Worth pointing out Groks MechaHitler episode was triggered by a Nazi sock puppet (AI or human operated idk) role-playing a cringe leftist!
At this point the fake outrage cycle is not merely fully operated by the right but significantly automated too.

There are young people here but for _some reason_ they are all 17 year olds with an encyclopedic knowledge of state election results or international metro systems.

one thing about the genuinely liberal media is that it’s too focused on serious stuff. we need a media ecosystem that covers this the way Fox covers Sydney Sweeney ad hysteria

Maybe workers becoming a scarce resource needed to feed and wipe the asses of the senile gerontocracy will convince them we need to secure our supply from the developing world before China gets them.

Nil sum thinking is so foundational to conservatives and sadly low info voters. I think it’s why a redistribution warrior like Bernie reaches them better than growth oriented centrists.

The implications of this seem inescapably bad for immigration tho.

We should do this, we should call it a “Net Contributor Visa”.

I want you to close your eyes and imagine a scenario… Paris falls and France is defeated before Russia is even fully mobilized, we turn our entire army to the East Front.

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They’ll all get addicted to scrolling as soon as the parental controls come off. That say 18 years schooling without being in a constant fog of dopamine withdrawal probably matters a lot.

I think the real skill loss is just sustained focus which is medium agnostic as proven by all the educated elites addicted to this and the other site.

Maybe the “medium” skill level here is basically attentional. Being able read a book or long article without giving up from boredom. But the “elites” by any definition excepting post graduate achievement are already completely cooked in that regard as well as the average person.

I’m skeptical once you have foundational skills in reading and writing I feel that the “elite” skills apply to language per se rather than it’s written or spoken form specifically.

Wasn’t this dipshit cheering the Columbia and Harvard shakedowns last week?
Fine whatever welcome to the resistance bozo.

Like Indira Gandhi came the closest but she didn’t have a Sikh Kadyrov to do her dirty work and so things went how they did.

Unlike Russia though there’s no majority that can safely subordinate the dozens of Kadyrovs you’d need. Hindu nationalism is trying to ethnogenesis one into being.

I think the impossibility of ruling India as a dictatorship is key here. It’s too diverse. Not that has to be a democracy but authoritarianism there has to be franchised out with partnerships among the different communities which makes is hard to consolidate and easy to “backslide” to democracy.

I used to think this was because the left fringe was on the same sites as journalists while the Nazis where in 4chan but now that’s reversed and the media think the Nazis have some good points. So my new hypothesis is the media hates liberals and wants to smear them and is sympathetic to Nazis.

A nice day out, the weeks grocery shopping, their career. Something other than their next wank.

Sadly these influencers are meeting demand from the bottom up. Getting richer and swoler are solutions listeners want to hear because they aggrandize them.

“Learn to converse about others interests” and “spend less time gaming and more time planning and cleaning” dont aggrandize the listener.

24 hours after the right started bloviating about this I heard my wife, who denounced Dune as a white savior narrative, scroll past a reel about that bullshit in 3 seconds, never mentioned it to me. Psyop confirmed, NYTimes are coconspirators.

The position I wish I could take on bashing the Dems is you’ve got to name names not blame the collective.

But to be honest this is not defensible while Jefferies is minority leader.

A lot the Trotskyite sect are in denial about their power worship. They can forgive Lenin any atrocity as he defeated and humiliated his enemies. But the chartists, suffragettes and civil rights marchers who got their heads kicked in can’t be forgiven winning policy concessions without supreme power

I'm beginning to realize the reason medieval European governance was so convoluted, unnavigable and intractable was its very longevity. A millennia of accumulated privileges and carveouts ferociously guarded by incumbents be they petty or great.
We're a quarter of the way there.

I think the decline of third spaces is down stream of digital entertainment being so convenient and addictive compared to socializing.

Stop giving the bully your lunch money.

Thinking again about those guys who attacked Mamdani’s politics as “nil sum”, as though pathological obstinate nil sum thinking in every dimension of human relations wasn’t the sine qua non of Trumpism.

When I can back despondent from the pub my wife asked me how it went and my summary was “At some points it was almost close”

There’s a lot of worry about dynamic pricing algorithms but these tactics are effectively already that.

I’m glad I guess? Assigning the problem to “they disrespected Obama” and not “the flood of images of starving children” is something though.

Trying to say where the classism ends and the racism begins in suburban NIMBYism is like: Where does the blue end and the red begin?

Very few revanchist claims I think populations would rather regain than win a World Cup.