lmao the implication that reddit mods are tankies at the bottom
i keep seeing this news and thinking "commander" is used as a title for joe biden. brandon off the shits
Fascism and neoliberalism aren't mutually exclusive, though I see what you're getting at.
i'm thinking about their claim that "the predominant topic of discussion" among tankies is the uyghur "genocide." like bro there's 99 more percentiles of non-uyghur related topics. i see a post about xinjiang on here like once a month.
I think that it's just a technology like any other, and we can't get caught up in Ludditism. New technologies will always be misused in the interest of capitalist growth. Art has long, long been commodified, and this is just the next step in devaluing its creators - just like any other industry. Besides, in this situation specifically there's not really anything you could do to fight back against it - there's no factory to burn down. People have been trying to extend copyright laws to crack down on AI art, but like. Come on.
Everything you say is beautiful and true.