True. When I was young I thought why don't we use the military domestically. Yeah it doesn't work.
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It actually works really well, if your goal is fascism.
I think humanity is really slowly being replaced by LLMs.
Presentation and simple, but stupid and wrong ideas, are preferred over actually researching and understanding situations, isolating the underlying issues and working on ways to resolve or at least lessen them.
Just like LLMs, fewer and fewer people seems to care about a deeper understanding, and more about if the stream of words look 'good'.
This lines up with what I've been shouting into the void whenever I read a news article. "Where are the fucking adults?!"
You just made me remember that book that came out in his first term reassuring everyone that there were “adults in the room” protecting us from certain doom.
What a crock of shit that turned out to be.
Eh, I think that his 2nd term kind of helps validate that view of his 1st. Because he was a political newbie, he allowed those around him to help make staffing decisions, so you got mostly run of the mill Republicans. Terrible, certainly, but not sycophants. That's all out the window this time. Key positions are filled based solely on either fealty to the mad king or ✨campaign contributions✨ (bribes). Anyone who dares speak out gets the axe, and at least for now it's a metaphorical one.
Second term has been so much worse than the first in that regard. I was just telling my co worker the other day that it's funny how Trump's first term, and especially his first year, was just him firing tons of people that he appointed, and in his second term he's hardly fired anybody. It really sends the signal just how much Trump has surrounded himself with sycophants, yes-men, and puffers this time around.
I think that's part of the reason why the moron feels emboldened to say and do some truthfully horrifying shit.
when you reach the milestone of adulthood and take a peek behind the veil of responsibility....
... maybe Larry Niven was right in Ringworld, Humanity's only defining trait is not our intelligence, our compassion, or our strength of will, but simply the luck of the few.
It's a nation filled to the brim with children trapped in adult bodies.
This is not an opinion because I'm perpetually online. I go outside and they're there too. Literally everywhere.
It's actually worse outside, which is why I am terminally online.
I was a shut-in before the 2024 Election. I figured social spaces there were somewhat immature because the mature people would have jobs and real life involvement. Then I started going outside, and I lost all hope. I'm too stupid for people to be this dumb. (Though I'll admit, social media, algorithmic content, and the AI products probably made people dumber.)
Twelve year-old attitude, 2 year-old selfishness.
Already a term for it... maybe they weren't aware of it on account of being twelve.
https://theconversation.com/the-infantilization-of-western-culture-99556
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infantilization
Smacks of condescension, elitism, and historical naivety while being a short step away from bemoaning "degenerated modernity" to me.
https://theconversation.com/the-infantilization-of-western-culture-99556
This reads a lot to me like Sokrates' speech that the children are all spoiled today. I.e. it has always been that way but people continuously assume that they have it especially bad in that regard.
Smacks of condescension, elitism, and historical naivety
Sorry, socially engineered infantilization is just an explanation, not a justification
It is not as though the tools to become a well rounded adult have been denied. In fact it's arguable that with the internet those tools are more accessible than ever. It's a personal choice to give in to the easy solutions and not seek out broader knowledge and understanding
Makes too much sense. Is this guy CIA?
Since 2012 twelve year olds controlled the memes, also when an explosion of boomers joined social media. We've been letting the kids parents the adults for 13 years now.
the worst kind of 12yo is the one who want to change the world for the better but they're fucking stupid so their well intensions end up serving the bad guys and screwing everybody else. the story of ukrainian NGOs - literally did the dirty job for oligarch and stayed in denial until the stink became biohazard.
the worst kind of 12yo is the one who want to change the world for the better
Ah, so you've never met one of those kids that just likes torturing animals for fun
I actually haven't met these kinds of folks until later in life when I moved out to another city. I knew about this shit - Dnipropetrovsk maniacs was media shitshow and stuff but i had no folks like that in my immediate circle while growing up.
We already have a word for that phenomena, it's called fascism
I don't think I've ever read a description or definition of fascism where the population being immature is a thing.
What do you mean?
Everything I don't like is fascism, the more I don't like it the more fascism-er it is
The elements of fascism could be construed as a childish/immature perception of reality, where the performance/aesthetics of maturity (particularly as perceived by chauvinistic men) is paramount. The examples listed in this post speak to uniformed (i.e childish) views on power, masculinity, and justice. These topics, among others, are sticking points of every flavor of fascism.
I'm not necessarily saying that this means the american population is immature, but our current fascist regime utilizes these tropes (among other elements of american culture) in their rhetoric, propaganda, and policy decisions to influence the population in pursuit of fascist ends. Seeing fascism as immature/childish certainly has validity, but I think the OP fails to fully capture our current political context with this lens. It would be better to see the state of american politics through the perspective of a failing proto-fascist empire metastasizing into a full fledged fascist regime, informed and shaped by its own reactionary propaganda, of which a large amount appears childish upon first glance.