Alright. Sounds like a good time for folks to strike back at the global hegemon. Please, hit us while we’re down.

JFC. When are Democrats going to realize that they need to stand for something? They are just constantly too afraid to advocate for a point of view. Stop with the consultant-brained 5 dimensional chess bullshit and just make an argument. Persuade people of the merit of your worldview. In other words, lead.

The only thing I’ve changed is that I’m only going to be voting for people that I actually support, and my support is now almost entirely based on policy. I’m not doing the ‘hold my nose’ harm reduction strategy anymore. It’s become clear to me, after decades of failure, that such a strategy only breeds a middling, unprincipled leadership that stands for nothing and enables the fascist right. I also now embrace litmus tests, like the Gaza issue. It’s an effective shortcut to understand whether a national candidate is corrupted.

So for example, whereas I voted for Harris in ‘24 despite her awful foreign policy and disingenuous domestic policy, I will not be doing that again. Democrats need to do better.

Why doesn’t the international community ever do anything about the outrageous violence perpetrated by the US against this small nation?

I imagine that charging to disable all of the AI bullshit entirely would be a better business model.

When he leaves office there needs to be action to seize all of the ill-gotten gains that he, his family and colleagues have acquired. Any serious candidate wanting that office must have a serious, sweeping criminal investigation in their platform or they’re not qualified. Death is no reprieve either. When his bloated ass finally kicks, he needs to be prosecuted posthumously and the family needs to be torn to pieces. Claw all that money back and dump him into corner to be studied and ridiculed for all history.

What an interesting contrast to the US government and its extended ruling authority which is well known as a model of unity.

Good.

This is probably fake fear mongering propaganda from the feds designed to:

1.) manufacture consent for their war of choice 2.) excuse problems from ever crumbling infrastructure here in the US

That being said, Iran has every right to do this and worse, given what we keep doing to them.

Please please please understand that when you see media stories about stuff like this from AI companies, this is PR. They wrote this story and pitched it to media outlets. None of this is real. OpenAI does some version of this every six months or so. It didn’t happen. It’s fiction designed to attract attention and seed the idea that their technology is oh so powerful, so scary powerful that even they might not be able to contain it. This is meant to attract investors. That’s it.

I worked in technology PR for eleven years. That was before the AI bullshit, but it’s the same game. Believe me. There was a brainstorm meeting when they came up with this and someone wrote it on a whiteboard (or maybe these days it was a figjam). Actually, now that I think of it, they probably just had Claude write the pitch.

It. Didn’t. Happen.

Also, be aware that the media outlets reporting this slop also know it’s bullshit.

“hostile takeover” using the communication of ideas and persuading people to vote — so, literally ‘democracy’. Disagree on policy all you want, but if you’ve got a problem with the act of democracy, I humbly suggest that you aren’t a “Democrat” and democrats should ignore any guidance from you.

Boycott, divest, and sanction is just a start. I suggest adding: blockade and invade. The world should not tolerate a violent, bigoted ethnostate whose organizing function is displacing, torturing, and killing people for real estate.

I enjoy being busy…doing the things that I want to do, not the things that i have to do to earn income. What an asshole.

In the US, the president gets to decide what you do with your money, I guess.

Over-emphasizing metrics about employee submission and control is another clear sign of the decay of social order under capitalism. This is a society whose organizing functions have no direct concern for people’s wellbeing. These employers deserve every scrap of contempt they foster.

For the record, I hate fascists like Netanyahu and the Israeli government. It’s okay to hate such evil people because of their actions.

Does anyone have tips for how to identify (and avoid) sites that use shopify?

Sounds like the president is telling us that opposing pedophilia is a communist position.

Answer: Most or all of the innovations they’ve introduced would have been developed by entities that aren’t run by a literal nazi, and who aren’t continuously defrauding the government, breaking securities laws, ignoring environmental laws, absolutely incinerating cash, derailing the Artemis program, prosecuting the largest rug pull in history, and serving as a last refuge for the other failing businesses in Musk’s financial house of cards.