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A group of residents in Tokyo said on Wednesday they were aiming to block construction of a massive logistics and data center planned by Singaporean developer GLP, in a worrying sign for businesses looking to Japan to meet growing demand.

Hopefully a worst case scenario does not happen but that is Late Stage Capitalism.

https://datacentremagazine.com/articles/rogue-data-centres-may-need-to-be-destroyed-ai-researcher

Attendees also responded in unison and sustained applause when Harris said, “Soros, this is a serious matter,” referencing both the election and an adage of the sisterhood.

The MAGA meme makers are sure to take this out of context

We are not saying that one war is good and the other is bad.

Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsu

Because then the entire Japanese post war LDP narrative would collapse.

Can't have the wartime militarists and Imperial government portrayed as a force for unarguable evil like the German Nazi government.

Unlike Goebbels who killed people, why is it the left has to use the most extreme people who have no relation or bearing to the topic.

Vance himself compared Trump to Hitler.

https://www.businessinsider.com/jd-vance-once-thought-trump-could-become-americas-hitler-2022-4

Also the liberals who deride Trump for being a billionaire or out of touch would be forced to zip it up.

Low info there.

Vance is canny but his calculated MAGA turn may not convince that many. But in this day and age?

https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2022/04/19/americas-hitler-old-j-d-vance-message-turns-up-in-heated-senate-primary/

It remains to be seen in any case whether the successful candidate has what it takes to succeed where Mike Pence failed, and use the job as a springboard to the presidency.

Trump doesn't need to secure the evangelical base this time, its locked up, so it may be he tacks back to his fake promises to the working class like in 2016 as a strategy.

https://cardinalnews.org/2022/09/12/st-paul-lawyer-authors-book-that-says-j-d-vance-is-a-fake-hillbilly/

Political analyst Donald Nieman said he expected Vance to get the nod as an articulate messenger for Trumpism who is seen as a draw for working class white men in the crucial swing states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.

Vance is someone who came from humble beginnings and rose up a level by the power of his pen but betrayed his Appalachian roots and working class people there to ascend to the much higher levels by becoming a mouthpiece for authoritarian conservatism and private equity acquisitiveness.

Similar to Bannon he is articulate, shameless, motivated and dangerous and would be quite the piece in a Trump agenda like a Goebbels.

poor AI, if forced to learn from the garbage posted on public forums, it will be renamed AD (from dumbness)

How about Artificially Subsidized and Supplemented Simplicity (ASSS).

That could be a new data point for LLM web crawlers hungry for something new.

With all the bot farm spam it could be a death spiral feedback loop.

Not everyone is OK with that — especially as the same online forums where they've spent years contributing are increasingly flooded with AI-generated commentary mimicking what real humans might say.

Look at this site. Over the past week the number of stories about Japan or American politics have dropped off and engagement looks do be way down, judging by the number of comments.

Combined with moderation, which was often inscrutable but has gotten even more overzealous.

Top stories about cyclones in Bangladesh, a minor UN peacekeeping mission and other stories have zero comments at the top.

If one of the mods duties is too drive engagement and comment generation they are doing a poor job.

Prosecutors decided Monday not to indict Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and seven other senior Liberal Democratic Party members over a political funds scandal that has dogged Japan's ruling party since last year, citing a lack of evidence,

Short addenda as a news story, two tier justice system, waiting until about a year so the main content has passed out of the public consciousness, coming after another predictable election victory for the LDP.

The legal and political system working as intended.

He doesn’t set our wages, private-sector employers do. The last couple of PMs have been pleading the corporates to hike wage

This is trotted out every time and the LDP supplements 85s pleading with some urging and imploring.

Government works by coercion though.

That why the plebes must pay taxes and have no recourse.

But the government can set incentives, targets, like their tax breaks and stimulus to raising wages. And use the stick of penalties if companies choose to keep labor in working poverrty.

But they choose not to and maintain this farce

Government is not fulfilling it's duty as a lever of influence for the people.

Five of the eight people arrested were suspected of violating the Public Offices Election Act by damaging posters, and three were suspected of assault, Sankei Shimbun reported. One of the three was accused of assaulting a man who was filming people removing a poster.

The police move extremely swiftly with arrests related to electioneering and political campaigns.

I seem to recall many stories recently of crimes related to campaigns, especially with unreported monies, but arrests seem to have not been swift in coming.

Curious.

France has already set itself apart as a nation where people can take to the streets and stop erosion of labor rights and social safety nets by neo-liberal and conservative forces in their tracks and guard living standards for the people in a rational way.

One of the coalition's leaders, Jean-Luc Mélenchon of the far-left France Unbowed party, urged Macron to invite them to form a government, saying the alliance “is ready to govern".

This was apparent before and after the COVID crisis. And Islamicization can be limited without far-right demagoguery.

https://www.politico.eu/article/france-legislative-election-2024-second-round-front-populaire-jean-luc-melenchon-raphael-glucksmann-shock-victory/

Vive la France!

