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Kimball_Kinnison 3 points ago +3 / -0

Even bright people, maybe even especially bright people, can be led astray by ideology.

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Kimball_Kinnison 5 points ago +5 / -0

This was the conspiracy in the Robocop movie. One problem with it is that many of the people implementing it actually live in those cities. Yes, they are “progressive” Democrats who are soft on crime for ideological reasons, but they have armed guards, live in nice neighborhoods if not gated communities, etc.

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Kimball_Kinnison 3 points ago +3 / -0

Programmers can put rules and limits on AI. It's already known that they do that. E.g. you can ask ChatGPT to write a song in praise of Biden, but not Trump.

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Kimball_Kinnison 1 point ago +1 / -0

There are bots called u/saferbot and u/safestbot. (Hopefully, capitalization doesn't matter.) I'm told that if you block them, they can't see you.

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Kimball_Kinnison 2 points ago +2 / -0

Ironically, the charges of “brigading” usually start in the woke sub AgainstHateSubreddits (? a.ka. AHS), which gets away with brigading because they’re aligned with the admins.

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Kimball_Kinnison 1 point ago +1 / -0

I'm real and there under another handle. I know at least one other IRL person who has an account there. I'm not sure how many Reddit users are bots, but many are certainly shills (paid or unpaid) for Democrats and woke bullshit.

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Kimball_Kinnison 1 point ago +1 / -0

https://www.amazon.com/Past-Future-Country-Conservative-Demographic/dp/1788360753/ref=sr_1_1

Since the 1960s, the West has moved ever-leftwards. 'Equality' and ‘feelings’ are central to the New Religion that rejects all traditional values. Yet beneath the institutionally dominant ‘Left’ stews a growing and restless ‘Right’. How has this fractured situation come about? What will the future hold?

In The Past is a Future Country, the authors trace it back to the Industrial Revolution. Darwinian selection massively weakened, meaning that, for the first time in history, the selfish, sick and stupid could survive and reproduce, undermining our religious, group-oriented culture. Now the West is scourged by an epidemic of narcissists, competing to signal their individuality and moral superiority. But their ‘fight for equality’ is really a fight for self-promotion. Reflecting this runaway individualism, Westerners increasingly don’t have children, save for those who are genetically resistant to this onslaught ― the staunchly conservative and religious: the eventual inheritors of the earth.

But there is a dark storm brewing in the demographic data that the authors have analysed. There is a burgeoning growth in the population of exceptionally unintelligent and antisocial people that social welfare systems cannot sustain for much longer. The developed world will pass away, and the global population that depends on it will crash, in the greatest Malthusian Collapse of all time. Yet all is not lost. The authors show how a resistant class of intelligent, religious conservatives will band together to preserve enclaves of civilization that may survive most of the coming apocalypse, and from its ashes rebuild a new world: A Neo-Byzantium.

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Kimball_Kinnison -1 points ago +1 / -2

You don't think confirmed proof of major election fraud is important?

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Kimball_Kinnison 0 points ago +1 / -1

I did a reverse image search, and as I said there wasn’t much. I’d be happy to read any links about it you can find.

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Kimball_Kinnison 0 points ago +1 / -1

I searched and all I could determine is that it was a wish list from a small group of eco nuts. Obviously it’s crazy, but it’s government policy (yet).

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Kimball_Kinnison 1 point ago +1 / -0

There's no way a small drone flew from Ukraine to Moscow. Air defenses are not designed to intercept small, slow, low-flying objects launched from maybe a mile away.

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Kimball_Kinnison 0 points ago +2 / -2

I believe these were debunked when they first circulated circa 2008. That's not her.

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Kimball_Kinnison 2 points ago +2 / -0

The image of Freeh is not from the Post article, but he does seem to have only one eye.

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Kimball_Kinnison 1 point ago +1 / -0

No, but it amounts to whataboutism. If what Trump did was so dangerous, why didn't Biden reverse it two years ago? And it there any evidence that it would have prevented this crash? The fucking train was told by dispatchers to keep going for like 20 miles after they knew the fucking wheels were on fire. What does that have to do with Trump?

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Kimball_Kinnison 1 point ago +1 / -0

I followed Webb for a while years ago, but stopped. He often seemed to have some interesting bits of info, but I never got a sense that it all added up. He never seemed to step back and connect the various dots.

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Kimball_Kinnison 1 point ago +1 / -0

I get your point, but sometimes persuasion does work. There are many ex-leftists around.

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