Paragone @ Paragone @lemmy.world

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Maybe we need to find the spine to auto-lock/auto-ban all such enemy-agent bots.

WELL past-time we did-so.

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Weren't such sacrifices traditionally done into volcanoes?

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I've read that Hitler intentionally gave government-departments overlapping authority, so that they'd be in turf-wars, so whichever one "lost" could then be shut-down..

It wasn't incompetence, it was intentional: a means for force-dismantling government's function.

IF the point of having the incapable running the different departments .. is so that total-dictatorship later becomes "justified", then it is a strategem, not a mistake.

& differentiating between unconscious-strategems vs conscious ones ..

.. as an example of unconscious-tactics, I'm now certain that Hamas's strategem of using the lives of Palestine as bait, to get Israel to demonstrate its nihilism & sadism & narcissism & machiavellianism ( etc ) on, ..

.. so that in future, the entire-region wouldn't care what "deterrent" Israel had, .. that such a huge percentage of the region's population would be committed to annihilating Israel at ANY cost, .. that Israel's annihilation becomes inevitable..

.. was completely unconscious.

But it is effective.

I don't bet ANYthing on Israel existing, as a country, by 2029, now.

Trying to sort-out the .. bucket-of-vomit, which is what geopolitics now is .. with all its unconscious-strategems & insane tactics & sickening "values" ..

I'm betting that Trump will use the consequences-of-his-people's-incompetence to "justify" greater, & more-complete, highjacking of the US of A.

I absolutely do not believe it'll result in the Dems regaining the US:

that opportunity was thrown-away with the election that Biden wouldn't get out of, until it was too late to save.

1. differentiating the convenient-to-the-left-belief isn't journalism, it is just more of the filter-bubble that cost the Dems the 2024 election.
2. seeing such things not with the superiority/contempt of the left, but rather with the .. how is this going to be dealt with and adapted-to by the ruling-regime, how are they going to use this to further their highjacking? would be much closer to journalism.
3. humans are mixtures of unconsciousness & consciousness, & much of our "tactics" and "strategy" is actually just unconscious-instinct & feelings-motivated stuff, so it doesn't matter whether it is unconscious or conscious, it doesn't matter whether it is contempted by so-and-so, or whether some caste/class of people are condescending about it, in Natural Selection, it only matters if it works. Pay attention to if it's viable-enough to continue taking our world down, not to what the upper-middle-class-left are saying while denigrating it.

( feel free to contempt everything I said here, but I'm sooo damn tired of filter-bubble making-believing substituting for the survival-stuff that humankind needs .. & every mistake made by anybody can be changed in significance by circumstance,

so the whole "they're failing, & we're going to be their 'daddy' when they do" narrative that much of the upper-middle-class left that I've seen is identifying in.. is just more ignoring/denying, with a price-tag counted in lives later this decade.

Pragmatism would be a good thing, now, & "it's only a won-game when it's completely finished" would also be good to live by. )

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https://duckduckgo.com/?q=kremlin+targetting+signal+accounts&t=fpas&ia=web

it seems there's some real mechanism, involved in this..

Here's the best-quality information I could readily-find..

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/russia-targeting-signal-messenger

I think you've got the heart of it, right there.

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You might as well try explaining theoretical-physics to a frog: there is ZERO point in trying to get Trump to understand this position.

( and I am indebted to you for identifying that some geopolitics-players can't understand some dimensions, & that needs to be flagged, in every case )

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I second blakenong's comment that Greenland could simply ban such people.

The fact that they won't ban such people sends a definite message: that it's still open to negotiation.

Sometimes hard-lines & hard-walls are required, but some people, & some cultures, won't learn that lesson, no matter the price??

I bet the Muppets coulda done an awesome Sax Pistols..

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That's a tuba: properly wielded/played, it can do that..

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Entanglement takes care of everything...

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if Musk's got a high intellect-quotient, that's fine..

What does it measure?

A very-specific subset of intelligences, crafted to leave-out female relational-intelligences, musical-intelligence, health-intelligence, among other ones..

https://www.amazon.com/Seven-Kinds-Smart-Identifying-Intelligences/dp/0452281377/

identifies 9 intelligences, & I defy most Mensa-types to consistently score high on those other ones..

It is the IQ lobby which won't tolerate the other-intelligences to be counted equally-valid, right?

With reason: they aren't good at those intelligences.

( hint: musical-intelligence includes multiple sub-intelligences, including, but not limited-to..

• rhythm
• harmony
• melody
• improv/jazz
• composition
• polyrhythm
• etc..

A person can have a "musical intelligence" of whatever, & be brilliant in rhythm, but lousy in harmony, xor vice versa.

Too-coarse-granularity's consistently a problem with these damn measures : )

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Here Here: the white-blue-white Russians, fighting alongside Ukraine, against Putin's forces, they validly are Russian, & they validly oppose Putin's alignment.

there were Germans who did what they could to grind-to-a-halt Nazism, including some newspaper, too, apparently..

same as there are US-ians opposed to what Trump's working himself up to ( the rampaging of Canada & Greenland, so as to be able to, with Putin on the other side, rampage Europe in total ).

