Category: Politics

Your Emotions are NOT Under Your Control

This notion that emotions are controllable is shared social mythology, not science.

“Conscious emotion is in a way a red herring: the feeling and behavior prompts are surface responses the initial mechanism orchestrates … Emotions are things that happen to us rather than things we make happen. We try to manipulate our emotions all the time but all we are doing is arranging the outside world so it triggers certain emotions, we cannot control our reactions directly. “~Joseph LeDoux, Professor of Neural Science and Psychology, New York University.

We hide from it to avoid the hard problem of free will and the resulting problem with culture based on that myth.

These facts undermine virtually all of our excuses for harming others and lauding ourselves. From the work ethic to prison to democracy, to identity itself and even religion.

Sorry, you’re just a meat machine too and you live inside a great big lie. The sad fact is that OTHERS have more control over your emotions than you do:

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

You know… I’m reminded of the Chinese parable of hell, the one with the long chopsticks. Where in heaven they feed each other and in hell they all starve because they can’t feed themselves.

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

Our emotions are literally a lot like that. So quit being mean to each other.

Specifically you can start by supporting a basic income and making prison tolerable.

One Possible Solution

Prison

See also: http://underlore.com/avoid-my-mistakes/

Attention Trump Believers: You’ve Been Had

If you think Trump is this grand glorious herald of a new right wing regressive age I’ve got some bad news for you.

You’re a total rube if you expect anything from Trump other than a virtual Obama clone in terms of actual policy and governance.

We’ll see TPP,  tax cuts for your owners, and pointless bickering over ultimately meaningless social issues as a distraction.

Trump isn’t POTUS anymore than Obama was. What you should all be saying is: All hail the 12th term of glorious leader Goldman Sachs.

If you seriously think anything is gonna substantively change that wasn’t already going to simply because the White House has an R on it now instead of a D, you haven’t been paying attention to the last 20+ years where since Carter the “democrats” have been republicans in literally all but name and rhetoric.

I hated Clinton more than Trump btw. She was actually dangerous because the one thing a president actually can do unilaterally is wage war. (Which is why Obama was able to take us from two to seven in eight years regardless of anyone else’s opinion.)

The only reason Trump is special is because the media/DNC/RNC the 1% own spent literally billions in cash and air time screaming that lie at you.

Your fantasy of a great right wing regression is just that. The arc of history is as one way as time’s arrow. You’re on the wrong side of global history’s objective arc. Any belief otherwise is as doomed as ISIS’s global caliphate delusions.

History doesn’t go backwards over the long term. That’s why we call it history. XD

Even if nuclear global war happened or a massive asteroid impact it wouldn’t set us back so long as a single bookcase of technical or historical knowledge survived. Let alone a flash drive or a print out of Wikipedia. History ultimately goes in one direction and you’re kidding yourself if you honestly think anything will change that.

But just for some Trump specifics: “Lock her up” turned into forgive and forget. The wall turned into a fence, and then a metaphor. Drain the swamp, turned into Appoint the swamp. Repeal the ACA turned into “it’s not ALL bad.” And that was all before the man was even sworn in.

You got bilked.

The ONLY way he gets to actually change anything (and gain more power) is if he runs with the populist positions that caused Bernie’s rise. Kinda like how he won the rust belt states being an American middle class labor protectionist (in rhetoric at least) EXACTLY like Bernie.

There aren’t any massively popular regressive populist positions left. The right wing already won on all those fronts via neolibs and flat out corruption. There’s no where for Trump to go but center or left. Thus at best for degenerate psychopaths he’ll go center, like every president since Carter.

Maybe he’ll get to go a little right on practically meaningless social issues. (Sorry crazed leftists, but who you get to marry or which sign is on the bathroom you shit in really isn’t important in any real way compared to war and the economy.)

