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I don't think this is a good thing. While the current form of conservatism was kind of started by Trump via whatever horrible things he was saying, it's a pandora's box that was opened and will probably never be closed again as long as there's an audience to the talking points. If Trump were to become effectively disowned by conservatives, they're likely going to replace him with someone even worse (someone like Mike Johnson or any other christian fundamentalist) which is the true horror.

Also remember - all this talk from conservatives about Trump being a "bad candidate" is not because his policies or project 2025 are bad, it's only because he's no longer that popular.

This doesn't make any sense - fighting climate change isn't some local effort where if you suddenly stop doing CO2 emissions in your country, the country becomes suddenly safe. There needs to be a radical global cooperation for this, there's no place for patriotism here (in fact, what needs to be done is closer to cosmopolitanism).

I read it as AI somehow making more people sick therefore more of them needing to go see pharmacists, therefore pharmacists seeing more patients

Dude looks like a Far Cry villain

Didn't Musk unironically have a burner twitter account where he would pretend to be a 3 year old child? Grok might be onto something here

Doubt procrastination will stop even after 60-70 becomes a new high in those countries and people start dying en masse

Good, but why now? For years, Google has been way more dominant both practically and culturally until very recently, and only now after they stumbled hard with their AI venture, Bing catching up, and their public opinion dropping do they decide to break the company up.

Does this mean that a monopoly is good as long as it's successful, but once it starts stumbling and outlives its use that's when the government is gonna do something about it?

Man, I wish. The problem nowadays is that denuvo is actually effective - many titles that are rather popular but have denuvo DRM haven't been cracked for years at this point, so the only practical choice is to wait for years until those game companies stop their contract subscriptions and DRM gets removed.

I remember this article from a couple days ago where some chess player poisoned their opponent's board with mercury, and I'd like to believe they copied this strategy from Musk's SpaceX. He is truly a visionary and innovator, inspiring chess players to discover new strategies.

I don't think racism itself is enough for Trump and far-right to succeed, which is precisely why they've combined it with populism and working class rhetoric. Of course, there's still racism like how muslims are being portrayed as violent beasts as opposed to culture white christians, but a lot of it is also things like "immigrants are taking away money from welfare thats why you live bad" or "immigrants are taking our jobs" or "jews control everything and steal from workers" and so on, you know what they say.

Like any good right-wing propaganda, there is a grain of truth in those statements, and it's that economic reality of working class is shit - wages are stagnant, exploitation is rampant and just pure stress when it comes to finances. I do believe that if people's needs are met then the racist rhetoric would lose a lot of its power and people will just stop caring as much as they do right now, but that's very unlikely without any radical action.

Bait used to be believable

the supposed resurgence of fascism never happened despite EU running capitalism for 79 years since the World War 2.

If you took 5 minutes to look into elections in Europe and in US, you'd see that far-right are becoming more dominant in elections, white nationalists and neo-nazis are openly having marches on streets and attacking the "enemy" (like immigrants or muslims), Russia is pretty much an unofficial fascist state right now and so on.

You're right, resurgence of fascism never happened, but it is happening right now.

Funnily enough, not even neoliberals believe in the free market regardless of how much they spout its nonsense.

Thatcher was one of such neoliberals, she would always talk about how people should become self-sufficient and governments shouldn't interfere in the free market for it to truly work and so on, but during her rule she was spending billions in subsidies for corporations (aka government interference in the free market). Of course, they weren't called subsidies in the paperwork but some other bullshit like "public investment", but their effect was still the same.

RIP. Even though she got a lot of shit from the youtube community, at least she was a bit better than what youtube currently has.

Yeah, there's definitely some fetishization of working class going on by the media, kinda like how celebrities sometimes would cosplay as poor to appear "relatable" or something. At least this time it seems to be somewhat legit.

Unrealistic beauty standards

These chess strategies are getting more and more creative

Always the ones you least suspect

Realistically, the only real way to deal with them is counter-protest, but that's difficult since the right has completely taken over the direct action/protest field in the past 10 years, so it's a question whether or not the left can organize anymore (unless things get really bad, like how Antifa was very active during Trump).

We can try to combat misinformation and propaganda on the media to try and prevent this from even happening or telling people that it's all bullshit, but it's not effective since many popular sources directly benefit from this misinformation (be it in clicks or political goals) and either turn a blind eye or purposefully spread it (notable instance being Twitter).

Unless some sort of magical fairy-tale leftist revolution happens where most people get rallied under class issues and inequality rather than race and shared bigotry, this will probably continue happening more and more.

Conservatives only debate students who don't know any better or barely coherent geriatrics, and it's never in good faith