Well, this is a solid admission that they are going to use deep fakes to influence elections.

The second amendment was written so that there would be militias, who could act quickly, in spread-out, often frontier locations, in case of foreign incursion, giving the military proper time to respond.

I did this some months back. It didn’t hit me until I looked at the time, from across the room, to see how close I was getting to needing to leave. It then struck me, I can read the clock from across the room…

“Texas is a coping mechanism disguised as a state” gonna be stealing that quote

If I walk into a woman’s apartment, and one of the first things I see is something like “can’t handle me at worst”, and I <3 Dylan, posters I am probably going to end the pursuit of this relationship. I would do this because I have seen this common thread with people who do this. That common thread is that they have personality disorders, or are otherwise unstable. Pattern recognition is a survival instinct. Pattern recognition can be wrong, but this isn’t seeing faces in wood grain. This is seeing aspects of people’s personalities that they, themselves, value to the point where they spent money to display it on their wall.

Beyond this specific situation, you know how many times I have seen “it’s just memes” turn into “I am now in favor of an ethno state”? The average person to white supremacist/whatever pipeline created by the social influence of fora for “it’s just memes/jokes” is real, I have watched it happen. Feel disaffected from society? Well I am here to ease you into the idea that it isn’t your fault, it is the fault of women, and brown people, starting with some casual jokes, and memes.

I mean if you want to knit pick a joke, at least be that pedantic with your own comment

Yeah, I really just try to disengage with campists these days. Honestly authoritarian leftists are soooo few where I am from, they aren’t even worth really giving consideration to the problems I am facing. They are only a thing in online spaces like Lemmy. They are all “LOL, brainwashed imperialist. You cited an academic paper? It’s not from Zhengzhou? Ha, it’s just imperialist lies. I don’t have to engage with the data on any real, academic level, because LOL not from China!” The best is when someone asks them WTF they are supposed to do when they shit on all efforts for change, and they imply you are complicit because you have yet to instigate revolutionary violence, when they have never been in a fight, let alone fucking killed someone.

The small, actual, leftist movement here tends to run anti-authority, I am far more concerned with them. It is fun to talk shit though.

Yes, they are staunch campists, so I have tried to disengage them.

Punitive prison systems make crime worse, that’s just facts

Yes, get those incarceration numbers up! Be more like the US. What could go wrong?

Yes I have seen cowpee, and others, disregard any information from any western organization, government, university, etc. Then, when someone did the same with information coming from china, cow said they were clearly to immature to have a rational, good faith, argument.

Western media is just propaganda, doesn’t mean everything they say is wrong. Same goes for the media branches of the CCP.

Volkswagen was founded in 1937

Don’t cars account for 30% of total energy consumption, and 70% of petroleum? Not defending AI here, the last thing we need is another unchecked, massive, resource hog.

The posters are red flags for “nice guys” and other very problematic people

If I had the option, and i don’t, I am going to have to spend my personal time resources, as-well-as money resources, on getting rid of it, if possible. The argument that the increased complexity, means increased resources to manufacture, doesn’t work when the added complexity turns the customer into a source of revenue generation.

The real way is to get legislation that makes this illegal. That will not happen though, so the equivalent of “ad free” versions of TVs, Cars, Phones, etc. would be a nice option.

They are talking about the features that track you, listen to you, monitor any data passed through their device inputs, and things like chips that allow for the remote stopping of the car, the heaters in your seats, your remote starter, etc.

Yup, and there isn’t a lawyer that isn’t the DA prosecuting your case that won’t tell you the same

damn no red tail hawk screech when i finished that

Just don’t talk to any police, about anything, no matter who you are. If you are legally obligated, or they don’t care if you are or not, you need legal representation to inform any interaction with the authorities.

could it be the focused manosphere type propagandizing of men?

Books, higher education, art, etc, are all looked at negatively by this social influence sphere. If you go into academics, it better be STEM/business/law and none of this limp-wristed liberals arts shit. You should be working out, working yourself to death, shooting guns, smoking cigars, and treating women like objects. None of this pussy reading for fun shit.

Some of the best toys of that time period