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VeilOfReality 4 points ago +4 / -0

We absolutely should not consent. It worked with the vaxxes, enough people stood strong that the passes had to go away. However, that was all likely preparation for this so the digital ID push will be harder. We can do it though if (and this is a MASSIVE if) enough of us are unequivocal in our refusal

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VeilOfReality 2 points ago +2 / -0

I understood what you meant, perhaps I should have instead said "on what record"?

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VeilOfReality 2 points ago +2 / -0

I appreciate the effort that went into your post. I can take your explanation of motive at fact came though I still question the air of authority being wielded here and where it seemingly comes from. Putting me down, by what authority? However, as I said, I will no longer impugn motive in this case

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VeilOfReality 1 point ago +1 / -0

This was mostly a test to see if you were the one who went through and downvoted my post and all the replies, which seems likely based on what I just saw here. This isn't about the downvotes, my posts are frequently a mix of up and down votes. The thrust of this is, you did not reply to me but chose to just downvote disagreement. What am I to make of the motives of such a person, who is greatly expanding on rules that the majority of the board does not agree with and is making ultimatums like "if you behave like this and think you should be allowed to continue to do so speak now". Your own words also made it clear that being punished for breaking rules is not censorship and you want to implement more rules, or a more strict interpretation of the rules. This axiomatically means more censorship than we have now, but avoids calling it censorship

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VeilOfReality 2 points ago +3 / -1

You want to change the forum rules so you can punish people for doing things you don't like and claim it's just the rules. Consensus is fine with it the way it is. I trust myself to understand what's being presented to me and I give that same intellectual courtesy to others here

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VeilOfReality 5 points ago +6 / -1

Can't we just accept we're all just a bunch of antisocial twits and call it a day? Ideas will win out or they won't, but getting people here to come to consensus on anything will be tough and frankly I like it that way. There's rarely useful conversation as a result, but, certain types of personality are attracted to the fringe, what can you do?

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VeilOfReality 2 points ago +2 / -0

All elections are probably rigged. The pendulum always "swings", keeping both sides invested, highlighting the differences in smaller things (gay marriage, trans shit, millions of brown illegals vs millions of brown legals) while the politicians at both ends slow walk us to the same larger overall conclusions (same wars, same infinitely inflating currency, same technocratic control, global homogenization, etc).

If you weren't so overly emotional, you'd see that I actually agreed with you that there are reasons to believe the majority of people (who were motivated to vote) supported the outcome. However, that doesn't change my overall belief that all elections of any consequence are rigged one way or another.

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VeilOfReality 4 points ago +4 / -0

You say that, and it's probably true. However, consider that every election of a certain level of consequence is likely cheated, so this is all part of the show to begin with (this is what I lean towards). The other side is to consider that the disenfranchisement of most young people is NOT bringing them to the right as it seems online. We keep hearing how baste the zoomers are but most of them still get gay haircuts and know more about doing fortnite dances at 25 than any practical skill. This is not a zoomer hate post, all generations are fucked up, but the point is, there's just as much reason to believe that it was cheated (elections purposefully being pushed certain ways every single cycle to manipulate the populace) as it was legitimate. I'm in a red state, people don't regret voting for Trump, but they are by and large not energized to vote. I saw one Republican road sign this entire election cycle (if you don't count the Trump signs people have had up for years). Still, I believe all elections of major city-level consequence or above are rigged

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VeilOfReality 1 point ago +1 / -0

More people pretend to know things about the Bible that were actually given to them by pop culture than anything else. Lines up pretty well to me

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VeilOfReality 1 point ago +1 / -0

I agree, that lost was meant to be flippant. The point is it was an ad to his followers to be good and get boosted

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VeilOfReality 3 points ago +3 / -0

Maybe people fluent in a language don't read whole words, as research has shown, and no one knows anyone who's name ends in stain but everyone knows of people who's name ends in Stein. So maybe your parents weren't looking so closely at your literature when they read it to you.

Or we hopped dimensions and for some reason that changed the name of the Berenstain bears without changing anything else of consequence.

But I guess I must have a weak memory and be easily fooled to know the fruit in the Bible was never called an apple in the Bible and understand alternative explanations that don't jump to crazy scifi mysticism

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VeilOfReality 3 points ago +3 / -0

This is the real answer. Everyone calling things that they never actually knew about to begin with a Mandela Effect

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VeilOfReality 2 points ago +2 / -0

And he just got his booster too, boost up ladies and gents!

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VeilOfReality 3 points ago +3 / -0

To call it retarded is still giving too much credit. It's a word predictor. It predicts words based on what words came before it in your conversation and what words it's been trained on (really, it's tokens, not words exactly but words, word parts, word combinations, depending on what the semantic intent is). You can do some very impressive things with it if you use it correctly, but it will inevitably be wrong frequently unless what you're asking it is something it's been trained on repeatedly and does not have other collisions in its training data. I work on this stuff and it bothers me how much people who know deeply how it works still humanize the algorithm, so, apologies if this came off a bit lecture-like. I just see this mass use of humanizing language as it relates to LLMs as part of people giving up more and more control to them

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VeilOfReality 2 points ago +2 / -0

Every big name e-celeb is controlled in some way. They're the modern day tv pundits

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VeilOfReality 1 point ago +1 / -0

What I don't get about this is why they wouldn't have just shot Candace a long time ago since she went much more forcefully against Israel and quite awhile ago. I tend to believe everything eceleb is also a psyop and that frequently bears out when you research the participants (research Erika Kirk's parents, pageant background, and dalliances in human trafficking huba, or look into how Candace came from a talent agency and married into a banking family, for instance)

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VeilOfReality 1 point ago +1 / -0

"there's no point in resisting because they will just kill you" "But I'm not saying it's futile!" Expert pilpul, enjoy thrashing in your own irrelevance while you have to pretend anyone who dare point out what your own ramblings mean is a shill. I'm sure you'll have another borderline histrionic comeback and I'll let you enjoy it. See? I can give you a challenge and then pretend I either win by getting the last word or I win by actually getting the last word just like you can - your tactics are boring and obvious. But I really am done with this so enjoy your upcoming "victory"

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VeilOfReality 1 point ago +1 / -0

Nothing is a more self-fulfilling prophecy than assuredness of your own futility. The fact you seemingly see pushing this on others as your life's mission makes you the goodest of golems, wittingly or otherwise

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VeilOfReality 1 point ago +1 / -0

I guess since there's no point to anything there's no point to you continuing to walk the earth then right?

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