Anyone offering easy answers to complex questions should be suspect. And that does largely incriminate all religious groups around the world. They often espouse seemingly decent and benign ideologies. But unfortunately the mindset that latches on to those things, idealogues; are the danger. Even if the ideology themselves aren’t necessarily.

It was wrong when the West did it, and it’s wrong when China does it. And it’s wrong that it’s a fact that this statement is somehow controversial.

Then I hope to see you out in the next few days trimming the grass with tweezers. So we can all get a good chuckle. Take a lesson from the luddites. They didn’t destroy the Looms because they hated the looms. They destroyed the Looms because the owners sought to cut them out.

A tool is simply a tool. It isn’t good or bad. It’s fashy Tech Bros out for a quick buck that make it bad. Be mad at them. Not the tools. AI isn’t going to make it impossible or undesirable for us to create as we always have. Just the fash.

addendum Your value as a human shouldn’t be how useful your art is to someone else. Your art is valuable even if you’re the only one that appreciates it. And only fascists and other authoritarians will impeded your ability to create it. I for one welcome the day we see creations realized that couldn’t/wouldn’t have been realized other ways. Animations etc accelerated with better AI tweening algorithms etc. Allowing us to see truly unique even singular visions we wouldn’t have seen otherwise for example. Fuck the slop.

Possibly. But there are valid uses of ai. Uses that streamline the process, take away some of the more tedious bits. Allow the artist to create more, easier. But you’re also not wrong to imply that for a corporation that will always be the exception and not the rule

I got nothing out of this election. I’m an anarchist, kiddo. I would like to see the national republican, Democrat and especially any aspirational Vanguard parties dissolved.

I never really advocated for a candidate either. I simply pointed out repeatedly that we would be getting either a Republican or a Democrat and we would prefer the democrat. I wasn’t wrong. Not that I care about being right. I would have loved to have been wrong. Living under a Harris Administration right now. I would gladly own up to the fact that my concerns about you all amplifying fascist and foreign propaganda. To pull Democrats down and giving the Republicans a path to Victory, was hyperbolic and uninformed. I bet you would have loved that too.

And yet, the wildly one-sided rhetoric you amplified. Not just amplified, but childishly harassed everyone who would point out what was going to happen, and did happen. Literally convinced many Palestinians to vote for the man who told Netanyahu to “finish it”. And for every single one of them that voted for Trump there were multiple that didn’t vote at all. That’s on you and people like yourself. All the more hilarious because you voted for Harris in the end as well. After you spend all that time attacking her and demotivating people from voting for her. You were played for a complete chump. And that sucks.

All acrimony aside. Honestly, I bet you and I agree more than we disagree. We all make mistakes. I dearly wish that Palestine had been one of the issues we had been voting on. It wasn’t, and that’s a tragedy. But the fact that you simply can’t own up to the fact that your sincere wishes for better things for Palestine. Were manipulated and used, along with the Democrats unforced errors. To cut the margins enough for trump to win. That’s the impasse here. You don’t have to acknowledge that anyone was right. Like I said, I’d gladly give up being right to be dissatisfied living under the Harris administration right now. Just acknowledge that you were used, that you’re aware you made a mistake. That going forward you won’t repeat it. If enough people like yourself did that. We might became a force to reckon with instead of a joke.

Didn’t say it was, though your refusal to address it is pointing in that direction.

I literally addressed it in the next paragraph practically what are you even on about.

Because “put in decades of work at the state level while we keep moving right on the national level” is not a realistic solution in the face of rapidly entrenching fascism.

Tell that to the unions that felt Carter hadn’t done enough for them. Withholding their support and funding. They showed carter. He lost and the unions became irrelevant. And we had our first outright fascist in office with reagan. Tell that to all the people so uninfused with Al gore. He didn’t excite them enough he didn’t hold their hands enough despite having fantastic qualifications as a progressive and environmentalist. He just didn’t motivate the people and so we got our second fascist with Bush Jr. I could go on I mean literally what happened with Hillary Clinton yes she wasn’t inspirational no she wasn’t great but by that time so much damage had been done she was the best we could get unfortunately. And people chose Trump. And on and on and on.

