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  • On the post: Valve Blocks Indie Dev Game For Including IP From The Same Indie Dev In Game

    KeillRandor ( profile ), 14 May, 2026 @ 09:58am

    Had this problem with Suno...

    1) Upload a basic MP3 version of a track as a test to see what Suno does with it. 2) Try and replace said MP3 with a high-res 24-bit master, but can't because Suno says it's a copy of an existing work... (Even if/after I delete all the copies I made of and from the MP3...) FML.

  • On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

    KeillRandor ( profile ), 10 May, 2026 @ 01:15pm

    RWN

    Right-wing control and influence over pretty much all relevant media is happening all over the place, not just in the US, unfortunately. Which is why we have so many problems over here in the UK, too... (The last problem being that PM Starmer appointed someone in the Foreign Office who turned out to be incompetent, and then sacking them after they proved it - but because this by itself didn't fix the mistakes that they had already made Starmer apparently needs to go.) As usual, problems that are merely 'Tuesday' for the right-wing, (hiring (and firing-HAH) someone once they've proved their incompetence) suddenly becomes career-ending for anyone left of Hitler :P Sometimes you really need to worry about how badly we truly deserve civilization in general :(

  • On the post: The Supreme Court’s Voting Rights Ruling Is Results-Driven Cynicism, Not Law

    KeillRandor ( profile ), 02 May, 2026 @ 01:56am

    In case you haven't realised....

    The Confederacy has won the political civil war, here, guys... As such the entire concept of a 'United' States, is now effectively dead, again...

  • On the post: Dems Urge Probe Of Saudi, Chinese Money Backing The Ellisons’ Warner Bros Acquisition

    KeillRandor ( profile ), 30 Mar, 2026 @ 07:10pm

    Unfortunately a lot of the Dems have also been bought and paid for :(

  • On the post: Dems Urge Probe Of Saudi, Chinese Money Backing The Ellisons’ Warner Bros Acquisition

    KeillRandor ( profile ), 30 Mar, 2026 @ 08:32am

    Unfortunately...

    For authoritarians, hypocrisy is a feature not a bug...

  • On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

    KeillRandor ( profile ), 16 Mar, 2026 @ 07:12am

    And this is how and why authoritarians WIN - because they've managed to convince people that it's not the actual authoritarian behaviour itself that matters, but how and why it came to exist. Like I said - the right has managed to define such matters for their own benefit as a matter of propaganda, and all everyone here is doing is demonstrating just how successful such propaganda has been. But then, that's why all this was always going to be inevitable in the US - one of the most heavily propagandered nations/populaces in the world with a stong underlying authoritarian streak. I'd hope that many others of my age that were truly educated about WW2 etc. over here in Europe also wouldn't be so blind.

  • On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

    KeillRandor ( profile ), 16 Mar, 2026 @ 12:22am

    If you don't understand that he's ALWAYS been acting AS a dictator, and that far too many of his orders HAVE been obeyed by his political party, which would not otherwise have happened - (because they would make no sense otherwise) - then you've not been paying attention. I know that it can be hard to truly recognise what's hapening when you're stuck in the middle of it, but from the outside, it's pretty damn obvious. That some (and the judiciary) are resisting Trump's often ILLEGAL (dictated!) orders, does not mean they don't exist. The only thing that matters for a dictatorship to exist is for such authoritarian leader to gain power. That Trump managed to take over an existing political party and got elected does not make him 'not a dictator'. What that does, is make it a 'fascist dictatorship'. Getting him out of power IN ANY WAY does not mean it wasn't a dicatorship. But this is a problem when the 20th century was WON by the right - because it meant they got to make all the arguments and definitions in their own favour, rather than what humanity itself needs. As such you're falling for far right propaganda in not recognising how and why Trump is actually a dictator, even though the evidence is overwhelming. Will starting WW3 by fiat change you opinion?

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    KeillRandor ( profile ), 15 Mar, 2026 @ 05:51pm

    Labels...

    The common label someone would give Trump and his family, based on similar things happening elsewhere (especially in Africa) would be a 'Tinpot dictatorship' - but since he got an entire political party on board, it became a fascist dictatorship instead.

