I’m incredibly humble.

Mostly because it was trained on everyone’s stolen data but then the elite are gatekeeping it. Combined with mass theft of public funds in order to fund their AI and the billionaires end goal to create a dystopian tech overlord society.

Also when the AI hallucinates it’s extremely annoying.

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Yes, but you’ll mostly only activate this when you start asking about dangerous stuff like medical advice. They are glad to go along with any other opinion you might have.

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But it’s DIY and pretty challenging to build

Thanks for the correction I wasn’t aware of that.

Of course, it’s not like he signed up for the military to go kill brown people

Oh well not like he thought making millions of civilian casualties was totally fine or something.

Here’s a popular video. I want you to keep in mind the skull on that cap is the Totenkopf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToKcmnrE5oY

The Untermenschen in Iraq and Afghanistan which you consider subhuman.

HIV exists because someone had intercourse with a chimpanzee so that might be a part of it.

I don’t believe he’s dead

Thanks likewise. I might be wrong about Yugoslavia btw, I’ve read chapters of the book (and some other stuff some time ago) but and my knowledge on it isn’t that deep. I also watched the BE video and the BE video still seems to hold up, it’s not denying Parenti book but just adding additional important context. But I’ve already got enough stuff going on along with my posting so I don’t really feel like reading the entire history of the Bosnian war so if I’m wrong on this one I’ll just take the L.

Of course they’re related but there were real systemic atrocities committed by the Serbs against the Croats and Bosnians with NATO support of the weapons blockade and NATO then rewarded them for it with Republic Srbpska.

Likewise NATO did Iran-Contra but that doesn’t mean they somehow support Iran. Maximizing casualties on both sides is always convenient for NATO.

Did I explicitly say I didn’t want to investigate it or did I not respond to a comment? My Lemmy inbox frequently has 30+ messages from posts and occasionally I just press “read all” instead of reading everything first to clear it. If you can remind me what where this was you might be right but I don’t recall it.

Are we talking about the Bosnian war or the Kosovo war? My comments pertain to the Bosnian war and I think your quote is talking about Kosovo.

Also I’m not sure where the “BE is an imperialist” notion comes from. He’s quite explicitly saying that you’ll usually be on the right side of history by taking the opposite position of any Western narrative but this is one of the rare exceptions.

What are you even talking about right now I never had a discussion about that

I think for the book it’s moreso chapter 10: “demonizing the Serbs” https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Library:To_kill_a_nation/Demonizing_the_Serbs

The propaganda campaign to demonize the Serbs began early in the decade. One of the Slovene government’s first acts after declaring independence in 1991 was to create a well-equipped media center that would distribute vivid reports about nonexistent battles, exaggerated casualty figures, and alleged Yugoslav army (Serbian) atrocities. By depicting the brief and limited conflict in the bloodiest terms imaginable, and portraying themselves as pro-West democrats struggling against Yugoslav Communist aggressors, the Slovenes hoped to marshal international support for their cause. Not long after, the Croats and Muslims did the same by conjuring up images of a dehumanized Communist Serbian threat to Europe.

Basically the Serbs are being portrayed by Parenti as poor innocent victims of NATO, but even by just looking at the massive civilian casualty rate it’s pretty obvious that’s not going to hold. Combine that with NATO actually favoring the Serbs by blocking weapons when only the Serbs had them, and the pro-Serb resolution of the genocide, and it turns out NATO didn’t actually favor the Croats or Bosnians as like Parenti claims.

BE basically addresses that at the beginning of the video.

Between 1960 and 1980 it had one of the most vigorous growth rates

Yugoslavia was a very successful nation until the 1980’s, but after the death of Tito the economy started stagnating and then it was ripe for ethnic tensions from the populations which had existed before to resurface. The Serbs with the majority voting in favor for pro-Serbs legislation didn’t help.