Exactly he's already accomplished what he wanted to do
Yeah they were the butt of the joke because they didn't get it. Like if this leak stuff is real I would love to learn about the actual Q posts on 4chan. It was probably a different person posing as Q every time. Or 1 or 2 people with a long con joke. it was just dumb shit someone was making up online like that episode of South Park where stan becomes the reincarnation of L ron Hubbard.
But the problem was outsiders saw what they thought was a growing movement. and then it started to unironically take root with social media personalities and influxes of new people looking for something to blame for their problems.
The real reasons are complex and hard to define.
Qanon and then maga makes it easy. It's "them". Who is them? Doesn't matter. Deep state, Jews, immigrants, etc. but the point is there is something concrete and simple to point at when people start looking for answers to the problems they have today. This was all brewing when a bunch of other stuff was going on creating a tinder box.
The reality is something closer to a series of unrelated events slowly becoming entertained within the last 30 years.
Unregulated Capitalism was crashing head first into a technology explosion in the 2000s which companies with capital learned to exploit quickly. It's capitalism, so they are incentivised to do that The Iraq and Afghanistan wars after 9/11 gave rise to an entire culture of "patriotism" based on xenophobia and Protecting Americans and American Values ( the name of French fries was changed briefly to dunk on France for not helping us enough in the middle east). Automation has exploded in the information age making labor cheaper than ever, moving jobs overseas, reducing head counts in domestic factories, etc. and then 2008 happened.
So people with the power listen to people with money (citizens United), and they pushed susceptible working class people into erroding their own freedoms (remember the patriot act) because they were mad at a Boogeyman that doesn't actually exist for stealing an American dream from them that was never sustainable after the boomer generation. Unregulated Capitalism will always eat itself. Combine that with Trump being blackmailed by Russian oligarchs for years because he has an ego problem and is very good at losing money right when America is trying to recover from 2008 and some hot we get this bullshit today.
And then when the ruling class realized that the masses are too poor to fight back they just dropped all pretenses.
All because of some stupid gorilla named harambe
The technology is not a scam. The tech was used to make scam products.
NFTs can be useful as tickets, vouchers, certificates of authenticity, proof of ownership of something that is actually real (not a jpeg), etc.
Yeah everyone is asking what they are going to do with these animals they create and the answer is nothing once they get good enough at it to do it to humans lmao
Gattaca
Make your time.
That's not true :)
R/SocialistRA
And r/liberalgunowners
Lyrebird.
Also, there are non bird kiwis
Yeah I think everyone used to be able to hear that. Elementary school videos all the kids could hear of the teacher left the TV on in our class rooms.
Combine your current skill set with HVAC and you can make big money in data centers i have been told.
Yeah I think he'd start to lead us toward the dystopian corporate techno feudalism that silicon valley crypto Bros dream of
U.S. stocks see biggest 2-day wipeout in history as market loses $11 trillion since Inauguration Day
Bro he literally said the tax penalty is less than his loss
L2Read.
This is the thing that makes no sense. All the thinking stops at bring jobs back to the US.
Okay, raw material issues aside, what are these jobs?
They are jobs that left because it was so cheap to do it overseas that it still makes financial sense to ship the product here after it's made.
NOONE IN THE US IS DOING THAT JOB FOR THAT MONEY HERE.
https://lemmy.world/comment/16025461
I just made this comment for someone else in here. Check out some of that stuff if you're interested
So this guy's meme actually hits pretty close to my music tastes somehow lmao. I think it's got to be because I grew up with Linkin Park and halo. So that set my path into metal, electronic, and liking chants/shanties. My tastes have grown and changed but generally the meme is right lol.
Metal
Good intro metal bands of various subgenres (featuring catchy clean vocal parts frequently)
- Wage war. - https://youtu.be/zKYL0WXVaTs
- Memphis mayfire - https://youtu.be/rwPODGGwFn0
- Bring me the horizon - https://youtu.be/Jq4NhAnnD0Q
- Motionless in white - https://youtu.be/Pj2miRJ6bZs
- Sleep token - https://youtu.be/vFHBOKa_ZG0
- Atreyu - https://youtu.be/PqCt54Wx2e0
- Bad omens - https://youtu.be/h31THl8shy4
- In Flames - https://youtu.be/4OkSsFsXLD8
Electronic
Currently I listen to a lot of retro EDM. Synth wave specifically. It's like modern EDM writing a lover letter to the 80s we all see in stranger things. Which, unironically I love the intro to that show. Music like the Weeknds blinding lights fits under this umbrella of genres (https://youtu.be/4NRXx6U8ABQ).
- The midnight
- Gunship
- https://youtu.be/60ruvzfXQoE
- https://youtu.be/-nC5TBv3sfU
- https://youtu.be/3kOWOAi5_2o
- https://youtu.be/ylyShIQ5LR4
- Dance with the dead https://youtu.be/acITJV6VHBE
- Daniel deluxe https://youtu.be/jjQnsOzfv60
- Kavinsky https://youtu.be/MV_3Dpw-BRY
- Essenger https://youtu.be/XtptYWXLdvo
Shout-out to Phonk as a genre too. It's great for studying or background for working
For sea shanties, the assassin's creed rogue and ac black flag soundtrack has great versions or real shanties.
Also look up the dreadnaughts
They are polka and shanties. It's awesome.
The longest John's are another sea shanty / folk song band that rules.
And the monk chants for me really is just the halo menu music lol. It's the best game music I've ever heard.
I would just click on this stuff and see if you like anything. There's so much more to these genres than what I'm posting.
Disclaimer: This is just a taste and I just picked some stuff quickly and randomly
Inb4 "sleep token isn't metal"
My guess is that people are nerdy and passionate.
There's going to be a lot of overlap of people who have access to the info and want to play that same tank/jet/boat/whatever in war thunder.
And when the game isn't right or someone is telling you you're wrong the allure of playing the forbidden knowledge card gets too enticing to resist lol
Yeah that's a good point.
If gaming grew and the total userbase is the same now, then it's smaller by percentage.
That must been that PC is just exploding in popularity over the time period in question.
It's evolutionary. Humans are social pack animals. The need for inclusion was evolved into us over however many years.