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[-] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

Wait, where is Leon Skum involved?

[-] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago

Most of the deaths under Stalin were from the conman Trofim Lysenko, who created "Lysenkoism" (a set of farming techniques he was faking the data on to get paid), and under both Mao and Stalin were from unwanted famines.

[-] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Good, it's the only reliable sign of intelligent self-awareness there is, to the point that all children progress through it, starting out as bad liars, and getting better at it.

LLMs however might just be stupid, or stocasticaly incorrect.

[-] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 43 points 1 day ago

Fascism is Capitalism's immune system, activated when the wealth gap gets too large.

[-] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago

Yep, so much of Reddit is like that... Creating an adversarial relationship with users ...and just like YouTube slowing down people using ad blockers, or games demanding people be online, it will eventually drive people away.

Death by a thousand self-inflicted cuts.

[-] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Of course whilst this poster is part if history, Nazi aren't a thing of the past...

Just today on Reddit I saw Jordan Peterson fans all demanding a return to an era where people stood up for the rights and free speech of Neo Nazis (as apparently happened in Illinois in the 70s): https://www.reddit.com/r/JordanPeterson/comments/1ffys4x/i_disapprove_of_what_you_say_but_i_will_defend_to/lmydyec/

So yes, Nazis still have their active defenders, and they don't get as much push back as they should.

[-] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 68 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

...and all so they can steal our collective content, creativity, and every piece of individual thought or content we've ever communicated online.

.....with the aim of exploiting it to make billionaires richer.

[-] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 24 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It's pretty difficult to control a lot of the economy still, especially where international concerns like the OPEC price setting cartel, yet oil prices are often blamed on leadership.

...but also, establishment politicians have a pretty fixed economic ideology that doesn't change all that much, further constraining their reactions which are mostly classist.

Then there's macroeconomic policies like interest rates, which globally Western governments seem to prefer to leave entirely up to central bankers.

[-] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Add removal, pocket further advertising can choosing to appear in, simple bad coding, or are they doing abmassive AI study to see how different paddings affect our choices?

Who knows!

[-] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 94 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

CAPITAL-ism is aimed and designed to benefit those with the capital.

[-] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

The billionaires behind the think tanks are doing better than ever, that's the point of the think tanks. None of this is going away even if ut lulls. It's a sustained effort.

Tim Pool, David Rubin, Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro (whose daily wire was started with fracking money from Dan and Ferris wilks), Andy Gno, (whose post-millenial was started by an Israeli real estate billionaire)... They all made money, huge amounts of money. Tim Pool was making $400,000 an episode twice a month for years... And these are thevlow level defenders of the billionaire Libertarian think tanks.

Trump officials probably made so much more.

So it doesn't really matter what happens, we can be sure efforts will not go away. Dwindle, but this is what they know how to do, and they've been handed massive wealth in the process... They'll use that wealth to continue thier efforts.

You can "not buy" that viewers would be that dumb (many are) but that's not the point. The machine has been paid, the political apparatus to produce the far right media will continue in many different forms.

[-] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Then he'll remain a danger to the world and probably do a lot of horrible things protecting himself, which will not be a good outcome for the west.

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