Comment on Trump, 79, Rants Incoherently About Robots and AI

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• WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This is not “pettiness”. This is all part of a multi-generational psychological warfare operation to brainwash the working class and implement totalitarian dictatorship — started by the Koch Bros, Roger Ailes, and Rupert Murdoch several decades ago — and the fascists are winning; facilitated by “liberals” who are mostly a manufactured opposition, financed by the exact same corporations/oligarchs.

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  • Kyrgizion@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The rhetoric that politicians are idiots and they don’t know what they’re doing is also damaging, because it makes people assume stupidity rather than malice.

    But it is malice. The incompetence is real, make no mistake, but malice is in fact the end goal.

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    • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      When profits are involved, always assume malice.

      The only time you should assume stupidity is when dealing with family, friends, colleagues, frontline workers, etc; basically anyone you interact with who wouldn’t profit off the malice (eg the sales person will lie to make a sale).

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  • dukemirage@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Never believe that anti-Semites [read: fascists] are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

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    • NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      • Charlie Kirk RIP

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      • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Rest in piss indeed

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  • Mihies@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’d say educational system, or better, it’s downfall through decades, plays a significant role in making population dumb enough to not see through these constant lies.

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    • edwardbear@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s easy to control sheep. Machiaveli wrote a literal guidebook in the 1500s. If you dumb them down and destroy free thought, you can rule as you see fit.

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    • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The multigenerational operation directly involves the defunding of, and attacks on, education. This isn’t a this or that situation. ALL conservative and neoliberal policy since the 1970’s is about destroying the socialist/liberal/democratic advances made pre-1970’s, and returning the working class to ignorance destitution; much easier to control mentally-ill morons (see MAGA).

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• JensSpahnpasta@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It feels like some edgelord 4chan trolls have taken over the government

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  • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Exactly what happened. What are we going to do about it? I plan to create a self-sustainability community to at least drain their leverage a bit.

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• Quokka@quokk.au ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Do you think anyone could shoot her an email asking for comments on shit?

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