Apple has invested heavily in infrastructure that will make every iPhone and app on the store transparent to an AI running on bespoke silicone designed for the task. Much like Windows, Apple foresees a future where AI is a substitute for the GUI.

https://www.archyde.com/apples-ai-integration-a-deep-dive-into-iphones-future/

Popular conspiracy theories are still bullshit.

Epstein was cooked, his life was over; he was a pedo facing the US justice system without his privilege; he was destined to never leave prison. People suicide over this sort of thing all the time.

Their are a few facts that are suspicious. But nothing that could support the notion that he was murdered, much less a grand murder conspiracy from a Hollywood spy movie.

Not only is it perfectly reasonable to believe Epstein killed himself, with the info we’ve got, it’s the only reasonable opinion.

We need to remember that many “charity” government programs are stealth subsidies. We don’t “gift” weapons to Israel, we buy weapons from Raython. We don’t “gift” rice to poor countries, we buy rice from US farmers. We don’t “gift” food to poor families, we buy groceries from US retailers.

Trump is one of the fools who thinks that government spending money is the same thing as throwing that money into the furnace.

It’s a myth that “anyone” can get wrapped up in a cult. Their are many “filters” to joining a cult. Such as unusual dress, complicated social hierarchies, and tons of jargon. And they hit you with this stuff right up front; it’s not gradual. People who are not looking for community and meaning will be repelled.

So they’re filtering people who are not in a particularly credulous mental state. People who are not in a “joining” mentality. I’m not saying that educated, sophisticated, and intelligent people are immune. This all has to do with adjustment, maturity, and emotional stability.

So anyway, to mitigate the reach of cults, society should be organized to minimize alienation and isolation, while a multitude of sources of community and meaning should be encouraged. Check on the people you care about and make sure they’re getting on. Crush capitalism.

Public misogynists posing as ‘self help’ have been around forever and the only thing that changes is the nomenclature.

The movie “Magnolia” (1999) features a character that does the whole manosphere shtick back when those grifters had to sell their merch on stage at conference centers because Youtube wouldn’t even be a thing for 5-6 more years.

Any platform that’s advertising based is a propaganda outlet. Reddit’s function is to manipulate pubic opinion.

Why not both?

Usually, when the FBI arrests “terrorists”, you find out that the FBI was the mastermind of the plot; provided materials and weapons; and the people arrested were recruited by the FBI. This pattern holds true with the militia types and the jihads.

Not that violent idiots don’t belong in jail, but it’s just funny that the FBI has planned more attacks on US soil than any other terrorist org. And it’s depressing because any smart and capable terrorist would never come within a mile of the FBI’s amateur hour entrapment.

Just for some context: the prohibition of using the Military in the States dates back to reconstruction. Slaveholding States didn’t like the Yankee Army protecting Civil rights.

I’m not defending Trump, but the idea that using troops as law enforcement is “Un-American” or tyrannical is Confederate propaganda.

Yea it’s funny to call powerful men gay because that would undermine their legitimacy as a leader and a person!

Nvidia is worth more than the pharmaceutical industry. Tesla is worth more than all other car manufacturers combined.

The second Bernie became popular, a backlash like this was inevitable.

A material analysis of Bernie Sanders would rule out a backlash because he’s never held power or set policy.

But even if you rate effectiveness by how much they aggravate the right, politicians like Pelosi prove that being effective is more threatening than being left. Politicians like Obama prove that being black is more threatening than being radical.

I think you’ll find Bernie Sanders rates far higher in MAGA circles than Pelosi or Obama. Because he doesn’t represent any threat to them. (check out his defense of Trump’s immigration policy)

The Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Power by Jared Ball

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-3-030-42355-1.pdf

It’s thesis is that “buying power” as a proxy for political power is incoherent because the methodology is bad, the conclusions don’t follow, and the institutions that propagate the myth have conflicts of interests.

I’m interested in how capitalism has captured revolutionary and ethical action with “consumer choice”. That how we choose to shop is civic action to replace community and political organization.

Just stopping by to point out that murdering, spying, and overthrowing a governments is the most normal President shit Trump has done. If your looking for the “return to normality” of Biden or Obama, this is it.

The oldest praying automaton we know of is from the 16th Century. This is basically that but with more capitalism.

I can’t help but notice how captured the Christian mind is, when even the return of the Savior is a business opportunity; a revenue stream. These people are already robots who can’t worship without a prospectus and a spread sheet.

Is 2021 a good year to study? Not only is this during the pandemic, but it was early when people were still taking the pandemic seriously.

I don’t think Parsons was talking about taxes, but a reordering of society where oligarchs don’t control government. That’s not on the ballot of any State in this Union. And it’s never ever going to be.

The FBI isn’t being corrupted, it’s being utilized. Haven’t you noticed that so many of our institutions were tools laying around for fascists to pick up? Like the machinery was already in place and oiled.

That’s why they say the US has “slid” into fascisim, because we didn’t have to move far.