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Hostem Cogere. Principles over politics.

Here and There
Joined November 2016
Replying to @RobinElise007
@RobinElise007 Is this what we get from people who get a PhD in Bumper Stickerology from Reddit U? 🤦 Fine... Let's begin:
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Basically, you subscribe to people like this as a sort of mental/emotional security blanket to keep you from having to consider your point of view could be wrong. Opinion pushed as fact because you recognize the name.
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A fun thing I like to do, is ask AI to evaluate how much of something is fake and generously find sources to corroborate their "reporting", if for no reason than to show how people like @JoJoFromJerz just ask for money in exchange for a bag of adjectives that people slurp up.
Fascism is not coming to America. It’s here. thesirennetwork.com/p/fascis…
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Replying to @JoJoFromJerz
You not knowing where Trump is, isn't "missing" in the first place. Standard definitions seem to be an ignorable thing on your account.
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"You’re putting them in a sealed plastic bag with only pepper spray to breathe." Wrong. Head comes off. Was told to back away about 5 times prior to. It was a lawful order. I guess Frog is unable to make his own choices. youtube.com/shorts/pPTD2qu-n…
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Replying to @ImMeme0
"Hear me out: have you considered kidnapping a law enforcement officer's family." Going after someone's family doesn't play out well, even in fantasies. Take a man's family from him, and he will surprise himself at the level of violence he's willing to commit.
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In '98, Nakamura's Serial Experiments Lain blurs person and network until identity becomes a construct. Lain isn't a biological human but everyone treats her as real, even Lain. When does belief become agency? Cleaner simulations create an easement to dodge accountability.
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Satoshi Kon pushed harder in 1997's Perfect Blue. Former J-pop idol, "Mima" is preferred to the actress; her manager even impersonates her. The real Mima is doubted, stalked, abused, and erased. Parasocial worship and industry packaging is bad? Who knew?
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1994's Macross Plus gave us Sharon Apple, a corporate AI idol who weaponizes devotion. Fans fall for the curated ideal image of a person while the machine underneath manipulates and controls without accountability. Philanthropic in the streets, authoritarian in the sheets.
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As far back as 1985, we were given Megazone 23. EVE, a virtual idol, fronts a city-controlling AI to manipulate people. Manufacture an idol the audience projects innocence onto while institutions claim deniability, retaining sway.
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Replying to @No7Sammy
Well, usually after two things: 1.) There's a substantive history of it happening based solely on the fact someone is trans. 2.) When it's more than speculation and actual facts are obtained. The only thing that isn't speculation is "a trans person was stabbed."
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Vermin: small creatures like cockroaches that are injurious to health. Beeb: failed slang for cute/cuddly "Beeb Champion": I need to look like (checks notes) an anthropomorphic sea *cockroach* (shrimp). Oxymoron: Beeb Champion Moron: Also Beeb Champion
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Replying to @Valkyr101 @No7Sammy
Oh, I see. So pronouns are used to talk to someone ABOUT a different person, like an absent third party wherein that absence doesn't afford input to the communication. So I was right the first time and its possessive plural male, not silent S like the P in pterodactyl. Fixed.
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