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- Comment on EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google 6 days ago:
I get what you mean. You’re saying we’re sliding towards something that brings back political correctness in its original definition, and I agree with you.
The idea is to impose an avaricious financial-might-makes-right
This resonates a lot. I’d argue we’re already there. All this talk of “meritocracy” vs “DEI”, the prosperity gospel that’s even older, it’s all been promoting this idea of worthiness determined by net worth. Totalitarianism needs a socially accepted might-makes-right narrative wherever it can find it, then that can be the foundation for the fascist dogma/cult that will justify the regime’s existence and disregard for human life. Bonus points if you can make that might-makes-right narrative sound righteous (e.g. “merit” determines that you “deserve” your wealth, when really it’s a circular argument: merit is never questioned for those who have the wealth, it’s always assumed because how else could they have made that much money!).
- Comment on EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google 6 days ago:
You’re right but the example you gave seems to illustrate a different effect that’s almost opposite — let me explain.
The phrase “politically correct” is language which meant something very specific, that was then hijacked by the far-right into the culture war where its meaning could be hollowed out/watered down to just mean basically “polite”, then used interchangeably in a motte-and-bailey style between the two meanings whenever useful, basically a weaponized fallacy designed to scare and confuse people — and you know that’s exactly what it’s doing by because no right-winger can define what this boogeyman really means. This has been done before with things like: Critical Race Theory, DEI, cancel culture, woke, cultural Marxism, cultural bolshevism/judeo bolshevism (if you go back far enough), “Great Replacement”, “illegals”, the list goes on.
- Comment on bird based storage 6 days ago:
He’s great. Reminds me of Folding Ideas.
- Comment on Jell-OH MY GOD! 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on BREAKING: X CEO Linda Yaccarino Steps Down One Day After Elon Musk’s Grok AI Bot Went Full Hitler 3 weeks ago:
I hear it’s on the 2 year anniversary, meaning she probably waited for some stocks to vest or something like that. It also means her mind was made up before, but that she wanted to maximize her payout because it’s never enough for these people. I hate CEOs.
- Comment on Grok got a Nazi patch 4 weeks ago:
Saw that Onion Person doesn’t have the tweet up.
Asked grok about it and got a pretty standard answer that you’d expect from a chatbot. I even asked about each point in particular and the answers were good and detailed. Either Onion Person hastily shared a lie (then caught it quickly and deleted it), or grok got patched again. Given the lack of outrage posting that would confirm the latter, I’m going with the former.
Tl;dr nothing to see here, folks.
- Comment on Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman 5 weeks ago:
This. The whole framing needs to be pushed back against.
- Comment on Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman 5 weeks ago:
And what was his “merit” again (since that’s how they like to frame it)? Oh right, fooling people into voting for him. Just PR and courting big shots for campaign money.
- Comment on Millions of Americans Who Have Waited Decades for Fast Internet Connections Will Keep Waiting After the Trump Administration Threw a $42 Billion High-Speed Internet Program Into Disarray. 1 month ago:
Not at broadband speeds, that’s for sure.
- Comment on Suggestion 1 month ago:
I think you said it in the post: laughables. I like it personally.
- Comment on YSK: Non-violent protests are 2x likely to succeed and no non-violent movement that has involved more than 3.5% of the country population has ever failed 1 month ago:
Mostly peaceful, really, same as these. But obviously when you have literally millions of people protesting, there’s bound to be some not-quite-ok stuff happening in all the chaos. Property damage, stealing, that sort of thing.
There’s really no way to have zero violence at this scale, although I’d say there’s a distinction between property damage and violence (one is done to objects and the other to people).
Don’t forget we remember MLK protests as mostly peaceful too, but the media did not portray them that way back then either. The copaganda is ever present.
- Comment on YSK: Non-violent protests are 2x likely to succeed and no non-violent movement that has involved more than 3.5% of the country population has ever failed 1 month ago:
Didn’t BLM 2020 protests have over 3.5%? I don’t think they accomplished much except put pressure to prosecute Chauvin. Like literally just that one guy.
- Comment on 'Her screams…': Horror as innocent Chilean tourist in New York snatched by NYPD, 12-year-old daughter left alone on streets 1 month ago:
Thank you, you’ve articulated my feelings perfectly. The Democrats ratfucked everyone.
- Comment on YSK that after leaving power, Margaret Thatcher became a lobbyist for tobacco companies 1 month ago:
What’s this? Ranking Linux number 2? Heresy! /s
- Comment on What's yours? 2 months ago:
Nice try, FBI!
- Comment on China has introduced a drone that flies like a bird. The new invention could turn the drone industry upside down 2 months ago:
- Comment on Paul McCartney and Dua Lipa among artists urging British Prime Minister Starmer to rethink his AI copyright plans 2 months ago:
I read this as pro-piracy and anti-AI, generally speaking, since the former is for personal use (art should be free to share and enjoy) while the latter is for commercial use (you should not be allowed to freely profit off the work of artists).
