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they apply the exact same argument to Jews as they use for pretty much every other minority

I think the glaring note is how they consider “Jew” a minority, despite largely being white.

Who does and doesn’t qualify as white is a constantly moving goalpost, depending on the attitudes of the current regime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionist_antisemitism

Zionist antisemitism or antisemitic Zionism refers to a phenomenon in which antisemites express support for Zionism and the State of Israel. In some cases, this support may be promoted for explicitly antisemitic reasons. Historically, this type of antisemitism has been most notable among Christian Zionists, who may perpetrate religious antisemitism while being outspoken in their support for Jewish sovereignty in Israel due to their interpretation of Christian eschatology. Similarly, people who identify with the political far-right, particularly in Europe and the United States, may support the Zionist movement because they seek to expel Jews from their countries and see Zionism as the least complicated method (vis-à-vis ethnic cleansing or genocide) of achieving this goal and satisfying their racial antisemitism.

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The French-Jewish journalist Alain Gresh noted that the antisemitic right-wing politician and Nazi collaborator Xavier Vallat said that "Jews would never integrate into France and that they had to go to Israel.

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The historian David N. Myers wrote that “Leading white nationalists such as Richard Spencer and Jared Taylor liken their movement to Zionism, seeing it as a model for the kind of monoethnic purity they favor in [the United States].” Myers states that the “combination of pro-Israel and antisemitic sensibilities” is common within American politics due to the combined influences of the “Christian evangelical Right with its end-game theology”, “archly conservative” Catholics, and the political ideology of Donald Trump.

they didn’t inherit their immense wealth

Except even that doesn’t hold up under close scrutiny. A big component of the market cap of any Fortune 100 company stems from equity and debt held by the generationally wealthy, typically through family funds managed by private equity groups. Amazon and Tesla aren’t worth $1T without the Vanderbilts and the Carnegies and the Adelsons and the Waltons bidding up asset prices. Microsoft doesn’t exist today without Bill Gates’s mom sitting on the IBM board of directors and handing her son the contracts for their 1980s OS. Hell, Berkshire Hathaway is owned by the sons of a Congressman and a federal judge, respectively.

What’s more, the biggest source of market capital is inevitably government contracts. You can’t tell me that Michael Dell is “independently wealthy” when the bulk of his fortune came via the Texas public school system buying all his company’s computers. Particularly when the governors, legislators, and board members making these decisions are (a) big shareholders of the Dell corporation and (b) legacy scions of wealthy Texas families.

Americans: “Tragedy of the Commons proves that people are incapable of working together for mutual benefit, because personal greed will always lead to the devastation of the collective common good.”

Chinese: “Why do you not simply arrest and punish the bad actors in your society when they overstep and impede on the general welfare?”

Americans: “Because that’s fascism. Also, we’re arresting and deporting you for asking.”

Be less lazy

“Damn this sucks, I’m doing the thing”

“Hey you lazy stupid fuck, go back in time and do it sooner”

Why is the Internet like this?

Always worth keeping in mind that these fuckers are selling snake oil to one another under the guise of national security.

This technology is dangerous not because it works as advertised but because it creates a vacuum of responsibility for when the very manual killing starts

Israel’s Lavender AI is a great example of this in action. It doesn’t work in any meaningful way. All it does is label casualties in a bombing run as “terrorists” after the fact.

It can say it can, when asked by an investor. And really, what else matters?

If the AI cannot run the business then we must conclude that the business does not produce anything of real value.

Nothing to do but downsize and move on.

Microsoft is in the process of downsizing to the tune of 3% of its global workforce and rising.

Could be they really are unironically cruising towards a CEO overseeing a bunch of spam bot email accounts they’re treating as headcount.

It is the thing you have to say in order to marry the “Fiscal Conservative” pastiche of the GOP with the “Gleeful Genocide” of the modern American media figure.

This is Randian Objectivism taken to its logical conclusion. Republicans need you to understand that human lives, on average, have a negative expected value. There are only a handful of Makers, while the rest of human civilization exist as Takers. And it is the duty of the government to preserve the property of the Makers, by systematically exterminating anyone who would inflict negative sharehold value on property.

