“We’re going to need the help of robots and other forms of, uhhh, I guess you could say employment,” he said, shrugging. “We’re going to be employing a lot of artificial things.”
When reached for comment, White House Deputy Press Secretary Anna Kelly told the Daily Beast in a statement, “It’s sad that Daily Beast interns cannot grasp the concept of pro-growth policies that create jobs. Their minds are clearly warped after cheering on Joe Biden as he wrecked our economy for four years.”
The pettiness is unreal.
This is not “pettiness”. This is all part of a multi-generational psychological warfare operation to brainwash the working class and implement totalitarian dictatorship — started by the Koch Bros, Roger Ailes, Rupert Murdoch, and other wealthy narcissists several decades ago — and the fascists are winning; facilitated by “liberals” who are mostly a manufactured opposition, financed by the same corporations/oligarchs.
No war but class war, and the capitalist class is winning.
The rhetoric that politicians are idiots and they don’t know what they’re doing is also damaging, because it makes people assume stupidity rather than malice.
But it is malice. The incompetence is real, make no mistake, but malice is in fact the end goal.
When profits are involved, always assume malice.
The only time you should assume stupidity is when dealing with family, friends, colleagues, frontline workers, etc; basically anyone you interact with who wouldn’t profit off the malice (eg the sales person or marketing team will lie to make a sale).
The rhetoric that all politicians are corrupt and evil is also extremely damaging, and is parroted strictly by conservatives and the daft-right who then go on voting for the most corrupt and evil ones every time.
Its also parroted by the left because we can see the corporate backers funding the various politicians.
Citizens United was the greatest coup the ruling class could have gotten (before social media anyway), and its made it trivial to corrupt our politicians. And we can see how stances change or how there’s always juuuuuust enough politicians to vote for some horrible bill to pass or kill a bill good for the people. Its kinda sad how many people don’t see this.
Never believe that anti-Semites [read: fascists] are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.
— Charlie Kirk RIP
Rest in piss indeed
RIPP?
Rest in Piss Pool?
Rest in PeePee.
Who was an embodiment of the quote above.
This guy gets it
I’d say educational system, or better, it’s downfall through decades, plays a significant role in making population dumb enough to not see through these constant lies.
It’s easy to control sheep. Machiaveli wrote a literal guidebook in the 1500s. If you dumb them down and destroy free thought, you can rule as you see fit.
The multigenerational operation directly involves the defunding of, and attacks on, education. This isn’t a this or that situation. ALL conservative and neoliberal policy since the 1970’s is about destroying ALL socialist/liberal/democratic advances made to date, and returning the working class to ignorant destitution; much easier to control and brainwash mentally-ill morons (see MAGA).
It feels like some edgelord 4chan trolls have taken over the government
Exactly what happened. What are we going to do about it? I plan to create a self-sustainability community to at least drain their leverage a bit.
4chan played a non-insignificant part in getting MAGA in power. It always attracted throngs of alt-right morons who dominated the political discourse. Back when nazis were afraid to speak about their beliefs in public, the Internet quickly became their breeding ground and base of operations. They got in very early, and were always very good at dominating and influencing online sentiment.
Yup, and I was almost one of them. Can take a while to deprogram oneself. It literally took me being exposed to the wide world out of their little microcosim of understanding and rhetoric to see they were putting 2+2=9. Add in the neo-liberals who cozy up with them when anyone with a hint of progressivism gets popular or change is on the horizon. Then saying stuff like “they can still learn and understand.”
Do you think anyone could shoot her an email asking for comments on shit?
I wish he’d fucking die already
Then we’d have President Vance and first Mistress Kirk. This cancer is going to take a while to cut out if it doesn’t outright kill us.
Cult leaders need charisma and couchfucker ain’t got it. He might end out pres in that hypothetical but he wouldn’t have the implied maga threat behind him Trump does so I think he’d get a lot less of the agenda pushed.
He also race mixed which will cause some infighting that I feel will be as enjoyable as NYE fireworks 👌
(i have no problems there, but they sure as hell do, lmao)
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I thought they meant his mom was a sofa.
