Month: February 2022

So, we literally have a new Hitler. A nasty little man with a complex who cares nothing for his own people nor certainly for other peoples. His only motivation is own psychopathy. I’m not sure what his salary as Russian President is, but you can see his yacht above, so it must be tens of millions a year, more than any other national leader. All built on a simple policy.

Greater Russia = lebensraum

But of course, it doesn’t, it means an expansion of ego in a geographical context.

Worldwide, we have come to an era where democracy is not valued, and strong man politics is, from Bolsorano to Erdogan, Johnson to Trump, the king of them all is Vladimir Putin. He is a dictator’s dictator, who brings in democratic rules and then manipulates them as he sees fit. Trump still doesn’t understand why he wasn’t allowed to change the rules to win the game. After all, Putin wins every time.

Trump couldn’t understand that, despite loading the Supreme Court, he couldn’t jail his enemies as he saw fit. But he aims to fix that next time.

Meanwhile, Putin is bombing the hell out of a rival nation, claiming sovereignty.

And no one has an answer. Because the only answer is to nuke this psychopath before he sits in Downing St or the White House.

Ukraine foolishly gave up its nuclear deterrent to endear itself to its useless ’allies’ to the west.

Meanwhile, Russia has undertake nerve gas and nuclear attacks on British territory with no consequences.

Just like it uses drugs in sports with no consequences.

For Putin, he is lord of the world, because there are no consequences.

Imagine a drug baron taking over your neighbourhood or area and running everything. That’s what just happened to our world.

It has occurred to me that what Donald Trump is. It is a Jesus fucker.

Christians, in their faith, follow Jesus unquestionably. Meanwhile, the rapacious lobbying evangelists of the USA use his name for all kinds of contrarian justifications, from guns to ignorance.

The trouble with Jesus and Evangelists is that they are incompatible.

Your average US Christian is a nasty racist, mysoginistic, wealth seeking, ignorant hypocrite, full of hatred and no charity. Which are all the things Christ preached against.

In the white American Christian narrative, Christianity is a literal profanity.

Which is probably why they endorsed Trump, unconditionally, in their droves. A pussy grabbing misogynistic, cheating multi millionaire is all they aspire to be. All they worship. Not Christ. Nevertheless, they attend their churches and spout their vitriol. That’s just their justification for getting through the eye of a needle, like the Medicis.

He can use the bible (upside down) as a prop against coloured protestors and make fifty times more visits in a year to a golf course than a church, but he’s still your man, you Jesus fuckers.

The reason that so many are willing to pay for NFTs is that we have so much money and nothing left to buy.

That may seem glib at a time when many are facing energy and even food poverty, but things in the real world are plentiful and cheap and many people have huge amounts of disposable income loosing value thanks to rampant inflation.

Capitalism was bought out by the Chinese communists and a tiny handful of tech execs and is well and truly broken.

One solution it you have too much ’money’ is to go ’upmarket’ and pay £40k for a handbag, or £2m for a tiny flat. you may do this because you believe that they will be worth more in the future, or simply because you can.

That still curries favour in developing or emerging countries, but in places where consumerism has been mainstream for centuries, in the land of Aldi and Primark, it is now regarded with disdain. It is what those who got rich in oil states or dictatorships do.

So, the alternative is to abstract consumerism into cyberspace or the ’metaverse’ (yes that Second Life space that has been there for decades.

There exist new opportunities for buying and selling. not real stuff that might or might not be in short supply (consider how supply of gold and platinum have gone up but prices have gone up also. in theory, more supply should lead to lower prices, but the key factor is that demand has gone up. So, gold and diamonds have little intrinsic value, they simply have a demand value. Hence NFTs.

Basically, bottle some air and sell it. saying it’s worthless is irrelevant. Asking who will paybthe most for it is. That’s the NFT business model.

Of course, each bottle of air is bottled at a different time in a different place, so is unique, and therefore commands a different price.

If no I you will pay for powers or swords or shields in your virtual game, of course you will pay for prime real estate in Cyberspace (or the Metaverse) (or someone else’s code on some one else’s remotely hosted service).

Well, the tide seems to have turned on the awful Facebook/Instagram/Whatapp juggernaut.

The global cesspit of bad opinions and dreadful thoughts seems to be in full retreat, as I predicted several weeks ago after they decided to accept cryptoscam adverts.

But, as MySpace and Second Life have shown in the past, once the seesaw balances against you, you’re fucked, and the markets know it.

All of this is before regulators take a proper chunk out of this obnoxious company and its arrogant attitude to morals and the truth, let alone monopolies and competition.

And all Golden Share Zuck can do is blame competition. Welcome to the real world, you Zucker… You weren’t a God after all.