  • On the post: JD Vance: Children Of People Seeking Asylum Are Illegals That Need To Be Deported

    KeillRandor ( profile ), 29 Jan, 2026 @ 01:35pm

    Hmm...

    Turning the US (or UK) into a neo-feudalistic pariah state that no-one wants to live in (and immigrate to) is one type of solution to illegal immigration, I guess :P

  • On the post: Trump’s Fake Drug War: Pardons Honduran President Convicted Of 400 Tons, Illegally Invades & Arrests Venezuela’s President Over Weaker Charges

    KeillRandor ( profile ), 05 Jan, 2026 @ 11:31am

    Well, duh...

    It was really a combination of three things: 1: Maduro making fun of Trump's dancing. (Trump hates it when people get 'personal'). 2: The US oil barons wanting more (since the general long-term spoils of the last Iraq war have gone mainly to China). 3: Sticking it to China by removing one of their allies in the region.

  • On the post: The Fascism Is Happening Live On TV

    KeillRandor ( profile ), 25 Nov, 2025 @ 02:15pm

    Fascism...

    The US became a fascist dictatorship the moment Trump got elected again. That they're incompetent and therefore do not have the total power they want or use what they have effectively, doesn't change this. That this was always obviously going to happen (due to the knowledge of Project 2025) is why Trump's re-election remains as much of a black mark on the US as its support and use of slavery.

  • On the post: How America’s Business Elite Became Their Own Marxist Caricature

    KeillRandor ( profile ), 30 Sep, 2025 @ 02:26pm

    As I've repled elsewhere...

    Capitalism was a reaction to too few people ( monarchs etc.) having power and wealth, and the moment capitalism reaches the same point, the reversion to feudalism should also be expected.

  • On the post: Why False Equivalence Is One Of Democracy’s Most Dangerous Lies

    KeillRandor ( profile ), 25 Aug, 2025 @ 07:20am

    There IS no 'personal liberty' if you have no food, no shelter, no healthcare, clothing etc.. If you don't understand the existence of society and civilization, then you don't deserve it, do you? At which point there is nothing to defend because you're already dead.

  • On the post: Why False Equivalence Is One Of Democracy’s Most Dangerous Lies

    KeillRandor ( profile ), 11 Aug, 2025 @ 08:11pm

    The centre is NOT what even you think it is...

    To say that 'the centre is where reality lives' is STILL propaganda, based on a misunderstanding of what right and left truly represent. To try and stake any claim on this, is to therefore serve the authoritarians. Left vs right, fundamentally, ESPECIALLY in the US, is a matter of collective vs individual. But human existence is a matter of collective society, especially as great as our modern civilizations are, and so reality has a left-leaning ('liberal') bias for a good reason, and is why this alignment is what reality truly is. The reason for the stong far-right 'individualist' propaganda of the US is simply to divide and conquer on behalf of the rich, from the very beginning, which has happened multiple times, including now... And this type of response is how and why it works - when even those who want to be 'real' and stand against them still end up supporting it...

  • On the post: The Moral Imperative Of Clear Language

    KeillRandor ( profile ), 01 Jul, 2025 @ 07:16pm

    Fascism...

    Some of us (I'm from the UK) have been calling this out for a while, (before Trump even got elected the first time), but there's one unfortuante truth undermining everything in the US right now - that the US as a country just does not UNDERSTAND fascism, which is how and why a minority of actual facsists have come to control it to begin with. Unfortunately, this is also by design and intent, which is precisely how and why what is happening in the US right now has been almost inevitable for most of its existence. The problem with divide and conquer as a strategy, is that it works too well :P

  • On the post: SCOTUS Simply Ignores Precedent, Rather Than Overruling It, In Allowing Trump To Fire Officials Congress Deemed Independent

    KeillRandor ( profile ), 19 Jun, 2025 @ 01:42am

    The Spoils System IS EXACTLY what they want back - the whole point about railing against the 'deep state' is to destroy the professional civil service and return the US to a previous corrupt existence so the rich can make even more money and eventually turn the US in a neo-feudalist state (like the Norman's had in England after their invasion). When too few people have wealth and power, we go from feudalism to capitalism back to feudalism, it seems...

