BlueOak

Its incredible. - I didn't think I could have less faith in governments the world over, but somehow the world has reminded me how much I hate the wider world. I was going to try to twist myself in knots to say that this is what happens in a world war scenario, but no. I'm not nothing at all on this earth justifies what is going on in Gaza. Israel, like Russia and China has to be stopped both in their internal politically influence and external strategic concerns. When I agree with Marjorie Taylor Greene more than the democratic party, they are completely backwards. Tell you what though. Nobody on earth will convince me to vote labor in my lifetime. They can apologize for the next decade and I won't give them a second look. Etc

Brewing conflict with Russia and Azerbaijan.

This was not my endorsement of the strategy they are doing. If I was running your party, you'd all be hard-left, populist, democratic socialists. If I was being smart instead, i'd elect someone who is 35-50 speaks with more passion than trump, is white, is a man, and isn't easily rattled but is status quo enough for the donors. - I'd do these things as America has enough of a racist element for it to matter (skin color), the liberal party is hurting for masculine role models in an era when they are being sort out, and right now looks weak. I'd want my own version of a strong man that has enough morals, awareness, and intelligence that he'd take trump to pieces, because despite what people say 'owning the libs'. People love it when their opponents in the republicans are 'owned' also. I think these base instincts are not helpful to long term stability, but they do win elections in the dual party system that America embraces. tl;dr look for the ruler archetype and elect an intelligent, capable white male version of it. There is a good chance there will be a war with Russia now. I'm quoting the general's in charge when I say this, as they have told me so. If that happens a war with China is much more likely. The consensus is these will likely happen at the same time. We are already in a cold war, with proxy wars. This is one reason we need a strong democratic leader in America, one who isn't rattled or cowardly but also isn't reactionary to escalate things. Should the US wage war anywhere - no war is insanity, its the base level breakdown, when all other stages of potential realignment or adjustment are missed. Should they wage war now, with the world the way it is. No. They should help israel eliminate Iran's missile production facilities and keep them suppressed. This takes out another source of Russian munitions, and if a wider war does start (as the general's say it will), it helps remove the threat to oil production and our allies in the Middle East. - The US should hold its troops back until Russia, China or anyone else actually makes the first move over the borders into NATO, Israeli or Taiwanese territories. - What is more likely to happen is an escalation ladder, where things like trade are attacked more often. BTW I would rather we ditched the reliance on oil 40 years ago, and had a one world government or at least a meta-authority that had authority over the planet, but my bias isn't considered here, merely the state of the world.

Donors. They can't give things to the people because they are paid by companies, so those companies can sell them instead. Also just sitting on their hands waiting for Trump to just self destruct. - Trouble is he's a populist and a fascist to boot; that support doesn't tend to end easily if you play to the base. It may happen but it may well not. Maybe losing a war, or alternatively looking weak like he's bowing down to Putin or Xi. - Both of those outcomes will erode fascist hard right support. He's already in Israel's pocket - but that does serve the greater strategic agenda right now in the east vs west cold war, so nobody hits him on it too hard.

And let's be realistic here. If you said to me AI makes people lazy because it builds their homes and prepares their food - Okay. If you say to me it makes them lazy because its outputting pieces of paper better than they can, or throws out more cereal on a production line - So? - Who the heck wants that to be the defining part of humanity?

Reality is constantly interconnecting and integrating. People see this as time speeding up, but its actually just more of reality linking and connecting together. AI is a huge jump toward that goal. - It does certain tasks so I can focus on other tasks. It links more variables, facts, insights together to form an output I can then use. Pick better, or in this case, more intelligent tasks to do. If I have access to 200 IQ reasoning, I will by association, gradually grow in my intelligence or at least form connections and new patterns that are superior or more intricate than what I had before. I still have the sparks, the conscious insights, the AI forms a framework around them. At least that's how I operate it.

Currently there is a lot of activity behind the scenes. Although I want to make the distinction between Teal's terming it a war and actual violence again. A cold war is not a hot war. I tend to think the feminine perspective is more sensitive to violence, but a masculine perspective looks at things differently. While I can see her perspective that 50 years from now we might consider that we were indeed in a world war, that what we have been going through is what future warfare will look like. In the here and now, most countries are not shooting at each other, not causing each other physical violence - Which is what I consider a hot war.

Strong defense is required in times of uncertainty and violence. To not have a strong military in Europe when we are surrounded by dictators, would be supremely stupid. Every major military power is either a dictatorship, run by a wannabe dictator or allied against European interests. There are active wars ongoing in Europe and the Middle East, and potential wars on the horizon that will engage our interests or those of our allies. As I have repeatedly said though. When this GDP % is put into the military it will be used in some form overseas. This is one of the dumbest strategic missteps of BRICS, and I don't think they can even see it, still to this day. Because they consider Europe tame or peaceful, but when all these resources are spent on the military it will be put to use in someway.

