I thought you were making a correction at first but this is a helpful comment for the metric folks, 31.16 feet is 9.5m 👍

I gave you the data, as they say “facts don’t care about your feelings.”

What would be the point in them saying something like “AI can create artful looking images” or get a point across more easily? That’s not the issue, and people don’t disagree with that. Everything has positive and negative aspects, if you’re against a thing you will emphasize the negative. Like if you’re anti-fascist you’re not going to take much time pointing out all the good the Nazis have done.

I am seriously tired of hearing this shit, what point does that matter now? Are you going to change the election? Move forward, we can’t do anything about how people voted now and it’s just alienating and irritating people.

Definitely, we have been trending further toward anti-intellectualism for a while, not just history but people of all ages need to recognize that learning is a lifelong process, you can’t just graduate high school and be done with it. Things learned in school even ten years ago or less can be outdated, society as a whole is learning more about the past all the time.

I agree, but you said they’d never ‘concede a win to AI’ as if their argument is that AI looks bad or doesn’t get a point across but that’s not what the debate is, so that isn’t AI ‘winning’ against the ‘anti-AI crowd’.

What is the ‘win to AI’? I would rather a pen and paper shitty kindergarten looking drawing than a ‘beautiful’ AI image, that is a very shallow viewing of the issue. No one disagrees that AI can create “good” looking images.

It’s not anyones responsibility to risk their lives, I wouldn’t blame anyone for not standing up against the Nazis in 1938 Germany, but in light of what we know, it’s becoming more and more impossible to maintain a clear conscience without fighting back.

I don’t see it as ‘condemning’ someone for not doing more, just a belief that anyone capable should do more and they will likely feel regret if they don’t.

How do you know people posting that aren’t doing it? It already is ignited, it’s at a low burn, only because people aren’t fighting back en masse yet, but in some places there is resistance going on. I agree though, “don’t speak about it, be about it”.

It’s in Florida where there are a ton of alligators, essentially the ‘Gator State’

Essentially all history education in the US is heavily politicized except for WW2, the only thing Americans could agree on about the last 200 years is that Nazis were bad, and even that is now becoming ‘controversial’, with some schools like in Florida wanting to teach more about “both sides” of the holocaust. There’s a reason my mom really loved the quote “Don’t let school get in the way of your education.”

The average knowledge of the things you mentioned would be “isn’t Jackson the guy on the $20?” “Weren’t gulags in Siberia or something? What even is a gulag exactly?” And “‘Know Nothings’?? Yeah I literally ‘know nothing’ about that.”

It’s up to individuals and families to teach their kids actual history, and most parents both work and have little time to teach their kids anything that the schools don’t teach them. And now I see kids leaning history from youtubers, it’s a pretty depressing situation.

a lot of republicans are pretty damn stupid and short sighted, including the president.

They aren’t just stupid, many on the right are religiously dedicated to the idea of a judgement day and devastating war between ‘good and evil’. They are convinced ‘God is on their side’. Evangelical Christian fascists have been pushing this for years, it was almost guaranteed to come to direct conflict from the course the US has been on unless there was some kind of intervention long ago.

Maybe not just migrants, Trump was literally quoted as saying something like “even some people born here are not so great, that might be the next step.” And other officials have already hinted at mechanisms for stripping citizenship from US born people that “pose a threat to the US”.

I haven’t heard anyone say Alligator Auschwitz yet, but at the rate we’re going it might be appropriate.

Edit: Ah I’m too late, I saw it further down

It’s possible to organize with people that have the means to help those dedicated to the cause, you don’t have to just give up everything and be alone.

The trend has continued steadily since then, and furthermore,

Bier wrote in November that his work showed the Biden administration “has removed a higher percentage of arrested border crossers in its first two years than the Trump DHS did over its last two years. Moreover, migrants were more likely to be released after a border arrest under President Trump than under President Biden.”

https://www.factcheck.org/2024/02/breaking-down-the-immigration-figures/

This is from 2024, the DHS spokesperson at the time:

“Under this Administration, the estimated annual apprehension rate has averaged 78%, identical to the rate of the prior Administration.”

The idea Biden opened the borders is thoroughly debunked. Like I said you’re the one telling me a bunch of bullshit so it’s on you to disprove reality, I don’t care enough to spoonfeed you the facts.

This took 30 seconds to find

Visa overstays have outnumbered people who enter the country illegally at the Southern border every year since 2007, according to a report by the Center for Migration Studies. The report’s authors estimate that the number of total visa overstays was 600,000 more than the total number of border crossers and that in 2014, visa overstays accounted for two-thirds of all new undocumented immigrants.

https://www.npr.org/2019/01/10/683662691/where-does-illegal-immigration-mostly-occur-heres-what-the-data-tell-us

This article has the most recent data I could find but if you look at the sources you can probably find better info. You’re welcome to prove me wrong.

In 1944 would it be controversial for someone to chant “Death, death to the SS!”? If people can’t see the genocide and see that military force against the genociding organization is necessary to stop it by now then they won’t be ‘brought to our side’ by using a kinder chant. It’s a type of civil disobedience, it brings more attention to the BBC and UK’s complicity in the genocide.

I don’t know a lot of people that use dating apps but in my anecdotal experience all the male friends I know that use them are actually looking for a good long-term relationship. But you’re probably right that they are a minority.

It’s an especially insidious type of monopoly to me because it deals with relationships, they can manipulate millions of people, affecting the creation of their families and kids.