Yeah, it was a big part of Obama’s arms control push. We slowed down due to the expense though.

I agree. I also think it’s important to start to fight not just for individual progressive policies, but the progressive platform, identity and overarching philosophy.

Everyone can love every single progressive policy proposal at 100% support, but if they then dislike progressives and progressive philosophy, we still lose. The gop is really good at leveraging this, and we’re really bad at it, likely due to our greater average education. We’re detail oriented, and we need to cut that out with our messaging.

We need to do more grassroots work first, to further expand the popularity of the progressive platform. Whether we like it or not, progressives are not yet anywhere near a majority in the country. Otherwise Bernie’s grassroots campaign would have robustly defeated either Hilary or Biden in the dem primaries, which are primaries of the more progressive party.

I know a lot of people like to pin the blame for Bernie’s defeat on the DNC, but at the end of the day, the energy and popularity of a campaign doesn’t rely on and isn’t controlled by the mass media.

And Bernie is the very best we’ve got. Until we can address this, we need the independents, and they aren’t very progressive. If we can flip some repubs too, all the better.

“We will crawl out of the cracks, what else can we do, since they are throwing us out of the door and throwing us out of the window,” Simonyan said. “We will be doing our job as long as we have the slightest opportunity to do it. This is our duty to the state that has entrusted us with such responsibility…"

I’m, uh, not sure that’s sending the Russia-friendly message she thinks it is…

Didn’t know they were starting with 4nm chips, that’s pretty impressive. I thought TSMC was keeping a more significant edge for their Taiwan fabs, but they’re only making 3nm.

Only major problem with this line of thought is it underestimates the challenges of teaching.

Teaching is about more than just providing the material, if that was enough we could have automated teaching a long time ago. A teacher has to be able to understand and diagnose the source of a students confusion, and compose a solution. This is a very complex problem, due to how much individual people vary in their thinking, experiences and knowledge base.

The word “eventually” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.

Yeah I caught that when I reread your comment. I made an edit, just a little too slow.

Oh, I see. Still not seeing a big incentive for big tech, those meat bags are providing free labor. No strong need to replace them.

edit: Oh wait, you’re talking about paid ones. Nevermind.

Why would big tech ever want to get rid of nasty meat bags when nasty meat bags drive much of their engagement and thus increase their advertising revenues? We can’t escape the realities of how the human brain operates, how much it likes to be stimulated regardless of the qualities of the stimulus.

I think a much more logical goal would be to take just enough action to avoid most (but not all) legal consequences while otherwise encouraging as many nasty meat bags to encounter other nasty meat bags with opposing viewpoints as possible. That would maximize brain stimulation, increasing engagement and thus revenue. This improves the stock price and makes your boss happier with you.

Yeah, maybe something obscure I guess. They’re not exactly black or anything though.

There needs to be a law against what they did before they could be indicted for anything. Afaik there is no law against being a foreign propagandist.

Even the two handlers themselves would have been fully legal if they had simply registered as foreign agents.

Our first amendment protects these things, for better or for worse. It protects the right to lobby the government (petition for redress in the official language), with no bar to people doing it on behalf of foreign governments, which is why all we do is make them register under FARA for transparency. We’ve lived under this legal system through the whole Cold War.

Speech is similarly protected, even if it is at the behest of foreign governments.

Our first amendment protects lies and propaganda just the same as everything else, which is why any of us can still go look at RT right now if we wanted. If we can’t even ban RT with all the sanctions we have on Russia right now, how the hell are we supposed to go after these American citizens?

I wish the world wasn’t quite so full of knee-jerk reactionism to sensationalist internet content, where one of everyone’s favorite things wasn’t “omg”.

Very underrated comment, that one got a snort out of me. lol

Why would they want a deal? This is all going according to plan. Does anyone actually think they didn’t expect Gaza to get leveled after Oct 7th, that Netanyahu would be nice or reasonable about it? Or maybe that they could stop the Israeli air force or something? I don’t think they’re that dumb, and it’s one of the reasons they invested in the tunnel network in the first place.

And even if they did want a deal, Netanyahu doesn’t, because the war is his excuse to stay in power and stave off investigations.

Don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against arms control agreements if they’re interested. Are they interested though?

This is really no different from his assertion that NATO countries are somehow supposed to be paying “dues” or something, like a sort of mafia protection racket. He just speaks “stupid person” when the opportunity presents, any time the actual reality is a little on the complicated side and gives him some room to do so.

You know, you may as well just put this into the post body.

Fair enough, at least you can admit it.

Another new name change, huh? Neat.