I get real gloomy when I look at it from that perspective.

It occured to me that trump didnt surround himself with those three billionaires because they are the richest but because their combined reach is approximately 100% of the western world. They’re his propaganda ministers. Goebbels 1, 2 and 3. The systemic manipulation of people 24/7 towards fascism and dividing them more and more has no way back imo.

This will ultimately lead towards civil war in the west or global nuclear annihilation, whichever comes first.

This strongly reminds me of the german law that criminalized housing jews and took away all their tenants rights: https://dirkdeklein.net/2025/04/02/the-law-concerning-jewish-tenants-of-30-april-1939-a-key-step-in-nazi-persecution/

Its schroedingers everything outside nato. Russia is both completely incompetent but will overrun germany tomorrow (not joking, thats how german fear media argues). China is infiltrating the whole world with infrastructure that is both supporting terror regimes and too cheap to last a week, same as their engineers being slaves and building the most advanced buildings in the world.

I could go on for days. I recently dropped out of the brainwash machine and i’m regularly speechless of the mountain of lies.

Is there any literature on how the west was able to build this manipulation empire?

For the most part, he’s not wrong to do so. Unlike in most other administrations where the president’s office is a tightly-controlled environment with only a select few top aides given so-called “walk-in privileges,” Trump’s Oval is the center of his world of friends, confidantes, advisers and employees who often mill about nearby in the West Wing, even when they might not have much to do there.

I mean, sure. Thats totally normal, right?

Awesome! I run a luanti server (essentially open source minecraft).

Asking for a friend: how much were you joking about the mlpd?

There’s a new law which is supposed to come. Something about registers. It creeped me out so hard I didnt read all of it. Wife said they are starting with addicts who wer stationary “for their own benefit”. Well, that worked great in the past.

In germany they are starting to track disabled people btw. Not giving me the creeps at all. /s

I really appreciate this comment. It basically puts my general direction into words. I have constant discussions with healthy white folks with a bachelors degree and nearly six figures who say socialism is a nice idea but… It makes my skin crawl. I have lived through starvation and homelessness. it is incredibly hard to stay friendly in the face of such privilege.

You’re right. Its not a new model. That doesnt make it less stigmatizing imo. Example: autistic people are a lot more prone to stress induced mental health issues. This shifts the view from the capitalist murder machine to people who are “vulnerable”. That is the capitalist problem. Individualizing systemic issues. Industrial exploitation shouldnt exist, people who cant deal with that arent vulnerable, they are sane.

And no, imo people dont have to have a preexisting condition to fall prey to high tech emotional manipulation. Such tech should not exist.

Well, someone who is diagnosed with a mental health thing obviously counts as preexisting condition.

but interacting with a bleeding edge manipulation bot imo has no real known vulnerable groups.

it hasnt been scientifically examined before, which is its own clusterfuck.

Tldr: everyone has “preexisting conditions” if you throw untested malicious programmes at them. Its like saying a company has preexisting conditions to get hijacked by ransomware. Or a person has preexisting conditions to getting kidnapped.

It is individualizing a systemic issue.

“They’re walking wall street bankers onto the ice”

I dont see a problem wit this.

Everyone has certain traits. There are no “preexisting” conditions as binary things like a missing leg. Its more like a weak point in the spine that wasnt that bad but when they overextended it, it went bad. It would be kinda ableist to lable people who push these labels on people who cant handle literal manipulation machines.

Humans should not use AI unless absolutely necessary. Same as regular tv, gambling, etc. All this stuff is highly dangerous.

You just broke my brain. Thanks for this. :)

And another banger. Thank you for this on point explanation. :)

I dont know if I find this funny. Its a naked capitalism thing. It breeds lonelyness and even profits from its treatment - not its cure of course, dont be naive. Its basic empathy to understand this stuff imo.

It does however make me wanna do things to entitys that is written down in certain books and bears significant penalties.

Damn! I’m not thinking straight today. Its terribly hot and i’m stressed. Thanks for reminding me.

Honest question: is there a “tankiepedia” of sorts where you can read solely non nato perspectives so to speak?

With pleasure! Thanks, comrade. :)

YIKES. This reads ultra dystopian.