It’s because it’s centralized with an absolute authority.

They might not control the pope now, but if they do they control all Catholic priests.

It’s full circle back to “a centralized system is the most easily corrupted”. Just like this “new EU”. Even if the far right doesn’t control it from day 1, they want it centralized because that makes it easier to take over eventually.

At a joint news conference on Sunday, Col Perez said investigators did not think the person detained was the same person identified in CCTV footage of the suspect that was released on the day of the attack. The BBC has chosen to stop naming the person who has now been released.

In the footage, the suspect can be seen walking away from the scene wearing all black clothing.

Following the release of the footage, FBI director Kash Patel had said that a person of interest was detained at a hotel in Coventry, Rhode Island in the early hours of Sunday morning based on a lead from Providence Police.

Col Perez had then confirmed that officers were not looking for anyone else and were working with prosecutors to collect evidence.

Sooooo…

They don’t have any evidence, but they’ve already made up their minds this person is guilty and they aren’t looking for any other suspects?!

How the fuck are we gonna get to post scarcity when a couple thousand individuals are hoarding all the wealth?

We could live in a post scarcity society right now, hell, we could be decades deep in it by now.

But regardless of when we get there, before we do we’ll have to claw all the wealth from the gluttonous human personifications of dragons first.

It’s not just gonna happen some day, because all the wealthiest humans are fighting against it. So we need to actually fight for it

Yep, centralization isn’t a good thing.

If you read the article long enough, they go mask off and eventually admit the movement has two major factions: “centrists” and outright racists who want a white Christian empire.

Seems everyone supporting this wants it as a vehicle to move the EU to the right, which is why they want it centralized. It’s easier to buy off one leader than 27 different ones at the same time.

Don’t have to get very far to get to the part where it’s far right douches trying to slow walk people to racism…

Indeed, federalists are far from being a politically homogenous group. Several meme warriors told me that there is an ideological battle ongoing in the dank recesses of federalist Reddit subgroups and chatrooms between broadly centrist people who believe in boosting the power of existing Brussels institutions, and far-right people who hate Brussels but nonetheless want Europe to assert itself on the world stage. The big divider is identity politics and migration policy: far-right groups tend to envision Europe as a culturally and ethnically homogenous “empire” — read, white and Christian, preferably Catholic — that keeps foreigners out.

Saying “only white Christians are European, and everyone else shouldn’t be here” is not, and has never been, just “identity politics”.

It sounds like neoliberals and racists are both fighting over who gets to be called “center right”…

If I said there was two types of fruit, would you there’s more than two species of fruit?

There’s two types of fediverse basically.

1. Reddit knockoff

2. Twitter knockoff

Sometimes a #2 can post to a #1, they stand out because they always tag people and us hashtags in comments, when they manage to create a post, they never seem aware and get very very belligerent when people try to explain what they did that created a post.

If you want to engage with them on their level, you need an account on a twitter knockoff.

From a different comment in this thread:

The big country always wants to make it look plausible they’d lose to justify the budget, and every other country wants to do well out of genuine pride or propaganda that their military is strong and not to be fucked with.

Why are you taking trump and kegsworth word?

They’re fear mongering

An Aegis missle can knock it down tho…

They cost 4.7 mil a pop, which isn’t much to the US military. And don’t even need launched by the carrier, it’d be launched by ships between the middle and the carrier.

Apparently China claims they have hypersonic rockets made out of concrete for the low low price of 99k each, but that’s not exactly believable. Especially since they’re claiming 99k and not 100k. I mean, even that they’re using “round” US dollars.

That’s pretty common propaganda to claim something is cheaper and more widely available than it really is. It’s why we split our uranium into two bombs in WW2. Because a country might use all of it at once as a bluff. But only idiot would make just two and then use them both days apart. It made it look like we could have a bunch. Not enough to keep up the pace, but how many? 5, 12?

It was more psychological warfare than anything. So is China claiming these are so cheap and mass producible when if that was true we’d see the same cost savings in commercial spaces.

No other country would be able to compete

These war games are bullshit and the US and other powerful countries intentionally tie one hand behind our backs as a reason to increase the defense budget.

Like, US subs will have a bunch of people literally banging on the inside of the hull so enemy radar picks them up and “destroys” them too.

The big country always wants to make it look plausible they’d lose to justify the budget, and every other country wants to do well out of genuine pride or propaganda that their military is strong and not to be fucked with.

