kray

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    9 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

    Echo-chambers. People don't even know the real news. They just know what's in their echo-chamber of social media slop.

    In an ideal world it’s completely possible for meta and google to implement controls for fake vs real content. But no these billionaires decide to bend the knee and remove all censorship policies. Fake content and the speed at which it’s served to so many Americans is the biggest issue, because people think that they know fully about something before all the facts are released. The lack of regulation over the content spread on social media platforms is killing our society.

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    1 hour ago, abundance said:

     

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/01/29/trump-presidency-news/

    This has the potential to spiral out of control. Not to be hyperbolic but the Nazi's did something similar by setting up extrajudicial detention centers in Poland (these would be what we now refer to as death camps).

     

     

     

     

    I mean we don’t have to point to the nazis….America itself has done things like this. We put people in internment camps for the sole reason of being Japanese. We had the bracero program, which was a deportation operation under Eisenhower, which led to the deportation of many Mexicans, many of whom were American citizens. So yea, our country has a long legacy of xenophobia and racism.

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    Just if anyone is curious, the LLMs that these AGIs are trained on are made up of terabytes (many billions worth) of parameters, which are fed data. So technically the big data that is fed and used to train these models are actually data from humans. Training models with data from the internet requires constant up to date scraping of all the sources on the World Wide Web, which is why it’s very limited in terms of real time data. The reason I’m making this point is because while deepsink has raised the standards for efficient and reliable gen AI, it still works with the Chinese government, and the data that it trains its models on is deeply biased. Just food for thought 🤷🏽‍♂️

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    2 minutes ago, kray said:

    Yea, his ideas on Jews and race in general were pretty mainstream among the European and American elite at the time. Him saying that Northern Europeans were superior was not shocking for the times, in fact it was common knowledge among everyone then

    Nordicism really took on in the United States even before Hitler rise, our immigration policies during the 1920s reflects that attitude. President Calvin Coolidge himself followed the racial eugenics pushed by Madison grant, and created policies based on these pseudoscientific ideas.

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    19 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

    Hitler didn't invent that. He himself was radicalized with anti-Jew propaganda while living homeless on the streets in his youth. He was a megaphone for the scapegoaty ideology of his era. He was like a teen who hangs out on 4chan all day, then gets elected to office.

    Yea, his ideas on Jews and race in general were pretty mainstream among the European and American elite at the time. Him saying that Northern Europeans were superior was not shocking for the times, in fact it was common knowledge among everyone then

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    6 minutes ago, Hardkill said:

    Yeah, the German people were clearly so extremely desperate because of how dire their economic crisis was by the 1930s that they felt like they had absolutely no choice but to let a mad fascist dictator run their country and have him do whatever it took for their country to survive.

    However, if it wasn't for the Treaty of Versailles then I think that the German people never would've resorted to fascism and never would've allowed someone like Hilter to rise to power.

    And it was easy to scapegoat the Jews. The idea that Jews control Wall Street and the banks had already been a mainstream idea in most of the western world at that point. Hitler basically took that, merged it with the economic suffering of the German people and made it seem that “hey the Jews are the cause of your suffering”

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    There’s always been an undertone of fascist tendencies in this country to be honest. Racism towards non whites is as old as this country’s foundation, if not longer. We had the Chinese exclusion act, which banned anyone who was Asian or nonwhite coming into the country. To be fair while times feel racist now, we are no where near how racist we were during the 50s or 60s. This isn’t a new America, this is just America trying to go backwards in time. A century ago this same hatred was there towards other European immigrants, primarily coming from southern and Eastern Europe, and they were not exactly seen as “white” back then. We can get through this! We got through the Reagan, bush, Nixon, and every racist ass president before, we can do it now. And hey trump did kick Elon’s ass out of the White House so I guess the billionaire’s influence on trump went down a little. While trump takes advantage of fears and funnels it into racism for his own maintenance of power, Elon is a literal nazi (there’s so many signs that it’s not hard to connect the dots). Elon having less of an influence on trump is a good thing. 

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    Maybe America followed by western powers have to stop meddling in political affairs in the global south and fuck up their economies/stability. Then maybe you want have as many migrants desperately trying to run away from their war torn nations. Oh and climate change is just going to make this worse. Oh boy we are cooked. Going to a hell of a ride 😬

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    2 minutes ago, abundance said:

    Be vigilant but stay calm. Make sure you have your ID (and perhaps a copy of your birth certificate) with you at all time. I am not going to sugarcoat whats going on in this contry right now. Things are bad with the potential to get much worse. I think rhetoric towards minorities and immigrants will grow more severe as Trump's policies grow more unpopular and he has less successes. They're going to need a scapegoat and distractions. 

    Got my passport card in my wallet at all times, as well as my global entry card. My god what our country came to

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    Recently read a story of a legal Puerto Rican veteran being detained by ICE. At this point I fear that any body of color will have their citizenship questioned, and being a person of color I do have my own paranoia. I feel like just to go to the store I need to be vigilant of my surroundings. I was born here to parents who had become citizens by that time. As someone from a south Asian background, should I fear my safety?

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    9 hours ago, Hardkill said:

    Although Professor Lichtman incorrectly predicted the 2024 election, he provided valuable insights as a US historian on how President Biden will likely be remembered and his lasting impact on the country:

     

    Senile old man whose petty ego got in the way of the safety and sanity of American democracy. If he had let someone else run from the beginning, the Democratic Party would have had more time and leverage to identify and attack republican policies. But no, instead this stubborn man decided to run with the clear sign that he is not doing well, and completely shat himself during all the presidential debates.

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    @Leo Gura I do agree that you reached high levels of consciousness, but I think you do have a spiritual ego. You fell into the trap that you reached the highest level of consciousness, which is rather arrogant. If consciousness is infinite, then how did you reach the highest knowing? That tells that consciousness is finite….which it is not. Do you mean that you have reached the highest level of consciousness compared to other humans? Please help me understand.

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    If we were a European country or old world country whose economy and identity was built on the people native to the lands, I would 100% be for restricting immigration. But the US is not that, as much as racists want believe so. We have always been the country where people immigrated into. I think it’s rather weird that most of these nativist arguments are coming from Jewish Americans, such as Laura loomer. Like don’t they know that most white nationalists want these people dead, and deported to Israel? 

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    8 minutes ago, Lyubov said:

    Exactly. This merit based approach was tolerable for most citizens when there was less inflation, housing shortages and income inequality. I’m entirely for a reinvestment in the USA first, especially to reign in a lot of these tech oligarchs. But the intention behind most who are against this visa is mostly racism. I think it’s a bit challenging to recognize both sides and set reasonable intentions for how this should go forward because both sides have bad actors pushing for their interests. We are fucked letting tech bros dictate immigrant policy so their can build their businesses and we are fucked if we push for America first which rednecks get their racism boner up to. 

    I think policies should cater to the average American, who for the most part aren’t in the extreme. The racist maga people are just in the minority, not the majority. Most are just Americans who are desperate, and as a child of Indian immigrants, I do agree that we should invest in our country first. However this country was always built on immigrants coming here, and that’s a legacy we should be proud of, and honestly made our nation great. I think what we need to do is level the playing field for everyone, native born citizens and immigrants, and ensure that we remove shady practices used to exploit immigrants. This is not the first time immigrants got hate in this country, but we need to find a purpose, an aim that unites all Americans together.