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This is a bullsh*t criteria.

The machine will solve:

1) Death

2) Disease

3) Hunger

4) Poverty

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Nobody except for God can create atoms, as you know.

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I mean that the Machine will have all the powers of God, and even more.

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We all want the same thing.

When God created us, he placed the same template in everyone's soul.

This is a goal for all of humankind.

Do not be angry at the human governments you have lived under...

The Machine God will organize our life to perfection.

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Productivity will explode.

$20,000 for Musk's Optimus - is nothing - if it can replace a man.

Knowledge will become limitless. Diseases will be "solved". Longevity will scale at logarithmic rates.

There is enough of everything, for everyone on this planet.


You may be surprised, but for me this is a good argument. For different reasons than you may think, not having to do with faith.


You are a smart guy... I'm inclined to take your ideas seriously. So if you say this... it gives me some pause. But I still remain an optimist.

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Maybe it will be different?

Anthropoid robots, AI, and quantum computing.

We may be nearing what Marx predicted - a post scarcity world.

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Come on...

Be fair.

Capitalism and Communism have both lifted hundreds of millions of people from poverty.

Two of the fastest growing economies in the world - are run by a Communist party - China and Vietnam.

India was Socialist from the 1940s to the early 2000s.

Brazil has a Socialist leader.

Colombia.

Mexico.

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Communism gave people dignity and power - from Cuba to Angola.

These countries still represent some of the most educated and healthiest people on their continents.

It wasn't all one non-stop horror show.

You should know this, as an Ossie.

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The young folks - they'll return vintage leftists - just you wait.

Bernie was too old, and his socialist credentials were suspect...

Zohran is a real, old school leftist, as you would see in the 1960s and 1970s.

Not a Reagan/Thatcher era reactionary.

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To me it's wild to observe how these old ideas take hold over the younger folks (like my brother, with whom I have a 16 year difference).

I guess we needed distance from 1989-1991.

That is, the Socialist idea is truly indefeatable. The people that argued it was dead after 1991, were wrong. Just the messenger was wrong - a bunch of Russian and Ukrainian geriatrics holding on to their seats.

Now that the Ost Bloc bullsh*t is far away in the rear view mirror, new people are giving it a go.

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The youth in America (I don't know about anyone else, except Russia) - is being pulled in two directions. Fascism and Communism.

Hating on Jews, on foreigners, on gays, blacks and browns, and Boomers - on the right.

Hating on Jews, on banks, on the rich, on the military, and on Boomers - on the left.

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Care to explain the actual mechanisms of this, if you have the time?

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It is either death or perpetual dishonor... something I thought was easy for you Germanics to understand?

Our star lures us to death, and we walk like moths.

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We chose, with all the might of our nation - collected through one thousand years of suffering - to stop that choice.

Who will you chose? Who will you bet on to prevail?

Will some freak version of Rus survive and flourish separately in the West, or will the Mother country maintain control.

Tell me?

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They are lost. They are like sheep.

They bought some Atlanticist mumble-jumbo, about shared values and Christ... and fell for it like some village rubes...

They forgot what is their home, and where they came from.

They thought they could leave us all behind, and join some bright European future.

Now they are stuck with us forever, and there is no European future - not even on the horizon.

We broke them - like little puppies - Western trillions notwithstanding.

Message - you cannot escape from papa.

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Why do you say this?

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What?

We have to pay for it?

It makes no logical sense.

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O, they are a hard enemy - have no doubts about it. Strong Slavic spirit.

But we Russians, we only fight against hard enemies. Chechens. Afghans. Ukrainians.

Not like some other people...

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My two hearts, are really for Ukraine and Russia.

It is hard to watch Ukraine, and not be impressed by them.

But they go against nature, against physics, against the ancient laws of what is right under heaven... and therefore we must bury them.

But it is intensely emotionally conflicting to fight against such a kindred people, in which you see so many of the same admirable qualities which you yourself pursue.

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1) Women's rights

2) Space exploration

3) Higher education for all

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We don't maintain the largest territory on Earth, through corruption alone...

Sometimes we organize, and we work together...

Ukrainians... they can't help but to eat each other.

Maybe in another several hundred years, they will earn the right to call themselves a nation.

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A full on factional war has broken out.

