Much harder to be a controlled opposition and continue enacting the will of a fascist kleptocracy without close battles that can be won or lost by a small number of sacrificial turncoats every couple of years.

“Nothing will fundamentally change” — Joe Biden to corporations (2023?)

The last decade makes me feel like we’re already living in an idiocratic dystopia on the brink of realising our great filter.

Everything from the rise of fascism, narcissism, dysmorphia and associated mental illnesses, to ignoring climate change, to systemic corruption and collusion, to everyone going all in on stochastic AI. This world is cooked. Our logic is corrupted. There is something fundamentally broken with the average humans brain.

I can already tell he will be too soft and willing to compromise with bad faith actors. Wouldn’t trust him to hold the criminally corrupt accountable.

We’ll have to see whether he earns trust by following through with on rest of his rhetoric.

Wasn’t always like that. For many years the userbase was too small to bother. Around 2014 was when the fascists learned their lessons from gamergate and started ramping up the surveillance capitalism backed propaganda for MAGA (cambridge analytica, “troll” farms, bots and brigades, etc), as well as progressively taking over mod roles and poisoning subs.

Even afterwards it was still the place to go for breaking news all the way up to 2021ish, but most users knew its best days were far behind. It’s hilarious seeing the occasional comment in 2026 yearning for “the good old days” of a few years ago.

I also wonder how much of it is simply paid propaganda by AI investors. As the top forum for software engineers and technologists, it’s the most likely place to promote and influence AI adoption for financial gain; to make all codebases tightly coupled and dependent on AI.

AI’s find patterns in data, so to be useful they require “mostly” accurate data. The only way to reliably shape them into promoting disinformation is to train them on more disinformation than not.

In short, there is no way to make Grok stop calling Elon out for being a nazi, without poisoning it to the extent it’s completely useless as an LLM.

They’re also a defining characteristic of nazi’s.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/05/politics/elon-musk-rogan-interview-empathy-doge

It’s quite strange. For months leading up to October there were many articles that indicated planned sabotage like executive orders around mail voting, voter roll purges, voting booth closures, plans to use ICE to “secure” polling locations, but as the election grew nearer they dried up.

Historically propaganda grows all the way up to the pivotal date and evaporates immediately afterwards (e.g. migrant caravans, jan 6). It appears as though some other force was at play; maybe the fascists plans were sabotaged from within, or support amongst their ranks collapsed. Maybe the data across surveillance capitalism indicated it would be statistically impossible to win regardless of all their election fraud, which is only able to impact races that are relatively close.

In general AI makes sophisticated attacks much easier, especially if the devs aren’t even reading the code anymore.

It doesn’t need to be highly accurate or successful either. If it enhances a criminals ability to do sophisticated attacks 10x more often, their liklihood of success increases dramatically. Advanced cyber attacks are becoming a game of probability instead of skill.

It’s rather interesting, because I’ve seen dozens of clips that show he is perfect for the task. I would love to be able to do what he does, but I am certain I could not in this lifetime. The world needs many thousands more with his energy. I wonder how many people there are with the skills to eloquently think fast on their feet, and speak truth to criminals while maintaining their sanity, but lacking the confidence, conviction, or finances to step up.

Considering how morally bankrupt fascism and big tech propaganda is, I have zero doubt Google and other surveillance fascism corporations are funding smear campaigns against the project that has great potential to severely impact their dragnet surveillance capabilities and profit margins.

Never attribute to stupidity what can be adequately explained by the greed and psychopathy of the profit motive.

This is what happens under fascism.

I vaguely remember the scientist having antifascist social media posts when this thing first broke. Most of fhese cases are nazi state sanctioned terrorism against political or ideological opposition.

Turns out the diaspora can see the Nazism far better than the nazis themselves, no matter how hard the nazis try to equate their existence.

Take that energy, and apply it hundreds of times. Criminalize most vertical/horizontal integration of corporarions entirely.

Haha. That was my first thought after seeing this is from the Washington post.

These criminals need to be prosecuted for treason; including the propaganda networks they’ve established.

To not respond to the fascist coup is to be a perpetrator in the fascist coup.

Life in prison. Livestreamed 24/7. Let all fascist traitors spend the rest of their days in the panopticon they want to enslave us under.

*retroactively applied to existing traitors

Stop equating acts of anti-democratic treason — morally and ethically equivalent to election fraud and coup de tat — with political sabotage.

These are criminals engaging in the highest of crimes.

Totally not fascism!