Arguing semantics doesn't change the fact that these guys are indeed embracing fascism, even if they merely prefer to call it socialism. (Fun fact: The swastika was a stylized double-s, meaning "state socialism".) Trying to push this under the rug as if it's simply semantics is, in fact, being willfully ignorant of history. Fascists didn't come in promising to rule you like a king and exterminate the jews. If you think that's what actually happened, then you're only doomed to repeat history. You don't even need a dictionary if you think it's in on some kind of conspiracy theory. Go to wikipedia if you want, you'll find the same thing there as well.

These guys know that what I'm saying is true. All of it. The problem they're having is cognitive dissonance, so they're going to sit here in opposition to my words when they can't even explain to themselves why. These guys go around pointing the finger at other people crying "fascist!" not realizing that they themselves are doing exactly what fascists did, and have been this entire time. They wouldn't be the first, either -- not even close. Putin's justification for invading Ukraine was to end fascism, and only an idiot would believe otherwise. He even had it in his head that he was some kind of benevolent liberator and was fuming pissed when he realized that all of them, even civilians, resisted his invasion and fought back. This is the exact mindset of every fascist leader in history. They all think they're benevolent, and will tell you that they're only trying to improve humanity. The USSR put up the so called "anti-fascist line" to "keep the fascists out", but that is not at all what it was for and they knew it. The modern so-called "Antifa" literally marches around wearing literal brown shirts while brandishing weapons as a show of intimidation not to oppose them -- it's as if they never even heard of the original brownshirt marches that happened in both Germany and Italy (though Italy's were black shirts.)

Just to ensure we have this straight -- the entirety of the news media is in on your little conspiracy theory? Not even one reporter is dissenting?

I doubt anybody is keeping count except maybe some racists out there, but I'm aware of Abrego Garcia. Contrary to what most progressives believe, not everybody south of the US border is brown.

I saw a YouTube video by an expert and I have had switches like that (not on that quality level) just because I wanted to know how they work.

It seems to be leaving out a lot of details

Well, tons of money, a fucked up religion that does not allow them to do anything with it and an education system that is not good either (apparently, nobody wants to learn). So yes, batshit insane covers it nicely.

They're overlooking a LOT of issues in that. Their impact statement for instance:

Except none of that stopped on the US side of the border. In fact, Phoenix has long been the kidnapping capital of the US because of exactly this issue, and second only to Mexico City in the world. Think about that, the world's second-worst city for kidnapping IS IN THE UNITED STATES. While I support what these guys are doing from a humanitarian perspective, going back to the way things were is ABSOLUTELY NOT the answer, and only a total idiot, such as yourself, would suggest otherwise.

Remain in Mexico is a good policy, for a very good reason: Over 70% of the asylum claims before that were in fact fraudulent, and many of them had zero intention whatsoever of appearing at their hearings or court dates. With this policy, at the very least we can discourage them from applying at all, putting an unnecessary strain on our already overburdened system, which means it can be given a chance to catch up to the legitimate claims and process them in a more timely manner.

I didn't say they were, nor did I imply it, nor is that true, (they both currently hold very high offices) rather I'm telling you that the fringe is indeed quite small.

... the app becomes mandatory for everybody and will also block unwanted political speech and any statement the government does not like.

This has zero chance to make it past the EU court of justice.

From the description of those switches, it is basically impossible to switch both at the same time with one hand. You have to pull them out and only then can you move them.

No. It was _not_ the pilot's fault. Boeing had neglected to tell the pilots about the new system and they had no chance to find out that a system they did not know about was malfunctioning.

Your usual level of complete lack of insight, though.

Yes I have heard of Warp Speed, and fully believe it was the reason the vaccine was developed so quickly.

Are you really so dense that you believe complete rubbish that has been quoted to you?

Indeed. The only thing amazing is the stupidity of the people that really think that.

Yep. That is the level of "insight" LLMs operate on. And, contrary to an incompetent human, LLMs will always hallucinate some lie. Some humans will do so too but many will admit not having a clue.

Here is another example from teaching a 2nd semester Python course to engineers: The students has to extend a game-of-life in 100 lines of code (including all fluff, placeholder functions, comment lines, etc.) They asked ChatGPT questions about it and it was a total and utter failure. Their take was that if you have a max of 3 simple lines, you can usually get an explanation faster than looking at the documentation and that you usually could get single-lines written competently by the LLM. Now, the "coding" LLMs are supposedly somewhat better, but even then they will completely fail on any non-toy examples.

But that's your favorite part, especially when it's full.