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There’s a few reasons to get that data.

To weaponize it against us himself, or sell it to our enemies.

To create a “master list” that the authoritarians can use to disburse and destroy those they disagree with or find impure.

This isn’t just about some shitty AI. It’s about destroying and controlling us.

He’s currying favor with world leaders because he saw how easy it has been for such vast wealth to undermine and topple American democracy and he wants to do this everywhere.

Dude already stole all our data and destroyed every bureau of federal government that was in his way.

And helped destroy most of the others as well. He doesn’t need to be there in person.

I want to see these fucking traitors hang.

You can also download all of Wikipedia in a package about 120GB in size. I have a snapshot from Jan 1, 2024 before the fascists took over.

Kiwix is the name of the offline browser designed for it.

Ah yes. The one mechanic per hundred machines or whatever is totally the same as millions of factory jobs.

Why the hell do these people want to be enslaved in factories anyway?

We can have unskilled labor that doesn’t involve possibly being mangled by machinery.

The problem isn’t the jobs, it’s the lack of jobs and the wage rate not keeping pace with production capacity and inflation for the last 50 years.

I’d like to see these graphs only relating to their opinions on Russia and North Korea from the 1980s, at least, through now.

This is just insane, though. The decoupling from reality is seemingly total.

Why must it be balanced?

Americans import more than we export. They use the word “deficit” to make it scary.

These other countries would prefer having our money and financial instruments rather than the actual goods and services they are providing to us.

They are giving us actual things for the money the fed creates ex nihilo.

This is not the same thing as pointing out we should have local manufacturing and reduce reliance on global supply chains.

I’m not defending the Orange Doofus, just tired of seeing these debates being fought through the wrong lens.

I don’t disagree with what you said but there’s not 3.5 billion people in the US. There’s like 340 million.

Destroying the economy and social security may also lead to more direct political action from the populace. If and when it does, I expect to see an attempt to apply martial law. The creation of all the chaos is part of the plan.

This. They do not care about facts or logic unless it serves their agenda. Truth is wholly malleable to these lunatics.

This is the capitalistic ideology in action. This is where it leads, always. It values and incentivizes selfishness above even the life of the planet. Literal insanity.

“National bankruptcy”. We literally print the fucking money ex nihilo.

The last political talk I had with my 70+ year old mother ended with her screaming at me and crying while she called me a know it all for actually having thought through my convictions and having data to back it up.

I called her out for holding a brick in her hand that has access to all of human knowledge and saying all she did was look at fucking Facebook.

Then I get told I don’t know what I’m talking about despite knowing very well what I’m talking about.

These people are demented

There is almost no greater wedge issue that could have been used to shatter the left.

Amazing how the party of small government, who said Obama ruled by fiat like a despot, is immediately acting how they claimed Obama did.

That’s… not how tariffs work. No one externally is paying anything. The customer pays.

You should see how little training I was given to literally apply poison in homes and schools as a pest management professional.

In case anyone doesn’t know, you can download all of Wikipedia of you have 120GB of space. You can download a whole bunch of wikis straight off Kiwix.

I refuse to let the fascists control knowledge

Don’t forget pesticide exposure which eventually has similar effects to lead over time: decreased intelligence and increased aggression

I see them on BlueSky more than any Mastodon or Lemmy instance, sadly. But that could just be my experience.

Except your money doesn’t fund the US federal government. The federal government funds everyone with its money.

You can’t tax back money that hasn’t been created first