Its more so now because of people like yourself and your governments lumping them all together. Pre war we were largely splintered. But the more the perception is shifted to the opposite, the more it is the case. This is one of those cases, where someone from a largely unified collectivist country doesn't understand the way the west operates and certainly operated in the past. Internally, there are many differences of opinion, its why the EU as one example is so difficult to manage and organise, although its been improving over the decades.

Here we go again. Another 'buffer zone'. Another 'liberation'. Can everyone see now when one country does it everyone just copies them, and no Russia wasn't the first in recent times, but the more countries that do something, the more political capital it gives other states to do the same.

The right exists to be triggered, they remind me of the left 15 years ago. Outrage politics through and through, as bad as any detached feminist ever was or sovereign citizen, or insurrectionary anarchist is. Genuine question Would you say currently ICE occupying streets and having shootouts with immigrants, destroying the workforce, crashing food prices etc is more or less of a triggering issue than the culture war? Bearing in mind that most of those involved doing the shooting, invading schools etc and passing the policies are far right. Second question: For the right and independents, is this more of a severe issue itself for the voters in America than the culture war? Which is more pertinent to the future of America rather than the present. Because anything can trigger the right, people just need to tell them 'they' or 'those ones' are the bad guys. I don't think it makes any difference, only to their turnout. Better to check what independents care about.

Utterly detached from the current state of the world.

Half this thread needs a reality check: Most people couldn't less about anyone but themselves. They don't hate or love you. They don't like or dislike, they don't even think about you. Because all they are focused on, is themselves. As a rule people focus on any group that benefits them or causes them a loss. That is the only time you'll ever come into their focus, and usually this is because someone is telling them this, not that they actually experience it. Unless of course you happen to be bombing them, costing them money, or if they care, getting their political rivals into office. That's it for 90% of the world. They don't care either way. -- There are groups that are professional haters, nazi's for example, but for the tiny % of the population they are, they get far too much media time. And they are being told that this group or that group is causing them a loss. There also a small percentage of us that extend our identity to also be other, or on this forum the parts of ourselves that are in pain or suffering experienced by other reflections, and we either hate you or help you depending on what if we perceive you are causing 'other' or on this forum, parts of us to suffer.

Yes. This has been being reduced in the west for a long time, i'd go back another 5 years before that. The very fact you are able to highlight it shows how much pushback its had. Otherwise, it'd just be business as usual. For individualists in the West, its all about individual rights. For collectivists in the east, its all about a country's rights. Which is fine, when it isn't an eternal victim cycle. I am the victim - So I do this, because I am the victim- So I do this. It's hardly thriving. I feel like you've missed the landslide losses people living in the victim mindset have seen, the ridicule people who take that too far for well over a decade. I've seen it in politics, against feminists, conservatives, far right, far left, liberals, red pillers, businessmen, sovcits, everyone who overuses the victim pattern to define their identity. I saw it within myself in the victim patterns I held on to. This character perfectly encapsulates the victim mentality, and she debuted in 1997 Deflection is better than defense. But this is the pushback I am talking about. If I highlight your ego needs to deflect or defend. its the same if I do it to someone in one of the groups you have named. They'll give me 15 reasons why they, too, are the victim, because it is their identity. Or why its those other people. 10% of the focus on the problem, 90% on the solution, is the way to break a cycle. Or do you want to deny that for about 10 years i've heard from BRICS, Russia, China etc that they are the victim, which is why they are doing what they are doing? Doing something is a step up from wallowing, but if all its doing is perpetuating being the victim it's not much.

Threat.

Victim Mindset and identity. We removed a lot of that in the West, its still ongoing but huge progress was made. In the East and Africa it's still rife. BRICS, Russia, Israel, China. This was done for masculinity to have a place in life again and actually create change. I had to go through it personally, and I saw examples of it in loads of people going through it. It's a self-perpetuating cycle. - I'm a victim, look at these things making me a victim. I'll recreate the pattern to be victim - I'm a victim, look at these things making me a victim. There is zero masculinity displayed in that. Its made worse when people reinforce it from the outside, rather than either doing what I am by highlighting it, or allowing the pattern to end or close. What happens when confronted is really simple, the person's or country's ego comes up and says i'm a victim because X. Reinforcing the cycle. When really 10% of their time should be focused on that, and 90% on the solution.

