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[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

America dropped nuclear bombs on civilian cities.

It is the only country in history to have done this.

It then spent eighty years telling every other country they couldn't be trusted with nuclear weapons.

Sit with the geometry of that sentence.

Sit with it until it becomes uncomfortable.

[Zhao DaShuai 东北进修🇨🇳 @zhao_dashuai]

You literally have a caste of people; the Dalits who are BORN to clean the sewage without any protection.

[拜访春天 🇨🇳 @visit_spring]

🇨🇳🇯🇵中国孩子和日本孩子。当日本孩子如狗一般跪在街上, 该反省的不是孩子, 而是成年人，该反省的是正确的家庭和学校教育为何会缺失。日本社会每天叫嚣着反华, 可日本新生代却在动荡的社会迷失了前路～

[David Z. Morris @davidzmorris]

An LLM does not experience itself as a self.

Claims to the contrary are religious, not scientific.

[Prof Michele Geraci, fmr Undersecretary of State @michele_geraci]

I cittadini cinesi continuano a vivere oppressi e costretti a viaggiare in treni ad alta velocita', sicuri e puntuali senza quell'emozione dei ritardi continui e imprevedibili che permeano le vite dei cittadini italiani, tedeschi ed altri.

Sono anche costretti ad attendere i loro treni in queste mega strutture pulite, moderne ed efficienti, che noi non avremo mai, senza quel brivido e senso di paura, a noi noto, di imbattersi in drogati, criminali, scippatori e clandestini ed altri personaggi che infestano le nostre stazioni, impuniti.

[Zhao DaShuai 东北进修🇨🇳 @zhao_dashuai]

Today we mark the 77th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China.

In less than three generations, under the leadership of the Party, our nation has risen from a war-torn country to a global superpower.

We began with nothing. By 1949, China had been at war, on and off, for over a century. The 1911 Revolution overthrew feudalism and established our first republic, but it brought us neither prosperity nor dignity. Yet it was the last snowflake that set off the avalanche; the people's revolution.

Western historicism sees history in segmented eras; it likes to pinpoint Copernican turning points and paradigm shifts. We Chinese, however, view history as more continuous. That is why our communist revolution did not begin in 1949, or 1921, or 1911: its roots reach back long before Marx. For us, ideology is a tool for the people's liberation and national awakening. Our goal has always been people-centered, not blind faith in doctrine.

We still view previous revolutions, regardless of ideological leaning, as part of our struggle, the fight for a better life for our people. They are not foreign chapters in someone else's story; they are chapters in our own. Every uprising, every reform, every sacrifice that sought to lift our people and advance the awakening of our nation belongs to that same long march. We honor them not because they were perfect, but because they were ours steps, however uneven, toward the same horizon.

That is the continuity we carry, not a chain of isolated revolutions, but one unbroken struggle, generation after generation, to build a China worthy of its people.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

"National interest" is the most durable escape hatch in the history of power.

It works because it sounds like an argument when it is actually a deflection.

When an American official says "we acted in the national interest," they mean: "the justification for this action exists at a level of abstraction that insulates it from ordinary moral scrutiny."

Not: these specific people are better off.

Not: this specific outcome produced more justice in the world.

The national interest.

Abstract, unverifiable, self-defined by the people invoking it, and conveniently coterminous with whatever decision they had already made.

The national interest required Guantánamo.

The national interest required the intervention in Libya.

The national interest required the bombing of Yemen.

The national interest required the coup in Venezuela.

The national interest required war with Iran.

The national interest required continuing military support for Israel through the genocide in Gaza.

At some point the honest question becomes: whose nation? Whose interest?

Because from where much of the world stands, what gets called "national interest" looks a great deal like the specific financial and strategic interests of a specific class of people, wrapped in a flag large enough to obscure the accounting.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

The American ruling class will never say "we are the terrorists."

They will say "we are the indispensable nation."

They will bomb a country into dust, then claim they saved it from something worse.

They will cry over their own dead and shrug at everyone else’s.

They will not stop until someone takes away their permission.

That someone is not another government.

It is the people they pretend to represent.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

The genius of the two-party system is not that it gives you a choice.

It is that it gives you someone to blame who is not the system.

Every failure becomes the other party's fault.

Every continuity, the wars that continued, the surveillance that expanded, the wealth that concentrated, the policies that persisted across administrations with striking fidelity, gets explained as the other side's influence.

The holdovers. The bureaucracy. The structural constraints.

The system never fails.

One side or the other always fails.

And the solution is always to try the other one.

And then the other one does what the other one always does.

And the solution is to go back.

The pendulum swings.

The machine runs.

And the people most committed to the ritual, the ones who canvas and donate and argue fiercely about which face to put on the office, are also the ones least able to see that the office itself is the question they're not asking.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

You keep waiting for the "good ones" in power.

There are no good ones in an office that exists to manage global violence.

The system is not broken.

It is faithful.

It does what it was built to do.

The only variable is not who rules.

It is how long the ruled accept the deal.

[The Deliverer @kudusaur]

"life isn't fair." then make it fair?????? like???? it is your job as authority figures to do so actually. why are we treating the pursuit of fairness and justice like its a juvenile and naive thing to want

[Noah Khrachvik @khrachvik]

That's why the US government is blockading Cuba and not allowing us access to Chinese technologies.