At the end of the day no country can counter our nuclear powered subs with nuclear interballistic missiles. Sinking a carrier would be responded to like attacking a US city, it’s just not a risk China would take.

Eh, a carrier is a whole nother thing.

One carrier with a flight detail would be in the top ten most powerful Air Force’s on the planet, and we’ve got like 7 of them?

And that’s not counting all the support in a carrier group.

There are certain types of drone attacks that might have some effect on a carrier, but it would take an insane amount of preparation and be inconceivably expensive.

At most theyd have 1-2 attempts, it would be the modern equivalent of the WW2 nukes if someone could sink a modern US carrier, even in a surprise attack to start a war.

Seems like a good time for some Bob Vylan honestly…

Fuck that, let’s go dig up Maggie

Let’s go dig up Maggie’s grave and ask her where that milk went

Down to storm those Downing doors, run inside and **** them

Eat the rich, eat the rich before they turn and eat your children

England’s ending, death’s still pending, burn those fucking buildings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-nYtq-0ObE

Yeah…

But you know how people are already comparing vibe coding to 40k where “priests” pray to computers and hope if they do the exact same thing they’ll get the same result they want?

If we start walking down this road of even the chat or not understanding why what it did was better…

Serious unintended consequences are going to be inevitable.

Like, I swear nobody knows the paperclip story anymore.

Instrumental convergence posits that an intelligent agent with seemingly harmless but unbounded goals can act in surprisingly harmful ways. For example, a sufficiently intelligent program with the sole, unconstrained goal of solving a complex mathematics problem like the Riemann hypothesis could attempt to turn the Earth (and in principle other celestial bodies) into additional computing infrastructure to succeed in its calculations.[2]

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

I mean, we can make a very very solid argument that much of our current problems are caused by high level stock trading being done by algorithms who’s only instruction is “make numbers go up”.

This shit aint even hypothetical anymore, it’s just instead of “make as many paperclips” we told it “make more money than you did yesterday”.

Which is why we’re burning down the planet to make billionaires even more money

The important part, is Britian bitched out on their threat…

The wealthy and powerful make empty threats constantly, because if/when it works, it’s a free victory.

We can’t negotiate with the wealthy, which should be obvious by 2025 to anyone that can remember the past twenty years.

Itamar Ben-Gvir became Israel’s security minister.

Fun fact:

In the days leading up to the attack, that guy was spending his time giving interviews about how spitting on Christians is a harmless tradition that needed to be protected rather than discouraged

He was such an extremist at 18, that he was banned from joining the IDF even though they force people to join.

And that’s not even getting into his connections to assassinations and car bombing…

The various PBS YouTube channels almost never miss.

Some of the best science content on the internet and explains everything in layman’s terms.

For higher level science:

https://www.youtube.com/c/TheInstituteOfArtAndIdeas

Puts up conferences and interviews of some of the top scientific minds on the planet.

Well, yeah, we didn’t evolve to occupy a place, we kept getting wiped and having to start over. While something like a Greenland shark goes 50 years before it can reproduce.

We evolved as prey, but we don’t have any predators left. So there’s nothing to control our population.

But that’s way off topic

Market saturation…

The theory of natural limits states: “Every product or service has a natural consumption level. We just don’t know what it is until we launch it, distribute it, and promote it for a generation’s time (20 years or more) after which further investment to expand the universe beyond normal limits can be a futile exercise.” —Thomas G. Osenton, economist

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

Corps want more people, not less. Because people are potential customers, or cheap labor. Even if neither, their existence as extra unneeded labor reduces the price of labor.

You seem to have been talking about “population saturation” which I get the meaning of but I’m not sure it’s a thing.

Labeled bots that just post content?

There was/is some but I blocked them long ago.

Bots pretending to be humans in the comment section?

Nothing believable, it works on reddit because most posts are reposts so the bots just recreate the old comment chain. It looks like an authentic human conversation because it was. But even on reddit I doubt there are many bots who can respond logically and not just recycle whatever got up voted last time. Because the boys are also up voting each other and reinforcing it

That’s “dead internet” once the bots are more active and outweigh humans on the algorithm, it doesn’t matter what people like, just who paid the most for bots.

Then the internet becomes a giant waste of electricity that people just stop using.

It’s because our economic system requires constant increases to profit margin.

Once a company gets to market saturation there’s only three ways to do that:

1. Make product shittier

2. Make product more expensive

3. Mergers

We can just not use the ridiculous economic system we’re currently using tho, it’s easily fixable.