Meritocracy, Nepotism and Financial Intimidation

 

Meritocracy and Nepotism are opposites.  While meritocracy can seem like some sort of unattainable and utopian ideal, the greediest people aren’t just more likely to have obtained wealth and power, they are more likely to have achieved that status by “knowing the right people”.  Having connections and buying fake truth with cash instead of earning it because of genuine expertise and proficiency.

Within the movie Wall Street you get a sense that Gekko does have a semblance of competence.  He puts in the hours that back up his moral code.  It’s a modernized Dickens tale, retelling the same themes with the same messages we’ve know about before the modern twists.  (The Dad Joke maker in me is getting side tracked with “Oliver (Stone) Twists” right now.)  And this is the part where the hyper nationalism enters the room.  Every economic power house thinks they are different.  They are special.  They’ve decided that they are special and things will be different this time.  And that’s how democracy and common good slowly switches to oligarchy.  My personal wealth is demonstration of how greed is good.  I’m special.  I’m different.  While the real Wall Street during the movie Wall Street era was infested with malignant narcissism and it was actually no big deal to go bankrupt and start over again because you had connections.

The idea that education matters in a nepotistic society is a cruel joke.  It’s non stop ignore what is written in the governing document and financial intimidation.  You might start to analyze a confusing array of evidence better as your critical thinking skills evolve.  Have fun making a difference if the student loan debt crippled you for the rest of your life.  You might demonstrate an understanding of how to keep accurate records.  And maybe that’s how you landed an accounting job fresh out of college.  But good luck making a difference when that makes you work 65 hour weeks so the oligarchical partners make back room deals to hoard wealth.  You may understand that legally blowing up boats that may or not carry drugs is problematic.  Good luck making a difference when your coworkers, whether they believe it or not, are talking about how it’s “no big deal”.

An influential class of educated or skilled people.  The oligarchs of today are sure influential.  It just doesn’t have anything to do with education or skill.  It’s not just cheating the system, it’s keeping it perpetually rigged that it doesn’t even matter if you get caught.  And again, we knew about it in 1987 with Gekko.  We knew about earlier with Potter in It’s a Wonderful Life.  We knew about it with the real life Roman Empire, the Dutch and Great Britain.

And what disturbs the most is that although we have lots of thoughtful commentary about media, like maybe this: 

https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2020/12/timeless-themes-from-the-movie-wall-street/

That people could intelligently debate.  We are so lopsided that like the way people intentionally emulated Gekko

https://slate.com/culture/2007/09/how-wall-street-s-gordon-gekko-inspired-a-generation-of-imitators.html?pay=1765125666511&support_journalism=please

We still are not able to get beyond a simple state of how the morbidly wealthy and powerful never serve any interest but their own.  (Look at the date of that article.  2007.  Didn’t something happen in like, 2008, that kind of showed that something funny was going on in the financial sector?  I…I just can’t remember what it was.)

So let’s run through some of the lack of meritocracy hit list again.

The legal system has left the building.  (Supreme Court)

The accounting industry has left the building (Fake and restated numbers investors rely on)

Education left the building a long time ago.  Makes the kiddies too depressed.

We’re being forced spent a decade on gematria decodes where everybody’s always right and therefore everybody’s always wrong.

We’ve embraced the “burn the heretics” and “attack the eggheads” lifestyle.

We’re being forced through financial and physical intimidation to admire some of the shittiest people on the planet.  Like it’s not enough that lack of cooperation creates Gekko admirers in their own.

Scams, White Collar Crime, And Financial Censorship

Do you remember the 1987 movie Wall Street?  Not because you just accidentally stumbled on it in the selections of a streaming service last week, but either in its first theatrical run or a Blockbuster rental?

In today’s environment, you need to explain to the modern gung ho conservative a truth so obvious in the eighties.  Michael Douglas as Gordon Gekko - he’s the bad guy.  There’s those lousy woke communists in Hollywood with their damn subversive material again.

Back at the time Wall Street the movie was made was peak trickle down economics era USA.  A career, something you would stick with for your entire lifetime at a single job, was part of the American dream.  A country dominating the world economic scene that now clearly rewards the Geckos of the world over the Bud (Charlie Sheen).

To be fair, it’s not that the modern gung ho conservative would admire Gekko for what he is.  He’s cartoonishly over the top sneering villainy.  Greed is Good isn’t just a handy catch phrase when sliding down the villain pope to switch into his Musk mask, it’s the way he lives and what he believes down in the core of his being.  Stepping on the little man, and totally unconcerned about the little person lives below his golden throne of greed.

Bud is also cartoonish.  There’s a typical Hollywood redemption arc.  It should never have to come down to the elaborate revenge scheme that brings Gekko down.  There’s supposedly a Securities and Exchange Commission to stop a Gekko from rising to power in the first place.  Yet here he is in the over the top, “I can do whatever I want because I’m filthy rich.”

And there will always be people who would view this for the first time and subliminally or willfully misinterpret the points.  And that’s helped along because other than the redemption arc revenge plot it’s got some nuance.  That is, nuance that leaves a reasonably intelligent viewer room to speculate on after the credit events that are not shown.  Is it just Gekko going a step too far and other wealthy Wall Street execs are fine?  Should Bud have abandoned family and embraced the lifestyle of cheating to get ahead?  Or did the most common interpretation make sense, a rather unthinking reaction to it.  The knee jerk, Gekko was a dirt bag and got what’s coming to him.

Reframing the movie to modern times, and you should reframe instead of accepting it for the era it was made (new information is available and it’s good critical thinking to check around), it’s about Bud’s reasons for revenge more than the actual revenge plot itself.  Is there a line he would not cross?  And this is exactly where society at large at the global scale is, now.  Are you willing to sacrifice a bit of common decency for more comfortable access to resources or do you want to actually get along with people long term?

The financial sector has always been a breeding ground for greed being good.  The unhealthy relationship between greed, debt, long term sustainability, family values, etc… has fostered a workplace environment that is basically worthless for morale.  Your job is your life.  Your job and coworkers are your social network.  And as worker rights that were fought for tooth and nail get stripped away, even the most mindless work drone knows something is off.  Something is wrong.  And financial censorship is designed to keep them quiet.

If you were to encounter the real life Gekkos (yes, I have) they universally support Republican ideals.  And as the middle class erodes support of any kind of balance is slipping away.  Presentation of homeownership, an affordable education landing a single job career, access to health care, saving for retirement, saving for the future for yourself much less your children are still being shown as achievable goals. And they are, but only if you cheat.  Because greed is good.

And that’s why everything is a scam now.  The two way street of a self fulfilling prophecy; an infinite feedback loop.  You can’t have a society of mindless drones at the same time as having an educated and competent workforce.  Everything is “oH nO, mY iNvEsTmEnTs” white collar scam, greedflation, unregulated obvious cockamamie fraud like gematria sports betting, and the entire middle class living paycheck to paycheck.  The extent of the hypocrisy has reached epic proportions.  Politicians should be leading, should be making business policy to…what’s the word…REGULATE the economy.  Now we’re at the phase of the government deregulating itself; declaring economic sanctions on itself (tariffs).  Progress and progressives = BAD.  Gekko remaining rich with no actual benefit to society at large = GOOD.

I’m calling bullshit on that one.  But hey, that’s just my line in the sand was crossed over 40 years ago.  If you want to ignore how the different oligarchs are locked in a big pissing contest to see who can keep being too big to fail the longest, knock yourself out.  The financial censorship is working just fine for you.

Inflation And The Modern Conspiracy Theorist

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.

