LukeZaz

I really don't feel like even that is as different as we think it is. Not because I don't think China is breathing down the necks of its citizenry – I absolutely do – but because I think America* is doing it just as much. We just don't realize it because of the immense lengths local media goes through to make it look like it's not happening. Exonerative tense, copaganda, et cetera. Shit, it hasn't been much more than a decade since the Snowden leaks happened, and yet as far as I know we have no good reason to believe any of that has stopped at all.

It's easy not to think so if you've not personally experienced it. But it's important to remember that if you're not privileged, there are a lot of reasons to feel very oppressed in this country.

^*^ ^Mentioning^ ^America^ ^here^ ^because^ ^it's^ ^what^ ^I^ ^have^ ^personal^ ^experience^ ^with,^ ^not^ ^because^ ^I'm^ ^assuming^ ^that's^ ^where^ ^you're^ ^from.^

Now this would be the dream.

Doesn't really counter anything I said in my comment, so I stand with what I said. I won't complain if war profiteers want to self-sabotage.

Simpler explanation: Trump is a fascist, and wants more power. Having more territory means having more power.

The comment I was replying to insinuated that Russian propaganda was the primary if not only factor. Which is, again, ridiculous. Besides, as far as I'm concerned, Russian propaganda is an excuse used to prevent people from realizing how many of our problems have a domestic source, and that our government is and has been insanely terrible for a long time. Is it there? Sure, but it's far from the biggest issue. Capitalism is an excellent incubator for fascism all by itself, and you don't need an outside push to make the decay hit.

Personally, I'd rather more countries stop fucking around with LLMs generally, thanks!

This is honestly such a stupid goddamn thing to compete over. Maybe I should be thankful in that regard, then, since it keeps the U.S. and China's ridiculous dick-swinging contest more focused on areas that don't actually matter, rather than weapons development programs that are eager to ruin our rights and our lives all the more.

Kill a billionaire, another takes his place. You have to make systemic change in order to actually remove billionaires from the equation. That requires a lot more than a bullet. Organizing will always be more effective.

This is exactly what I do, and I think it's honestly a very healthy way to engage with that kind of content. If you find someone you like, and/or who has a lot of overlap on preferences, then that's a great way to get an idea for how much you'd like a game.

Hell, even if you don't tend to prefer the same things, if the person reviewing is sufficiently passionate or entertaining, you can still develop an appreciation for why someone else likes what they do. I've absolutely struggled trying to get into Fallout: New Vegas for a variety of reasons, but I still respect it a lot because Hbomberguy had a very compelling video on what he liked about it.

Fascist rhetoric does not require Russian propaganda to spread. If you feel this way because right-wing talking points and Russia tend to line up, that's because Russia's government is terribly right-wing and has been for decades. But correlation is not causation. Blaming Russia for its own fascist trending is perfectly correct; blaming the country for everyone's fascism problems is ridiculous.

Personally, I really dislike thinking like this. Blaming Russia for everything distracts us from problems our own countries made all on their own. It's an overly-simplistic answer to a complicated and wide-reaching set of problems, and prevents us from properly thinking about those issues.

Someone being fired and replaced by someone else is not inherently wrong, and that doesn't change at all whether they're an immigrant or not. What you seem to be complaining about is the practice of companies doing so specifically so that they can get a cheaper worker who can be abused more, or doing so when the original employee had done nothing wrong; however, phrasing this as "an H1B visa holder is working a job that should be occupied by a domestic worker" is the absolute wrong way to go about it, because this makes it sound as though an immigrant having a job is fundamentally less worthwhile than a citizen having it.

Why are you singling out one small part of their comment to the exclusion of the rest?

That's the fault of the employer, not immigrants. Immigrants having jobs is never the issue.