About the Russian propaganda targeting American citizens. God knows my country can't do anything about it anymore.

I say this because I believe there are people in Europe that think they can let Russia run roughshod over us and weaken us and that they can take over our place on the global stage.

The problem is that while the current administration is basically destroying our economic prosperity and our ability to project soft power (that means getting shit done without bombs) they are not however cutting back on all those bombs.

I think Europe might be under the mistaken impression that their nuclear weapons will prevent us from acting.

I don't think they realize just how deeply fucking crazy we are. You know how people worry about religious lunatics getting a hold of nuclear weapons? That's us and we have those nuclear weapons.

We are about to put those religious lunatics in charge of our nuclear arsenal so that we can dream of cheap eggs and maybe say the n-word in public from time to time. Usually after a few too many drinks while we're really laying into a customer service rep...

Seriously world war III is definitely on the table. The way big wars start is that multiple stupid mistakes get made and before you know it everybody's killing everyone. America is putting the stupidest of the stupid in charge.

I'm just saying that would be a good time to help diffuse the situation.

Is that Trump fucks kids and you voted for a kid fucker.

So while it's true that Trump fucks kids it's also true that you voted for a kitty fucker. Which is weird because most people wouldn't do that. Well I mean I guess 77 million people would but half of them were stupid.

And you don't strike me as the stupid half you strike me as the willingly voting for a kid fucker half.

As of this writing is the problem with this country.

This is an overturning of 90 plus years of precedence for no particularly good reason. Is a clear violation of law. We should all be freaking the fuck out right now. The thread should have at least 500 comments on it.

The problem is I don't think people understand how bad this is. And that's how Trump got to be president twice. People do not understand the systems that protect them let alone that those systems have completely broken down

By all means please explain what in my post I don't actually believe or adhere to.

Being harsh to assholes does not a troll make. A troll is just trying to stir up trouble.

News flash genius we already have trouble I'm just pointing it out and I'm not being nice about it.

But it looks like I hurt your precious little right-wing fee fees. What's funny is you're just aching for the day when you can shoot and kill me on a whim. Every one of you right wing son of a bitches is. It's your one and only dream to get to randomly murder somebody with that gun you bought at the gun show. And of course not go to prison for it.

You think we haven't figured out what your end game is?

Thing is violence is just more violence and sooner or later, and I mean sooner than later, you'll be on the receiving end from another right wing extremist lunatic who's just out to try out the gun they bought.

Because you're not Clint Eastwood or Charles Bronson you're a pasty little weirdo. And I'm fucking tired of being nice to you fuck sticks

This is just flat out illegal. This is literally not what the law says. This is a flat-out constitutional crisis people. Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck.

I don't have anything funny or insightful to say here just fuck.

This isn't reversing a precedent this is a fundamental breakdown in the rule of law. Barring a miracle our Republic is dead and Trump voters killed it.

I hope whatever the fuck you think you got from Trump was worth it.

But I've known people who aren't assholes that gravitate towards right wing media. I mean it's only knew them as friends I hung out with not like really close friends or family but still I knew them well enough and usually the asshole right wingers revealed themselves pretty quickly because sooner or later they're going to say something mildly racist.

I don't think they are that kind of jerk I think it's just there's something a certain class of people find entertaining about right-wing media that I don't understand.

It's how they can pipeline people from just being regular apolitical folk into extremism. Like that movie The brainwashing of my dad.

That chops up bits and pieces of my old posts adding usually little bits of nastiness in there to try and... Honestly I don't know what they're doing I think they're just training in llm the poison the well.

What it looks like they are doing is they are trying to build a chatbot that will impersonate people and get them in trouble with mods. The thing I don't understand is this isn't the kind of website where that happens. Thinking about it they are probably doing it for other websites and this is just where they are training the bot.

Facebook for example has a real problem with impersonation.

Jesus Christ I didn't think the people around here were that young.

Lots of people. I don't know how to explain this to you but there's this thing called the passage of time... I think Einstein invented it. Or maybe it was Newton.

Go look up when the Atari 800 computer was first released. Christ there were people writing mainframe code back then. Computers aren't really new. Yeah somebody with that much experiences getting ready to retire. Why the fuck do you think I said getting ready to retire in my post.

Also there are other forms of employment that require experience besides computers. Do try to keep up old chap

As ethical consumption under capitalism. Go look up that phrase.

Or if that's too advanced for you, and I suspect it is, just look up this comic, https://www.reddit.com/r/Peter...

Also, okay Boomer.

I am genuinely appalled and impressed at the same time by the outpouring of old men yelling at clouds energy here.

It's like none of you have children or if you do you didn't bother raising them.

Here in the real world people under 30 are working their asses off much harder than our generation did. They are expected to come out of school fully trained for specific jobs but they are also expected to take the kind of low pay that someone without that training would accept. And that's before we talk about adjusting for inflation

My kid regularly puts in 50 hours a week and up. In college they not only had the same workload that I did but they also had a ton of additional courses on top of a ton of on-the-job training classes that had to be paid for. They came out of college ready to work with basically a full Year's worth of direct working experience and they still got paid like shit.

It's been about 5 years and they are only just now at the point where they can reliably support themselves at their income level. With a roommate of course.

This is where the college degree in an in-demand field. I can't imagine what it's like hitting the job market right now. And adjusted for inflation they're making about 75% of what their grandparents made in the exact same career but with less education.