Like Gematria, Fascist Talking Points Are Intellectually Lazy

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Trust me for a minute or ten.  It’s not completely the obvious Anti Fascist message.

There’s a glut of misinformation on the internet from all sides of the political spectrum.  There aren’t enough people with enough spare cash to support the crazy number of bloggers, podcasters and occasional lunatic screaming through the bullhorn on the street corner.  A perfect atmosphere for the internet grifter to operate.

I was treated to some more of that new fangled lazy gematria a couple days ago.  Remember that guy who posts screenshots with key letters crossed out, just to change the gematria and narrative?  He also adds letters.  So if a sign includes the letters M-A-R you’re “allowed” to also scrawl - A Lago - after it.  Because, sure why not.  It’s my magic persecuted journey that the dark forces are trying to silence.  Well I haven’t seen any attempt at monetization yet.  But if it’s setting the table for the future, then we have a problem.  

Additionally, some gal put out a video about dropping double letters as a perfectly acceptable way to gematrify words.  The example she used was classic gematria hypocrisy.  Halloween.  Drop an “l” to get Halo and that means angel which means holy.  Never mind that no mention is made of dropping a “e” in the double e.  Ironically, the title of the video references rules for double “leters” in gematria.  Whether this is intentional as some kind of joke or just a case of not being very bright is unknown at this time. Our ofice’s phone cal to autocorect was not returned.

Both of these are extremely lazy gematria.  If you don’t see the letters or numbers you like on a license plate or sign, just add or delete them.  Personally I’m a fan of making gematria for the next HALLLLLOWEEEEEEEN celebration, should be lots of fun.  These aren’t making much of an impact on YouTube and BlueSky right now.  (And neither is the AI bot generated spam of the Jewish Teachings For All YouTube channel.)  But as far as newbies getting introduced to gematria and going down the rabbit hole they serve as free advertisement.  Bad in comparison to the established sports scam and Antichrist end of the world content.

Here’s a recent example of how need for attention gets twisted into monetization.  Our favorite calculator maker is still labeling horrific tragedies due to improper regulation as attacks by evil forces.  On a video about the Hong Kong fire we get a double whammy cause it’s also a WTC ritual sacrifice.

And of course, you’ve got to work in the fundraiser.  Giving away free merch like a hoodie implies that there’s an expectation for purchases of these products.

At least the Zachs and Dereks no longer dabble in much of the creation of new wild and crazy/lazy variations anymore.  They are the establishment now.  Attention to the lazy and weird and frankly quite stupid gematria naturally works its way up the food chain to a more respected person willing to put more effort into it because they are more talented and smarter.  Congratulations, you’ve just upgraded from admiring the schizophrenic babbling while he cleans your windshield with a dirty rag to Bill Maher or Rush Limbaugh.

And the food chain isn’t done there.  Because everyone with a politically angled platform gets to talk about fascism now.  Is it coming?  Is it here now and if not when?  Did Musk deliberately do a Nazi salute?  Is it OK to zip tie and send immigrants to death camps in other countries?  Etc….

The entrenched establishment in politics in the U.S. is old.  Like really fucking old and set in there ways which doesn’t present itself as being in tune with the needs of the younger people.  Fascism itself incorporates deliberate anti-intellectualism.  Get in like egghead or get arrested or murdered.  Yet the U.S. Democratic Party response is equally out of touch and not for a group labeling itself as progressive.  They’re evil.  Vote for me because I’m not evil.  More arbitrary labels and hypocritical as their actions don’t really mesh with the reality that looks more like not wanting to rock the boat to continue coasting through their term to keep their stock portfolios afloat and score a decent pension that they probably don’t need or deserve.  Being a lazy politician is such a sweet gig.

As long as the younger generations don’t finally shift to actively looking in to why their leadership is letting them down and has been for decades.  The new generation of conspiracy theorists I mentioned?  Instead of two crazy people arguing over which bullshit of gematria or flat earth is better bullshit, now they’ve armed themselves with knowledge of logical fallacies and dabbling in real evidence.

For all we know Fascism may actually be the best approach to governing a large group of diverse people.  I find that highly unlikely given the bulk of evidence we have today.  It certainly goes beyond a simple black and white Fascism Good/Bad Communism Good/Bad all or nothing.  Let the fighters prove themselves over the coming wars - who is walking the walk instead of just talking the monetized but shallow talk.  Don’t fall into the anti-intellectual trap of assuming your smarter than everyone else.

Conspiracy Theorists - The Next Generation

 Conspiracy Debate YouTube Livestream

Depending on where you are on the critical thinking spectrum, that can be painful or enlightening with all the shades in between.  If you want practice recognizing logical fallacies used in a debate, intentionally to mislead, here you go.

The next generation of conspiracy theorists has arrived.  If you want to talk about gematria as a tool for understanding the world around you, you have an uphill struggle.  Gematria is covering fire.  Spraying bullets aimlessly, not so much hoping that one hits although you’ll take it if it happens, but just trying to distract the sniper shooting at you long enough to think of a better way to not getting picked as the next target.  An intentional analogy because there are those that would be critical of this commentary who would claim I just issued a death threat.  Which is absolutely not what I did.

So let’s start with taking things out of context.  The Bill Gates vaccine Ted Talk is an old chestnut for conspiracy cranks.  Wildly popular at the height of Covid.  The actual comment was about slowing population growth to a sustainable level, not actively murdering people with a lethal injection.

https://www.reuters.com/article/fact-check/bill-gates-quoteabout-vaccines-and-population-growth-has-beentaken-out-of-cont-idUSL1N2MF1L8/

Well there you go.  Discrediting the experts is exactly what’s being discussed.  Reuters fact checking is on the conspiracy crank naughty list.  Providing a list of matching numbers (after the fact) about the various two digit numbers that can be tied to the Jesuits has nothing to do with what is going on with Covid vaccines.  The cover fire to get you to avoid talking to people who understand that Ivermectin is not the answer long enough to buy books, merchandise and join a Patreon destined to increase your gambling losses over the long term.  All for the quick fix the covering fire provides to get you to be used as cannon fodder for the most disastrous regime in modern times.  Your hatred today is at the cost of long term alliances and relationships.

This next generation arrived at the table with a valid talking point.  Somebody out there - oh wait that might have been me, planted some seeds that outlined the basis of the multitude of ways that conspiracy theory gematria was hogwash.  Simple, easily reproducible exercises that if you’re being honest with yourself make you wonder why your results aren’t really making sense.  Things like how I jump right towards the antonyms right away when some new clown tries to set the table with whatever fluff they’re presenting.  The new generation is coming of age, now having reached the level of asking Zach directly, “Is gematria math, or does it at least use math?”

To which the immediate responses are number lists of look at all these unrelated words that equal 74 and a Ryne Sandberg story straight out of Where The Fuck Did That Come From Logical Fallacy Land.  And this and other recent  Zach versus Chaotic Truth episodes also earned Chaotic Truth a follow up attack at the start of a Zach immediately declaring victory over “the raccoon”.  Sure Zach, that’s the way to show victory in a debate by just name calling with a thinly veiled racist slur.  Winning friends over with being a complete jackass might not work so well with this new generation.

You also gotta love the response to if you would allow a trained professional to treat sick people.  The ever popular anecdotal “proof”.  My child didn’t get sick, so listen to me lie about what Bill Gates said a little bit longer.  Anecdotal evidence is low quality because your sources are absent.  It’s just your word versus actual video, written, and audio commentary.  “I never said that.” is going to be heard a lot in the near future because of course history being attacked is also in the lack of real education hit list.  Some random hostile personality said something I like on the internet.  Thats gotta mean more than the Roman Empire self destructing eventually.  Yes, fallen empires and dominant language is also part of this next generation commentary in this video.

