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Re: Phyllis Fong, who was investigating Neuralink, "forcefully removed "

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Post by llamaimperative »

watwut wrote: post #203
llamaimperative wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

IMO they're morally (and practically) responsible but it is politically unwise to do this.

I don't know. For years and years, center acted on the assumption it is unwise to be anything but accommodating and nice. Center enabled raise of extremism by tacitly suporting them. Trump won by being not nice. Democrats lost by being nice.

Yeah, I’m obviously sympathetic to this view. I think things have changed in the last few days. This hostile takeover is going to be very bad for a lot of GOP and MAGA folks too and we need to ensure they’re ire is pointed in the right direction.

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Post by smitty1e »

llamaimperative wrote: post #210
smitty1e wrote: post #208

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It's interesting that when one tries to encourage a stepping back from the problem to consider larger patterns, that effort at abstraction gets carpet-bombed in the (im)moderation.

More saying-nothing going on here. The larger pattern is actually that reactionary politics have no coherent model of the world, and that’s why it’s showing up by your continued inability to state your position. For any readers interested in an extreme version of the intellectual emptiness that dominates this sphere (apparently Andreessen finds compelling!), the NYTimes profile of Curtis Yarvin was pretty hilarious f…

> More saying-nothing going on here.

The Tower of Babel: who can understand it?

Let us go ahead and assign you the "W". Best wishes, and the last word is yours.

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Post by Hikikomori »

amazingamazing wrote: post #172
nico wrote: post #168

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If this continues, it won’t be easy to track and revert 4 years of EOs. And it will be impossible to undo all the consequences

They’re literally all on the White House site in order.

You think they're just text on a website?

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Post by Hikikomori »

zfg wrote: post #22
bmitc wrote: post #6

Our government is literally falling in a matter of weeks. It's being assaulted, and we're all just standing by.

Hitler got rid of Germany's democracy in 53 days: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/01/hitler-ger... Maybe Musk and Trump can beat his record.

So a false flag and then martial law, maybe after taking over most law enforcement? The project 2025 leader did say that the next revolution remain bloodless if the left allows it to be. Maybe this is what the 2nd amendment was for.

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Post by mauflows »

agieocean wrote: post #152
bmitc wrote: post #6

Our government is literally falling in a matter of weeks. It's being assaulted, and we're all just standing by.

Not everyone's standing by I've been working on hardened long range communications for cheap so the people that need it can have it. But thats just me, there's tons of people fighting back but those stories don't tend to make the news because it spits in the face of the prevailing narrative that people want this.

Have any more details on this?

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Post by llamaimperative »

smitty1e wrote: post #212
llamaimperative wrote: post #210

Earlier quoted context omitted.

More saying-nothing going on here. The larger pattern is actually that reactionary politics have no coherent model of the world, and that’s why it’s showing up by your continued inability to state your position. For any readers interested in an extreme version of the intellectual emptiness that dominates this sphere (apparently Andreessen finds compelling!), the NYTimes profile of Curtis Yarvin was pretty hilarious f…

> More saying-nothing going on here. The Tower of Babel: who can understand it? Let us go ahead and assign you the "W". Best wishes, and the last word is yours.

> The Tower of Babel: who can understand it?

Great commit to the bit

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Post by basementcat »

khazhoux wrote: post #179
takeda wrote: post #163

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Or election were hacked, but not the way you think. Social media was weaponized and turned into a tool that manipulates people's view of the reality. Each person gets a personalized feed that presses their buttons to think certain way. For example with war in gaza. If for example you were pro Israeli, you will see content that Harris was siding with Hamas, and trump actually was the most Israel friendly candidate. If…

> Social media was weaponized and turned into a tool that manipulates people's view of the reality I really dislike this argument. It shifts responsibility from the voters to evil nebulous puppet-masters. I reject that. At some point, you have to accept that people can think and make decisions for themselves.

Is it reasonable that social media influencers may be assigned some degree of credit? After all they are generally effective at selling products.

I also agree that people have responsibility for their actions. For example, it has been personally sobering to observe some friends and colleagues agree that defunding PEPFAR and putting 20 million lives at risk was morally the right thing to do.

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Post by kccoder »

jacobjjacob wrote: post #197
kevstev wrote: post #17

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This is my big struggle with all of this. His first term I felt America was duped by a con man so protested and made a fuss on social media. Americans saw the first four years and astonishingly decided they wanted more of it, by a decent margin. So while I absolutely hate what is going on right now this seems to be what the people wanted. I question each day whether that needs to be respected or we should resist. I a…

He’s an elected president, not an elected dictator. It’s totally reasonable in our democracy to say that you don’t get to do anything everything you want just because you got 51% of the vote. We have a constitution and separation of powers which many seem to have forgotten about this week

*49.8%

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Post by o11c »

tstrimple wrote: post #199
o11c wrote: post #164

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For the majority of people, the ACA just meant "insurance has an excuse to raise premiums without end (far more than the number of new people covered)". There was some corporate trickery involved, but that doesn't matter to the individual who's paying more.

I don’t know any serious person who could make these arguments without also acknowledging that premiums were increasing before the ACA. They typically won’t acknowledge that the rate of increase slowed down post ACA because then their entire argument falls apart.

Okay, but even with that (though I really don't think there were >20% increases in any year prior to the ACA ...), all we get is my original point of "Obama promised change, but just provided more of the same."

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Post by anon84873628 »

sho_hn wrote: post #72

Are there any good blogs that are chronicling the USA Federal gov's slow descent into facism and overt corruption, just collecting and archiving pieces like this with a classiciation/categorization etc.? I think it's an unprecedented opportunity to record the history of a downfall using modern tools, and future generations might benefit enormously. When I learned about the disruption of the Weimar Republic in highsch…

IMO the LegalEagle YouTube channel has done a fantastic job:

https://youtube.com/@legaleagle

They explain the laws in question (often with historical context of their creation), answer common procedural questions, separate the facts of the case from political rhetoric & misinformation, and give an objective analysis of possible outcomes. They are certainly not unbiased, but in the "we are biased against criminal behavior" way.

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