This is a great example of the conversational fire that one may stoke 👍
So their “fuck immigrants” is foremost literal ? (asking for a friend)
Indian is lower Aryan surely you jest?
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I don’t think they are Catholic nice try tho 🧃.
I don’t think they need to “win” any elections at all anymore. It won’t matter who the repugs put up as a candidate, they will win. If a democrat wins in 2028 and there is a peaceful transition of power, I will never again claim any even borderline conspiratorial shit in my life, and so I swear.
Again, R’s aren’t scared of Vance, they absolutely believe Trump can throw down a “Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?” on Truth social. That translates to shit getting pushed back on a lot more for Vance.
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Jd will not be nearly as bad as Trump. Stop pretending it’s the same thing.
He’s got worse policies in a lot of ways, but he’s also so uncool that even the diehard fasc think he’s useless
Vance is Thiel’s puppet. He’ll definitely be worse.
It doesn’t matter if Trump dies, horribly or not, the energy that got Trump elected is still there in the American culture, and the next time it rears its head it’ll be a lot more competent and far more vicious.
I need him to stay alive and receive punishment, impeachment and incarceration for all his crimes before he kicks the bucket…this fascist, racist, felon, clown fuck
Soon enough. You can see the way he is aging. It seems to be accelerating.
I love it when they follow Trump’s name with his age. Fuck the gerontocracy
Would socialism and collectivism help empower youth?
There is no “-ism” that can save the US anymore
They need a revolution and a new system. More than two parties and limits on presidential power
multipartyism
What about the principles of Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin?
It doesn’t work on a large scale because people with Cluster B personality disorders will always corrupt any system we come up with.
And historically those systems are typically structured in a way that allows authoritarianism and dictators to take over more quickly. The government has to control everything, which creates a much smaller point of failure.
Capitalism is a shit system, but it took ~200 years to corrupt to this point because the power is more distributed (at first).
The only Solution is artificial president. We gonna need more of them
Yeah, then we can have President Grok whose opinion can be changed by whomever touches the code.
The only thing worse than a person whose opinion changes based on the last person they talk to, is an AI whose opinion changes based on what oligarch or employee was able to sneak something into the model/code.
Capitalism is a shit system, but it took ~200 years to corrupt to this point because the power is more distributed (at first).
The US is reaching the average lifespan of an Empire. Capitalism has not been particularly good at preventing collapse, it has been about average.
It’s not just the US; we’re just speed running the end while the western world follows behind.
US exceptionalism once again.
“We’re not shit, everyone is shit! But we’re better at being shit than everyone else!”
Okay then.
Depends on when you consider the corruption of the wealthy came in. The Civil War was fought over slavery and it was because rich land barons in the south didn’t want to have workers they paid anything to. So they also greased government hands to try and keep it. So the rot set in quickly, it just took longer to metastasize.
no. The US will still be as dumb and as divided as before.
What about using force?
In Minecraftthen you deserve someone like trump.
Why?
You want a leader that dominates the country using force. Well congrats you got that leader its Trump. You dont get to pick between democracy and authoritarianism when it suits you.
What about achieving socialism without using force?
Boomers in the 1980s: “Those damn robots took our darn jorbs”
Trump in 2025: “We’re giving these jorbs to the robots”
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You will continue to labor all day for reduced pay, while the robot pretends to do art all day
Reduced pay? If the rich get their way, we’re going to be chattel slaves. They hate us so much and are so disgusted with us, even the worst wage slavery is too good for us.
They’ll kill off the unclean and disabled in mass exterminations, enslave us for a time while/if their ai gets good enough, and eventually when robots are good enough to replace even slaves, the rich will hunt us for sport and do coloseum games on us.
People really underestimate how fucking awful the ruling class is. They are wicked, despicable people who genuinely think anything above slavery and bowing to them is too good for us poors.
You’re not wrong; the problem is too many people refuse to see it. They think it’s conspiracy theory or exaggeration.
There is a word for the future you are describing: exterminism.
