mark fisher predicted the current cultural stagnation and how it would infect people's thinking too: a society where the populace is hyper-judgemental, rigid and rejecting of any true deviance from the norm. but even he probably didn't anticipate just how blind people would be to their own lameness. at the time he talked about how leftist spaces had turned into moralizing purity tests that would suffocate discourse, but this mindset isn't limited to the libs anymore, everyone is in on it now too. the political consists of fake resistance; libs calling people names and nazis (drumpf, elmo), chuds spamming wojaks and pepes like its the 2012 reddit rageface era.

the culture industry isn't exactly new either, but it's impressive how it keeps optimizing itself. the biggest pop culture movement is swifties - the most boring, anti-art, corporatized fandom phenomenon in human history. mediocrity has never been more carefully distilled and refined than in her person. rap, once a supposedly vital genre, is currently making headlines for rappers having small peepees and being addicted to bussy and porn. the best youth culture can come up with is either idolizing already dead millenial culture or mass producing brainrot.

mass culture has been trapped in endless nostalgia loops for years, but even the internet - which used to be a wild, chaotic place - has finally been reduced to either hyper-policed, corporate-moderated mush (reddit dot com) or irony-poisoned wastelands where every conversation either degenerates into the same three wojak memes (ding ding ding, this is where we are right now) or is suffocated by asking of the reader to withhold their habituated responses.

this isn't just stagnation, it's full on social decay. if it took on physical form we could observe the brain worms slowly digesting our frontal lobes. I thought I could deal with cultural stagnation but I honestly didn't expect it would become this authoritarian and that its rulers would be this lame.

like straight up a male. something has to be done about this. enough accusing everyone of being Indian there is agps AMONG US

Dude bankrupted his entire town. He even drained his daughter's college fund.

Americans. Explain to me why this quality of writing disappeared off TV and why do your foids hate funny things so much.

Yes, that M203 40mm grenade launcher.

I was in Iraq 2007-09. On one of our first patrols, a LT ordered one of his platoon members to patrol with a round in the chamber. Patrol went off without any problems, they returned to the outpost safely. Anyway, fast forward a couple of hours and this soldier was cleaning his weapons and accidentally fired a live HE grenade into his thigh. These rounds generally have to rotate about 8 times to arm before they can explode, so it just embedded into his thigh about 3 inches and stopped. Luckily, the Blackhawk pilot of the medevac had balls of steel and decided to fly him out with unexploded ordinance inside the patient. The grenade was removed and the soldier came back a couple of weeks later, just in time to get a field grade article 15 (punishment). If that round would have missed his leg and bounced around the room, the results would have been terrifyingly different.

neighbor fired a grenade into his thigh

!firearms

More black celeb worship: https://old.reddit.com/r/redscarepod/comments/1imex7v/lets_break_that_down/mc3me6g/?context=8

First, it is simply false to say that treasury payments do not have a "payment categorization code". It is notable, by the way, that he uses this completely invented phrase rather than the actual phrase "Treasury Account Symbol" (TAS). Indeed, it's impossible to find another use of this phrase using an internet search engine in any context, let alone the Treasury context. The far more limited "deficiency" pointed out by the Government Accountability Office report Krause referenced is that information about individual government transactions were recorded in multiple different account entries separately by some government agencies and thus individual transactions could not be readily traced through to all the accounting ledgers they effected.

No chud, the government doesn't need to note where it's spending your money and it was definitely working on a system to fix that by 2028 possibly

On to Musk's next claim: the need for "rationales". The idea of putting a "rationale" for each and every individual payment (or payment file) makes little sense in the context of how the system works. Think of this in your own life: do you fill out a little form that provides your "rationale" for purchasing an item every time you swipe your credit card? If you were required to do so, you would react very negatively for the same reason you should react very negatively here: if you had to put a rationale then someone could reject your spending requests on the basis of providing the "wrong" rationale.

Imagine the right wing uproar when the possibility emerged of restricting purchases of meat through such a "rationale for transaction" system. This should be seen as no different. The "Treasury Account Symbol" (TAS) provides the only rationale that should matter which is that congress appropriated the spending. Of course, if you want to abrogate congressional spending then that is obviously not sufficient and, in fact, counterproductive.

No chud, the government doesn't need to note why it's spending your money

Imagine if the government were buying some groceries and the government's credit card was rejected at the checkout, chud, that would be terrible. What if the government imposed fascist restrictions on you, chud, how would you feel?

