Its schroedingers everything outside nato. Russia is both completely incompetent but will overrun germany tomorrow (not joking, thats how german fear media argues). China is infiltrating the whole world with infrastructure that is both supporting terror regimes and too cheap to last a week, same as their engineers being slaves and building the most advanced buildings in the world.

I could go on for days. I recently dropped out of the brainwash machine and i’m regularly speechless of the mountain of lies.

Is there any literature on how the west was able to build this manipulation empire?

For the most part, he’s not wrong to do so. Unlike in most other administrations where the president’s office is a tightly-controlled environment with only a select few top aides given so-called “walk-in privileges,” Trump’s Oval is the center of his world of friends, confidantes, advisers and employees who often mill about nearby in the West Wing, even when they might not have much to do there.

I mean, sure. Thats totally normal, right?

Awesome! I run a luanti server (essentially open source minecraft).

Asking for a friend: how much were you joking about the mlpd?

There’s a new law which is supposed to come. Something about registers. It creeped me out so hard I didnt read all of it. Wife said they are starting with addicts who wer stationary “for their own benefit”. Well, that worked great in the past.

In germany they are starting to track disabled people btw. Not giving me the creeps at all. /s

Another noob here but lemmyist for years. Recently saw the light. I do see rightwingers of all kinds pop up (not here) rn in what I perceive to be strategic opinion shifting either with reddit-radicalized “centrists”, paid actors or bots. A lot of them have zero posts, some have only anti china, anti russia posts and are 4 weeks old and the mods wont do anything.

With palestine discussion escalating, I assume they’re mass manipulating to manage lemmy’s political stance. Most obvious is the outright manipulation on feddit.org with outright propaganda being pushed, which is kind of on par for germany though.

Just sharing my recent exp. Not trying to make a particular point. :)

I really appreciate this comment. It basically puts my general direction into words. I have constant discussions with healthy white folks with a bachelors degree and nearly six figures who say socialism is a nice idea but… It makes my skin crawl. I have lived through starvation and homelessness. it is incredibly hard to stay friendly in the face of such privilege.

You’re right. Its not a new model. That doesnt make it less stigmatizing imo. Example: autistic people are a lot more prone to stress induced mental health issues. This shifts the view from the capitalist murder machine to people who are “vulnerable”. That is the capitalist problem. Individualizing systemic issues. Industrial exploitation shouldnt exist, people who cant deal with that arent vulnerable, they are sane.

And no, imo people dont have to have a preexisting condition to fall prey to high tech emotional manipulation. Such tech should not exist.

Well, someone who is diagnosed with a mental health thing obviously counts as preexisting condition.

but interacting with a bleeding edge manipulation bot imo has no real known vulnerable groups.

it hasnt been scientifically examined before, which is its own clusterfuck.

Tldr: everyone has “preexisting conditions” if you throw untested malicious programmes at them. Its like saying a company has preexisting conditions to get hijacked by ransomware. Or a person has preexisting conditions to getting kidnapped.

It is individualizing a systemic issue.

“They’re walking wall street bankers onto the ice”

I dont see a problem wit this.

Everyone has certain traits. There are no “preexisting” conditions as binary things like a missing leg. Its more like a weak point in the spine that wasnt that bad but when they overextended it, it went bad. It would be kinda ableist to lable people who push these labels on people who cant handle literal manipulation machines.

Humans should not use AI unless absolutely necessary. Same as regular tv, gambling, etc. All this stuff is highly dangerous.

Sorry for the late reply but DAMN that was eerily accurate and perfectly worded. Thank you. :) its like people are listening to the words of old slave traders and think “yeah, thats probably how it is.”

Those who have listened to and understood his speeches will probably think even more so. Its crazy. As if he’s actually just playing the exact role.

I’m nearing 40 so I’m geriatric as well i guess.

I worked A LOT of different jobs in my life. Grew up dirt poor in a rich country, dropped out of school and clawed my way up.

Started as a carpenters help, then electrical work, then apprenticeship in a cruel industry, long before I understood the system.

Long story short, I went employer and tried to do ethically organized with fair shares etc but got coopted by someone. The system is cutthroat if you go that route.

Then went back to self employed but I’m trying to build a coop for quite some time. Problem is people i met so far in the business I’m in are too comfy to take responsibility, at least where I live currently.

I would go back to an office if I had to but I would absolutely not help exploit people anymore.

thanks for the feedback. I figured that might be a problem.

do you have any idea how to imrove?

(my meta message was a different one alltogether, btw. instead of burning out, fighting for individual rights (and causing infights as well) in a completely fucked system, we should band together to achieve actual change)

I suppose they’re finally dropping the act now.

Chilling prediction but likely.

The answer to that most likely is physical media and carbon dating. Back to the roots. Physical pictures with a carbon date certificate in a vacuum chamber in a museum, etc.

Curing patients, but at what cost?