We’re in a new phase of 'Murican^TM fascist eugenics, everyone!

I don’t know where you reside, but can’t you write on the back of the envelope containing the letter with “return to sender”? In my country, this is what we do to notify the sender that the addressee no longer lives in the premise.

McConnell would be ousted but he will just stare at nothing at stay in the Senate.

Not sure what you mean, but communication itself and its effect on human culture does not change, no matter the media. You can draw a painting to de-humanise and incite hatred towards a group, or you can go on radio and incite hatred towards a group. Either way, both methods can be used to incite hatred.

also includes many lessons we’ve learnt since 1930s.

Sorry I forgot to address this.

Correct me if I am wrong but I don’t see how we learnt since. As we speak, a used to be unknown far-right party gained massive electoral votes in Romania. It turns out that they have been making their presence in social media, where older establishment politicians have no familiarity with. The bigger lesson that democratic and liberal forces should do is knowing to use new forms of media instead. Franklin Roosevelt and Barack Obama knew this very well.

There were radio, televisions, and books. And while people had overall poor quality of education back then because of lack of access, Noam Chomsky mentioned people still try to educate themselves through reading.

The problem then and now is that mass communication is used by bad faith actors to emotionally manipulate the public into voting against their own interests. Back then, yellow journalism riled up jingoism. Goebbels and the Nazis saw potential use of radio for mass indoctrination, and made conscious effort to make radio cheaper and widely available in Germany.

A lot of PAID cowards in powerful positions.

Xi gets pissed whenever Putin threatens with nuke and tells Putin to stop with the bluff. That being said, it is a sign that Russia’s actual influence is eroding because of the war, and that Russia’s sovereignty is slowly being captured by China.

And the thing is, many European countries don’t even want to join NATO specifically, they want to join the EU-- a non-military, supranational organisation. However, the Russian government see the EU and NATO as one and the same, even though many EU members are not NATO members themselves and don’t want to be.

The Russian state uses nationalism to distract their own people from the state’s own corruption. It is a tried and tested obfuscation to maintain power and control over the masses.

I have kind of arrived to the same conclusion. If people asked me what is love, I would say it is a religion.

It has been a long time since I watched Her, but my takeaway from the movie is that because making real life connection is difficult, people have come to rely on AI which had shown to be more empathetic and probably more reliable than an actual human being. I think what many people don’t realise as to why many are single, is because those people afraid of making connections with another person again.

Zuckerburg and Facebook enable lies to spread because that’s how he makes money.

Musk, Zuckerberg and Bezos-- you can tell they are insecure. They became rich and powerful and now want to stomp on people.

I reckon it is because anarchism is a really alien idea that would get eyebrows raised if promoted out loud in public. Not least because people are accustomed to the status quo (or that anarchism as an ideology gets a bad rep), but different cultures value different things. Go to Asia and one would observe how obsessed they are with flaunting status symbol and one-upping each other. This is contrary to anarchist belief in egalitarianism and communalism.

But people don’t experience attraction before puberty, right? How do they know what groups of people they’ll grow up to be attracted to?

Well, we all have crushes when we were kids, don’t you agree?

Edit: sorry if I sound like I am trying to put words into your mouth. What I mean is that some people already figure out what their sexuality is and whom they feel attracted to at early age. To whom you feel crush to at early age is an indicator.

Oh, he knows.

And predators in movies waste so much energy chasing one miniscule prey, which yield insignificant amount of calories, for hours if not days. Ladies and gentlemen, Hollywood may have just discovered the first known example of an animal that exhibit autism.

Because Bernie knew the system is rigged against him and thus allowed neoliberals like Biden to have their way. Now that the DNC lost pathetically to an orange man, and the DNC leadership is enabling fascism, I don’t hear “vote blue no matter who” nonsense anymore. And Bernie and AOC have the last laugh and “told you so” moment to the DNC. Their tours are gathering record number crowds since Obama’s 2008 campaign.

He is performing plausible deniability. Without saying directly yes or no, he is still open to the idea of not upholding the constitution. It is like saying “I can neither confirm nor deny.”

I am a stealth perfectionist thanks to Metal Gear series and wanting you to be perfectly stealthy to get rewards. If I get caught, I repeat instead.