Reminder that if you make minimum wage in the US that sandwich cost a quarter of your daily income.

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“opposing viewpoints” is too broad a term for the question to be meaningful.

It could mean everything from “Discovery is the best Star Trek series” to “Women aren’t real people”, and the details of the viewpoint in question are EXTREMELY relevant to your ability to empathize with it.

Any ways to actively help China win the AI race?

Hypothetically, of course.

“I like this movie, but do we really need the whole war part of it?”

“Well, I mean… it’s a movie ABOUT World War 2…”

“Yeah, but… I just think it’s so depressing and violent.”

“IT’S ABOUT A WAR.”

B… but… it’s called the same thing! It’s the same, right?

This is just a distraction from the Epstein files!

That can’t be. Every time I point out that youtube is a HORRIBLE place for people to make the source of record for movements, history, and general archival, and that blogging and text are more durable and necessary for these exact reasons, I get downvoted into oblivion. It must be a problem with reality because video good and video is the future and only reach matters.

People weren’t being shot by unaccountable, masked secret police when the neolibs were in charge.

If you want to make the argument that the only thing that could light a fire under people’s butts to change things was allowing this to happen, fine. I disagree, but that’s at least logically consistent.

But neither then nor now have I seen any concerted effort to develop a real alternative.

This is like when the idiot superintendent of my school system kept trying to get people to vote for a levy for a new high school, and the citizens kept telling him “No. The high school we have now is fine.”

So finally the superintendent just had the high school demolished. Now they HAD to pass the levy to get a new high school built, right?

Nope. They still didn’t pass it and now everything is EXTRA fucked.

It’s gonna be a LOT harder to come up with a real alternative to the two party system while we’re under jack-booted one party rule.

And for all their corporate nonsense, the corporate dems at least kept a social safety net functioning so people could have SOME semblance of life, albeit INCREDIBLY insufficient.

Under Trump, good luck.

I’m gonna say it unequivocally…

I’d much rather live under neolibs than Nazis.

Exactly.

“Here. I’m either going to give you this this sandwich, or I can hit you with this bat.”

“Fuck you. I don’t like the sauce on the sandwich. Ouch! Curse this bat that has nothing to do with my decisions!”

Yeah, but you say that like this would still be happening if Trump hadn’t won.

About the same age when I realized it was too late to do anything about it either.

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I’d put down a bet that Iceland is gonna be okay.

Oh, I don’t doubt it.

But I work more than full time and lack funds. It’s not impossible - it’s impractical.

As someone not even REMOTELY skilled with building things with my hands, boy, I miss the days when you could just BUY neat stuff like this off the shelf instead of having every piece of consumer electronics be a noisy, branded, attention grabbing wiretap/distraction machine scheduled for obsolescence before the first unit ships.

I hate the future.

Absolutely.

The only fair way to handle it is to pay lip service to the free flow of information, and then get your friends who own every mass media platform with reach to push your own agenda, burying the rest in lawsuit threats and filtering algorithms.

Don’t get me wrong - I’m not defending the Chinese government as saints, but I think at this point we can safely acknowledge EVERYTHING sucks. If there’s a country fairly managing to promote truth while keeping dangerous nonsense from propagating, I sure haven’t found it.