And the people shucking AI now have just repurposed their crypto hustles.

Bingo.

It’s a new god for the poors.

Their leader is a democratically elected Jew, stupid.

Not sus at all that you have all of these articles saved and ready to go for this gish-galop nonsense, but I think you might be cherry picking in order to frame things a certain way given you’re completely ignoring that Ukraine democratically elected a Jewish leader…

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Their elected leader is Jewish, dummy.

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Those headlines arent, but this post is. Do headlines about far right Americans make the US a country of nazis, or would that be fucking ridiculous?

There were similar headlines about Americans at the time… and currently… does that make America a nazi country?

I will, thank you!

I see what you’re saying. It’s how people like Trump can convince them he’s after their best interests; from the things he says to what the news reports, they’re conditioned to not be concerned with data points that are “true”, so much as which data points work for them emotionally because the consequences are intangible and modern life is so automatic. Idiocracy, basically. Kinda funny that people always boogieman with slippery slope fallacy of “the end result of socialism is communism” while we watch the end result of this capitalist society become some mutation of idiocracy and authoritarianism.

Thank fuck!

I think you’re right.

I think I’m a bit confused by the fact that when I was younger my conclusion was that everyone is smart, they just need access to information, but that wasn’t true. They need to be taught to process information first. What we have instead is everyone in their own little virtual reality where facts are estimated based on what feels best, because too few people understand the value and necessity of critical thinking and instead apply religious reasoning and whatnot.

Good points, and to counter my own point: the source of a lot of the mis-education is capitalists attempting to maintain this lop-sided status quo… lol

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My bad!

To me the truly troubling thing about it is that I think social democracy works when people are educated, because educated people understand the role of trust, respect, and fear in the social contract. Unfortunately, we live in a world of half-educated, or frankly mis-educated people, that think magic thoughts about manifesting lottery wins and such. I think social democracy currently doesn’t work for the same reason communism wouldn’t which is that half of us are too stupefied to grasp the concepts. I’m not sure how to solve that, and alternatively (and somewhat tangentially) I despise people who lean into capitalism as a reaction to that fact. They’re a bunch of Erika Kirks to me.

I just think the reality of our social fabric reflects the need for a more socially-democratic approach for the time being. I’m a dummy though, and I’m always open to hearing other people’s thoughts on the subject if you’d like to share.