Johnson in April spearheaded a $95 billion bipartisan aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan that was opposed by allies of former President Trump in Congress.

Republican presidential candidate Trump has indicated he would quickly move to cut aid to Kyiv if elected.

The MAGA triangulation of apportioning American aid between pro-Putinism, Christian Nationalist AIPAC interests ostensible anti-CCP gestures is something new in American geo-poltics.

Call it the Great Game redux.

I would like to meet him at some point and hear from him about why he did what he did.

Compared to other assassins of political leaders in modern history the assassin of Abe looks to have the clearest and most cogent motivations apparent.

But it may not be something Mrs. Abe and the political establishment of Japan wants to look at too clearly.

Some candidates in Tokyo's gubernatorial race were criticized for making a mockery of the electoral process by posting sexually explicit posters or covering large parts of official campaigning boards with their materials,

These are the real winners and accurate expression of the popular tide.

Japanese elections, and American ones for that matter, are not a reflection of the popular will and have been gerrymandered, propagandized and monopolized out of all democratic form.

Koike, with her massive failures on COVID and the Olympics is a good representative of LDP failing forward.

Big tech firms have been rushing to pack all their products with AI ever since OpenAI launched its ChatGPT bot in late 2022.

It is why OpenAI is also invested in nuclear fusion research.

And with scaling looking to be a path to AGI the power demands will be exponential.

https://www.marketingaiinstitute.com/blog/aschenbrenner-agi-superintelligence

bone spurs

The difference is, and why Trump is not funny and dumb, is that this insulting nickname is not only true to fact but illustrates a key weakness and contradiction between the public image and private persona.

It is not a weak insult about some random feature or mannerism or about appearance like 'sleepy', 'tiny'.

It is showing how behind the 'strength' MAGA worship about Trump he did not want to risk his life for his country in war, embracing the flag is just a gesture to the nationalists, he is craven and uses his connections and wealth to get undeserved privilege.

George Carlin would have had a field day with Trump.

Trump is starting to nickname Harris, must be feeling the heat coming on.

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-kamala-harris-new-nickname-1921304

"Laffin", 'bad' and 'pathetic' seem really weak sauce though .

Well, Biden is not the only one that has been suffering from age-related cognitive decline.

Trump's lack of vocabulary has been yugely evident for ages.

At the rally, Biden said he was thankful for the support of his vice president, Kamala Harris, who has emerged as a top choice to replace him were he to step aside as the Democratic Party's standard-bearer. One person at the Madison rally held up a sign behind Biden that said, "Pass the torch, Joe."

That looks to be the buzz and the K-Hive is gearing up. Kamala has her minuses: her prosecutorial record, occasional policy boilerplate babblespeak.

But she can access the Biden campaign warchest. She is the VP. It would be difficult to pass over a POC and serving VP.

She is polling higher than Biden vis a vis Trump and has room to grow if thrust into the spotlight. She definitely could zing Trump in a debate.

She is not my choice but in the Hobson's Choice politics of the USA she looks to be it.

I think Trump just likes to go by his whim and ego and is against too much reading. He is cutting the GOP platform too. 

Huh?? Lol

Someone else doesn't like reading.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-campaign-memo-signals-plans-reduce-national-gop/story?id=111547663

So what’s bad about it? You seemed ok with the 1619 project, didn’t hear a whisper from you, why?

More ridiculous MAGA false equivalence, tu quoque.

The 1619 project is the dreaded Critical Race Theory, analysis of the effects of slavery and Jim crow and an educational primer.

For MAGA minds that is the same as Project 2025 and a Christian Nationalist corporate funded putsch to create fascism , which as Mussolini said is better termed corporatism.

“We are a coalition of more than 110 conservative groups advocating policy and personnel recommendations for the next conservative president," a statement said. “But it is ultimately up to that president, who we believe will be President Trump, to decide which recommendations to implement.”

Most of these conservative 'think' tanks are massively corporate funded and set up in the 60's to 'right' the cultural drift which scared big business and got even stronger with the relaxation of campaign regulations and financing.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/08/us/politics/think-tanks-research-and-corporate-lobbying.html

“I know nothing about Project 2025,” Trump posted on his social media website. “I have no idea who is behind it.

A bold-faced lie as the heritage Foundation have always been a part of MAGA and his first admin.

https://www.heritage.org/impact/trump-administration-embraces-heritage-foundation-policy-recommendations

I think Trump just likes to go by his whim and ego and is against too much reading. He is cutting the GOP platform too.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/29/us/politics/trump-gop-platform.html

But this year's wackiness — notably from non-candidates renting the billboard space — is proving exceptional, and residents have flooded election offices with angry calls and messages.

Pets and unconventional appearances cause this activism?

Yet the suits, guts poses, smarmy grins and meaningless slogans of the ruling uniparty who are getting away with tax fraud, bribery and getting paid off by their corporate cronies while wasting the public treasury do not raise their ire?

One candidate called AI Mayor used an image of a metallic humanoid.