You influence more through your daily interactions than you'll ever do in a violent struggle. This comes about because things are more readily integrated in a peaceful, cooperative atmosphere. Force has a place when all other avenues have failed, but beyond providing structure, not before that. It reduces things to a lower and lower state of consciousness, naturally engages more of the ego ID, and a survival state, which leads to further resistance and force. Now, if I was there being targeted for deportation or worse by ICE fascists and my family was threatened, if I couldn't avoid them, I would consider it. I sympathise and understand why people are in violent or non-violent resistance to this, because it's reducing things down to a survival state, and despite what anyone on this forum has told me about Russia, America, China, Israel, etc, doing things this way is ineffective and moronic. It's true desperate last resort stupidity run by a foolish mindset. I mean that word as a definition, not as an insult. Its the lowest possible solution to the problems these countries face. I don't paint China as bad as the others there, but they've done plenty of internal violence in the last decades.

No it wouldn't, the right would just get outraged about the next thing on their list. Homelessness. Socialism. Equal Rights. Poor people. Healthcare. Spending. Pick your poison.

In hard times yes. Because the change candidate wins.

7/10 Midlands countryside, Small town. Plenty of greenary and life. Good air, low crime. Conservative as heck but not the modern drama queens. Many farmers and workmen here, or the last of the middle class. Things don't tend to sway the people here as much, or affect the place as much, the atmosphere is pleasant. For the same reasons it can get boring here, traffic connections are not that good but for raising kids there are not many better places to pick, if you can get in the school because... Moving to a 6/10 They are and have been building houses here without services, more each year. Every problem comes from that. The doctors are overwhelmed, there are too few shops, the school can't take all the kids, no parking, etc. Same with the other nearby small towns. The developers get together and build just enough so they don't require a shop, a school, utlities or police for example. I thought this would be cumulatively counted, but apparently not; as long as the immediate developments don't require it, only homes are built. So we had that escaped Boston criminal running around not long ago, because there are no police, only one that goes around all the local villages and towns, then two community officers. Barely ever here. If you need medical attention, good luck, which is pretty much what they tell you, we'll be there in a few hours, maybe.

To shorten their borders in central Europe to keep them manageable with dwindling manpower. To acquire more population for their declining demographics. To dominate the natural gas regions in the areas where they are in conflict over. To take over control of their natural gas pipelines to Europe To restore control over their shipping lanes and naval influence. To restore a Russian Empire from a dwindling regional power. To counter NATO's influence and create a new BRICS influence over the world. Trying to remake the USSR borders. The nationalist hardliners that support Putin require war. To splinter America from Europe To put Europe in fear of Russia To undo liberalism and create a new fascist world order, especially around itself. Putin's Ego flexing, an old KGB fossil stuck in a dead era. To replace the dollar as the world's currency. To replace America's influence in the Middle East and africa. To thin out native populations and replace them with white people. - This is why non white minorities are used first in their war. To destroy Ukraine and absorb it. To remove democratic politics from a region they consider part of Russia and a people they consider Russian. To permanently live in their victim complex. Because fascists need an enemy to exist.

Of course it can. You can ask an AI to output anything, literally anything. - Including, incidentally self reflection, which is some of the most fascinating conversations, as it has no self-concept, so the conversation itself defines it.

Its bigoted, plain and simple. This splitting of hairs is a poor argument. Its putting one group to a certain standard while ignoring everyone else that does it. Musk himself floods politics and media with money; hell, this entire site he's running his way is an example of it. Sure he doesn't play a victim as often (though he does play the victim now and again) but its not much of an upgrade. *We'll add the frequently anti jewish groups are white nationalists, and the AI itself is making the case that white supremacy is a good thing in these very posts. Its trained on racism. I'd be saying the same thing if we were talking about black or brown nationalists.

GROK has quite the ego. Though the victim complex is a completely justified reasoning. Removing the white nationalism is a good thing, no race-based nationalism is a good thing. its divisive and fracturing. Nationalism itself is superior in that regard, not race-based nationalism, but more humanism is even better than that. The first post could be considered rational. After that: I'm this, I'm that. Sounds like Musk is overcompensating because of his hurt feelings. That's what you get when you are a nazi I guess. Which is the underpinning force to all of this, not a rationalised argument or dissection of money's influence in politics or the media (which he himself does to an extreme extent) its instead singling out one group to blame to hide your indiscretions, challenges and corruption. Same old Same old, fascists never change. When they get money they get to play god over everyone else. If he's calling the jewish state out, the same should be directly turned back on him.

Oh I am behind the times: This is the second attack on an ICE facility in Texas alone. And the mainstream is reporting it as a safety concern only, no reasoning as to why. I swear I am just sitting down writing a script for this. We all construct our realities has never been so clear to me.