In many fictional universes, they do move your particles from one spot to the next, though. And even if you want to think of it as a new entity, it’s a 1:1 copy including the body, which is IMO a critical difference to recreating a human brain in digital space.

They don’t hate just the children, they hate everyone who isn’t the 0.1%. As for why their voters are falling for it? Propaganda works.

Hard to top Meta right now. Propaganda enables all the other bullshit from the likes of Nestle, fossil fuel companies, certain car makers, surveillance companies etc., and people don’t even get that Facebook and Instagram are even an issue beyond “social media is inherently bad”-sentiments (in contrast to x/twitter, which saw a large exodus recently).

Though if I’m honest, it’s not just social media - even “respectable” print and tv publications have been pushing the “brown people are violent criminals”-narrative, which is pretty much entirely a fabrication according to statistics (at least here in Germany).

You really think he doesn’t have any disorders? He’s a dead ringer for autism.

lacking in social interactions due to lack of empathy and inability to recognize social patterns such as nuanced jokes

Autism.

Stupid, or just cynical and evil?

I’d like to point out that I’m european, not american - this is the opposite of calling each other hypocrites.

It’s not like most european countries are in a good position to justifiably point fingers here …

I guess apathy is slightly better than hate, but it’s kind of hard to be proud that so many people see all this hate and chose to not vote.