Sadly the world appears to be heading that way. This is the most bleak future described in one of my favorite books- Four Futures:Life After Capitalism
It’s a quick read . .and highly recommended. https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/59-four-futures
I literally see no other future. Its not possible.
Really sad for kids born today.
I’ll check it out!
They’re already openly talking about a techno-feudalist state in the USA. The rich are a blight, and until people realize that we’ll continue to lose.
They are literally comically evil, it would silly if it wasn’t reality.
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They will go to the landfill to get their food.
They will outsource our leisure time to the robots so that we can stay at work forever, and the robots stay at home and fuck our wives.
As god intended
Unless WE give the robots some rather interesting military jobs first.
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Would not even need an AM to do that to some people {=
They have much debt to pay, oh so much.
109 years is not nearly enough, is it?
Hmm?
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Who cares about petty crimes of the standard man, they can almost be forgiven 100%. I’m personally not that vengeful, certain people really are just that bad, that the amount of sheer horror they deserve, does not have a word.
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And this will benefit the average worker by giving him more free time while keeping his job and salary, right?
This implies that sometimes he rants coherently which is not true.
This dumb fucking child rapist
More people are working right now in the United States than at any other time in our history.
The same can be said year on year every single year (except 2020) due to population and economic growth.
What he doesn’t say is that the divergence between the average wage and the cost of living has never been greater. So, while more people are available to work, they are earning less per hour in bread and bricks than they were 5, 10, 15, 20 (etc.) years ago.
Have some self-respect. Don’t feed The Daily Beast.
I blocked /c/politics over this, but it seems like none of the big .world communities care about tabloid sourced/clickbait headlines.
And, unfortunately, clickbait works. They always float up to the top of Active.
It’s the only one reporting what he said
I am once again begging people not to post a headline that starts with “Trump, 79,” that doesn’t end with. Well. You know.
My parents aren’t much younger than him and every time he speaks I worry for their health.
Did your parents do insane amounts of coke, rape children and utterly ignore their health in pursuit of porkish hedonism? Then go for high stress bullshit with a family history of dementia?
Don’t forget eating almost exclusively fast food so that nobody can poison your meals.
That’s honestly probably the most rational thing he does.
And do they also have late stage syphilis? Why is nobody talking about that one, it’s obvious. The patchy hair loss, the blemishes, the cognitive decline, the bizarre thick facial makeup. You know why the French covered their faces and hands with that thick white lead based paint back in the 1700s and wore wigs? Because of syphilis.
It fits the timeline perfectly if you consider how he was living in the 80’s-90’s, and how obviously he would never go have it checked out because he’s a narcissistic piece of dumb shit.
(It also tangentially explains Trump’s bizarre emotional affiliation with the late great Alphonse Capone)
Fun fact: we can even cure late stage syphilis nowadays. Well, eradicate it from the body. The damage it caused will persist. Including cognitive.
I guess we’ll know when his nose goes.
Not that I’m aware of…
I’d say he’s not a good metric then.
To think Trump 1.0 was an improvement over this shit show.
Trump 1.0 he was actually there still, easily manipulated but still there. Now he’s just a puppet with dementia.
Nah, 1.0 was only better because he spent the whole time figuring out wtf to do. He didn’t even know he had to hire his own cabinet. 2.0 is the result of those four years of realizing the power and protection of the position, and another four of teams of knowledgeable people working hard to make sure this term would be the last they’d ever need.
It’s less that he personally learned anything and more that the Heritage Foundation did, he’s only following their playbook.
Yes…that’s what I said…
this is not technology
Yeah… it is. It doesn’t matter if you think it’s good or bad, it’s technology.
I think they’re referring to the political article and the community within which it has been posted, not that AI isn’t technology.
But aren’t most posts here about AI? I figured talking about technology would be fair game.
This is an article about a sad, inept, old man’s ramblings, tangentially related to technology. Not nearly worth posting about in this community - in my opinion, of course.
Unfortunately, that piece of shit is the president. He could affect how AI technology is regulated.
For sure, and if this article had any more substance than him rambling, I’d agree with you.
