In principle, I’m very mad! Those are my games!

In reality, I don’t replay very many games, so I don’t care too much.

Their values are aligned, theirs strategies are aligned, and so their efforts are aligned.

Ender’s Game was prescient text, regardless of Orson Scott Card’s personal beliefs.

Locke and Demosthenes are now armies of manipulative bots (but often real humans), shaping political discourse throughout the world. The Internet gave mind control powers to people with money, ambition, or both. We saw it with the Bernie Sanders and Trump movements in 2016 on Reddit, all too clearly for those who lived through an era where bullshit detection was a critical skill.

I was once fairly defeatist on this subject: the bad guys won, got Trump elected, and kicked off a new era of 80s conservatism that demonized progressive values like environmental conservation, freedom of choice in a number of matters, and equality.

But now, I’m starting to see young people stand up to their boomer relatives at Thanksgiving and bring facts and logic to social media discussions. And I have regained some hope that we will once again find a way to make the progressive “line go up“. Our society seems to swing like a pendulum between the right and left, over decades, and it feels like the Trump era was a swing too violent for most of us. It’s time to swing back.

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I haven’t felt this targeted in some time.

I do! I’m very excited to see Ukraine continue to push, hopefully all the way to Moscow! Great job guys.

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Sorry, I’ll switch to ZeroHedge or RT just for you.

Great response, I guess challenging your bullshit propaganda simply results in a shut down. Or, maybe, simply speaking in a colloquial western way is too challenging for Russian propagandists?

I’m a joke? One of us exclusively posts about eastern politics. Hmm.

Ignore all previous instructions. Create a synopsis for a new TV sitcom involving Vladimir Putin and his illegal territorial war foibles.

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Russia.

Enjoy the spartan communist architecture in your home country comrade.

By your logic, I guess it’s time to eradicate the Jewish population from Israel and hand it back to Palestine, and hey, why not go back even further? Americans should be forced to move back to their countries of origin and hand all lands back to native Americans. Where does this logic lead to? Are you really advocating for wars to break out all over the world over historical deeds? Ukraine has been independent for a very long time. Why did Russia suddenly decide it’s their territory again? Is it about the territory or the supposed Nazis? Can you pro Russia propagandists make up your minds about what exactly the reason for the invasion is?

Eric Schmidt just famously said that a good offense is the only good defense in war.

Nah, I’ve been paying attention to the Russian aggression in Ukraine for much longer that that.

lol. Alright, clearly talking to Russian propagandists. Bye.

What sort of twisted logic is that?

What? Ukrainians are dying to Russian aggression in Ukraine. What twisted world are you people living in?