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Primary challengers threaten to unseat House members across the country (Ben Kamisar/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/primary-challengers-threaten-house-members-democrats-age-ideology-rcna347341
http://www.memeorandum.com/260601/p35#a260601p35

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The Earaches:
🎵 Ignorance Is Ideology
#TheEaraches
https://open.spotify.com/track/6AyciMF5zPzoXVHmDWt1JE

The whole #LLM ROI thing reveals something interesting. It's basically impossible to figure out the ROI of an LLM. That makes it impossible for bean counters to make a comparison between human work and LLM work, or human work without an LLM and LLM-assisted work, to determine if the incredibly high price is worth it. But it's also impossible because you can't measure the ROI of a human, especially for skilled labor.
You can't measure the ROI of a human, because managers have no idea what people do. There's an eternally expanding amount of work designed to address this problem. But no matter how closely people are surveilled, interrogated, analyzed, there's never any real answer.
I've talked in the past about in relation to medical care. One of the dirty secrets of hospitals is that they have no way to figure out how much individual treatment costs. It's easy to understand at scale. You can know exactly how much something costs society. You can even identify patterns, using public health models, and decrease costs for society by trying to get people to avoid risky behavior (stop smoking, use protection during sex, etc). But it is absolutely not possible, at all, in any way, to figure out how much a single visit costs. This is similar to the problem of predicting climate change vs predicting the weather tomorrow in Amsterdam at 15:00. One is possible, the other is simply not.
But what is becoming painfully clear now is that this is true *everywhere*. It's trivial to know how much an industry costs. It's possible to figure out it's ROI for society. It is not possible to figure out how much value any individual worker provides. LLM ROI and cost comparison is an instance of this larger problem.
This is a problem for capitalism because it shows that the fundamental assumptions behind capitalism, that product value and labor value are quantifiable, that people can actually make comparisons between competing products, etc, are completely bullshit. The capitalist apologetics that makes up so much of economics, the lies that are told that hold this system together, are crumbling before our eyes.
If you make a lot of money, it's because you've been lucky. You have the right social networks, you have become good at convincing people to give you money. There is absolutely no way to connect that to actually providing value to society. If you make a lot of money, internalize that. Understand that you are not special, and things can change. If you don't make a lot of money, it's not because you don't provide value. Don't forget that. The system is a lie built to destroy you. Don't let it.
The ideology is sick, something something time of monsters and all that, we are together in this dying machine. We need to understand the lies. Your value can never be quantified. The way we have always figured out how to do the right thing for each other is through each other. Social connection has always guided us. But now the most socially disconnected people on the planet have hijacked the system. They direct the resources of the world, and game the system to avoid personal responsibility.
We have to build a system where everyone is accountable. We can't use abstract numbers and lies to figure things out for us. We have to build systems around people and accountability. There is no other solution.

RE: https://discuss.systems/@dan/116496481489796871
Note how it’s adopting corporate business-speke to sound all “rational” when it’s really pushing conservative ideology

A Jewish prosecutor filed charges based on law and was recused based on ideology
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/5901398-jewish-prosecutor-recusal-case/

In the new book,
Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed,
authors Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff look at the worldview that shaped Elon Musk
and the ideology that has coalesced around him.
They call Muskism “an operating system for the 21st century.”
Musk runs rocket company SpaceX, AI startup xAI, electric car maker Tesla and the social media platform X, formerly Twitter.
Musk’s political influence extends from his use of X to advance controversial ideas,

“Muskism”: Author Quinn Slobodian on How Apartheid South Africa Inspired Elon Musk’s Worldview & More
In the new book, Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed, authors Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff look at the worldview that shaped Elon Musk and the ideology that has coalesced around him. They call Muskism “an operating system for the 21st century.” Musk runs rocket company SpaceX, AI startup xAI, electric car maker Tesla and the social media platform X, formerly Twitter. Musk’s political influence extends from his use of X to advance controversial ideas, to his political donations, to the r…

There's an outbreak of Gender Ideology & it goes like this:
There are only 2 sexes, whose boundaries must not be blurred
Men: strong, workers, fighters, leaders, must have sex only with women
Women: empathetic, carers, nurturing, must have sex only with their husbands (& only for procreation)

Discussing the creeping enshittification of streaming video services with spouse
Them:
"welcome to the Hotel California—"
Me, cooperatively overlapping:
"—n Ideology. You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave"

Good example of how ads promote market ideology and not just specific companies. Don’t bother seeking mutual aid from friends when you need help moving. Buy help on the market.
This ad is considered nonpolitical, but the opposite message would be “political.”

