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jfz9580m

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19. "They tell even little lies just to keep in shape."
Fri Mar 6, 2026, 10:55 PM
Friday

My mom said that about someone sleazy she knew a long time ago that they just wouldn’t feel right if they didn’t screw people over.

It had become a reflex and almost a moral position for that person by then - I can’t remember who.

My mom disliked sleazy and or dishonest people whatever their other attributes. She said around 10 years ago “I am done suffering fools”. And yet we continued to suffer fools.


It is kind of non-optional for most of us these days..

Please help anyone who is not stupid or dishonest is my clarion call to arms these days..



I like your writing PCIntern. Sadly all sorts of unscrupulous bots are probably stealing your style.

The disinhibition of the times is catching or I would not say this.

I generally have a slight bias in favor of the strictly NPC, average citizen humans of the Jewish community PCIntern.

It would be sycophantic if it was not for the fact Ol’jfz9580m (in dubious homage to Ol’ Orlick from “Great Expectations”..lol..”You was favored and Ol’ Orlick was bullied and beat”) is reduced to making dreary calculations about which community with adequate intellectual and academic muscle on average is likeliest to survive this incoming onslaught of attacks on critical thinking.

Maybe it was having to survive Hitler, but I want someone to stop this 3-Body Problem style attempt for a post truth society while seriously looking into their own biases. It isn’t morality so much as survival.

As Winston said in 1984, somehow that is ..the destruction of information..imagine if you couldn’t trust any information online.

Yes..we should all be going to libraries and less atomized etc. But it is an ongoing engineered permacrisis.

I will confess something to you.
My own parents were nominally Hindu. One’s parents are one of the most significant influences in one’s life you realize eventually.

One reason I disliked Noam Chomsky and Arundhati Roy etc so much (while frequently agreeing with them on some material points) was the constant mechanical braying that I would see polarize people who could be reasonable appealed to the right way.

It used to distress me to see my parents get so riled up by people who don’t care about them, but manipulate their emotions in one direction, while this other “I am a solipsistic moral authority on the right side of history” would anger and alienate them.

Humans are complicated. I used to tell my dad that King Lear is a cautionary tale that way, because he is a very sensitive to any criticism of Hindus. He is barely Hindu..but these thought terminating cliches where you start of saying “Hindu Fascist” etc is a cancer. Even prior to these platforms, that rhetorical style was not one I liked. Thanks to my dad, I know how highly sensitive, but actually reasonable people think.

Yasha Levine, one of my two favorite journalists gets it. He is owned by no one anymore than Ol’ jfz9580m. But he actually cares about stuff. It isn’t all about him. And I think his parents also probably are susceptible to these assholes.

Why can’t people just say “war profiteers”, “corporate overlords”. To bring the NPC humans together against this goliath of dimwitted muscle which will destroy Goliath too, but they are too stupid to get it.
And people like my dad ..Matt Taibbi is really disgracing his past by now. But the one piece he wrote I agreed with was on Robin D’Angelo.

It is an odd headspace..But it is not that people buy into the lies sometimes so much as feel the other side is also getting away with a lot and I look at the state of earth (Ol’ jfz9580m’s actual agenda..seriously! We need the damn planet dammit..lol..I am real smooth..an elite manipulator and strategist..I have tried to downplay my real issue for so long) and wonder between all these warring groups..

I am pleased that Chomsky is in the Epstein Files. He represents the type of leftist who polarized fairly reasonable people like my parents and now look where we are.

I used to feel gloomy seeing my parents taking the bait instead of focusing on Ambani, Adani, various sleazy interests…

I generally find it depressing when extended family members many of whom weren’t even that into this bullshit start focusing on such rot.


*I have no use for any players (Ol’ jfz9580m doesn’t trust anyone but strictly “angry villager” types)..

I blame the msm. When you don’t report certain stories from the left or neutral side, it leaves an opening for malicious parties to spin them.

I am very pro truth…But also disseminated so people actually listen. They seem horrible at balance. Which I do not understand, as that is the primary force that I notice when askew. Enough to even have finally reinvented myself as Ol’ jfz9580m past a threshold of bullying.

But as Ol’jfz9580m preps to go on the rampage, Ol’jfz9580m will squarely target war profiteers and parastic corporations and try to avoid that endless this group versus that and keep the attacks on the meninists to Ol’jfz9580m’s specific antagonists past and present.

Or corporations and war mongers will game their way ahead. No conflict is worth the effort just for lil ol’ me. Not that sustainable. Lol..My dad is a military vet and we are from some warrior clan originally, though I like to think I am an evolved woman. But I realized yesterday that battle lust is the only kind of lust that runs deep in even peaceful Ol’jfz9580m’s veins and you cannot deny who you are. I am never running for office or selling anything so if I spit on my hands and get down to legal combat with these creeps, my only concern is losing or gaining community support for the wrong reasons.

I am actually well to the left, but I have no patience with messaging styles that ensure people don’t listen. There are lines I have like, players/billionaires/corporations/creepy men..where that is someone’s identity primarily..okay that is a lost cause..especially billionaires..One has to trash the real power.

But these culture wars and morality plays are a cancer and it will take time to deradicalize such a tribally polarized world..I mostly just stick with animals..lots Jewish people in the animal rights and Green community.

I sort of ineptly try to advocate for solidarity all around but who would profit from that?

Hamas really put us down a dark path on Oct 7. That event will probably be identified by historians as a key event in screwing us all over.

But I have a lot of solidarity with the Muslim community which is often embattled as much as any. But solidarity doesn’t have to alienate and annoy everyone. We are all part of the human family. Except billionaires. Marc Andreessen, Larry Ellison and Bill Ackman are grotesque human beings, but not because they are Jewish. And I was pleased to see Nathan Robinson, who can alienate the Jewish community more than he should, at least call out Nick Fuentes.

Just not the bad actors in any community as that isn’t tribal: I cannot afford any sided stupidity anymore.
There are war profiteers, politicians, influencers and then average humans.

It is easier to communicate with people who are not stupid when your style favors vague rambling diatribes punctuated by vaguely menacing swipes..dammit..

I am not a very diplomatic or transactionalism woman and when one embarks on a war on the world (as Jesus Christ did when he threw things around..I got an idea from Stephen Hall’s piece on snakes, which I vaguely associate with a pest control function even that guy Hawley may have wrt TikTok and YouTube..seriously those platforms are a cancer..).

I was pleased to see an article in the Forward point out the King Lear thing.
I may enjoy conflict too much. It would be good to clear a path to conflict free of this endless group conflicts so Ol’jfz9580m can as George Carlin put it focus on serious creeps, sleazebags etc absent constant language policing of some randoms.

I rarely get offended but past a threshold some behaviors are a redflag indicating, “these are stupid people who will keep pushing it and never learn.” And Ol’jfz9580m has had enough of opportunists, narcissists and fools.

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