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Previously unseen levels of burying the lede here. Truly a generational run by those unwilling to hold those in power accountable for their lack of action.

I think the second part is giving them too much credit. The whole business world has coalesced around Claude over the last month or so and the admin just wants the shiny new toy everyone else has so it can be used to kill and surveil and who would guess that the pedophile presidency doesn’t do well with being told no.

On the other hand, the whole culture war gambit could backfire because of how remarkably shitty the other models are by comparison. What’s a chud to do when the woke model and the OSS Chinese models far outclass Elon’s good ol CP robot?

Agree with you on the organization front. Awakening mass class consciousness should be the focal point of every single person left of center.

The flooding of the zone continues

The post war economy created the most prosperous working class in history but at whose expense?

The entire post-war period is littered with the US toppling third world anti-imperial movements for the sake of bolstering its position in the world/gaining economic advantage. It’s a farce. It was unsustainable. It required the slaughter of countless people to hold up that US economy. And that’s not even getting to the modern imperialist project held up by the IMF, forcing disadvantaged nations to essentially fully give themselves over to American corporations with no material gain on their part.

This and other events are the source of the tech joke that AI stands for “Actually Indians”

There’s a type of dude who was a teen during Bush 2 and pins that time in his life as being a leftist because he hated Bush but it’s actually because he was just contrarian teenage boy who didn’t like someone telling him what to do. Guys like this are so politically and culturally irrelevant that they aren’t even worth engaging with. It’s always the dumbest guy you know from growing up who didn’t ever pay attention in class who now says things like “they shoulda taught us taxes instead of algebra!”

Plus influence operations are engaging with and creating memetic content to create the perception of mass movements — not writing 25 paragraph essays about Marxism.

I feel like that has more to do with the need to map the Freseni stand-in to a realistic character that also allows for the commentary on right-wing racial and humiliation fetish stuff more than anything tbh

I know we are all onto the whole “cops are publicly subsidized paramilitary who act on behalf of capital” beat but I’m genuinely shocked that stuff like killology training hasn’t made it obvious to more libs

Appealing to norms and traditions in a post-truth fascist society is something alright

Agreed. I would say yeah we likely are at one of those historical inflection points. But I think what we do in the interstitial period matters a lot. It’s now apparent that these systems that we were told were immovable can be dismantled rather quickly.

The hinge point we sit on is whether or not we allow the existing ruling class to consolidate power and create the new world or if working class people take back the power that belongs to them. I think the doomer attitude favors the prior.