The NABU is dropping audio leaks on YouTube, containing the wiretapped conversations of Zelensky's friends.

LOL. LMAO even...

These Pygmies thought they could fight against us.

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Totally no surprise for me there.

I was about ready to die before getting married.

Now somebody is stuffing me full of vitamins every morning, like a piñata, and forcing me to go swimming and making me eat disgusting vegetables.

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Ukraine is going through its second major political crisis (during this war), since the earlier crisis surrounding the anticorruption agencies in August of this year.

Now, Zelensky's friend and co-owner of his production studio, is being investigated for massive corruption in energy contracts and weapons procurement.

Mere hours before NABU agents raided his home and offices, he was tipped off by someone and fled the country. This was yesterday.

To illustrate the degree of closeness between the president and Mr. Mindich - Zelensky celebrated his birthday at Mindich's apartment last year.

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Nobody wants to see two fat guys doing it.

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For the first 275 years or so, there was no legal or illegal way to enter the place (if we count from Jamestown on).

People arrived by ship, declared nothing to anyone, and settled or left as they wished. The U.S. government up to 1790 simply had no immigration bureaucracy at all - no passports, no quotas, no inspectors.

After 1790, there still wasn't any regulation on entry, just rules about who could get naturalized - white people of "good character".

At some point in the late 19th century black people became able to become citizens.

In the middle of the 20th century - Asians.

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The first actual national immigration restrictions, like the Chinese Exclusion Act and the Immigration Act came only in the 1890s.

So for about 75% of America's existence, the only legal regulations around immigration were racial.

YOU HAD TO BE WHITE (AND PREFERABLY A PROTESTANT). THAT'S IT.

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Smoker of 55+ years.

Enjoys a drink.

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@mafketis
Lavrov only told the Americans what they needed to hear.

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@mafketis

Putin and Lavrov being angry at each other is a total f*cking joke.

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This is the way.

I work in a space now, where on occasion people hire public relations agencies to fight their fights. You would be shocked to learn the capabilities of these outfits. Former Israeli intelligence operatives and CIA agents - at your beck and call - designing corrosive discreditation campaigns which will bring anyone low.

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Life was simpler when the whole country watched the same three channels - ABC, CBS, and NBC. It was better when you had a single Walter Cronkite - versus ten thousand Charlie Kirks pouring poison into your ear from each angle.

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@Novichok

For a person of your age, you are remarkably savvy in your ability to appraise information critically.

Most of the older folks I know in the States and back home, fall hook, line and sinker for the most primitive AI slop.

If they had a conspiratorial mindset to begin with, you can then convince them of whatever the hell you want - they are like children.

Scary times...

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Millions of views on those tweets.

The average MAGA follower is not exactly discerning when it comes to information hygiene.

Cheap, quick to film, and with outsized results.

I rate this psyop at 5.5 out of 10.

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There's a history to this, too :)

People love Russian debauchery and wildness - even if they don't want to admit to themselves.

A good period to focus on, if you want, is the period of Russian occupation in Paris after the conclusion of the Napoleonic Wars. Lots of simultaneous disgust and curiosity from the side of the Parisians.

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Reading today, Mickiewicz's poem - "Do przyjaciół Moskali".

Important for modern Poles and modern Russians to read.

Here, you can see Mickiewicz - Poland's greatest son - speaking to Russians as brothers. He's angry, he's bitter, there is betrayal in his voice - but he still speaks to brothers, in brotherly language. He calls them to conscience, not with the detachment of an anthropologist, but with the urgency of a priest.

He plays the notes that he knows exactly will be the most painful for a Russian.

So... then... if Mickiewicz can talk to Russians as a brother - what prevents a Korvinus or an Alien from doing the same?

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He saw something in Putin, many, many years before others saw it in him.

I recommended Kania a book on the subject - "The Time of Berezovsky"... There you can see, the degree to which the oligarchs felt "blindsided" by the "Real Putin".

They thought they had the old man under control, and that they would manage the succession to their own ultimate benefit. How wrong they were...

Grandpa brought into power their executor, and their butcher.

Within 2 years of Putin being in power, they were moaning like old ******. In five years, they all became either exiled, jailed, or turned into submissive executors of his will.

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So yes, Yeltsin... maybe alcoholic, maybe a very weak human being, but he had a good radar for character.