Jim @jimdc.bsky.social · 3hUrsula Franklin: “Globalization is the denial of any standpoint other than profit.” Naomi Klein in 'Fences and Windows': “Globalization reaches into every aspect of life, transforming every activity and resource into a commodity.” 021
Jim @jimdc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026He's smart enough to realize that an effective way to disguise your stupidity is to surround yourself with stupid sycophants. 000
Jim @jimdc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026"MAGA is OBSESSED with presidents who are crooks." MAGA is a cult of lawless overgrown juvenile delinquents who aspire to be Mafia crooks. To not want to be a crook is to be 'woke'. 010
Jim @jimdc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026'These guys are all nuts!' Apparently. So what does that say about the US in general? What is it in American culture that brought us to this point? How did being 'nuts' become so normal? 000
Jim @jimdc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026For Hegseth, being a 'real man' means never having to say you're sorry (which would be a 'woke thing to do anyway). Thus being a 'real man' implies having no conscience, i.e. being a sociopath. 010
Jim @jimdc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026When the criminal-minded MAGA elites hear that Nixon was part of a criminal conspiracy, their ears perk up. That's our kinda guy. How can we show support for criminal behavior in government? 000
Jim @jimdc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026'AI' implies a fundamental difference with human intelligene. Superintelligence implies superiority to human intelligence, also implicitly putting it above moral scrutiny, like God. 000
Jim @jimdc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"She seems so genuine." That points to something bizarre in American culture and psychology that also relates to Trump's election. An astonishing number of Americans mentally exist in an 'Alice in Wonderland' world of denialism and self-delusion, where their delusionary beliefs become their truth. 010
Jim @jimdc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026For the MAGA elites like Hegseth, the 'armor of God' is essentially a wall of ego defenses against a moral conscience so that mass murder can be committed without any 'woke' guilt. 020
Jim @jimdc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Apparently Trump's idea of a happy young person would be Natalie Harp. 020
Jim @jimdc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Criminals, or criminal-minded people, are generally not enthusiastic about enforcing anti-crime legislation. Just sayin'. 000
Jim @jimdc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026To these MAGA types, demonstrating that you can reflexively attack anyone in the non-MAGA world is the purpose. Facts, logic, integrity are meaningless to them. 031
Jim @jimdc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The 'patriarchal' religions have a disturbing propensity for being hijacked by dangerously sociopathic patriarchal males clearly taking their cues from Satan. 000
Jim @jimdc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Once the demons of hate and murder are unleashed anywhere, the results can be unfair and unpredictable except that they will involve increased evil. 040
Jim @jimdc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026MAGA elites are in full-scale paranoid denial and projection mode where all criticism is interpreted as an existential threat by sworn enemies and demons. 000
Jim @jimdc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The term 'superintelligence' implies that the only difference between human intelligence and machine intelligence is that human intelligence is inferior. The term 'artificial intelligence' implies there is a fundamental difference. 030
Jim @jimdc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Is financial literacy ever taught in conjunction with ethical literacy? Or are they presumed to be two completely different worlds based in different existential premises? 000
Jim @jimdc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026AI has become a devil's playground for sociopaths. Those with a Faustian lust for absolute power are overjoyed at the possibilities of AI to create a techno-fascist world. 000
Jim @jimdc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"an unprecedented level of irresponsibility". That says it all. They are juvenile delinquent sociopaths on drugs. 000
Jim @jimdc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"Republicans are disgraceful crooks." If there is one saving quality of these disgraceful crooks it is that they tend to be self-destructively stupid. 000
Jim @jimdc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026MAGA hates rational, ethical adults. Any sign or display that proves beyond any doubt that you are not a rational, ethical adult will be celebrated in MAGA world. They are like juvenile delinquents vandalising all signs of adultness, such as democracy and its principled justice system. 001
Jim @jimdc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026We appear to be on the doorstep of an Orwellian future masterminded by AI tech oligarchs using AI for nefarious purposes in aid of techno-fascism. 170
Jim @jimdc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The term 'yes men' is a misnomer when applied to Trump's sycophants. They are not real men. That is the problem. Real men have spines and principles. Real men are defenders of what is right, defenders of the vulnerable, not cowardly accomplices in lies, cruelty and criminality. 020