- Comment on History Channel 2 months ago:
Stalinism was no extreme left. It was fascism, but with Marxist aesthetics.
Fascists are con men, and cons work on what’s popular with the masses. You can build an arbitrary dogma and cult of personality around anything, even Marxism.
I’d argue that Marxism is actually great for that purpose: it gets a lot of stuff right so it’s close to reality, there’s an us vs them dynamic already built in, and it’s just complicated enough to the average person that it makes it easy for an authoritarian con man to disingenuously simplify it, distort it and dogmatize it into basically a state religion. Then it’s just about pointing fingers to identify the enemy, i.e. who is burgeois/reactionary/etc and needs to go.
- Comment on The clueless people are out there among us 2 months ago:
I guess it makes sense. I wouldn’t understand you either from 50km away.
- Comment on On the Day He Was Fired as National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz Used an Israeli App to Archive Signal Messages 2 months ago:
I subscribe to this belief too. There’s no way in hell that an experienced spy like Putin would have any trouble manipulating the easiest to manipulate person on the planet (literally just flatter him). Plus, Putin is exactly the kind of guy who Trump wants to emulate, so he naturally looks up to him.
- Comment on The US is Collapsing Like the USSR – So What Comes Next 2 months ago:
They are kinda doing a version of shock therapy on themselves though. (On their own dick.)
- Comment on TIL about dating 3 months ago:
When asked for a follow up he just replied: “Denny Crane”
- Comment on Based tesla user??? 3 months ago:
This. This. This. So much this. There’s absolutely value in analyzing the individual level, like the effects of power on people and so on, but goddamn it’s probably also relevant that all the opportunity (ahem, “meritocracy”) ladders that can be climbed are just different sports in the Psycho Olympics.
- Comment on Angry, disappointed users react to Bluesky's upcoming blue check mark verification system 3 months ago:
IMO it’s not that blue check equals credibility, but rather it equals that you are who you say you are. This is a good thing particularly when it comes to public figures/officials — not for their sake, mind you, but for the sake of other people who may see a tweet from them. If the checkmark is there, then it’s them. If not, then it’s an impersonator. Right now it’s difficult to tell.
Tl;dr: it doesn’t make what they say real, it just makes them real.
- Comment on Facebook Pushes Its Llama 4 AI Model to the Right, Wants to Present “Both Sides” 3 months ago:
They’re either imposing a trend or following a trend. They can’t do both. So if they’re just mimicking support and they’re just following, then who’s leading? Who’s the boss of the LGBT mafia?
As for “forcing behaviors”, they’re not forcing anything more than some KPIs that can be skirted by hiring a consultant to do some bullshit sensitivity training.
- Comment on Facebook Pushes Its Llama 4 AI Model to the Right, Wants to Present “Both Sides” 3 months ago:
Ah yes, the CEO of Blackrock is definitely an ally to LGBT people (head of their “mafia” even, according to you) and not just cynically pandering to whichever way the wind is blowing for exactly the amount of time it’s beneficial to him and not a second more.
Just so you know, no progressive likes these evil companies or considers them or their CEOs allies. Their DEI initiatives are as fake as their environmental ones, it’s just virtue signaling. They don’t actually do anything for LGBT people — or any people for that matter, because believe it or not, real DEI includes white guys too! — they just adapt their marketing and product offerings to growing progressive sentiment. But the second the culture shifts, so does their “very serious commitment” to ESG/DEI/whatever.
And don’t get me started how the rainbow marketing is non-existant in countries without widespread acceptance of LGBT people, which you’d think would be crucial for them to do if they were actually ideologically motivated to spread it, right? (By contrast, think how MAGA-like movements exist in even the most progressive countries, and they push on regardless.) But this supposed “LGBT mafia” doesn’t push at all, they’re reactive to the environment and they shift gears the second it becomes a perceived liability: Musk, Zuckerberg, all of Big Tech and other supposed global wokeness spreaders, they all pivoted away from performative progressivism the second they realized it wouldn’t harm their profits.
So there’s your LGBT mafia chief. Got any more?
- Comment on Facebook Pushes Its Llama 4 AI Model to the Right, Wants to Present “Both Sides” 3 months ago:
New shiny trend like… unions?
- Comment on Facebook Pushes Its Llama 4 AI Model to the Right, Wants to Present “Both Sides” 3 months ago:
Are the LGBT mafia in the room with us right now? Who is their leader?
- Comment on Microsoft fires employee protestor who called AI boss a ‘war profiteer’ 3 months ago:
The fact that she’s a lady might actually save her from that hellish place because they apparently refuse to take women and turn them back. But of course there are other hellish places.
- Comment on Revealed: The shocking far-right agenda behind the surveillance tech used by ICE and the FBI. 3 months ago:
While they do play a part, race and gender are not the deciding factors here. This is clearly about class — and more recently, allegiance.
