It’s not a new grift, dictators do this all the time in order for the wealthy to tow in line.

It’s about asserting power over the weaker by those who could.

I can’t believe I am siding with theocrats but i agree with Iran.

Now that I think about it, this war is between theocrats and their pedophile buddy versus another theocrats!

Nobody went to the World Cup but people are still watching it on air. Viewership still attracts advertisers and thus money.

It’s a rich wanker as always. I live in a pretty affluent area and the wealthy think they can break the traffic laws all the time.

These damn brown foreigners ought to go back to their country!

• Amit types in India

But seriously, a lot of supposed white far right in social media turned out to be paid trolls based from abroad.

That said, when Americans start to complain about the 300B payout, I’m curious what is the next distraction that Trump will pull.

Are there Kurds in Japan? That’s news to me.

Unfortunately, xenophobia is rising in many parts of the world, even in countries with negligible number of immigrants like Japan. I’m even surprised that in Chile, anti-migrant is a sticking point on their recent elections, even though they barely have any immigrants and many Chileans are even leaving.

I am blaming social media for amplifying polarisation. The elites are doing what they can to divide the population while they steal from our pockets because we’re too distracted.

I’m please to hear of the results. I didn’t think the “No” side would have won by more points because the pre-referendum polls showed neck and neck.

Anyway, it’s a silly initiative to begin with. I was thinking even if the “Yes” side won, in my mind I’m thinking “let the leopards eat their faces”. Never mind the arguments on culture and so on, the economic damage to capping the population is insurmountable because it means fewer workers to migrate. And also, how is capping 10 million even logistically possible? Are they going to deport people? Who decides who to deport if a person is either long term resident or born and raised there? Are they going to do sterilisation if by some miracle there is a baby boom (which by the way, Switzerland like the rest of the world right now is having fewer fertility rate) and the population is reaching 10 million? Far right policies are moronic because they are purely based on emotions. Leopards eventually do eat their faces.

It seems like Bibi has a more urgent existential anxiety by prolonging the war than Trump, who joined the war to distract the people from the Epstein files. Netanyahu was already summoned to court for corruption but he has been dragging the war to delay the trial.

I love Soul.

This kind of shit has been happening since the Snowden whistleblowing scandal.

I’ve shouted from the rooftops before many times there is nothing creative from AI writing. It just repeats the same terse, sentence structures! AI had never fallen in love, grieved, or inspired before!

Like the subprime housing bubble.

But the huge number of comments is because of just two people arguing for hours.

Google improves their search results, then they won’t need AI to do the searching?

I have to vehemently disagree because the Nazis are fucking overrated and don’t deserve too much credit. Very little known fact that most people don’t realise is that Nazi Germany was on a brink of another economic collapse before invading Poland. In spite of warning from his economic minister at the time, Hitler let government spending balloon because of rearmament and increased public spending including pageantries to distract and awe the public. Hitler did not want to hear any contrarian opinions and sidelined his economic minister. Hitler had to absolutely invade countries to plunder and fund his government. If there was no war, Nazi Germany would have just collapsed on its own.

And lastly, if the Nazis were forward thinking, then why were they shocked when the Allies declared war on them? Hitler was deluded enough to think he could even convince the British to side with him to fight against communism.

The problem is there isn’t actually centralisation on the global level, let alone harmonisation. Fiscal policies don’t work if there is no political streamlining. There is no such streamlining if there isn’t any grassroots and political will.

I’m speaking from the EU experience. The euro isn’t really causing problems. The difference is that the European Central Bank is regulated than IMF.

IMF doesn’t issue any currencies. You should read more than you think you know.