retrospectology

In regards to Musk's businesses it might be considered a mercy for his kids to not inherit them...

The moon is hollow and the Nazis are on the inside, duh.

Bipartisan is a really bad sign. My money says this is not going to be aimed at actually addressing the underlying profit motive that drives big tech to purposefully promote misery through their algorithm designs, instead it will be further restriction on users freedoms and privacy.

Israeli fascism is not a result of democracy...it's a colonial project born from the pre-war mentality of Europe and the preceding centuries of monarchy and despotism. It is, fundementally, anti-democratic.

Israel and the US are indeed different. The US, regardless of its problems with its right-wing and the right's support of Israel, is not an apartheid state and there is meaningful internal opposition to the far-right in the US (unlike Israel, or Russia, or China).

You're trying to conflate democracy and capitalism, which really makes me question your motives.

This is illustrative of why I have no faith in Israel to actually behave as a liberal democracy the way its allies pretend it is.

It's not just that they temporarily have a far-right administration as part of some cycle between liberalism and conservativism, the population itself is overwhelmingly far right and supports apartheid. The only thing that upsets them about what's happening in Gaza is that the Israeli government clearly doesn't care about getting the hostages back. The wholesale slaughter of innocent people does not bother most Israelis in the least, many of them see it as a positive.

There is no internal opposition to the far right in Israel, and the country should be geopolitically categorized the same as we categorize Russia, China or any other hardcore authoritarian state. It's not a democracy.

The contexts are really different. Boris played up his "harmless eccentric" facade, but Trump isn't going to benefit from looking whimsical or whatever, no one would buy that from him. No one sees him as some mad genius.

Reality is people are pretty tired of weird in their politics, which is why in this context I think it's potentially a good approach.

My sense of the general sentiment is that people don't have time for weirdos at this point, we've had 8 years of weird and now we've got real problems facing the nation and the world and can't be mucking around with a bunch of troglodytes like Vance who think only married people who own property should be citizens or whatever bizzarre Gilead type ideas conservatives have for the country.

He's got brainrot for fascism. Weird guy.

Some talking heads on NPR were discussing the economy and how this was "the first time Millenials were seeing inflation" and how the economy is just waiting for consumers to "adjust". This in the context of them also basically saying there needs to be more unemployment so wages don't get higher.

It's like victim blaming or something, corporations went on a price gouging spree during the pandemic and now we all have to learn to deal with it so Wallstreet can go back to business as usual, and they're getting all pissy that people's response is simply finding ways to spend less, instead of giving up their last nickle.

Funny how they never talk about corporations needing to tighten their belt or "adjust their expectations" to paying higher wages.

Dating myself a bit but it had to probably be the first Half-Life. It wasn't only about realizing how limited and awkward a gamepad is, but the mods opened my eyes too.

I still to this day don't see the point of consoles. They're just a way for companies to try and silo off customers and get everyone on proprietary hardware.

It sounds like the film is still pro-religion in the end, odd that it is receiving such backlash.

Places like Egypt and other middle eastern countries definitely need their Richard Dawkins moment (even though I don't think he's a great person), but I don't think this is it.

Because the term "woke" when used as a criticism is literally just a dog whistle for racists, misogynists, and homophobes.

Lol, he has to do outside rallies because he already screwed over all the indoor venues in these areas during his last go round and no one wants to host him.

He never pays the venues and it's coming back to bite him in the arse.