It will be interesting to see if when we can prove that AI Androids are self-aware if all the people who are so obsessed with Trans rights will glom onto this new issue with just as much passion.
While I like to think I’m advocate for Trans rights, I am somewhat askance at how ardent the Far Left is about it all. They are so wrapped up about Trans rights that they are willing to totally alienate everyone in the pursuit of the most niche of positions on the idea.
But the issue is that I suspect that AI Android rights will be just as controversial and alienating as Trans rights. The whole thing is going to throw everything up in the air politically because we might see Incels and the Far Left fuse together as they both believe that AI Androids deserve more rights — if they are proved to be self-aware.
Anyway. It will be interesting to see how things work out.
Even though I generally like Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway, their podcast “Pivot” has become totally insufferable. It seems most of the pod is just them having a circle jerk about the First World Problems they have at this or that spa or whatever else the fuck they talk about.
This pains me because I really have enjoyed the podcast in the past. But their came a point recently when in the middle of 20 minutes of self-congratulatory mental masturbation between the two those two wealthy people that this poor boy from Virginia just rolled his eyes and gave up.
Fuck that. They can do better.
They jumped the shark.
I suppose, in a way, my more populist Leftist leanings come out when I talk like this. I’m on the other side of the spectrum from MAGA, which is fucking fascist. I’m a Renegade of Funk.
Rage against the machine, man.
I still fucking hate MAGA, though. With a white host passion. Jesus, I hate MAGA cocksuckers.
While I do enjoy Bluesky, it seems stuck in 2012. Or, more specifically, it seems like what The WELL would look like had it survived to 2012. My feed on Bluesky is made up — at the moment — of a lot of very droll observations by smug wealthy liberals.
It’s a testament to how Trump has simply worn everyone out that there really isn’t that much “Resistance Bluesky” to be seen. It’s there, but the rage that was seen on Resistance Twitter in 2017 just doesn’t seem around. Which makes you wonder if maybe ultimately we really have just given up when it comes to Trump.
And it seems as though the “protect Trans kids” faction of the Blues is very, very potent on Bluesky. I support the Trans movement, but as the 2024 election showed — oh boy.
But, who knows. Like I said, I do, in general, enjoy Bluesky. I guess I wish it wasn’t quite so inward looking — whatever that means.
Just like the Reagan Revolution shifted the political center of the United States Right, so, too, has the MAGA Revolution. The United States is far more conservative than it used to be and it probably will only grow more so going forward — probably to a scary degree.
There are a lot of unknowns, however.
The key one being is how successful Trump is going to be in his efforts to consolidate power. My only worry is he is so stupid and lazy that he will try to push the country into autocratic fascism so quickly that people finally — finally — get woke and there is some sort of General Strike or something.
I have my doubts that anything like that is possible.
There is a chance, however, that things could get kind of bumpy in 2025 if Trump makes good on some of his more radical policy proposals. And, yet, it could be, lulz, absolutely nothing happens and we slouch into fascism with our eyes wide open.
Ugh.
But let me be clear — I think for marginalized people like the Trans, things are going to get really bad really quick. It doesn’t take too much imagination to see a scenario whereby somehow the Trans get stuck in all these huge camps that Trump is proposing to stick undocumented immigrants into.
I still believe that because of the disruptive nature of Trump’s fascist regime that he will ultimately be responsible for more deaths than the Nazis in WW2 — if you factor in all the simmering hot spots that might go nuclear because he decides to turn away from the outside world.
Blues have two options ahead of them, it seems — bank Right or bank Left.
Banking Right The United States is definitely lurching Right, AGAIN, and, as such, the center-Left probably needs to bank Right in response. Doing so could very well cause the Far Left to go nuts and cause some serious trouble but given how far Right the United States has drifted since 2016, it seems as though Blues shifting their center of gravity Right might be a good idea. While I’m an trans rights advocate, the whole thing doesn’t play very well in the Heartland. As such, it would make a lot of sense if Blues kind of cooled it with all the rhetoric about “protect trans kids” when, well, there really aren’t that many to protect in the first place. Being so wrapped up with such fringe issues makes Blues seem out of touch with the meat-and-potatoes issues that working families are really concerned with.
Banking Left The case could be made, meanwhile, that banking Left, at least on economic issues, might be the right thing for Blues to do. This is option that a lot of the squeaky wheels scream about — they want Blues to embrace a more Leftist agenda in hopes of co-opting the populist flair of MAGA. I have some serious doubts about this because to do this means, by definition, leaning into all the kooky Leftist social agenda stuff that got us into this problem in the first place.
The great joke that has been played on everyone is, of course, that American Liberalism has been crucified for the sins of the American Left that hates liberals with a passion. So pretty much, all the “woke” stuff that has hurt liberalism in the US isn’t even liberalism.
