Here's my bottom line:
Much of what they are doing is bad.
Much of what they are doing is unpopular.
Pushback is working.
We are winning.
Keep fighting.
Be creative.
Push for what you'd want.
Allow for insiders and outsiders.
Realize that change takes time.
Reduce harm in the meantime.
Who would have guessed that the legal system in America was so fragile that a single crazy president could ignore the whole thing, from the Constitution right down to state laws?
Why does the Supreme Court and Congress let this demented moron act like the dictator of a banana republic?
Even if the destruction somehow stopped today, it will take years to rebuild.
Not since Adolf Hitler blew his brains out in a bunker beneath the garden of the German Reich Chancellery on April 30, 1945, have the lives of so many people around the world been so buffeted by the psychosis of a single man. — @djrothkopf.bsky.social
oh just a thought if your plan for overthrowing the Iranian government depends on the Iranian public rising up, you likely shouldn't have defunded the American government run news agency that speaks in Farsi.
is similar to claiming that a Turing machine can't possibly simulate an electronic computer, because its basic operations are so few and so simple in comparison with (say) the ARM64 instruction set of an M5 chip.
Maybe your argument is right, but I think it fails right at the end.
Everything you said was correct and perceptive, until this very last skeet. No, this theory *doesn't* "imply that AI will never be able to match what humans do until they become embodied", because you haven't successfully argued that embodiment is *necessary*.
To draw an analogy, your argument ...
And of course you're conflating Hamas with support for the current Iranian regime. Another deliberate and apparently dishonest debating trick.
Utter bullshit. The only thing even remotely close to this that i could find is an October 2023 Harvard-Harris poll that reported 51% for a different thing.
Congrats on the Gish gallop. I didn't say a word about Obama, so don't lie and pretend I did.
And it's "Libya".
The American political class is utterly delusional, adrift in a dream of normality, unable to process the actual reality of events on the ground, where the US just launched a completely unprovoked war against a massive country, murdered its leadership, and demanded its conversion to a vassal state.
Ryan Grim can look in the mirror every day and say "deeply unserious" about himself, and he'd be right.
Huh? Are you paying attention? We're talking about mainstream support for the Iranian regime, not mainstream opposition to bombing them indiscriminately (two probable war crimes already!), having zero plan for what will happen afterwards, at the behest of a deranged and demented moron.
I dunno, if I were Jeffrey Goldberg, author of "How Did I Get Iraq Wrong?' (2008), I might pause for a moment before cheerleading another war in the same region.
I condemn the US attacks, too. They're being conducted at the behest of a senile idiot who is trying to distract from his presence in the Epstein files, with no planning for what happens afterwards. Didn't we learn a lesson from Iraq? I sure did, I supported that war and I regret it now.
I asked you a question, which I will repeat now. Is there any evidence Mamdani was praising the current Iranian regime?
No, there isn't. Just the opposite, he's on record as condemning them.
A person of integrity would have simply acknowledged this.
Mamdani is on the record as condemning the Iranian regime.
www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...
Mamdani is on record as praising the current Iranian regime?
You're delusional.
And you don't have to tell me about anti-Semitism. I'm the guy who stood solo outside a local business with a protest sign because the owner was advertising a talk by a Holocaust denier.
If you can't distinguish between believing the US shouldn't attempt regime change on its own (it worked so well in Iraq!) and thinking Iran's government is legit and benefits its people, what's wrong with you?
Black and white thinking in the extreme!
You can always find a handful of extremists, but to pretend it's a mainstream position on the Left is deeply dishonest.
Who exactly "admires" the current Iranian government?
What ridiculous lies.
In my understanding of the words, "subjective interiority", whatever that is, is distinct from consciousness. For me, consciousness is when your model of the world is sufficiently detailed that it includes yourself.
The best concise definition of consciousness I've seen is that consciousness is when your model of the world is sufficiently detailed that it has to include yourself.
"When the moral sense of a nation begins to decline, and the wheels of progress to roll backward, there is no telling how low the one will fall or where the other will stop".
Frederick Douglass, 1894
This is the kind of thing I find fascinating. The relative frequencies of writing "two following" and "following two" (as in "the following two books should be on everyone's shelf) has switched places in the last 200 years, with the switchover point being approximately 1927.
Why has it happened?
Oh no, I can't believe all those slurs forced themselves into that defenseless group chat!
Except for the people who have been killed, nobody has been killed.
This is a real video from the official White House account on a war that is currently killing people. I don’t know how the US is going to come back from this.
The post was “JUSTICE THE AMERICAN WAY. 🇺🇸 🔥”
Gladder than ever that I unsubscribed
