I would kill to read his sequel to Mein Kampf detailing his thoughts on shit.
This creepy jeet, Alok Vaid-Menon, has a thread here if anyone is interested.
I am the cheese man
I've been trying to get him to hang out with me more, he won't do it. He just sits around doomscrolling on his phone. He used to not be this way. It seems like things went to hell when he upgraded his phone into an actual smart phone that allowed him to play videos. People warn about kids getting hooked on their phones and believing bullshit, I think that's what happened to my dad.
I do take his opinions seriously, especially since I'm not great with math and don't understand the finer details of how economic stuff works. He's very smart, but he isn't infallible, he also thought Hunter Biden's laptop scandal was a conspiracy theory made up by Republicans, he completely bought into the covid hysteria, and now he thinks DOGE is going to take away social security and ruin his 401K etc. He believes Elon personally is in there stealing data and stuff. I wish I could break his phone.
I'm trying not to powerlevel too much here, but his job is to ensure his company's money is going where it is supposed to. He basically does what DOGE does but for one large single company, which is why I find his reaction even more annoying. His fears, as best as I can understand them, are that Elon is this crazy man that should not have access to American information, and he believes that Elon is working to get rid of social security and also sell off information to Russia.
My current theory is that this is due to China just allowing the 10 largest insurance companies in China to invest up to 1 percent of their holdings in gold
That just makes me think he's a lefty boomer. I'd just tell him you love him and are there for him.
What exactly would Russia want/do with information about my contributions to social security? What good would that do them? How would that harm me or the United States? How would that help Putin or Russia? What would make it worth risking a security breach to transmit this information to Russia?
Boomers have a tendency to think that just because something was right in the past, or it’s right for them, that means it’ll be right now, or for others. The “look him in the eye and give him a good handshake,” experience and neuroplasticity and all that.
Where does he get this from? YouTube? Business news sites? He should ask himself if his company, or any equivalent, would do what he thinks DOGE does if he trusts the establishment so much.
Well that's the thing, he's a Republican and always has been, but he's never liked Trump.
My dad gets his information from MSM. He 100% thinks CNN, The Washington Post, and NPR are the least biased sources out there.
You might be able to help him by using things that show how unhealthy doomscrolling is. His perception is going to be hard to change, but if you can get him to realize that obessing on it is unhealthy and there are many sites discussing how doomscrolling can be harmful. It be a way to help his anxiety and your worries without having to shatter his world view which may not be something you can do.
Maybe CNN or NPR has some articles on doomscrolling? Or would it backfire since they’d blame it on X and TikTok?
Ok then the sequel to that. You caught me, I'm a fake Hitler fan and am not caught up on the Hitler literary universe.
They actually do, but it's kind of off the wall.
Do you have a source? I have not heard of this.
I just don’t really see how this can be fixed in a logical way without outright banning all resales. But then again, I’m also someone who by pure coincidence resold two wristbands to the Las Vegas Harvest Festival(yes, that one) so I’ve seen both sides of the concert ticket situation
He should wear it the next time he meets Zelensky.
Rush was great. Even as a kid I liked him. He was so irreverent and brash. I drifted ledt in and after college but came back and realized Rush was formative for me.
This would be like Godzilla vs King Kong or Batman v Superman.
And I'm absolutely all for it. Fuck the boomers. These risk adverse faggots have allowed all kinds of fraud and shenanigans to take place in order to force line to go up. I'm perfectly fine with these faggots getting ass blasted.
