DandomRude

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I can’t understand how U.S. citizens can allow this to happen: all this injustice, this inhumanity, this primitive brutality, the war crimes, and corruption...

Where is that much-vaunted national pride?

The only thing the world regularly gets to see are the misdeeds of this masked gang of criminals and other masked Nazis marching through the streets on national holidays. Is this the U.S.? The land of the free?

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DandomRude @lemmy.world 3d ago

When I was still an employee, I did that for a while. The "reward" was always that I had to work unpaid overtime, and once the project was finished, someone else—who had absolutely nothing to do with it—took all the credit.

So I went into self-employment.

DandomRude @lemmy.world 3d ago

U.S. law enforcement agencies no longer follow the money, as the Eppstein case proves beyond a shadow of a doubt.

It should be obvious to anyone that they now actually serve to facilitate crimes, not to solve them. If that weren’t the case, the entire U.S. Cabinet would already be in prison—the President foremost among them.

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DandomRude @lemmy.world 4d ago

No, I don't think so at all, but depending on whether the Democrats field a reasonably progressive candidate, there’s at least a slim chance. If not, and it comes down to the usual corporate Democrats—who, contrary to the will of the voters, clearly call the shots at the DNC—there’s no chance from the get-go.

For the Conservatives, however, this chance does not even exist in the first place.

So the Democrats are still the lesser evil, because the conservatives are not only many times more corrupt, they’re also completely unscrupulous in their inhumane actions.

With a Democratic president, at least, it would still be possible to engage in dialogue on the international stage. A conservative, on the other hand, represents exclusively the interests of organized crime, as the current regime demonstrates day in and day out: It commits horrific war crimes, does nothing but enrich itself and its billionaire financiers, openly threatens even the U.S.’s former allies with armed force, and is doing everything in its power to replace international law with the law of the jungle.

These people are the scum of humanity. The conformist, greedy opportunists among the Democrats are certainly despicable as well, but even they are no match for the absolute monsters currently ruling the country.

Look up the term "Dark Enlightenment" —this far-right, inhuman "theory" is the foundation of what conservatives stand for and what they are working exclusively to bring about, since it benefits the billionaires and would give them absolute power without any restrictions. Should they continue to succeed in this, it would have enormous, negative consequences for other, still somewhat functioning democracies around the world.

In short: A democratic president would definitely be the lesser evil—for the world as well as for the U.S. Anything that weakens the current regime is absolutely desirable.

DandomRude @lemmy.world 4d ago

That’s certainly concerning, but such forecasts are problematic in and of themselves, since they assume a status quo that could very well change.

For example, it’s by no means out of the question that tokens could become more expensive rather than cheaper in the future, since the AI giants are currently incurring massive losses across the board and will likely have to raise their prices at some point to become at least somewhat profitable. Either that, or they’ll have to find additional monetization opportunities, such as advertising. Both of these developments would affect the cost of using AI services, which could mean that human labor becomes actually cheaper than AI— there are already examples of this today.

Another point is that a kind of “AI fatigue” could set in—that is, products manufactured using AI for cost reasons could increasingly fall out of favor with consumers due to their poor quality, so that they would rather pay a little more for a higher-quality product made without AI that uses this fact as a selling point.

I consider it fairly certain that AI will have a significant impact on the labor market, but I believe it is uncertain whether its influence will be as severe as is sometimes portrayed at present—especially since there are now various studies concluding that massive investments in AI have not yielded the intended results and that AI is more expensive than human labor.

Therefore, I think there’s still a great deal of hype here, which is being deliberately pushed by AI providers because they rely on it to justify further investments. I consider it out of the question that what the manufacturers promise—a kind of fully automated world in which AI could take over nearly every job—will ever come to pass, because LLMs are simply not capable of this; after all, they are not artificial intelligence, but merely language models.

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DandomRude @lemmy.world 4d ago

That's because he doesn't want to go to prison.

DandomRude @lemmy.world 4d ago

Yes, but what I wanted to emphasize is that oligarchy represents a step backward for civilization, a throwback to the dark ages of human history: it is a return to a form of government in which a small elite holds all the power, much like the nobility once dominated political life and hindered human progress for centuries.

For this reason, I thought it more appropriate to speak of a new monarchy—which, in essence, is also rule by the few, even if its most extreme form is the absolute rule of a single individual.

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DandomRude @lemmy.world 5d ago

Well, it seems to me that the “tech bros” are merely the tip of the iceberg—apparently, billionaires around the world have become so powerful that in many countries, first and foremost the U.S., but also in places like Russia, a kind of new monarchy has emerged, in which this tiny, extremely privileged group once again represents something akin to the untouchable nobility of an absolutist monarchy: their power, too, is in a sense purely hereditary, since it is passed down in the form of their capital without suffering any significant reduction.

In short: I would say this is the result—and, in and of itself, precisely the goal—of the inhuman, ruthless “turbo-capitalism” that was largely established worldwide by the U.S. I think billionaires worldwide have a stake in this and are working in their respective countries to cement their power. Of course, this is particularly incompatible with democracy, which is why, for example, it looks as though the U.S. democracy is set to be replaced in the foreseeable future by a ruthless autocracy similar to that in Russia.

Similar, extremely alarming developments are also taking place in other countries. The “tech bros” are certainly playing a central role in this, as their media power is undoubtedly being deployed on a massive scale to achieve the billionaires’ goals.

In Germany, for example, the far-right AfD—which is essentially a carbon copy of MAGA—is benefiting massively from the reach on Twitter that Elon Musk is providing them.

I don’t think that’s a coincidence.

So yes, I am convinced that the resurgence of fascism around the world in many countries at the same time has a common root: namely, the billionaires who profit from it.

DandomRude @lemmy.world 5d ago

Does that mean Epstein's co-conspirators will finally be prosecuted? I seem to recall that Bondi had drawn a connection between the U.S. Department of Justice's refusal to prosecute billionaires for their crimes and the Dow...

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DandomRude @lemmy.world 5d ago

Another one, seriously?

DandomRude @lemmy.world 5d ago

It really couldn't be more obvious that I'm not from the US.

Please spare me that, because nobody reads that far on social media anyway. So you're basically talking just to me right now, and I don't get at all what you're getting at with your slogans.

Seriously, don't bother. Just don't reply if you don't have anything meaningful to contribute.

Edit: Go easy on the downvotes, too—smurf accounts don't make your life any better; in fact, they make it pretty pathetic—even more pathetic than it already is, apparently.

To put it bluntly: The fact that you're resorting to these measures proves my previous statement correct.

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DandomRude @lemmy.world 5d ago

Why are you acting like there's no problem? There is one—and it's a huge one!

Edit: I'm talking to the same person, right? What's that all about? A discussion needs arguments, not smurf accounts. Internet points aren't a measure of anything. GTFO!

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DandomRude @lemmy.world 5d ago

That's an understatement.

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DandomRude @lemmy.world 5d ago

Then maybe you should hold back on making sarcastic comments about things you know nothing about.

Aside from the fact that mainstream social media apps are being misused by billionaires for their own purposes, that’s the biggest problem here: people who get in the way of a meaningful discussion because they feel the need to post something they find funny.

This isn’t a topic where jokes are appropriate. You may not grasp the consequences, but it’s exactly as I say: Hundreds of thousands of people are dying because of this.

And yet: You think this is a joke. That’s disgusting, nothing more.

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DandomRude @lemmy.world 5d ago

If you only seriously realize this when using some random social media app, you're the perfect example of how this could have happened. If not, then all the more so.

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DandomRude @lemmy.world 5d ago

What a pointless comment....