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Trump? Musk? There's plenty of competition for #1. Atleast AI is actually a thing.

You experiencing someone as weird isn't an excuse to dismiss them being sexually harassed/assualted. But I know you'll continue to anyways.

The better to opress you with, my dear....biometric tracking everywhere for everything. We let them put microphones, cameras and location tracking, facial recognition in everything and everywhere, we might end up having to use LLMs as the interface to everything capturing voice, speech patterns, thought patterns....why the fuck not eyes, dna, fingerprints (wait, we already did that one)...

Idk, I'd like to see a showdown between a conservative and a feminist on who takes that crown.

So…torture?

The masses are fucking morons and a threat to anyone trying to actually improve anything.

I can't possibly have a diverse musical taste or explore genres or like jazz, to you? Because I disagreed with a few comments? Yikes.

If America has failed to provide paths to success for it's own citizen, it's because the very successful have destroyed those paths, not because Americans have failed. The end of this thinking is America is inhabited only by very rich people and slaves, regardless of whether they are citizens or not. This thinking will kick out the tired, the poor, the huddled American masses yearning to be free *that it created*. Shapiro and co are absolutely incapable of compassion or empathy except in their own self interest.

Taste in music doesn’t require finding value in every genre…the ego on these jazz fans, my god.

What nonsense is this? Jazz influenced those but so did other genres, none of them “gave birth” to them.

Riiight, of all the music there is, only ppl who like jazz have taste…sounds like a jazz fan for sure.

That's a very weird trigger.

Jazz? Is it the 1940s, again? Who the fuck cares about Jazz anymore?

It's the same kind of ppl in each generation that perpetuates enshitification. There are asshole CEOs in every generation, even gen z and alpha, and they'll be selfish pricks just like their predecessors. There are ignorant consumers who care to feel far more than to think, just like previous generations. A cross section of the population shows more meaningful differences and similarities across generations than there is between them. Young ppl don't want to listen to their elders and elders understand how foolish the young are. If y'all looked across generations for direction from the ppp like you across generations, you wouldn't get so fucking manipulated by marketing and media that you think our problems are generational instead of class or character. It keeps us all divided and struggling while they steal everything and commit a wealth based genocide.

But it makes it easy to understand through the lense of our existing prejudices!

Modern White savior complex.

It’s a byproduct of divorce rates and mixed families.

Then stop making it a necessity, to redress grievances.

The person isn’t an object but the body, specifically, definitely is.

"They" is referring to the person.

Compassion isn’t irrational and rationality doesn’t require its exclusion.

The object never has agency. The person does. This edge case is a fine one, but only suggests that the person is dormant, not gone, and can be returned to life. If a body is in a morgue for a week, that ain’t going to be a possibility.

Biology and philosophy absolutely do not disagree. Some parts of philosophy, yes. Biologically they are a pile of complex organic matter that is unbinding.

When alive, the body was a person. They are not incapacitated through death, they dead. Gone. The person ceases to be and only the object and memories remain.

Talking animal is what all humans are....

Things don’t have agency at all. If you want to interact with a dead person, pay a medium for a show. A dead body is a thing and doesn’t have agency. Consent isn’t applicable to things without agency, like objects.

Objects can’t consent at all and they never could, permission from an object to act on it sounds exactly like why the right think the left has gone crazy.

A rational one.

Can you rape a wallet?

Because rape is something that happens to a person, not an object. Are women raping their dildos?

It's morality itself that has the weight, not any particular moral.

Doesn't seem like it takes much to grind on a stiffy.

Why would you consider that to be rape?

Let’s just forget everyone, instead.

It was a marvel of human accomplishment to drive predators, effectively, outside human life. Now we will re-introduce the threat of predators through technology…the golden age is ending and we get to live on the fucking downslope…

And I'm telling you it's an illusion. It's a temporary change in behavior by a small number of people who were personally affected, either by their own emotional outrage over a circumstance or because the American Gestapo was shooting civilians in their city where they live. Once the threat is out of sight, their eagerness will fade, despite the wisdom you probably preach about vigilance and *keeping up the momentum*, however right you are. People don't act because of the wisdom of a distant thing, they act when they are personally affected. *Masses* of people acting that is necessary for real change only occurs at critical moments when mobs form. I can not give you a single example of masses of people acting when it is wise rather than when it is desperate. Can you? If you can't find those moments in history, perhaps you need to rethink your strategy for change to align with how people actually behave and not how it would beneficial for them to behave. What ever convinced you that your strategy is good? How many organizers and unions have utterly failed *because* people failed to stay engaged and committed? Business knows this, governments know this, they use it to break and prevent opposition all the time, they're very good at it.

“Human garbage endangers wildlife.”

Oh look, another message that men are ugly and childish.

And why did they get active? Because things got bad enough it affected their life personally, circumstances provoked it, not their wisdom, or foresight, or morals or good ideas. Where were they while things were getting here? Change happens when circumstances provoked it, not when an organizer tries to explain why they should care and act. They aren't waking up, they're suffering. As soon as they are soothed and safe, they'll go right back to being part of problem. And if they're intimidated or frightened, they'll cower and hide, betraying the movement.

If you're a union rep and organizer then you should know better. Unions have been dying for 60 years and only came into existence because people were so poorly treated they were willing to fight, and possibly die, as some did, instead of labour. Their bargaining position was also considerably stronger, not having to compete against a world labour market or the viability of moving production to other nations. The extremity of the situation provoked action, organizing only facilitated, it didn't provoke it. You are doing a significant amount of rationalizing on your end. Change isn't impossible, it happens all the time, but intentional change through group effort is not caused by eager organizers who just believe enough. People en masse must be provoked to action by circumstance. There is a habitually lying, child rapist, conman and fraud, whose been granted legally immunity to violate the constitution and all laws, *twice* elected, and sitting in the White House, supported by the entire GOP and half the nation. People can't seem to figure out they should act to deal with that. Good ideas and wise choices don't make people act, desperation, necessity and self-interest do. Circumstances do. That's why propaganda and distractions work so well, they *are* the circumstances. Nihilism and realism look the same to an optimist. That's you right now. Rationalizing away observed history to retain your will to act because you can't face a harsh truth about the disappointment and inefficacy of *convincing* mass behavior out of people.

You have no actual plan other than a plea to "try". Funny that you criticize the nihilist's lack of trying but not the general population's. Even though both result in the same inaction. Atleast the nihilist usually once cared, unlike the masses who can't be bothered to ever care. Good luck though. Keep pleading with the wall of indifference, laziness and self-interest that keeps people from ever taking group action.

If only the masses had the will to fight their own subjugation.

The places tyrants can't see into is where the threats come from.

Privacy is proof of terrorism. The state, and it's corporate allies, need to have access to your innermost thoughts, the things about you even you don't know, for national security reasons. This is totally normal and not something to resist. Vote republican.

It has the threshold its victims allow by maintaining a relationship with he greedy.

Yes it does do shit, relative to how good you get at doing it. The impact is real. Sure groups of people will be needed to get significant changes but every single person thinking their participation doesn't do anything is why everyone stays disengaged. Show up even if others don't, until others do. Getting people to engage is also worth of engaging.

Because you have to actually do something to make the government spend it on you. You can't just sit behind a screen and type angrily. You have to personally show up and engage politically, economically and culturally to force the power structure to work for you. Bernie is right there trying to do that for you and Americans refused him.

Being the victim of it.

I did not.

lol “Just follow the law!” Plenty of admins are pretty and vindictive.