If this was anywhere close to the truth, an actual anticapitalist film like I Love Boosters would be pushed everywhere rather than having to practically be a word-of-mouth campaign. Cultural marxism scaremongering is just "cultural bolshevism" scaremongering all over again

Is this some sort of parody of bad AC takes? If not, could have fooled me

This was my first thought as well

The attempt to forge a religion out of it is I think not accidental. The huckster Dr. Stephen Greer's not-really-a-documentary Sirius, which was advertised as another "this is it" disclosure moment that in retrospect was yet another in a series of letdowns, was front-loaded with alien telepathy and drum circles. That really helps people decide not take the topic seriously just in the case that they were maybe going to.

"Who cares if he believes it, just like who cares if people believe in their religion"

Ufology is not a religion. and I resent attempts to contrive one out of it. This encapsulates how Hollywood has been a marginalizing force against ufology, and still is today even while taking the appearance of embracing it. This isn't just the realm of dreams, there have been real conspiracies around deliberate fabrications (majestic 12 for example), and this film willy likely attempt to rewrite some of it.

Anyone who is actually curious on the topic should read Jaques Valee's "Revelations: Alien Contact and Human Deception" rather than letting spielberg fill your head up with something new.

If the chinese PC industry caught up? Good then, give our manufacturers and hardware makers some fucking competition! But our legislators' owners can't suffer competition, so they would have to legislate it away for the Nth time.

Hey, 2013 called, it wants its navel-gazing back.

No, this is more to cover for hiding the crimes abroad of the government and its allies. Your own bigoted ideas are perfectly fine in that framework, it's Palestine Action and others whom they are actively persecuting. Or look to Germany where people are literally arrested for saying free palestine.

Trot out the condescension if you were responding to a flat earther, but "You're too dumb to understand" really does not hit when it's in defense of something most physicists don't believe in.

It does seem paradoxical, doesn't it? Sort of like how google and others have spent untold legal fees fighting the requirements of eurozone countries, but will suddenly bend over backwards to meet the strictest requirements of eurozone countries (or Romania for that matter) on age verification.

But it's not by accident, because companies like meta and openAI (not to mention their vampire owners) have a vested interest in around digital wallets and biometric ID. Just watch as our tech giants bail out the Israeli tech sector buying up these companies, like Apple did with Q.ai this year: obviously the facial micro-expression detection software is not just meant to help you unlock your phone.

Are any of the evil communist mods (who are really just the userbase since slashdot is technically unmoderated) in the room with us now? Because you've made clear you're not talking about anyone concrete in this thread. You just sound bitter.

"some communist-loving far left"

Reading something political into this thread other than the fact of someone having used the word "authoritarianism" is all on you.

Is your plan to covince the reader that every other poster is rsilvergun by sounding very unwell? You've pulled off the second half of that fornulation quite well

by sitting on 0-days for their partners to use at will. That's not to say all of these exploits were such, but I bet many were (especially the bitlocker one).

Because only positive unintended consequences for drugs are possible!