Its a money laundering operation for sure.

I believe the official narrative is JD Vance was Donald Trump Jr’s shitbrained idea. Trump Jr and Vance personally both roll with the same “intellectual dark web” theories, neo-eugenics and such.

She also met privately with Netanyahu after his speech. She’s definitely more aware of the electoral consequences of supporting genocide than Biden. That’s an improvement. But to me its all hollow gestures for now. Candy coating for the election that will get dissolve once in office.

None of the actions at the protest went too far. All this is just asking for “less genocide” instead of “no genocide” which I view as genocide apologia.

• https://xcancel.com/VP/status/1816490945501708660
• https://x.com/VP/status/1816490945501708660

Weasal words to associate the protestors with Hamas and antisemitism while ignoring the genocide they are protesting.

The US has been playing with these kinds of lasers for over a decade now. Last I saw a demonstration, the laser wasn’t powerful enough to just zap something. It had to focus on a warhead and heat it up until it exploded. It wouldn’t work on a missile in flight. Maybe they improved it, but I suspect the introduction of slow drones like the Iranian Shahed made it feasible.

The cost per shot was pennies a decade ago. But how fast can they shoot these? It must be able to shoot fast and constantly if you want to deal with swarms.

We would easily be able to tell if an Alexa was constantly streaming audio data by monitoring its network traffic. It’d be just a wasteful inefficient implementation to stream everything 24/7. Makes much more sense to only start recording when it hears certain keywords that it can recognize locally beyond “Alexa”.

It can only recognize certain hotwords on its own, eg, Alexa. So its not recording 24/7 but it is listening 24/7 for hotwords. They could push additional words and start recording whenever they hear it.

Jacks a sellout. Kyle keeps it real.

Kyle Gass was based, not Jack. Jack Black denounced the statement, canceled the tour and put the entire duo on hiatus. Utter sellout.

He’s clearly on Peter Theil’s payroll. Theil personally bankrolled Vance’s senate campaign and was the only one Theil funded that was successful.

If you keep making up conspiracy theories that every Republican takes orders from Putin, you’re going to miss their actual agenda. Shit like Project2025 isn’t Putin’s agenda. Thats a Koch project. Theil’s got his own techno libertarian eugenicist project that Vance is an acolyte of.

I think you’re taking “coup” here too literally. Its implied that it’ll be a political coup, not an actual violent one.

This is a very BJP / Mohdi / Hindutva thing. Not India as a whole but it is popular enough. These Hindutva people also unironically praise Israel and Zionism. They see Israel as they ethno-state model they want to be, plus they both hate Muslims. (The Israeli response to this “fuck off, you’re more brown than arabs”)

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We let almost all manufacturing jobs go overseas just to cut labor costs and now we’re suffering the consequences and our government completely incapable of doing what’s necessary to bring that manufacturing capability back to the US. At this point basic Keynesians economic policy is tantamount to heresy for anyone but the far left. Its like we’ve adopted the economic policies we forced on third world nations, and found ourselves with a third world economy.

Being able to produce cheap drones as good as DJIs is far more important for national security than whatever espionage risk they pose. Cheap, easy to use, drones like the dji phantom are omnipresent in current wars. Banning them prevents us from learning via competition or basic reverse engineering.

[The law] obliges media and civil society organisations with over 20% of their revenues from abroad to register as “organisations serving the interests of a foreign power”.

I think your trying to argue with someone that isn’t me. South Africa changed for the better. I never said it was perfect. Just that decolonization is possible. I never said shit about Canada.

That’s changing the society that I argued against. Also I’m pretty sure majority of land ownership in south Africa is still owned by whites.

You’re basically describing the situation we’ve been in since the Nahkba in 1948.

Yeah but they’re basically relegated to side show characters by their party.

There is no changing a society built upon colonization. Many have tried.

How does South Africa fit into that perspective?