It's not about AI having God like intellect.

It's about AI not having all that much to catch up to. I know we are slaves to our ridiculous egos, so ridiculous we constantly invent new ficticious supernatural forces that must have created us in their hypermagical, divine, amazing, perfect image (talk about hallucinating), but we aren't all that.

We wandered around for the vast majority of our existence, about 200k years, before it occurred to some of us we could grow food in one place.

It would be a weird thing to photoshop and lie about given the inevitable scrutiny.

He's a bully with an innate bullshitting capacity you can't really learn that also requires the inability to feel shame, but please don't give him the credit of being some machiavellian mastermind.

That was McConnell, before the marbles fell out.

I agree, and I'm for dismantling them.

But capitalism has to go with them. Because as it is, the owner class already enjoys a borderlees world, while manipulating those borders against everyone else.

Borders exist solely to maintain and enhance the power of a nation state's elite. If a people allow an elite class to rise without check, borders will always be inevitable.

If this is what humanity stands for, I'm on climate change's side.

Outsourcing is the problem.

The owners take advantage of our commons, tear up our roads, and succeeded because of domestic infrastructure, only to refuse to pay full price for labor and allowing even those wages, in lieu of the taxes they bribe our government to enact loopholes to dodge, to "trickle down" domestically as their always bullshit yay market capitalism talking points lied?

It's absolutely clownshoes that outsourcing labor/manufacturing is allowed, not because of domestic shortages for a skill, but to explicitly pay pennies on the dollar for the employees you need and screw the country you don't want to pay taxes to despite record profits even harder.

It's insane. But we let the owner class dictate whatever they want here, and our well bribed government will even sell it for them by calling it "something something freedom" while never mentioning social consequences, accountability, or responsibility. We aren't so much a country as a piggy bank and cudgel for the global owner class.

The cruelty has always been the point.

He belongs in prison, he's a monster, but there is a part of me grateful to him for throwing away all the dog whistles Republicans had been cultivating for decades and removing the ambiguity that allowed them to spew their venom in polite society.

I've been talking about what a danger the Republican party is, and what they actually want through their dogwhistles since Bill Clinton was President, to eyerolls of friends and family. I wrote papers about the dangers of the Federalist society and an unchecked SCOTUS in college only to be met with professor's notes that I "lacked essential respect" for esteemed and "apolitical" institutions, lol, so virtuous they are beyond reproach. Not to mention feeling like I was taking crazy pills in the face of indifference to the slow moving cataclysm for our species that is climate change. How bout this heat?

I'm not happy that time has proven me correct, but I am vindicated. It was always about greed appealing to and manipulating America's most abundant resource, hatred, to take control of our institutions for short term profit, the social framework and even our shared sole habitat be damned.

Welcome to the party, pals.

Hopefully your optimism is correct.

I'll vote for neoliberal dementia grandad to try to stop fascist dementia grandad, without hope, just to be able to say I did what I could to minimize harm.

That said, if you don't see the writing on the wall that our constitution and government has run out of road, cannot be repaired, is too corrupted, is basically a puppet of the owners of our rigged economy that works against most of us and humanity's future for a quick buck, and we need a new constitution and nation based in punishing and limiting greed/sociopathy and rewarding cooperation, then I don't know what planet you're on.

Even IF we miraculously manage to keep squeaking in Neoliberals to stop the fascists, the Neoliberals agree with the fascists that massive economic disruption for the sake of OUR ONLY HABITAT isn't acceptable, which means this new climate will continue to worsen at an accelerating rate.

I'd rather not scapegoat vulnerable groups as we fry, which is why I'll keep showing up, but this is water pumps on the Titanic, the outcome of accepting this framework is still drowning, just at 2:48am instead of 2:42am.

The enshittification of terminal stage market capitalism with no new virgin markets to exploit and get kids to make them for 40 cents a day.

Even if they did, market sectors have self-cannibalalized and conspireed to the point that they'd just pocket the slavery profits and keep making shitty stuff because fuck you poorie, you can't afford designer clothes and you have nowhere else to go.

The ultimate goal of market capitalism is to end competition.