I once worked with a guy who was from Iran, back in the last century..

He told me that he was at a political-rally, & suddenly something popped/changed in his brain, & suddenly he wasn't in the population-trance he'd lived all his life in..

.. he was among a crowd, all shouting slogans, & shaking their fists, & he had NO CLUE as to why this should be happening..

Having "come to", he methodically got out of Iran, then..

Culpability/guilt/responsibility gets really muddy, when you're talking about populations kept in propaganda-trance all their lives, by the local oligarchy..

( this is why Journalism, with a capital-J, which holds objectivity to authority, which makes accountability a real & present thing, is a requirement for civil-rights to endure : )

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I believe that either all, or most, world-dominating-species go through this stage, after the industrial-revolutions stage..

Multiply the effect of our action on our underlying-planet by 10,000-fold, without having us go through species-puberty, without forcing us into maturity,

& the result is inevitable.

Whether some subset of humankind can earn growing-up enough, & surviving, isn't to be decided by our current-established-ignorance/irresponsibility..

Giving-up on future-generations, & just knifing them all in the back, .. may be emotionally valid, at the moment, among the privileged West, as it torches its own viability..

but it's still outright betrayal of future-generations..

& anybody who goes through my comments will see that much of the time I'm guilty of giving-up on humankind..

but while our normal, our default, our current establishment is net-negative, at planetary-scale, that doesn't prove that this world's humankind inherently is net-negative, that there's no subset worthy of living on after we-the-majority-go.

MOST of our kind need to go extinct, not necessarily the entire species, see?

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https://overtheedge.unbc.ca/7-reasons-to-be-afraid-of-pierre-poilievre-the-new-conservative-party-leader/

get that as well-known as you can, people..

it's IMPORTANT, now..

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They amalgamated Nepean into Ottawa, some years ago: they're not separate cities, I don't think, anymore..

helps?

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India can't rival China's productivity: its culture is too different.

( dad was of India, but Anglo-Indian/British. I've more understanding of India's culture because family talked about it, than most North Americans, but never lived there )

I've been told that India is the ONLY country in the world, where bribery is normal to get the government-official to actually do their job, whereas normally it's to get them to not do their job..

The caste-system's entitlement conditioning, of the upper castes, compared with the abused-all-the-time lower-caste people..

that caste-system is itself the enemy of Indian competitiveness.

You can't just stick makeup on some random animal & claim it's actually some completely-different kind of animal..

The reactions, the instincts are different.

There are books on offshoring work, & the dangers of doing-so, with different cultures..

In Japan there is now a "loud American" job-position: the person there makes certain that the operation doesn't keep quietly accommodating corrupt-management or wrong-strategy, until they're sunk/dead: the loud American's job is to speak what the conforming Japanese want said, but wouldn't ever say, because they aren't gaijin.

India's famous for power-distance: inferiors won't be tolerated to speak truth to superiors, ever.

That is produced by their caste system.

That isn't competitive.

It's deeply cultural.

Modi's Hindutva India isn't likely to lessen that, is it?

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There already is a death-sentence for being Palestinian & being a child, while the IDF is pointing a rifle in your general direction, as the statistics prove ( & video of their children being killed for sport, too )..

Even more dangerous being a Palestinian child than being a journalist, in Palestine, when the IDF's around..

Scroll down to the bottom of this, & get to finally get past all the .. shit "web interaction" of their site, .. to the graph..

https://www.reuters.com/graphics/ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS/FATALITIES/byvrxlqeqve/

13,320 children's lives destroyed by "Israel" .. that wouldn't be the same "Israel" as the one that Isaiah was of & loyal-to, would it ..

( no, it wouldn't )

& these gaslighters want to pretend that they were all armed combatants??

I'm sure..

No matter: their Continuums/Souls/CellsOfG-D will reincarnate into more of the hell-mess they make/enforce, to continue that "religion", until some other world crops-up with opportunity to outgrow it..

Their opportunity to outgrow it among this world is pretty-much gone:

population-polarization's only going to be increasing, from here until the end of The Great Filter, in the 2070's or 2080's, now..

Churchill's "never argue with drunks or fanatics" rule is pertinent, to any aliens considering opening-discussions with our species: don't bother, there's no intelligent life down here.

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The whole REAL reason that Trump wants to possess both Canada & Greenland is so that between Trump & Putin, in a pincer,

.. they can DESTROY Europe's capacity to compete against them,

& then they get to be the only "kings" left in the West, carving-up all who they want..

So, some of Europe for Trump, some of Europe for Putin.

See?

They spoke factual truth .. !

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Much truth in what you say..

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It's treason, not mere election-interference..

MAGA's intention to possess/consume Canada for itself..

You DON'T back that religion, & get to call yourself an honest Canadian.

Here's what she was pushing be helped to own Canada:

https://overtheedge.unbc.ca/7-reasons-to-be-afraid-of-pierre-poilievre-the-new-conservative-party-leader/

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