  • On the post: Noem Announces Military Will ‘Liberate’ LA From Democracy, Then Watches Security Throw Senator To Ground

    KeillRandor ( profile ), 13 Jun, 2025 @ 02:15am

    True End Game....

    Although there are a group of people like and around Trump that are in it for the short-term cruelty, power and any riches they can grab before it all goes to pot, there are others in the background who are more in it for the long haul. For these people, even a fascist dictatorship like the US now (unofficially) is, is still merely a stepping stone to what they truly want - neo-feudalism. And by neo-feudalism, what we really mean is the equivalent of England after the Norman invasion - rule by a 'foreign' occupation. Authoritarianism has been a default for humanity for a long time, because trying to get anything else to work at scale was an issue, and greedy selfish people kept finding ways to gain power regardless of whatever anyone did. So long as they took some of their responsibility seriously, they generally got away with it. The whole point about capitalism was because the feudal society before it concetrated wealth and power into too few hands for other greedy people, they had to separate wealth and power more than it had been. As global wealth becomes ever more concentrated, again, it should be no surprise that they want the more direct power to go with it that feudalism used to provide. Unfortuantely, this lot couldn't care less about any type of repsonsibility or patriotism etc. - they're purely in it for themselves, everyone else be damned. Even some more recent authoritarians would be disgusted with them for this reason.

  • On the post: DOGE Has Become What It Claimed To Destroy

    KeillRandor ( profile ), 12 Mar, 2025 @ 01:56am

    A lot of people don't realise that the US has already gone through that entire process form its founding, but actually succeeded in creating a 'civilized' society, due to enough immigrants from countries that already had one (e.g. Germany/Netherlands etc.). Again, the GOP (and the type of people that now support it), and now Trump and Musk want to undo all of that progress, because it's the only thing stopping them from owning the entire country. That civilization itself has become their enemy, is the entire point.

  • On the post: DOGE Has Become What It Claimed To Destroy

    KeillRandor ( profile ), 10 Mar, 2025 @ 07:50pm

    Deep State...

    The whole point about complaining about the 'Deep State' by the GOP, is part of the with to undo all progress made during the 20th Century, and revert back to The Spoils System, getting rid of the professional Civil Service. Their complaints are therefore that the Civil Service isn't corruptible enough for their liking... Of course, what they really want is to turn the US into the equivalent of the England after the Norman invasion - neo-feudalism.

  • On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

    KeillRandor ( profile ), 07 Sep, 2021 @ 05:20am

    Freedom...

    Why is your right to speech more important than my right not to associate with your speech?

    This simple question, right here, demonstrates exactly how and why the US is, has been, and always will be a country fundamentally at war with itself.

    When being created as a Federal nation, it was intended to be based on being the opposite of a monarchy, (since that's what had been rebelled against and fought for independence of).

    The problem is that merely going from one extreme to the other, only ends up causing different problems.

    For this reason, the underlying basis of the US is seen to be that of freedom TO do something, taken as far as possible, now they were free FROM a foreign monarch's rule.

    But the extremes of such freedom has never been the underlying freedom humanity has ever truly cared for - if it did, then it would want and love anarchy above all else, when we find the exact opposite is true - that it puts up with the worst of all situations just to escape from anarchy.

    For this reason, the most important freedom for humanity is the freedom from harm, death, starvation, exposure etc..

    (Of course, this also works for other types of freedom too, such as religion.)

    Since these freedoms are the underlying reason for how and why civilization, and billions of people worldwide (and hundreds of millions domestically for the US) actually live and survive, we can therefore understand how and why the US has anti-civilization extremists in numbers large enough to take over a main political party.

    Since the freedom TO do anything only matters if you're free from death and harm, it should be no surprise that many of the extremists have taken this to it's logical conclusion and are now exercising the only personal freedom that can ever matter in such context: the freedom to die.

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