The only reason Trump won is because the DNC cheated the other vastly more popular and capable populist out of his chance to run against Trump and instead installing the ONLY living human he could actually beat. HRC. Nixon/Kissinger in a pantsuit.

Do you even politics?

TV doesn’t count.

CEX.IO == Fraud

Innomen

Innomen

Dec 21, 19:31 GMT

Why on god’s blue earth would I tell anyone to use cex when you stole 200$+ from me via your cloud mining scam?
Akhil G

Akhil G (CEX.IO)

Dec 21, 19:36 GMT

Dear Innomen ,

I understand your frustration but no one has stolen funds from your account. Please consider the fact that market investments involves risks and due to GHS price drop it cannot be considered as stolen.

Best Regards
Akhil
Supervisor
Innomen

Innomen

Dec 21, 19:42 GMT

Horse shit. YOU stole the funds when you arbitrarily canceled the program. I paid for access, and you used lack of profit as an excuse. That’s like operating a car lot, selling me a car, but keeping the money and keeping the car because the lot wasn’t making you any money. If I wasn’t poor I’d sue you for fraud and win.
Innomen

Innomen

Dec 21, 19:45 GMT

I paid for X hash of processing power for life. I have zero access to that power and no refund on my purchase price. The risk was supposed to be from my bitcoin earnings, not from you just ending the program. This wasn’t the market’s fault, or mine. You stole from all of us.

Horse shit. YOU stole the funds when you arbitrarily canceled the program. I paid for access, and you used lack of profit as an excuse. That’s like operating a car lot, selling me a car, but keeping the money and keeping the car because the lot wasn’t making you any money. If I wasn’t poor I’d sue you for fraud and win.
Akhil G

Akhil G (CEX.IO)

Dec 21, 19:47 GMT

Dear Innomen ,

I have already explained the issue and we have published the necessary information about GHS in the past. We kindly request you not to use abusive language as it doesn’t motivate us to assist you in a better way.

Best Regards
Akhil
Supervisor
Innomen

Innomen

Dec 21, 20:06 GMT

The risk was from GHS becoming unprofitable. If they are, fine. But I’d still have them. I don’t because you stole them.

Either give me my GHS or give me a refund.

This is not about the GHS being profitable.

I paid you for a service you are not providing.

That’s fraud. End of discussion.

It’s EXACTLY like me paying to lease a car for life and you keeping it and the money.

I will accept the GHS in physical form. If they are so worthless then you can mail me my accounts GHS balance in working chip form. If they are not worthless then you keeping the balance is theft and you know it.

Do you even have any idea how much I bought or did you just delete the records since you knew you’d just be stealing the entire pot anyway?
Martin F

Martin F (CEX.IO)

Dec 21, 20:21 GMT

Dear Innomen

We do have all the records.

Please consider the fact that market investments involves risks and due to GHS price drop it cannot be considered as stolen.

Best Regards
Martin
Support Team

I didn’t bother replying, it’s clear that they’ll just repeat the tired line of “risk” which isn’t the point as explained at length several times above.

Bet you my balls they are still using all the GHS hardware we all paid for and making bitcoin off it. They just aren’t sharing because of course sharing (or standing by contracts) isn’t “profitable.”

Sadly the law only protects people who can afford lawyers. If you keep  your offenses “civil” (as in civil suit grade) and you limit your targets to people who can’t afford lawyers, you can do whatever you want.

The Trump Protests Were Stupid


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The Trump protest is completely stupid and this baby’s version “my first protest” gotta start somewhere argument is horse shit.

Try starting somewhere that matters.

They DAMAGED the progressive movement by making it look like what the right and HRC/DNC has always said it was. Whiny spoiled pampered little millennial closet autocrat socialists that can’t do anything but cry till they get their way and only respect democracy when it’s rubber stamping their will.

The entire trump protester movement disagreed strongly with the following statement:

“I’d rather legitimately elect someone I dislike than illegitimately elect someone I do, because I respect democracy.”

