Gotta blame foreigners for all the pain successive governments of very much local politicians bought by very much local fatcats, as well as the fatcats themselves, have inflicted on the majority of people.

By the way, this applies not just to the “immigrants” scapegoating but also to the “foreign interference” one.

At least for the richer, developer countries, the locals have way, WAY, WAY more power which they used over decades to shape the country to be what it now than foreigners.

Ever since Neoliberalism became dominat amongst mainstream “center” large parties in the West:

• Inequality has explode.
• Social Mobility has collapsed.
• The super-wealthy who are behind all of it because they paid the mainstream politicians to reduce their taxes, to have the State stop controlling, shapping or in any way participating in even the provision of life’s essentials (most notably housing), to enact policies that support big asset owners all paid for with austerity for those who income mainly comes from their work and to remove any and all oversight over money making activities, have been heavilly funding political parties that blame the consequences for the many (especially those at the lowest end of the wealth ladder) of all that on foreigners (“immigrants”, “foreign interference”) as well as News companies to parrot such ideas.

I mean, the first two things could also have made the (non-center, non-mainstream) leftwing grow, but unlike the far-right the people who have most of the wealth aren’t funding parties fighting for more equality or buying newspapers to have them spreading the idea that we should tax the rich more to pay for universal healthcare and high quality education for free or that the democratically elected state should have greater oversight over and participation in the provision of life’s essentials such as housing, so the left only ever advances amongst the well-informed and politically aware, not amongst whose beliefs come tabloid headlines, privatelly owned “news” channels and loudmouth “influencers” who make money from ragebaiting and reinforcing those views.

There are a few little leftwing victories here and there (the recent win of Die Linke in Berlin’s municipal elections, Mamdani’s election as Mayor of New York and so on), but almost all of the money and pretty much all the propaganda that passes for News nowadays is pushing rightwings views so of which being pretty much Fascist views.

For some reason when people become very successful in one field, they act like experts in everything.

I think it’s more “very successful in a public-facing high exposure field” rather than generally very succesful in a field.

Human beings tend to look up to those who are famous and, IMHO, because many if not most of famous people end up interiorizing on their side of that equation that, since so many look up to them, their opinion is more important than that of other people.

I’m not sure if they end up believing that they know better than others in fields that have nothing to do with their expertise, if they’re just leveraging that human behaviour and their fame to convince people of something they think is important, or even if they’re publicly opiniating in controversial subjects purelly to get more media attention because in their domain more public attention turns into more $$$ for them, but ultimatelly from the outside all 3 motivations yield the same behavior from the famous and hence look the same.

Well, shoving adverts in front of gamers under the flimsiest of excuses will definitelly turn around the trend of game companies going bankrupts when Microsoft purchases them …

If you tell a joke that you heard from somebody else to a friend you’re breaking the Copyright of the creator of the joke.

If Copyright was strictly enforced it would constantly intrude in people’s lives and pretty much everybody would turn against it.

The way these things work it’s up to the City Of Fargo to, after paying $10 million to this lady, go after the supplier they hired for the facial recognition service because it was not up to claimed standards and resulted in such losses for the City Of Fargo.

Calling this kind of thing “anti-semitic” implies that committing war crimes, including Genocide, is a fundamental Jewish trait.

THAT is about the most anti-semitic thing imaginable, way beyond most of the slander against Jews from the traditional anti-semites.