AI is technology. An old man rambling about nonsense is not technology. If he was rambling about blueberry pie that wouldn’t make this a cooking article.
Good point.
The Technology place here is exactly the same as it is on Reddit.
Nothing but constant AI stuff.
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I wish Biden was still president.
This comment is grosser than your name. Biden has been a shitheel in government for over 50 years.
He was one of the best presidents since Jimmy Carter and the country and the world would be better off with him in power vs Trump.
That just goes to show how bad the US is at electing leaders. Just terrible, even when good options do exist, to the point that I still don’t fully believe Mamdani is the New York Mayor.
That’s because he’s not until January 1, 2026.
That probably does something to it as well, but ok then change it to “I can’t believe that he was actually elected”.
Its new york and he was running against cuomo. It wasnt exactly a crazy win.
I don’t take anything for granted in North America. We just elected the most obviously corrupt person to be mayor of Montréal and even the total left/right votes between the four major parties skewed significantly right because we’re stupid as hell.
It’s because when you put a piece of ripe fruit into raw sewage it doesn’t make the sewage suddenly drinkable, but suddenly I no longer want to eat the fruit. But hey with enough fruit and time that makes a farm, idk I’m trying to be positive here. Forget aboutit
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Does that mean you’re happy with the way Trump is handling things?
Does it make you happy that the stairway to trump was every stupid fucking politician and policy you voted for?
Didn’t your mother teach you that it’s rude to dodge a question and ask one of your own instead?
Answer mine and I’ll put the time into answering yours.
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Mental gymnastics 🎖
You talking into the Mirror 🪞
Trump being horrendous in every way doesn’t erase Biden, Obama and the like being bad leaders who preserve the status quo.
I would love to have Biden, Obama or Harris leading the country right now.
In comparison to Trump, me too, but that does not contradict what I said.
People who resort to name-calling are poo-poo heads.
A maga supporter on Lemmy? WTF
Refusing to gargle a useless corporate dickhead that hid his critical cancer diagnosis during a crucial campaign period does not make you MAGA, wtf?
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He’s still alive.
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He’s better than Trump.
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Trump is the one who told you he hid the cancer diagnosis.
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Harris was VP and would have became the president if he died.
All of these are facts and would have lead to a better present than now so what the fuck are you on about?
All of those things are true. Explain how not liking him makes someone MAGA.
Edit: wait what, in what world does Trump have anything to do with Biden’s hidden cancer diagnosis?
Simply because of the American political system if you didn’t back Biden/Harris you voted/non-voted Trump in which is MAGA.
So then when are we allowed to criticize corporate guzzling Dems? You said we weren’t allowed to during an election year, and you’re saying we’re not allowed to now. So when?
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Useless corporate dem? He got a ton of great shit done but since you hate leftwing policies I can see why you think his agenda was bad.
since you hate leftwing policies
How so?
Biden has been a shitheel in government for over 50 years.
useless corporate dickhead that hid his critical cancer diagnosis during a crucial campaign period
Its pretty obvious. If you supported things like healthcare, equality, workers rights any of the typical leftwing policies you wouldnt be reacting in this way.
I support all of those things. He delivered none of them.
No, likely a leftist. There’s two people who hate Biden, the MAGAts and leftists. Biden did some good things but so did Trump, broken clock metaphor. Biden also slow walked us into this by not persecuting Trump for sedition like he should have. It makes the “paid opposition” argument much harder to dismiss of the neo-liberal dems.
Biden doesnt control the DOJ. He doesnt decide how and when someone should be persecuted. Trump does this and its wrong. The list of good things Biden did is very long, with trump its maybe one or two things if that while the list for bad stuff is huge. There is no comparison.
Finally a headline that correctly describes the situation.
Either put him in a home or in the ground. I don’t care which, but for the love of god, take away his Internet access.
Then we get Vance. Whooo!
Better now than in a few years after they’ve prepared him.
At least Vance is so uncharismatic that if he even thought about pulling the shit trump does the maga base would eat him alive
Only if Americans accept that instead of doing what they should, which is arrest them all and do to them what your precious constitution says should happen to traitors who commit treason.
