The psychological torture of war is nothing any human should have to bear. Russia literally attacked their brothers and sisters. It is such a disgusting display. I feel sorry for this lost soul. We, as a world, failed her.
Arms proliferation must be stopped. Standing armies need to be eliminated. The industrial military complex must be strangled until dead otherwise our future will continue to include death and destruction for profits.
It is called torture. As in they are increasingly using torture on women and children
Tens of millions of people are dying from just pollution alone every year. The whole world is in decline.
The US sucks for sure, but the decline of the Roman Empire took hundreds of years so I hope no one is expecting instant gratification.
At least he is truthful about not thinking. The whole nuclear thing is tired propaganda that no one that knows anything believes anymore.
Thanks, I didn’t catch that.
You peeked my interest and I did a little research. Needless to say your take is garbage apologist nonsense.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation_of_Tibet_by_the_People's_Republic_of_China
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/march-10/rebellion-in-tibet
https://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep06540?seq=12
China is on record in the 50’s stating that Tibet was a vassal state. Your denial of imperialism is outright pathetic.
Cool, more attacks on civilians. Good thing we are in a ceasefire otherwise this would be an act of war.
They recognize the country and then erase them from history. Mixed messages much.
They are supplying them with weapons to kill civilians. China is absolutely garbage just like the US or EU.
They are winning.
The industrial military complex loves this one trick.
Please take your faux caring and your unlicensed psychological advice somewhere else. You are acting like the assholes on Reddit who used Reddit care to harass people. Kindly get bent.
Oh look another user acting like an asshole suggesting they can diagnose mental illness from a comment. Speaking of stupidity.
While global warming itself may be a runaway event due to unchecked capitalistic endeavors there is no way you can attribute it to stupidity when the original scientists of the petro chemical revolution knew global warming was real back in the 1950s.
US companies have been playing the ignoring, denialism, and outright lying game for decades now trying to keep meaningful legislation from passing or being acted upon to address this problem.
What we are actually dealing with is the tragedy of the commons. Corporations lobbying against the science that they created is the very definition of malice and I would even go further and say this anti-immigration rhetoric in the first world is really about setting up a framework to ignore the billions of people that will eventually be displaced by climate change.
The cremation of care if you will. Absolving oneself of the consequences of your own actions that will harm others is by my measure malice.
Acting unhinged as well.
I think murdered his whole family would be more accurate.
Says the guy who called me a moron. This level of stupidity on your part is breathtaking.
Now you don’t have to watch playthroughs on YouTube because your game will just play itself… What an impossibly dumb timeline we have entered into.
Spain has pushed back against the Palestinian Genocide and has become the most critical EU country againt Isreal.
Of course the US has to make an example out of them before it spreads.
Don’t fall for the propaganda.
When you examine policy you start to see through the propaganda and begin to realize that the US and most of the world is not operating by the will of the people unless those people are wealthy and well connected.
https://www.princeton.edu/~mgilens/idr.pdf
https://act.represent.us/sign/problempoll-fba
This is why policy analysis can push back against or sometimes even reinforce feelings and the propaganda that drives people’s perceptions.
I like how you say it is not a pendulum and then describe a pendulum. I am getting the feeling you don’t like to be pinned down on any one topic. That is okay, but speaking in generalities is not the most useful rhetoric and one that I certainly engage in.
I am not trying to write a thesis on the many topics I have brought up, just bite sized digestible viewpoints that you certainly don’t have to agree with. If you would like more context I would be happy to give it to you as I have studied these topics for decades now. I don’t claim any authority or expertise though.
You are very much into the face of politics which to me is pure propaganda as I see very different motivations attached to actual policies and I certainly don’t think the US has exhibited any leftward motion since its inception. One example of this is welfare. It is primarily designed as social control. So providing food stamps is not really leftist when the reality is it is used to suppress the people.
I would say the founding fathers were very much proto-fascists with our first President well on his way to becoming the world’s first billionaire adjusted for inflation. If he had not died his sixties he certainly would have.
Our policies have always been right wing, and as I said before, even things like the civil rights movement was more of an appeasement than an actual change. We can see this in the most recent moves to strip away voting protections for minorities. If the government can strip these rights away so easily what does that say about these rights.
I find your hand waving of modern slavery away a little disheartening. Also, I disagree that calling the War on Drugs a slow burn genocide somehow takes away from the meaning of the word. The US has destroyed millions of minority families at this point. The intentions were clear and the results speak for themselves. The five acts of genocide are below.
Killing members of the group.
Causing them serious bodily or mental harm.
Imposing living conditions intended to destroy the group
Preventing births
Forcibly transferring children out of the group.
This is just one of many genocides the US has participated in. The US is still actively engaging in genocide with the Native Americans by separating children from families to this day with boarding schools. Also, don’t forget genocide with the sterilization of Puerto Rico and of course providing the Nazi party with aid in the extermination of the Jews.
Forever chemicals and plastics were invented and proliferated by the US. While other nations are also responsible to some degree you can’t deny this truth. What is even worse is the scientists at the time these chemicals were created had misgiving about the technology that industrialists where very aware of, ignored, and suppressed when necessary.
https://www.propublica.org/article/3m-forever-chemicals-pfas-pfos-inside-story
There are countless examples of this including global warming which was predicted at the start of the petro chemical revolution and later buried and denied by the US to such an extreme degree that people now doubt the science that was more or less correct since the 1950s. Your denial of the US hand in this is noted and also a bit confusing for me personally.
You seem to be offering a lot of counterpoints that reek of denialism. I am not sure if this is just reflexive of you or just a genuine lack of knowledge about what the US has done.
I think your musings about history are pretty spot on. Your examples of technological disruptions are well thought out. While history doesn’t inform us about AI it does rhyme as you and others have aptly put it. For instance, the parallels between how artists saw photography and how they view AI currently are eerily similar.
“This industry, by invading the territory of art, has become art’s most mortal enemy.”
-Charles Baudelaire in 1859
Naw, they won’t be satisfied until you pay to train their AI.