freagle @ freagle @lemmygrad.ml

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Will this be seen as a new Molotov-Ribbentrop in 10 years?

Your questions cannot be answered because they assume things about the world that are simply unreal and/or are not even logically consistent enough to be real.

For example, the most corrupt people on the planet are USA politicians. They are immune to insider trading, they have legally structured bribery, they receive bribes totalling in the billions annually, the parties literally contribute to their opponents' campaigns, they control the entire debate system and establish a quid pro quo to require compliance from candidates in exchange for air time, they literally create and maintain prohibition laws to increase profits for private operators of their prison services....

As for dictators, the USA imprisons more of its population than any country in the world. It imprisons more people than the USSR GULAG did at its height, and they were holding Nazi soldiers. The USA prison system produces $11bn of goods and services for private companies using slave labor. Prisoners in the USA are usually charged anywhere from $100 to $350 every day they are in prison and they leave prison with that debt. That debt becomes the pretense for probation, where ex-prisoners who have served their sentences are directly surveilled and are required to work to pay their debt off. Failure to behave can result in a court summons and failure to attend that court summons for any reason can result in further jail time.

And that's just the prison system. There are political prisoners in the USA held for years. There are secret military prisons. Children at the border of Mexico are held in solitary confinement causing permanent brain damage. White refugees are welcomed with open arms. Haitian refugees are met with cops on horseback and bullwhips. The secret military bases are on foreign soil so that the USA can break it's own laws without oversight or consequence. The USA is spending a trillion dollars expanding and upgrading its nuclear weapons. All the while there are a million homeless people and budgets to address homeless are all given to the police to break up encampments and displace homeless people, the citizens pay the most in the world for health care and gets the worst outcomes, the political leaders take citizen money and give it directly to corporations in ways that are completely unnecessary to achieve their outcomes, and citizens who protest are beaten, kidnappped, blacklisted, monitored and surveilled, while citizens who kill protestors are protected and rewarded.

And you don't think the USA is a corrupt dictatorship of the land owners over the masses?

Meanwhile, former President Carter has been at the forefront of election monitoring around the globe. Out of not quite 300 countries his group monitors 90+, so about a third. He has stated, the former USA president has stated, that Venezuela had the absolute best fairest most democratic elections they had seen. And Venezuela got sanctioned for dictatorship, corruption, and unfair elections.

There is no answer to your questions because your questions assume a fantasy world that does not exist. Come back to Earth, dig into what you're observing, learn about what's really happening.

Russia's not going to develop it on it's own. It would need to be organized internationally through multi-stakeholdership in order to generate the trust required by all the nation. The systems design is one thing, but the political design is something else entirely. Who runs it, who audits it, how they audit it, who can change it, how decisions get made, incident response protocols, breach disclosure agreements, etc. Developing the governance system for it would likely take far more person-hours than developing the technology

I thought that the ban on domestic psyops was lifted under Obama

DOD psyops have been deployed against China and their neighbors for decades, is all I'm saying. The presidents just step into and out of the stream of already existing behavior

That's not how any of this works

Do you think Trump even knows what The Philippines is?

Too little too late, friends. The rich are only rich by social agreement.

This shift in India's behavior is palpable. I like the analysis published recently that India is positioning itself to be the unsanctioned supply chain conduit for Chinese goods. That sort of thinking means India will follow its own economic self-interest into aligning itself with China and reducing the friction to the spread of BRICS influence ascendancy over G7

Uh, security at multiple levels, dispute resolution, dealing with inaccurate floating point math, CAP theorem limitations, throughput.... And those are just the challenges I can come up not having worked in the financial clearing domain.

No. You cannot just build one of these at a code jam, you cannot launch a startup to build one of these in a few months. It's a system with one of the highest fidelity requirements outside of medical equipment. Even space technology is allowed to fail for being off by a little bit. Financial systems at scale are hella difficult.

Libs don't need to explain away pro-Russian propaganda because if it's pro-Russian then it's already propaganda and if it's propaganda then it's a lie so nothing can penetrate their impenetrable pillow fort of safe vibes.

It's an incredibly complicated thing to implement, even if white Europeans did it first.

This is the work we have to do as individuals, to struggle with our understandings against the real world we live in and challenge our own positions and understanding to more thoroughly champion those values we hold dear. Keep going, you're on the right path. Keep struggling, it only gets harder for a while. If it starts getting easier, you're going the wrong way.

Keep going! I think you still need more precision. Your racialized students are all victims of racism at nearly all times. What you're talking about is when racialized students are victims of harm (which comes in many forms) where that harm is the intimate form of structural racism.

So when someone uses a racial slur, racialized people experience harm if they are exposed to it. A) what is that harm if the slur was used at them versus if that slur was used near them but not at them? B) is there harm if no racialized people are exposed to that event?

Being able to articulate these sorts of nuances in a way that is internally consistent will be the result of struggling with these concepts and coming to deeper understandings and the path forward will be clearer.

To put a finer point on it, if a white child, in a room of 5 white children and a white teacher, uses a racial slur, how would you describe that, how would you understand the consequences of that, how would you make the decision on whether and how to intervene, and how would you communicate your decision in context?

I will challenge for the sake of you refining your argument: bigotry is equivalent with rude behavior and aggressive confrontation. Bigotry is not limited to the structures of racism. You can be a bigot against people without hair, bigot against people based on height, a bigot against people based on body fat, a bigot against people based on body shape and proportions, etc.

Racism, on the other hand, is a structure that exists even without bigotry. Bigotry is a symptom or an outgrowth of structural racism. The earliest racists didn't spend their time being rude and getting into fights with people, they spent their timing writing academic essays, giving lectures, and generally being perfectly calm, reasonable high society people who just believed things like race is inherent in the person and values are inherent in the race.

I challenge you to get more precise about why you think bigotry is different than other forms of conflict, connect it to the structural so that you're not only dealing with the individual, and proceed from there with a refined analysis and set of proposals.

Oh wow, I didn't realize that Forbes magazine was a completely separate Forbes! Thanks for turning me on to that. I also learned that John Kerry is of the Forbes family that made their money in opium!

Don't ever forget that the fortune that built Forbes started with A different Forbes family line built their fortune selling opium in dominated China, using those proceeds to build rail in America on land stolen from the indigenous peoples being genocided and then a completely unrelated Forbes family line turned into a financial and built a propaganda empire. rag during WW1.

Starting to feel like years in which centuries happen

My god. You cannot keep your thinking straight, can you. I said 3 months is not enough time to counter the year long campaign of Trump. You said in Canada that everyone does it in 3 months. Which means, of course, that no one is competing with a year-long campaign in 3 months. How do you not see this?

You think that there's no advantage to ground game for literally 4 times longer than your opponent can possibly work? And that's IF the Ds nominee is selected quickly and they have a solid campaign strategy. More than likely the infighting and confusion is going to delay the creation of a coherent strategy so we're talking about less than 90 days while Trump's team has been working for the last year and now has the upper hand in narrative pacing because the Ds are in public disarray.

How is 3 months of narrative development not worse than 12 months of narrative development? It's a clearly disadvantaged position.