Personally I think it started before that. It has its roots in the mass overturning of civil rights after 2001, the implementation of secret courts, disappearing people into black sites, extrajudicial killings, and breaking international human rights laws to hold people in indefinite detention without trial.
No subsequent administration has ever walked that back because that kind of power is so convenient to them. But this framework is what has facilitated the slide towards fascism.
Neither are most of the people they are deporting. This isn’t really about threats to the US it is about threats to their dominance. Suppression of political opponents.
Every new stupid implementation of AI feels like a prank.
For all the appearance of “competition” Thiel is balls deep in OpenAI since inception.
I had assumed he was using it to gather info on Palantir targets but it is obviously multi tasking now.
According to my last update, the 30,000 children I targeted as equivalent to 1,500 troops have already been liquidated. In future, here are the steps I will take to improve my target selection.
This. The sayings we all know can easily be repurposed. I am sorry I don’t speak [english]. No I do not understand you. Thank you. Where is the train.
I may have done this to American tourists in Europe.
“No hablo ingles”
“Quieres visitar El Salvador?”
I think it is going to get a lot worse, but I certainly take your point.
What is that in the lower left corner?
Geese do more than scream though.
bizarre, dismal
What’s bizarre and dismal is that someone is so starved for dopamine and attention from corporations that this is how they perceive what life looks like when you are not being targetted.
This is my normal view and it is far better.
These are interesting times. Americans by and large have always insisted that they can overthrow a tyrannical government because their troops would “refuse” to uphold tyranny against their own people.
As we get closer to that situation becoming more than a hypothetical, more realistic arguments are beginning to receive prominance.
Definitely didn’t originate with Alan Moore. I’ve seen it attributed to Pablo Picasso but I think the first is probably Aristotle.
No, a pastiche would be in the same style. This one is more like Goya by way of Norman Rockwell.
They did. I am confused too.
You may need to warn her about peaches.
Multiple recipients of that prize have gone on to commit or support genocide and other war crimes.
Fundamentalists of any religion do this.