retrospectology

retrospectology, 3 days ago

So the pig is an anarchist too?

retrospectology, 4 days ago

Kind of wild given that they release updates every other day and break features like Shadowplay until you update. You’d think at least it’d be secure.

retrospectology, 5 days ago (edited 2 days ago)

Weapons should be used to strike whatever targets will help bring the speediest collapse of the Russian invasion, up to and including targeting Putin.

Russia has shown no restraint in trying to hit Kyiv or in trying to kill president Zelensky, it does not help Ukraine or the west in general to tie the Ukrainian military’s arm behind their back.

retrospectology, 6 days ago

wut?

retrospectology, 6 days ago

This is what I don’t understand about establishment dems playing chicken with our Democracy, their neck is on the line too.

I really don’t understand why they think making a show of being Republican Lite is ever going to start working. If someone wants a fascist they’re just going to vote for a full-on fascist, not a half-fascist.

retrospectology, 6 days ago (edited 2 days ago)

[…] or watch the USA and the bulwark of democracy it represents around the world be destroyed.

Ok…but I’m watching that occur right now under Biden anyway. Like, dems desperately need to stop moving to the right, the distinction that you’re trying to draw is becoming less and less meaningful with every lesser of two evils elected.

We need a party that allows fighters to lead the way, not fascists and corporate lapdogs. The party politics need to change yesterday, it’s difficult for many voters to see that happening if neoliberalism isn’t kicked to the curb.

retrospectology, 8 days ago

What a crazy face, that’s awesome

retrospectology, 8 days ago

There has certainly been a lot, but my gut still says China or maybe Soviet Union.

It really depends on how far back you are going and what criteria you’re using to ascribe responsibility for any given type of death.

For example, if a CCP guard kills a Uyghur prisoner in one of the camps that’s obviously a death under the CCP, but if China creates an economic crisis in some country via its Belt and Road debt colonialism campaign and someone there subsequently dies due to hardship stemming from those economic issues is the CCP responsible?

retrospectology, 7 days ago

I’d think so, yeah, the CCP alone has pretty insane numbers, which is saying a lot.

You have to keep in mind that there’s something like a million Uighurs in China that got scooped up and put in concentration camps 2010s. There’s Tianamen, Tibet, the purges during Xi’s rise to power, the brutalization of HK and the literal millions dead under Mao through both intentional acts to purge the party and punish dissidents and simply the incompetance of the the failed economic theories.

retrospectology, 7 days ago (edited 2 days ago)

Millions of people died in China during the Great Leap, with estimates ranging from 15 to 55 million, making the Great Chinese Famine the largest or second-largest[1] famine in human history. [Wiki]

Pretty high number, and that’s not even counting anything more contemporary.

Beginning in 2014, the Chinese government, under the administration of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) General Secretary Xi Jinping, incarcerated more than an estimated one million Turkic Muslims without any legal process in internment camps. Operations from 2016 to 2021 were led by Xinjiang CCP Secretary Chen Quanguo.[2] It is the largest-scale detention of ethnic and religious minorities since World War II. [Wiki]

So, yes, the genocide in Gaza is criminal, no less egregious or evil and those committing or supporting it should be brought before a tribunal, but they’re still rookie numbers compared to the CCP. Even if you go all the way back to the Nakba. There’s simply no way around it.

If you’re going to act morally outraged about the US, you can’t then just skip over China because it’s politically uncomfortable. Xi had execution vans ffs.

retrospectology, 7 days ago

He’s such an insufferable cringelord.

retrospectology, 8 days ago

Edward Bernays is responsible for some much toxic shit the world over.

retrospectology, 8 days ago (edited 1 day ago)

Additionally, Bonevac asserts that he has a right to refuse to employ a teaching assistant who has had an abortion, calling such women “criminals.”

This guy didn’t get the memo that you can’t go directly after the women themselves, only the doctors and people who assist them getting an abortion to create a chilling effect and harmful physical outcomes for the women.

If you try to go directly after the women legally and treat them as if they actually committed murder (putting them on trial, sending them to jail, executing them) it opens a whole political and legal can of worms that the right doesn’t want to actually deal with.

The whole game starts the fall apart and forced-birth positions become exposed for what they are; religiously driven and misogynistic, and this results in those positions becoming impossible to argue in light of the clear intent in the constitution to separate church and state.

retrospectology, 9 days ago

It’s an issue with religion in general, any of the Abrahamic religions, by their nature, demand loyalty to the religion above all else, whether it’s country or even family.

But I’m more concerned with the loyalty of evangelicals in this country than any other religious group, they are the group proving to be the most erosive to our democracy.

