Typically anally, yes.

Antisemitism has lost it’s meaning.

You can go on Twitter and find some ripe fucking comments. The hair brained “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” conspiracy-theory angle of antisemitism is alive and well. It’s just got nothing to do with Israelis butchering any Arab or Persian they can get in their crosshairs.

Any time you raise your voice against any kind of powerful people, it’s discrimination why?

Associating Jewishness with Powerfulness is a nut of a lot of the conspiracy theories.

The game is always to conflate “Israelis are being called powerful because they are Jewish” and obscure “Israelis are being called powerful because they have a strong military and the full support of the US national security apparatus.”

Enshitification Comes.

Can’t wait until the Windows OS starts demanding you have a credit card on file in order to function.

Remember when the Israelis were caught red handed by an Al Jazeera camera crew bombing the Gaza City hospital. And then we had a weeks-long struggle session of media figures asserting that it was unclear whether Hamas had actually bombed the hospital themselves. And then the IDF bombed the Al Jazeera offices in Gaza. And then the IDF very deliberately and explicitly bombed the Gaza City hospital over and over again. They kidnapped the chief surgeon, shoved him into a torture prison, sodomized him until he was uncontrollably bleeding, and released him to die of his wounds several days later?

And this was all under the Biden Administration, back when our policy was ostensibly about ending the violence?

Fucking crazy times. I wonder if Amnesty International is going to get tarred as antisemitic over this statement or if the Israelis have given up caring in their orgy of bloodshed.

what else are they supposed to do at this point

Pull from the GOP playbook.

Obstruct everything. Shut down the government. Make unholy stinks on the floor of the House parading around big blown up pictures of dead women and summon mobs of angry constituents into the halls of Congress to yell at people. Tap the Blue State governors and legislatures to push radical pro-women policies, reject federal money whenever it comes with anti-abortion strings attached, and force local businesses to toe the party line if they want to interface with state governments. Make the lives of anti-abortion groups in the state hellish by running strings of investigations that seek to scandalmonger them. Lean on the press to focus on the havoc that these anti-abortion laws are causing. Run Project Veritas operations on those Anti-Abortion front groups that exist to profit off adoption services. Have the police surround and intimidate anti-abortion activist groups, while pro-choice groups are free to block the entrances to buildings, harass staff, and generally make any anti-abortion activist in the state fear for their lives.

It’s like creating a poll to find out if women in Afghanistan are okay with having their rights taken away but making sure participants have to fill it out under the supervision of Hibatullah Akhundzada. “Obviously these are all brainwashed sheep who love the regime”, happily concludes the dumbest pollster in history.

I don’t particularly like this analogy, because /r/changemyview isn’t operating in a country where an occupying army was bombing weddings a few years earlier.

But this goes back to the problem at hand. People have their priors (my bots are so sick nasty that nobody can detect them / my liberal government was so woke and cool that nobody could possibly fail to love it) and then build their biases up around them like armor (any coordinated effort to expose my bots is cheating! / anyone who prefers the new government must be brainwashed!)

And the Bayesian Reasoning model fixates on the notion that there are only ever a discrete predefined series of choices and uniform biases that the participant must navigate within. No real room for nuance or relativism.

Manipulating users with AI bots to research what, exactly.

Researching what!!!

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It’s horrifying. But then so much of the modern prison system is nightmarishly dystopian. From Israel to India to El Salvador, the systematized psychological, physical, and sexual assault of prisoners has been absolutely normalized, often seemingly for no other reason than prison guard recreation.

Nobody in power seems to have an interest in curbing these abuses. If anything, mutilated and massacred prisoners seem to be a part of the “Zero Tolerance” propaganda of carceral states.

Canada is still awash in far-right mass media. A lot of it is coming from over the border, to boot. Until Canadians liberate themselves from the American yoke, they’re going to be force fed this trash to their detriment indefinitely.

It’s not a betrayal. Americans - particularly conservatives - have always held contempt for the Canadian government and its people. Trump said the quiet part out loud. But all those jokes about “America’s Hat” and “51st State” were coming from people who genuinely do not see Canada as a sovereign territory or an independent constituency.

Hopefully, Canadians are waking up to the reality that huge swaths of America view them with the same contempt more explicitly aimed at Mexicans, Cubans, Haitians, Indians and other browner neighbors and migrant workers. We’re an evil empire, and you collaborate with us at your own peril.

