Did you read the post? The Spyware specifically targeted whatsapp, hence my mentioning it.

At this point, it’s hard to say. It’s still a bit early in the presidential cycle to ask if anyone has a plan for post-trump. You won’t really see that rhetoric popping up until early 2028.

Is it possible/likely the next admin will be able to repair America’s reputation abroad? Again, hard to say at this point. Anyone telling you we’re all fucked forever or whatever is a silly doomer. Even someone worse than trump couldn’t dismantle the kind of influence/power America has diplomatically irreparably in such a short time. However, to help inform us of how things might look in the future; every region is the world has pivoted to moving to be more isolationist. Distrust and tensions are and will probably continue rising. Corporate capture is continuing to be a major worldwide problem. Conflict due to climate change is also on the rise. Many conservative movements, strongly encouraged by corporations, are doubling down on old tech in energy infrastructure and strongly pushing a [kinda] traditional nuclear family. Now without consequences, corporations are jumping hard into enshittification. Polarization in American politics just keeps getting worse and so much more stupid. I think these are many of the major issues that the trump admin has been directly responsible for either creating or making worse.

Many of the elements that are currently changing the political landscape because of the trump admin really falls into two major categories: alignment of foreign powers and the problem of domestic corporations. NATO is likely to survive as-is. However, Europe is not only talking about becoming more independent militarily, they’re already actively making it happen. NATO will still be the primary military alliance for the foreseeable future, but if the American government continues to prove unreliable and the EU military reorganization is successful enough, I don’t see NATO continuing to be relevant. As for the trump admin cozying up to dictatorial states, I don’t think those relationships are sustainable due to their very nature, let alone the kind of attitude a Democrat administration would have toward those countries. More neutral countries are finding the increasingly unstable nature of American politics as a kind of vindication. While they aren’t exactly running into China’s arms or whatever, they’re certainly using the time of trump’s second term to ‘play both sides’ and are building some economic goodwill with China. Optically, China is looking pretty alright right now. It’s nothing that will guarantee China true superpower status that the ccp seems to be so horny for, but they can be kinda comfortable with their current position. Their aggressive rhetoric and economic practices will continue to hold them back in the eyes of the rest of the world, though. Russia/Putin? lol.

So, all these things considered, America losing superpower status is extremely unlikely still. The dollar still reigns, the American military is still oversized, and American political influence is still very strong despite being weakened. Life in the west is still too comfortable to shake up the world order. While the trump admin is really fucking it up, the infrastructure to leave American hegemony is still fairly nonexistent. China is still not trustworthy and just not really built right for the task. It seems American allies are kinda holding their breath for the next admin to be more cooperative because they don’t have much of a choice. However, for Europe being put in this kind of position, it seems as though it was enough of a wakeup call for them to seriously make an effort to build themselves an exit. Canada is kinda geographically and economically stuck with the US. And Australia? lol, their government officials are basically just as unhinged as their American counterparts. While the political rhetoric of traditional US allies has been pretty vocal about permanent loss of trust in the US, it’s far from being so irrevocably broken as to kick the US out, less so because they don’t really want to leave, but more so because American power and it’s resilience tends to be underestimated somehow, realistic and desirable alternatives don’t exist, and the amount of damage trump can do/has done is usually blown wayyyy the fuck out of proportion. American hegemony isn’t under existential threat, but it has been weakened. Less like “THE CRACKS ARE SHOWING” and more like HP is at 95%. I’d keep an eye on how things develop over the next two years, but the needle only just showed it’s ability to move.

Anytime I see someone describe some form of software, I do generally understand what they’re trying to mean, but I can’t help but think of it as software that runs so inefficiently that it consumes a ton of power.

Also, hey man, stop using whatsapp.

Hitler and king Leopold are great answers. The things they perpetrated are very difficult to stomach. I consider myself someone who is fairly desensitized, especially growing up during the wild west of the internet. Unit 731, though? I can’t. Absolutely the most vile humans to have walked the face of the earth. Humans aren’t born good or evil, but rather have potential for either. The fucking shitstains of unit 731 found a way to maximize the human capacity for evil. Naming anyone in that group is the correct answer.

I’m just… so tired. As a non-tankie leftist that loves space, I only find pain in the industry. From the “commies” in the USSR internally competing themselves to death, to the amazing strides in historic American spaceflight being powered by LITERAL NAZIS, to the stagnation of space innovation because of capitalist dickheads dragging out government contracts, to space funding and long-term projects being at the mercy of political football like this. Also the most advanced, successful, and innovative launch provider has their name attached to a fucking bitch-ass wannabe nazi edgelord. Also, most other space fans are either bootlickers or privileged dickhead “i JuSt DoN’t LiKe PoLiTiCs” types. Also, there are so many ways to be more environmentally friendly with space that are increasingly being ignored. Also, the involvement of capitalism making Kessler syndrome an effective inevitability. Also, most other leftists’ aggressive ignorance about the benefits and importance of space in favor of the unspoken premise of attaching anything space program to ‘right-wingness’. Also, the general public just being so ridiculously apathetic toward something that benefits literally everybody by gigantic orders of magnitude. Also, tankies and their extreme ignorance as to what a “space race” even is.

I’m just tired, man. Please just fund space good, thanks. Also, please fund clean orbit program many good, thanks.

Well, that’s not really how that works. SpaceX doesn’t compete with NASA. In fact, a good portion of funding for their programs comes from NASA. And to call SpaceX the temu of space is pretty silly considering how much more reliable and advanced they are as a launch provider over everyone else on the planet. They’ve dramatically dropped launch costs in the last decade, made landing first stage boosters a boring routine thing, and caught a flying skyscraper from the sky three fucking times. Everyone else is just so far behind and still trying to play “old space” where they drag out government contracts on super dated hardware. Unfortunately, they have a real piece of shit attaching his name to them, clouding the judgement of SpaceX because of their [extremely warranted and correct] hate for elon. Also Unfortunately, that same dipshit might run them into the ground now that he’s making them go public.

I get the hate considering basically literally every other company he’s had a hand in has been pretty shit, however, SpaceX is an exception. And it’s in no small part due to the execs at SpaceX doing a decent enough job of keeping nazi elmo away.

This is so catoonishly evil that if you write something like this in some dystopian movie or game or whatever, you’d tell those edgelord writers to calm tf down. Like seriously, what the fuck.

Well, at least he’s dead. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

I don’t know who that is, but if I could verify/clarify by looking at their post history, I’d probably block them if what you say is true… ohhhhh hey, looks like the dipshit himself commented on this very post like an edgelord and is conveniently the most downvoted comment.

Joke with a message aside, I noticed I already had downvoted the guy multiple times before. Looks like he likes to post ai slop as well and becomes a combative baby bitch when called out. Even better, some of the ai slop uses the “hUmAn BaD” trope. And I did indeed check up on and confirm the cropping out artist credit. He’s a combative baby bitch when called out on that, too.

Guys, look! He’s so cool! It was a post about how much of a dickhead he is and he still upvoted, what a Madlad(inc)! Even taking a stand against all those invasive ads like uhhhh… an artist’s signature on their own artwork. It’s basically the same thing as those overly sexual ads for dishonest mobile games cramming themselves into videos made for kids, amirite??? He definitely understands the ethical principles of advertising without lazy hasty generalizations.

Also, it’s such a great idea to comment on a post about your own shitty behavior. No one takes that opportunity to look at your profile to verify the behavior themselves. And it’s not like when you comment to identify yourself that you give a convenient link for everyone to block you without having to look you up. Truly some kinda 5d chess move. I tip my fedora to you m’sir.