I suppose it wouldn’t matter at that point? I’m not sure what you mean exactly. There’s a lot of instability in America right now as it tries to become fully fascist, and I think the world (to any Americans reading this — this includes you too!) has to decide whether they’re fine with it or not, which will in turn affect its success in becoming fully fascist. Anything done to make it harder for the transformation to complete could turn the tide, since they’re more vulnerable while things are in motion. Once it’s done and that becomes the norm, it’s going to become much more difficult.

I get where you’re coming from. I’m no fan of China and they’re definitely fascist in my book, but if I had to choose between China and this America, then definitely China. The reason being that a successful fascist America will add even more suffering to the world than there already is. Still, I would prefer an option from a democratic country succeeds — although if we’re talking strictly local use of Chinese (or even US) tech, I don’t really see how that helps the country itself. To the high seas, as they say.

The more subscriptions Mistral get, the more they’re able to compete with the US offerings.

That’s true. I’m still on free. How much for the Pro?

Oh yeah, local is a different story. I’d probably look into something like what you mentioned if I had the hardware, but atm I’m more interested in finding 1-1 alternatives to these tech behemoths, ones that anyone can use with the same level of convenience.

Le Chat by Mistral is a France-based (and EU abiding) alternative to ChatGPT. Works fine for me so far.

Yup, and always will be, because the antiwoke worldview is so delusional that it calls empirical reality “woke”. Thus, an AI that responds truthfully will always be woke.

Only the good actions. It’s how they justify keeping all the profits. The bad actions are never their fault though.

Truuuuue

They’re still in denial and complaining about crazy lefties who are after Elon, poor guy!

I’d also add the fact that his donors might have not liked the idea of a government shutdown causing further turbulence to the stock market.

Internalizing the “your vote only matters in purple states” will turn it into a self fulfilling prophecy.

Previously blue states have turned purple, previously purple states have turned red. Nothing is set in stone, although resting on your laurels (if your state is blue) or giving up (if your state is red) will all but guarantee that the changes will only happen in one direction: the bad one.

In 2020, Texas would have gone blue were it not for Ken Paxton purging mail-in votes, by Paxton’s own admission.

Nothing is set in stone, so you need fight for every inch.

Honestly, “malicious” doesn’t even begin to describe it. It’s more like demonic at this point.

Truuuue

Hey now, don’t you know that the biggest sin is agreeing with liberals? There’s practically no difference between liberals and fascists because I read somewhere that “if you scratch a liberal, a fascist bleeds” and my takeaway from that was that liberals and fascists are literally identical and both sides are the same. I am very smart. (/s)

Yep. It’s my go-to video explainer for “freedom cities” aka network states.

First off, this video is obligatory watching on the topic. Go watch it now if you haven’t.

Ok, back to Próspera. From the Wikipedia article:

The company is financed by several investors and venture capital firms, including Balaji Srinivasan, Peter Thiel, and Marc Andreessen, through the venture capital company Pronomos Capital.

It’s literally the same guys, and they’re trying it in the US too btw.

That Balaji guy in particular is the one who came up with the idea of “freedom cities”, which he calls network states. He’s also a follower of Curtis Yarvin, obviously, and just like him he’s a two bit fascist crank who thinks he’s of superior IQ.

Nobody’s saying otherwise.

Look. You need a lot of people to actually fight this thing, millions actually, and it’s preferable this fight happens while there’s still a pretense of democracy left.

Yes, it’s helpful to frame the fight around Musk to get the point across, and you can be as mean and threatening towards him as you want — but don’t forget you’re up against a whole system here, not just Musk! If someone actually did something to him, you’d get martial law the next day and everyone vaguely leftist would get shot in the head. You don’t want that!

Get people on your side, organize, and attack the system, and do it as legally as possible. Make them (by which I mean the party, starting with local officials) afraid of how many of you there are. Use Musk as the symbol of evil around which to get people angry, don’t advocate for someone to make him a martyr…

(removed — sorry this thread is too fedposty for my liking)

(removed — sorry this thread is too fedposty for my liking)