I work with a PLC engineer from Venezuela, and though he is pleased that Maduro is gone, he and many people he know have serious reservations about the situation. In essence, nothing has changed since the rest of the regime is still intact.

It’s good to get others’ opinions on these things; too often do Americans get wrapped around the party line, and it hasn’t ever been quite so obvious as what has happened in the last few years here in the US.

Personally, I’m sick of the system we’ve allowed to be constructed around us. I can’t stand either side of this left / right thing, because the normies have completely lost the plot. These people don’t think critically, they will contort themselves into a full state of cognitive dissonance that they don’t even recognize. The sad part is, they don’t want out, and I suspect they actually think it’s morally righteous.

I’m pretty optimistic about how humans can survive in crap situations, but man, this is gonna be one totally fucked quarter century right around the bend.

Nostr gives me hope, but I’m not sure it’s the solution. A tool. Not a solution.

We have to be fully engaged with our families, jobs, local communities- places we can actually impact culture (unless you have a large enough platform to help spread an appropriate message).