KumaSudosa

I'm impressed by how many narratives you're able to tie me to out of the blue. And just for the record my parents are from Iran so take your "Europeans and people of European descent" bla bla narrative somewhere else. Geopolitics is filled with nefarious actors and calling out any of them is never a problem. You're a problem.

I've only ever tried to watch travel videos, yet they still feed me the occassional far-right propaganda and even islamism

And the Taiwanese 😂

So when a person shows up at your house with a gun, you should also just move out and hand it over?

Of course he was always a jerk, but I still think of a reality where Elon never went (officially) Nazi and just stuck with his otherwise important companies. Tesla being an important early mover in EVs, especially in such an oil-dependent country, and all the cool stuff SpaceX has been up to.

Governments in any nation - France deefinitely not excluded - are self-serving and following the wishes of the rich, but the common French people have always had balls!

You know that their Asian neighbours also have low birth rates, right? Then it's simply shifting the issue to another area.

Really depends on the society. South Korea, for example, is definitely genuinely threatened by its way too sharp decline - including culturally. Otherwise I agree that negative effects are generally overexaggerated and that the future will inevitably demand less human labour.

European governments and the EU definitely don't care about us, their citizens, but most do see the threat coming from USA these days, thankfully

How is that a "crazy theory"? Information control is not directly tied to capitalism but to any form of regime. The Western model and social media is, of course, strongly tied to capitalism and the desire for economic growth. How does that add to it?

There is no better regime than the West in this regard. Force things on people? You're gonna risk a revolt or dissent. 'Subtly' make people dependent on your product so they'll voluntarily use it and share everything with you while you 'subtly' control the algorithm in your favour? Now that's perfect. Social media is the ultimate tool of power and governance.

Although North Korea is a very "successful" oppressive regime, largely able to have full control over information both in and out of the country and to greatly limit desertion. I can't think of a "better" regime in this regard.

This is it.. how about these dudes stopped preparing for the apocalypse that they themselves are causing, and instead changed the reality they've created, thus preventing said apocalypse from taking place in the first place..