The elected reps are captured by business interests. Citizens united means the best marketing team wins every election. The reps do not work for citizens, why would they? Voting has been nullified, democracy is dead.
We haven't started the Democracy phase yet in the US. It's a constitutional republic and its working exactly as designed by the founding fathers. The wealthy elite stay in control of the Senate (equivalent to the House of Lords) and the citizens get to have their say in the House (equivalent to the House of Commons). In this system nothing becomes law unless approved by the Lords of the Senate.
This started as an Aristocracy with well meaning participants but its evolved into an Oligarchy just as anacyclosis[1] predicts. The next stage is Democracy and then that, eventually, crumbles into mob rule (Ochlocracy).
It's hard to take that seriously, given how obviously it's written by someone with a specific leftist agenda. For instance: "The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated." By this logic, I think every government is "fascist."
Also, the World Cup brings out a ton of patriotic songs and flags. Does everybody get fascist at World Cup time?
> "The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe"
Here's another really nice one: it cannot be falsified, as by this definition, as it takes for granted that we don't have any common threats or foes. All threats are presumed to be fake and ginned up by the fascists.
> "Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts: Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education, and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other academics to be censored or even arrested."
What about if a party disdains academia because (apart from just being a scam to get students indebted) it's become an echo chamber where only leftist discourse is welcome, and professors get fired for disagreeing with that. Which side is fascist here, now I've lost track.
What I've learned from this list is basically what I was implying in my original assertion: "Fascism" = "Anything leftists don't like"
Yep, you can see it in the way ICE operates. 10 agents jump out of several cars, they grab one helpless person and they all drive away. Like a pack of hyenas picking off a young calf.
That's alot less risky in France where the police have more than an 8th grade education, no guns, and aren't jacked up on right-wing hate propaganda 24/7. You punch a cop in the US and there's more than a 50% chance, that a given cop has been dreaming of "protecting himself" by any means necessary. In other words, you are going to get shot in the chest.
I dont think open weight models are going to be a big disrupter. At even a small scale you need a machine with 8 gpus just to run the larger models that still arent that close to SOTA. A machine like that is half a million per year. You might need a second machine for your dev environment or do fine tuning. Then you will need to hire an AI engineer who know who to tune the model. You'll probably need k8s and Dynamo expert to run infra to do the inference.
It all gets very expensive, very quickly. Sure some customers will pay this, but many, many more are just going to pay per token. It's the same model that made the hyper-scalers like AWS into giant cash cows. Only this time, tokens can be sold to both enterprises and grandma. Grandma never bought AWS, which means the market for convenient tokens is huge.
It'll get to point to where good enough for average user models will be able to be ran on common hardware. Agentic platforms are already moving towards smaller ,more efficient, and faster targeted models per agent/task/tool. Takes a bit more to setup but works great.
All your general knowledge frontier models are just going to be baked into every OS and browser. Coding is almost to point of being viable for self host.. I think the only real use for high end paid models is gonna be kinda like things now... high end scientific workloads.. professional rendering.. especially 3d and video, financials, etc.
A $4,000 mac can take you pretty far right now.. and we have the upcoming dgx hitting mainstream consumers. Give it another couple years. It's changing fast.
As we look out further, local Ai will become even better. I run a DGX Spark with qwen36moe and it is between gemini-2.5 & gemini-3 capabilities. It uses around the same electricity as an incandescent light bulb, no water, token freedom.
there is a reason MSFT is down and not recovering. No matter the product, no one ever has anythi g good to say about microsoft. How can they be sooo bad at litterally everything and stay in business?
Haha that’s what I was joking about. I already have a Gemini bridge at gemini://g.wiki.roshangeorge.dev and I’ve had maybe two days in its history with any visitors. Funny.
Dont use the word 'elite' when describing people like this, it implies they are the best at something, which in my experience has never been the case, unless you count bullshitting and gaslighting.
im pretty sure thats the end goal. look how effective all the epstien blackmail has been. Every spy agency and tech bro are probably hatching plans to get into the blackmail business. You can control the most powerful contry in the world and you wont need a single bullet or boots on the ground. Its been outrageously successful for whoever the true puppet masters are.
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