I tried to make sense of that, uh, word salad, and kinda boiled it down to this:
What the specific levers are ... is less interesting than the fact that this entire structure of oppression can be shattered by simple, meaningful unjudgemental solidarity...
And if that's OP's point, well, I think the past year has proved that it's not true. The system of fascism is not vulnerable to solidarity and tolerance. In 2024, vulnerable voters rejected the idea that they are vulnerable and did not vote accordingly. Instead they looked at even more vulnerable people and said "Well at least I'm not that guy! That'll never happen to me because I'm not (insert prejudice here)."
We can blame the propaganda machines of Fox and Facebook and Joe Rogan, and they deserve their share of the blame, but I firmly don't believe Trump voters were merely duped. I think they already believed in a social hierarchy where, among their few luxuries, they get to look down on other people. They came to America, in their eyes the most powerful country on the planet, so regardless of how they got there, they were already more special than their homeland counterparts. They carried with them their prejudices, their views on women, their views on crime, homelessness, and joblessness, and conservative media tapped into those beliefs to form the backbone of their disinformation campaign.
the rational reasons immigrants ... might adopt rightwing/conservative beliefs
In short, they didn't "adopt" anything, they brought their own nascent bigotry with them.
I hope the company was honest with them. Really, really honest with them.
We at Talen Energy are here to make what remains of your lives completely miserable. Your electricity bills will rise so much, you will only be able to afford electricity on weekdays. The water coming out of your faucet will cause blisters on your skin before we eventually reroute all potable water in your town to our data center. And despite our facility gobbling up hectares of your grandfather's land for pennies on the dollar, we won't even hire you to scrub toilets in it. Cry to Trump all you want, who do you think let us build our plant here?
In her statement on Friday night, Greene wrote, “I ... do not want my sweet district to have to endure a hurtful and hateful primary against me by the President we all fought for, only to fight and win my election while Republicans will likely lose the midterms.”
She still wants Republicans to win the midterms. MTG and people like her will never have a redemption arc, nor do they deserve one. Not by happenstance, nor by choice.
Unfortunately very expected. Italian Americans easily forget they used to be called guinea, dago, wop, when they go around calling other people towelheads. There's no cognitive dissonance when they think they've figured out their position in the hierarchy.
And who knows, they might see the day where they help those words make a comeback.
Jaws break hands. Try the nose instead. Bullies are squeamish at the sight of their own blood, naturally being cowards. And once you disorient them, the neck is very squishy.
Yeah, I've got something to add. The ruling class will use LLMs as a tool to lay off tens of thousands of workers to consolidate more power and wealth at the top.
LLMs also advance no profession at all while it can still hallucinate and be manipulated by it's owners, producing more junk that requires a skilled worker to fix. Even my coworkers have said "if I have to fix everything it gives me, why didn't I just do it myself?"
LLMs also have dire consequences outside the context of labor. Because of how easy they are to manipulate, they can be used to manufacture consent and warp public consciousness around their owners' ideals.
LLMs are also a massive financial bubble, ready to pop and send us into a recession. Nvidia is shoveling money into companies so they can shovel it back into Nvidia.
Would you like me to continue on about the climate?
Ever work in an enterprise environment? Sometimes a single talented developer cannot overcome the calcification of hundreds of people over several decades who care more about the optics of work than actual work. Documentation cannot help if its non-existent/20 years old. Documentation cannot make teams that don't believe in automation, adopt Docker.
Not that I expect Sam Altman to understand what it's like working in a dumpster fire company, the only job he's ever held is to pour gasoline.
The robots are there to replace the apologetic delivery driver, not the rich asshole. They'd never let that happen.
Bots can just as easily be programmed with an address blacklist. At least a delivery driver with a spine could choose to ignore that list, if his livelihood wasn't on the line...
If we can't stop Trump from lighting taxpayer money on fire, then I at least hope he does those drooling knuckle draggers dirty and never gives them a bailout.
I hope they never see another fucking dime. Currency should become mythological to them. Medical bills and church tithes should start measuring parcels of land instead.
The flip side of that same coin is that, IME, fediverse developers champion data privacy, anonymity, and decentralization. These developers believe that users should never offer that much personal data to one platform, so they build and advocate for platforms that don't require that data. Building a lowercase-f facebook on the fediverse would betray that foundation.
I think few open source projects enjoy the user satisfaction that VLC does. Even Linux itself is not as friendly to its users.
VLC (by cause or by effect?) also doesn't have evangelists trying to push it. It doesn't need them. Contrarianism is a strong motivator in today's culture.
I tried to make sense of that, uh, word salad, and kinda boiled it down to this:
And if that's OP's point, well, I think the past year has proved that it's not true. The system of fascism is not vulnerable to solidarity and tolerance. In 2024, vulnerable voters rejected the idea that they are vulnerable and did not vote accordingly. Instead they looked at even more vulnerable people and said "Well at least I'm not that guy! That'll never happen to me because I'm not (insert prejudice here)."
We can blame the propaganda machines of Fox and Facebook and Joe Rogan, and they deserve their share of the blame, but I firmly don't believe Trump voters were merely duped. I think they already believed in a social hierarchy where, among their few luxuries, they get to look down on other people. They came to America, in their eyes the most powerful country on the planet, so regardless of how they got there, they were already more special than their homeland counterparts. They carried with them their prejudices, their views on women, their views on crime, homelessness, and joblessness, and conservative media tapped into those beliefs to form the backbone of their disinformation campaign.
In short, they didn't "adopt" anything, they brought their own nascent bigotry with them.