Immigration pogroms, crackdowns on youth protests, DOGE trying to gut the budget for health and social services, genAI as a proposed stand-in for large amounts of human labor… This is all a part of a broad mission to eliminate large portions of the human population.

mankind does not have the ability to build roads across our state

Only pipelines

Nothing however breaks because of AI

The trajectory is the same, but AI put more gas in the tank in a machine that one might have assumed had reached its limits a decade ago when outsourcing had played itself out.

What NYT and other legacy media is mostly worried about is that with AI psyops and fake news is becoming more and more democratized instead of an expensive top-down ordeal and for making harder for anybody to trust anything anymore, a trust that they relied on to control the narrative.

I think you’ve got it a bit backwards. The NYT operates as a paper of record in large part because it emits a signal that echoes through downstream media. And that stems from the general trust the paper has cultivated (undeserved trust, but welcome to the dictatorship of the bourgeois, folks).

The implementation of AI as a system of record is replacing the NYT as a trustworthy source, in part because the NYT has finally degraded its own credibility. And in part because why would I go fight with a bunch of paywalls and pop-ups and ad banners on the NYT when I can (seemingly) get the same information from a nice clean OpenAI / Gemini / Deepseek prompt.

The expense of setting up a system of record is still enormous. The catch is that the AI companies have more money to propagandize their own reputation. Meanwhile, the NYT and the WaPo and the cable news channels have been suffocating in comparative obscurity when they weren’t outright touting AI venues as alternatives to themselves.

News isn’t being democratized. Its as horded as ever. These older outlets have simply become vectors to send people to the new and far more efficient Consent Manufacturing Machines.

Alaska: “We have the biggest state!”

Texas: “How long does it take to drive across?”

Alaska: “We wouldn’t know, we’ve never left Anchorage.”

Of course it isn’t fun when you go into it with the mindset that the story will be that.

I don’t think its mindset so much as experience. If you’ve never watched an MCU feature before, I suppose it could still be a lot of fun. But they’ve been making these shows since 2008, at least? If you’ve seen them, you’ve seen them.

reviews should actually review a show/movie

Sure. And if you’ve made your brand on the “I hate everything with non-white men in it” the first thing out of your mouth is going to be “That’s not a white man on screen so it sucks!”

But if you’ve spent nearly twenty years watching the Superhero franchise eat its own tail, what is left to review? This feels like asking someone to give a cinematic review of the latest Pokemon episode. “Guys, it looks like they’re trying to catch another rare one and… omg its Team Rocket again, I wonder if they’ll get foiled this time, too”.

The studios have failed in providing such more broad and general feedback channels.

The studios think they have a formula that prints money. And the formula is so deeply engrained, so dogmatized, that there’s no room left for more than a change to the window dressing. The fact that they did take 18 years to get to “Maybe someone else can play Iron Man?” is illustrative of the trench they buried themselves in.

Even in the best case s scenario - bakeries compete making uniform quality products without involving political shenanigans - the price of bread is independent of the cost of production.

What you’re looking for as a business is the “clearing price”, which is the price at which your (sales * price) generates the maximum revenue.

New capital that lowers per unit cost does not change the price. It raises profit margins. Only when multiple vendors in competition have access to this capital does the clearing price fall.

Not if you’re using duplicate item cheats

I think its worth noting that currency forgery is a business that operates on scale. Forging one $100 note is an enormous amount of work for not much payoff. The goal is to forge 1000s+ of $100 notes.

But at that point, you run in the question “Where do you spend it?” Unless your forgeries are exceptional, you can’t just drop them off at the bank, precisely because banks will become suspicious if you show up with a duffle bag of 50 year old notes.

Fortunately, we have a number of methods for laundering currency - either by spending it where people don’t look to hard or by mixing it with more modern notes so the 1000 notes you just printed don’t stand out in a pile of 100,000s of such notes. Strip clubs, casinos (this was the original plot of Rush Hour), liquor stores, and other cash-heavy businesses do a great job of co-mingling fake and real notes. Black market trafficking is also a popular venue for disposing of dirty cash, as drug runners and smugglers are notoriously unsophisticated in detecting forgeries.

So, old bills can and do work as counterfeits in the right venues. And eventually, you’ll see them vacuumed up and disposed of at the Federal Reserve right alongside the legit older currency. It’s just a lot more work to do correctly.