Chris Jags

I wish people would knock it off with the "history will remember you poorly" offensive.

No sociopath who's filthy rich and powerful cares if some scholar 100 years from now says something unflattering about them. Go after these people in the here and now.

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Show threadJanneke6h ago

@ChrisJagged
Chances are that scholar mainly reflects on the impact this bully had on:

* acceleration of green energy transition to become independent of big oil
* rejection of [american] big tech and support for free software and federation
* grass roots initiatives to strengthen (or in the case of the USA, resurrect) our democracies
* awareness in the general public of the oligarchy and the turning point of global consensus to tax the super rich

Please add to this list!

Show threadNicole Parsons5h ago

@janneke @ChrisJagged

Grandparents & great-grandparents like Charles Koch need their descendents kept in line.

Erode a Project 2025 dynasty & get descendents to see their parents & grandparents as the monsters they are.
https://www.desmog.com/2024/08/14/project-2025-billionaire-donor-heritage-foundation-donald-trump-jd-vance-charles-koch-peter-coors/

Tim Mellon still channels his grandfather Andrew Mellon's callous eugenicism & social darwinism.

Billionaires work very hard at keeping the greed & avarice within the groupthink they pass on to their kids

Historicians destroy intrafamily myth making

Show threadRobert H4h ago

@janneke @ChrisJagged

How about:

* starting a worldwide energy-based recession that set the global economy back several years.

* setting the stage for a nuclear war that ended human life

Show threadcognitively accessible math6h ago
@ChrisJagged But it's a nice way to wash our hands of responsibility. It's a version of THE GREAT PRINCIPAL WILL APPEAR AND PUNISH THEM ANY MINUTE NOW.
Show threadPatrick6h ago
@ChrisJagged It's a scheme perpetrated by the rich and powerful so that nobody stands up to them while they are alive and therefore let them get richer and more powerful.
Show threadBill Sharpe Gadfly5h ago

@ChrisJagged
Oh future history, I ❤️ love ya...
Bill

https://techhub.social/@OhMrBill/116347075454869235

Show threadJames Baker 🍁5h ago
@ChrisJagged Pfffft. As if there’ll be scholars in a hundred years… ha!
Show threadNick Silkey 📻 N5ILK 🪓🪵 🪣💧5h ago

@ChrisJagged in some ways, that's a coded statement justifying additional inaction by the statement maker.

You're right. Life is precious ... and here and now - let's go fix some thing together, y'all. 🙇‍♀️🫂✌️💙

Show threadFlock of Nazguls5h ago
@ChrisJagged Yep. And it also depends on who writes said history. Nail them all now, indeed.
Show threadKevin Russell5h ago

@ChrisJagged

No commentary is directed at, or thought to be read by, the corruption jellies with billions of dollars.

All commentary is directed at the battalions of "what the hell is he doing now, this isnt what I voted for"-ists.

And yes embarrassment, is an exposure-to-sanity device.

Expose wthihdntiwivf to sanity.

#dems #nokings #indivisible

Show threadMr. Lance E Sloan (IRL) 👤5h ago
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Show threadPevin Kinel5h ago
@ChrisJagged totally agree! and would also add that it cuts both ways, future AND past.
Like say, when every chocolate bar you can buy come from children working on cacao plantations in Africa, focusing on the statues of slavers from 200 years ago look a lot like a decoy so that business can go on as usual. But that's just my opinion
Show threadSusanna the Artist 🌻5h ago
@ChrisJagged “Will the memories of these good times sustain you as you rot in prison?”
Show threadThad4h ago

@ChrisJagged The old guard, your Trumps and Murdochs and so on, don't care. Guys like Musk and Zuckerberg and Gates do; they're obsessed with their place in history.

But they're still not going to listen when somebody tells them they're fucking up.

Show threadMark T. Tomczak4h ago

@ChrisJagged It's basically "God will judge you" for atheists.

... And these people are already in a place to counter-argue that if God's justice were real they wouldn't have succeeded this far.

Show threadGraeme 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿4h ago
@ChrisJagged I think Drumpf may care... Certainly he seeks approval and worship all the time.
Show threadAmoshias3h ago

@ChrisJagged ... who is this aimed at?

I mean, I don't disagree with you. I don't think ANYONE disagrees with you.

Show threadJackMex3h ago

@ChrisJagged

True.

On the other hand, this particular psycho wants to be remembered.
How will he be remembered? He doesn’t care.

That’s when I think on the possibility of another big kaboom, if you know what I mean. The guy would do it. 💥 🍄‍🟫

Show threadwendythedruid3h ago
@ChrisJagged The reality is, you are right. History will not remember you well argument, is sort of a shit statement, it does not really fix the shit in the now now.
Show threadDom 🦻2h ago
@ChrisJagged I dislike this phrase, too. The ruling class does everything it can to sanitize history to make themselves look good. I would give an example for the US, but the list is so long I can't choose important ones to narrow down. I mean, there are a dozen attempts to wipe historical references in US history books by the current administration and that's just in the last year.
Show threadts 🚇32m ago
@ChrisJagged yeah, action for sure. If we say anything along her lines of history, I’d rather point out that no one will remember them at all - regardless of how big they feel today