I mean yeah it was a bit of culture shock the first time I visited southeast Asia and saw people eating rice with their bare hands but it didn’t make me instantly think of doodoo encrusted buttholes

I think Americans are primed to feel very enthusiastic about anything that tells them things they already believe, even moreso if it sounds very confident and organized. And people are already prone to woowoo stuff.

I don’t think you’d break the spell if you informed everyone it’s just lines of code that doesn’t think. A statistically significant number of Americans claim to talk with spirits and angels, or have the gift of prophecy. On the flip side the techbro types believe in garbage like the future basilisk AI that tortures evseryone forever. These same people are already deranged, all the LLM does is organize their mashed potato brains into sentences that can be read. And just about every major LLM seems primed to have a very servile, docile writing style so it’s trivial to get them to say whatever you want so long as you keep saying the same thing. They’re not well designed for confrontation.

I firmly believe one of the best ways to deal with reactionaries, woowoo types peddling scams, or conspiracy theorists is to simply tell them they’re a fucking idiot. “That sounds fucking stupid. Shut up, nerd, and never speak to me about this again.” That’s how you do it, that’s how you dispell stuff. Social embarrassment and confrontation.

An LLM won’t do that, it’ll rub a nice mental salve on your already smooth brain. It’s an actual echo chamber.

I’ve always imaged Trump smells like baby powder and the bitterant used in canned air keyboard cleaner

He’s still a slimy wet boy

The goal of the Democratic party isn’t to win, it’s to coax out money from donors. They don’t care if they get into office or not. Actually they probably prefer when Republicans win because they get more money out of it.

It’s more like the average American finds the idea of people perceiving them to be gay as the most unacceptable possibility. It could be rephrased as like “I can do whatever I want and no one is allowed to call me gay or I’ll kill you.”

yeah that’s about as far as the average American thinks. “Will this make me seem gay?” Is the general motivating factor. Sunscreen? Gay. Eating a salad? Gay. Exercise is gay unless it’s deadlifting in dangerous ways. Cardio is mega gay.

It can also be framed as “I’m not a pussy.” Americans won’t admit fault or be considerate because that’s pussy behavior.

also I’ve been meaning to come up with what ideological libs believe but I simply don’t believe what we call “libs” exist in massive quantities or have much influence on mass apolitical culture. I’ve always felt like what we call libs are a constructed identity built by propaganda news outlets and Malcolm Gladwell books and not fully represented by day to day Americans

The ambient amorphous American culture is incoherent but it circles around the core of not wanting to be perceived as a gay pussy, before other considerations are made. And then beyond that the American psyche demands immediate convenience, servile retail workers, and huge parking lots with stupid stores selling treats. And if this balance is upset it causes neurological degredation in the American brainpan

My man is glistening

Capitalism is good when I, a mediocre white person, can make enough money to flip real estate on the side and make at least $350k per year and pay little to no capital gains tax and then buy a used snowmobile dealership

Capitalism is crony capitalism when there’s a big financial and real estate sector run by billionaires who make it hard for me, a mediocre white person, to flip real estate on the side and also I have to pay capital gains tax meaning I am precarious in my position as a snowmobile dealership owner

fishy swimmy juice

Israel and the UK had a pretty strained, at times hostile relationship all the way into the 1990s. Like Israeli soldiers blew up a British air force base in Jordan during the 1948 war. The UK throughout the 50s and 60s had close relations with Arab countries, namely Jordan and Iraq, which were notably two countries that Israel kept spying on and doing military actions against.

The UK had a 12 year arms embargo on Israel too, from 1982 to 1994.Also Israel sent guns to Argentina during the Falkland islands conflict.

So it’s not really surprising to me that the queen didn’t have a high opinion of what was considered a hostile nation for much of her reign.

It’s vitally important to know which browser is preferred by the guy who says slurs to an audience of children

I’m assuming Staten Island isn’t depicted because it’s been rightfully sunk into the ocean

That’s kind of what Sam Seder is

I hope he dies and may Allah have mercy on his soul

Mamdani is going to construct an arsenal of clown themed crime gadgets to throw at zionists

New yoak city baybee let’s go Mets I love the Mets

The walls are closing in this time, Donny Boy

Please stay strong, as much as you can. The names of every martyred Palestinian will be remembered forever. It is up to all of us to carry their names and build a better future, the best we can. I’m very very sorry for your loss and can only offer my deepest sympathies and love.

From Allah we are born and to Allah we return

إنا لله وإنا إليه راجعون

I only post on Usenet groups called like alt.trotskyism.indiana that have long since devolved into a two person flamewar over whether or not Reg Birch was a careerist