Americans … are absolutely normal.

I think you should recalibrate your definition of “normal”. It’s the banality of evil. Only the mad are sane in a mad society. Etc.

Imperial culture is deeply sick. The regime of USA was concocted by literal enslavers. The extreme privilege of the most mediocre people is fundamentally dependent on the exploitation of others and it always has been. Etc.

If this seems “normal”, it’s probably because you came up in a similar situation. But it’s not normal. It’s extremely privileged and it’s literally destroying the planet.

I don’t think they are lying in the technical sense, it all depends on what they define as “sandbox/continenment”

Redefining terms might not be lying “in the technical sense” but it’s still bullshit.

I wrote an incredibly powerful “AI”. I call it the “Super Intelligent brute force password hacker”… It’s so smart that it knows almost every password. Humanity stands no chance.

Maybe instead of crying about imaginary “AI”… These people should look into why our social lives are so toxic under capitalism that a chatbot is an improvement.

We’re in a timeline where Ogre from Revenge Of The Nerds has taken power over the country.

Yeah that happened in 1776. Literal enslavers concocting their regime.

MAGA is deconstructing the MIC? They’re ending the system of all R&D being funded by the Dept of War? They’re replacing violence, theft, and planetary destruction with meaningful progress?

Of course not. Krugman is full of shit as usual. He says as much in the second paragraph. Where has this dude been during the past couple years of genocide, etc? These worthless libs are largely how we got here.

Trump is in the process of killing American science. OK, that’s an exaggeration — but not that much of an exaggeration. The Trump administration’s latest budget proposal calls for a gigantic increase in military spending

Also: https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/iranian-kurds-deny-receiving-us-weapons-arm-irans-protesters

Gotta be detached from reality to think the following don’t exist in USA:

• martial law (eg. ICE)
• security state expansion
• changes to legal system
• censorship
• crackdowns on protests

It’s also very strange to act like USA is not involved in Ukraine, Gaza, Syria, Lebanon, etc.

This meme gets 1/5 stars.

they tend not to change their minds based on facts or objective reality.

It’s weird how much people expect the irrational to behave rationally. The state is literally committing genocide and waging war under the pretense of the old testament. I don’t think it’s even possible to act rationally under this death cult. Who can even take this shit seriously?

They’ll vote again for him and his ilk.

Ofc there’s no other option. They’re all of his ilk.

They really thought Iran was going to attack the US, possibly with nukes.

Ofc this disinformation is central to the hegemonic narrative and widely disseminated by NPR, NYTimes, etc. Not to mention the overtly fascist media.

Imperial media obscures the connection. I heard NPR talking about higher gas prices with ZERO mention of trump/iran. And, if they do mention it, they usually blame Iran at least implicitly but often explicitly.

YTs in the imperial core are not even close to being rational actors. They’ve lived their whole lives inside the bubble.

These are articles are for leopardsatemyface crowd. It’s simply about smug hur during. Nothing of value will be accomplished. Probably gonna get worse.

That’s a pretty weak headline tho. \s

The non-voters already knew that their votes were worthless and the system is rigged.

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Here’s one way that liberal fascism maintains control:

• Maintain control of everything
• If control is lost, create mass hysteria about “social media”, “kids,” “addiction”, “islam”, “immigration”, whatever, etc.
• Steamroll everything.
• Regain control.

It’s how they got TikTok, etc. It’s how they’ll try to get Lemmy, Linux, VPNs, etc. The wild part is how many lib “allies” will fully support this.

Yes, it’s a trap like everything else. It’s another front in the struggle.

pissiles

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I’ve been using Juk as an mp3 player and I’ve been using Picard (MusicBrainz) for metadata. I just switched to Nicotine for downloading and it seems great so far. (Previously I was using yt-dlp but the new YouTube API is harder to use and scarier in terms of getting banned.)