There is a reason my BlueSky profile picture is a Venn diagram about the uselessness of gematria in everyday life.  It’s either math or it’s not.  It’s either a tool that is universally applied like how a doctor or engineer can use it to reproduce positive results, or it’s a parlor game where everybody gets a participation award and no clear winner is determined.  It’s useful for the next generation to dunk on the conspiracy gematria spouting madman, baiting them into waffling into yes it’s math, no it’s not just math, yes it’s math but it’s too complex for your tiny mind, here let me pull out my CALCULATOR to prove HOW EASY it is.  Blecccchhh.

The multi generational attack on proper education is finally coming of age to where the next generation is finally using logic, reason and critical thinking.  To look at real conspiracies instead of the most mind numbingly ignorant, bleating loudmouths might actually not help with their grocery prices.  Maybe I should pay tribute to that by making a detailed gematria narrative of how Alex Jones is destined to do volunteer work at a local food bank.

Know Your Grifter Tactics - Setting The Table

Today’s background material begins with an unflattering (deservedly unflattering) podcast about Alex Jones. 

Hysteria Podcast - Alex Jones

If your goal today is to get in a good old fashioned Thanksgiving Day fight, yeah, that’s a good start.  Dunking on Alex Jones is easy, and relatable to a lot of people.  And Alex has made a lucrative career of pushing the boundaries of opinion to being wrong on purpose for engagement for a long, long time.

Then, there’s the much safer dinner conversation starter:

Veritasium - Power Laws

Not safe so much because it’s quality science based information, but because the odds that people at the table want to remain in your proximity far beyond the the passing of the dinner rolls before the main course is carved is about zero.  At least for an average family.  Ask for the eye roll and a “Whadda Fuck you talkin’ bout?”  Get an eye roll and a “Whadda Fuck?”.  Although tangentially related to human nature and understanding the psychology of why some don’t and will not ever a message within - complex problems require complex solutions - the material is not easy to absorb.  Especially not to several generations of pseudo intellectual black and white only, Trump Good Biden Bad, Trump Bad Biden Good educationally stunted folks that just want to get past any conversation, open a beer and watch the Cowboys win.  Or lose.  Because Cowboys Bad, or Cowboys Good is also purely black and white.

The Jones podcast brings up a valid point near the end, and it’s fairly clearly mentioned as an opinion.  Was Alex Jones a true believer in his nonsense or an opportunistic grifter?  That answer being started as believing, then transitioned to full blown con as a little bit of attention and money snowballed.  Combined with some undeniable charisma.

A funny thing about misinformation and disinformation is that too much emphasis of whether one truly believes or is just hopping on the money train ultimately does not matter.  The internet is suffering from the power law and bad info is circulating like crazy.  Bad info that doesn’t care about where it came from.  It just is.  Building up until the tipping point and boiling over into something like a January 6th riot.  When unguided, unsocialized, there will always be a group of people that will plunge into LIBERALS BAD!! content because trying to get them to understand that a controlled burn of a forest fire is a good thing at times.  What they’re missing is that you want the adults, the experts in the room, to be the ones that understand the math of power logs versus GIVE ME YOUR MONEY BECAUSE SANDY HOOK IS A HOAX!

Sadly, there is a new bullshitter on BlueSky.  It’s still early on and difficult to tell if this is a true believer or an opportunistic grifter.  But to hammer the point home, this doesn’t matter.  The gematria is bad.  Really bad.  A new trick I’ve never encountered in my eight years, taking cherry picking the words to a whole new 

In the good old days, a requirement for even the worst gematria was matching the resulting numbers to a word or phrase from list A to a word or phrase from list B.  Now you’re allowed to randomly cross out and ignore the letters you don’t like to find evil in every license plate, road sign or gas pump.  Don Ill Too Taco.  CIA Tom T.  Die from Diesel.  Ice from Office.  FIN, with the note about it being Spanish from the OP.  Any bridge clearance is going to have a feet and inches posted.  A true believer here is basically scared of the alphabet.  Adrian Monk is jealous.

A couple of other clues that this is table setting towards something bigger, my best guess is an Anti-Trump BlueAnon gig:

The individual is admittedly targeted.  That is persecuted, hounded.  Dark forces are out to get him is why these cherry picked alphabets are dire omens.

And the nearly 800 posts are like the above samples every single day.  And it wasn’t until yesterday that the word gematria was even used.

The 757 was tied to Psalms 7:57.  The 999 is “my wrath”.  And in addition to being scared of the alphabet this persecuted table setter is going to have to avoid brick and mortar retail price tags.  Even $1,999.99 can have all but $9.99 crossed off.

<sigh>

A pre-bunkers work is never done.  Let’s hope this variation that leads to making it even easier to match dies a quick death.

So, You Want To Get On A Watch List?

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The baseless conspiracy theory grifter would scream out to the world, “Oh no!  My views are down!  My subscribers are getting unsubscribed!  My channel was terminated!”  And immediately prove that something was fishy about it, by just going right back to business as usual.  The channel being terminated gag doesn’t hold as much weight when you pull it so often people with actual functioning brain cells can see that if things were that serious, the tech bros in charge would simply not allow you to so easily create a new page or channel.  It’s all theater and projection.  Look at what a bad ass I am, these tech companies are out to get me!

In 2024 I took on a large, quite time consuming and rather counterintuitive project.  The main goal of that is still kind of a trade secret.  But I learned a couple of things, had some assumptions confirmed, and now the side effects are being dealt with.  For example, it appears that since rage bait = engagement the algorithms on YouTube think you want to see more of the content that pisses you off.  That hitting the dislike button is at least equivalent to the like button if not more so for getting recommendations.

Now the side effects, purging my recommendations to get back to things that entertain me.  Although I have a lot of different and harmless “touching grass” interests, the algorithms on YouTube latched on to the anti-Trump content and recommended some intriguing alternatives that I find myself enjoying when the new video drops. 

If you want to get put out the anti-Trump naughty list, here are some of what I watch.  Big players like MTN (Meidas Touch Network) will naturally flow in through the normal algorithm process.  I’ll warn you ahead of time, some of these channels are monetized to a large enough extent that it may look hypocritical.  Grifters projecting that more legitimate content is asking for money is a time honored tradition.  So next up in prep for the actual list is some common themes to look for.  My recommendations tend towards the positive side of consuming information beyond, “Gromk no like Republican/Democrat bad.  Gromk like Rebublican/Democrat good.  Gromk give money and talk big.  Grunt grunt!”

1). Citation of outside sources beyond the content creator.

2).  Spin is fine.  Opinion is fine.  Promoting personal opinion as fact, is not fine.  Willingness to take a quick break and admit your opining is a good thing.

3). Lack of excessive monetization.  If the author puts out a video every week that is nothing more than begging for money, run away fast.

4). Presentation of the material as reporting on events without a “join or die” cult message.

So now to the list of what I watch that is both informative and I find entertaining since I’m sadly far from normal regarding what amuses me these days.  #1 ✅.  I’m citing outside sources.  #2 ✅ It’s what entertains me.  #3 at least half a ✅.  I think.  #4 - I’ll leave that up to you.  Are things really that dark or is it overblown?  Ate the two largest protests in U.S. history with millions of people just a blip, or a sign?  These are not in any particular order of favoritism.

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Hank Green

Science communicator.  Not overly political but dabbles because like Trump said himself, smart people don’t like Trump.  Gives off a down to earth homey vibe that Carl Sagan and Neil DeGrasse Tyson don’t hit with as hard.

