Cold Fusion - The Normalization of Scamming Consumers
Picking up where I left off last weekend, to clarify and add to
Fascism talking points are intellectually lazy.
But they don't have to be.
The underlying facts and actual evidence, as well as the presentation matters. A recent interaction reminded me that one of my superpowers is an overactive bullshit detector and a long ago developed understanding that this detector is not average or normal.
The new breed of conspiracy theorist is talking about actual conspiracies. The old breed of conspiracy theorist, the ones that proudly announced they were a conspiracy theorist, were adding fuel to the fire. Whether intentional or not, the desire for attention, money, a quick dopamine rush, whatever drove them into the extremism pipeline - people got caught up into listening to the all or nothing red/blue, fascist/communist, liberal/conservative rhetoric. And that’s ended up just as badly as expected by a lot of people.
Instead of gematria decodes or anything Alex Jones said finger pointing and scapegoating, the genuinely inquisitive people thirsting for actual knowledge should have been searching for the underlying causes to economic issues. And now, the social media zone is being flooded with people that have been willing to put in some time and energy to their presentations. People like this Cold Fusion video I’ve linked. In that, his demeanor, his ability to calmly and respectfully present his evidence without SHOUTING OUT THAT I’M THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN SAVE THE WORLD SO BUY SOME OF MY SUPPLEMENTS BECAUSE THE SOCIALISTS ARE RUINING FOOD PRICES. Or whatever bullshit spin Jones would have put on it. The kind of presentation truly independent researchers should be consuming to make you think about things instead of buying overpriced and dubious quality supplements.
Now I’m way too biased to translate and transfer that information to others. I have the background of literally invested thousands of hours into real conspiracies and bullshit conspiracies. I have the curse of a great memory and my own personal experiences to draw from. For example, when I was younger candy bar manufacturers didn’t just shrink the size of the candy bar. There was a definite pattern. One year, the bar would shrink in size by 15%. The next year the price would go up by five cents, but along with the psychological mind fuck of boldly announcing that the bar was 15% bigger. Then since the manufacturing process had these two sizes easily interchangeable it wasn’t like they needed to build a new plant to switch it out.
As I said, my brain is poisoned. I watch and listen to that video and pretty much instantly translate it to, “Yeah, jack up the prices beyond inflation, don’t increase worker pay and some CEO gets an extra 10 million a year with no benefit to society at large. But at least in addition to that author there’s references to other research and studies showing that reported inflation numbers and the pricing and quantity adjustments actually made don’t add up. If you’re worried about affordability like you should be you deserve an explanation of what’s really going on.
And now I continue on my personalized journey through this post and my life experiences. First a simple one. Recently I mentioned some recommendations, thinly veiled as just some channels and videos I’ve been watching. Damon Cassidy recently put out an economic related video where he collaborated with According to Nicole. My algorithms led me to Nicole before I saw that video. They complain about the same things, so it’s no surprise that they hooked up. Both have been producing content for years that doesn’t just apply to the bad news in the prior day headlines. Both give off the down to earth, “ordinary person” vibe I appreciate. And you can watch the older material and still have it apply to today instead of it relying on scapegoated anger of what bad news was in yesterday’s headlines.
And that’s meaningful content. Content that the truly inquisitive people will find if they are going to do actual research. The new conspiracy theorists don’t label themselves as conspiracy theorists. That in itself has been turned into an emotional appeal of sorts, and that’s always been, “look at what an intellectual bad ass.” Other than the natural desire to have profit for their efforts, the new conspiracy theorists shouldn’t even be called that. They’re educators. Now I’m feeling guilty. Here’s what works for me saving you money, because rich assholes everywhere have been fucking things up for a long, long time. Strangely, the new generation of conspiracy theorists doesn’t mention an ever changing scapegoat of Freemasons, Jesuits, immigrants, Jews, lizard people, Arcturus death fleets, chemtrails spreading governments, holograms of political leaders, etc….
The truly inquisitive keep learning and can see the hypocrisy when the consistency disappears. If there’s a cover up, there’s got to be a reason for it and 99.999997% of the time it’s money and the associated power. So before I post about financial censorship and intimidation tomorrow let me wrap up with something this guy just learned a couple days ago.
I watched an algorithm poisoned by my bias recommendation video about corporate greed. In that I heard an oldie for me, about Reagan setting the tone in the mid seventies for trickle down economics. Then, I heard mention of Jack Welch, CEO of GE. The commentary about Jack in that video already matched my confirmation bias - there’s a lot of cash grabbing now because I don’t care what happens after I’m dead. Geez, that’s weird that I’ve never heard that before. Let’s see what the internet says.
There you go. His legacy is controversial. For now, if I’m being honest with myself I need to look at a story with more than one side, some nuance. And there’s a lot more to that AI overview than just what I’ve displayed there, much less the internet as a whole. But what I wasn’t disappointed in, that’s the gematria reaction. For Zach it was Freemasons, for the Gematrinator it was a ritualistic sacrifice. Somehow, I don’t think those angles are worth exploring any further and I’m just going to settle for some more realistic sources. Like maybe I can post a comment in Damon or Nicole’s library asking for their input.
