So is regime change to bring about a liberal democratic government also considered cultural genocide? Like if I’m working against the Saudi monarchy and Wahhabi religious order of laws (which is their long term culture) am I guilty of genocide?

Was the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan cultural genocide? Is forced rendition or even “nation building” genocide? Guantanamo? Rendition?

Are Starbucks and McDonalds guilty of genocide for spreading their “franchises” (Temples of a neoliberal globalist culture really) everywhere?

Is the “culture war” against the institutional racism in the USA a cultural genocide? After all it’s a culture of racism… are the atheists really conducting a cultural genocide with their War on Christmas!? Oh God! Are we the baddies???

If you’re in Finland, don’t deny any of this! It’s illegal now!

PS: Sorry this is a late reply, and obviously it’s argued to absurdity.

No, “cultural genocide” is not genocide. There is a pretty clear legal definition:

… any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

(a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; © Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

If this doesn’t go through, impeach him again and more protests. Again and again and more.

Something like Munchausen by proxy?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Shapley

Shapley publicly alleged that the Department of Justice had “slow-walked” the investigation into the younger Biden in an interview with CBS News in May 2023.

But if Musk installed him then he’s probably a corrupt piece of shit

Look, he’s killing people. He should be arrested and go to trial for criminal negligence and manslaughter. Like the rest of the bunch.

But they can’t even say it lol. “oh, some people touted!”

It’s not puppet masters pulling strings on a marionette. It’s gardeners watching the fruits of their labor grow.

Interesting analogy. To spin this further, who allowed malicious gardeners to grow poisonous mushrooms here in our community garden? We largely abdicated the power of the state and government to the economic bureaucracy and ignored profit driven news and social media.

You bring up some interesting points about the billionaires and their desire about a new world order (dark enlightenment, longtermism etc) in the US, those who hold the most power. But how in the world do you square that with this:

Anyone who claims that Russia is NOT behind all of this is either Russian, a traitor, or stupid.

So are the billionaires also controlled by Putin? How can both be true? Or do you think Putin holds more influence over US elections that the US billionaires and tech bros do?

PS: Let me make my point clearer: I don’t doubt that Putin helped Trump and sow discord in the US - but who is to blame for allowing this? These are cheap things to do for any foreign actor now because we allowed to run news and social media purely for profit. If greed is good, nothing but money matters, why wouldn’t those companies make advertising deals bad actors? So blaming Putin for this is propaganda itself, because it disguises the actual causes of the democratic backsliding which started way before Trump, and would have happened despite Trump.

But the 63 per cent of the German people who expressed their opposition to Hitler were much too divided and shortsighted to

lucky if Europe and the rest of “the West” survive China/Russia expansion

So who is the enemy we should focus on? Is it Trump? Is it Putler/China? Neoliberal and austerity policies of both parties that created the fertile ground for neofascism?

The OP article is about Trump and US economic policy, and I replied to a comment that segways away from “stopping the nazis” and instead focuses on the evil “Putler”.

Yeah the parallels to weimar are there, but it’s that you can’t see them - you are the ones who distract with this conspiracy theory that Trump is somehow Putin’s asset or his creation. It’s like saying that Hitler is Stalin’s puppet because they want to divide up Poland (Ukraine) - just because they help each other out it’s not reasonable to start persecuting the socialists - which they did and do now! (Tankies bad, defederate).

The issue isn’t Trump. Trump should be in a mental institution. The issue is that we build a world that “allows” for such people to gain power. The issue is that our news and social media allow a (very real) Russian psyop. But it’s not just the Russians. It also came from special interests like fossil fuel, China, and formerly Ukraine too.

You’re loudly yelling at the dog tearing up the flower beds, instead you should be yelling at those who let the dogs out.

But instead of talking about that, we’re talking about the latest bullshit that is being pumped into the ether. Stop the shit-factory. Nationalize the news and social media and turn them into cooperatives run by the workers. Arrest the billionaires. Take the power back. Of course now it’s too late for that, thanks Obama.

But this isn’t even thinkable for the majority. Hence you seek some bad guy you can blame.

There is no mastermind or master plan. If you think Trump is a Russian asset then you’ve fallen for conspiracy theory and you yourself live in a “post-truth” fantasy. Whatever Trump is, he’s not someone who can be handled (except by playing on his megalomania). If you don’t understand that yet, and pretend otherwise, you’re just adding to the noise.

Similarily, that Foundations of Geopolitics is an interesting “cookbook” but it’s just that. Russia exploits glaring weaknesses in our neoliberal society by simply buying their way into social media. Any rational country would prevent news or social media to be owned by oligarchs, spew lies for profit and and generally being open to the highest bidder. The US has failed to get money out of politics and media. And that is a result of the neoliberal world order, so - thanks Obama and all those who came before him.

The liberal mindset has been poisoned since 2016 to think there is some big enemy like Russia or China, that there is only black and white, good or evil.

Removal of Trumps entire regime should be the core demand of the protests, instead of that milquetoast “Hands off” BS

Well yeah moving channels would be kinda impossible. I imagine while designing the house you’d plan for the electrical wires and 3D print clean channels you can slide wires or flexible piping through. You could also have extra channels near the floor and in the middle and vertical channels.

This would really only be good for lightweight structures that don’t need much load bearing, like tiny houses or RVs or huts or bungalows. Maybe structures on house boats / catamarans.

Instead of renovating, just melt it all down to recycle it and 3D print a new house haha.

No? Sorry rather clueless about the practical aspects of that. But for electrical why is it not viable to just have channels you can push cables through? Do you mean because of corners?

Generally I was only thinking of simpler structures though like tiny houses or 1-2 room bungalows so it shouldn’t be too complex wiring or plumbing.

Just 3D print the channels in.

As a tool to help find patters and collate police reports and notes this could be very useful. We’ve recently seen how the police dropped the investigation of Russel Brand, while a TV documentary found the truth. I’m betting there are tons of cases like this. Software tools (including LLMs) can scan large amounts of text. And there might be lots of cases that will be obvious once you look at all the pieces.

Personally I’m more interested in foam printing, which allows large scale plastic printing of insulated structures. For single story bungalows that should be just fine and transport of the building materials easy. Something like (recycled) PET foam printing should be possible. The printer would be more lightweight than concrete printing too. You could 3D print a clean circumference with PET filament first and then fill in with PET foam. Or you could have tool changing and mill down the irregular foam. And you can recycle the whole 3D print later too.

The nyt article has a good one

I recently thought about what I’m missing, and came up with something rather complicated (sorry, nothing simple haha)

Basically I’m often compiling information in markdown text files. But images are still web hosted. Sometimes I use spreadsheets and wish I could do simple additions in markdown tables. Or I use bookmarks, but know websites will go down and wish I could just “backup” any website in a compact file and organize it without mucking around with files. Zotero does this partly. I also use “SingleFile” to save websites but it would be nice if it was something semi-compatible to web-archive. Or maybe just save a stripped down version of an article like you see in “reader view” on Firefox. And of course usable in both desktop and mobile.

I do think Project Jupyter does something like this and there are also other note taking apps.

Overall the state of computer science in 2025 is still deplorable. The very basics of storing data still don’t have good solutions.

Take a look at how the US facilitates regime change. It’s always extra-legal. If you can’t even imagine it, then it’s just a pathetic and empty show of frustration. And that’s on the people of the USA (and the media of course that manipulates and indoctrinates them).