A las, capitalism wins again. I don’t like it, but it’s a fact.

Open source built the web

Yeah and how’s that working out, in the context of the subject of this thread. I don’t see any open-source communities competing with Google or Microsoft or Palantir.

Open source community always loses to capitalists, because people won’t do the work unless there’s money involved. Otherwise there would be open source alternatives that are better and more popular. What incentive do smart programmers have to help the open source community when they’re better off earning 180k+ per year programming for the financial sector? Especially in this ever increasingly oppressive economy. I’m sorry but unless leftists are donating billions to the open source community, it’s idealistic at best to depend on them.

The last 150 years of British and American history in particular, really the whole history of European (Western/white) civilization since the Holy Roman Empire. “Fascism is colonialism turned inward” and all that.

Why?

I have not read that, no. I have heard of the series before though.

Does the South really have those things flipped? Does the South really have more of a population that the East and West coasts combined? More land area sure, but aren’t they currently at the economic mercy of the East and West coasts?

While my theory is based on various sci-fi so should be taken with a mine of salt, my guess is that USA will split into three different countries: NUSA (lol Cyberpunk) which will comprise of the original 13 colony states and the upper North East, The California Republic which will essentially be the West and NW and in good relations with NUSA but with different legislature, and the South which might be called anything from Texas, New Texas, Republic of Texas, or New Louisiana Territory, which will essentially be a war-torn area full of religious extremists not unlike Middle-Eastern areas after the West had their way with them. It will be full of forever wars by religious factions funded by the MIC shareholders of various other countries but in the public face it’ll be covered by the media as religious extremism and/or patriotic fanaticism while ignoring the material reality and history of the situation.

“Surely our models are more true than the laws of nature.”

It looked like those liveleaks you see of roadside executions in the Congo or by cartels or something. I would’ve expected every American standing at their doorstep with a firearm at this point, what with all the bluster they spout. Boy was I wrong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Corpses_of_the_De_Witt_Brothers

Ashli Babbitt was trying to storm the halls of congress, with an angry mob behind her, with weapons already drawn on her, given warnings but still trying to break glass to get through, and was shot once.

The other was a mom after dropping her kid off from school, turning her vehicle around on a road that ICE blocked, and was shot 3 times in the face at point blank range.

These are not comparable cases.

That doesn’t exactly work in the murderers favour, considering now the only evidence is various videos of him doing the murder in a non-threatening situation.