If you talk to Chinese they have the same complaints though.

My dad used to rant about how government should be run like a business, no, no dad,

The last thing you hear: Sorry but your citizen contract has been revoked in order to meet our 3rd quarter profit target. You have been terminated!

This is childish. You have to be prepared to do politics to win at politics. That means building bridges with people who share only some of your ideas and finding compromise where you can. It’s very clear that the more fundamental sections of the left are unwilling and unprepared to do this work which is why they remain on the outside looking in. All you are doing is quite literally ensuring none of your ideas ever see the light of day. It’s a losing strategy. It’s also why you don’t recognise the DSA playing this game and get butt hurt when they don’t take the hard line on every topic.

Fighting the only people who might possibly ever be in a position to change it is a strange decision if it means so much to you.

No point in winning every side battle if it means you don’t win the war.

I’ve pointed out the same here and you simply won’t get anywhere with these “ultra ideologically pure leftists”. As I mentioned before I suspect some or even many of the loudest voices in left spaces are plants. Otherwise you would have to deduce that left wing people are intellectually challenged as to not see this but given my lived experience that is not remotely the case.

There are loads of independent Hasidic and Orthodox Israelite Jews who are anti-Zionist. You can see them protesting in NYC and chasing the IDF out of their neighborhoods in Israel. Jewish organisation might be Zionist because Israel invests billions in creating said organisations. If you want to win this battle you can’t throw your allies under the bus just because they share their religion with the enemy. Your lack of nuance is exactly what I meant when I said toddler media literacy.

No but outside of Zionism I also don’t see countries, leaders and institutions conflating religious nationalism with the religion. He has been a very clear opponent of Zionism so in order to shut down the BS he has to also make it clear that he has no problem with Jews.

You have the political and media literacy of a toddler if you think this is a gotcha.

I play every instrument terribly but good enough to have fun.

The Pentagon can’t run out of money. At least not in the current world. They can just print more which is what they’ve been doing since the end of the gold standard (actually before that even). The reserve currency status of the US dollar is fundamentally tied to their ability to project their military power globally and as long as that is feasible they will continue to print money. If the Pentagon runs out of money the US is toast and the world order will be in total turmoil. It might be coming into view on the distant horizon but we’re nowhere near that yet as the situation in Iran clearly demonstrates. They will do that to everyone before they give up their privilege.

This is pretty much it. Everything is fake unless you can prove it’s not

This is why fine-tuning is the future. Without your own fine-tuned models you won’t have any differentiation