cross-posted from: https://pawb.social/post/24295950
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I haven't found a Raymond in Cascadia
It was word salad a bit, but I was concerned about people either wanting to die or trying to make clever quips about it.
The term Capitalist Realism I took from Mark Fisher's book, Capitalist Realism, in which he describes people believing (at the time the book was written) that Capitalism is "human nature", applies to everything, and that all attempts to the contrary are fruitless. And when someone is buried in debt, and believes in Capitalist Realism, they'd probably commit suicide out of hopelessness. This is why it's so important to understand how socialism works, and work for its establishment.
TL;DR I understand that the problems are caused by Capitalism. They are fixable, there is still hope, and I worry about so many people considering and glorifying suicide.
This isn't a place to make clever quips. This is a person being pushed to suicide.
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.
We should make dying in battle a good thing again. The wrong kind of peace is a blight upon society.
I'm very worried about everyone here. Really, I know that there is a way out that isn't suicide--it's revolution--but it seems like you've all submitted to Capitalist Realism. I've thought about risking my life in an attempt to overthrow the state, but unlike you all, I am legitimately afraid of losing my life. It'd be such a sad note to end my life on. I wouldn't be there to see any surprising good things happen. I wouldn't get to see a socialist system established before me, and I wouldn't be able to do anything to help anyone. How come you all feel fine about death? There's nothing afterwards. There were the Viet Cong who couldn't live to see their country establish socialism, there were the Leninists who died fighting the Tsar who couldn't see the Soviet Union come to be, there were the slaves who died in Southern plantations who couldn't see Juneteenth. If you were really willing to die, you'd die in battle.
Well, you ain't been doin' nothin' if you ain't been called a Red~♪
It stands for "The (U)nited (S)oviet (S)ocialist (R)epublic (W)ill (R)ise (A)gain"
I downscaled it this time.
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The worst kind of person isn't someone who will defend free speech, it's someone who does so at first, and then stops defending it when they're in power.
I think hate speech should have repercussions, but there are lots of thoughts that are hard to explain. A big problem is the upsurge in these types of comics. I think they are not only unhelpful, but detrimental to the cause at hand when pro-Palestine protesters are being labeled "Nazis" and then detained. The problem right now clearly is the state, not the people living under the state, and someone saying a few offensive things, while evil, isn't as bad as the government being turned into a police state before our eyes, who will gladly shut us up for protesting against them. Stop worrying about the Nazis in universities and start worrying about Nazis about to run the U.S. military.