It’s infuriating because it’s useless. You’re like a fish criticizing other fish for being wet.

Yes! That’s what I’m saying! You’re literally doing the same thing, do you not realize that?

Everyone generalizes, there’s nothing particularly insightful or useful about that observation. It’s trite.

Do you not see the irony of generalizing Lemmy while trying to flatten all generalizations as being the same?

Yes, and I pointed out that sometimes blaming others is correct, and sometimes it isn’t. You can’t just say “everyone likes to blame others” and pretend this is a useful insight.

That’s because duodecimal is a great system and superior to decimalization.

What you said was “you’re all the same as the right because they blame other people”

I’m pointing out how stupid that is, because sometimes, other people are to blame. The right just hates the wrong people.

It’s not “boomers” exactly, but rather, people wealthy enough to live safe and healthy lives into old age.

My parents didn’t even make it out of their 50s. That’s the reality of class war.

The right hate the wrong people. That’s it.

Is that not a sunk cost fallacy?

The sunk cost fallacy would be “we’ve already invested so much into AI, we have to keep investing into AI to make it worthwhile!” As long as we’re not pouring more resources into AI there isn’t an issue. An AI model that is already trained won’t be untrained because we stop using it, after all.

It’s like freeganism.

This is the best use for AI image generators imo: throwaway meme slop that isn’t really supposed to look very good, wouldn’t have been made otherwise, doesn’t make any money off of other people’s labor, and did not take away a labor opportunity/labor power from anyone. It’s not like the AI companies are making money off of this, not even close, they’re all bleeding to death.

Oh it’s wasting water and electricity? The water and electricity were already wasted by training, you can’t un-waste the water or electricity. In fact, if you refuse to use the AI model they trained then the water and electricity were wasted for nothing!

Oh it’s plagiarism? Oh not precious property rights, I didn’t realize we were fucking capitalists protecting the sanctity of copyright.

Okay, if you’re just talking about the DPRK having prisons and executions, yeah, obviously they do. A lot of countries do, it’s not unusual. I guess you want prison abolition and restorative justice, but the material conditions to do that don’t exist yet. We are limited by our material conditions, all a poor country can do is put people in prison and put them to work and kill the worst offenders.

But it’s a joke to smear the DPRK as being especially heinous when the US prison system exists. The DPRK could perhaps reform its prisons some, but it still needs them to maintain stability and sovereignty. The US could abolish its prisons, it just won’t.

If you need an alternative to US imperialism and tankie dictatorship, how about getting rid of any hegemony

Do you think I disagree with this?

The “”“tankie dictatorship”“” is something that exists because of hegemony. Actually existing socialist countries are responding to the empire’s meddling, that’s literally why they are the way they are. A country that does not repress counterrevolutionary forces is a country that will fall to color revolution, and we have seen this over and over and over. If Salvador Allende had immediately begun building a military apparatus to defend the revolution and criminalized counterrevolution, Chile might not have fallen to CIA meddling.

EDIT Venezuela failed here too, because they didn’t build up a military. If they had spent the past nearly-30 years since Chavez’s election building rockets and drones to shut down the Panama Canal, they could have defended the revolution. Instead, they focused on peaceful development, and we now see that was a mistake.

Those are the choices. Use violence and repression to survive, or peacefully open up and die.

Once the empire falls, these systems will need to change. Until it does, though, they’re necessary to maintain sovereignty.

Like Roe?

How many fucking times have we seen someone “executed” only to show up alive later? It’s tabloid shit.

Why no one of you tankies mention a true socialist that was elected by people (not put on the throne by soviets, or like bolsheviks just opressing and ignoring alternative parties like social-revolutionaries, that got the majority in учередительное собрание) like Salvodor Allende , who was killed during CIA-assisted coup.

That literally demonstrates why electing socialists doesn’t work! They’ll fucking kill you. Or they’ll send in a hit squad to kidnap you and hold you hostage like Maduro. The way to establish socialism is to seize power and then make sure the socialists can’t lose it ever again, not leave yourself vulnerable to US meddling.

I’m just observing that authoritarianism is essentially “water is wet” as a political concept. It’s vacuous and useless.

I can’t imagine being optimistic about anything in the US.

It can also happen that they make new precedent that compels people to disclose passwords because it’s more useful to their surveillance and border control regime.

His chatbot told him it was a great idea.

Isn’t it still working through federal court? That’s not a trivial thing.

Oh no, I’m not an anarchist. I’m a Marxist, I understand the state to be an organ by which one class represses another.

That’s why I’m saying “authoritarianism” is gibberish. There’s no other way to organize complex society. For now.

You’re not making sense. If you are you the enemy of the state, why are you pretending that non-authoritarian states exist?

They obviously don’t. A state literally can’t be built on total/absolute consent unless it’s populated by the Borg. There will always be internal opposition that needs to be repressed by authority and coerced into obedience to maintain order. Hence, gibberish.

That’s merely how is starts.