Dark Brandon

Short animated videos with different characters.  Dr. Dee for science, Leopards for eating faces content, Frank the angel.  Aimed at pointing out MAGA lack of logical thinking in a short, easily digestible form.

Literate Machine

Not all of them short and easily digestible, but full length essays.  Good for scholars looking for a deep dive.  Puts a lot of prep work into videos that take months to get out instead of daily or even weekly material.

Steve Shives

A snarky Star Trek content creator who doesn’t pull punches on his distaste for Trump.  The Star Trek content is stand alone from the anti-Trump content other than the overlap of how Star Trek has a history of sneaking in social commentary into an entertainment franchise.

Mallen Baker

If you want to see what foreign countries are saying about the mess in the U.S. without the lopsided spin from U.S. media sources, try Mallen.  U.K. politician.

Patrick Boyle and Damon Cassidy

My favorite sources for economic bad news.  Patrick is a professor and hedge fund manager with surprising deadpan jokes for a “stuffy” academic.  Damon is a “just a regular guy” with a YouTube channel.

Upper Echelon

What I imagine conspiracy theorists SHOULD be.  Focusing on actual conspiracies without the scapegoating and whining for money.  He’s been having a field day with Epstein stuff.  A lot of the content is about the gaming industry and the adverse effects of AI and capitalism that affect that.

Benn Jordan

Probably would be fine being left alone making music.  Had turned his engineering skills in to content that dives into surveillance equipment.

Kat Abughazaleh

More guts than common sense would dictate.  Has transformed anti-Fox News content into a run for Congress.  A fighter that like AOC just happens to be an attractive, non-white, female that knows what she is talking about.  (Gets a pass on the monetization point from me because sadly $$ are a necessity for political campaigning.)

Tennessee Brando

Sounds like he should be MAGA, but fiercely proud he’s not.  Reminds people that it does happen that if you have a soul and a moral compass you can fit the demographic superficially while still having functional critical thinking.

Genetically Modified Skeptic

More than anyone else on this list, a “not for everyone tastes” pick.  This is pro secular content.  I try hard in real life to keep my own thoughts about religion and the political mess that results from it.  Not everyone is that wussy.

I stand by my claim.  Instead of the fake Projectecution from baseless conspiracy peddlers, absorb a lot of this content like I do and you are far more likely to make it on to a government watch list or face censorship.

Projectecution

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Scanning through YouTube gematria videos filtered for the week, somebody actually wasted the time of showing I’M GOD = 48.  Mathematically sound as far as  the gematria math goes, yet as a talking point completely meaningless.  Presumably, whoever the author is who is seeking out what 48 could mean would assume that they are the God in question, and being an actual god or the capital “G” God is a good thing. And then the mantle, titles, and accompanying superpowers of the singular God are constantly shifting to whoever typed that in to a calculator last.  Yeah…I’m going to have to call bullshit on that one.  Being able to keep track and shift the superpowers, that job is the real power.  A bookkeeping nightmare.  It could be about the Christian God as the one and only, but that is still vague as there’s a couple thousand (at least) other gods that could have a minion typing that in.  Based on some of the other pro Trump gematria that showed up from that author it has Q stink all over it.  

Instead of directly jumping in to I’M GOD = 48 and pretending that this extremely vague person worthy of description like this, people will slow play it.  A biblical gematria practitioner may innocently take a step towards godhood by finding a match with GOOD SAMARITAN or LOVE.  But the real fun, that’s in persecution content.  After a lifetime of moral complacency and the resulting bad decisions you get the, “Woe is me!  Everyone is out to get me!!”  Even extending in to every wrong sports pick as, “They flipped the script.  I’m taking too much money away from the casinos.”  Flipping the script themselves as being both the greatest sports picking gematria practitioner and the worst ever since everyone is out to get them.  And some of those sports pickers aren’t just doing it for shits and giggles.  It’s deliberate projection so the minions pick up on the persecution and blame the scapegoats for their problems instead of the simple reality of sports gematria being complete and utter bollocks.

Projectecution, a newly made up word today  (unless who or whatever is assigning the title of GOD out has already created it) is a portmanteau of projection and persecution.  And instead of your innocent trying to gamble for fun or looking at the biblical gematria of LOVE OF JESUS, it’s a mental state where someone is pushed along the extremist pipeline to the point where they’ll believe just about anything that’s possibly even dangerously wrong about what’s going on in the world around them.  And in current news there are the examples of real life fascist projection arising.  On top of a not mentally healthy population of improperly socialized young men and the stress of economic problems coming out the ass.

Earlier this week Trump was asked about the Epstein files by a female reporter.  As there’s no good answer he lashed out immediately.  “Quiet, quiet piggy”.  It’s literally impossible to make a good answer about the cover up.  The contradictions in the various stories used in the past are so far apart you can’t gel them into a cohesive single narrative.  Unless you’re the being that’s constantly reassigning who is God at the moment.  The Piggy comment, not the first time that insult has been used, is the projection way of saying, “I’m not answering you because I’m better than you and I don’t have to.  Not because I have evidence and good reasons, but feewings are hurtsies.”  Trump at this point doesn’t need to hold a press conference ever again.  We know that the answer coming out is going to be, “That’s fake news.”

And you better be damned concerned about the congresspeople that asked the military to pay heed to the constitutional oath about disobeying illegal orders.  The first time a sitting President has called for the death of political opponents.  Covered by the bootlickers claiming he’s not serious.  Even if he’s not serious, the math shows that there are minions aplenty who are far enough along the Projectecution pipeline to take it seriously.  Can you say, “Jan. 6th 2021, Gabby Giffords, and Melissa Holman?”  Silence by intimidation is such a quaint little fascist traditional, ain’t it?  Let’s throw in $50,000 signing bonuses to deport random people in to the mix.  What could possibly go wrong?!?

In an odd way, being the target of Projectecution is a compliment.  You wouldn’t be the target if you didn’t display some kind of value to the world in regards to empathy, common decency, and intelligence.  And that’s the point.  When those who value profit over people take control and simultaneously want to be admired for being profitable have no real value they rush to the arbitrary labeling and bullying.  There’s a common comment in the baseless conspiracy theory posting on social media.  Something about being on a government naughty list and having your channel suspended or shadow banned.  Nope.  You, the ordinary person that wants to enjoy your family, friends, kindness and respect.  You’re the superheroes.  You’re the ones put on the naughty lists for surviving while indicating your mad as hell and I’m drawing the line in the sand, here.

Building Real Community

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A common theme about resisting the increasingly obvious problems with authoritarian takeover is building community and relationships.  A network of people who have your back, knowing that you will have theirs in return during crisis.  Overall the main topics that rank countries hug in lists of quality of life are housing, education, and healthcare.  Instead of getting your news from profit driven “social” media now famous for being a haven for scams and propaganda you should be taking notes from sources that are a lot less preachy and asking for money with the vaguest of unfulfillable promises.

It’s been a long time since I mentioned it, but one of the lessons I’ve tried to instill is that talking about Biden, Trump, Pelosi, the Jesuits, Freemasons, Alex Jones, or any target being bad more often than not does not provide a solution.  Most of my personal value added to the world has amounted to the same thing.  Merely bringing attention to the problems without solutions.  But, I did start almost a decade ago and didn’t know exactly how the dire economic and political landscape would play out.  And knowing full well I’m not the guy to be the superhero that the masses think will rise up and save them let me wait it out until things became a little clearer.

For those with family and friends still stuck on the mistaken idea that Trump is by any means a solution you have the unenviable task of convincing them to get out of their comfort zone and read things like the linked article.  Don’t expect perfection from these articles.  I find the phrasing of “alternative healers” a bit disturbing.  It’s an uphill battle all the way, trying to undo literal generations of abuse and neglect.

