So Americans need to switch it off and on again. Gather up new founding fathers and mothers, write up a new constitution and declaration of independence - write up documents for a new federation between states…
Create a back up United States. Declare the old one null and void. Stop interacting with the old one. Start interacting with the new one.
Call all this something benign sounding. Try not to go to war about it. But yeah, you all need to switch this shit off and on again.
Be funny if hackers hacked them to kill CEOs.
Yeah pity he didn’t have any advice on stopping it.
Ever watched Destin from the YouTube channel, SmarterEveryDay - he used to work on weapons systems. As did a guy named Tom Campbell - who now discusses his theory of everything on YouTube.
They don’t seem to think about these things.
The philosopher, Robert Anton Wilson, has a movie that touches on this topic, it’s called Borders.
Most big colleges have helped evict and deport people on studen visas. They cooperate and are complicit.
I’m betting it wouldn’t be difficult to find links between MITs research and development labs and weapons and technologies companies involved in Gaza.
Societies are sometimes like big interconnected machines, large parts become complicit in denial, repression, and destruction.
Edit: yep, as expected:
Since at least 2015, MIT laboratories have received millions of dollars from the Israeli Ministry of Defense for projects to develop algorithms that help drone swarms to better pursue escaping targets; to improve underwater surveillance technology; and support military aircraft evade missiles. Two of these sponsorships were renewed since October 7th, 2023, while one came up for renewal in December 2024. Second, MIT maintains institutional collaborations through the ILP, LGO, CSAIL, and MIT Energy Initiative programs with companies that sell vast amounts of weapons to Israel. These include Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest military contractor, as well as Maersk, Lockheed Martin, and Caterpillar. These collaborations grant genocide profiteers privileged access to MIT talent and expertise.
P.S That drone swarm technology is part of why 83% of American doctors who have provided care in Gaza, have reported treating children for being shot in the head. Source: NPR’s The American Life.
The murder rate is much lower in the rest of the western world, so good chance this will save some lives
UK government who was perfectly okay destroying trans rights now perfectly okay giving the corrupt influences be Trump, 330 million pounds.
This is why I never feel safe downloading a program from Github. I need a recognisable domain name website that google or duckduckgo has picked as the product.
No it’s not perfect, but it feels safer than a random github.
She must have called that kid in the park an N-word SO MANY TIMES to get that much…
“Fuck the people that try to make you scared,” -Pascal
Dude, you’re promoting a horror film.
I think they were… They did a bunch of massacres and political repression didn’t they?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_massacre
Wasn’t that part of the betrayal that started China’s civil war? Says there they killed hundreds of thousands of Communist supporters and unionists, turned women into prostitutes… And that KMT party members denounced Chiang Kai Shek (who became leader of the RoC dictatorship) to Sun-Yat Sen, the pro-democracy candidate.
Pretty sure the RoC factions of the KMT sucked pretty bad… Then later the communists sucked less than them.
The violent Chinese nationalists weren’t the good guys. Western nations supported the subsequent military dictatorship in Taiwan because it was pro-Capitalist, anti-communist (and also anti-democracy).
It was only when Chiang Kai Shek died in the 1970s that the pro-democracy movement in Taiwan felt they could start properly without getting killed.
Oh, did The Union come close to having a brutal military dictatorship after the civil war like Taiwan had? Why would you put The Union as being closer to Chiang Kai-Shek? Were they the more Capitalistic ones?
Like imagine if the Confederate States fled to Hawaii and claimed to be the real America… And the world took their side and swore to protect the “Confederate States of America” on Hawaii…
Shit wouldn’t make sense. You’d be like “WTF world? What’s up with that?”
Doesn’t have to be expressed via the KMT though. That was the party that ruled Taiwan as a military dictatorship for 25 years after all.
At the very least they should change the country’s official name to something that isn’t “The Republic Of China”. Leaving that as the official name just feels like trolling.
I just don’t think I’d fight for in a “We’re the real China, no, We’re the real China!” based war. If so many Taiwanese identify as Chinese it seems like something The West should stay out of. An extension of their civil war.
What’s more Taiwan keeping “The Republic of China” as their official name, and allowing the Chinese National party (KMT) to still operate there is kind of asking for trouble.
If you want to be your own nation they needed to make that clearer about 30 year ago rather than playing these stupid games with names and parties.
Still seems fairly unlikely that China would go to war over Taiwan. It wouldn’t be that easy, and their economy is better for having Taiwan as a major trading partner.
Taiwan acts as a political firewall too, with lots of Chinese companies having their front facing customer service there.
They probably saw the Russian culture war brain rot play out with American youth and decided to have a circuit breaker.
Behind the Bastards has an episode about how YouTube went right wing to create site engagement and an anger economy, and an episode about Facebook doing thr same for boomers.
Some governments are looking into limiting those influences.
EDIT: oh yeah, China might also be protecting children from hearing about the periodic stabbing attacks that happen at schools over there. Forgot about those.
Finally some support for Trump seen on Lemmy! \s
If you’re going to get a free ticket to El Salvador, you may as well go make sure it’s his final beating.
Lots of people will be happier the day Peter Thiel dies… He’s disliked in the same range as Musk, without having anywhere near the public presence.