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Americans are lazy, entitled, and careless- that much is indisputable fact. But it is also true that these characteristics are acculturated and not individual moral failings.

We are long away from a general strike in the US given the attitude of the average american and the complete lack of class consciousness / solidarity. What's likely is that the Dems will seize some electoral power back, and much of the current political fervor will die- as it usually does. And then the republican party, emboldened by Trump proving that they can just do whatever they want, will come back with a competent figurehead.

The idea of an impending civil war is very optimistic given the fact that there's been 0 opposition to right wing policy or even the recent city wide military occupations. We have a militarized fascist force quite literally kidnapping people from their jobs and homes while the most heavily armed populace in the world stands back and watches, slacked jawed- and I'm supposed to believe there will be a domestic war? This is a bridge I will not buy.

Conditions will have to get much worse in the united states before people finally take meaningful action (non electoral, potentially violent), the good news is that we have 3 more years for that reality to come to pass and Trumps bad optics (the only thing that actually bothers americans) are bringing the future's inevitability to today's doorstep.

Here we have the real terror of AI be it Super, General, or LLM. Throw out the layers of fear regarding power consumption, job loss, militarization, and potential human focused hostility surrounding any sort of sentience and you get AI's current and projected reality- the outsourcing of tasks that require wisdom, skill, and critical thought.

The average person will be long dead before a cartoonishly evil super intelligence could ever snuff them out. We will become a people freed from the friction and strain that builds mental muscle, and justifies the folds in our brains- all so we can have more time for unfettered consumption.

This is cool but given that these people have been ripping people off the street in unrivaled violence without anyone from the most heavily armed populace in the world so much as lifting a finger- I wholly expect nothing to come from it

46% of people across 29 countries still believing that "the US will have a positive influence on world affairs" is insane

I'm choosing to believe that they think the collapse of US empire will have positive ripples globally

As some of the replies to your comment show, many only care about aesthetics

Trust that I agree with you on this, I use the word "master" intentionally though- as we are subjected to their whims without any say in the matter.

There are also many of us who are (unwittingly) dependent or addicted to their products / services. You and I both know plenty of people who give into almost every impulse incentivized by these products, especially when in the form of entertainment.

Our communities are now choc full of slaves and solicitors- a master is an enemy yes, but only when his slaves know who owns them.

If only there were some way to force social conditions into a state where resistance is no longer an option 🤔

It will be as bad as it is now with an even higher intensity.

We will see it continue to be used as a substitute for research, learning, critical or even surface level thinking, and interpersonal relationships.

If and when our masters create an AI that is actually intelligent, and maybe even sentient as depicted in movies- it will be a thing that provides biased judgments behind a veneer of perceived objectivity due to its artificial nature. People will see it as a persona completely divorced from the prejudices of its creators as they do now with chat GPT. And who ever can influence this new "objective" truth will wield considerable power.

I can forgive him for being a deadbeat father and stealing organs from people who actually deserved to live but the guy ruined my favorite type of shirt and that- I can never let go

"Ex-U.S soldier" is a funny way to describe a 25 year green beret who participated in the U.S led Iraq / Afghan atrocities

he has known evil all his career

Public opinion is finally shifting in the right direction, let's hope the most docile group of people in the world also start to accept that the status quo has been unbridled violence since the dawn of north americas largest tumor, the usa.

I wonder if there's an irony in political violence only being recognized when dispensed by individuals and not when carried out by the usual privately motivated state monopoly, but it would seem par for the course in such an individualistic country.

Wow, thank God we finally know warcrimes are really happening.

Now get this 25 year U.S army green beret dog off my feed and show me someone in the U.S military actually doing something about it.