Funny (in a sadly unintentionally ironic way) that the two responses this has gotten so far are both examples of how seductive and effective it is..

It's not a coincidence that Machiavelli outlined the divide and conquer strategy 500 years ago. It was and still is one of the simplest and most effective ways psychopathic shitstains can hold onto power in the face of what would otherwise be wholly deserved condemnation and opposition.

Nah - I don't think it's any sort of dog whistle. It's more in the nature of sour grapes. It's an incel thing - they fantasize about proactively refusing to have sex with women who would never be willing to have sex with them in the first place

I don't think I've ever seen commentary like this offered up by a guy who actually stood even the slightest chance of actually having sex with whatever woman he's complaining about.

Jeremy looks like the sort of guy who thinks the waitress is coming on to him because she smiled and called him "hon."

I hear you - I'm the one who posted it in the first place.

To be fair, they did keep the fact that it's AI as quiet as possible.

And the thing is, it's still awesome. I'm still watching it and still enjoying it.

And I'm not quite sure what to make of that...

That's what I suspect, and not just an AI band, but an AI festival with an entire bill of AI bands.

But I still haven't found anything to verify that - there's little hints scattered through the comments, like references to "creators" and such, and a notable lack of coverage anywhere else. And, the more I've paid attention, a suspicious sameness to the audience. And there's a band elsewhere on the bill - on one of the festival compilations - that looks like five vtubers just pulled straight out of their streams and rendered with instruments.

It's disappointing. I still think the song is excellent, but my enthusiasm for it sort of dried up and blew away somewhere along the way.

It's not the artificiality - I've been listening to and watching vocaloids since the Miku Black Rock Shooter days, so virtual musicians don't bother me. It's the apparent deliberate attempt to hide what they are.

And actually, thinking about it, I could see a Teto version of that song...

Just your daily reminder that the President of the United States is a delusional narcissist with the emotional development of a toddler.

Though a bit different focus - Happiness (1998).

Undoubtedly, but it was never meant to convince anyone other than Trump, because Trump is a delusional narcissist, so if he believes something, it doesn't matter what anyone else thinks or says.

The US is stuffed to the rafters with blinkered fools who fail/refuse to face that fact, much less the plainly obvious consequences of it, but Israel isn't similarly hamstrung - they know full well that it just doesn't matter how obvious their lies are - if they can get Trump to repeat them, their job is done.

Virtually every time that Trump says something about some aspect of international relations, I get a vivid visual image of a spoiled little fat boy on an elementary school playground.

There is not and never has been any expectation that people will actually meet the work requirement.

The expectation from the very beginning, and in fact the exact point, is that people will fail to meet it, and therefore be denied, and therefore die.

The goal is to establish a society in which those who cannot or will not serve to enrich the oligarchs will be systematically culled.

Musk is king of the incels.

Fucking sociopathic piece of shit.