Hasn’t it been revealed that Epstein is coordinating with oligarchs to promote conspiracy theories to dumb people down?

I also want to say I noticed Americans seem to promote idiot kinds of conservatives like Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro and Charlie Kirk. I’m not conservative, but there are far more intelligent conservative pundits, such as David Frumm and Roger Scruton, who make more sense. Oligarchs promote idiot individuals to control the narrative which, in turn, control the masses’ perception of reality.

The mainstream should re-think what intelligence is because experts already said there are different types of intelligence. Are math prodigies with autism not intelligent? Are biologists dumb for struggling with quantum physics? That said, someone who may be unempathetic and lack emotional intelligence may have high intelligence on how to persuade and manipulate others. Many would call this Machiavellian (although personally, I don’t see Machiavellianism as inherently bad). It takes certain skill and intelligence to become a mob boss despite doing poorly in school, or even a leader of a country.

A lot on Lemmy scoffed it when I said Trump and other dictators are not as dumb as they might seem to be, because they ended up in charge, not someone on Lemmy with PhD. It possesses a certain kind of intelligence to be a demagogue and take power.

You might be joking, but i think only the older folks will get the joke. After all, apparently, when Justin Timberlake was arrested for DUI, JT asked the police officer if he knows who he is. The police officer, being younger, unironically said “no”.

I have to say, seeing the outdated CRT screen and the classic white wired mouse grinds my gears 😐

For as long as I can remember, I’ve always thought you become what you hate.

That’s a good interpretation from the Chinese point of view. Ancient China is obsess with “heaven”. Their philosophy and mythology is chock full of reference to heaven, like the “mandate of heaven”.

It’s the libertarians and retails investors, who root for the ruthless billionaire-owned businesses they invested in, who say that.

WoW raid experience doesn’t exactly translate to expert on international relations.

They learned that cooperation is perfect…to coordinate and conquer those who are deemed weaker.

For me it was Saints Row 2. When I first saw the game, I was like “what is this GTA knock off?!”. But when I finally played the game, I was hooked and went “Haha! It’s so funny spraying shit on buildings!”

If we include many other countries, USA will be among the developing nations for high homicide rate due to guns. And I hope you get I’m trying to say because USA is supposed to be a safe and prosperous country. If the gun crime and homicide rate is on par with poorer countries…well…it’s not something to proud of or known as, for the self-declared best country in the world.

I’ve been thinking of creating a new account through Tor, so that I could reconnect with my former communities who are still active there, since unfortunately, Reddit is still bigger than Lemmy. But with this new stupid identity verification rule from Reddit, I don’t think I will come back to the site.

I guess I will recreate the communities I’ve been missing here in Lemmy instead, which I have been thinking of doing for a long while now.

My only problem are the authoritarian types, namely tankies and fascists. Anyone who are pro-democracy are okay in my book.

I was going to argue against this, but then you’re right. There has been regulatory capture of socdems as they became neoliberals; who keep chasing the magical “centrist” unicorn. But in reality, who they are trying to appease are the property owning base who want their property value to keep going up and up, at the expense of the youths, families and homeless, and to appease rich donors.

There is a special guillotine for this wannabe parasite.

When I was applying for a house mortgage, the case officer was asking me questions about the ins and outs of my financial transactions relating to my investments, because I made multiple deposits in a short period of time. I felt like I was being interrogated and I was annoyed on why the need for that level of scrutiny. Then I remembered that criminals have used buying properties for money laundering, or their initial capital came from criminal activities. There is a posh neighbourhood near where I live, and I saw couple of rough looking families having a gathering in a restaurant. I’m pretty sure they live in that area as well, and if they are, there is a likelihood that they may have bought or are renting properties using dark money (not that rich, suit-wearing people don’t do this either).

Violence is only the last resort, but Americans should learn to make DIY weapons in case another civil war breaks out, because it is unlikely that Donald will concede power when the time comes.

There is an episode about robot dogs in Black Mirror…

At this stage, I am willing to go to Mars. There is less chance of techbro oligarchs wanting to destroy the world and killer robot dogs wanting to kill us. Matt Damon has also provided us with a basic manual on how to survive Mars.

I feel like the antivaxxers are more concentrated in the developed north because of privileges; from having better access to healthcare, better economy, and less prevalence of deadlier diseases because of colder climate. So they get treatment more easily if they need one, and don’t see nasty diseases. Meanwhile, the global south tend to believe more in vaccinations because diseases in warmer climate are more common and deadlier.

Different system, same problem.

I’m an old school Keynesian. I’m not opposed to liberal economics per se, but i hate the obsession with austerity and not taxing the wealthy, the latter meaning neoliberals don’t want their donors to be taxed.