Jim @jimdc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It will take generations to repair, and during that time many thousands of psychologists will be writing articles and books on the deranged workings of juvenile delinquent minds when they think they have grasped total power over a nation. 000
Jim @jimdc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026This the great dilemma facing mankind: soulless AI is intrinsically a sociopathic force and the very persons essentially in charge of protecting mankind from its harms tend to be sociopaths. Not a reassuring situation. 000
Jim @jimdc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Our civilization is ignoring many essential questions about the direction humanity is headed. What ultimate human good is being served by our addictions to technology? Is human good even an important consideration any more? 010
Jim @jimdc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026War and peace. It's all a cynical game to the MAGA elites. In fact, it's worse than that. It is a cynical and profitable betting game for many MAGA elites and their friends. 000
Jim @jimdc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The dangers of AI have two basic aspects: 1) having no soul or conscience, it is innately psychopathic. 2) its owners tend to be power-seeking sociopaths. In short, despite public promises of huge benefits, AI will almost certainly be used in ways that are harmful or unhealthy for humanity as whole. 1124
Jim @jimdc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Dictators see the 'media' simply as propaganda vehicles. A 'free' press is a political or even an existential threat to dictators. Trump clearly sees himself as a dictator being threatened by a free press. He has no clue why America has had a free press for 250 years. 000
Jim @jimdc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026In a world run by unprincipled narcissistic sociopaths, ideology has little real meaning. It's all about power and who has it. 061
Jim @jimdc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Psychopaths can only find ultimate meaning and purpose in absolute power. 000
Jim @jimdc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026They're all unreachable UNTIL the monster they created turns on them and looks them square in the eye and says: 'now it's your turn, you fool'. Then magically a light gets turned on in the dark souls. It's happening every day now. 000
Jim @jimdc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Trump has re-written the old adage of 'if you break it, you own it' to 'if you can't own it, break it.' The logic of vandals. 001
Jim @jimdc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026"a privilege — not a right." That appears to be Trump's attitude to Constitutional rights and ultimately democracy. 011
Jim @jimdc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026And a population culturally conditioned to be narcissistic and apathetic. 010
Jim @jimdc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026What is becoming more apparent is that AI is at its psychological roots a strategy for more power and control, for dominance. It is the ultimate tool of sociopaths. 000
Jim @jimdc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026An "increasingly fraught relationship with the global organization" is really an increasingly fraught relationship with the world. 000
Jim @jimdc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026It is not just crucial that humans have control over AI. It is crucial that ethical adults have control over AI. 120
Jim @jimdc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The more unprincipled you are, the more transactional you will be. That describes Trump and all those linked to him. 000
Jim @jimdc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026The ideal of science as an unbiased pursuit of truth also suffers. Science as an ideological tool is debased and profaned. 040
Jim @jimdc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026"there's a public waiting to be fooled." There's the core of the American Dilemma. Too many citizens waiting to be fooled, to be suckered, to be lied to. Too many. Far too many. 070
Jim @jimdc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Anyone who does not automatically obey every Trump whim is not MAGA. Anyone will not blindly follow Trump to the cool aid barrel is not MAGA. 000
Jim @jimdc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026"Trump is the most corrupt president we've ever had." That didn't happen in a vacuum. America now has the most incompetent citizens it has ever had. 010
Jim @jimdc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026We must not fall into the right wing's trap of equating 'Israel' with the Likud Party, just as we must not fall into their trap of equating loyalty to Trump with patriotism 040
Jim @jimdc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026It has become a reasonable conclusion that Thomas and Alito have a hidden agenda based in ulterior motives that have nothing to do with their responsibility to defend the rule of law under the Constitution. 030
Jim @jimdc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Zelenskyy 'doesn't want peace' for many of the same reasons Carney doesn't want Canada to become the 51st state. 071
Jim @jimdc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026If a forest burns down and no one in our MAGA government cares, did it really happen? 000
