PhilipTheBucket

A lot of people weren't fine with that. Pretty much the same people who are alarmed and horrified by the current developments were alarmed and horrified about Guantanamo, the Patriot Act, the war, and all the rest of it. The issue is just that we haven't really done anything about it.

Well, but I think that was the marketing working as intended. It's not reasonable to expect people to become PhDs in media analysis to figure out the movies are bullshit when they're just trying to live their life, and they're being subjected to weapons-grade propaganda at an industrial scale that's trying to trick them into thinking it's a good movie.

I posted a video recently, with a pretty good analogy about how the best media like the best food is both good for you and fun to consume, but the thing is you have to not be a horrifying corporate husk in order to produce stuff like that, so it's all gone from our current ecosystem, so can you really blame people for hoping that maybe "Infinity War" is it? They are wired to need it, that's not a wrong thing.

It's so sad. The studios started turning out an endless stream of absolute dogshit, just totally boring spectacle that there's no reason at all to get excited about let alone pay $87 or whatever it costs to go see a movie nowadays. And when people started not going to see movies so much anymore, they learned how to market the facsimile of a groundbreaking and awesome movie that everyone's excited to see, that leaves everyone satisfied and happy, but after being burned a few too many times by going and seeing a movie that was okay but basically am aggressive and overly proud-of-itself waste of a weekend night, people stopped going.

And now the theaters are fucked, the studios are fine because they can get away with rent-seeking from all the streaming platforms, and the people who made all these decisions are looking at their fat retirement funds and trying to figure out what new things they can even buy with all this money. I don't really blame the theaters for trying to figure out how to keep the lights on, but I don't think it's going to work real well for all that much longer.

This kind of weird hyperbole helps no one.

Yes, the US's prison system is an abomination, including atrocious conditions, corruption, maltreatment and death, not to mention any of the injustices baked into the system of car registration / credit checks / felony convictions / education and all the rest of it that effectively create an invisible apartheid system where about 35% of the country are barred, permanently, from ever being able to live a first-world-existence life.

That's different than setting up mass detention camps and promising to put innocent people and political opponents into them, setting up a secretive law enforcement agency tasked with doing that, and then getting to work at a massive scale. It just is. The fact that the system has been rigged in general since the 80s doesn't mean what's happening right now is not a 10-alarm, 20-alarm, fire.

It must be absolutely wild living in North Korea and making $125k US as a sysadmin or whatever. I'm sure they don't get to keep any of it, but it just must be a mindfuck.

I am well aware that you're "just asking questions," ho ho, but this question actually does have a specific and interesting answer:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svoboda_(political_party)

The TL;DR is this: The closest thing Ukraine has to a neo-Nazi party, which is honestly pretty close to one, had some pretty strong legitimate support before the 2014 revolution. Basically, "anyone but Russia" was the thinking of a lot of people, and Svoboda showed a willingness to do things like get in fistfights with pro-Russian politicians which got them some credibility and support. Basically, the same type of faux-populist "back to greatness, we'll fight for you" appeal that Trump was able to ride in the US, and it did legitimately work. They got 10% of the vote in 2012, and they won majorities in some places.

In the aftermath of 2014, once there were populist candidates who were not eager Putin's-knob-slobberers available (and, also, when their Nazi tendencies were starting to become a lot more obvious), their support cratered like a poorly designed submersible. In the 2019 elections, they Voltroned up with all the other fascist parties, hoping to merge support and at least meet the 5% threshold to keep some kind of representation in government, the aggregated blob still just got 2%, surely only that high because it really wasn't that long ago when they were seen as a legitimate and helpful party.

TL;DRTL;DR: If Russian wanted to denazify Ukraine, they could have just done another Euromaidan, that was by far the most effective denazification event that has happened for decades in Ukraine.

And this situation is likely not helped by the vendors betting big on so-called AI PCs selling like hot cakes, despite the fact that there is no killer app for these devices, they carry a premium price tag, and the industry can't even agree on a standard hardware specification.

The frame.work desktop with the AI capabilities has sold out into where they are now taking orders in what is clearly the "we'll take your money but don't hold your breath" batch. The difference is it has 128GB of VRAM and it costs $2,000. In other words it seems like a sensible thing to buy if you actually want be able to do AI stuff, instead of whatever unwanted nonsensical trinkets these other people are trying to shoehorn into their shoddy products.

Authoritarians gonna authoritarian

I don't mean to make much out of little, especially when there are real-world enemies that are endangering us all that we could be focusing on. But it is interesting to me how little regard most of the Lemmy communists have, for anyone's right to exist in their space who expresses any kind of dissent or disagreement, and how unapologetic they are about wielding power without regard for anyone except their own faction.

My mental stability or lack thereof has nothing to do with you offering up made-up nonsense to try to prove your points

Yeah. And, also, it is clear when you look at votes that they make organized efforts to "brigade" threads sometimes, all come in and vote to influence the totals, which is something that they constantly accuse others of doing whenever their unpopular views get noticed and dogpiled on.

Yeah. Maybe.

lemmy.ml and friends have a really weird habit that I still haven't completely figured out. They will swear something that isn't factually true, and then if asked to justify it, they'll switch to something the vibes of which more or less line up with the claim, but the facts of which have nothing to do with it.

Here, watch, I'll prove it: Who are the two people itt who were hard-core Palestinian genocide deniers? What did they say that was denying the genocide?

I can guarantee that the statement they made will not be denying the genocide. Absolutely 100% guarantee. Instead, it will be "well they said Hamas shouldn't have raped a bunch of people and that's basically the same thing" or something along those lines. But, the shoot-from-the-hip confident assertion of "hardcore genocide deniers" will turn out to be poppycock. I think it is sort of self-selecting that only people who are comfortable with that kind of shifty vibe-y MAGA-adjacent logic stick around on lemmy.ml, because it is so endemic there that you can't really tolerate the place unless you are fully on board with it.

Prove me wrong. Who are the genocide deniers and when did they deny the genocide? Like I say, in my view there is a 100% chance that it turns out that what they said will turn out to be something different than "there is no genocide in Palestine" but you will make the effort to pretend that it's all the same and so who cares. But who knows, maybe I'm just running my mouth and they are here in all their Zionist glory, in the room with us right now.

So when did you see the lemmy.world downvotes with your own eyes? Here or there?

Lol I'm just messing with you, honestly. I don't think there is all that much productive exchange to be had here.