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TequilaMockingbird
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I can.
More specifically I contest the words "most" and "all".
Im not the OP but i suspect that the answer would be be something to the effect that, arguments that Trump is not a legitimate presidential Candidate because he "mishandled" classified documents must be viewed in the context of Hillary Clinton mishandling classified documents. And that accusations of Trump's nepotism and corruption must be vied in light of established facts about Joe Biden's nepotism and corruption.
In short, the accuasation is that critiques of trump for his authoritarianism and/or corruption are isolated demands for rigor.
racial identity is an important consideration
Is it though? It seems to me that this is one of the key points of disagreement between the intellectual/journalist class and the wider MAGA coalition. If you watch Trump and Co. opposition to immigration is almost always framed in either economic terms (jobs) or security (criminals 'waltzing' across the border unchecked), the preoccupation with racial identity is pretty much exclusive to PMCs and the specific subset of minority grifters who prey upon them.
It's not a "border war" though. It only superficially resembles one because the Ukrainians have put up stiffer resistance than anyone expected them to. @Dean correctly points out that Russia's stated war goals basically amount the elimination of Ukraine as an independent entity, and that the Ukrainians have responded accordingly.
Likewise the Hitler / Putin comparisons are not about geography or facial hair (Hitler wins on the latter front if you ask me) as much as it is about both of them being grievance-mongering dictators who take a very "everything for the state, nothing outside the state" approach to politics, while waging wars of expansion against thier nieghbors under the guise of supporting identity politics.
I think this is a mixture of nutpicking (which is your fault) and weaponised nuts, as in the practice of keeping around extremists to send a message along the lines of "if you get rid of me you could get much worse" (which is Putin's fault).
I feel like this just begs the questions; How high does someone have to be on the food chain before pointing out thier crazyness stops being "nut-picking"? and how many extremists does Putin get to endorse and support before it becomes "reasonable" to say that he supports and endorses extremism?
while Ukraine started restricting books in Russian back in 2016 and has since 2023 also banned publishing in it.
So what you're saying is that two years after Russia invaded Ukraine under the guise of "liberating Russian speakers" the Ukrainian government stopped teaching Russian in its schools, and a year after Russia invaded them for a second time under similar pretenses they banned publishing in Russian as well. Oh Dear, Anyway.
I don't think there is much evidence of claimed dominion over all Russian-speaking peoples
Putin (in his interview with Tucker Carlson), as well as several of the "weaponised nuts" he keeps around, IE Alexander Dugin, Timothy Sergetsev, and Moscow's Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church have all made claims to this effect.
Again, how far up the food chain does somone have to be before citing them changes from "nut-picking" to "evidence"
The reason why the Russian military had to repeatedly intervene to prop up the popular revolution was because it was neither popular or a revolution.
By the same token, I don't think that the Kievan government would've spent February of 2022 distribing rifles and ammunition to anyone who asked if they expected those weapons to be turned against them.
The US NATO nuclear umbrella is maintained by US troops stationed in those countries.
In contrast both the warheads and thier fuzing elements were in the custody of the UAF making them Moscow's in name only.
his invasion was the perfect way to create a national identity, I literally couldn't plan anything better as a creation myth for Ukraine.
Something about a brave agrarian yeomanry defending thier land in the War of Northern Agression perhaps?
My takeaway from the interview was that I think much less of Zelenskyy. This was his chance to explain the war from Ukraine's perspective, and the best he could come up with was a braindead "Putin = Hitler" take.
Is it really brain dead though? Zelenskyy is to all apperances correct that Putin's position in 2024 is analogous to Hitler's in 1938, complete with appeals to anschlaus and rightful dominion over all German Russian Speaking peoples. Durring the lead up to and early stages of Russian pundits were talking openly about eliminating Ukrainian as a spoken language to dissuade any future notions of independence. Given the above I think it is reasonable for the Ukrainians to view this war as an existential one.
As @The_Golem101 observes, Putin has already made and broken treaty commitments within the context of this conflict so some sort of guarantee from the US and/or EU to ensure that Putin doesn't just come back in a year after his forces have had an opportunity to rearm and regroup is going to be the bare minimum for any agreement.
I don't think hobbiests and H1Bs using ChatGPT as a substitute for substack really counts as "AI is already in the loop"
Im also skeptical that a meaningful percentage if any of the code being written by AI constitutes "important work", though who knows some people get really into thier Gacha Games.
Altman is, first and formost, a bullshit artist. I dont think he's "hiding his power level" as much as he's just trying to hustle credulous VCs and substack readers for influence, attention, and funding.
As I pointed out the last time Altman came up as a topic, there are legitimate applications for LLMs that OpenAI is well positioned to deliver (and make bundles of money on in the process) but when it comes to pushing the boundaries of machine learning and perhaps developing true AGI Sam Altman is not that guy, and OpenAI (at least in it's current form) is not that company.
There are serious limitations to OpenAI's model that are not going to be solved by throwing more petaflops and training data at the problem. The latter especially as the training data become increasingly poluted with OpenAI's own output.
It's worth pointing out that the breaking of the Nazi and Imperial Japanese war machines did not require the genocide of thier respective peoples.
Ditto "black", there plenty of references to Nubians and Moores in the Eastern Roman Empire and wider mederteranian but the fact that the op specifically excluded Berbers makes me think they're ones planning the motte and bailey rather than opening themselves up to it.
The irony is that this is arguably a more true explanation than not.
There is a really good Chris McCandless/Grizzly-man joke in there somewhere in there but im not smart enough to make it.
Even so, knowing the difference between deflageration and detonation, and the steps to manage it is below the floor of even basic competence.
Way to miss the point, Arabs are not "white", Arabs are Arabs. Physio-capitalism, Bio-leninism, or whatever the queer autists on on X are calling it this weekend is completely irrelevant.
Glad that im not the only who had that thought (I'm not a conspiracy-therosist I swear, just a cynic), contrast this with Tim McVeigh who'd just recently left active duty when he carried out his bombing.
No you did not, you made a specific claim and then backed down/tried to re-frame it as something else when challenged on the details.
Within twenty five years the house of Bourbon had been restored to the French throne.
What of it?
You do realize that the last Monarch of France (and the guy who effectively codified the current french model of government) was a Boneparte rather than a Bourbon don't you?
So it is some Sanskrit nonsense then. Why do you beleive that I (as a non-Indian) should give a damn?
An artifact of the audience, to live in a clean well ordered suburb in a southern or midwestern city is considered "shitty" by most of of the users here because it is naturally "lower status" than living in a condo in New York or LA. That the latter is far more likely encounter litteral shit/feces on the sidewalk than the former is just a fun bit of irony.
The difference between a "shitty" nieghborhood, and a shit nieghborhood.
A dose of reality is never "impotent".
Then you have not been paying attention, I am not citing random edgelords on 4chan or Tumblr, I am cititing prime-time comentators on a state-owned news agency.
Look, i get it. As a German Socialist, your natural inclination is to blame the Poles for starting WWII, and the Jews for causing the Holocuast. Because the alternative is the uncomfortable idea that choices have consequences.
If Russia had wanted to avoid a conflict with Ukraine they could have simply not started one.
As far as i know Rumsfeld is not an ordained priest (nor even a Republican in good standing at this stage) so no, they are not equivalent.
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