Uh, who do you think usually joins the military? They’re already in there, mate.

These days, you really do.

Phwoar.

Ah, that’s the problem, we’ve been getting all these chatbots to generate “hellworld.exe”.

Oh yeah, mate, that’s gonna fix it.

Well, you can live on rice and beans pretty well, and simple salad is cheap. But yes, I agree. Vegans pay more than vegetarians, because milk and eggs are cheap.

Look, obviously Ricky Martin made you suddenly horny and you did not know why. He did that to everyone, sir. But it was not technically pornography, it was just the immense sexual magnetism of an unleashed man.

Hey, wait a minute…

Fair enough. That’s the way the fediverse works. Although if allowing talk of violent resistance will get whatever server I am on defederated by most others, especially the major servers, it’s still a big problem for free discussion in today’s world.

I am definitely more free here than Reddit, so I am not too worried. I would assume that the mods here are not ban-happy, and would only stop me if I was being irresponsible. I will try to do so.

I generally frown on murder too. However, if there is no lawful option to stop people from becoming tyrants, raping kids, killing protesters, etc, then unlawful options tend to present themselves to otherwise civilised people.

Oceania, Eastasia and Eurasia. Orwell saw the pattern back then. The dynamics and details have shifted greatly, but the essence remains.

I do think you guys should stop quibbling over the detail of who is responsible for the fall of US democracy, though. Russia was an integral component, as the other guy says, and you were right about Russia not being the top of the chain of responsibility. Capital is at the top. Billionaires, corporate execs, the capital class. (Not the Jews, by the way, even though Israelis are prominent in the framework. Jewishness is not the useful part there, it’s the fact that Israel is a colonial project, an outpost of capitalism in the Middle East. The Epstein Files, if anything, has shown us how that works.)

You are both right, and you both agree on the important bit. As do I.

Wait, I got banned on Reddit for suggesting armed resistance to billionaires. It’s why I came here. Does the fediverse also ban people for suggesting we shoot the bastards?

It’s not going to be enough to spend thirty thousand dollars a year per person on it, though, so the current first mover corps are still fucked. I agree that the tech itself has huge possibilities, just not the pets.com ass bullshit that is currently being pushed.

That’s probably because my thoughts on the matter are not incredibly settled.

Excuse me, we’re Chinese trolls, thanks very much; we are unhealthily obsessed with China because it’s incredibly economically successful, it’s the last hope of actual oldschool dictatorship of the worker socialism, and it’s barely avoided being controlled by the market.

It’s incredibly centralised, it’s authoritarian, yes, but it’s also building all the solar panels and executing billionaires when they get too powerful and making the imperial nations look like chumps, so you should forgive us for our infatuation.

My lack of action and lack of building local organisation? Guilty. I’m trying to correct this. China is not the model for the West, and even the Chinese govt says that, so as a true Chinahead I do not call for Chad Xi to come save us, that is missing the fucking point. We must grow our own socialist organisations to bypass the state, and anarchists and syndicalists might be the best idea for the West, with our individualism and love of freedom.

4 minutes? Not the version I saw in theatre, my friend. Mind you, it’s not exactly what you wanted either, even though it was longer than ten minutes of music at the start: a lot of it was playing while the screen was black, then at a certain point every theme in the music came together, the glorious visuals started up, and I knew I was in for a masterpiece.

Lawrence of Arabia.

He did not lose the primary by democratic means, but by Democratic means. His primary performance cannot be used to gauge his performance in the general.

However, I agree that there’s no point complaining about the corporate Democrats using their power to win. The thing for people who believed in Bernie to do is to get power, and use it to defeat the corporate Democrats.

Old ladies.

You forgot that he is called General Butt Naked.