then lobby your government

First of all, only 5% of people live in the United States. Saying “your government” as if it’s the only one is bad practice. There are countless other governments out there. Secondly, I don’t know if the U.S. Gov’t can easily be lobbied by grassroots movements as opposed to local bundle-state governments. An example is Oregon, which is a very left-leaning state that has provided welfare to its citizens, even if the federal government can’t.

microsoft is a corp, they’re only beholden to profit. even if they could give a shit about the poors they wouldn’t unless it could make pretty lines go up.

This is why you should find ways to oppose this:

1. Vote and campaign in your bundle-state. Getting the entire federal government to do something is hard, but getting Pennsylvania, the holder of Three-Mile Island, to intervene and declare it illegal to build nuclear power plants there is easier, not just because you need less votes, but because most people who live in PA probably remember what happened there.
2. Do sabotage. This will not just be the government going against Microsoft, but the people as well. You can block trucks from coming in, you can vandalize the property, break stuff, and steal things. People of all political positions have done this successfully.
3. Boycott Microsoft, or do economic action against them. You know about something Microsoft doesn’t like? Make it bigger. Get people on a Linux distro. Have people keep the computers they bought, and buy used computers so you don’t give money to Microsoft. In xUbuntu there is a host of applications that effectively replace the Microsoft Office Suite, if you ever needed that.

i don’t mean to be a dick but this is poor rhetoric. “their nuclear power plant is selfish and bad bc i said so >:(“ really only serves to give libs canon fodder for the “personal responsibility^tm” gun.

All you need to do is show them how bad AI is and they’ll understand why its a bad thing, and then show them the solutions. The rhetoric isn’t just “they’re hogging our energy”, it’s “AI is a really bad thing that clogs up the internet, and it could be used to fake evidence and make CSM, and the resources for its operation could be used for better ends.” A big problem is that people think AI is unstoppable. It has nothing to do with the rhetoric of personal responsibility, and everything with AI looking like an unyielding miracle weapon. Showing how much AI takes to run strips it of its terror, and emboldens people to take action against it, since they know the devil is not as terrible as he is painted.

ik it seems like pedantry but this is a serious issue with leftist messaging in the modern world.

The real issue is that Leftists need to become more populist and aligned with the blue-collar working class of miners, farmers, and factory workers rather than the white-collar working class of filmmakers, game designers, and programmers. Many people assumed that blue-collar work would become obsolete, and I guess that due to the internet, more leftist ideas spread there than in the real world. The academization of Leftism is long and complicated, and has a lot to do with the growth of communication technology and the fall of the Berlin Wall, but I’d still argue that such academization is what made Leftism as impotent as it is. What needs to be done for Leftism is a “touching grass” of sorts, and a focus away from schools and universities and towards fields and factories. Leftism post-Biden should be modeled after the successes of Vladimir Lenin, Ho Chi Minh, and Mao Zedong, rather than the failures of Ralph Nader, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama.

I think it’s fine to bitch about technology.

AI is not a development in technology. It’s like Flexplay, asbestos filters for cigarettes, and leaded gasoline.

• Clip art from the 90’s was made with passion
• It didn’t threaten the environment as much
• There wasn’t any attempt to outdo real artists
• You don’t have it as a business model
• There isn’t an uproar about it
• Nothing was stolen to make the clip art

This is very confusing. AI also isn’t technological progress, just like how leaded gasoline and Flexplay wasn’t technological progress.

This “art” costs far more environmentally than any other. It uses mass amounts of electricity and water. It’s nothing like, say, eating steak instead of salad, or driving a pickup truck to work. The “miracle” of AI has to come from somewhere, after all.

Disabled people can make great art. They can also hire someone else to help them; people who work succeed more together than apart.

I also think that having someone make a nice image is not worth the sheer amount of electrical energy and water cooling needed to power the datacenters.

