https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO

Everything you need to know is in the above link. If you labor under any delusion that the CIA has ceased influencing or attempting to influence public opinion, you’d have to be a pretty gullible individual.

The challenge anymore is to suss out who is trying to influence what. Who has something to gain from a particular position or idea? What blows my mind is that there are people out there who consider LGBT activism a “corporate agenda”. It’s incredibly naive to discount the fact that gay people aren’t gay by choice. It’s even more naive to assume that there aren’t young gay couples out there with dual incomes and no children who might want to donate to social causes that aim to make life safer or more comfortable for them. It may be an agenda, but it isn’t corporate, it’s human. What’s more, if you’ve spent any time watching the movement closely you’ll notice that they’re not afraid to include and help other oppressed minorities that they can reasonably scoop up along the way.

It’s not hard to find people defending Putin’s actions in Ukraine, especially people on the conservative end of the spectrum. It’s absolutely bizarre, too, because they’re usually the same people crying about Benghazi and other similar shit basically non-stop. It’s really just out of spite of the left, I think. It seems to be a more common motivation for the right these days, being contrarian just to contrarian. It’s really goddamn moronic, and yet another reason I can’t respect individuals leaning so far past right. It’s just absolute lunacy, really. I can’t respect it, nor do I think anyone should be forced to tolerate it. I mean, come the fuck on. “Because you don’t like it” does not register as a valid reason to take a position on something. Grow the fuck up, seriously. I don’t know if you fucking infants realize it, but that’s something spiteful teenagers say to parents, that’s not something you boomer shitheads need to adopt as a political identity, for fuck sakes.

First and foremost, I’m going to get this out of the way: I have zero respect for how the Chinese government represents the Chinese people on the world stage. I’d go so far as to outright say that the Chinese government cannot represent the people of China in any way, shape, or form, because they’re not capable of choosing who represents them in government.

Fuck China.

That said, I’d like to chat about an article I just saw. This one. The title reads: “China’s loans pushing world’s poorest countries to bring of collapse”. I think what irks me most is that people don’t care about the fact that we’ve piggybacked off of China for half a century. We’ve had them do our bitchwork for next to nothing in compensation. But the little in compensation they got earned them more rights to produce more cheap goods for us to consume. The more China produced for us, the more we outright relied on their capacity, and the more they were able to charge for these formerly cheaper goods.

I thought I had an idea for a post, but it turned out to be a fluke. It’s nearly always a fluke. I start with an idea, but the ideas are always fleeting and I’m rarely ever capable of revisiting whatever spawned a post. In fact, I find myself rambling every single time, whether that was ever my intention or not. This in fact is a great example, it’s just a rant about how I rant. How meta is that?

Right after the wedding we jumped on a plane to the Dominican Republic and we’ve been basking in paradise since. We have to go back home tomorrow, and I’m sad. But I’m also excited, as there are new opportunities that await us. It’s funny, though, that we both agree that we’ve already been married for a while, but having said vows and made it official is simply icing on the cake. I really couldn’t have imagined it any other way. I’ve found my person, and I’m glad that I’m hers. She’s my love. She’s my favorite. I love you, Amber.

If you haven’t seen it yet, Jack Dorsey went ahead and is shooting to start Twitter 2.0 which he has named “Blue Sky”. Apparently he’s outright ripping off the overall federation concept from email, XMPP, and obviously Mastodon. I think where Mastodon has succeeded has been in creating a fully federated echo chamber. Yes, you too can now participate in a heterogeneous echo chamber where you post something you believe in and it is showered in the likes and replies of hundreds of individuals who concur! It’s wild how they’ve achieved this under federation, but it looks like the hat tip is to Google for how completely Google has wrought havoc on the email system.

Holy shit, I’m getting married, y’all. Like, for real. It’s crazy to think about. It’s right around the corner. I’m insanely excited. I really never thought I’d get married again, and it’s happening in eight days. It’s wild. I can’t believe how lucky I am. It’s going to be an amazing time. The honeymoon is going to be amazing. All-inclusive adults only resort with my new wife in the caribbean. I’m so excited.

Does it feel as though time is slipping by at an ever-increasing rate? I think I was cheated out of a weekend. It’s almost as though it didn’t even happen.

Man, the more I think about that the less fair I think the universe is. Time only drags by when you need it to go fast. This is a rule without exception. And time, likewise, slips by when you want it to cling. It’s the only commodity you get in spades only if you don’t want it. Fairness has clearly been considered here, and unfairness used as the basis by which the entire concept is built.