Had a liberal tell me that I am “purity testing” Bernie Sanders for not calling whats going on in Israel a genocide. I really feel there’s no point talking to these people unless its in person or you have a relationship with them

Id imagine alot of people who are communists in the west started as reactionaries. Probably not as extreme of examples as you are asking for

But did any congress person face consequences for voting for the Iraq war? Our system has no accountability. They would vote for war in Iran then years later when its viewed as a huge blunder theyll just ignore it

Chuck Schumer: This is an abuse of power. We demand answers from the president!

: because I can

Schumer: ah, very well then

I agree with you, but I also wonder how Iran’s economy is impacted? Isnt it also shutdown?

I think if you view the protests as the end goal, then yea they are pointless. Libs are mad and need a way to let out that frustration and the protests are the most effective way to absorb it. It doesnt require them to get too far out of their comfort zone or face the systemic question of how we got to this point in the first place.

As leftists i think we can view these protests as a sort of “career fair” for trying to organize people. We need to go to where the people are at and i feel like a liberal at a protest is on the path to being radicalized and forming a revolutionary consciousness, but there still needs to be some sort of nudge to get there. The nudge will have to be from another human being because social relations do dominate people’s conscious.

Theres also a sense of solidarity that builds up when you are among others who are also sharing in the disatisfaction.

I really believed they were infected by liberal brainworms. they are not

Saw on telegram they said this was fake

I really do see the general opinion of Israel shifting. I was telling a coworker, who I consider apolitical, about the Iran strikes and he put up a fist.

Kinda feels like decades of anti-imperialist struggle is going to be all for naught because of feckless liberals

But lets wait and see what Iran does. Im not holding my breath though.

In bad country, cars have more rights than people

Chairman Mao, even in your death, your legacy rages on. Thank you for guiding me away from the darkness of the West to the light that is the CPC. We truly have nothing to lose but our chains.

That is also what i see happening if he wins. And honestly, i dont even know if he could do much as mayor even if he tried. The system is corrupt as fuck, theres no reforming it

Banger

I wouldve thought texas or new york have stronger identities

Realistically there needs to be some sort of national or ethnic identity for a state to balkanize. I dont think a strong one exists that connects the people of california

Short term it’s probably going to be like how Israel uses it. Basically, set it up to do some data analytics and then say “the robot told us to murder those children because they were Hamas terrorists”

Yes, realistically this is what I see happening, but to a greater degree as big tech tries to get the military to employ their AI systems

Correct, but, from my understanding, there is a connection in that the capital employed to build LLMs can also be used for general AI.

And for the record I don’t think text prediction AI is going to become sentient. It will advance in other ways, whatever capitalists want it to be advanced towards. Maybe even it will produce things that we enjoy consuming and cannot distinguish between something a human produced.

I agree that technologically we are far off from having a fully autonomous military. However the economic crises we are facing is not far off though and thats what makes me wonder how the military will try to use AI.

It will advance. Just because its in that state now, doesnt mean it will always be.