His admin is like 17 ideologies in a trench coat

Going to steal this one.

Space is finite

I’m impressed you figured that out despite it being broadly accepted as likely an unanswerable question.

So every posibilty isn’t really a thing

No, of course not, but by the laws and facts we do know about space at a fundamental level, we know that incredibly rare events can happen, like whole universes. There’s even an equation for it. Roughly ten to the power of ten to the power of ten years before we get another universe similar to our own, and longer still for an identical copy, but nothing really precludes this idea, in fact we have very strong evidence of it happening.

And regardless a copy of you existing is not you.

Also agreed, but how did you end up experiencing this now? And who said anything about consciousness having to exist in a copy? For all you know when you die, you immediately start over a googleplex years later as some insect in a new universe that immediately gets eaten and then BAM something else equally absurd another googleplex years later. It has nothing to do with a soul or anything, just that we know that consciousness is a thing that seems to happen, and universes seem to happen, and you’re here now when you weren’t before. You can believe what you want and it doesn’t really matter, whatever is going to happen after you’re dead for an infinity is going to happen whether we believe it or understand it or not.

We are hung up on the idea of “time” but that’s just because you’re in a body that’s experiencing time. You were dead before, now you’re not. You’re not even made of the same stuff you were a year ago, you’re just consciousness temporarily emerging from a moving collection of particles and mechanical parts. How can you say for sure what’s certain?

That’s the problem though, everything is a distraction from everything else. We won’t see a shred of justice about Epstein, likely not even if republicans lose in midterms. But everything else is also wrecking society and our economy, it’s just the zebra-strategy of having too much confusing shit at once so nobody can focus on one target.

We don’t even talk about the USAID cuts and those have actively killed more people and caused more suffering than anything else Trump or Epstein have done.

There’s too much to swing at any one thing, we have to shore up and build community and mobilize both activism as well as electoral actions.

“Grok, write me a propaganda piece for my substack.”

It’s more likely a combination of both, it’s permanent lights-out, but the universe doesn’t meaningfully exist without a conscious observer, so you’ll be dead for infinity and you won’t sense any of that time passing because you’ll be dead, but even the most unlikely events become 100% certain given enough time and there are calculations for how long it takes for another universe to pop into existence. (It’s a huge number, but again, effectively zero if you’re dead.)

This may mean it’s impossible to really die forever. You won’t have memories or anything, but if space and physics is constant then at some point things will repeat and a sense of “self” will exist again. And again. And again.

I’m not looking forward to dying.

I’m fine with afterwards, it’s the process that I really, really don’t want to deal with. I’ve been dead before, we all have, it was fine. We’ll be fine, you won’t worry or feel bad at all, for like… forever. But man, I really don’t want to be locked in my body in a hospital bed for 3 weeks with inadequate painkillers and no way to do anything about it.

That would be a strong argument if I had suggested anything remotely close to not vocalizing our dissent.

Yah me too but I’m talking about the social discourse between people, towards people, not governments. There is a hateful sentiment spreading and if you haven’t seen it yet, you will. It’s just ramping up and it’s all by design.

There’s a lot of hate I see even here on Lemmy, with the sentiment of “You stupid Americans are getting what you voted for” kind of blanket aspersions. I’m fully aware that most of them are shills or astroturfers trying to incite back-and-forth anger, but it seems to work very easily and ends up in a lot of “no YOU!” arguments across social media.

Traditionally the State of the Union has been a yearly “all sides come together to get on the same page” kind of affair, it’s supposed to highlight the importance of country over politics, and it’s where the whole country gets the president’s agenda going forward so we can decide what to support or oppose. It was originally a stately and important moment in our country. Whether you liked or hated the president, when I was a child here families would gather around their televisions and tune in just to know what’s going on.

This tradition has had some drama and wild swings in the past but I can’t remember in my decades here if there’s been a sizeable number of legislators and representatives actually protesting the entire thing, people usually go there even if it’s just to “boo” and make a scene and get their clips in on social media.

Honestly it’s completely nothing and pointless right now. The State of the Union means nothing in this administration, the protesting by not attending means nothing. Trump could get up there and scream at the country that we’re going to start mining for chocolate on the moon and people are broadly going to shrug because next week he’ll be screaming that we need to start bombing wind-farms.

By his logic

Nobody here is using that shit.

Logic that is.

This is meant to do what it always did, rile up stupid hicks against a manufactured enemy and provide leverage for politicians who want to succeed on the backs of a fearful mob of hicks.

Lot of options!

We could kidnap the Prime Minister of Canada, we could nuke Greenland, we could drive tanks into some peaceful midwestern town and start a war with like, Hermann Missouri. We could drive ALL of our aircraft carriers to park off the coast of… lets throw a random dart at the board, like Kiribati? Sure we can take 'em.

“Just because your brain gives you loading screen tips, doesn’t mean those tips are accurate, sometimes your brain lies to you! Learn to analyze your thoughts and feelings before charging into a mission!”

Actual secrets are kept secret from people who have any chance of exposing secrets. There is no real such thing as overriding authority in matters of national security and technology that could turn wars. They keep that shit wrapped up until a situation gets so dire that there’s nothing left to lose.

Add to that, the commercialization of military tech, so that there are likely 100 different tech companies with huge secret programs and technology being tested who have no idea what each of the others are doing, and sure as shit won’t share anything “under oath” with congress or anyone else.

The “aliens” narrative has been a very convenient narrative for them too, just like how Q-anon was built as a misdirection from the actual child-sex cabal because nobody is going to take the claims seriously when they sound like the deranged ravings of conspiracy nuts.

The idea that we can have a “document reveal” or testimony that leads to actual conclusive anything is as absurd as the idea that we can have a document leak about Epstein that leads to anyone in power facing criminal charges.

Now now, it will also be “experts” clawing to speak in front of Congress like Avi Loeb and miscellaneous book-sellers and youtube personalities.

The ship filled with interstellar face-eating parasitic spiders parked in the middle:

“Alright boys, we got a 25 light year jump in either direction, which ones we wanna hit first?”

“I hate politics” = “I don’t want to get into an argument with some right-wing foulmouth chud who doesn’t listen to reason.”

“I don’t follow politics.” = “I am a right-wing, foulmouth chud who doesn’t listen to reason and don’t want to get fired or put on social media so I will abstain from revealing my feelings at this time.”

“I don’t understand politics.” = “For the love of fucking God, I work 6 days a week and am raising two kids and three dogs, I have to pack my entire personal life into several hours on a weekend when everything is closed, and people are trying to talk to me about the latest Epstein thing and I don’t get what I’m supposed to do about it, I just got told my insulin brand isn’t covered anymore and need to find a cheaper substitute and the insurance hotline won’t return my calls.”

Nobody is coming, there is no opposition.

Get your people together and talk to your neighbors. Get armed. Rice and beans, and generally about 2 weeks of food and water.

Get active with the voting in your state and volunteer if you can, even if all you can do is document efforts at voter suppression, you still need to be there and be involved with voting in your town, your county and your state. People like Susan Collins only remain in power because people in states don’t care nearly enough about who represents them in either local or federal house and senate.

Either delete your social media or radically edit it to reduce personal, identifying information.

Susan Collins has two modes:

Empowering nazi fascists proudly.

Frowning and wagging her finger while empowering nazi fascists (proudly.)

A few of them made an effort to keep up appearances during early rulings, but then they realized that democracy was falling so they went whole-hog with empowering fascism, and now we’re approaching what looks like a brutal mid-term sweep so the judges are backing off again from overt capitulation… we sure wouldn’t want the new house and senate to introduce bills to reform Supreme Court, right?