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We were satisfied with little victories and we never pushed further to actually change the deteriorating system, any progress that depended on the whim of a rich asshole was fake and has been turned around into an obstacle.

2. He admitted that there is “no list” of 9/11 families seeking to ban Mamdani from the anniversary ceremony.

One out of every three Americans believes the earth is less than 10,000 years old. 💀 convincing people humanity is one race starts with convicing them DNA is not a trick from the devil.

We should probably be less tolerant of sunday schools teaching kids women were created to serve men, might solve a lot of these problems early on.

Maybe they are all powerful in the "maximally powerful" sense, so as powerful as it's possible to be, but only able to do what can possibly be done. While we possess the ability to imagine things that are not possible and cannot be done regardless of power level, like time travel.

*The Paperclip Maximizer, not optimizer, I have made that same error so many damn times.

This is unrelated but a lawyer for the US Attorneys office in my state said something similar in court over ICE screwups, "What do you want me to do? The system sucks. This job sucks. And I am trying every breath that I have so that I can get you what you need." www.lawfaremedia.org/article/less...

Based on the ideas presented in The Paperclip Optimizer I would say the war has already begun, but the enemy has no comprehension of "war". It will destroy us because that is what we are asking it to do, no need for killbots when you can just pump the suicide rate sky-high.

Yeah some countries may start sweeping up our skilled folk as this gets worse but what's happening to the US is no accident, even I'm guilty of prioritizing my job and personal peace while people were choked out in the streets, we failed to stop their rise and now they are in charge of many things.

Also Hilarious coming from the party that erased the Secret Service communications after the insurrection. “The Secret Service erased text messages from both Jan. 6 and the day before the attack on the Capitol after the DHS internal watchdog requested records of electronic communications.” NBC

Sadly there is even some evidence that the information which spreads furthest and fastest through human populations is bad information. True, accurate, and valuable information has limits and rules, it's complex. But a lie is whatever you want it to be, it has advantages in the free market of ideas.

Folk in their 70s may remember a time when rape was just another spoil of war for our soldiers, the cultural whiplash is crazy to think about.

The americanisation is crazy I've had pastors say that god nuked sodom and gomorrah and now he gave that power to us.

It's almost impossible to judge how far some of this hatred goes unless you grow up in these communities. Churches will meet up for home sermons among the more "faithful" of their flock for example, and you can't really sit in on a sunday school session, especially as a random adult.

It lines up with how one out of every three Americans thinks the world is less than 10,000 years old. They don't just disagree with us about a few facts, they disagree about the very definition of knowledge and truth.

I would use it even beyond government, some families are run in a fascist manner and almost every business is. It's becoming more of a general term for any system putting authority first in the name of benefitting the "right people" at the expense of everyone else.

Personally, I think fascism won when US policy inspired Hitler to commit the holocaust. Though it also could have been when we lied about abolishing slavery.

Sadly I'm guessing that is the deciding factor on which deaths are covered up or not, which soldiers have people who would look for them.

There is a trick to it, it's just about getting the machinery built and then slowly growing it bit by bit. Started by using the worst crimes to justify building a death machine in the first place, then slowly grew it until it reached this point. This is the "find out" phase of Fuck Around Find Out.