We’ve had 50 years of people like yourself ignorantly trying to change things from the top down and failing. Hurting all of us. You spend decades organizing it a state level. You aren’t going to get this sort of s*** at the national level. That’s the point. Yes you have to hold your nose in the meantime. While you’re replacing all the jackasses that are the problem. But that is how you change it. Trying to force top-down change you’re just going to keep empowering fascists. I hope you’re enjoying the administration you helped.

As always, it’s hilarious that you think everyone else is the one ignoring anything. That’s a nice straw man built there and it’s nothing I’ve ever espoused or championed. The simple fact is when it comes to National presidential elections it is unfortunately a binary choice and you do have to choose between fascist and fascist light. That or just accept that you’re going to have fascist. That’s the simple point you always ignore. Why we spend so much time lecturing you. When you just get all pissy about it I don’t know. I guess it’s fun sometimes.

While we must hold our noses and do this for national presidential elections. We’ve never had to and I’ve never advocated for doing that at the local and state level. In fact far from it. I constantly advocate for taking over State parties and building them up. Or building completely new state parties to run people at the state and local level. But that’s what you always ignore.

You don’t have to in state or local elections. I’ve always told people to vote for whoever stands the best chance of winning no matter what party they’re from as long as they keep the fascist out. But when it comes to National presidential elections mathematically you have to. It’s just a fact.

I keep seeing so many people who claim to be on the left saying Democrats could win if they just supported us. Which sounds great. But then one has to wonder. Have we shown them that? We need to be the ones to bring the fight to the democrats. We’ve passively and complacently let National parties consolidate power for Generations now. And yet we pretend to be confused of when they don’t represent us for some reason.

As someone reasonably autistic that has to mask a significant amount to get through the day. I’m not candidate material. But I would I.T. the fuck out of shit for a local campaign willing to show local and National Democrats how to fight.

The question is. If you got to choose between the two. Which would you choose. Democrats are awful, but imagine how nice it would have been for nothing to happen. Ukraine and Palestine not become worse. Our allies not alienated. Roving squads of redcaps not on the street kidnapping innocent people, AND THEN FORCING THE PUBLIC TO PAY FOR THEIR BONDAGE IN A FORIEGN NATION. DENIED JUSTICE. Nothing, man; what a dream.

It’s always the ones you most suspect.

I thought it was the ark of the covenant.

Well maybe not as hard as Inigo Montoya.

This is exactly why it will unfortunately work. You go to far too many doctors dentist whatever’s offices. You will see Fox News or worse. Even at the VA you’ll see Fox News etc. When it comes to the officer core and career military people you might see some push back. But most of the enlisted will be on board for this day one sadly.

They didn’t ban it. They were the ones spreading it. Literally I can give you page after page after page of evidence. Twitter and Facebook were the main vectors it spread through unabated. The Biden Administration rightfully asking for them not to make exception to their revenge porn rules. To no avail was not the same thing.

Interesting how documents from democratic campaigns are fair game. Even dick pics of the president’s son are fair game. But when it comes to Republicans Suddenly It’s all off limits. Strange.

Or seat fillers.

So you’re saying Facebook will lose interest in the feddiverse and leave it largely unscathed to go on to do what it has always done? Not sure why people are so doom and gloom about this. This seems like the best outcome you all would want.

Currently it really isn’t up for daily driving for anyone outside developers perhaps. It is getting better. But getting ahold of even a reasonably recent Firefox compile for it is tricky for the average user last I saw. It’s very nostalgic and very snappy on older hardware for sure. I putter around on it sometimes. But I always end up back in Linux. Though I’m still glad Haiku and React exist and wish them more success.