General Discussion

I keep hoping the few small businesses I support are doing well. I do what I can to support any I can.

With the exception of what went to Yasha Levine alone I am furious about the amount of money that scammy Substack took from me.

Levine aside, that should have gone to DU or stayed in my pocket.

The time, money and resources lost to these parasitic and predatory forces is outrageous.

It’s not that the other writers I followed there weren’t good. They were all decent and left leaning, but I highly doubt I would have handed money to something that douchey were I my normal self. It’s hard to explain, but the predatory tech industry has a lot to answer for.

There really is a serious need for organization against all these forces. I am certainly always down with any serious organized pushback.

Not for me directly, but what I support. I have to separately find my own feet. That’s a separate hell. It’s not the bootstraps crap, but I have to help myself the same way. But I do need a civilized society not a predatory fascistic one analogous to PRC or Russia or Saudi Arabia etc.

But society has been conned by these technofascists. Flawed democracy has flaws these parasitic guys thoroughly exploited.