Iirc, 54% of Texans vote Democrat if it weren’t gerrymandered.

It’s the insecure who are easy targets for the manipulative psychos. That’s why cults tend to target who are in emotionally vulnerable state.

It’s only Gregor, chill.

Even Trump before said he favoured affordable healthcare because it means not tying healthcare to employers. Now, he did a u-turn probably because he’s going senile and having been bought by the insurance industry.

The way I see it, AI is like with any other things, such as botox and plastic surgery and dating apps. People vilified botox and plastic surgeries as unnatural and anyone who had them are losers. People who used dating apps were seen as losers. Now, those are normalised and became part of the furniture, metaphorically.

Love it or hate it, AI will became part of human lives, like furnitures. Younger generations will use them and accept them. Older folks like us will think youths are weird and losers, while the latter thinks the former are fossils who can’t keep up with the times.

I am personally not against or pro-AI, it is useful to certain things, but i recognise that it is monopolised by only few who don’t have the best interests for the many. In any case, AI will be used en masse eventually as more and more people will use it, especially by younger generations. In that sense, those who refused to use AI in any way will be left behind by the times. But whether AI will have ultimate positive or negative impact on human society, only time will tell.

Tankies and far right in our current settings.

I thought we are above Reddit with petty clamouring for points.

Not everything can be viewed from socialist/material dialectic perspective alone. Even the human penchance for tribalistic behaviour could be attributed to simple survival mechanism, ingrained in our psyche, that anyone outside from the group are seen with either suspicion or outright disdain. This leads to bigotry. Animals exhibit the same behaviour-- we are animals after all.

Political sermons are probably more common in poorer countries, I imagine. I’m from a poorer country and the Catholic masses I used to attend would have priests talk about social justice. I don’t recall the priests singling out any particular politicians or groups but we all know who they are talking about. Maybe in the past, priests were more direct in criticism. The liberation theology movement in the latter half of the 20th century was instrumental in toppling many dictatorships. I think there were couple of Catholic priests who were assassinated for voicing out against dictators in Latin America.

I was already aware how big Africa really is. I’m actually more surprised that Greenland is smaller.

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Even before the capitalist system, there are those who already fawn hierarchy. The French revolution, for example, wasn’t an overnight success because there are still those from the peasant and working class who support the Royalists.

I wonder if Trump is going to pull something similar with Iran this time.

I’m not saying genetics is end all be all but nature is still a dominant influence whether we like to admit it or not. It’s why cults of personality persist. That’s why there are plenty of bootlickers for the wealthy, especially on social media (assuming they’re not shills and/or bots).

It’s kinda down to evolutionary psychology. I’ve read it sometime ago that some people are happy to be followers because they gain access to the resources that could be given by the leader. Also, the follower or the second in command has the benefits of access to resource, but without the responsibility of running the group, while also being privy to the private information relating to the leader which could be leveraged.

He’ll say anything to make people forget that he’s in the Epstein files.

I know many people who fawn over an authority figure without question. There is kind of a psychology in which some people are happy to be number two to the top person.

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Those who accuse someone of having Trump derangement syndrome should be called pedophile defenders.

Some people are predisposed to be followers. It’s okay to follow structure and authority but do not have blind obedience.