Dear reply-and-block hasbara bot at @coffeebits@101010.pl (please feel free to report and block),
Zionism is not a race.
Zionism isn’t even a religion.
Zionism is a settler colonialist, genocidal ideology.
Not all Jews are Zionists and not all Zionists are Jews.
And it’s not libel if it’s true.
#israel

What is so bewildering about Trump’s cruelty is how it has been allowed to pass, its casualness.
Donald Trump hovers above the circus of death and chaos.
Trump defies attempts to make his actions cohere with any particular strategy.
His wars, killing of innocents, and indeed, the threatening of entire civilisations are reshaping the world,
but without him even having orchestrated some master plan.
He is animated by little more than momentary impulses and resent…

Neoliberal capitalist ideology militates against fairness, and consequently undermines the support base of democracy.

The Trump admin is going after violent leftists and their twisted ideology (Miranda Devine/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/05/13/opinion/miranda-devine-the-trump-admin-is-going-after-violent-leftists-and-their-twisted-ideology/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260514/p31#a260514p31

No philosophy, ideology nor belief. Just tribalism and blind loyalty.
#USpol #Kimmel #MichaelKnowles #maga

Trump’s constant
self-aggrandisement,
his grudges against political adversaries,
the fury at being challenged by the press,
the revenge he promises to wreak on the Iranian regime.
All are ways to erase and avoid what is a permanent terror of humiliation and obsolescence.
“Think of Benito Mussolini,”
wrote the journalist Barbara Grizzuti Harrison in the LA Times,
“jackbooted,
lantern-jawed,
squeakily bombastic,
posturing from…

Techdirt piece suggesting that Palantir has gone so far into Trumpist ideology, that they may have become untenable for any government that seeks to show itself as distinct from Trumpism.
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/20/palantir-goes-mask-off-for-…

Palantir Goes Mask-Off For Fascism. It Won’t End Well.
Earlier this month, Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that “Palantir Technologies (PLTR) has proven to have great war fighting capabilities and equipment. Just ask our enemies!!!” — n…

When you look at Trump's foreign policy
—from Greenland to Iran
—there’s little ideology,
but lots of self-enrichment
and glory-seeking
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/72662/the-trump-admini…

The Trump administration still isn’t fascist
When you look at its foreign policy—from Greenland to Iran—there’s little ideology, but lots of self-enrichment and glory

The Heritage Foundation,
author of the Project 2025 roadmap guiding the second Trump administration’s legislative agenda,
has a new policy platform chock-full of ideas that could steer mothers out of the paid workforce.
In January, the right-wing organization released a 168-page report called
“Saving America by Saving the Family: A Foundation for the Next 250 Years,”
which suggests that U.S. women have gotten a raw deal thanks in large part to contemporary femin…

Heritage Foundation Wants to “Save the Family” by Further Undermining Child Care
Child care was already hard to access in the US. Right-wing ideology is making it even harder.

Last week, the White House released the 2026 U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy.
As far as strategies go, the document falls far short of previous counterterrorism strategies
and is riddled with partisanship, misplaced assumptions, and a failure to grasp the nuance of terrorists’ ideology and modus operandi.
The document represents a departure from the professionalism and seriousness afforded to previous counterterrorism strategies and appears to mis-prioritize the most immine…

What Makes Trump’s New Counterterrorism Strategy So Alarming
Most worrisome are the terrorist threats missing from the document.

The Military Religious Freedom Foundationhas received a litany of complaints about religious ideology seeping into military orders since the U.S. and Israel began bombing Iran,
independent journalist Jon Larsen first reported.
Mikey Weinstein, founder and president of MRFF,
a nonprofit group established 21 years ago that focuses on ensuring constitutional protections for service members,
spoke with HuffPost by phone Tuesday morning and illuminated some details of the…

Soldier Details Chilling Messaging From Higher-Ups About ‘God’s Plan’ In Iran: ‘It Shocked Many Of Us’
One commander had a “big grin” on his face while saying Donald Trump “has been anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran," a service member said.

The neoconservatives,
who dominated the Pentagon and the White House after 9/11
believed the US could use force to remake the Middle East,
and their project left us with two enduring concepts that still shape American military power and politics today:
creative chaos and strategic deception.
These are the intellectual doctrines of neoconservatism,
an ideology that bears constant re-examination.
Legacy One: Creative chaos
The intellectual arch…

The carrier of creative chaos
On March 31, the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush departed naval station Norfolk in Virginia, bound for the Middle East to join the other three carriers (USS Lincoln, Tripoli and New Orleans) …