Eldritch

I still have my discs for both one and two around here somewhere. Though I haven't had them out in nearly 20 years

This isn't mentioned often enough. He only looked good next to Oz. He was always a shitty person who behaved shittily. The people that actually dealt with him in their local government know. He's always been a bit of a dumb ass and a bully. Just one slightly more relatable to the average person than that loon Oz.

Cabaret Nocturne has such good ambient dark electronic vibes. Sextile is one of the few others in recent years that comes close to hitting that same itch. Maybe a bit of Occam's Laser or Carpenter Brut. Hell I still have the video for turbo killer done with the blood machines aesthetic still etched in my memory.

I picked up a Lenovo 10e Chromebook tablet for under $40 recently. The thing was initially released in 2020 with an octa-core processor 10-in color screen not a full HD but for it's size well more than adequate. Slap post-market OS on it and I now have a portable desktop that's full touch screen with KDE plasma. Download and run Android apps through waydroid. Not simple enough that it'll work for your grandmother. But if you're the least bit techy and or privacy focused it's actually pretty sweet. The full system is at your control

Because Republicans don't write that sort of shit .Corporations write them for Republicans who then submit them. The corporations generally like what's going on. They're not going to write them for Democrats to submit.

Corporations are picking the corpse of capitalism clean to the detriment of everyone. And having a blast.

Not really. No more than in the past. The difference is the 24/7 firehose of propaganda and indoctrination. The solution is to step away from the firehouse. Focus on the things that actually impact you. Or that you can influence. If someone is telling you to be afraid of people that you don't know, have never met, or ever had contact with. Ignore them and tune them out. It's legitimately that simple.

We'd all like quick easy solutions. The moral quandary is how many innocent non consenting people will be sacrificed. And who decides who that will be.

If you could have a volunteer force of Mangiones. With the resources and logistics to repeat what he did. Pinpoint assassination. No small feat. You might get a temporary small concession.

But yeah, I don't know any average person that's opposed to them personally finding out. For all their fucking around.

I never implied that it did. Go ahead and make one. It will always do as much or more damage than it will ever do good. That's the point. There's bias in everything. Trusting someone else's bias to accurately convey the bias of something else, isn't making you more informed or a better consumer of media. Not in any meaningful way. Not in the way basic critical thinking skills can. It's just a game of bias telephone. And if you know how the game telephone goes. It should give you an indication to its efficacy.

It's not hard. There are some basic steps anyone can take to get started. Do not tolerate those who are intolerant of who someone is. Whether it's ethnicity or sexuality. If accusations are being made against groups. Especially ones that you have very little experience or contact with. Put yourself in that situation. Think about how you would go about things. Because that's more than likely how they would as well. And for everything else, especially things that are either hard science or factually based. Simply differ to the people who make it their life to study and understand those things. But never give their opinions outside of that field any weight.

Just those few basic things can illuminate a lot of bias and malintent. Leave you far more guarded and protected against misinformation and bias in the future. Which along with basic intellectual curiosity. Something most people have largely never valued. Will serve you far better than any app. Because the Insidious part about misinformation. Is that there's often some amount of Truth to it. Whether it's wrong because of malice or because of bias. Critical thinking and intellectual curiosity will always better serve you.

No. And there never should be. And here's why. Bear with me for a moment but consider this. Part of the problem with this sort of thing is that people want their hands held. They want to be told what to think. Not to think critically for themselves. No matter how well intentioned. Such systems will always be sought to be abused. To manipulate people and their opinions. And at best they will always be subject to bias and blindness. The truly keep them from ever being universally useful.

Basic training and education in critical thinking skills will be far more to help people. Than relying on an app no matter how well intentioned to tell them how to think about something.

Even that is just a stop gap. Look at France today. Revolutions, long-term rarely ever worked out that well. How about iran, North korea, russia, china, even the United states?

The problem with revolutions is that ignorant people see them as a quick fix to everything that's wrong. But without a fundamental change to society culture and human thinking in general. Things will sooner or later and go back to being brutally dictated by a few with undeserved wealth and influence. Fundamental changes that themselves cannot be brought about by revolution. Fundamental changes that do not need Revolution to be brought about. Fundamental changes that any Revolution is useless without.

Killing people is easy. Changing Minds is hard. But until we change Minds there will always be another must for Hitler eager to fill the void

On the one hand, I can't blame anyone for not wanting to work under him. No sane person would. No sane person would have believed in or accepted the buyout BS either. He never had the power to do that, and never missed a chance to stiff someone. I sincerely hope they are doing this just to burn his image, as misguided as that is. (His supporters and the majority of the wealthy would cheer him on for screwing over workers and government) Not that they actually ever believed in the buyout fairytale.

Disgusting and egregious. And this is only what we know of. We can safely assume much worse has already happened and will continue to happen. I wonder how many similar cases are already unceremoniously shipped off to Guantanamo already.