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SwaggBoy McGee retweeted
"Recently, senior executives at Salesforce have admitted, both internally and publicly, that they massively overestimated AI’s capabilities. They have found that AI simply can’t cope with the complex nature of customer service and totally fails at nuanced issues, escalations, and
SwaggBoy McGee retweeted
世の中の物語の多くは、「夢を成し遂げる」「復讐を果たす」、あるいは「恋を成就させる」までで終わる。
なぜなら、その先にある「リアリティのある生活」からドラマを掬い上げ、エンタメとして成立させるのは、作家にとってあまりに過酷で難しい作業だからだ。
僕自身、『宇宙兄弟』という作品に関わる中で、「夢を叶えた後の日常」を描き続けることの難易度を小山さんが感じているのを、ずっと見てきた。
だからこそ、一ファンでしかないけど、『ヴィンランド・サガ』が到達している領域には畏怖すら感じる。
ヴァイキングの物語と聞けば、僕たちはつい「力」と「征服」のイメージを思い浮かべる。しかしこの作品は、その中心に「戦わないこと」を選ぶ勇気を据えた特異な物語だ。
主人公トルフィンは幼少期に父を失い、復讐だけを支えに育つ。だが、その復讐心こそが彼を戦場に縛りつけ、人間性を殺していく。憎しみによって生きる者は、相手を否定することでしか自分を肯定できなくなる。そこにあるのは「戦う者の論理」への従属でしかない。
面白いのは、彼の人格を形成したアシェラッドという男が、暴力に最も精通しながら、最後の瞬間に暴力の物語を裏切る点だ。暴力の果てには虚無しかないことを、彼は知っていた。アシェラッドを失い、復讐の軸が消えたとき、トルフィンは再び考え始める。「人は何のために生きるのか」と。
父トールズの言葉がそこで再び響く。「お前に敵などいないんだ。誰にも敵などいないんだ」
これは単なる平和主義ではない。敵を想定しなければ自己を保てないという、近代社会の脆さを射抜く視線だ。
他者を排除して成立する強さは、結局のところ常に敵を探し回らねばならない。
今のSNSの議論。毎日、誰かがフォロワーを増やすプロレスだとしても新しい議論をしてる。
トルフィンが辿り着いたヴィンランドは、暴力の物語を降りた者たちが、傷だらけのまま「共に生きる道」を試みる場所だ。争わずに存在するという、極めて困難な哲学実験である。
作品は問いかける。「あなたが『敵』と呼んでいるものは、本当に敵だろうか」と。
この物語構造を見ていて思う。
僕たちは今、「勝つことを目指す時代」から「継続することを目指す時代」の転換点にいる。この作品を20年描き続けた幸村さんは、思想的に時代の最先端にいる。古い時代を描きながら。
遠藤周作が描いた愛は、幸村さんに影響を与えていたのだろうか？
『ヴィンランド・サガ』は、単なる歴史漫画ではなく、この新しい時代をどう生きるべきかを示す、教科書のような作品だと思う。
戦いを捨てることこそが、最も困難で、最も高貴な選択なのだと、この作品は教えてくれる。
月曜日の対談を前に読み直しているのだが、静かな興奮が止まらないし、心の中で作者とたくさん話してる。
対談の時間が足りないが、楽しみすぎる。
SwaggBoy McGee retweeted
You really can’t win the ebt/snap argument with these people because they’re just going to keep inventing some sort of fat savage Big Bag McGee with seven kids shit that never happens to justify starving poor people while billionaires hoard wealth
teapawt.net/SlumRNA_Dog/status/198…
SwaggBoy McGee retweeted
I don't know how someone could cut something like this down and still sleep at night.
It's like killing a god.
SwaggBoy McGee retweeted
The Wounded Knee Massacre was not a battle but the intentional killing of hundreds of Lakota Sioux by U.S. soldiers in 1890.
About 350 primarily Lakota Sioux, majority of them unarmed women, children, and elderly people, were intercepted, while moving toward Pine Ridge, by 500 soldiers from the 7th Cavalry, equipped with rifles and four Hotchkiss rapid-fire cannons set up on a hill overlooking the encampment.
The U.S. Army attempted to disarm the few warriors, (estimated 15–30 rifles, and most were older, poor-quality), who carried weapons. A scuffle broke out and reportedly a rifle went off during the confiscation. The soldiers opened fire with rifles and Hotchkiss machine guns positioned around the camp.
Estimated 250–300 of the Lakota Sioux was killed, many of them women and children, and 25 U.S Army soldiers, many likely from crossfire.
Once shooting began, it became a one-sided massacre rather than a fight, and it is also recognized rightly as a massacre, not a battle, because the Lakota were vastly outgunned, largely non-combatant, especially the women, children, and elders who made up most of the victims.
