Yes. And we have to talk about this now, because talking about it is the first step to making it seem like a callous crime rather than a surprising emergency.
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Yes. And we have to talk about this now, because talking about it is the first step to making it seem like a callous crime rather than a surprising emergency.
Hegseth needs to stand trial after this as a war criminal. Between this attack and the girls' school, there's no ambiguity. He is responsible for mass murder and must be held accountable.
you'd think for how maha these guys are they'd be more concerned about seamen retention
an underrated possibility is that after all of this he winds up like, a relatively low-profile, replacement-level Dem Senator
absolutely zero chance
yeah, i think it's more than fair to have misgivings about the guy (i certainly do) but he's the favorite to flip the seat at the moment. it's possible that the nazi tattoo / some other as-yet-unrevealed skeleton torches him in the general; but absent that, unless you live in maine, whaddya gonna do
i think there was also a palpable eagerness amongst a portion of the financial and social elite to put social justice in the rear-view, for obvious reasons. witness how a large segment of commentators were giddy to interpret Trump’s 2024 victory as a harbinger of wholesale social change
woke was always cool, but a few folks at the very top are spending a lot of money and spilling a lot of blood to try and convince people otherwise
what if All Boat Stuck
Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs
NYT Hed/Dek: Slurs Filled a Chat Created by a Republican Party Official in Florida After the secretary of the Miami-Dade County Republican Party created the chat for college students, it devolved into slurs against Black and Jewish people.
put it in a museum
tried reading the book and couldn't get through the first few pages. unbearable
yeah i'm 40 and the first poster is correct, it is ok to bully us
i think the article is interesting, but i think it errs by putting these two tendencies in opposition, rather than along a continuum. IMO, fascists are what conservatives become when they believe the system has become fatally corrupted and they no longer hold enough power to change it "peacefully"
measles looking pretty spicy lately
the influence of Gamer Culture on our current crop of nazis should not be underestimated
i'd imagine there's also domestic politics the iranian regime has to deal with; a need to demonstrate strength to maintain legitimacy. early off-ramps might not be an acceptable outcome for the leadership that remains
Trump worried that Iran War no longer "hot"
maria corina machado tried to save us
mandate of heaven looking shaky
the intermediate period (2000s) popularized this sort of format among gamers making montages of their Epic Gaming moments in Call of Duty, etc. show Mel Gibson screaming in Braveheart then cut to your sick 360 no-scope. this is just an expansion on that form, IMO
i'd say america has a diseased culture but that would require us to have culture in the first place
"Millenial Nazi whose only way to understand the world comes from a pastiche of blockbuster films and video games," is really becoming a defining aesthetic of our era.
“Evangelicals are missing from the halls of power. That’s a problem. The lack of evangelical Christians at America’s most prestigious institutions fuels mistrust.” Excerpt From “Opinion | Evangelicals are missing from the halls of power. That’s a problem.” Aaron M. Renn The Washington Post https://apple.news/ATJF-eGWhQMuuXvLnrj0ugQ This material may be protected by copyright.
Congratulations, WaPo, you did it, you published the worst take
yeah, all the philosophizing over whether emergent consciousness can arise in a suitably complex model isn't going to be used to treat machines like humans; it'll be an excuse to devalue humans and treat them like machines
"you can't blame me, the robot told me to do it" seems to be the desired end-state. i only hope our courts and legislature do not allow this state of affairs to arise.
this has been my hobby horse for a while. those using these systems desire to completely offload legal (and moral) liability to a chatbot which cannot be held responsible. you can see this with things like help chatbots, but also with more dangerous systems like Israel's Lavender targeting system
and given that the author admits that conservatism is itself an empty philosophy — preserving hierarchy, but being flexible about defining it — then i don’t see any reason a fascist hierarchy couldn’t be neatly substituted for a neo-conservative one in the minds of most adherents
if conservatives use violence only sparingly, while fascists always do, that is because conservatives see themselves as having power within the system. fascists are conservatives who believe the system has been fatally corrupted and “stolen” from them. fascism is conservatism thwarted