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The Soviet system was appealing to many and seemingly looked good on paper, but as with most systems suffered from human greed and fallibility. The idea of spreading peanut butter too thin comes to mind. Everything overall was less good bc the metrics of success were improperly set. They suffered also from the added issue of a tiny few in power reaping and consolidating inequitable benefits for themselves and their cronies at the expense of both fairness and the wellbeing of millions of others not similarly close to power.

I’m just saying please don’t use that as a path to disparage others. Too many people are benefiting from it and we should avoid creating an atmosphere of shame when they do. Elon is an asshole and a weirdo. He also self-medicates like a lot of neurodivergent tech bros do, but saying we should point and laugh specifically due to the ketamine use is misguided IMO On another note, his “super brilliant” team of the “best engineers on the planet” left a back door into their databases open to public edits on their official DOGE website and got hacked. Lol https://www.wired.com/story/the-official-doge-website-launch-was-a-security-mess/

Doing so suggests they lacked sanity on to which to hold in the first place

I don’t think so, no, but it very much depends on who is doing the planning, how well they coordinate with one another, as well as the quality, timing and robustness of the information they have available when making their plans. An example of this working well IMO is Singapore. They’ve achieved amazing things in an amazingly short period of time in large part due to smart leadership being in charge of the various economic levers.

The tree, or the individual listening to / reading your “proof?”

Millions was too large, but that it’s rapidly being adopted in clinical settings with consistently positive effects seemed obvious to me in the same way I don’t need to prove 2+2=4 every time I post it. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bjpsych-open/article/ketamine-for-the-treatment-of-mental-health-and-substance-use-disorders-comprehensive-systematic-review/36E261BFA62CDA6459B88F7777415FDA https://www.pacificneuroscienceinstitute.org/blog/trip/what-is-ketamine-therapy/

I’m not here to defend Musk nor the choice to self-medicate, but encourage you not to so flippantly dismiss ketamine as a very helpful and viable treatment option for many millions of people, nor to use it as a rhetorical cudgel against those who choose to take it as you did here. That was technically the last several decades of stops with gerrymandering and voter ID laws

😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 Another mind broken by the god fog

The wealth of information is part of the problem. Any ideology or believe, regardless of how faulty or toxic or misrepresentative of reality, can find a home and a pool of acceptance. No longer are people being ostracized from their family, their home, their village, their town for these beliefs contrary to social norms. Now they're being accepted and finding reinforcement and amplification of these worst parts of their identity. They are told to feel pride for shameful thoughts, and it feels good. I thought that was their entire point, their raison d'etre

Of course not. This is parallel to another obscenely common assertion that LGBTQ people asking for equality is equivalent to "forcing your beliefs down my throat. keep your deviance away from my children, you human piece of garbage." “The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.” – Aldous Huxley

It’s better than the Gulf of Trump, and also better than returning army base and mountain range names back to those which honor slavery and stealing lands from native peoples. https://www.npr.org/2025/02/11/nx-s1-5293246/hegseth-fort-bragg-liberty-name https://alaskapublic.org/news/politics/alaska-legislature/2025-02-07/alaska-legislature-formally-opposes-trumps-renaming-of-denali-as-mt-mckinley Mostly though they’re just tossing this shit out like catnip to keep us and the media distracted while the really heinous shit is happening behind the scenes.

I love it when people can see the future. It’s frustrating though when they refuse to share next weeks lotto numbers.

Your attempt to rotate my position blows

It's a handy way to deflect from the actual threat and distract into less relevant ethereal subjects where action cannot be taken. Whataboutism in another form...

A fallacy being common makes it no less fallacious

That's what she said

Fascinating. This will be interesting news to all those lovers of steak tartare While others are amplified when experiencing nutritional deficiencies like need for certain vitamins and minerals. The challenge I see in your posts is in how you seem to be treating subjective preferences as objective facts.

The suggestion of good faith feels misplaced.

Beyond just the purges, it also serves to muzzle people who will be afraid to speak up or in ways contrary to the administration. It will cause those good people who are there for reasons of service and duty to country to resign voluntarily and migrate to the private sector where they can earn more money without all the headaches and gestapo shit. And it’ll make young talent that much less likely to join and help. Why put themselves and their families through it? It’s not just firings. It’s erasure of the system across every angle. Some will argue that good might come of it, and yeah. Maybe some will, but it’s akin to saying you’re successful losing 10lbs bc you cut your arm off. Sure, you hit your weight goal, but created lots of new unwanted problems in the process. His belief is backed by decades of experience and evidence that he can do exactly that.

And you think somehow that would alter their behavior? Fairly sure that’s precisely the outcome they’re seeking.

Of course new connections have been discovered. There are answers in medicine, genetics, liberal arts and art itself, dental needs, new constructions of data from cosmology, biology, chemistry, materials science, engineering and others. AI is not new. What’s new is the public discourse about it, but even there folks seem to limit their entire understanding and conclusions set to a single old outdated GPT model released a few years ago bc it was the one that made headlines.

most have actually rejected Fox for being too liberal and have replaced it with sources much farther right (8chan type stuff)

Not that any of us needs another body blow here, even once the courts make a decision it falls to the justice department to enforce those decisions. The justice department is under the executive branch and guess who controls that? Decades of gerrymandering largely renders this “protection” moot. Those congress reps are pushed by their electorate to show 100% fealty to their dear leader else face not just primary challenges but active threats to their lives and the lives of their loved ones

One fewer Thank you for confirming the obvious

It pains me to see someone so intelligent making such an easy to avoid mistake. You have access and you’re just unfamiliar with them.