Thou shalt not create a machine to counterfeit a human mind.

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  • The step that is conveniently forgotten (because most of the country didn’t learn about it) between protest and violence is civil disobedience.

    It’s effective, and it’s been happening. It works particularly well against fascists because it turns their MO against them. Fascists like to waste time arguing then rapidly overwhelm with policy. When that policy is delayed and unenforceable they absolutely go bonkers and damage their system further.













  • It’s likely Hitler’s role models were the white supremacists of America. The Heritage Foundation has roots that trace back much further than Hitler and Nazi Germany, and Hitler himself had material regarding the effectiveness of Jim Crow laws.

    The Heritage Foundation also clearly has applied lessons learned from Nazi Germany - outright executions are going to get you lots of resistance, where as disease, policy driven famine, and political violence can kill a large number without ever becoming too unpopular. Interestingly, this may be the reason they push so hard for controlling all media and social media platforms.




  • Yeah definitely the traumatic way.

    It’s that “fight, flight or freeze” phenomenon. I get the memo in my head “hey, introduce yourself” then when I, say, get up out of the chair, right before I take that first step, the fear comes in from memories of my ex wife telling me how awful I am or how I never did enough around the house or how I didn’t work hard enough or how ill never get someone as good as her again.

    It’s always been exhausting for me to go out (likely autism related, and the more I come to terms with, yes, I’m high functioning or whatever, but at least I am starting to figure out me now).