SwaggBoy McGee retweeted
🧵/ Times Charlie Kirk directly called for, supported, organized, and/or financed political violence, a thread with receipts:
Here's Charlie Kirk calling for the killing of Joe Biden
mediamatters.org/charlie-kir…
SwaggBoy McGee retweeted
The American psyche is built on a distorted self-image, a mythologized version of reality that sees the United States as the eternal "good guy" in a world of villains. This cartoonish perception is not a product of innocence, but of a deep-seated psychological need to justify a violent, exploitative past and present. The United States began as a settler colony, built on the erasure of indigenous civilizations and the forced labor of African slaves. From its inception, it was a project of conquest and domination, dressed in the rhetoric of freedom and democracy.
This foundational trauma—of theft and oppression—has led to a collective identity disorder. Americans have constructed a narrative where they are the moral center of the world, even as their actions in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, and elsewhere reveal a pattern of aggression, hypocrisy, and indifference to human suffering. The American character is shaped by a settlers’ mentality: a belief in manifest destiny, the right to expand, to consume, to dominate. It is a culture that values wealth above all else, where individualism is a mask for narcissism, and patriotism is a tool for obedience.
The decline of America is not a sudden collapse, but a slow unraveling of a civilization that has lost its moral compass. The American dream has become a nightmare for the many, as wealth inequality grows, democracy is hollowed out, and the media serves as a propaganda machine for the powerful. The American people, brainwashed by centuries of indoctrination, remain blind to their complicity in global injustice.
This is not a normal society—it is a pathological one, built on lies, violence, and the denial of history. The fiction of American exceptionalism is a crutch for a people who refuse to confront the truth of their past or the consequences of their present. Until they do, the United States will continue its slow, inevitable decline.
Dr Arshad Afzal, former faculty member, Umm Al Qura University, Makkah, KSA
SwaggBoy McGee retweeted
I’m running for President in 2028. 🗳️
My first act will be an Executive Order reversing anything signed by Felon Donald Trump.
…next will be term and age limits for Congress and Supreme Court.
Expand the Supreme Court to at least 13.
Make sure billionaires can no longer purchase elections from the people.
Balance our budget for the first time since 1996.
Eliminate price gouging of Americans.
Study Universal Basic Income and its possible need as more jobs become automated over the coming decades.
Deploy law enforcement and IRS to recoup all stimulus money and covid business loans from former members of Congress.
Regulate crypto so Americans stop getting robbed by influencers and wealthy crooks.
Ensure the survival of Social Security and Medicaid.
Raise the federal minimum wage.
Election reform, focused on rank-choice voting and more viable political parties.
Ensure every United States Veteran has healthcare and a roof of some kind over their heads.
Revamping our immigration system to make the process take six months instead of six years.
Retraining Americans for jobs of the future and skilled trades so the system doesn’t have to support them.
Work with Mexico to build a border wall that benefits us both. There is no reason we shouldn’t be building solar and other renewables at the border, which we’d split with Mexico 50/50 to pay for the wall and its maintenance longterm.
Expand access to paid family leave, sick leave, and childcare.
Oversight of AI platforms.
Earmark federal funds to build homeless communities with night security. This will cut down on panhandling and tent cities popping up in unwanted areas while ensuring our unhoused population have a secure place to sleep and get water.
Dedicate federal funds to addressing school shootings and figuring out security for our children and what that looks like.
Work with the Transgender community to find a better solution that more people can live with. I’m tired of seeing these Americans treated as lesser than because they identify differently. I think education will be the key.
Request federal funds dedicated to solar and other renewable resources, like Arizona for example, where installing solar panels on every building would store electricity for resident use and surplus sale.
Request federal funds dedicated to a recycling program that would burn trash cleanly to produce power for Americans.
Ensuring equal pay for women and others.
Forgive predatory student loans.
Lower costs of prescription drugs.
Rejoin and uphold the Paris Climate Agreement.
Strengthen protections for LGBTQ+ individuals.
I will sue Ashli Babbitt’s family to recoup the exact dollar amount of taxpayer dollars they were awarded by Trump’s government.
I will revoke every January 6th pardon and reinstate judge and jury rulings.
And on the final hour of my first day, I will sign an executive order guaranteeing every transgender person that wants to serve in our armed forces is able to do so.
I’m running for President because the oath I raised my hand to didn’t come with an expiration date.
#Shead2028
SwaggBoy McGee retweeted
Every paragraph of this WSJ story is more shocking than the last:
"Agents didn’t need to develop target lists of immigrants suspected of being in the U.S. illegally, a longstanding practice, Miller said. Instead, he directed them to target Home Depot, where day laborers typically gather for hire, or 7-Eleven convenience stores. Miller bet that he and a handful of agents could go out on the streets of Washington, D.C., and arrest 30 people right away."
