Reading about all this I'm rendered speechless, numb. It's enraging. But then I thought about what is shown interspersed throughout the article and it's s a symbol of something perhaps even far more sinister. It is the ads you see peddling crap you don't need or want, and the lie that somehow by clicking the 'stop seeing this ad' or 'report this ad' buttons that that will solve the problem, only it doesn't, and the ads appear again just as before. Corporations like Criteo who lie endlessly. It's corporations that are the root of our rot, selling people false hope, profiting off of their misery and setting up the conditions for resentment that vomit up a creature like Trump to come to power. That's why cretins like Betsy DeVos look at the events of yesterday and laugh all the way to their villas in far away places, gleefully aloof that she and her ghoul of a brother, war profiteer and nation destroyer Erik Prince, don't have to account for any of the misery they have caused. As with them, corporations have made themselves unaccountable co-conspirators to the violence on display, funding candidates like the snot-nosed Josh Hawley to be the frontmen in this grand scam. They fund endowments at Harvard, Yale and Stamford so scum like Hawley can go there and get cover for the bile they spew. Phaceboo* is another example of a vile corporation -- among the worst of the players on the planet stoking this violence through their algorithms which amplify hate and give it a convenient outlet. And we let it happen. And so this is why, after January 20th, I am deleting my Gacebück account and will be off it forever. Many of you I have already befriended in person and I have your contact information, and many of you I have become acquainted with online. I feel confident I will remain close with enough phazspook friends without having to rely on this garbage platform because I have made it a point to use the god-damned telephone or at the very least email and text to have real connections with you individually. And let us not be deluded that the statements we make so pompously, myself included, make a scintilla of a difference in effecting change. So, there we are. Bye, faysebouch, and bye, Barch Zukerbirgh, you evil fuck. May you also rest in hell.
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