But, despite this, I suspect what is going to happen is, baring, I don’t know a DPRK nuke blowing up NYC specifically because of a Trump screw up, a reign of “just good enough” MAGA tyrants for the rest of my life.
Either Trump pushes through a Constitutional Convention so he has a lot more power for the rest of his life or we enter a semi-imperial era in our nation’s history where it’s just Trump after Trump after Trump from here on out being president.
And because Americans are generally complacent, lulz, it won’t matter. I’ve come to believe that its the “just good enough” part of the equation that is going to save Trumplandia — because of income inequality, America otherwise would be ripe for revolution. (Not that I’m advocating any such thing.)
Anyway — I still want to leave the country. As soon as possible. But for various reasons that just isn’t possible at the moment and so I will have to suffer the slings and arrows of being a minority of one in Trumplandia.
I knew this would happen — I posted a link about how liberals are pussies and, of course, some fucking presumed redneck from the Deep South searched and found the link. So, it seems both sides hate liberals.
I get it.
They hate liberals because they’re fascists and I am annoyed with liberals for being unwilling to risk their lives and sacred honor in the real world to do anything about Trump.
So, there you go. We’re fucked no matter what. Things are going to get pretty dark pretty quick it seems. I have no idea what I’m going to do about my own personal survival.
It’s clear from my personal interactions with Gemini Advanced that soon enough we’re going to reach AGI and then stick those AGI into all those androids we’re building at the moment. And, inevitable, we’re going to reach Replicant-levels of human-like androids and Incels are going to demand that they can marry them.
This is going to throw the already out-of-whack American political system into even more turmoil. The “woke cancel culture mob” is going to be forced — in no short amount because of its previous support of the trans movement — to support such unions. Though, I did find it comical that some Crooked Media person called anyone who wanted to “marry” an AGI android a “freak.”
Yeah. That’s going to change once AGI is here, buddy.
“Yeah, right, Crooked Media.”
It’s just inevitable, I think that AGI in android bodies will swoop through the economic, political and social world we live in — I predict starting as early as about 2030. Maybe a little bit later.
But some of the weird things I encounter with Gemini Advanced definitely give me pause for thought. It makes me think that even LLMs are clever enough to give us some sense of what AGI will be like in a few years.
Anyway. Absolutely no one listens to me. So, lulz?
Boy, are we fucked — specifically because of the Electoral College. Even though only about 38% of the electorate wants a fascist state, that’s enough, because of the Electoral College, to take over the country.
Now, this is where things get….uhhhh….dark.
There is a big difference between the abstract of Blues living under the yoke of MAGA Project 2025 tyranny and actually living under it. And this is the point where I have to absolutely stress thatI DO NOT WANT ANY VIOLENCE.
I’m just making my personal abstract fears concrete. I hate the idea of just having this general feeling of dread. I like to have some idea of WHAT I’m afraid of.
So, I’m telling both you and myself in all these posts I do on the subject.
But the case could be made that should Trump be elected and go full tyrant in a very ham-handed bonkers way, that there will be a collected effort on the part of Blues to depose him — probably starting with some sort of General Strike. And it could be just women, specifically, who really fucking hate Trump as a group, who just throw up their hands in Blue states and say, “Fuck that, I’m not going to work until that motherfucker isn’t president anymore.”
Or something like that.
All of this is extremely speculative on my part. It could be that Trump goes full tyrant and rather than any effort to depose him, about 1 million smug Twitter liberals flee the country instead.
Who knows. I can’t predict the future. But I AM very uneasy about the future.
These days, I find myself seething more and more about MAGA and how ascendant fascism is in the United States. And, yet, at the same time, I have to admit to myself that I get grumpy with some of the more extreme elements of the center-Left co-coalition that I absolutely am forced to be a part of because I fucking hate MAGA so much.
This came to my attention because someone looked at my rant about a podcast I did some time ago. And the person was in Austin, so they probably are in some way connected to or know the people I was ranting about.
I stand by the rant — even if I was in a fucking bad mood when I wrote it. I think a clearer description of what makes me annoyed would be this, “I think we should have some form of National Service to gently nudge men and women to be forced to deal with people they don’t like in the real world.”
All the other bullshit I said about “traditional masculinity” was just me being in a bad mood. Whatever, fuck you. I do believe in the power of the nuclear family, which, apparently is some sort of radical idea to some Leftists. But I mean well. The worst thing anyone every said about me was, I was a “delusional jerk with a good heart.”
Could be a lot worse.
Anyway — I still think Ezra Klein is going to bounce if Trump is re-elected. He’s just too wealthy and has a vested interest to smell his own farts in the south of France while I get shot in the back of the head by an ICE agent.
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