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Oh look, it's literally exactly what everyone expected!
I guess that's what's so off-putting about all of this to me. We can be screaming at the top of our lungs about what's going on for decades and as a society, we'll be fucking gaslit and treated like we're insane for thinking that these giant corporations are slowly turning the screws on us.
Then, surprise surprise, decades later, (always decades later) we find out that the shit that people have been screaming about it for decades, and being jailed or dismisses as cuckoo for saying so, were right all along! Turns out cable companies were planning on adding ads all along. Turns out oil companies knew about climate change all along! Turns out Electric Cars don't solve energy or traffic problems as much as Electric Buses!
It's all fucking lies and gaslighting. Whenever a corporate fucking Suit tells you something is true, you can bet your ass the opposite is true.
This is what really brings my blood to a boil, just by reading your comment. It's the fact that it is too true, because it happens all of the time. There are still so many idiots out there, who'll put their blind faith in so many things, thinking that they're 'protected' or 'safe' or 'secure'. But time after time again, they are exploited and abused in so many ways.
And yet we simply do not learn a single fucking thing. There are few of us who've learned and gotten wiser from the shit we deal with. But damn the idiot pool is still so vast and massive, that it's no wonder this kind of shit still happens. All the while, society believes in karma and invisible deities to come swooping in to save the fucking day one of these days and solve all of our problems.
When, the rich and powerful know too that those ideals are simply lies because they happily continue taking advantage.
And still we yet never learn. Yeah we outnumber them still, but we don't have the smarts or care to deal with them. We just think waving signs and petitions will work.
When I was growing up in the 90's, there were countless over-the-top movie villains, many of which would claim that "People want to be lead, they need it, they demand it." (Just watched Lawnmower Man, and this is nearly a verbatim quote)
I remember always thinking that was so over the top. It still is, to just say it out loud, that is. But these days, fuck, it's so clear that a massive amount of society does just want to be lead by the nose, but the leaders who exploit that (despite being dumb motherfuckers) are somehow smart enough to just not blurt out "You people NEED a King, and that will be ME!" (Well, maybe not Trump, he's said he'll be a dictator on day one...)
I'm just so fucking disappointed in humanity and other humans.
So the reason my company wants me back in the office isn't for networking opportunities. Surely they wouldn't lie to me like that.
Nobody was saying electric cars were better than electric buses ...
https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/elon-musk-hyperloop-rail-17486877.php
https://twitter.com/parismarx/status/1495877041585074177
Literally the guy who is behind spearheading EVs in the US has gone out of his way to kill transit projects.
I don't think they meant to include the guy whose best interest is in people buying electric cars when they made that generalization.
Plenty of people parrot Musk's talking points, and his talking points undermine public transit.
I don't know how you dont include the man who bought and then made the first US EV company flourish. His opinions and statements have deep impact on public discourse, sadly.
That's a psychopath with a personal vendetta against a train that won't profit him, not a person claiming that electric cars are better than electric buses.