Healthcare.  Failure.  The U.S. has the most expensive system and is the only high income country without basic human healthcare.  People elsewhere have better ideas that work better than tying care to being employed and the negative feedback of being unable to be employed when injured or sick.

Housing.  Monetized that the better off have been trained over decades that the dwelling and the second home in Florida is an investment.  Nearly universally where I live these people vote Republican.  “BlEeDiNG hEArT LiBs ArE rUiNiNg My StOcK pOrTfOLiO!!”  You know what is really ruining it?  Hiding climate change based inflation masked behind decades of propaganda.

Education.  Without proper education you miss out on a big infrastructure investment.  The AI bubble is already disturbing all the other bubbles.  Instead of utopian everyone has robot servants and unlimited leisure time we get data centers using so much electricity it’s adding to the housing and affordability problems already.  And the worst is yet to come.  The bad ideas from not managing understanding the world around us gets you the stupid idea of 50 year mortgages and impossible dreams of retiring being wealthy other than for a select few.  Who could retire today and be fine instead of playing the 1%er version of keeping up with the Joneses via Game of Thrones policy decisions.

I could go on and on about the details of the lack of community in the gematria community.  How they can never agree on anything like how many ciphers to use, when it’s ok to drop zeroes or not, but let’s keep it simple.  The rage bait does not address oligarchy and healthcare/housing/education in the slightest.  The conspiracy theorist community pretty much only pretends to address education, and false claims that conspiracy gematria has a value to education are implicit.  And they do rely on genuine problems to provide a hook to dangle the bait on.  But in the end, anytime they stumble on the right idea (it’s never manufactured by them) it gets ruined by the overzealous dialogue of:

Give me your money.  I’m the superhero that needs your money (strangely) to keep superheroing.

At the end of the new Superman movie (5 ⭐️, would recommend) the man with the S on the chest addresses the real artificial intelligence in our society.  What makes Superman truly a hero and not Lex Luthor’s money driven artificial intellect, and makes me confident that Musk hates this movie.  The real superhero is the person who gets up everyday and tries to do the best that they can because it’s the right thing to do.  Make every day a day where you tell yourself, “I think maybe today’s a good day to not exploit people and act in a selfish, destructive counterproductive manner.”

Projection and Overconfidence

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A constant theme of the SportsGematria YouTube channel’s videos is that Hubbard, despite talking big and congratulating the winners who took his advice, never seems to provide any solid evidence that he actually places bets himself.  You don’t acquire a perfect nickname  like “After the Fact Zach” without relying heavily on waiting until the game is over.  Exuding confidence and actually being confident are entirely different things.  It’s so much easier to come across as exuding confidence when the question is difficult, but you have a cheat sheet you reference instead of your own brain power.

From the way a lot of people act they have gone through decades of life never realizing that the con in “con artist” means confidence.  TLDR.  If you’re decent in the critical thinking skills department you have a leg up on the competition.  First you’re willing to admit your own brain does stupid things at times, some people are smarter than you or a specialist with knowledge you don’t possess and can use, and someone exhibiting confidence without the right information to back up that confidence is really fucking dangerous.  The con artist is an expert; an artist.  Gaining your confidence through manipulation of emotion.

People would have money than be right about things.

Short term contact long enough to get you to bite at the bait, then goodbye.

I am 100% confident I’ve talked about projection on this blog in the past.  For a period of some months I had a special post dedicated to the best projection of the month.  Willful deception be it positively projecting your a Good Samaritan while actually stealing behind the scenes, or the ever popular, “I’m a bad ass, you’re a loser troll”.

But considering what’s going on with the Epstein files now let’s turn to a more personalized story.  My first encounter with a malignant narcissist long term.  And what a learning experience it was that I was able to utilize going forward.

My first college roommate was a high school friend, maybe the only nerdier person than me.  His first girlfriend, (GF from here on) was a real piece of work.  I already knew about willfully deceptive tactics in dating.  For instance, the handsome guy who eventually uses his skills to make sure he leaves the bar with a different conquest each trip.  Over time I realized GF had elevated projection to an art form because she actually believed she was the smartest, prettiest, most perfect person in the world.  GF was physically attractive, she was certainly bright enough although never managed to show exceptional intellectual skills.  And something was always off about her constant need to get attention.  Everyone in the guys dorm fawned over GF was so special and how out of her league rookie was.

Except me.  I wanted nothing to do with her.  And that was why she deliberately went out of her way to interrupt me as much as possible.  Constantly being in my dorm room, even pretending to sleep while roomie was away at class.  Trying to conquer the one hold out that wouldn’t accept the goddess in his midst.  Of course roomie was enthralled and wouldn’t accept even the slightest infraction on common decency as a problem, much last the major infractions on my college life.  I’ll spare you more details.

Armed with this knowledge, this first hand experience with narcissism elevated to Narcissistic Personality Disorder, I landed a job with GF model 2.0.  A generation X’er who believed her own hype without any real talent to back it up.  When confronted with some pretty obvious facts about the 25 hour work week (on a good week), management’s best defense they could muster.

“She’s extremely confident.”

Shortly thereafter, Model 2.0 knowing I was on to her doubled down.  My lack of interest in anything to do with her combined with being promised an executive position from the date of hire made her determined to break me.  I discovered for myself what later became to be openly known as quiet quitting, unwilling to work 60 hours a week just to keep up with the psychological and direct job related sabotage.  And let me throw in the only time that I confronted her on her faults (only about direct job related performance), in the heat of the moment she actually told me I was the most condescending person ever.  That just confirmed what I already knew, a very NPD type of thing to say.

I had my escape plan prepared and left just before the Trump political era.  And it’s totally unsurprising that this company’s management team had grown accustomed to the right wing propaganda machine and now they have to deal with lack of results from unjustified overconfidence on top of a government that is making it tough on businesses everywhere.  Because, yes, Trump exhibits the same baseless overconfidence that GF and Model 2.0 had shown.  And if you think skill in detecting NPD is marketable for employment, well………no.

The same way Model 2.0 desired competent people to do her work while reaping the unwarranted financial rewards - that’s the same way some of the most openly not competent way this administration has become infested with boot licking loyalists.  Model 2.0’s management team didn’t care.  GF was never given any negative feedback.  And I defy you if you want to insist that anyone in Trump’s second term regime  has shown consistent positive results.  That type of person was from the first term, and they’ve been forced out and the actual swamp has been projected away as FAKE NEWS!! and WITCH HUNT, while the actual stories coming out in the Epstein files and real affordability problems are increasingly hard to defend.  Projecting overconfidence when the actual swamp was hiding in plain sight.

Because people don’t like to admit the tiniest bit of being wrong about anything.  Not about losing a couple hundred dollars about a sports betting scam.  Certainly not admitting to supporting the election of a true monster.  The doubling and tripling down sounds less sincere every day.  Grasping for straws.  Desperately trying to deflect away from how Oz is hiding behind a curtain.

To quote a Triumph song from the GF era -

You say you’re something special.

Well you talk a real good game.

But now the party’s over,

And you just don’t sound, you just don’t sound the same.

Overconfidence.  The most dangerous cognitive bias according to the Veritasium video.  A video that starts with a parade of really smart, yet humble, people willing to admit that there’s more nuance than the black and white projection offered by propaganda.

Gematria & Gibbelins

The past two days, especially this morning, has been a train ride of my brain taking wild tangents.  A problem I face regularly as it can be quite distracting.  I did end up back where I started.