This all goes back to Musk's tendency to think that there is, can be or should be a "button" that determines all of this and its corrupt, inefficient bureaucrats preventing this from happening. He simply doesn't understand how complex these systems are or why they are the way they are. Take the Treasury Offset Program (TOP) for instance. It is a Bureau of the Fiscal Service system for collecting delinquent federal or state debts. One former Bureau of the Fiscal Service employee explained to me that there are rules that determine:

Actually, chud, the bureaucratic tumour is a good thing and hasn't metastasized enough

To include my own editorial comment for a moment, this is why it's so alarming to see him talk about updating this list "weekly, or even daily". This strongly suggests to me that he is talking about arbitrarily and rapidly expanding the list of people and entities on lists such as the Office of Foreign Assets Controls (OFAC) list without any due process to block them from government payments. As I discussed the Wednesday before last, the apparatuses for capriciously destroying the financial life of disfavored entities and people has been constructed over multiple decades with active Democratic participation and support. Now they are in the hands of Donald Trump and Elon Musk. Thus, again, Musk's comments hide a desire for unchecked power over others under a false narrative about governmental "inefficiency".

My sources are also very skeptical that any career Treasury employee told Elon Musk that half of the expenditures that constituted "entitlements payments to individuals with no SSN" were "unequivocal and obvious fraud". It's hard to say more without knowing the context. This is the difficult thing with government by the pronouncement of Elon Musk. He can say stuff without any corroboration much faster than anyone else can check facts or correct falsehoods.

There's no fraud chud, my sources are 'skeptical'

In the meantime, it is exhausting how much effort is required to deconstruct one Elon Musk tweet. He can lie about very complex and technical systems much faster than he can be answered, but nevertheless it's important to periodically critically assess what the richest man in the world is saying as he continually tries to justify chopping the government up and selling it for parts like this is a private equity takeover.

Actually Musk is just lying, chud

Well Al Jazeera doubled down, had @YouTube remove the video and my channel got a strike. The footage they claimed ownership of was recorded, edited and published by Hamas. I, as well as Al Jazeera and others, then used that to show and discuss the hostage handoff. pic.twitter.com/3BQGrJKiQM

— Preston Stewart (@prestonstew_) February 11, 2025

!superheroes

Fr fr Ong

!chuds !dramatards

As a practising MtF, this is highly upsetting

                                             - SERGE

Elon Musk, the richest guy in the world, is going after USAID, which feeds the poorest people in the world.

Next, he’ll go after the programs that impact you: Medicaid, Medicare, community health centers, Pell Grants, affordable housing.

We can stop him. pic.twitter.com/rchI5Ltdt0

— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) February 8, 2025

Oh vey

“USAID in 2016 gave $310 million of your taxpayer money to a Palestinian cement factory.

What did the Palestinians in Gaza use all that cement for, paid for by your taxpayer dollars? Any ideas?

Oh yeah, that would be the 300 miles of terror tunnels that Hamas built underneath… pic.twitter.com/ZcLSC7aXJO

— Jews Fight Back 🇺🇸🇮🇱 (@JewsFightBack) February 7, 2025

Anonymous is super lame

Anonymous is mad USAID was cut? 😂😂😂
It is a CIA tool pic.twitter.com/nbvGEPcGCR

— Angelo Giuliano 🇨🇭🇮🇹🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻 安德龙 (@angeloinchina) February 8, 2025

Michael Moore

🚨Well, well, look who had his chubby fingers in the USAID cookie🍪 jar🫙$$$ pic.twitter.com/0C3CLOdLQ5

— Giordano Bruno (@GioBruno1600) February 8, 2025

I hope this is true because it's really fricking funny

🔥 EXPOSED: Doge uncovered that USAID funneled $84 million in Haiti relief funds to Chelsea Clinton—and guess what?

🤔$3 million went to her wedding
👀$10 million bought a luxury mansion

Meanwhile, Haiti got next to nothing. Who else is sick of this corruption? 🤬 pic.twitter.com/OlnX0QCiwH

— Desiree (@DesireeAmerica4) February 8, 2025

Funny bit from a repub

Ilhan Omar: “USAID is the reason I am here and not in Somalia.”

Everyone else: “That’s why we want to get rid of it.” pic.twitter.com/wEyZcGtBYq

— Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) February 8, 2025

Not looking good for Gaza

This is where the three hostages released today were kept just before their release… a tunnel paid for by UNRWA and USAID pic.twitter.com/2SCsK3PQKL

— Cheryl E 🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🎗️ (@CherylWroteIt) February 8, 2025

Liberal twitter still a thing

Who else thinks Chelsea Clinton and Ben Stiller should sue the ever-loving heck out of any MAGA spreading lies about them taking money from USAID?

🙋‍♀️ pic.twitter.com/AcrwXu8rNO

— Art Candee 🍿🥤 (@ArtCandee) February 8, 2025

The tinfoil hat crowd supports this

https://x.com/liz_churchill10

USAID=Crimes Against Humanity pic.twitter.com/PjTGVa2YwI

— Liz Churchill (@liz_churchill10) February 7, 2025

Usaid employees need better pr. No one likes faceless bureaucrats

USAID employee Christian Gil tears up as he says Elon Musk fired him after 20 years at USAID.