Feels incredibly low, considering his net worth is in the hundreds-of-billions and an easy third or more is directly tied to government contracts and other special relationships with federal and state bureaucracies.

Tesla would not have been profitable this year if not for EV credits. Starlink and SpaceX are fully bound at the hip with NASA and the Pentagon. Twitter/X is a straight-up propaganda machine, with advertisement volume heavily predicated on his proximity to the Presidency. Neurolink only exists thanks to the enormous blind spot carved out for him by the FDA (and the SEC and likely a few other agencies). OpenAI freely abused IRS non-profit rules while taking billions from Microsoft - for whom the US federal government is its biggest client and attributed to north of 15% of their gross revenue. Paypal integrates with the IRS as well as a myriad of other federal and state agencies.

$2.37B seems like the tip of an iceberg.

Just a matter of time before conservative media finds a suitable scapegoat. They’ll get a wall of “Transgender Mexican ISIS stole the last bits of New Deal social contract” news articles for six months and come out more rabid than when they started.

This isn’t merely “Iowans are uniquely gullible”, either. The toxic nature of modern media is everywhere. And it produces as many Eric Adams Democrats as Donald Trump Republicans.

The four groups used by this Nova classification system are:

• Unprocessed or minimally processed foods, which can include whole foods, fruits and vegetables, fresh meat, eggs and milk.
• Processed culinary ingredients, which can include certain condiments, oils, salts and sugars.
• Processed foods, which can include preserved and tinned fruits and vegetables, preserved meat products, breads, fresh cheese and
• Ultraprocessed foods are those that undergo industrial processing and modification using food derived substances such as fats, starches and proteins, and may include coloring, flavor enhancing chemicals and preservatives. These include chocolates, soda and energy drinks, pre-packaged meals, baked products and pastries, certain breakfast cereals, sweetened yogurts and juices.

Ultraprocessed foods — sometimes abbreviated to UPFs — are often referred to as "junk foods,"which should be consumed sparingly.

Okay, but these are largely just foods with high salt and sugar content. And high levels of salt/sugar are used for the two-fold benefit of increasing consumption and longer shelf-life.

Nothing in the article, but I’d be willing to bet the same people who eat heavily preserved foods are the ones living in food deserts and other areas that lack affordable fresh produce, adequate kitchen amenities for home cooking, and clean drinking water.

In short - poor people.

You think its bad now? Wait until all those Chinese cargo ships don’t arrive with the retail resupply in another week or two.

Miss my old school local news “If it bleeds, it leads” coverage.

Now all the news is Woke.

Just in Time shipping strikes again

Can’t wait until Christmas

I mean, these numbers are still crazy low relatively speaking.

Well, this is all someone’s profit at some point. Killing brown people is just a fringe benefit. Every rocket we fire and bomb we drop is ultimately counted as points on GDP and revenue for the DOW.

It costs $30m to build a drone and another $1-3m to actually send it to a war zone on the other side of the world. Then each mission involves firing a $150k piece of ordinance at targets that may or may not be a valid military target. All that so you can kill a few dozen Houthis, or perhaps the family or friends of those Houthis. Perhaps a parent or an infant child. And what are these people worth? Nothing.

The important thing to remember when doing all this back-of-the-envelop math is to always remember human life - particularly human life in a country as remote and foreign as Yemen - HAS. NO. VALUE. That’s why we’re gleefully obliterating it at every opportunity. We render their limbs from their bodies with some of the most technologically advanced killing machines in existence to prove once and for all that they are not people. They should not exist. They all must die.

Same with Palestine. A country of roughly 5M people, but the lives of these people are worthless. Same with Haiti. Same with Iraq and Afghanistan. Same with Somali and Sudan and Syria and Libya. They are expendable. They are disposable. They are, if anything, a tax on the well-being of the better, brighter, more noble, more fundamentally human population of English-speaking and Western-aligned peoples dedicated to sending us mineral resources at below the market clearing rate.

What we are buying with that $30m drone is a beautiful perfect world expunged of the evil rebellious creatures keeping us from all those wonderful minerals. And they have the fucking nerve to knock seven of our Wunderwaffe from the skies? This only further justifies the genocide.