Many fictional monsters are a metaphor for other issues.  Godzilla is a personification of the horrors of nuclear weapons.  Vampires are fascists.  Werewolves are the unbridled beast hiding inside.  And so on.  So what would be a perfect metaphor, or more likely a close metaphor, for some of your top Internet grifter personalities like a Hubbard or Alex Jones.

During that journey I reminded myself that The Beast/Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes greatest work, is a metaphor for an all powerful Beast.  A social contract where freedom is deliberately surrendered to stop mankind from destroying itself by its own stupidity.  A perfectly natural tangent for someone recognizing authoritarian takeover while indulging in constant random baseless accusations of someone being the literal Antichrist.  Therefore, the next perfectly logical tangent was to check the gematria of Hobbes and I found that HOBBES = 111 in reverse.  Which of course means that in the cheap cheat of multiplying by 6 in Sumerian:

The tangents weren’t finished, and since I’d already been investigating monsters as allegories, the greedy goblins had already crossed my mind.  And HOBBES + GOBLINS meant HOBGOBLINS which did not equal 666.  But without the HOB:

A tidy little perfect match.  So like a 15 year old first discovering conspiracy gematria and not realizing it’s confirmation bias based nonsense, I knew I was on to something and continued doing more research on goblins and greed.  Because attention and money is really what it’s all about.  But the obligatory gematria tie in satisfied I performed what qualifies as actual research and I found - Gibbelins.

https://ruinousreliquary.wordpress.com/2020/10/31/public-domain-spotlight-the-hoard-of-the-gibbelins/

(After a brief side trip for the unfortunate Litiz, Pa based insurance company that had purchased the domain name for Gibbel Insurance - gibbelins.com).

Gibbelins do not hoard wealth like Ferengi or Dungeons & Dragons monsters because they love the money and attention a lot of money gets them.  It is a tool, it is bait for a trap just to lure foolish people to their lair to eat them.  Although there’s no doubt internet grifters live the money purely for the sake of having money, so far we have no reports of actual cannibalism.  Not yet.

But to understand the story properly, you need to examine the “hero” Alderic.  The hero stops the dragons reign of terror, but it’s implied that once Alderic has finished his mission that he really doesn’t care if the dragon goes back to eating princesses.  Alderic is a toxic narcissist, more interested in projecting his image as a savior and noble person and the bestest knight that ever knighted in any night.  He may be competent enough to get to the Gibbelins lair, but even he alone is not prepared to fight the final battle.  Sometimes real friends can help a lot.  Being the bestest knight ever implies that you have a lifetime of assuming that nobody matters but yourself.  And when somebody doesn’t care about how wealthy you are, including raising that wealth by fraudulent means - they’re going to eat you.  Especially if they have more friends than you, which they will, Mr. Toxic Narcissist Knight.

The story is only lengthy enough to address the tale of Alderic.  But there are lots of other Alderics in that fictional world.  Lots of petty burglars and lesser knights consumed with avarice falling for the trap the Gibbelins have set.  The top names in the grifting economy and GOP are not Gibbelins, they are Alderics.  Fake heroes doing 24/7 image projection and having fun on the side by getting the attention a real hero should be getting.  Bullies in appearance, but losers in end results.  Fighting with each other more than generating any true sense of community.  If you want to impress us, stop gathering new members to a sports betting Patreon and raise money and food for food banks.

If there’s another NO KINGS protest I may participate with my NO ALDERICS OR KINGS sign, just to amuse myself on being pretty much the only person who understands the reference.

Filthy, Ugly, Satanic Coal

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My top pick for The Big Lie is not the false claim of a 2020 stolen election.  That’s just a Side Lie.  An afterthought or side dish served up with how modern global society is utterly dependent on continued burning of fossil fuels.  Keep those capitalist economies chugging along, and never, ever admit that proper job costing should include some clean up of waste materials.  And instead of “some” clean up, there’s a constant push for no cleanup.  It interferes with oil company and sovereign state fossil fuel production CEO compensation and bottom lines.

If you search out some material on the internet about late stage capitalism you can find commentary about how there’s an anomaly in world history.  History that we might add is trying to be erased in these times.  After World War II, there was a brief blip from about 1945-1975 where oligarch taxation and policies benefitting the working class took hold.  And then without benefit of an internet, propaganda slowly took hold and the fossil fuel industry decided it would be more fun to lie about the consequences of constantly dumping more pollutants in the environment than for effective clean up.  And now the can has been kicked down the road about as far as it can go.

The Big Beautiful Fossil Fuel lie worked something like this.

Fossil Fuel energy is essentially limitless.

Fossil fuel energy is clean.  (I had a physics professor that often quoted about the “damned environmentalists not letting us burn coal - 1978 or 1979).

Exploitation of cheap labor abroad for the U.S.  The country that benefited the most from the end of WWII with infrastructure remaining intact.  It’s good not to have the homeland bombed.

Democracy and capitalism spreads, the communists being a convenient scapegoat.  Probably helped along by capitalism being genuinely a better option.  (Personal opinion.)

RARE takes over.  Rich Assholes Ruin Everything.  Go away, U.S.  I’m here at ground zero; these are my people to exploit.

A lot of the social problems from employment and cheap labor and not cleaning up move back to the U.S.  Mostly rural South and low population red states elsewhere.

The better off middle class from the golden 1945-1975 era are convinced, like my physics professor, that “My investments are more important than your children” and take over business leadership.

The anti-science movement takes grip.  All as a cover up for the big, fossil fuel lie.  Any scientific issue is targeted as a hoax.  Vaccines & medicine in general, moon landing, evolution, etc….  All become fair game for background noise to make people distrust actual scientific reality based commentary.

Since the religious right already had a foothold in magical solutions they evolve into the top bad actors straying from the positive social messages of loving thy neighbor into the oddball stuff.  Conspiracy theories, without being burdened by the cumbersome “love thy neighbor” aspects of religion push to extremism.  Social media becomes the battleground for political propaganda.

The extremism, more outrageous means more clicks and views which means more money leads to the outcome of people preferring to have money than being right about things.  Politically motivated violence ensues.

And finally we elect a President that claims outright that coal isn’t just not bad, it’s big, beautiful, clean and the bestest thing to MAGA.

This seems like a long time, but compared to the formation of coal from dead plants it’s a geological tick of the clock.  Literally millions of years to sit in the underground pressure cooker.  Of course this goes against the idea the Earth is only thousands of years old.  Of course it’s easier to form an army of people needing immediate gratification to slide into Mussolini’s fascist idea of cracking the skulls of eggheads.

And in the meantime, if gematria had any real meaning to the global situation some “scholar” would certainly before me have discovered that coal is not big and beautiful, but the poster child of all the evils in the world.  Sitting in the ground quietly absorbing the hellish sulfur to be released along with that precious, not so lovely carbon dioxide.

Big, beautiful, clean coal is right wing economic projection at its finest.  Coal mining jobs are notoriously difficult, laborious, dangerous and low paying.  And we’re about to waste resources on coal burned electricity on the AI bubble that’s looking like it’s getting ready to pop.  But hey, you can find a sports gematria YouTuber to gamble with, so that’ll be fun.

Gematriapedia

This popped up on Bluesky not too long ago.

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Which we’ve seen before.  Old school conspiracy gematria (i.e not Qanon gematria) was heavy on all politics was corrupt, not just enemies of Trump.  And this exact assertion about FOX is not the animal, or a common word after the construction worker whistles at a pretty girl.  This is then and here FOX NEWS.  Whether they are right to claim that FOX is evil because of this.  It’s a lot easier and has just as much empirical evidence.  Zero.