If you’re talking about YouTube, that place is already hell for video creators. Many organizations, like PragerU, were already funded by fracking companies to make their videos, and they’d have an easier time covering the costs, or convincing people or the government that something else caused the cancer. The internet needs a socialist overhaul, really, and I can’t find anything else that doesn’t spawn new problems.

The problem still remains that these were not the people with social capital. Those who shifted society towards the right didn’t go on 4chan and start raids. They funded outlets like the Daily Wire and Prager University. Even the most loving gay couple, or harmless transgender woman goes up against “normalcy”, i.e. the hegemonic culture that people consider normal. Thus, such a culture will find ways to demonize said gay couple, or trans woman, thru any means possible. If 4chan didn’t exist, they’d find another way.

I know that the stuff written in 4chan was awful, but I think that having it as even a major catalyst for fascism globally is very reductive, and doesn’t explain things like conservatives rejecting the Alt-Right, or Democrats simply siding with the party, or various megacorporations funding mass media like Fox News and PragerU, or think-tanks like the Heritage Foundation. Obama did nothing about it when PragerU showed up in 2015 or so, and Biden did little about hate-speech when he was president, but what he did could be weaponized against anti-fascists. For those saying that he was too old to accomplish this, the rest of the party that was younger made the same liberal mistakes he did, and Trump also had his moments where he was babbling, making Biden inexcusable.

If Hillary got elected in '16, and banned hate speech like in Germany and France, it wouldn’t make much a difference in the big picture because they wouldn’t fix the problems with society that made fascism appealing in the first place, because both parties are funded by housing companies, medical companies that charge insane amounts, car companies, the Military-Industrial Complex, and the Israeli apartheid state. She could certainly amend the constitution to allow her to take down 4chan, or actively police YouTube for anti-semites, but when she runs up against the fuel of fascist dialogue, things break down, and she’d probably be ousted from her own party like Bernie Sanders. This is why Pepsi-Cola actively donated money to Texas Republican lawmakers. The people that actually run fascism are the people who have always ran the economy, them being billionaires like Theil and Yarvin, and when speech breaks down, what remains is class interest. Said interest is not of a parent protecting their children, but of a witch fattening up Hansel and Gretel.

Back when asbestos was banned, everyone trusted the government. Nobody trusts the government anymore because of its constant foreign wars, corrupt candidates, and human rights abuses. We cannot do things like mandate vaccines and ban cars if the very government that would enforce that ban is this tyrannical and shitty.

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Trick her into giving you all her money. This seems like prime scam real estate. Get some olive oil, jack up the price, and tell her you’re selling “essential oils”. Or scare her by making her believe you’re God incarnate. Or kill her and take her wallet lmao

Terraria

We’re going to have to develop anti-drone tactics.

If you are a trans person in Cascadia, consider fighting for Cascadian indepence, or if you live somewhere else, fight for any indepenence movement you can find. Do not let your fear prevent you from dealing a blow to the United States, because it’s a worthless nation.

Beautiful. In fact, under royalty, people used to be killed with things like the Breaking Wheel and being boiled alive, which makes the Guillotine a far more humane punishment. I’m tempted, though, to say that “nothing ever happens” and assume the U.S. will proceed as normal.

Thank you for answering. The question was in such a primordial state that I had to post it here, since I couldn’t find many of the words. I have now seen that some branches of Critical Theory have been used to design a theoretical deliberative democracy that could be used someday, and not have as many problems as today. There is also work by very new authors to use Critical Theory to answer “What is to be done?”, which I wondered was possible.

Well, has it solved global conflicts? Has any president or other great leader been influenced by Critical Theory? Has there been a successful government program or popular revolution based on Critical Theory? Has Critical Theory solved problems of hunger, or any resource shortage? Has Critical Theory made laws easier to understand and more fair? Things like that. I keep hearing about it, and altho some right-wingers say it’s evil, other people have more confusing answers. I’m a more classical Marxist, and I’ve read through some of it, but I can’t understand if it would help the proletariat towards revolution, or just well-being in general.