The Titanic thread
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TLDR Maga is a bunch of soy boys and Xi played them like a fiddle.
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Who would marry a sociopath but another sociopath? This is the wormtongue in trump's ear.
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Black monday.I just want to make it clear, my prediction of a stock market crash on November 3, is purely speculation & like I have previously said, I very well can be wrong on my timing.
It is just my own theory, based on the evidence I have provided, that leads me to believe it is to come on Monday.
Now, what is a guarantee, is that it will happen whilst the government is shutdown. The bank repo markets are surging, liquidity is drying up fast & it is a mathematical guarantee that it is going to blow up rather soon, it’s just a matter of when, not if.
On the geopolitical front, Venezuela is going to be struck, and there will with 100% certainty be a military operation to take out Maduro. The effect this will have on oil prices, coupled with the bank liquidity issues & everything else I have posted, will guarantee a crash.
Just wanted to clear that out of the way.
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It can be dangerous to believe things just because you want them to be true. - Sagan
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It can be dangerous to believe things just because you want them to be true. - Sagan
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It can be dangerous to believe things just because you want them to be true. - Sagan
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The entire economy and rule of law is all run on copium and they all know the gig can't last.
It can be dangerous to believe things just because you want them to be true. - Sagan
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This whole “don’t have a job, bet on yourself” ideology is the new religion of a collapsing system.
It’s the gospel of a generation that no longer trusts institutions - but still can’t imagine meaning outside of monetization.
It’s capitalism’s final metamorphosis: the spiritualization of the hustle. The corporate ladder is dying, so now the sermon says: “Be your own corporation.” It sounds rebellious. It feels free. But it’s the same master wearing your face.
Because think about it - what is “betting on yourself” really?
It’s turning your life into a perpetual start-up. Every thought becomes content. Every skill becomes product. Every relationship becomes a network node. You stop being human and start being a portfolio.
It’s not freedom - it’s the privatization of the soul.
That’s what this rhetoric misses. It isn’t that jobs are safe or noble. It’s that the alternative she offers is still inside the same cage - just with better lighting and a motivational soundtrack.
The real break isn’t leaving the job.
The real break is leaving the frame that says your worth must scale.
If you’re still measuring success by how much you can extract, grow, or automate from your existence, you haven’t escaped anything. You’ve just upgraded your chains.
And here’s the darker layer - the reason this message resonates so powerfully right now: people feel the collapse coming. The system is cannibalizing itself. Institutions, currencies, media, trust - all hollowing out. So people cling to the only illusion of control left: the self as enterprise.
“Own something. Monetize something. Become unfireable.”
It’s the survival instinct of a late-stage civilization that knows it’s running out of meaning.
But the next paradigm won’t be built by those who win that game.
It’ll be built by those who walk away from it - who realize that the system itself is unsustainable because it feeds on human exhaustion, financial anxiety, and perpetual motion.
The real power move is not scaling, but disconnecting.
Not becoming your own product, but refusing to be one.
And that’s the truth nobody sells, because there’s no way to package it.
There’s no affiliate link for wholeness.
So when she says, “Bet on yourself,” what I actually hear is:
“The system’s breaking. You’re on your own now.”
And she’s right about that - but she still can’t see the bigger revelation hiding inside it:
The next evolution of freedom won’t come from winning capitalism. It’ll come from transcending it.
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It can be dangerous to believe things just because you want them to be true. - Sagan
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