Using the same logic the letter combination of C-L-U has the same values in reverse ordinal.  And it would make just as much sense to focus on the evils of any university that uses the initialize of Cxxxxx University Library (CUL), cul-de-sacs, Lincoln University of Chicago (LUC), Jean Luc Picard, and Clu Gulager.  But creativity often doesn’t meet with hopes and dreams of attention seeking, so we get just FOX in the ordinal.

And that’s not even gematria. The actual gematria is 6+6+6=18.  A cheap method using the total randomness that infests conspiracy related gematria.  If a number can be misinterpreted into a desired number, you can count on that this misinterpretation will be performed.  And it’s all so pointless for the FOX wishful thinking.  There’s a perfectly fine 666 already in there without “cheating”:

Seriously, what’s the point of going through the crazy gyrations of claiming 6 and a 6 and a 6 IS 666 when there’s a perfectly good 666 out there.  There is an explanation for this.  In a fake attempt to legitimize their gematria, some clique leaders insist that it’s only proper to use the four base ciphers.  No more insisting credit cards and carbon copy ‘cc’ is a Freemason 33.  I haven’t seen Freemason content in so long I’m thinking it’s in storage in Freemason jars.

If only, and this amuses critics, there were an actual community instead of just calling themselves a community and then going off on individual confirmation bias fueled binges.  Something to standardize what’s what.  And especially put it in print that zeroes are officially dropped when needed for the narrative but can be retained for the narrative because the hypocrites really don’t want to feel bad about all those 201’s they never changed to 21.  Maybe if there were some sort of Gematriapedia.  An open source catalogue of everything gematria related where certain rules could be put in place so we could take these clowns more seriously.  I would contribute to that.  A front row seat for the constant edit wars, because just like people in this government administration they can never agree on anything.

I was kind of hopeful that Grokepedia would come to their rescue.  Musk’s alternative is loaded with articles.  Considering that conspiracy gematria fiddlers and Musk both hate Wikipedia they can have control of the gematria content there.  Test the waters until an independent gematriapedia is created that won’t be re-edited on a daily basis.  But there’s this roadblock.

Large Language Models scrape the internet for training data.  And the hated Wokepedia, as Mudk has called it.  Is the primary source for Grokepdia’s scholarly writings.  Wikipedia isn’t perfect.  But it’s a lot better than anything else out there like it.  If you aren’t deliberately searching for something politically divisive and looking for straight up facts it’s pretty good.  If you aren’t deliberately searching looking for politically divisive content, let the browser beware.  That screen grab is at the bottom of Grokepedia’s gematria article, and the, “I stole this from Wikipedia” AI signature is all over Grok content.  And I personally don’t trust the guy who tweaks his coding on X that results in the Mecha Hitler incident.

Finally, the gematria article is decent.  Like Wikipedia it doesn’t reference Qanon or Jesuits rigging sports, or other slanted nonsense.  But that is a danger with LLMs.  A bad actor in charge of forcing an advertised independent and factual article can force propaganda into it.  There are probably people doing that now.  There’s too much money at stake for that not to be tried.

 

We Truly Are In the Golden Age of Grifting

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The unholy matrimony of money grows on trees thinking versus woe is me take care of my selfish needs today.

In one corner we have the SNAP benefits government shutdown saga.  There’s a lot more to the government shutdown and the other outspoken problems.  Air traffic control understaffed and overworked for decades.  Lack of effective regulation and investment in infrastructure because CeOs NeEd MoRe PrIvAtE JeTs AnD gOlF aNd A fOuRtH MiLlIoN dOlLaR mAnSiOn instead of running a company with long term sustainability in mind.  But gematria to the rescue because we had this the past week:

Over six hours of video, most of it with nothing to do with Zach or gematria, that can be correctly answered, “No” and left at that.  Two seconds move on with life.  A slightly lengthy answer, the gematria answer, would be either to find a narrative that the SNAP benefits will resume soon and a counter narrative for the government shutdown will continue for a lot longer.  Then wait until we see what actually happens and claim you predicted it.  The real life social issue version of picking both teams to win in tomorrow’s NFL games.

Within that lengthy video is commentary that is spreading a lot on the pessimistic YouTube arena.  Poorer people desperate to feed themselves and their families, a mix of genuinely actual at risk now as well as what you call middle class feeling the pinch and worried about becoming the genuine at risk - that’s an entirely different breed of angry than what the U.S. is used to.  The narratives about increased expectation in crimes from shoplifting to make ends meet to full blown food riots are taking root.  And it’s worth pointing out that a gematria story about any sort of resolution to when SNAP benefits resume does diddly squat about how it’s going to affect your personal finances.

EXCEPT.  Gambling has reached epic proportions.  The Robin Hood banking app offers gambling.  For now this is worded diplomatically as something like, “Blurring the lines between investment and gambling.”  Which is itself Orwellian doublespeak for “It’s  fucking absolutely gambling, but it’s sanctioned by the blooming authoritarian leadership so don’t you dare call it anything but investment.”

Coffezilla video on gambling epidemic:

https://youtu.be/9Ii1ROzeSwU?si=f_ML_fqP2PpLB7Hc

Now in addition to hidden traps on traditional sports betting, things like the endless prop bets and teasing on top of the actual more normal win or lose the game you can bet on all kinds of not sports stuff.  Elections including papal enclaves, pop culture like award show winners, and even when the government shutdown will end.  If it can be argued about at the bar where you can conflate your subjective opinions with actual facts, you can bet on it and simultaneously be a total bad ass genius, even if you lose.  We aren’t going to be surprised if it turns out gematria sports has been secretly funded by sports betting companies.  There’s too much easy money for this to go away.  Ever.

On the other hand, there’s gambling with retirement savings.  Like sports betting any influencer willing to take up sponsorship dollars is going to put up a disclaimer saying you should be careful with gambling, retirement advice is going to warn of investment risk.  And retirement scams are reaching epic proportions.

https://www.psca.org/news/psca-news/2025/8/scams-against-seniors-increasing-dramatically-ftc-warns/#:~:text=Scams%20against%20the%20elderly%20have,have%20been%20growing%20in%20particular.

I’m sooooo much smarter than these poor people!  Don’t you date mess with my investment rate of return!!!!  Yeah, maybe you should hedge that stock portfolio with a Polymarket bet on when a food riot breaks out.  I personally find the people in this category more annoying to deal with in  my everyday life.  The concept of the traditional retirement is evolving.  A million dollars goes less far than it used to in retirement than before.  But the ads before YouTube videos still hold that out as the magic number.  The difference now is WHEN you retire with a million dollars.  The job market is totally screwed now, globally.  There’s more people than jobs.  The number one thing to go for cutting costs is staff.  People rioting for food don’t tend to drive healthy investment markets upwards.

Clearly, there’s adults in the room to rationally discuss the issues are absent.  And finally there’s enough sustained protest and objection that show the more average of us recognize the core issue.  The wealth distribution systems are not working.  And the current so called leadership is not working on it.  They don’t have any intention of working on it.  Humans are pretty resilient and change will happen, but WHEN.  And what that will be is waiting for a gematria decode so we can pinpoint what is WRONG and narrow down what is RIGHT.

Prop Bets And Teasers - More Sports Betting Gematria Nonsense

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You don’t need to get too far into the video for the relevant commentary.  And boy, if you’ve been waiting to start your own sports gematria grift you don’t need to go too far.  The material about prop bets and teasers is in here.   This is the master in action reciting how he adds prop bets and now teasers into the mix.  More numbers that might be.  More different magic numbers to hit.  And then you just need to weasel your way out of the fact that your misses far outweigh your hits.

