functor
15hr ago
Did he fail? They lied about WMD so why wouldn't he lie about his other causes for the war?
He enriched the military industrial complex which was lacking a justification for its budget in 2003. He swamped Europe with migrants pushing the agenda of mass migration and cheap imported labour. He destroyed several countries in the middle east making them easy to bully and extract resources from. Not only that, but he got ordinary republicans on board with creating a surveillance state that knows more about its citizens than stasi did. In his new toasty warm dwelling he probably looks up at Earth with pride as he effectively achieved what he wanted, a global police state run by the US which culture is consumerism.
functor
1d ago
Similar to how it happens in latin american countries. Mexico is in a state of civil war and the Mexican government doesn't have total control over the country. The coming civil war looks like a failed state with groups fighting each other. There probably will be fewer explicit political groups fighting and more low level violence and gang violence.
functor
2d ago
Do they actually believe it? If their kid was in a burning building would they want a female or male firefighter to rescue their kid? Would they be equally comfortable with a transgender person in their daughter's gym changing room as they would be with a woman? Are the refugees welcome in their neighbourhood or in their kids schools? How many of these elites would want to to walk through harlem on a Sunday night after the police was de-funded?
These people want people to become generic interchangeable worker/consumers. Some narratives push the world in that direction, they believe in it to the same extent that Bush believed Iraq had nukes.
functor
4d ago
For me what did it was job stress. The client is chasing me, we have a massive deal on the way. I don't care what the others think, I am setting my phone to loudspeaker so I can see what is shared on the screen in the zoom meeting in a public place. I have to get to the office asap, I don't give a bleep what the others in the checkout line think of me. Traveling has also helped. I have been super tired, a bit annoyed and I simply stopped caring.
functor
5d ago
It took many years of way until Daniel Ellsberg released the true scale of the lying and failure of Vietnam. It took a decade of fiascos in the middle east before Bradley Manning revealed the scale of lies and propaganda in the middle east. Those wars at least had some critical media that put some pressure on participants not to behave as if they were in a banana republic. People are naive if they think this war isn't at least as corrupt and as lied about as any of the previous neo con debacles.
functor
6d ago
My main reason for supporting AI as a right winger: it nullifies the demand for most immigration. We don't need cheap farm labour, we need bots. We don't need imported taxi drivers, we need waymo. We don't need migrants doing construction, we need Tesla humanoid robots. AI will primarily remove jobs for low skilled workers. Cheap labour has been a main driver of immigration since the ancient era and this driving force is about to be removed.
To make things even better from a right wing perspective, we are going to automate away a lot of left wing coded office jobs. HR, marketing, public sector paper pushers can be replaced by LLMs. Shrinking this class would be a major victory for the right.
functor
6d ago
There is a huge difference. MacOS is built to handle a few types of hardware that performs a limited set of tasks. Windows is supposed to be completely backward compatible to the start while catering for servers, industrial robots, laptops, gaming and every other use case. Windows is supposed to work on every hardware.
MacOS has a massive advantage within its supported use cases and windows will never be able to compete in terms of performance. Linux solves the same issue by fragmeting into many distributions that allow for optimizations for specific target audiences. Windows tries to please everyone but pleases no one.
AI gets blamed for the lack of entry level jobs. While it might be partially correct, there is no denying that there are a lot of sub 100 Iq people graduating with low interest and low levels of skill. Previously people might have graduated with a history degree that didn't really teach them how to do their job but at least they were bright, could write well and were willing to work hard to establish their career.
Let's say a company wanted four blog posts a week on their website. In 2020, they would have a manager and four content writers, and the five of them would spend a lot of time in meetings. Today they would have one person with AI and make that person work 10 hours a day to create the content. The more employees a company has, the less efficient the organization becomes. Having lots of mediocre people is far less efficient than having a few highly dedicated high performers.
An alternative route is that employers start hiring people with irrelevant but difficult degrees as they are a better proxy for intelligence than college degrees in general. Physics can't be watered down to pass people who shouldn't be in college.
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