Down here, at the bottom of this thread, it’s just us. One of us farted and I know it wasn’t me. Who you going to convince? It’s just us here. You gonna call me a fake person when it’s just us? I get you can’t rationally disagree with my position and be consistent with you purported values. That’s a tough spot. But trying to convince me that I’m not real when it’s just between us? That’s a lost cause. As big a waste as sharing a dissenting opinion here. So let’s shake hands on the fact we both wasted our time.

Jesus Christ… What an absolute godforsaken NSA cesspool Lemmy is. The frustration of not being able to talk to real people who don’t assume you yourself are not a genuine actor. This is the darkest forest.

You are not making sense. In what bubble does what you said sound like English? [Edit: it was this bubble all along! Looks like I made a wrong turn on my way out of Reddit And landed on a State Department website. Is my karma still good or did they wipe it?]

One coin, two sides. What agenda has you looking up and responding to my 2 month old comment? Makes me think all these cries of “Russian bot!” Are projection of some kind. But you know, I don’t think your shit resonates with any human.

How irrational is the idea that Russia won’t stop at Ukraine? These guys don’t have the logistics to extend 100km from their border. You lying or a bot? What you’re saying is a plain contradiction of reality.

I hate the internet where people say the most obvious lies with complete conviction. This stuff has to be fake content produced by somebody with an agenda. It’s on both sides. Sure. This is war in 2024. But here we are, the small people trying to eat and pay rent while our masters are telling us it’s worth sacrificing it all for some country that doesn’t affect us. Why? So Haliburton et al can get another trillion? But the cost is that we’re cut off from honestly discussing the life or death issues of our class.

I’m poor and it sucks! It sucks more when gas prices go up and nobody hears me because I’m under a mountain of propaganda and botted down votes.

We didn’t need proof that they’re all the same but here we can see Democrats voting to keep a christofascist in power so Israel can continue a genocide. America, your vote really does not matter but maybe you feel good “participating” in this reality show? We all deserve a little something to make us feel good every few years.

Imagine living in India and witnessing American consumption intimately is your job. That’s a special kind of cruelty.

Those casualties sound kinda miniscule for the war that’s supposedly marching on to Berlin. Hard to give a damn when it’s half a dozen deaths.

More than that. They own the content and relationships and can use them in ways you cannot predict. LLMs gobble up human produced content because we entrusted it to corporations. What hit hardest for me was when Facebook published a study where they found they could influence users attitude by prioritizing certain posts in their feeds.

Imagine it. Corporations owning your relationships and using them to get a profit out of you

If we’re just making comparisons to justify murder, do you know what’s worse than murdering 7000 people? Murdering 30000 people. But being better by comparison doesn’t make you right. There will always be someone worse to compare yourself to.

Remember when Wagner Group accidentally found out they had wide open roads all the way to Moscow from Ukraine? That’s what Ukraine is to Putin. Along with natural gas and some other economic factors. None of it inscrutable.

Didn’t they use an illegal scheme to avoid taxes when he got his dad’s money?

It’s going to depend on the severity of several pending scandals and what the Saudis decide to do with oil prices between now and November. Democrats should have an astronomical campaign warchest while the GOP is blowing their wad on the candidate’s legal bills. The Democrats game to lose and that’s their expertise.

I really don’t see there’s specific evidence for what motivated Jesus, what his goals were or even anything he actually said. Maybe he was a real specific person, but for sure he would have been much less than how the stories portray him. We can say this for certainty because the gospels contradict each other in the specific events of his life.

You seem to be creating your christian narrative out of wishful thinking just because you want to see it that way. Very normal Christian thinking on your part.

I hate this need to for legend and superstition to justify value systems. It’s so easy to manipulate people with this mentality. Look at Qanon. Just believing anything that affirms their prejudice fears. When the leader comes along who can codify and canonize the belief system it’s going to be a disaster for civilization.

Christianity emerged out of rumour and legend to grab the minds of fools and it transformed the world in very chaotic and destructive ways. Q Anon is setting up to out do Christianity. The numbers on Q’s growth are terrifying.

It’s his job to milk the rest of us for all he can get but I’m still sick of him coming round with his hand out.

Regardless. He cannot appeal without putting up the money or a collateralized bond.

He has a monitor overseeing him. Too late for any shenanigans.

He can’t appeal without bonding the full amount and nobody was willing to bond the 5 million he got hit with last year. Looks a lot like he just has to put up the cash.

When it comes to misinformation I always remember when I was a kid I’m the early 90s, another kid told me confidently that the USSR had landed on Mars, gathered rocks, filmed it and returned to earth(it now occurs to me that this homeschooled kid was confusing the real moon landing.) I remember knowing it was bullshit but not having a way to check the facts. The Internet solved that problem. Now, by God , the Internet has recreated the same problem.