That’s a perfect example of a typical interaction between a Technology Management Consultant and somebody from a STEM area.

Techies with an Engineering background who are in Tech and Tech-adjacent companies are often in the receiving end of similar techno-bollocks which makes no sense from such “Technology” Management Consultants, but it’s seldom quite as public as this one.

Zionism is the same kind of Fascism as Nazism - ethno-Fascism - which is based on ethnicity rather than nationality, thus rabidly racist and hence far, far, more depraved than traditional Fascism.

Just compare the actions of Russia in Ukraine and those of Israel in Gaza to see the difference between traditional Fascism and ethno-Fascism: Russians don’t think Ukranians are sub-humans, whilst Israeli definitelly think Palestinians are (specifically “human animals” and even “vermin”), hence the scale of the crimes being commited by Israelis is many times larger and more extreme than that of those being commited by Russians - when for a whole military even the toddlers of a different ethnicity are “vermin” there are no boundaries for them when it comes to murdering people from that ethnicity.

Indeed.

Israel was created by amongst others Jewish terrorist groups, who at one point even tried to ally with the Nazis.

They’re the very opposite of Holocaust Survivors (which is probably why in present day Israel, Holocaust survivors are stigmatized and seen as “weak”).

One needs to believe that there’s some kind of Jewish Hive-mind (one of the anti-semitic notions imaginable) to think that Israeli Zionists, who share nothing other than etnicity with the survivors of the Holocaust, would have felt the trauma that Holocaust survivors felt.

Actually, this is what you’re fighting for in Capitalism:

Not for yourself, though, rather for a few who add up to less than 0.0000375% of Humanity.

They have two choices in each election, but if they look at mid and long term, they have more than two choices because how they vote (or refuse to) today influences who gets put forward next time around.

The US Elections aren’t a Trolley Problem from Philosophy (because: most effects of the choice can be undone, they’re a cyclical choice rather than one-off, you don’t really know for sure what each choice gets you because politicians lie, they’re not an individual choice) they’re more like a Cyclical Ultimatum Game from Game Theory between the party of the political side of a voter and the voter, and the party puts forward a candidate with a certain mix of policies and the voter can Accept - and then both the party and the voter get a little closer to getting that mix of policies - or the voter can Reject - and then the party and the voter get a little further from getting that mix of policies.

This being the cyclical version is what matters most here: both sides get to do another run of the game in 4 years time, which is why a Reject on the side which can chose “yay or nay” can make sense as a way of inducing the other size to put forward a candidate with a different mix of policies on the next round.

(The main difference from the actual cyclical Ultimatum Game is that the actual Accept or Reject is the sum of many votes, and both Parties in the US use the inherent difficulty of people in working as a group to get Accepts when they should be getting Rejects)

The American Voting System is fucked up and not really Democratic, yet unlike and actual Power Monopoly, there are still ways to influence the Power Duopoly in the US but they require voters to be Strategical in how they vote rather than only Tactical.

Fashion Patrol on the dangerous streets of Megacity 1.

I’ve been avoiding travel to the US since the Patriot Act that followed 9/11 started that kind of shit and more in general the US started moving away from Democracy and into Autocracy.

Last time I felt like traveling to the North American continent I just went to Canada instead for a whole month - sea kayaking in British Columbia, hiking in the Canadian Rockies, sightseeing in Quebec . Highly recommended by the way.

Funnily, sometimes the pirate version of a game works whilst the official one does not…

GNU is not umanities.

They probably have a ton of blackmail material on German politicians.

Remember the various ex top German politicians getting money from Russian states companies that came to light after Russia invaded Ukraine and the foot dragging of the German government on everything from disconnecting from Russia gas to helping Ukraine and sanctioning Russia.

My bet is that Germany is massively riddled with corruption and Israel has for decades invested a lot of time and money in making sure they have dirt on as many German politicians as possible and is now using that information.

Peace of the grave.

If we want to be realistic, then if there was a nuclear explosion that big on planet Earth all the nations around it would be nuclear wastelands from the shockwave and fallout and the rest of the planet would probably be covered in ice from the nuclear winter.

Most nation states on that side of the planet would be gone and the ones on the other side of the planet would at the very least be collapsing from the fall in agricultural production and subsequent wars of desperation.

The toddlers were terrifying the poor IDF soldiers, hence they were terrorists.

The reaction of the rest of Europe to Trump’s attack would lead Iran to expect that the usual suspects in Europe would attack Iran either way, same as they did back when America invaded “WMD” Iraq.

Certainly were I am (Portugal, which by the way also sent troops to Iraq) there are already people from America and Israel-aligned far-right think-tanks being invited to news segments on public TV about the American attack, where they’re complimenting Trump on his action, calling it a “massive victory to Netanyahu” and scaremongering against Iran with exactly the same kind of “arguments” as were used for Iraq (Iran has WMDs, Iran is developing missiles which can reach European cities and so on), so the Manufacturing Consensus machinery is already running.

