Gabriel Winant

Thanks Peter!

This much they’ve been honest about, it’s in the name

Also that shit was DARPA funded. The pentagon is doing folk tales

So they put a model in a body in a virtual playroom and then did like, object permanence games and so on. Bro you made Pinocchio

I heard a talk last year by a development psychologist whose thing was, why do we expect AI to be born adult, we’re born as kids? Let’s give a model a chance to do kid stuff and put it through developmental psych experiments

doesn't make the headline for some reason but the Trump administration confirmed on the record that they are running an explicitly whites only refugee program, if you're wondering how things are going in the year 2025

Yes, but on you? Does it affect how you see anything, to see the world tolerate such an atrocity?

It might be nice to resolve the Palestine question peacefully but the cycle from Oslo to 10/7 revealed the difficulties with that, so the alternative to peacefully is, this

My genuine answer is, while they perhaps found the violence distasteful, their higher priority was the geopolitical consolidation of the region in the US orbit, with the China rivalry (the admin's top priority) in mind. The main obstacle to that consolidation has always been the Palestine question

OK so what moral impact is the genocide having on you?

You know, election stuff

Right, why did they not for example try to cater to a constituency whose support was in question

You said "you have absolutely nothing" as though the genocide is not something of concern to yourself

A modern day Nazi revealed

But the way you have been moved is to see the escalating genocide as punishment for insufficient partisan loyalty? Or has it impacted you morally in other ways

Truly, I wish bearing witness to a world-historical horror would make some moral impact on you

I also wish Harris had won, and she might've had a better shot at doing so if she'd not been plainly lying about the mass slaughter of civilians. You can blame the disaggregated disaffected people who were put off by that, or you can blame her, the person who actually was in a position to choose

Why would they be doing something? They didn't before

The idea that the genocide is me “getting nothing,” that is a lesson to insufficiently loyal Democrats, not of major concern to you, is however the crucial point I’m trying to make. Thanks for illustrating

“It’s all a matter of perspective” is unfortunately not good enough in a situation of genocide though is it

I don’t think “imperfect” is quite a strong enough for word for cutting off food aid before a famine, arming a genocidal military, suppressing reports of war crimes, and blocking ceasefires. I’m not asking for a pass from you, I have no esteem for your view if you think that is merely “imperfect”

I’m asking you. Do you blame the people who have induced starvation for millions, or do you blame those who are starving

Why is accountability for the powerless people who desperately sought to stop a genocide rather than the people who actually could do so and chose not to?

I agree it is a man made crisis. The question is, which men?

Why is the terrorist organization the one that is willing to negotiate and has killed far fewer people; while the side that refuses to negotiate and has killed far more people, is the legitimate actor?

So your view is, the party that refuses to negotiate and opts for violence instead, is the innocent one

If the Biden admin had not vetoed security council resolutions had not suppressed internal reports of Israeli war crimes, and had cut off arms, you don't think that would have done it?

IDF ordered Hannibal directive on October 7 to prevent Hamas taking soldiers captive ***

Israel actually did kill some number of the civilians who died on 10/7 (www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...), but the more significant point is that Israel killed hundreds if not thousands of Palestinians every year before that

Yes to transfer: 82% of Jewish Israelis back expelling Gazans ***

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