There is no English equivalent for Schadenfreude. It means to take guilty pleasure in the suffering of others when it is well deserved. We all know what that is like. We feel like it but don’t indulge it because we are not mean people. We are nice people. And yet, there are times when you just have to realize it: we are experiencing schadenfreude.
The occasion this time: Elon Musk seems poised to close the deal with Twitter. It gets better. Word on the street is that he will fire 75 percent of the staff. That 5,625 people who had the time of their lives for 30 months, languishing in their PJs, staying stoned, and censoring anyone who contradicts their pathetic undergrad woke educations, are soon to be out on their ears does provide some solace.
May all these 5,625 people who work at Twitter get a good send-off with a cake, a song, and a solid two weeks of severance. See? We are not mean. After all, most of them were misled. They came to believe that their job was to obey Fauci, the World Economic Forum, and the CDC rather than their customers and stockholders.
As a result, they were handsomely rewarded for violating our constitutional rights by cooperating with government to crush the First Amendment. They deplatformed doctors, scientists, and regular people who didn’t appreciate being locked down and forced to get the jab.
So sure, we take a slight bit of pleasure in seeing their careers go down in flames. It’s hard to know what they will do next. Would you hire someone with work experience that includes Twitter: 2018–2022? And before that only a degree in communications from Smith College? Yeah, I didn’t think so.
Hey, Dunkin’ Donuts is hiring. Of course, then they would have to learn how to do things like make food and pour coffee instead of having it just handed to them as they flash their bulging credit card balances that come at our expense.
The hardest part about their new lives is that they might have to learn how to be nice to actual customers. And guard the profitability of the company. Oh, and do things they don’t want to do!
Yes, life presents terrible challenges and they might now discover that.
But it’s not just these puffed-up commissars at this one company who will soon suffer. Tech layoffs are growing by the day. The last numbers I saw were in the 40,000s but it will soon be 100K then 500K and the magic 1M. It is happening, slowly but actually very quickly.
Thank goodness for economics. It is a hard wall. The balance sheet can be cruel when government is not there to bail you out. It sets limits on the demented dreams of would-be tyrants everywhere.
I hope for the best for Twitter under Musk’s control. He is going to have a real time of it. Is it really possible to take over a fully captured company and turn it to good? We’ll soon find out. The challenges are surely greater than he anticipates. He faces not only the CDC, CIA, and FBI, but also the wicked European Commission and its censorship laws too.
It’s certainly worth a try. Maybe such companies can be profitable after all. We shall see.
Another nice feature is the realization that karma does exist. What goes around comes around. The world will not forever tolerate injustice. Live by the sword, die by it. I’m sure you could come up with your own lessons. The point is that doing rotten things does eventually exact a price.
The multitudes of millions of lazy, over-credentialled woke and weeded-up bums who have been running roughshod over our rights and liberties may pay a price after all. The world can be righted.
We should all be particularly resentful at companies such as Twitter, Facebook, and Google for having wholly betrayed the vision of the internet at its inception. They won’t do evil, they all promised, and then they went ahead and did evil. And they experienced a high reward for it for years and years. The glorious hope of infinitely expanding free speech and innovation turned into a wicked cartel broadcasting government propaganda while silencing the rest of us.
Musk’s takeover of Twitter is just the beginning. There are multitudes of companies that need to be taken over and multitudes more that need to rise up. I’m particularly proud of companies like Rumble and Odysse that are challenging the YouTube monopoly. These days, they are the only hope for getting the truth out there. YouTube randomly zaps away anything its 30-something employees don’t like.
It’s all part of a much larger blowback that is taking place in the company and the world at large. In a fortnight, it’s all but certain that we are going to see an astonishing political upheaval, and not just at the federal level. In every state and every city and county, the same thing is happening. The censors, lockdowners, mandators, and corrupt machine parts that have been working behind the scenes to wreck our lives are going to pay a heavy price.
They too might find themselves slinging burgers and coffee mugs, not that there’s anything wrong with that. These are respectable professions dedicated to serving their fellow man, as the market is supposed to reward. And may they be handsomely rewarded following six months of training and personality reconstruction.
If all else fails, there is always IHOP and Waffle House. Of course, they too expect work and service.
Yes, these are sad times but wow do they offer entertainment. It’s nothing but delightful to see CNN and the rest of the mainstream news face grim earnings and a dying viewership all around. The same goes for BlackRock and its disgusting plan to subject every investment to the grotesque philosophy of ESG, which is nothing but a slogan for obsequious deference to ruling-class overlords who despise freedom and prosperity.
The more we discover about them, the more we loathe them. So as the blowback continues to gain steam, we are entitled to a bit of schadenfreude. We promise not to indulge it too much and get caught up in the joy that comes from the suffering of one’s enemies.
Still, after 30 months of living hell, a dramatic decline in living standards, and being forced to see the enemies of civilization parade around like victors on the world stage, it is just slightly sweet to see justice come for a few of them at least.
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