Cruz is trying to cover his ass.

Great now I have the mental image of video taken by one of Epstein’s Kompromat Cameras, of a room with a freshly raped teen and Grandpa Munster doing his best to hide behind a towel

Well now it can use AI while it sends your ostensible Tor queries over the clearnet , and sells your demographic data despite promising not to do that

Buck Frave

Good thing we have USAID and CDC, they’re the well-funded pros that for the last ~20 years always drop in whenever there are Ebola outbreaks in Africa, and help get the situation under control.

Indeed! I just went from pessimistic (prolly just signal jammers) to OMFG the situation on the ground is about to change

Charlie would have been very proud

Piefed is more like Slide or one of the other alternative Reddit clients

More privacy, cleaner Python code anyone can help improve, less weird rightwing science denialism

Wait maybe he ever had a roommate whose friend’s second cousin was trans

That’s a pretty obvious antifa emergency worthy of sending in the troops… right?

Trump using Putin’s playbook. Expect defenestrations, car crashes , poison

DUI hire gonna DUI

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“Guilty”

Yes, this. I certainly didn’t come up with the phrase, though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memetic_warfare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth-generation_warfare https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2013&context=jss

Listen. This is important. We are in WWIII

I hope democracy and rule-of-law overcome religious autocracy. It’s touch-and-go.

Conservatives don’t care about small government.

I see this often from (presumably) liberals.

I came from a conservative family and held conservative / libertarian beliefs most of my life. These people really, really do want small government. Saying that they don’t makes it impossible to understand their motives – and we really do have to understand where people are coming from.

To complain that their political leaders sell out those ideals for the sake of buying votes is fair, but only if you admit that same set of perverse incentives is not unique to any party.

They both make propositions that could be true or false. They are not non-overlappping.

The whole idea of “personal truth” must become socially unacceptable.

It’s government control which MAGAS equate with “commie”

Ya gotta meet people where they are

It’s smart messaging

Trump is Statist, which is something loathed by both conservatives and libertarians

The root of the problem is faith ; in other words, belief without evidence

That is the root of the problem.

All of us need to understand beliefs as being on a scale that never gets all the way to 0% nor to 100%

All our beliefs have priors, based on the evidence so far, which then get updated as we take in new evidence. This is how scientists and modern philosophers are trained to think.

This is what needs to displace faith.

I hear you and will make a terrible confession – I used to be a hardcore libertarian and very opposed to “speech police”

I still am 100% opposed to enforcing speech. Don’t give someone a fine for saying the N-word, just treat that person as you would anyone who is vulgar or objectionable.

But I do see value in cultural shifts that bend in the direction of greater inclusivity and tolerance. I am with you in that I will absolutely not go along with ones I don’t see as authentic or valuable (eg “Latinx”, or for example I am a heteronormal male who presents as male. I don’t bother adding “he/him” under the photo in my work profile)

The religious are a threat in direct proportion to how much they actually believe their ignorant and credulous horseshit, and which specific flavor of horseshit they credulously believe.

As has been pointed out, radical Jains are not much of a concern. Radical monotheists who believe in both an Afterlife and a Judgement Day – are a direct threat to civilization in much the same way that racists are.

ummm note that wars today are memetic more than kinetic

I am absolutely right now engaged in memetic warfare. I give material support to groups like AAAS , FFRF , etc