Where were all those fuckers when the dem primary got stolen and where are they on the mindnumbingly countless other issues happening then and now that BADLY fucking need mass protest, like the fact that we’re the proud owners of the largest prison population ON EARTH!

What the ACTUAL fuck.

The Trump protesters might as well have been paid for by the Koch brothers. They couldn’t possibly have been more helpful to the 1%.

It was pathetic and stupid and quite literally fascist.

Also people whining about the popular vote need to read a fucking civics book. The reason we have the college is to keep a handful of gentrified cities/states from ruling the rest of the country from on high gilded-age style.

The point of democracy is to distribute power, not just across people but geographically as well.

Our elections aren’t anything like democratic because every single election has been minority rule. The majority ALWAYS either doesn’t vote or voted for someone who lost.

The “popular” vote has NEVER won an American election. From the very beginning it’s been this way. Remember, originally it was just white male land owners. The country and this voting system has NEVER enfranchised the majority. EVER.

But funny how everyone’s quiet about it when THEIR side “wins.”

“Hypocrisy” just doesn’t even say it.

The solution is single transferable vote. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8XOZJkozfI) That won’t ever happen because progressives have ADHD and no sense of focus.

The right continues to stomp us because while we fight over different futures, they are fighting for the one shared past.

underlore.com/liberal-hate/

Trump’s Silver Lining: Big Reasons Not to Lose Heart

Edit: 2026-05-26 1020 AM

So obviously all this was wrong, but it’s because I thought elections and reform were a thing. I learned A LOT from being this badly wrong. https://innomen.substack.com/p/how-i-came-to-see

Edit: 2019-02-08 0205 AM

A lot of this clearly doesn’t apply anymore, but I’m not gonna edit anything below this edit from now on.

Here’s why:

Please. Convince me. from SandersForPresident

(Obviously I was wrong about a lot of this, but I am not going to edit history and pretend like I’ve always thought as I do now. Then again I’d like to share that evolution, it’s hard to capture that change in a static document, hence the clumsy strike-through edits, which I’ve stopped adding to avoid further confusion.)

Edit: 2016-11-28 0845 AM

Total number of Americans: 324,964,000
Total number of Americans eligible to vote: 218,959,000
Total number of Americans who voted for Trump: 61,900,651

We all know that progressives are not even remotely represented by the DNC and neoliberals. Beating HRC is hardly an achievement. She was the most pathetic candidate in the entire history of politics.

The DNC, in spectacular and fraudulent contravention of the people’s will, put HRC on the general election ticket. A broken system is the ONLY reason Trump won. Wilson from castaway would literally have done better.

We all know Sanders would have crushed Trump.

The DNC failed precisely because it chose to copy regressives. Regressivism is by definition backwards. They’re a bunch of callow, ignorant, wannabe time travelers, when they aren’t straight up psychopaths and bigots or worse.

They’d have been thrown on the ash heap of history already if 2008 hadn’t been won by a smooth talking covert republican psychopath.

Trump never scared me.

My ranked choice for 2016:
1. Sanders
2. Jill.
3. Trump.
4. Johnson.
5. HRC.

Sanders would have won the general and did win the primary.

The rest is cheating.

See you in 2018/2020. 🙂

Congratulations on your last extension regressives. You’re literally the past. Your only possible victory is a slower defeat.

See also: underlore.com/forgiveness-for-bernie/

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Ok, many people are upset at Trump’s victory.