The Democrat Party has been SCAMMING America for DECADES by using USAID.

Dems laundered countless billions, if not trillions, to artificially prop up the Democrat Party.

It’s over. pic.twitter.com/rqYglwYKzy

— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) February 7, 2025

Soros!!!!!

The target of the USAID purge, was George Soros.

The USAID slush fund was how he financed his global Left-wing influence machine.

It’s how he bought politicians, MSM, newspapers, radio shows, judges, prosecutors, etc.

Elon and Trump just cut off the head of the snake. pic.twitter.com/pNlLzAEsJ2

— Clandestine (@WarClandestine) February 7, 2025

Unfunny woman comedians

Now that USAID isn't propping up unfunny female comedians I hope we see a bloom of funny female comedians pic.twitter.com/hm3DtM5qc0

— Guy (@nosilverv) February 8, 2025

Usaid's defenders have had a pathetic showing

Trump's USAID shutdown: the real motive pic.twitter.com/41GWDTa4FD

— Richard Angwin (@RichardAngwin) February 8, 2025

Chemomics international

The top recipient of USAID funding seems to be a company called Chemonics International inc. and they’re not up to anything good.

Though I have yet to find them funding trans operas, they seem to just fund Hillary Clinton’s friends stealing our tax money.

Podesta even came up🤷‍♂️ pic.twitter.com/D7EQxqjXIM

— Ian Carroll (@IanCarrollShow) February 7, 2025

South Africans are pathetic

Beijing 🇨🇳 offer 🇿🇦 R16b in aid to replace R8b 🇺🇸 #USAID

"We'll not be bullied" pic.twitter.com/hXRfPBC54t

— Thuso™ 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦 (@ramalokot) February 8, 2025

Gloating

USAID offices soon: pic.twitter.com/PTxrVJYbt7

— DogeDesigner (@cb_doge) February 8, 2025

God I hope this is true because it would be so fricking funny

BREAKING: The U.S. government funded the education of an al-Qaeda leader

Anwar al-Awlaki received financial aid straight from USAID.

Washington “unknowingly” paid for his college degree, only for him to become one of the world’s most notorious terrorists. pic.twitter.com/2DM9cPlfyi

— ADAM (@AdameMedia) February 9, 2025

Chemtrails

This man claims that ever since Donald Trump and Elon Musk cut off USAID funding, the skies above him have completely cleared—not a single chemtrail in sight.

Can anybody else relate to this? pic.twitter.com/PajaRr1SaA

— Shadow of Ezra (@ShadowofEzra) February 7, 2025

Defense is losing

Trump's dismantling of USAID, a humanitarian program delivering aid globally for decades, is almost complete as thousands of employees are put on forced leave and the signs are being removed and covered.

It's a gift to our enemies and competitors.pic.twitter.com/aY2sEd0w3y

— Really American 🇺🇸 (@ReallyAmerican1) February 7, 2025

Still funny

Sindh Before Sindh After
Billions in USAID. Billions in USAID pic.twitter.com/piHaMf2cm4

— Mir Mohammad Alikhan (@MirMAKOfficial) February 8, 2025

Judge

🚨NEW: U.S. District Court Judge Carl Nichols has blocked Elon Musk and the Trump Administration from firing USAID employees.

RETWEET to thank Judge Nichols for standing up for our democracy! pic.twitter.com/rIU8troeoG

— Protect Kamala Harris ✊ (@DisavowTrump20) February 7, 2025

The wewuz people hate usaid

https://x.com/DavidHundeyin/status/1887964867044221405

Destiny sucks

USAID paid streamer Steven Bonell (known online as Destiny) 6 million dollars to perform oral s*x on several men pic.twitter.com/wOYkvJl2Ez

— Kaguya’s Top Gal (@hayasaka_aryan) February 6, 2025

crap didn't know the deleted the text too

someone archived the post https://old.reddit.com/r/SingaporeRaw/comments/1impt4x/love_how_people_still_talk_about_this_on_the_main/

Shush it Voldemort! 🤣 Greatest show on earth! #Zelensky pic.twitter.com/APwz7aXqZw

— Snicklink (@snicklink) February 28, 2025

>Everyone's asking for a buffer zone, we'll give them a burger zone

Glory to NK!

The whole yard is your patio + more time to grill

!oldstrags you will never again get to experience the pure youthful joy and unrequited yearning of vagueblogging about a crush on your myspace

The lack of gayness in the furry award is a crime against LGBTQ++FJ&79 furries, here are some suggestions to add to it

@Aevann