I wonder if there are any serial murderers who believe that they are doing a good thing while they are killing someone (and/or don't care), but then they read the newspaper the next day and are like "woah, this is terrible" when they are reading a report on the murder that just happened. You feel like a good person while you are killing someone, then after some time has passed and you have created a mental distance from the event in your head, you can say that it is a bad thing and be a double good person!
Whenever I try to imagine what's going on the mind of a serial killer I always remember this quote I found on Ted Bundy's Wikipedia page in the "pathology" section...
A significant element of delusion permeated his thinking:
Bundy was always surprised when anyone noticed that one of his victims was missing, because he imagined America to be a place where everyone is invisible except to themselves. And he was always astounded when people testified that they had seen him in incriminating places, because Bundy did not believe people noticed each other.
And in this pandemic I realized a huge number of Americans are like that too. They don't want think about the immunocompromised. They pretend that group is invisible and simply doesn't exist. And that goes for any other group they don't want to think about: incarcerated people, etc.
His view is probably closer to normal and correct than we would like to admit
I’d imagine a serial killer would feel good about reading the newspaper not because they can agree that its a bad thing, but because they’re seeing recognition for their work. Now i wonder if there’s ever been a serial killer who understood the mass systemic social death that we see here, and became a part of the bourgeoisie so that they could be responsible for it.
Bourgeois systemic deaths are too far removed for a serial killer - seems like the killing being personal and sexual is a pretty big deal.
Also practically all serial killers are dumb losers so I’d be shocked if any one of them could get to a position to influence those systemic deaths
Did having to waste vast resources in an arms race against a certain bourgeois dictatorship have anything to do with the collapse of the USSR? It's not something that just happened 🤷♂️. Fuck you.
Rant over.
"Struggle for shared prosperity" is a fun euphemism for grinding exploitation.
This transcends politics.
Material conditions transcend politics?
why does my brain zero in on that fucking crypto loser in the comments
I don't want to engage with the :brainworms: anymore why can't I look away
they're in almost every fuckin reply complaining about "left wing regulations" :what-the-hell: didn't get shoved into enough lockers clearly
Man in hot dog costume wondering who crashed the hot dog car
To be real tho, I doubt Larry Summer runs his own Twitter account.
I assume if I tweeted my title at him - he'd never see it. He strikes me as the sort of guy who goes into a rage if just anybody talks to him. He's a Great Man and he must be treated with respect and deference.
My wild hunch is that he uses his account as positive feedback loop and ego boost. In my mind's eye - I see him composing tweets and them emailing them to the minions that actually manage the Great Man's account. That way - when he says "What are the replies?" - they keep the Great Man happy by giving him only what he wants to hear.
Ninja edit: Or maybe he doesn't use minions. Maybe he gave the task to his wife. That is he's currently married right now.
Damn who would have thought forced austerity causes excess deaths?
mfw I find out the society-scale murder machine I've spent decades building kills people
Death to America