Don’t lose heart. Give it time and hear me out…

  1. First of all, a lot of what you think you know about Trump’s policies is complete bullshit. When you combine lies to get elected, limits on the office of the presidency, with a psychopathic opponent in full control of the entire media, you get hysterical hyperbole of the first order. Do the homework and vet your sources.
  2. *Unknown quantity. We have no idea what he’ll actually do. We KNOW what HRC would have done. For all we know he’ll be the Obama of the right. A republican in name only. He was a democrat for decades. Update: We know some of what he’s doing and so far it appears to be limited to reversible social policy shifts and protectionist economic measures.
  3. *This is all short term. 2018/2020 is gonna be a progressive firestorm even if Trump is tolerable. I had hoped that Trump would totally galvanize the left. That seems not to be the case, yet anyway. However, we are certainly still paying more attention to his blunders and treachery than we ever did Obama’s or would have Hillary’s. Though our protesting habits as ever need direction to keep from spinning our wheels in the mud. Turnout is going to skyrocket so long as a Berniecrat like Tulsi is in play. Finally we have an enemy labeled as such. Beyond that, the singularity is still on the way. Technology is the real driver for change and it’s exponential still. Update: Apparently the neoliberal wing of the party is oblivious to its own failure. It blames outside factors and still considers itself relevant. However, we are paying more attention and they are more exposed and weaker than ever before. There’s opportunity here. And 2020 will be a progressive rout if Tulsi or Nina is on the ticket.
  4. Speaking of climate change, don’t fret there because that ship has sailed. And we CAN’T run the planet on solar/wind power. (But I’m fine with us trying. I’d rather waste money on windmills than bombs. But solar panels killing people because it’s toxic to make them and dangerous to clean and install them.) There’s a LOT people don’t generally know about intermittent power sources. There’s a reason Germany’s CO2 emissions have actually gone up. But with Trump being a republican on paper, he could do nuclear power as a back bone for solar and wind. If he actually shifts us from bomb war to trade war we’ll have to go nuclear, and that would choke off all the oil wars.
  5. With the presidency once again given to a candidate who lost the popular vote maybe we’ll finally revisit the whole system. Perhaps at the state level?
  6. *Trump is not your standard republican. He’s not an extremest like Cruz. He literally could be to the left of neoliberalism and to the right of democratic socialism. He might simply be a real centrist ultimately. Which would make sense in someone who was, and donated to, democrats many years. He might even be the Obama of the right. (He speaks like an anti-TPP protectionist after all.) In theory at least he could accomplish new-deal scale improvements that the left, especially under neoliberalism, wouldn’t even try let alone could accomplish. Update: He actually did kill the TPP. That’s undeniably good and more than Obama did. The completely pointless wall could function as a pretty massive jobs program. And like windmills I’d rather waste money on a wall than a bomb. Though of course we’re likely to waste money on both.
  7. *All kinds of options for holding the old guard accountable and making a fresh start. He’s got a change mandate similar to Obama’s. It’s just that Obama didn’t use it. How Trump uses his remains to be seen. Update: Looks like this one was a total bust. So far anyway. But ever day that passes it gets less likely.
  8. *Neoliberalism is dead or dying. Being the most republican of the democrats is no longer a winning tactic. This will have profoundly positive implications. They’ll have no choice but to be progressives or someone will take their place. Neoliberalism had to lose eventually. The sooner the better. It’s was tumor. Now it’s merely a wound. Update: See point #3.
  9. *No war with Russia in Syria. The neoliberal war plan is done. Expect the war on terror to dial back. Update: Though he intends to raise military funding that need not signify more war. It could simply be graft. After all, why waste money dropping a bomb when you can make money selling two to your enemies for dropping on each other?
  10. The first woman president won’t be a corrupted, election stealing, neocon. It’ll be someone history can be proud of because:
  11. Like him or not, he was elected fairly. DNC whining about Russian hacks makes me more sure of that than ever. The exit polls for the RNC primary match perfectly the results. Democracy has not been canceled. Even if they rigged the general election in his favor he was the only legitimate major party candidate left meaning that it was just either way. It’s foolish and selfish to prefer an illegitimate candidate you like to a legitimate one you don’t. If you disagree then simply own being against democracy itself.
  12. We have a real chance to reform elections now from the type to their transparency and accountability.
  13. *Obamacare is a bailout of the insurance industry. If the right wingers end it, we’ll finally have a chance to demand single payer without Obama/HRC being there to knife us in the back. Update: It seems Trump is already facing realities of the limits of the office in that he’s admitting no opposition to portions of the ACA.
  14. *He’s gonna be the most obstructed president in history either in the government or not. We have a blueprint for obstructionism. The RNC has taught us well how to grind government to a halt. Trump won’t be able to name a post office. Trump can’t help himself. His ego will sabotage everything he tries. Update: He’s showing signs of being able to contain himself and a willingness to change positions in the face of reality, which is ironically what many liked to pretend was a truth about HRC. While the republicans do control the entire government now, more or less, Bernie Sanders has essentially come out as the leader of the democratic party. It should be obvious the power that fact alone has in checking any true madness Trump may attempt. Update 2: And a 2018 blue wave gave us the most diverse House in history.

