UyemTKPbutU21Znk5UHrObUvCB4noUNqNJfjZgpEjXEqVt8KlXtEncB9g,,&typo=1 >>> >>> If only we could find the political will to amend the Constitution with >>> something like this. 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