CitizenKong @ CitizenKong @lemmy.world

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The start to realize that trans people are not a large enough group to demonize over the long term. Plenty of those (poor, non-white) immigrants though!

It also exacerbates mental decline in elderly patients. You can also lose 3-9 IQ points with each infection. It stays in the brain for long after the initial infection and disrupts the brain-blood-barrier. It's honestly (still) pretty scary: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe2400189

But nationalism is still a key component of fascism. Or do you know a fascist system that is or was not nationalistic?

Yeah, that's what I said. But Musk is literally doing supervillian shit while Gates seems to be at least trying to do some good to outweigh the bad. Still, billionaires are a cancer to a planet. I just find it ironic that Gates has become this demonic figure for something he never did and what Musk is literally trying to do with no one batting an eye.

There is a reason why you see flags in Germany only for big sporting events usually.

Or to put it into perspective, the US president, thanks to the Supreme Court, now has all the power Hitler needed a false flag operation and emergency powers for. Step 2 in establishing a fascist system is always putting loyalists in key positions and jailing (better: killing) any opposition.

Project 2024 is really just Projekt 1933 with a fresh coat of paint.

I would love to see them do sci-fi. Imagine something like Mass Effect from Larian...

And he's the multibillionaire that actually wants to put microchips into people's heads unlike Bill Gates who's checks notes actually trying to cure malaria? (He's probably still not a saint though, every billionaire is part of the problem.)

I really hate that Star Trek is apparently fully in the hands of Alex Kurtzman now.

As if there weren't plenty of fascists in the US already. Like a certain Fred Trump, who was arrested in 1927 for taking part in a KuKluxKlan rally.

Most importantly, respected the opinion of someone smarter than himself.

Interesting question: Since your glasses will not die with you, do ghosts have the same bad eyes?

Yes, exactly. I lived in a collapsing society as a child and mostly life goes on, it just gets harder and there are less luxuries.

In the same vein, sharks are older than trees.

That's not quite true. The NSDAP did get the largest percentage of the vote, just not the absolute majority. So they needed other parties to form a coalition for a government. The conservative party and their figurehead Von Hindenburg made that move thinking they could control the Nazis this way.

Hitler still won the election, democratically (although their thugs did intimidate a lot of people to vote for them).

As is Clamp in Gremlins 2.

Not quite right, Von Hindenburg was president while Hitler became chancelor. It was generally thought the politically very experienced Von Hindenburg would be able to control the newcomer Hitler. It was the other way around.

Now you know how two thirds of Germans felt in 1933.

Hitler should have been hanged for trying to overthrow the government, but instead got just a cozy few months in prison (where he wrote Mein Kampf).

Well yeah, it's articifical intelligence, not idiocy.

Why tried nothing and we're all out of ideas!