And is also a sociopath, incapable of feeling or giving love.

True, but they had been riding a wave of Pan-Germanism prior to the Nazis. Germany had many diverse regions that didn't see each other as equals prior to the Weimar Republic.

grant all 50 states independence, and let the states come back together into whatever new nation or collection of nations they wish to form.

Kind of reminds me of this map from the Unofficial Fallout TTRPG:

Here the 48 contiguous States are divvied up between 13 Commonwealths with Alaska being part of the Northwest and Hawaii being in the Southwest.

But could Germany have ever turned back from fascism on its own, without any help whatsoever? Let's say the entire continent just let the Nazis have their way and let Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss play out their experimental new form of government out to its horrible logical conclusion. Could Germany ever come back from that? Could the world?

Is that what we said to you when it happened to you?

No, we're about as far from OK as a country can get. The world needs to unite against us and muster the largest liberation force ever seen. And I mean the entire world literally every nation that can send warriors, send them. Germans, you have been where we are. You know, all too well, where this road leads. You could not turn yourselves back from it, and so you needed the help of 4 allied world powers. Now, one of those world powers is trudging down that same road you walked almost a century ago. And, I don't think we will be able to turn ourselves back, just as you could not.

One of the things I wish we'd stop doing is treating these guys as if they are rational, coherent political actors. They are not. They are unbelievable weirdos. And not the good kind, either. They're more like the kind of weirdos that I would not be surprised if came out later that they had a collection of human thumbs in a jar in their basement.

They are not defending conservatism and tradition. They are hard selling accelerationism and the complete breakdown of our world because they've convinced themselves that in 5 or 10 or 20 years they will have an AI that can do literally anything, from telling them how to rewire their bodies to survive on Mars to teaching them how to upload their consciousnesses to the Internet and live forever as digital gods, ruling the galaxy.

And I know that sounds like comical hyperbole, but that's what they very seriously and very literally believe according to Greg Fish, a compsci grad student and popular tech blogger, who, over a decade ago, was invited to be an advisor at the Lifeboat Foundation, one of the many think tanks they set up to convince themselves that this was all possible. He gave them a hard no, and wrote some articles skeptical of them on True Slant, which is now owned by Forbes. Immediately he got calls from the Director of the Singularity Institute challenging him to a public debate. This was all over a decade ago. And since then, because of the hyperventilating discourse around AI and ChatGPT, it's only gotten much, much worse.

So, yeah, if they seem really weird and like they've been marinating in some kind of "WH40K-esque" tech religion, it's because they are, and they have.

They did. They also basically came in around the early 90's in San Francisco and all the tech hippies were like, "Yeah, we're gonna give people all these wonderful tools to create new realities and it's gonna be like a Star Trek utopia!" Then the VC investors and money men showed up and said "No, we're gonna use these tools on people to make them more predictable." So now instead of giving people tools, tech uses tools on people.

What this guy said. Or, even better, why doesn't Captain Aggravated just go make their own movie? It's not super complicated to do, but it does require getting others involved, since nobody can do everything.

I don't want them to "cure autism" by erasing it, either. I'd rather they try to "cure autism" by improving on what it can help a human be capable of doing. That way, if we have a real-life "Butlerian Jihad" like from the lore of Dune, we have Mentats (human computers) to replace "thinking machines"(AI and computers).

As I recall, the reason the Federation outlawed genetic manipulation is due to what happened with the Eugenics Wars, the details of which are murky due to temporal interference, but one of the root causes was clear. While the end results of genetic engineering (Khan Noonien-Singh and his Augments) were undoubtedly superior to normal humans in every way, they also incredibly aggressive and arrogant, a flaw their creators could not correct, as the science was still in its infancy. One of the scientists remarked that "Superior ability breeds superior ambition".

And in the US, religious assholes want to ban IVF for exactly this reason, because it's "playing God".

Evil sustains. Not sure why and science has yet to yield answers. One of the Rothschilds would get continued organ transplants to sustain his life, often from organ donors who did not know they were organ donors, usually from third-world countries.

He actually said at his most recent press conference that he's upset because he hasn't been golfing for the last three weeks.

Well, the circus is getting too expensive and the bread is out of stock, and you can't distract a rumbling belly for long. My argument stands. We know they're all full of shit. They know they're all full of shit. They know that we know, and we know that they know that we know. These "games" aren't fun, anymore, so why keep playing? Then again, I suppose nobody ever asks the chess pieces if they're enjoying the game as much as the players are.

Right, I know it's under attack, but why then hasn't media just dispensed with the pretense? Life would be so much easier if people stopped lying to each other, putting on fronts and making pretentions at being something or someone they're not. It's like, we know they're full of shit, they know they're full of shit. They know that we know, and we know that they know. So, what's the point of keeping up this bullshit game any longer?

Uh, that's why I said the fascists are still working on it. We'll know it's really gone when shows like COPS can no longer say, "All suspects shown are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law."

Just as they are always meant to write "The suspect" not "The criminal".

For now, anyway. Due process and the presumption of innocence are still holding up, but the fascists are working hard on that one.

Initially, wasn't Occupy a protest about the post-recession bank bailouts? Then the production team for Good Morning America put a self-proclaimed representative of Occupy, a "female-presenting person" named Ketchup, in the studio to ask them questions about it, and they had no media coaching whatsoever.

Ooh I should send one, too. Call him out for a little 1v1 and see if he shows up or if Feds do.