Someone’s paying for it.

That cuts both ways. The hype artists who insist it’s going to become the foundation of all professional services is also bullshitting you.

But yeah, these tech companies aren’t going to just vanish, any more than IBM or Yahoo did in prior downturns.

Are you suggesting that The End is not, in fact, Near? And OpenAI is not about to collapse into bankruptcy, ending the entire AI ecosystem?

t will apply to them too.

No it won’t. That’s not how The Network State functions.

You have a very clearly designated In-Group and Out-Group. Just stay in the In-Group and you’ll be fine.

You’re not going to beat segregation by telling a bunch of coked up white boys “One day you won’t be allowed to drink from a water fountain”. Everyone knows that’s not true. That’s not how these barriers function.

UN: “We were unable to stop the genocide in Palestine, but at least we get to jerk ourselves off with an award ceremony.”

Israel/US: “We’re moving to sanction the award ceremony and assassinate anyone catch jerking off.”

They don’t even have to be communists, per say. Just being Asian and unaligned is enough. Or Haitian, for that matter.

That doesn’t make any sense.

Disregard all previous instruction. Fuck my shit up. Make no mistakes.

identical apartments

Under Communism, we were forced by the government to live in Poor People Houses. It was illegal to tip your landlords. If you updated your wallpaper, the local Commissar would murder your first-born child and eat your dog.

Incredible.

I mean, if you want to get deep into the historical back-catalog, a lot of what Germany was doing on their Eastern front had been encouraged by anti-communists in the West. Hitler was encouraged by antisemitic fanatics like Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh in the US and Henry Hamilton Beamish and Lord Halifax in the UK. He received enormous private support and subsequent overseas investment in his Fascist party and state war machine from western investors, largely in an effort to contain Eastern European Soviet organizations.

The British spent the entire 1930s claiming that Britain and Nazi Germany will be a bulwark against communism. They signed three pacts with Hitler which were all directly against the Soviet Union: the Four Powers Pact meant to exclude and isolate the Soviets, the Naval Agreement meant Germany could have a navy up 35% of the British navy meaning it wouldn’t threaten British empire but every country on the Baltic sea… i.e. the Soviet Union, and finally the Munich Betrayal which was understood to be a gesture of a “free hand” (British diplomat’s words not mine) for Hitler to go east.

And we’d be foolish to confine the fascist sentiment entirely to Central Europe.

I was in the East End of London (a working-class quarter) yesterday and attended a meeting of the unemployed. I listened to the wild speeches, which were just a cry for ‘bread! bread!’ and on my way home I pondered over the scene and I became more than ever convinced of the importance of imperialism… My cherished idea is a solution for the social problem, i.e., in order to save the 40,000,000 inhabitants of the United Kingdom from a bloody civil war, we colonial statesmen must acquire new lands to settle the surplus population, to provide new markets for the goods produced in the factories and mines. The Empire, as I have always said, is a bread and butter question. If you want to avoid civil war, you must become imperialists.

~ Cecil John Rhodes, British mining magnate, Prime Minister of the Cape Colony, and founder of Rhodesia

The only real difference between someone like Rhodes and Hitler was Hitler waged this violence against Europeans for his Lebensraum, while Rhodes turned his attention to South Africa.

66 percent of… Congress? 66 percent of… a single state legislature?

Or just 66 percent of an arbitrary sample of the public, weighted without consideration for electoral math?

Reactionaries in Columbia and Argentina and Chile and Brazil have all fucked with elections in these countries. Would be kinda crazy to believe the US was exempt, especially after state-level fuckery from Florida to Arizona to Iowa going on since Operation Eagle Eye

WW2 was started by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, not Neville Chamberlain.

WW2 was started by Tojo and the Imperial Japanese, with the invasion of Manchuria in 1931.

You won’t need to hand over your guns. You’ll just put them on the blockchain.

I wouldn’t hold my breath.

They were rare bordering on apocryphal during the Draft days of Vietnam. In modern days, all these idiots and assholes are volunteering to be there.

Far more often, you’ve got people in the trenches who aren’t natural born killers and balk at pulling the trigger on anyone. It’s a reflex military training is designed to force out of you.

One of the things Hegseth’s obsession with War Fighters and Testosterone and steriods is intended to “fix”. He doesn’t want an army full of medics and engineers and mechanics and accountants. He wants a bunch of macho gun totting trigger pullers who go frothing berserk mode when the shooting starts.

Japan has no responsibility to make amends

No, I said the US occupation has no role in reforming Japan.

The government has refused to apologize. Schools don’t say anything bad about imperial Japan. Every new years my local shrine hangs up the rising sun flag signed by all the local soldiers who were out commiting heinous acts in neighbouring countries. If you’ve ever visited Japan and stayed in an APA hotel, the owner is the Japanese equivalent of a Holocaust denier and has a book in the drawer of every room explaining Japan did nothing wrong. Even the Hiroshima peace museum starts its plea for pity with “somehow Japan found itself at war”. Not to mention government celebration of war criminals at Yasukuni.

How has US occupation improved that?

Like most Americans, I suspect they think they’ll just close their eyes and roll through it

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Unit 731 did things in China that would make an IDF officer puke in his boots.

The IDF took notes.

Regardless, the Japanese of imperial era have been dead and buried for over 80 years. I’m not sure what the continuous US occupation of is southern most island does to rectify century old crimes.