As with nearly everything the right says, every accusation is a confession.

retrospectology, 9 days ago (edited 1 day ago)

They’re easily brushed off until they start becoming a major demographic or unite with other fascistic groups. It’s like any religious group, they are harmless as a minority but when the ideology takes hold at a large scale it starts to become a problem.

The US has, unfortunately, been stuck with religious fundementalists since its inception. Not exclusively, but the element has always been here.

Over the last century our Republican party was quickly losing political relevance, so they switched their primary target demographic to southern religious groups and racists, building on those groups’ sense of aggrievement that fewer and fewer people believed in their ideas. It was called The Southern Strategy and it explains a lot about what’s happening in the US currently and how these fringe groups become mainstreamed.

The evangelicals in the US also concoted a kind of toxic mixture of capitalism and religion, they built massive mega churches that run like corporations, and they did so in areas where there wasn’t a whole lot going on economically or culturally. They run almost like company towns where everyone in the surrounding community is part of the cult.

Take it as a lesson, it can happen wherever you might be however far fetched it seems, be assurred that fascism is a global effort and the fascist fringe groups in your country are taking notes whenever there’s a fascist victory in some other country. They learn from eachother and will exploit whatever form of irrational fundementalism, latent racism or culture of tradition that exists in your country.

retrospectology, 9 days ago

This comes just over a month after the UK charged two men with spying for China. UK police have accused them of giving “articles, notes, documents or information” to a foreign state, while China has called the allegations “malicious slander”.

Lol, this kind of makes me wonder about whether the guy ever was a UK spy or if the CCP just arrested him to make some public display of retaliation for losing their own spies. Not putting it past the UK to have recruited him, but China has always had a habit of saying literally anything to try and save face.

retrospectology, 9 days ago

I don’t think the people getting into AI relationships are going to be people who would be in relationships in the abscence of AI.

retrospectology, 10 days ago

Ah, you must be talking about Stonetoss the Nazi.

He’s a nazi.

retrospectology, 9 days ago

That’s the one

retrospectology, 10 days ago

China may start a war over Taiwan, but that would be the only thing really that would realistically lead in that direction, and the the West would probably do a Ukraine where they just supply aid, not actually get involved in the fighting. If we were ready to fight on behalf of Taiwan we’d be recognizing them as a country and sending high profile diplomatic visits regularly etc.

More or less all of the CCPs geopolitical and economic efforts would be undone by a war, the world already hates the CCP and it’s not going to make them more likable if they start a war. Plus there’s no real benefit to the west. It’s not like anyone is looking to occupy China, the CCP knows this they just use the idea as propaganda for their own people.

retrospectology, 8 days ago (edited 1 day ago)

Does anyone yet know how to break stuff like Copilot?

I don’t have Win11, but I also never really trust that MS won’t surreptiously push this kind of thing in the background to legacy systems, and I don’t trust UI toggles within Windows to actually do anything.

Do we know if there are services or files that Co-pilot needs to function?

retrospectology, 11 days ago

If religion wasn’t behind some of the worst atrocities on the planet you might have a point, but the largest religions also are the ones that tend to be fundementally intolerant.

Once an irrational belief in magical spirits starts effecting other people and how our society is run that’s when it becomes something people actively need to be convinced not to believe. They need to cope with reality, not hide from it.

retrospectology, 11 days ago

The problem is, the Abrahamic religions will always seed new fundementalists because, regardless of how people with a modern mindset might interpret it as allegory etc. to make it more palletable, the texts were intended to be read and believed literally. They were written by people in the bronze age, based on made up stories that go who knows how far back.

It’s what makes them so toxic, the belief virus of fundementalism is always there in a latent state waiting to be activated by some new context (usually a particularly charismatic leader or radical change in society).

You see a great example with the current pope – people thought from his language of “acceptance” towards lgbt people that the church was becoming more progressive, but then recently you see him using slurs that pretty clearly contradict that sentiment, because he understands the text is unequivocally anti-lgbt. The Abrahamic religions will always betray people in this way.

retrospectology, 11 days ago

Conservativism is, by its nature, tribal. The two can’t be separated.

retrospectology, 11 days ago

No, you’re just illustrating what I’m talking about. How, specifically, do you envision Donald Trump being worse on this genocide than no strings attached support that Biden has given?

This lesser of two evils shit isn’t working because Biden is showing himself to just be literally out and out evil. You guys need to come to terms with what you’re supporting here, it’s time to acknowledge how far to the right you’ve had to go to be trying to scare people into voting for your candidate with “nuances of genocide”.