— You’re absolutely right. I should not have done that. Would you like me to help undo the launch?
— Yes! Quickly! Do it!
— <completely made up crap which does not work>
[1] https://www.npr.org/2025/07/09/nx-s1-5462609/grok-elon-musk-...
Then, I witnessed the answers unfolding before my eyes in real time - torrential TV and Web propaganda, warmongering, nationalism and worse of all - total acceptance of the unacceptable in a critically large portion of the country's population. Among the grandchildren of those who fought against the same things at the price of tens of millions of lives. Immediately after the Crimean takeover it was clear to me that there will be war. Many denied this, mocking and calling me a tinfoil hat.
Well, I also always used to wonder who are those morons who allowed the things go south in Terminator, 1984, Matrix, Cat's Cradle and other well-known dystopias, what kind of people they were and what did they think?
It doesn't really matter that these concerns are on the opposite sides of the imaginary axis.
What really matters is this universal drive for digging their own and the next guy's graves in too many people, always finding excuse in saying "if not us, then someone else will do it". And: "The times are different now". And: "So you're comparing AI and fascism?".
Yes. It’s crazy to me this would even need to be asked but I guess most don’t pay attention until it’s of individual significance to them.
It didn't start in 2022, it just entered a new phase. This conflict was already going since 2014, and the callings were on the wall the whole time. Warnings regarding Russia under Putin are going back at least 2 decades, it was all speculated and to some degree known where he was going to.
> Because from what I saw wars tend to pop up all of the sudden
Usually not. When they specifically happen is often sudden, but wars are usually the result of long processes. Most of the time, it's well known to the people who are involved and informed what's going on, and it just needs a single spark for a situation to explode in the predicted way.
Take the USA for example, the fears about a civil war which are around for a while now. It might happen or not, but when the country explodes, then it wasn't a sudden development happening overnight, which nobody could have seen coming, but the result of a long-running process which was heating up the political climate.
Then 2014 Maidan happened in Ukraine and all the propagandist hell broke loose in Russia.