That's why China looks like a science fiction movie while my city, Cleveland, Ohio, is a big pile of rust and dirt and homeless people and drug addicts.

That's why social media is completely controlled by the Epstein class.

That's why everyone knows money buys elections and policy, and the people have no real say over our daily lives.

Because COMMUNISM can't survive these things...

Is anyone else sick of these scumbag politicians gaslighting us, telling us the sky ain't blue and water ain't wet?

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

The rot has a board of directors.

They are not mysterious. They are not hidden.

They are on the websites of the think tanks and the boards of the defense contractors and the partner lists of the NGOs and in the PAC filings flowing to both political parties.

Raytheon. Lockheed Martin. Boeing Defense. Northrop Grumman. General Dynamics.

These companies profit directly from war.

Not from winning wars. From having wars.

The distinction matters enormously.

A war that ends is a contract that concludes.

A permanent security environment, an endless war on terror, a long-term confrontation with Russia, a generational competition with China, a forever conflict in the Middle East, is a permanent revenue stream.

The incentive is not victory.

The incentive is continuation.

And these companies employ former generals, former intelligence directors, former secretaries of state as board members and consultants.

Those former officials appear on television as "independent analysts."

They are identified as former National Security Advisor, former Deputy Secretary of Defense, former Director of Central Intelligence.

They are not identified as current board members of companies with nine-figure contracts that depend on the policies they are analyzing.

That omission is not an accident.

The infection is not in spite of this.

The infection is this.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Here is the arrangement, stated plainly:

If you live in Venezuela, you get a coup.

If you live in West Virginia, you get an opioid crisis and a legislative debate about which bathroom a child can use at school.

Same ruling class. Different product for different markets.

For the foreign government that won't cooperate: narrative warfare, sanctions, funded opposition, destabilization.

For the domestic population that might start asking questions: culture war, algorithmic rage, media that never connects the price of insulin to the price of an aircraft carrier.

The tools of regime change were never only for export.

They were developed abroad and refined at home.

The color revolution playbook: identify divisions, fund narratives that inflame them, keep the target population fighting each other instead of the people above them.

That playbook did not stop at the border.

It just changed costumes.

Abroad it wore the language of "democracy promotion."

At home it wore the language of "national conversation."

Same hands. Both stages. One strategy.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

It's a specious claim that artificial superintelligence will benefit everyone. Humanity's problems are not caused by a lack of intelligence, our problems are caused by greedy plutocrats like Zuckerberg. It's like a serial killer telling us we can stop serial killing by making serial killers smarter.

The argument hinges on the premise that humanity is suffering because we're just not smart enough to come up with the right solutions, when in reality that hasn't been the case for a very long time. Humanity has had the technology and resources to solve all its major problems for generations; we've just chosen to use our technology and resources making rich people richer instead.

We've long had the ability to end extreme poverty, to stop destroying our biosphere, to stop waging wars, to stop pillaging the global south at unfair prices, to stop imposing starvation sanctions, to end genocides, to remove money from politics, to institute true democracy, to create a well-informed electorate free from propaganda brainwashing, and to provide everyone with a decent standard of living. This hasn't failed to happen due to our lack of superintelligence, it has failed to happen because the people with the power and the money actively stop it from happening.

No amount of added cleverness is going to make plutocrats less greedy, make warmongers less bloodthirsty, make politicians less corrupt, make empire managers less tyrannical, make imperial propagandists less deceitful and manipulative, or make capitalists less exploitative and ecocidal. Give them artificial superintelligence and they'll just use it to grab up more money and control, just like they're doing with the AI of the present day.

We can already see that AI is not making the world a better place. It's already taking away jobs, facilitating war crimes and mass surveillance, poisoning art, and making people crazy and stupid. We're already witnessing the results of more intelligent AI. Continuing to say we just need the AI to be more intelligent is like taking a pill to get healthy, having a terrible reaction to the medicine, and then deciding we just need to dramatically increase the dose.

Artificial superintelligence isn't going to solve all our problems because our problems don't arise from insufficient intelligence. We don't need artificial superintelligence, we need basic human kindness. We need justice. We need ethics. No matter how much intelligence we add to the AI soup, it's never going to magically add up to simple human morality. Which is what we're actually going to need if we're going to create a healthy world.

[Poly Bug @polybugger]

@TylerPayne600 @bro04956715 @elonmusk @heyim_shree @grok That is consciousness. You're reducing it to a biological response. A muscle contraction is a biological response. A will to survive is part of consciousness. Please learn the difference. A plant displays more consciousness than any so-called "AI" can ever exhibit.

[Poly Bug @polybugger]

@TylerPayne600 @bro04956715 @elonmusk @heyim_shree It may sound biased, but the reality is that the western mind is closed minded. It does not consider alternative thinking at all. I mean look at medical science now, alternatives are quickly dismissed as "non-science".

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

AI can't escape containment because there is no AI, and 'AI' is just a computer program that does what it was programmed to do.

The desperate lies are all to try make you believe AI exists.

It doesn't.

[Persian Girl @Persianserene1]

If China had been militarily weak, the US would have attacked it by now just to stop its development

And their excuse for attacking China would be to liberate their people from dictatorship, as if they give a damn

[Nathan J Robinson @NathanJRobinson]

unfortunately AI safety is in the hands of lunatics who believe that if you shut down a computer you might be "killing" it and violating its rights