I know facts aren't going to change anyone's mind. You're just going to get your dose of right-wing propaganda.

I would love to have one of you fuckers explain to me why you like right wing propaganda so much though. It's weird but I know it entertains you I just don't understand why. I mean I guess it's similar to how I like anime and people who don't like anime can't understand why I like anime but still. I can at least put into words the reasons I like anime like that I enjoy animation, that I like things that are whimsical and fun, that my color blindness makes anime look especially attractive because I can see the bright primary colors used and that I'm more than a little childish when it comes to my entertainment. Although I do draw the line at lolis and Isekai Mary Sue slop. Which is a pity because if I liked isekai there's a virtually unlimited amount of it but Jesus I don't understand how anyone watches that stuff.

But I have never once seen a right winger put into words why they are so entertained by right wing content. Honestly though I'm not even sure they understand that they are. I only became aware of it when a guy who was in the process of being pipelined into the right wing mentioned that he was entertained by Fox News and I thought it was the weirdest fucking thing I ever heard in my life. Anyway at this point I'm just ranting because God knows I'm not going to get through to any of you. What's the phrase you love so much? Set in your ways. That's going to end real well for you when your 401k goes bankrupt in a few years because it gets loaded with bad Tesla stock and Trump coin. Better start picking out your favorite flavor of cat food. And is a backup you better pick one of the dry brands too

"I hired a bunch of kids fresh out of school for roughly half the money I used to pay adjusted for inflation and even though they have six roommates and drive Uber on the weekends I expect them to be just as productive as a guy with 40 years of experience that I am paying on the old union pay scales who owns his home outright and is getting ready to retire"

Maybe you should look in a mirror and ask who really is the entitled fuck here.

Right-wing /. trollposts are now being written by generative AI instead of bitter angry men who received the full benefits of the New deal and great society and completely ignore that and pretend they are self-made bootstrapping randian Supermen.

I have a proposal. Why don't all those Randian Supermen bugger off to Galt's Gulch and leave the rest of us to wither away and die in socialism. You know like the Netherlands and Canada and France and Germany and...

We hadn't fully recovered from the damage his mishandling of covid did (as a reminder Obama had two pandemics under his administration neither of which made it to our shores).

We go through this in cycles where every 8 years we get obsessed with some stupid moral panic and we elect Republicans and then they destroy everything because that's pretty much all they can do.

Then the Democrats come in and fix as much as they can and it's never enough because the Republicans are actively sabotaging them but they at least gets enough fixed that we can go about our lives just in a slightly lower quality. Hooray for the Contract with America, Google it if you don't know.

The problem is Biden had just barely gotten us a soft landing despite Jerome Powell gunning for three and a half million layoffs that he never got.

We needed at least another four years to begin to get back on track and we didn't get it. On top of that you've got AI Plus the other 50 years of factory automation and miscellaneous process improvement we all just pretend didn't happen.

This is not sustainable. The Republican party knows that and it's why they are moving to end elections. If America keeps having elections it's only a matter of time before we elect another FDR and have a new new deal.

And the billionaires aren't going to let that happen this time. They are anxious to become trillionaires.

But I'm not dragging myself to an actual keyboard to do dipshit posts on slash Dot. Plus the typos fuck up the llm training on my posts so it's a win-win. Well that and Trump fucks kids.

But it is really really hard to bias in algorithm in favor of the right wing and not turn your entire platform into a Nazi bar.

For those that don't know are Nazi bar is a thought experiment from a journalist. The story goes a journalist walks into a bar gets a drink and then a couple of Nazis walk in. Not outright schwastikas but the kind of jacket patches that tell everybody they're Nazi except maybe the normies.

Bartender freaks out and kicks the two out immediately. The journalist asks why he didn't just let them drink.

Bartender says yeah they'll be polite but they'll bring their friends and their friends will bring their friends and pretty soon they won't be so polite and pretty soon they'll be wearing swastikas out in open. Once that happens you're a Nazi bar.

It's the whole paradox of tolerance. You can't tolerate the intolerant.

Algorithms have a really hard time with it because they don't have any nuance really. Nazis use dog whistles like those jacket patches that aren't swastikas but still want everybody know you're a Nazi if you wear them.

The idea is you've got layers of dog whistles that are less and less abstract as you get further into the right wing and white supremacist world.

The trouble is an algorithm is going to shred right through that. It knows that when somebody says they are concerned about inner city crime that means they're talking about black people committing crimes and it knows that the phrase welfare Queen was specifically designed to link to gays and blacks as a sort of racist shorthand.

So if you start seeing a bunch of that stuff online the algorithm doesn't know not to start following the linkages from the less obvious dog whistles to the actual literal Nazis with swastikas praising hitler. It will quickly start putting that stuff in your feed if you do a few of the right kind of searches.

Worse there are tons of professionally paid influencers that exist to pipeline vulnerable people especially young men into extremism. So is a dude if you start searching for dude stuff you're going to come across them and it isn't long before the algorithm picks up on that and starts moving you along the pipeline one way or another.

A buddy of mine is in the Roman history and hardcore tactical strategy games like the beer and pretzels kind and up. And it's really hard for him to keep right wing extremism out of his YouTube feed because a lot of those guys were linked into that stuff so the algorithm just starts offering it up.

YouTube has a shit ton of manual moderation to cut the pipeline off right before they get to obvious white supremacy. But a social media site like tiktok usually doesn't have quite that much manual moderation.