Notices by John (johnzajac@dice.camp), page 3

Did you know that the US govt spent *tens of millions of dollars* installing next-gen upper UV, 222, HEPA, and ventilation systems in every Congressional and White House building in DC?

I mean, if you've ever wondered by so few of our political class seem to be getting COVID, even when *everyone in your friend group seems sick right now*.

It would cost pennies to upgrade schools against the cost of the mass sickness and absenteeism Kids have experienced

@tankgrrl

Let's disambiguate for a second.

LLMs and image algos are truly useless in every way - I agree if we shut them down nothing bad would happen worth mentioning. Some billionaires would become millionaires [yawn]

But ML and other AI tech has been revolutionizing science, material development, and medicine for a decade.

The Altmans of the world purposefully elide and collapse these revolutionary applications of the tech into their own garbage versions for the PR benefit.

Also, if your goal is to be a durable fascist dictator don't get your entire military leadership together, call them and their troops chubby, demand they groom themselves differently, encourage them to resign, insult 20% of their soldiers, and then casually suggest that in order to serve you as Commander In Chief they gotta get comfortable becoming oathbreakers to slaughter their own neighbors and fellow citizens against every principle they've ever learned.

@kims

Fair enough. Maybe we can just leave it at "Fetterman is a real piece of shit", huh.

Man, Fetterman is a real piece of shit.

Dude is either a legitimately talented liar, or his brains got scrambled by that stroke, because Senator Fetterman and Candidate Fetterman are completely different people.

The fact that the *only* solution to widespread leftwing protests that liberals can come up with is "arresting protesters", not "figuring out how to fix what's causing the unrest", is some legitimately bad faith shit on their part.

@akamran @Sobieck @skinnylatte

On a related note, I'm truly baffled by people who can't tell the difference between people who are literally wasting away and people who have simply changed size due to lifestyle or exercise adjustments.

I feel like there's gotta be some kind of acculturated blindness going on; a self-reinforcing body dysmorphia that warps one's perception.

To me the difference is obvious, both aesthetically and behaviorally.

@skinnylatte

white people gonna be white, I guess?

@skinnylatte

I literally cannot imagine being so completely ignorant of nutrition science that you still think dietary fat is causal to vascular and heart disease.

The most profound irony of this age is that antisemitic fascists are using the pride and vanity of Zionists to turn the Jewish people against themselves and render them extremely vulnerable, by both eviscerating the meaning of the word "antisemitism" and using false accusations of "antisemitism" to destroy Jews' only real allies in the world: the people who know that "Never Again" means "Never Again For Anyone".

In Christian mythology, the Antichrist is dangerous because it purports to represent Christ, but actually represents the Devil. In Revelations, it bamboozles Christians into doing extraordinary evil in God's name, which, along with the Jews retaking their Holy Land of Israel, begins Armageddon. Which is Heralded by plague, war, famine, and death.

Note that immigrants, gays, communists, and trans people *do not appear as characters*. But heretics who corrupt Christ's teachings? Everywhere.

Charlie Kirk was a heretic. Like, a straight-up Antichrist-bamboozled heretic who used his "love of Christ" to undo all of Christ's teachings in the world. He did this because as a child (he talked about how his politics were solidified at 12) he fell victim to people like Dobson and Robertson and their Antichristian lieutenants in the christofascist movement.

The rise of the Antichrist - I don't think of it as a person, but more as a cultural and religious heresy - isn't novel...

...but it *does* presage bad times (Think: Crusades and Inquisition)

The internet supercharged this heresy and spread it all over the world.

It is easy to argue that Christianity has *always* been mostly anti-christian; its history is bloodier than any except maybe the great massacres of history: the Mongolian horde, the Holocaust, Colonialism, etc.

I want to be clear that I am NOT Christian (lapsed Catholic 🙋♂️ ) but that I find value in understanding the worldview of my enemies.

One thing I find interesting as a matter of sociology and philosophy is the idea in the stories of the Antichrist about *morality inverting*. Its power is really about twisting and turning the morals of Christ's teachings (which are pretty fucking awesome - he was a brown-skinned anarcho-communist, after all) into bizarro versions that directly contradict themselves.

Loving others turns to self-love. Welcoming strangers becomes nativist violence. Charity and helping the poor become cruelty.

Defeating the powerful to protect the weak becomes destroying the weak to become the powerful. The deadly sins *become* the divine virtues, and vice versa. "Empathy", what might be Christ's deepest insight, becomes "wrong".

I think about this a lot, because a *significant* number of the enemies of goodness and justice and equity are *heretics bamboozled by people like Charlie Kirk* (who is the scion of the original heretics promoting the Antichrist).

Instead of using secular arguments that they *perforce* dismiss, why aren't we using *religious* arguments? I mean, the fucking book they worship is *right there*, my friends. It's in every hotel room. And it's pretty explicit that Christians are being very very bad boys and girls right now.

Why aren't we spreading FUD to counteract Antichrists like Kirk? Is it because we're so butthurt by 50 years of Antichristian heretical extremism that we're not willing to even *think* about it?

I know this musing thread came out of an OP about Israel and antisemitism and the cynicism of right-wing politics. But I see those as perversions, just like the heresy of Antichristian ideals.

Unwinding the skein the Antichrist is weaving may require familiarity with its craft and a recognition that many people will never choose to unweave themselves from the mythology it has corrupted.

We've gotta figure out how these people find their way back into society, or this will be an endless war.

PS:

I once characterized "the Antichrist" as a person standing in front of the Sun, blocking it's light, while telling all the people trapped in their shadow about the glorious Light they could find as long as they never ventured out of it.

That the world beyond the shadow is filled with light is obscured by the figure who commands their attention.

The person standing in front of the Light should be utterly obliterated. But the people trapped in their shadow are simply victims.

Sometimes, I think about how while we have some living victims of Epstein, he and Ghislaine and their clients are *almost certainly* guilty of murdering dozens if not hundreds of girls, too.

"Human trafficking" is slavery. The ones that won't comply aren't released; they're simply killed and thrown in the sea.

Like, I don't know why we're not talking about how they ran an international sex slave trade. It wasn't "parties with teens + a li'l raping"

The media calling Trump's drawing a "woman" is really stretching the bounds of elision.