I say this with as little derision as possible; The crypto “industry” deserves this for paying hundreds of millions to elect Trump. They chose their horse, expected him to not rob them blind despite obvious evidence to the contrary, and then got robbed. Party’s over folks!
The first fully AI-generated movie to be accepted by a major film festival, Dreams of Violets, is atrocity propaganda for war with Iran. The trailer features characters gazing joyfully up at US/Israeli fighter jets arriving to bomb their country while a narrator talks of freedom:
A Twitch streamer with an enthusiastic following. The leader of a nuclear power. These two men are directly comparable to me, a writer for the Atlantic.
the wife of a deceased podcaster was unavailable to attend our event tonight. please join me in welcoming our backup option for this evening: the vice president of the united states of america
Hegseth is not even a real person. He's merely the living incarnation of "the troops", a legion of do-nothing chronic masturbators and video game junkies living in government-subsidized housing who blow all of your tax dollars on 84-month Dodge Charger leases and Internet pr0n.
When I was in my 20s I wished to deepen my understanding of the Israel-Palestine situation. So I purchased at least a dozen books - mostly semi-obscure, academic, many by dissenting Israeli historians.
A day came when I closed a book halfway through, resolved to read no further, even to try to forget all I had learned, and then I donated all the books. It was clear, painfully and miserably clear, that I would be wasting my life trying to understand it more when it was nothing more than this.