I’m not scared of AI ever becoming sentient and acting on it’s own. If it decides to end humanity then I don’t have a problem with going out that way. Saves me the trouble choosing how to do it myself.

What is scary is AI becoming more competent and being used by corporations and governments, not just to kill, but to surveil, oppress and torture more efficiently.

Not accurate enough. France falls into the corruption category.

That is exactly how it works.

Because the political system doesn’t allow for it. I’m sure you don’t want me to repeat myself, but it’s not possible to just elect a party who would want that. Look at the election results of past decades. You’ll see the vast majority of any parties that make it into parliaments are pro-NATO. You cannot democratically beat that.

You have not named a single country that ultimately broke with the US. They’re still subservient to it.

Why are you so keen on defending the American Empire and its puppets?

Gotta go with B. The US might be shit and you might be out of luck in Mexico too. But you’ll still be able to earn enough to emigrate somewhere else.

E would be close second for me. China, Laos, Vietnam and Thailand aren’t bad. But you might get unlucky and end up in Burma.

Wenn das mal nicht eine Schande wirkt. Deren Playtest war ziemlich grottig.

And how is it an example when they still ended up an US puppet?

Your last sentence is exactly the point. It’s a single man’s words, not the actions of a nation. On a national level no independence from the US can be achieved.

This is pure semantics.

If you can never vote for leaving NATO, then you factually cannot leave it.

Is there a comparison to physical abuse? I’d be interested in which would be the worse way of upbringing.

Yeah and where did they end up? Still in the EU and today NATO.

This is a hypocritical take. You’re specifically using the cold war as an example and claim that US vassalage is better and not actually vassalage compared to the Soviet Union. That just isn’t true.

Also you cannot just leave NATO. Leaving the EU is hard, but at least still possible. For explanation please look at the elections results of the past decades of any western country. You’d get a whopping 80-95% across the board for pro-NATO parties.

If a country were to somehow still leave NATO they’d likely face a quick invasion unless they lower themselves to ally with Russia and get guarantees.

As for the Cold War politics worked differently on both sides. The American hegemony is less implicit but still exist through it’s prevalent cultural hegemony. Consent is manufactured to stay aligned with the US up to this day. You can see this influence in official government policies, in the mass media and in the education system.

France is the only western country that has not completely succumbed to a vassal state. But the economy of all western countries has been subverted to American interests with the begining of the Marshal plan. There are no contracts stipulating the conditions of our countries vassalage to the US as if it were medieval times. So yes we can be all from puppets to vassals to lapdogs. They’re not mutually exclusive nor do they have to stay the same.

European countries have repeatedly done things that went against US interests.

Can you name examples? As far as I know European countries have not condemned America’s wars in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, the broken up Yugoslavia, etc. I cannot recall a single war or coup that European states sanctioned the US for. In the larger picture the European states also were not independent and neutral during the cold war but stood on the side of the American Empire. Hell to this day they’re part of NATO, the military arm of the American hegemony. The sole exception was De Gaulle who wanted France as it’s own great power. Furthermore America holds a cultural hegemony over the western world with its media and manufactured consent production that is spread across the world through globalization.

It does explain why the countries still cower in front of the US. The EU at large still is a lapdog for the Americans. There is nothing faulty about it.

Because most of the western EU nations became puppets of the US after WW2 during the Cold War and then eastern EU nations following the end of the Cold War.

Die Aussage positioniert sich nicht für, sondern gegen Optimismus. Eine optimistische Weltsicht ignoriert oder leugnet die Realität. Denn, wenn man die Realität so schwarz-weiß-grau aufteilen will, ist die Realität eher pessimistisch. Es ist also feige so zu tun als ob alles schon gut gehen wird, wenn es man aus Erfahrung besser wissen sollte.

Das Zitat gefällt mir aber.

“Optimismus ist Feigheit”

God I hope more people will end up shooting or beating up ICE agents. What happened to your guys second amendment?

Could is what should be. That is what we also should act according towards.

Instead of attacking symptoms, attack the root cause. Which still is capitalism. Corpos will use energy that damages the environment because they will seek the most profits and least expenses under a market economy.

LLMs and AI would still be developed under any other system. Capitalism doesn’t invent things, all it invents are ways to commodify things.