Great video essay by Angela Collier: AI does not exist but it will ruin everything anyway

When you watch Star Wars, you need to understand that the Galactic Empire is about the United States empire.

Ah. Not that you asked, but The Conversation is an interesting non-profit set-up. It’s a media platform for academics & researchers to publish for lay audience consumption. I think they mostly get their money from Universities & grant bodies.

EFF is a non-profit for tech civil liberties, and December is donation begging season.

We’re not dealing with the cleverest people, here.

If you continue to think they are stupid, you will never understand how power really works in capitalist states.

https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/soren-mau-marx-mute-compulsion/

In the end, capitalists participate in the same totality as the rest of us, and they are often just as subject to the “tyranny of necessity” as the lower orders whose labor they command. In [Søren] Mau’s terms, the class domination we see in capitalism is “impersonal,” since it isn’t this or that particular capitalist who ultimately dominates workers but rather capital itself. This is why it is so necessary to understand capitalism as an alien totality, rather than condemn it through pointing to notably bad capitalists.

They knew the warnings were correct. And because I knew they knew, I also knew where their priorities lie, and they do not lie with our security, as I explained two days ago: https://lemmy.ml/post/23222525/15342981

If China’s access to your data were actually a high priority to the US security state, then they wouldn’t be installing these back doors. They’re much more interested in 1) accessing your data and 2) convincing you that China is your enemy.

The US security state isn’t interested your security, they’re interested in what the capitalists are interested in: imperialism and screwing over the working class.

The body of the messages arguably are, but the metadata is not, and that includes the subject line and the sender & recipient addresses.

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If China’s access to your data were actually a high priority to the US security state, then they wouldn’t be installing these back doors. They’re much more interested in 1) accessing your data and 2) convincing you that China is your enemy.

The US security state isn’t interested your security, they’re interested in what the capitalists are interested in: imperialism and screwing over the working class.

weird time restriction

It takes a discerning taste for boot leather to call the civil liberty protections weird.

It’s the same in every bourgeois democracy: the representatives represent the capitalist class over the working class. BBC: [Princeton and Northwestern] Study: US is an oligarchy, not a democracy

That’s how we’re told it’s supposed to work, but that’s not how it really works. BBC: [Princeton and Northwestern] Study: US is an oligarchy, not a democracy

Those are rookie numbers.

What happened in 2014, Joe?[1][2][3][4][5]

Not all of the downvotes are from .world, and quite a few of the upvotes are from .world. It’s best not to overgeneralize.

Because the best way to stop US imperialism is to drag them into and/or start a war

Citations Needed podcast: Episode 13: The Always Stumbling US Empire “Stumbling”, “sliding”, “drawn into” war––the media frequently assumes the US is bumbling its way around the world. The idea that the United States operates in “good faith” is taken for granted for most of the American press while war is always portrayed as something that happens to the US, not something it seeks out.

I am not even anti US imperialism

Well see, there’s your problem.

Forty-five years of neoliberal salami slicing via lesser-evilism is how we got to this place.

Now, even if he does do things that will help Americans, nobody will notice because of the pardon.

I don’t know why you’re so concerned for Genocide Joe’s legacy, but if his last 47 months are any indication, he’s unlikely to uncharacteristically give Americans what they actually need in his 48th.

You’re the one removing material reality from the picture and chalking it up to a culturo-religious clash of ideas. You’re the one simplifying things down vibes.

Infographic: US military presence around the world The US controls about 750 bases in at least 80 countries worldwide and spends more on its military than the next 10 countries combined.

• List of Atrocities committed by US authorities
• A Detailed Chronological List of US Interventions, Invasions, Destabilzations, and Assistance to Oppressive Regimes (ending in 2002)
• Shock therapy (economics)
• Are We The Baddies?
• The U.S. Did Not Defeat Fascism in WWII, It Discretely Internationalized It
• The blueprint of regime change operations How regime change happens in the 21st century with your consent
• https://blowback.show/
• Michael Parenti: Africa is Rich

Who said anything about his socioeconomic position? He was in fact wildly rich. He was a product of US interventionism. He had been a CIA asset for years. He didn’t just wake up one day and decide that Allah wanted him to blow up buildings on the other side of the world, for no reasons connected to US foreign policy.

6 December 1993: Anti-Soviet warrior puts his army on the road to peace

FAIR: Forgotten Coverage of Afghan ‘Freedom Fighters’

But the U.S. government and the American press have not always opposed Afghan extremists. During the 1980s, the Mujahiddin guerrilla groups battling Soviet occupation had key features in common with the Taliban. In many ways, the Mujahiddin groups acted as an incubator for the later rise of the Taliban in the 1990s.

Despite CIA denials of any direct Agency support for Bin Laden’s activities, a considerable body of circumstantial evidence suggests the contrary. During the 1980s, Bin Laden’s activities in Afghanistan closely paralleled those of the CIA. Bin Laden held accounts in the Bank for Credit and Commerce International (BCCI), the bank the CIA used to finance its own covert actions. Bin Laden worked especially closely with Hekmatyar—the CIA’s favored Mujahiddin commander. In 1989, the U.S. shipped high-powered sniper rifles to a Mujahiddin faction that included bin Laden, according to a former bin Laden aide.

I’ll post it again: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proximate_and_ultimate_causation