As the creator and narrator of the video says, it’s almost like he picks everyone on a prop bets to score a touchdown.  If you’re into making a bunch of prop bets you’re almost assured to lose out in the long run.  Or be evenish or a little up while the total pool of prop bets like everything else is calculated out for the house to win.  Calculated by people who know what they’re doing with real math and statistics on their side.  If you’re just doing it once in a while for fun, cool.  But when added with the not so magical gematria narratives it turns in to a potential psychological weapon.  Make 10 prop bets.  Two hit.  See!  I was right!  My two suggestions pulled through and you’re a sucker if you didn’t join the advanced $20 a month tier for that information!!

But actually the interesting thing here is the addition of teaser bets.  That’s where something like take the bookie spread and bump it up by a little, a point or two, and it increases your chance of winning, but at a cost of lowering the payout.  And that reminds me of the way gematria gurus use date numerology for dates of death.

Back in the good old days when a billion people were putting out competing information about deaths, you could pick TWO different dates for the date of death.  The Gematrinator calculator still has this feature.  Do you include the end date or not? 

The span would be starting with some arbitrary starting date (birthday, some type of anniversary, dates regarding the Jesuit order).  And if you wanted to dress it up and be a little different than the other copycats looking at what Zach or Derek were saying you had an excuse to change 87 to 88, or 200 to 201, etc….

With a teaser bet, we’re applying the same “I get to choose multiple hits and still be right” logic.  Although the pick will be made based on the official point spread, you’ve been warned it might be a good idea to tease the spread up.  You need to properly translate the presentation of a teaser bet.

They’ll say:

The Bengals are a 7 1/2 underdog , but if the Chiefs win by nine than <something something gematria bullshit mumbo jumbo> so you might want to tease that up to 9 1/2.

They mean:

If the Bengals lose by 8 or 9 I’m still counting it as a hit.  Despite just telling you to take the unteased Bengals at 7 1/2.

And this is nothing different than other sports book gambling self proclaimed experts do.  They just don’t treat you to a meaningless gematria narrative along the way.  So they’re missing out on the chance to throw in a little right or left wing propaganda along the side depending on what’s in the news.  “Rituals” surrounding sports celebrity deaths still are and always be a thing.  People are that gullible.

Tragedy In the Global Chess Community

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The following is mostly my own opinions, even though many of my thoughts echo the sentiments of both the ordinary crowds making up the huge player and fan base of the chess community as well as known and respected chess celebrities.  (Grandmasters, YouTube content creators and the like.)

On October 19th, 2025 Daniel “Danya” Naroditsky passed away suddenly.  On that same day the speculation had already started, although between the shock and the respectfulness he and his family and close friends deserved the rumor mill was held at bay for a couple days.  The prevailing opinion is that Daniel committed suicide.

And sadly, this is conspiracy theory adjacent, since the pattern is quite similar to the way someone like Alex Jones has operated.  A few years ago, Kramnik became the self proclaimed savior of chess with a focus on stopping the rampant cheating.  He’s not wrong, the same type of personalities creating entire poker sites dedicated to fleecing people via AI have been working at chess - a new base of interest having exploded during Covid lockdowns.  And if you’re knew to the psychology involved hang in here and you might learn something.

Kramnik is a former world champion, a title legitimately earned with hard work and an abundance of natural talent he was the one to finally dethrone former world champion Garry Kasparov.  Kasparov arguably being the greatest to ever play the game.  (Personally I put him at #2 behind Carlsen.). But this was in the era where most serious tournaments were “old man’s chess”. You would literally play a game for hours before it concluded.  Kramnik’s public media posts come off to many as an aging pro who has lost his top notch abilities, completely natural just like physical sports.  And it’s difficult to read his written material without finding the touch of arrogance (which could be misconstrued as competitiveness) and the narcissism of a former star yearning for his former glory.

On the other hand, Naroditsky was a demon at the board for blitz chess.  Or rather the computer, because if you’re going to crank out dozens of blitz games in a few hours it’s much easier to play online.  His resume includes some impressive results in well attended Blitz tournaments.  Formidable enough at slow time controls, he was well known to have the particular skill set to excel at blitz, such as winning the game by playing well rapidly to run out the opponent’s clock.

Kramnik has taken it upon himself to focus on Daniel as the primary target for baseless cheating accusations.  His personal recaps on video are merely anecdotal and subjective evidence, therefore flimsy and weak.  He’s displayed a remarkable aptitude to misconstrue statistical information.  Personally, I believe this to be willfully misconstrued.  Much like a gematria using MAGA or an Alex Jones finding people to harass Sandy Hook parents troll he has a supply of diehard keyboard warriors more than willing to repeat whatever he says.

For more than a year, Daniel Naroditsky had online harassment directed at him, the source of which can by video evidence and other parties be shown to be Kramnik himself.  And although the screenshot shows he’s apologetic, any sympathy is hollow bullshit.  Bullet point #1 is simply not true.  It doesn’t even matter what the rest says.  Like gematria making up fake evidence or Jones crying hoax and false flag, Kramnik has a vested interest in his reputation.  And that’s not the reputation of being a nice guy, it’s his self appointed crown of being the bestest ever at catching online chess cheaters.  And there’s a reason you’ve never heard about something like him being the chairman of a foundation dedicated to chess cheating.  Twisting him being the source of Daniel’s negative state of mind into, “I’m the only one who tried to help.”  The conspiracy theorist style hypocrisy.

Daniel isn’t even the first victim of Kramnik this year, as another notable player, David Navarra, was brutally attacked a few months ago in much the same manner.  One of the top U.S. players, Hikaru Nakamura, was targeted.  That died down because Hikaru is pretty feisty and extremely self confident and brushed it off.  It looks like it’s not sufficient to be a competent speed chess player to get in the radar.  You need the trolls to find someone that you can get in their head, become a constant background irritant like a sand flea that you can’t get to.  And that quality, is

If you’re a nice guy snd competent, watch out.  Daniel was a fantastic commentator, coach, author, teacher and beloved by anyone who doesn’t worship Kramnik.  And that’s kind of the point.  Numbers wise a smaller scale than the online army Jones built up.  But it’s still an empire based on lies and disinformation.  Danya’s empathy shown through and that makes him a target.  Instead of a quality that should be a positive trait, one of the big rules of conspiracy style content is nice guys must finish last.  You don’t get away with being a conspiracy theorist by just ignoring the qualified, educated scientific opinion of a Fauci.  You must obey your cult leader and send out a death threat or ten.  You’re not a real man unless you wear your lack of empathy as a badge of honor.

The idea that you can cheat at a 5 minute per side blitz game is pretty ridiculous.  By the time you check what the computer says to play you’ve lost that extremely valuable asset in blitz - those precious seconds.

I offer this anecdote which I can track down if needed.  Magnus Carlsen loved to play against Danya in blitz chess.  There was pretty much this hierarchy in blitz chess.  Carlsen and Nakamura toe to toe the best.  After that maybe Alireza Firouzja, and after that Daniel.  On Carlsen’s wedding night after all the partying had finished he played blitz chess with Daniel.  Carlsen and the wife just had a baby boy.  While in the hospital waiting, Carlsen played blitz with Daniel.  You don’t get that kind of attention and respect from someone like a Carlsen if “you’re a big fat cheater and a terrible person.”

Officially there’s no final word that yea Daniel took his own life.  He was in record the day before admitting to taking Benadryl and having problems sleeping.  But so far its people are still quiet or have taken the time to voice that Kramnik was directly responsible for Daniel’s state of mind on the 19th.  The FIDE body has issued a formal statement about intolerance to harassment, but I doubt anything will come about with that.