They saw how people used it during the Arab Spring, and thought “what if we used it to overthrow our democracies and install people doing our biddings?”.

(Can someone check Curtis Yarvin’s public writings if he ever done so?)

They’re starting to adapt. They often claim,

• that DEI is an Orwellian term and is not really meaning what it means,
• that since discrimination is already illegal, such programs are not needed, we just need to “push harder on meritocracy” (which is funny once you realize where the term “meritocracy” comes from),
• or that these programs have “gone too far”, because they watched too much Brian Lunduke or some other people like him, who “overreport” the (supposed) overreaches of DEI programs.

“Overreporting” means that you purposefully overinflate supposed problems by bringing up the same story over and over again, which makes the problems seem way bigger than what they actually are, and at worst the people reading or watching half attended might actually think the problem occured another time. I’m from Hungary, and not only this method made people believe that “Roma crimes” and “disability benefit cheats” were way more widespread than they actually were, ultimately handing over the first landside victory to Fidesz (ironically, many of the sites doing these kinds of tactics claimed Viktor Orbán was both too far-left and Roma - Hungary has its own birther movement that makes critique of Fidesz extremely hard), and making the life harder for those groups much harder once Fidesz enacted its programs. Also thanks to overreporting, some of my relatives thought the knife attacker of Blaha Lujza square made yearly attacks for MP3 players up until MP3 players fell out of fashion in favor of smartphones, with some still warning me against bringing an MP3 player to Budapest, because the far-right “news” site kuruc info likes to post the anniversaries of said tragedies caused by Roma criminals, which was even worse in the very first years after the attack (TL;DR: They brought it up on a yearly basis).

Issue is, AI is often trained on real children, sometimes even real CSAM(allegedly), which makes the “no real children were harmed” part not necessarily 100% true.

Also since AI can generate photorealistic imagery, it also muddies the water for the real thing.

People started to claim that the people did the thing that was supposed to never happen again did them with no moral self-justifications. This lead to the same evil people getting away with evil yet again if they pull out a (usually fabricated) crime statistics, etc.

Yes, but I would have to buy the blu-rays as an artist, if I wanted to study them, meanwhile these corporations can get away with paying nothing.

But then how we can put advertisements in the Start Menu, and spy on them once our Project2025 overlords want the general populous to be fully committed to extremist christianity 24/7?

If I was on the writing team of the next SMT game and made villains like that, I’d be called “an atheistic edgelord”, who wrote a cartoonishly evil cult to satisfy my thirst for hatred of religion.

(Not that I’m not an atheistic edgelord with a hatred of organized religion, just that atheism got a bad reputation, due to many taking the “cartoonishly evil” cult’s side in the culture wars, because they didn’t blew up cars (at that time - see the cybertruck bomber).)

“Hi, I liked XY development tool having a proper GUI on Windows where can I find a non CLI…”

“LEARN TO USE NEOVIM!”

“LEARN TO USE GDB!”

“DO EVERYTHING FROM THE COMMAND LINE!”

I knew it will end up like this when protest non-voters said they won’t vote for “Holocaust Harris”…