“We’re going to need the help of robots and other forms of, uhhh, I guess you could say employment,” he said, shrugging. “We’re going to be employing a lot of artificial things.”

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    When reached for comment, White House Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly told the Daily Beast in a statement, “It’s sad that Daily Beast interns cannot grasp the concept of pro-growth policies that create jobs. Their minds are clearly warped after cheering on Joe Biden as he wrecked our economy for four years.”

    The pettiness is unreal.

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      This is not “pettiness”. This is all part of a multi-generational psychological warfare operation to brainwash the working class and implement totalitarian dictatorship — started by the Koch Bros, Roger Ailes, Rupert Murdoch, and other wealthy narcissists several decades ago — and the fascists are winning; facilitated by “liberals” who are mostly a manufactured opposition, financed by the same corporations/oligarchs.

      No war but class war, and the capitalist class is winning.

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        The rhetoric that politicians are idiots and they don’t know what they’re doing is also damaging, because it makes people assume stupidity rather than malice.

        But it is malice. The incompetence is real, make no mistake, but malice is in fact the end goal.

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          When profits are involved, always assume malice.

          The only time you should assume stupidity is when dealing with family, friends, colleagues, frontline workers, etc; basically anyone you interact with who wouldn’t profit off the malice (eg the sales person or marketing team will lie to make a sale).

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          The rhetoric that all politicians are corrupt and evil is also extremely damaging, and is parroted strictly by conservatives and the daft-right who then go on voting for the most corrupt and evil ones every time.

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            Its also parroted by the left because we can see the corporate backers funding the various politicians.

            Citizens United was the greatest coup the ruling class could have gotten (before social media anyway), and its made it trivial to corrupt our politicians. And we can see how stances change or how there’s always juuuuuust enough politicians to vote for some horrible bill to pass or kill a bill good for the people. Its kinda sad how many people don’t see this.

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        Never believe that anti-Semites [read: fascists] are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

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        I’d say educational system, or better, it’s downfall through decades, plays a significant role in making population dumb enough to not see through these constant lies.

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          It’s easy to control sheep. Machiaveli wrote a literal guidebook in the 1500s. If you dumb them down and destroy free thought, you can rule as you see fit.

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          The multigenerational operation directly involves the defunding of, and attacks on, education. This isn’t a this or that situation. ALL conservative and neoliberal policy since the 1970’s is about destroying ALL socialist/liberal/democratic advances made to date, and returning the working class to ignorant destitution; much easier to control and brainwash mentally-ill morons (see MAGA).

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        Exactly what happened. What are we going to do about it? I plan to create a self-sustainability community to at least drain their leverage a bit.

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        4chan played a non-insignificant part in getting MAGA in power. It always attracted throngs of alt-right morons who dominated the political discourse. Back when nazis were afraid to speak about their beliefs in public, the Internet quickly became their breeding ground and base of operations. They got in very early, and were always very good at dominating and influencing online sentiment.

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          Yup, and I was almost one of them. Can take a while to deprogram oneself. It literally took me being exposed to the wide world out of their little microcosim of understanding and rhetoric to see they were putting 2+2=9. Add in the neo-liberals who cozy up with them when anyone with a hint of progressivism gets popular or change is on the horizon. Then saying stuff like “they can still learn and understand.”

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      Do you think anyone could shoot her an email asking for comments on shit?

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      Then we’d have President Vance and first Mistress Kirk. This cancer is going to take a while to cut out if it doesn’t outright kill us.

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      I need him to stay alive and receive punishment, impeachment and incarceration for all his crimes before he kicks the bucket…this fascist, racist, felon, clown fuck

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      Soon enough. You can see the way he is aging. It seems to be accelerating.

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        There is no “-ism” that can save the US anymore

        They need a revolution and a new system. More than two parties and limits on presidential power

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            It doesn’t work on a large scale because people with Cluster B personality disorders will always corrupt any system we come up with.

            And historically those systems are typically structured in a way that allows authoritarianism and dictators to take over more quickly. The government has to control everything, which creates a much smaller point of failure.

            Capitalism is a shit system, but it took ~200 years to corrupt to this point because the power is more distributed (at first).

