At least The Birth of a Nation and Riefenstahl’s films had an impact on filmmaking. No one’s going to cite Melania as inspiring anything other than suicidal thoughts while being forced to watch it

No, they showed me their antifa membership card, they’re legit /s

I want to track down some Quatro bricks and find out.

Because with harm reduction as the goal, the solution is never “give them more of the harmful thing.”

I’ll compare it to the problems of drug abuse. You don’t help someone with an addiction by giving them more drugs, you don’t help them by throwing them in jail just for having an addiction, you help them by making it safe and easy to get treatment for the addiction.

Look at what Portugal did in the early 2000s to help mitigate the problems associated with drug use, treating it as a health crisis rather than a criminal one.

You don’t arrest someone for being addicted to meth, you arrest them for stabbing someone and stealing their wallet to buy more meth; you don’t arrest someone just for being a pedophile, you arrest them for abusing children.

This means making AI better, more realistic, and at the same time more diverse.

No, it most certainly does not. AI is already being used to generate explicit images of actual children. Making it better at that task is the opposite of harm reduction, it makes creating new victims easier than ever.

Acting reasonably to prevent what we can prevent means shutting down the CSAM-generating bot, not optimizing and improving it.

We could feed the pedo AI more training data and make it even better!

No.

The leaders of the American revolution were some of the wealthiest, most powerful, most influential people in the colonies.

It’s like Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos deciding that Trump’s tariffs are costing them too much money so they commit to organizing and overthrowing him, not a bunch of farmers and laborers managing to organize a rebellion

Why wager internet points when you can just wager actual money?

He wasn’t a good president, but I think Nixon was good at being president, and if he had the modern propaganda shield that Trump does, I’d be terrified of what he could have accomplished. All of Trump’s sycophants combined don’t hold a candle to what Kissinger was able to do under Nixon.

I’ve only been alive for five US presidents, and too young/too propagandized to really understand what was going on until the end of the Obama administration. But it really is the same shit over and over again, especially when it comes to foreign policy.

Fuck’s sake, he picks Andrew fucking Jackson as the first example? President "I’ve wanted to commit genocide since the War of 1812”? President “fighting the banks set up van Buren for a massive economic crisis”?

My username might give it away, I love studying the worst presidents in US history because they’re way more interesting than someone who was just kind of there and never got any scandals named for them. But damn, I really didn’t want to live through one of them

There’s not a lot of people I’ll say this about, but I think he is just genuinely evil.

We have the narcissists, the sociopaths, the self-loathing queer people, the ones driven entirely by greed, but I really do think that Stephen Miller delights in the cruelty, the suffering, the… evil

This photo of Goebbels comes to mind basically every time I think of Miller