Yeah I've got nothing but respect for his initial achievements and character. I'm not really an MMA follower but I saw some of his initial fights and interviews.
Not sure what happened since but it's clearly not good. I wonder if the kind of people you end up being around when you get that rich and famous are part of the problem. I'll never know so I can only speculate haha.
Yeah, they're all the same. Musk, Trump, crypto, religion, AI - they all offer a simple, easy solution to all problems. It's false hope, but it's reassuring and we're all susceptible to it given the chaos of existence.
Reality is complicated, politics is complicated, running countries is complicated, and no one has all the answers. We have to work on those together. No one person is going to solve all the problems we have, and these cunts absolutely don't give a fuck about you or me or the 'working man'.
It works because it's such an easy sell and it's easy to fall for it. I have before too. But being good at battering people and choking them out does not by default translate into being able to run a country (maybe thousands of years ago hah).
Thats the other aspect to these things. We tend to mistakenly assume that because a person is good at one thing, they're automatically going to be good at everything. People like Musk and McGregor are also very good at selling this, because they're generally talking to people who also have a limited understanding of the topic.
I honestly think if we taught local civics and critical thinking on a global scale you'd massively reduce this kind of problem, but who knows.
Ah, makes sense. I wonder how long he can slither around like this until it finally bites him hard.
Well, he certainly would be whether he realised it or not - if by that you mean easily manipulated by outside interests (like musk and god knows who else)
Looked him up. Agree 👍
Jesus could he be more vague and incoherent?
The people behind that startup are in tears strangling each other wishing they thought of this.
Seems like a good reason to put him in charge to me.
Interestingly, it seems the last government were sitting on a massive prison overcrowding crisis, and there is now talk of sending prisoners to Estonian prisons to ease it.
To be honest, I'd imagine that'd be an even stronger deterrent for these pissbags. I can't imagine an Estonian prison being very accommodating!
This whole idea of infinite growth is so fucking stupid because it's just not possible.
Nothing grows infinitely. It's a complete denial of reality, and because businesses refuse to accept the idea they cannot infinitely grow, we end with no plans for periods of no growth, which ends up in layoffs and the poorest getting fucked while the morons demanding infinite growth take all the money and try and do it again somewhere else.
Just waiting for the token drop 😂
Thanks for proving my point by responding with the classic go to 'rebuttal' when anyone challenges crypto: "you don't understand the tech!"
Cool. Let's save both of our time then. All the best.