Tbh I don’t feel comfortable speculating on what state stupidity operations are. My exposure to some as an info sec enthusiast suggests they’re extremely varied and often quite stupid. Following the same logic as scams a lot of the time: go wide and see who bites.

But to get back to the point: there’s this growing trend of liberals (little ell) blaming everything they don’t like about politics on Russian/Chinese psyops which credits state stupidity too much and disguises the underlying issues in our society.

Further xenophobic paranoia and militarism is… unlikely, shall we say, to address or protect against the political movements that fester in such environments.

TIL Russian spies grew the NSN members in vats and loosed them on us. They are also behind the white Australia policy and our refusal to reckon with genocidal and slaving history.

Like I’m sure operatives can do a few nudges or offer some funding or training but like… the Nazis are coming from inside the house.

Some of you haven’t read the bash manual and it shows.

Blow your mind to know about bang patterns. You’ve used !! but do you know about !$?

Just make some aliases and scripts you lunatic.

Don’t gell-mann yourself.

If it spits out plausible looking but incorrect things you notice with high frequency, how much do you not notice?

Haha fucking idiot clankerwanker.

These machines generate plausible text. That’s all.

historical materialism

There’s actually a really good method of analysis that is highly predictive about the actions of classes of people politically.

Conscription is fucking evil. Forcing people to die for a fucking legal entity.

Training programs for a population is one thing, so people are ready if they choose to fight in the face of a threat that is actually existential but forcing people to go murder other poor sods over lines on a map somewhere else in the world is… something.

But what if China raided our trade routes with China!

My wife followed it closely and is a bit of a lawy person from a family of lawyers.

From what she relayed it seems difficult to explain why she took all the actions she did, except if she did a murder, but given that murder has the bar of intent as well I’m not really sure the prosecution established that she did murder.

But like she obviously collected, preserved, and then fed people poisonous mushrooms just like did she intend to kill people beyond reasonable doubt? Idk

After studying court verdicts a bunch by attitude has always been that if I ever end up in irons try my hardest to get a bench trial with sentencing after lunch.

See? outing your barely repressed antisocial violent urges.

Sorry champ, can’t have you raping the kids. Considered more male appropriate work like investment banking? Leave those jobs that involve contributing to society in community to us girls.

What in the gender essentialist fuck? You cannot bar all men from jobs involving kids. You need a working with children check to run an extracurricular class, what are you smoking?

When you get to university take a couple of electives in philosophy, including philosophy of science.

Mate if you’re trying to argue that the C suite and board of exxon should be hanging in a gibbet in the harbour I’m fucking here for it.

The greed of the wealthy is impossible to satiate and that is the source of all lack of essential resources in our modern age.

Actually good charitable causes shouldn’t depend on the whims of the rich anyway. We should tax people and decide democratically what matters.

Produce studies saying to say it’s not harmful, or be quiet.

My dude, that is not how epistemology works. You cannot prove a negative empirically.