I would argue two of the most highly paid jobs in most societies, politician and CEO, are very automatable at even the present tech level and the savings would be tremendous.

More than 5,000 migrants died while trying to reach Spain by sea in the first five months of this year, or the equivalent of 33 deaths per day, according to Caminando Fronteras, a Spanish charity.

A toll that is rivaling the Atlantic Slave Trade. An ongoing genocide/massacre/human rights apocalypse.

And the cause is the same as hundreds of years ago : Transnational capital and exploitation .

Meanwhile the whims of billionaires are winning and losing trillions on financial markets.

If AI is watching and aligning the motivations of much of humanity is being judged.

Bolsonaro's leftist successor President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva called for an investigation and one of his cabinet ministers called Bolsonaro's actions "smuggling."

Send Bolsonaro to the Lulag.

What a bunch of typical mad liberal talk. Roberts is no more in anyone’s pockets than the 3 activist liberal justices are in their billionaire pockets.

Patently false and citation needed.

MAGA demagogues love tu quoque fallacy but it only flies with the low-info horde.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/27/opinion/samuel-alito-clarence-thomas-ethics.html

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/27/supreme-court-bribes-gratuities-snyder-kavanaugh

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/leo-alito-court-curruption/

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-08-10/supreme-court-justice-clarence-thomas-corruption-gifts-propublica-ethics-congress

https://accountable.us/conflicted-scotus-justices-with-billionaire-buddies-hear-billionaire-bailout-case/

Conservative billionaires have their bought justices legalizing their own corruption. Sotomayor stands apart.

Vive la difference.

Interesting list of 'accomplishments' you have there. Kind of like Trump's 289 accomplishments during his admin?

*Economic Recovery**: Trickle down economics, uninhibited financialization of the economy, even called 'voodoo economics' by Bush. *

> Tax Reform : Started taxing Social Security Benefits! Setting that unfortunate regressive precedent

*Strengthening the Military**:Great friend of the Military Industrial Complex*

*Strategic Defense Initiative**: Launched a missile defense program known as “Star Wars.” How did that work out?*

*Immigration Reform**: Passed the Immigration Reform and Control Act, granting amnesty to millions. Sounds like open borders?*

*Conservative Judiciary**: Appointed conservative judges, including three Supreme Court justices. Leading to the corruption affirming judiciary of today. *

*Anti-Communism**: Supported anti-communist movements globally. Death squads in Central and South America torturing students in dungeons. *

*War on Drugs**: Expanded federal efforts to combat drug abuse. How did 'just say no' work out? *

*Republican Influence**: Strengthened the Republican Party and shifted American politics rightward. *

And Trump has shown how further rightward it can be jacked.

Quite a list of accomplishments which redound to the American people to this day.

Roberts, for one, sought in his majority opinion to downplay the impact, saying Sotomayor was striking “a tone of chilling doom that is wholly disproportionate to what the Court actually does today.”

Roberts is totally compromised by corrupt billionaire money along with the other conservative justices and they have just legitimized this corruption across a wide scope of American civic economy.

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2023/sep/29/us-supreme-court-john-roberts-ethics-scandal-recuse-thomas-alito-donor-cases

Sotomayor is on point.

The outcome is significant because Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, has been public about wanting to pursue the same boundary-obliterating conduct that defined his four years in office,

And now he has a corporate mega-funded, pseudo-academic infrastructure set up to back his putsch.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/conservative-leading-pro-trump-project-2025-suggests-new-111655303

https://www.ncronline.org/opinion/guest-voices/project-2025-us-bishops-cant-stand-silently-political-sidelines

Even traditional conservatives are horrified by Project 2025.

Some people are insanely articulate and retain the majority of their abilities well into their 90's and beyond(Bernie Sanders), others, do not(Donald Trump and Joe Biden).

We have evidence of this in today's political scene. The choice is clear.

"I will not make age an issue of this campaign," Reagan said to the question he knew was coming in perhaps the most famous mic-drop moment in campaign history. "I am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent's youth and inexperience."

One of Reagan's greatest successes was using the skill of convenient forgetfulness to evade any responsibility for one of the greatest scandals in American history, Iran/Contra.

Funding death squads, drug running into American inner cities and starting off a crack cocaine epidemic, funding one of America's enemies; it was dirty dealings on an epic scale.

Menendez, 70, maintains he is not guilty of charges that he accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in gold and cash from 2018 through 2022 in exchange for using his clout in the Senate to deliver favors benefiting three New Jersey businessmen.

Menendez doesn't know how to do it. He should have said the judges and prosecutors are fascist thugs on a witch hunt aided by their far right gestapo cabal of investigators.

The Dems at least are more invested in the system than breaking it down and imposing their own authoritarian stamp.

Prosecutors allege that Daibes delivered gold bars and cash to Menendez and his wife to get the senator’s help with a multimillion-dollar deal with a Qatari investment fund, prompting Menendez to act in ways favorable to Qatar’s government.

That said, throw the book at him and ban ME sheikdom PE from the USA.