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              Capitalism is a shit system, but it took ~200 years to corrupt to this point because the power is more distributed (at first).

              The US is reaching the average lifespan of an Empire. Capitalism has not been particularly good at preventing collapse, it has been about average.

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                It’s not just the US; we’re just speed running the end while the western world follows behind.

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                  US exceptionalism once again.

                  “We’re not shit, everyone is shit! But we’re better at being shit than everyone else!”

                  Okay then.

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                Yeah, then we can have President Grok whose opinion can be changed by whomever touches the code.

                The only thing worse than a person whose opinion changes based on the last person they talk to, is an AI whose opinion changes based on what oligarch or employee was able to sneak something into the model/code.

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              Depends on when you consider the corruption of the wealthy came in. The Civil War was fought over slavery and it was because rich land barons in the south didn’t want to have workers they paid anything to. So they also greased government hands to try and keep it. So the rot set in quickly, it just took longer to metastasize.

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    Boomers in the 1980s: “Those damn robots took our darn jorbs”

    Trump in 2025: “We’re giving these jorbs to the robots”

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        You will continue to labor all day for reduced pay, while the robot pretends to do art all day

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          Reduced pay? If the rich get their way, we’re going to be chattel slaves. They hate us so much and are so disgusted with us, even the worst wage slavery is too good for us.

          They’ll kill off the unclean and disabled in mass exterminations, enslave us for a time while/if their ai gets good enough, and eventually when robots are good enough to replace even slaves, the rich will hunt us for sport and do coloseum games on us.

          People really underestimate how fucking awful the ruling class is. They are wicked, despicable people who genuinely think anything above slavery and bowing to them is too good for us poors.

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          They will outsource our leisure time to the robots so that we can stay at work forever, and the robots stay at home and fuck our wives.

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      And this will benefit the average worker by giving him more free time while keeping his job and salary, right?

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    More people are working right now in the United States than at any other time in our history.

    The same can be said year on year every single year (except 2020) due to population and economic growth.

    What he doesn’t say is that the divergence between the average wage and the cost of living has never been greater. So, while more people are available to work, they are earning less per hour in bread and bricks than they were 5, 10, 15, 20 (etc.) years ago.

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      I blocked /c/politics over this, but it seems like none of the big .world communities care about tabloid sourced/clickbait headlines.

      And, unfortunately, clickbait works. They always float up to the top of Active.

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      Did your parents do insane amounts of coke, rape children and utterly ignore their health in pursuit of porkish hedonism? Then go for high stress bullshit with a family history of dementia?

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        And do they also have late stage syphilis? Why is nobody talking about that one, it’s obvious. The patchy hair loss, the blemishes, the cognitive decline, the bizarre thick facial makeup. You know why the French covered their faces and hands with that thick white lead based paint back in the 1700s and wore wigs? Because of syphilis.

        It fits the timeline perfectly if you consider how he was living in the 80’s-90’s, and how obviously he would never go have it checked out because he’s a narcissistic piece of dumb shit.

        (It also tangentially explains Trump’s bizarre emotional affiliation with the late great Alphonse Capone)

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          Fun fact: we can even cure late stage syphilis nowadays. Well, eradicate it from the body. The damage it caused will persist. Including cognitive.

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    I am once again begging people not to post a headline that starts with “Trump, 79,” that doesn’t end with. Well. You know.

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      Trump 1.0 he was actually there still, easily manipulated but still there. Now he’s just a puppet with dementia.

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        Nah, 1.0 was only better because he spent the whole time figuring out wtf to do. He didn’t even know he had to hire his own cabinet. 2.0 is the result of those four years of realizing the power and protection of the position, and another four of teams of knowledgeable people working hard to make sure this term would be the last they’d ever need.

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          It’s less that he personally learned anything and more that the Heritage Foundation did, he’s only following their playbook.

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    Either put him in a home or in the ground. I don’t care which, but for the love of god, take away his Internet access.

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        Only if Americans accept that instead of doing what they should, which is arrest them all and do to them what your precious constitution says should happen to traitors who commit treason.

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    I hope this was his last merry Christmas. I hope we’re getting close to his Mussolini ending