Who’d have thought Business Insider would be running interference for the neoliberal slide into end-stage capitalism, by blaming those worst affected by the collapse for the symptoms that are fucking them over?

Ah - You must be referring to the ones that funded and backed Hamas’s rise to power over the secular moderates with predictable results…

Israel.

No.

So what if now hear me out we do none of that, and do number go up instead - you know - for the shareholders?

That’s bound to work out great with their history of crashing…

Who will pay their bribes to secure a healthy pipeline of human suffering because that’s good for their investors donations to encourage more great policies and responsible governance.

But prison is so much more expensive… Looks at political donations from prison companies Ah - that’ll do it.

Why bother with representation and good policy when you can have corruption, graft, and all the wonders of late stage capitalism.

Yes - being flattered and disinterested in someone that just keeps coming back for more embarrassment is the creepy bit. It’s long past time you fucked off - this block is for your own good.

Try to work on your credulity - assuming civilians (and UN aid workers yesterday) being executed in drone strikes by a genocidal regime is all above board is evidence of a severe cognitive deficiency.

Edit: I guess we can throw the Iranian consulate on to the pile too.

What’s hard to understand is why you skipped the question I asked, and answered a different one instead.

The creation of the CSAM is unquestionably far more harmful, but I wasn’t talking about the *creation *- I was talking about the possession. The harm of the creation is already done, and whether or not the material exists after that does nothing to undo that harm.

Again, is your prescription the same as it relates to the possession, not generation of CSAM?

Yet you keep coming back for more…

Is this some kind of humiliation fetish deal? I’m flattered but not interested - if nothing else, given the dumb, inconsistent nonsense you’re spouting, I’ve got concerns about your capacity for consent.

What did I say about trotting on, again? Get to it.

There we have it folks.

You couldn’t help putting a nice little bow on my point, could you?

He’s doin’ it for the 'gram.

We can reasonably count the amount of time since Biden approved the transfer of billions of dollars worth of jets and weapons to Israel in hours.

This was always going to be a genocide - it didn’t take the weight US security apparatus to know this, but the US’s active defence of Israel from supplying the weapons being used to carry out that genocide, to vetoing various UN security council resolutions relating to the genocide, to taking inadequate action too late, Biden and the US government broadly have actively aided this genocide.

Strange of you to respond to a comment about the fakes being shared in this way…

Do you have the same prescriptions in relation to someone with a stash of CSAM, and if not, why not?

In cases like this, I favour the kind of poetic justice that only irony can deliver - leaving them strapped down to be waterboarded by one of their sewage outlets seems like a good option.

The internet made photos of trump and putin kissing shirtless.

And is that OK?

I’m going to jump in on this one and say yes - it’s mostly fine.

I look at these things through the lens of the harm they do and the benefits they deliver - consequentialism and act utilitarianism.

The benefits are artistic, comedic and political.

The “harm” is that Putin and or Trump might feel bad, maaaaaaybe enough that they’d kill themselves. All that gets put back up under benefits as far as I’m concerned - they’re both extremely powerful monsters that have done and will continue to do incredible harm.

The real harm is that such works risk normalising this treatment of regular folk, which is genuinely harmful. I think that’s unlikely, but it’s impossible to rule out.

Similarly, the dissemination of the kinds of AI fakes under discussion is a negative because they do serious,measurable harm.

You’re making highly authoritarian, essentialist arguments - I can’t imagine why you’d be getting that kind of pushback.

As you double down while getting downvoted to oblivion as everyone tells you how wrong you are, I’m sure you won’t be the…

kid (that) comes up with bullshit rationalisation for why they’re right and everyone else is wrong once they get home.

The moron defending warcrimes during a genocide with arguments that would defend Hitler is creeped out by the rule of law - I’m shocked.

You’ve been in the process of fucking right off for about a dozen posts now - get to goose stepping, Rudolph Jitler.

…before attending the definitely voluntary after work drinks and trundling home to your shoebox out in the inaka.

Yeah - fuck me for needing a reason to belive a genocidal regime drone striking civilians isn’t committing yet another warcrime, I guess.

Never mind that your logic could be used to defend the Nazis gassing millions of Jews because they don’t need to mail me justification for every person they killed - we don’t need to call for evidence - we need to give them the benefit of the doubt, right?