Better than the usual decline into right wing politics lots of people’s parents have had.

USAID (The United States Agency for International Development) is the most common avenue for the CIA to fund rebel groups and other projects aimed at attaining US political and geopolitical goals.

It’s widely know that this is one of their functions. Even gets mentioned in different ways on their Wikipedia page. Under the headings US National Interests …and many countries also have headings on the page for operations USAID has been involved in.

This is why Trump went after them, because he’s an isolationist, and the CIA/USAID are not friends to Russian interests.

It is after all named The United States Agency for International Development. It’s about carot and the stick geopolitics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Agency_for_International_Development

Except there was no reasonable argument beforehand.

People tend to return to Chiropractors each month for “adjustments”, where as because physios are science based they tend to actually solve issues and remove the need to return.

Glad it sounds like you helped your friend escape.

I mean they will just straight up tell you the “virtues” they’re trying to stand up for:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=puJ-arJgkZU

They regularly kill and paralyze patients… Look it up.

Go look into the founder and how many deaths they’ve caused. It was start by a guy who believed he was chasing and manipulating energy ghosts.

I don’t know if the time for irony… Feels like a kind of self censorship.

No, and in fact the industry is going to see a reduction as people and companies are realising it’s not a silver bullet solution or even that great at what it does.

The next branch of LLM modeling (now AGI is failing), is likely towards specialisation. Specialised AI problem solving has far more potential than chasing an ill defined and half formed concept of “intelligence”.

No term can exist on its own like that. Everything is relative.

Not the time for silencing opinions.

Classic Paranoid-schizoid dynamics. First you are in love with the breast and rely on it for all substance. So you become paranoid about it. Then you find it faulters and is slow to give milk. Then you attack it with baby sozed violence for its shortcomings. Finally the depressive cycle arrives and you must look for other sources of nourishment. Baby food and what not. You end up depressive, but self-sufficient… And before you know it that baby food is flying across the room in a fit of rage as you roll around in your own excitement crying!

Cocaine is one hell of a drug!

Paranoid-schizoid position

In object relations theory, the paranoid-schizoid position is a state of mind of children, from birth to four or six months of age.

Melanie Klein[2] has described the earliest stages of infantile psychic life in terms of a successful completion of development through certain positions. A position, for Klein, is a set of psychic functions that correspond to a given phase of development, always appearing during the first year of life, but which are present at all times thereafter and can be reactivated at any time. There are two major positions: the paranoid-schizoid position and the subsequent depressive position. The earlier more primitive position is the paranoid-schizoid position and if an individual’s environment and up-bringing are satisfactory, she or he will progress through the depressive position.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoid-schizoid_and_depressive_positions

So that’s what ‘the cloud’ is all about.

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I suspect not many species are poisonous to themselves, so you might be better off only eating people who look like you.

Yeah it’s crazy. What’s that line: To the privileged any attempt at equality is going to look like a loss of privilege.

Something like that. I’m pretty sure they just want to harm come to groups they’re prejudiced against. Even more insulting is I’m pretty sure the Trump administration has a lot of drink and drug related parties, Trump spent his youth in nightclubs, Musk is addicted to ketamine and Grimes mentioned them tripping on acod together.

So it’s debauchery at the top, austerity for everyone else. It’s a real let them eat cake they’re doing. Not serious or good people at all. Very little in the way of mprals or ethics, it’s all about power, privilege, politics, and personal gain.

Laprodic posture like that ain’t good for most people.

The problem is their spin isn’t designed to be positive or have mass appeal. It’s designed to create fervent followers who are desperate for something different and a sense they’re winning.

In your example I believe the response for them would be something along the lines of “Good, women shouldn’t be getting special treatment anyways - END DEI !!!”

But they also think you’re in an alternative reality because of “leftist reactionaries” over blowing things in the media. Some of them would probably go as far to say that “We need anti-propaganda laws against the left wing media”…

…the problem for the left is, the right wing “alternative facts, alternative media landscape” is unfortunately MORE REAL in a legal sense because they own SCOTUS, and SCOTUS want to institute Unitary Executive theory… Which is what they’re doing.

It’s a very clean sounding bunch of words for a kind of fascism.

They’ll say a mix of “He’s clearly not guilty because nothing stuck! Teflon Don!” and “You shouldn’t go after politicians personal lives” and “Sucks for you he’s President now! You’re just a sore loser.”

…that might make you mad, which they enjoy.

They don’t think Trump and Musk are doing anything wrong. When quizzed they’ll ask you to name anything they’ve done wrong.

Everything Trump and Musk are doing is guised in Libertarian and Conservative values.So nothing wrong has been done on their eyes.

If you go places like r/JordanPeterson (to ask) and r/Conservative to observe the media landscape - you’ll see that “The Woke” are wrong and have turned violent against Tesla. You’ll see Trump and Musk are thought of as doing great things.

That’s how they think. They’re not in the same media landscape as everyone else is.