In the US, specifically, higher oil prices feed into higher prices for the fertilizer used in raising corn, which in turn feeds into higher corn prices, which then feeds into almost all food because in the US corn is used directly or indirectly in food to truly insane levels (for example, cattle is fed corn even though it’s not natural and causes health problems hence the overused of antibiotics for cattle in the US and sugar is mainly chemically processed corn).

In other countries it’s a bit easier to isolate oneself from the indirect effects of oil price rises if you don’t drive ICE vehicles and eat locally grown food because this pathway from “oil” to “almost all food” is either not present or far weaker.

Mind you, I agreed that you can never isolate yourself totally from it unless you’re some kind of hermit living in your own cave disconnected from everything else and growing your own food using 100% natural agriculture.

If people are drowning, anybody who promises to throw them a life bouy looks like a fucking heroe to them.

Far-Right Populists are riding this effect all over the World all the while mainstream “moderates” entreched in and winning from the current system see nothing wrong with it and persist in trying to sell “steady as she goes” as policy (after all, that’s what’s best for them personally), something which ressonates with the people who haven’t yet been affected by the pillaging of the Economy by the ultra-wealthy - the well-off middle class - but not with those below who are suffering, and as the effects of the pillaging climb higher and higher up the economic ladder, the number of those suffering keeps increasing and so does the appeal of the far-right promises.

I’m actually a member of a small leftwing party in my own country and the current leadership totally fucked the party up in the last decade or so (falling from almost 20 parliamentary representatives to 1) exactly because the new and younger leadership whom the old guard moved over to give room to, were out of touch well-off middle class types who were born with a silver spoon in their mouths and never really had to fight for making a living, and hence started parroting liberal talking points from the anglo-saxon world (because all they know besides the local language is English, and they saw that shit on Twitter and though it was “leftwing”) all the while most of the people in the country were feeling the pain and it wasn’t related to the political slogans that these people were parroting and the unfairnesses they obcessed about.

The out of touch leftwing-cosplayer crowd will never beat the far-right populists because the latter actually pitch radical solutions for the problems of the many (all complete total bullshit, but many people can’t tell so go for it) whilst the former pitch “steady as she goes with a few tweaks” which works only for the “I’m alright” well-off middle class and above, not the many, so won’t really appeal to the bulk of voters.

I’m not saying that voting for the far-right populists is right or will actually solve the problems of the many, I’m saying it’s understandable that so many end up grabbing what looks like the only lifebouy in front of them.

Any genuine half-way competent leftwing politicians from a priviledged background should realise that their life experience is not representative and that the “inequalities” that are of concern to the upper middle class (a typical example: the “glass ceiling for women to become CEOs”) aren’t at all the biggest and most painful inequalities out there (they only affect a tiny proportion of people, who are already priviledged compared to most of the population and are not at all in pain) and actually fight against the pains that affect the many even if that requires breaking the very system that made them “winners” the day they were born.

Anyways, now in America we’re seeing what far-right populists really are when they have power, similarly to what happened in Brexit Britain some years ago (and the “moderate” politicians there don’t seem to have so far learned the lesson and keep on relying on the mathematical rigging of FPTP to get power less and less votes) and of course all their promises were bullshit and their “solutions” only make things worse.

“I would be alright”.

Avoiding the shit from enshittification isn’t hardcore, it’s just the normal adult thing to do.

Portraying this as a trolley problem is misleading and manipulative.

This is not a trolley problem because:

• It’s not a single decision after which there is no walking back on it, rather it’s a cyclical choice which happens every 4 years and a lot of what was done by the candidate elected in once cycle can be undone in the next (as the Republicans frequently demonstrate when one of theirs gets elected after a Democrat).
• It’s not a single person making a decision, it’s millions of people all at the same time and it’s not even the average of their choices that gets executed (that would require Proportional Vote) but it’s done using a weird mathematical formula, so there are tons of situations were no matter what one’s choice is (or even not choosing at all) it makes no difference whatsoever.
• Voters don’t actually know upfront what either choice will deliver. Politicians often promise one thing and do something else.

The closest philosophical or game theory example to an election is a cyclical “Ultimatum Game” between voters and politicians only it’s in the best interest of politicians that people don’t see it that way (because they would be aware that they can punishing politicians in one cycle to get them to do a different split the next one, or specifically in American politics they can Punish the DNC in one cycle for fielding a too rightwing candidate to get them to field a less rightwing candidate the next cycle) so instead their propaganda has pushed for decades this falacy that it’s an “trolley problem” and it’s companion: the idea that people must “chose the lesser evil”.

First they came for immigrants …