Political News, president bashing, etc... what a nightmare?
With all the political shit going on, and it’s been largely on my mind. Why not talk about it?
First and foremost, I think the whole system is corrupt. I have never voted, and will probably not vote until things have changed, drastically.
Why don’t I vote? Well, seeing I already think that the system is corrupt, but there is more information to it. When I was little, there was a classroom exercise that I remember vividly. It was during an election year, and they were talking about how the voting system works. There was one key point I remember thinking “What in the world?”. The key point that I took, our vote doesn’t have to be followed. To me, this mean it doesn’t matter. If someone up the chain wants something that the people don’t, he doesn’t have to follow what the people wanted. To me, that’s more of a “suggestion” to vote a certain way.
Next thing, the voting system. We are using systems that isn’t doing everything on our own soil. With that in mind, think about this past election. This last election was a cluster FUCK. I’ve heard for years that we use systems that were made outside of the united states to make it more efficient. This also creates a possible gap to where the data can be manipulated.
Whats the big deal about data being manipulated? Real world example, that I saw play out when I was working at Ingles. There was a DBA, Eric, he was working on the databases (obviously), and I heard “Whoops that’s not good” from across the isle. I went to go find out what happened. Turns out, the data being manipulated for points for the subs, was wrong. So some customers got 10 free subs.
Next, the validation: I have been in technology enough to know that ANY computer vision software (any software really) has flaws. Yea, I’m sure there are some that are ~90% correct. That’s still to big of a margin for comfort.
My biggest complaint is the news media. I believe that the media is partially if not fully responsible for what happened on January 6th at the white house. Why do I say this? Well, Trump has been acquitted for several days now, and daily, I’m still hearing negative and consistent things being said about Trump. With how the video clips were changed, and how the quotes where changed. What? Changed? Yea, by cutting off the clip or taking sub-contexts from speeches/letters/etc, it can change the meaning COMPLETELY. I think everyone knows that by like 15, if not sooner.
With COVID being rapidly spreading, America is in a state of ’tension’ that we have never seen. My brother jokingly said, “Watch, soon as the election is over, we will have a vaccine.” I don’t know if it was timing or what, but it REALLY made me think of “normal” Americans as sheep or cows. You know, one of the dumb farm animals that is ‘herd-able’.
That’s my concerns, views, thoughts. I’m genuinely concerned about this nations direction. I’m really hoping that this is a nightmare I can just wake up from.