Some funny tweets:

Forgiveness for Bernie?

Update: 2016-11-12 0953 PM

If You’re a Progressive, Give Thanks That Bernie Sanders Endorsed Hillary and Saved His Movement

The article makes a pretty excellent series of points.

In the second, sadder outcome—the one which actually transpired—his choice to back Clinton was even more important. People in general, but especially people active in American politics today, are loathe to blame themselves for anything. If Sanders had abandoned Clinton, pronounced her brand of governance too corrupt to countenance, and taken his progressive wing with him, angry Democrats would have an easy scapegoat in the wake of the November loss. You can imagine how convenient it would be to dump the blame on Bernie—the defeat was his fault! They would hang the Trump victory on him, pointing to his betrayal, and the takeaway, for many, would be that only a unified (and implicitly centrist) Democratic party could win a general election. Again, progressives would be neutered for the foreseeable future.

It’s starting to look like Bernie was playing the long game after all. Especially with Jill’s awful performance at the polls. Which I did not see coming. The spoiler effect is still real. Maybe it’s better to siege the DNC castle than try to build a new one.

It worked for the Tea Party in their own house.

Long story short I respect Bernie again. I find it much easier to assume he saw this coming than to assume he was conspiratorially forced to back HRC.

Original Piece:

I tell myself that Bernie was threatened. I don’t blame anyone for folding to threats they truly believe. HRC/etc is so corrupt and violent. It’s plausible that they threatened him and his family with unimaginable horror.

But with so much at stake, if you assume any of it is real, voting, political leadership, etc.

Am I wrong to want him to martyr himself and his family?

Is that a fair demand to make of someone who stepped up to lead a super power and a revolution? Someone who stepped up to lead humanity?

Would I fold in his shoes? Absolutely. This isn’t a dick race. The question for me is whether or not it’s fair to both understand and be angry with him for this choice? Especially when the threat is by definition a conspiracy theory.

I want him to have been threatened because if he wasn’t, then I AM betrayed. I have a tiny bit of evidence.

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But is that enough? I don’t feel it’s proven, like election fraud has been. http://underlore.com/the-electionfraud-is-real/

And since I want it to be true so much I feel I should hold it to an even higher standard of evidence.

That only makes this harder.

Because even if he was threatened, I’d still be angry and some of it would be anger at him.

I don’t know what they did, so I can’t critique his strategy. But it feels like he could find some compromise, some way around.

I mean lets say he arranges a press conference on topic X and then outs the whole thing live. Would we really believe anything that happened to his fam or him after that a coincidence?

I’m starting to feel like this threat thing is just a comforting fantasy.

I want to forgive Bernie. But it’s starting to feel impossible.

Other thoughts:

Ultimately it doesn’t matter much. The damage is done and even if he came out HRC wouldn’t be harmed by it.

It’s not like I’d want him sanctioned for it it anyway. And we all know that HRC could skin a baby on live TV and still get elected either because election fraud or because good spin. (Russians made me do it. Russian CGI.)

So I guess really it’s an ethical triviality.