I mean some of them might actually believe that. But Trump is not wrong here. They signed away their lives to protect Billionaires and their property. There is a reason as things get worse and worse that the police and military budget gets bigger and bigger. Theyre the class traitors that protect the wealthy from both domestic and foreign threats. With the military now being turned inward as well to bring a taste of American foreign policy to its own citizens that dare to resist.
It's amazing how many people in America support Zionist Fascism by quoting the bible and saying that that land must be a Jewish supremacists Ethnostate.
It's not even just the hardcore Christian Trump voters. You'll hear this take from the liberals in the PNW too. Its amazing propaganda. People don't even think or question it because it's been burned into their brain since birth.
It's why you hear "progressive except Palestine" so often.
I think you're wrong. But not because you're illogical. On the contrary I think you're thinking rationally if you assume businesses are running to make better products. If you do. You're right.
These companies are not running to make better products than their competitors. They are running to monopolize their industry to a degree that gives them enough power to sell absolute garbage.
Look no further than the gaming industry. This is the exact type of garbage we are seeing from other industries now.
They are not interested in making better products. They are interested in making profits. And if the entire market is held together by 2-3 major players all replacing workers with AI slop they will have no reason to change. They will all do it together.
No amount of "indie" projects will ever threaten their market domination.
This is then future that will happen. Don't expect "markets" to save us from this. The myth of "free markets" is how we got here in the first place.
I love how the liberals dreams of "revenge" are of not allowing others to be oppressed by some fucked up law.
I mean. I get it. Don't get me wrong. But if the dream of liberals in power is just "things aren't getting much worse for awhile" I really think we need to reprioritize.
My idea of left seizing power and being "authoritarian" is enacting universal healthcare, high speed rail, billionaires in jail, ending garbage AI waste, and much more material actions.
If our idea is just to "stick it" to some racist people in Texas I think we need to rethink that plan. I want those racist people in Texas to have all of the things above too. I want the material conditions to improve for everyone because I know that that is what helps to end these manufactured divisions of race, gender, or religion.
Our goals can't be to just play whackamole with fucked up laws in red states.
The difference between killing and oppressing innocent people in a foreign country and innocent people in America is only "huge" if you don't see the former group of people as human beings.
Damn. Sounds exactly like a way to boost small businesses profits as they steal taxes they won't pay. This type of policy can't be left to the businesses and a phone line. Just saying. It needs to be collected by the state imo. Placed into state Medicaid, Medicare, or a new universal healthcare plan for California.
Newsom is the King of awful neoliberalism. If the tech oligarchs demand fascism we'll get fascism in California too. You're not wrong. But Musk has proven himself to be a useless child. That's not how things would go. The ruling class isn't that stupid. That's why Trump kicked him out. Use him as tool? Absolutely. But Musk is basically political poison. But then again, the Democrats have been so incompetent they might actually try to work with him publicly.
This. I hate it. It feels like a modern day factory worker job.
When I first graduated I was all caring about design, mainability, etc.
Nope. All that shit is pointless in a large company. Took me too long to notice that Cisco was essentially just throwing as many code monkeys at the problems until things work.
"Fix" a bug in a hacky way that creates 10 more bugs that won't be found for weeks and be another teams problem because they can't directly point to your hacky code anyway? That engineer is getting promoted. They fix so many bugs. So many commits!
Take the time to understand the bug and do a rewrite to ensure other platforms are not effected and setup the design so it's easier to debug in the future? Well, you spent all week on one bug you lazy engineer!
It took me too long to realize that I was the bad programmer. That this is actually what companies want and reward their employees for.
Sorry. Didn't mean to rant. But your short comment triggered it I guess.
I fucking hate this field. I still love programming though.
Dude. I bet they have a retirement pension. I bet they get paid sick leave and time off when their child is born. Fucking elite assholes. Unions are the real parasites on the working class.
Do they not think about the rights of the Israeli working class? It's an Israelis right to wake up every morning and know that at least 10 children in Gaza were killed while they slept. Palestinian babies are the real elites actually.
We've hit the point where people are only trying to save their own asses from any type of future justice. Justice that will hopefully come before they are all dead.
It is a positive shift. Don't get me wrong. But what we are seeing right now has not done anything yet to improve the material conditions of the people of Gaza or Palestine as a whole.
These western leaders and scholars are trying to form a narrative that can be looked back at as "the point" in which they stood up against the genocide. But (1) that point was 19 months ago and (2) they aren't actually doing anything to stop the genocide.
We cannot let history see them in a good light. These leaders and scholars have known exactly what has been happening for the last 19 months. You can't spend 19 months denying the acts of genocide and only finally come to the conclusion once Gaza is reduced to ruins and it's entire population is starving. That not what genocide scholars are meant to tell us. They aren't meant to tell as after the fact. They are meant to learn from history and call out these things long before it is allowed to reach this point.
And many of them did. But if you're a "genocide scholar" and you're only now coming to the conclusion that this is genocide. 19 months after real scholars correctly pointed to it. You are not a scholar. You are a glorified record keeper.
My friend from Korea once said "I think most American men's entire personality is built around trying to prove to everyone they're not gay". Pretty much sums it up.
That's only true if it's more profitable. Companies sell plenty of shit to Americans that is banned in other markets. We're basically a dumping ground for a lot of cheap "has been linked to cancer" products.
Shrooms often "enhance" your mind. They don't necessarily make you more open minded. If you were already an open minded person they will likely enhance that. If you were a right wing Nazi they're most likely going to enhance that too.
People act like drugs are some mind opening experience. And to an extent they are. But, they don't reveal something to you like a message from God. They allow your mind to be revealed without restrictions. To learn things about your mind that it was hiding.
This can be a positive or negative experience depending on who you are.
Yeah. If he just stayed with pot I think we'd be better off. Whatever other cocktail he is on is really not helping anyone. But I think if he drops it he's going to do something insane with the withdrawals.
I can't live without VIM keybinds. Maybe I'm a boomer. I do use it as a note taking or "collect my thoughts" app. Or just a place to paste shit when I'm working. Very useful for that. Though only when I'm forced to be on Windows.
I mean some of them might actually believe that. But Trump is not wrong here. They signed away their lives to protect Billionaires and their property. There is a reason as things get worse and worse that the police and military budget gets bigger and bigger. Theyre the class traitors that protect the wealthy from both domestic and foreign threats. With the military now being turned inward as well to bring a taste of American foreign policy to its own citizens that dare to resist.