The US hasn't cared about the social contract for decades and it hasn't taken justifiable military action for a longer stretch of time. Healthcare is byzantine and terrible, education is being gutted on ideological grounds, social stability is eroding, wealth inequality is an ever widening chasm, the climate is being degraded, AI is a threat looming over much (if not all) of this. Why volunteer? The arrogance to think a draft or mandatory service is anywhere in the realm of acceptable is galling.
It's almost suicidal. It's so stupidly hubristic that one has to wonder if the end goal is a total institutional collapse, with the belief that the technocracy will end up holding the cards?
> Why volunteer? The arrogance to think a draft or mandatory service is anywhere in the realm of acceptable is galling.
Agree. That's what we saw during Vietnam. The public finally got involved because it couldn't be ignored that the children of "normies" were being sent overseas to die in a meaningless and stupid war.
I remain happy with my decision to leave streaming behind and curate my own listening around artists I know, recommendations from people I trust and a complete absence of any and all of this worthless slop.
Yeah, when I first read about this I did a double take and wondered if this was something from April Fools. Looks like a some kind of stock manipulation to me.
The Biden administration didn’t cripple the government, kidnap heads of state, start yet another war in the Middle East, deploy a paramilitary that killed US citizens and terrorized countless more. Biden didn’t use the office to enrich himself or sabotage alliances that took decades to build or routinely violate civil rights. This administration has been an embarrassment at best and it’s not even halfway through.
the Biden administration ( i hated sleepy Joe) was so much more competent and less corrupt then these guys.
it's not even close.
"Hunter bidens laptop!!" seems so distant and quaint.
the Pentagon declared Anthropic a supply chain risk, attempting to punitively destroy the company, then is adopting their product; please name a similarly asinine and farcical event from ANY administration.
your whataboutism is just not capable of standing up to the weaponized idiocy of these guys.
The manipulation of crypto markets, based on the timing of military attacks, is such open corruption, under any other administration there would be an immediate special prosecutor and impeachment.
Forget the crypto markets, it was obvious that multibillion dollar profits were being made on well-timed trades in stock and options markets before every tariff announcement.
I really, really hope that when Trump is out of office and a Democrat is back in, they'll be willing to play exactly as dirty going after Trump's enemies. I think it will be a good lesson on why the rule of law and human rights are so indispensable. No more going high while they go low, that's how we get faceless men from the government showing up to our doors intent on violating our rights.
Two wings of the same bird, the fight will always be between working class and the elites. Just know that when you fall for control opposition manipulation these people get a good laugh out of every second of arguing
Yeah everyone knows we're in a class war, you're not profound. This administration is still unique in it's levels of corruption and reality distortion.
Your post sounds like it will go down the typical right wing rabbit hole. Trying to cite evidence against their infinite bullshit is losing battle. It takes a lot of energy, and that is the goal, to tire people out.
the original commenter is correct in that at the time of commenting he was downvoted without a valid argument transaction having completed. i dont believe that tone policing has any effect in this instance, outside of virtue signalling
its not clear whether youre ramping up the virtue signalling, being polite, or trying to be the argumentative strongman. if you care about the way you look to me, the former and latter would probably be my perception of you. out of good faith i shall follow the middle option and execute the jump instruction myself.
I have watched a enough of Fox News to know they are not reporting, on a number of subjects. And so people that only consume right wing news, are in a bubble, and their arguments do follow similar patterns based on that ignorance.
My response was what it was, just seeing the pattern presenting itself early. Why waste more time on engaging with BS? Arguing with True Believers with facts and citations, goes nowhere.
it doesn't take bias to spot the corruption in this government; yes, there have always been problems, but the level of corruption and grift in this administration is truly unprecedented (you'd have to go back to before Civil Service Reform Act to find possibly comparable levels). but if you have examples from previous admins, feel free to explain how they're comparable
Truly, so unprecedented, that it is being ignored, how could this be real? The mind boggles. So bad, that it isn't believed.
The Attorney General is on the payroll of Qatar, and Qatar 'donates' a 400 million dollar jumbo jet, and the Attorney General signs off on it? Come on, who is swallowing that. And yet it is now old news, who cares.
Past administrations would return gifts that cost 50$ just to stay in the rules.
Kristy Noem's $220M ICE self-promo ad campaign that is awarded no-bid to a company founded just days before the deal, which it turns out subcontracted the work to a company with long ties to her and run by the husband of her spokesperson
And for an extra dose of irony: "arguing that the Antichrist is not necessarily a person but could come as a global government system". Gosh I wonder where Palantir fits into that?
Try making a webpage using an LLM when you don't explicitly tell it to optimize for page weight. Not that developers get to spend much time optimizing, but they can actually think and make reasonable choices of how to build it and will notice if it's noticeably slower in e.g. the integration environment compared to localhost (even if I'm sure they have good machines and connections compared to 90% of users, at >10MB you start to notice, whereas token predictors do not have a concept of time while fetching the page in a test run)
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