“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.”

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      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?

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    They want artificial employees to discipline the labor market but what they will get instead is a deskilled labor force and business structures that are even more resistant to adaptation.

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      Can’t you picture him and Stephen PeeWee Himmler Miller browsing the Google images together, looking for ideas for his Frankenbattleship?

      “Oooh, look at that one. Wicked cool, right? I want something like that, but with bigger guns. And more of’em. And lots of real gold. All those other assholes got yachts, but I got a Trump-class battleship!”

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      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.

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        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

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            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).

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    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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      Id love to give robots my job, if all my needs were met and I could do art all day.

      Of course, what it actually means is none of my needs will be met and I will be put into a private prison or an incinerator.

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        You will continue to labor all day for reduced pay, while the robot pretends to do art all day

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          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.

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      And this will benefit the average worker by giving him more free time while keeping his job and salary, right?

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      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.

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      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

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      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.

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        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.

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          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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            He also race mixed

            If you’re going by Nazi standards, Vance’s wife is a lower Aryan, and Trump is the race mixer with his subhuman Slavic whores.

            If you’re going by traditional American WASP standards, none of them are white.

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          Vance doesn’t need Trump’s cult, he doesn’t need to win any elections. He’s the chosen figurehead for the Catholic neo-feudalists that are using Trump to take over, and is already in place to succeed.

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      Soon enough. You can see the way he is aging. It seems to be accelerating.

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    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.

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        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.

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      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.

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        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.

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          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).

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        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.

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        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.

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          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.

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          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).

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      Do you think anyone could shoot her an email asking for comments on shit?