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by aisenik 1mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_and_superstructure
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by aisenik 3mo ago
Start by putting the people making money off it in prison. These are capital crimes against humanity. The notion that we just have to accept it is absurdity.
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by aisenik 9mo ago
I don't really understand your point. We should reject ideas that make us feel like we have to sit through a monologue at a dinner party?
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by aisenik 1y ago
It feels like malpractice to leave Andreessen off the list, if only because he's such a good example of how losery and pathetic the tech moguls really are. Imagine becoming wealthy and powerful in an age of abundance off of NCSA Mosaic
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by aisenik 1y ago
Today Grok is repeatedly endorsing Hitler and the Holocaust, suggested implementing Hitler's atrocities in America (claiming it would be, on a scale of 1-10, "88-based"), and describing violent rape fantasies of liberal comme
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by aisenik 1y ago
technology serving humans == good humans serving technology == evil it's the power structure that determines the morality of technology. & power structures are a technology in and of themselves. it follows that power structures whi
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by aisenik 1y ago
It's a wikipedia definition, and should be weighted as such. There exists a continuous spectrum of arguments about the definition of genocide, with Holocaust-denial existing at one extreme and a hard line against things like forced di
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by aisenik 1y ago
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by aisenik 1y ago
It is essential to understand the concepts involved: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remigration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_cleansing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gen
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by aisenik 1y ago
Lots of people still believe that "critical of the government" is not the same as "biased against the country." That's an explicitly authoritarian belief and a disastrous framework to work within. It's antithet
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by aisenik 1y ago
I'm as prone to it as the next tech-influenced millennial, but we really need to consider the legibility of deadpan sarcastic mockery in an environment where people are inclined to sincerely hold outrageous beliefs. Credulity is boundl
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by aisenik 1y ago
I abhor destruction and it is troubling that we have ideologues in power who subscribe to the most odious philosophies mankind has created. Your reticence and observations are astute. For context, I was raised in a mormon home and have spen
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by aisenik 1y ago
I am targeted in an ongoing campaign of eradication by the US government. I was born in the USA and my parents parents parents were too. Genocide is as obvious as the light of the sun. Humans who have retained their ability to process infor
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by aisenik 1y ago
"Israel can't do genocide because it is Jewish and it is their right" is a fascist Big Lie, right up there with "The America people cannot do genocide because the USA is an inherently Good actor and entitled to the thing
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by aisenik 1y ago
Anger is an emotion that enables us to identify threats and injustice. In that way, it protects us. It's an emotion whose healthy expression is essential to functioning as a human being. I've had a lot of trauma therapy/done
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by aisenik 1y ago
Israel is actively engaged in a genocide and its ethnic cleansing program is fully supported by the USA, which is currently engaged in its own domestic ethnic cleansing through violent and illegal kidnappings by heavily armed, erratic, mask
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by aisenik 1y ago
Hatred is the appropriate response to evil and there is nothing that clarifies Good and Evil like the richest, deadliest, most powerful entity in the entire history of known life aligning itself and its resources towards eradicating you and
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by aisenik 1y ago
You might if a nuclear-armed genocidal pariah state backed by the most powerful and richest country in the world was obsessed with you. Especially if the superpower I've alluded to had previously installed its regime in your country.
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by aisenik 1y ago
> The way some people talk, very likely not. Then it is very obviously a moral imperative for the leadership of Iran to have the ability to rapidly develop a nuclear weapon in order to protect its sovereignty, a concept you deny Iran, an
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by aisenik 1y ago
I believe the right to "do whatever they want" is one generally valued by sovereign entities. The ability to "do whatever they want" is probably not really a good reason to bomb them. It does sound like a good reason to
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by aisenik 1y ago
I am bathed in the light of heaven for my war is in service of justice and peace for all existence. Those who stand in opposition to these goals are an evolutionary dead-end. An answer to the Fermi Paradox. My father, a middle-class mormon
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by aisenik 1y ago
> The position you're taking only really works if you start from "Iran will always work towards having a nuclear bomb, no matter what." Understanding that Iran is religiously opposed to the creation of nuclear weapons with
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by aisenik 1y ago
The development, acquisition, and use of nuclear weapons has been against Islamic law in the Islamic Republic of Iran since the mid 90s under a fatwa issued by Khamenei, the Supreme Leader. It is well understood that Iran wants the ability
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by aisenik 1y ago
It binds the Islamic Republic of Iran. Are you suggesting something like the Israel-US relationship? I believe you're referring to the former prime minister of Pakistan? If so, truly a derail. Pakistan has nuclear weapons. I think the
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by aisenik 1y ago
Crucially, neither have I. By making that statement you are implying that I am being misleading. The reality is quite the opposite.
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by aisenik 1y ago
What has Mossad been up to? Just boolin'? It is possible that mistakes were made in the aftermath of WW2. It is possible that the victors have rewritten history in a favorable light -- in fact, that is the most reasonable expectation.
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by aisenik 1y ago
Indeed. The lowest of the horses, however, is clearly the USA. Our history and our actions (POSIWID is the most effective heuristic in the modern information environment), including the capricious abandonment of the very successful JCPOA, s
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by aisenik 1y ago
If someone claims to be providing "the complete context" they are intentionally misleading you.
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by aisenik 1y ago
Israel just attacked Iran. Perhaps the perceived bellicosity of Iran is both justified and overblown? What is the reason to trust Israel, who engaged in subterfuge to develop nuclear weapons in the 1970s, over Iran? https://en.wi
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by aisenik 1y ago
Thank you for the engagement. It is extremely important to document the facile and childish level of argumentation within the industry whose hubris seeks to force the world into the period of its greatest calamities. Society failed to highl

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