That’s what all political donation ads sound like

Yeah I wanted to say this too. Normal people don’t know or care. They might know who the president is but beyond that they do not give a shit. I’d be surprised if more than half of Americans recognize the name JD Vance. The average American is full of ambient bigotry, but they have no formed beliefs until the moment they try saying stuff out loud. The average person’s political affiliation is a shrug and a vote for whoever their parents voted for.

Chuds are in their own fabricated reality, as are liberals. But that veil is only so thick and the average American isn’t usually following the spectacle. Normal people are going to see people getting shot with rubber bullets and come to a conclusion that something’s being done very wrong, there’s a problem in how something is being handled. That kind of thing does get attention

Politics are completely imaginary things that happen on TV for the average American. It’s the spectacle they want. The only time it becomes real is when they personally start to feel the effects, or start to think the effects might hit them. When the TV is no longer showing old guys getting angry, but instead showing masked ICE agents shooting tear gas and shoving people into vans, then yeah it does make the average person anxious. The American is a docile animal who likes to make a lot of noise, but truly wants nothing to happen and nothing to change. Actual change is frightening and doesn’t care about politics as a spectacule.

It’s probably also very hard to spin the fact that ICE built a literal concentration camp, that looks like a concentration camp, right in Florida.

All my homies are dripped out with grass ears

Mamdani is going to sneak up behind Netanyahu and press the O button to do a knockdown move and then he’ll attach the Fulton recovery system

Then Netanyahu will be assigned to the brig on mother base

Yeah this is it right here. They like looking at their net worth increase but only in terms of money or stocks. Maybe they think once it hits a certain threshold everything will be fine, or maybe they just want to rack up the score before they die.

I think it has more to do with grok declaring itself MechaHitler and saying Jews are gonna do a white genocide

The American economy would shit itself if it were possible to simply be a quiet family that works retail jobs and raises a kid on 1 and a half incomes. Every aspect of American life for lower income people is presumed to have debt involved. Credit cards, home loans, medical debt, car payments. Those are how the gears turn and it’s what the capitalist class wants. They don’t want stable, financially independent workers. They want debt slaves who live off payday loans.

Maybe it is possible to live like Dr. Racist is suggesting, but it would involve a series of implausible circumstances to the point it’s not worth considering. It would be a family who somehow has no debt, a stable living circumstance, an assumed promotion after one year, no medical emergencies, no accidents, no layoffs, no sudden natural disasters, nothing. It would be threading a needle every single day, for the rest of their lives. Getting a royal flush every day.

What I got from it was something like “I’d rather have AIs discuss exhausting political topics rather than humans”

Like train a bunch of AIs to have political conversations, load then all on a server and then bury them somewhere. A better way of saying it would be “if these conversations are necessary, I’d rather if AIs could have them with one another instead of bothering humans.”

I don’t know why the poster thought this would be a popular sentiment on a website based around humans talking about politics (and shit and cum)

Deus Ex isn’t a political game. It’s a game about stick with the prod. Prod with the prod.

JC Denton can be black if you want though, but he’s a white guy in the sequel

I just realized I’ve been misgendering this person by accident.

Yeah even if they have a beef with the local communists for being ineffective that’s still a far cry from claiming the local communists will put them in a gulag. I don’t believe they really believe that. If they do, that’s unhinged. I mean it is true that most European parties with Communist or Marxist in the name are actually more like tepid social democrats and often have very elderly members with perhaps backwards social views. But that’s not some intractable aspect of Marxist ideology but rather the result of 20th century anti-communism efforts in Europe. Also austerity, the actual CIA, and European reactionaries stoking up anti-immigrant bigotry among the working class. There are specific historical reasons why we’ve gotten to this point.

It’s purely magical thinking to believe there will be a repeat of the conflict between anarchists and Marxists similar to 1920s post-revoultionary Russia due to…some unspecific differences in political rhetoric or what? It makes no sense. The countries I’d say are poised to have conflict of a socialist character don’t have an internal anarchist/Marxist conflict from what I’m aware of. Some examples of places I mean are like: Venezuela, where there are some anarchist communes that collaborate with the broader socialist movement. Burkina Faso, where I’m not aware of any anarchist movement or suppression at all. There’s also Niger, Haiti, and Senegal that have recently had unorganized gang-like violence that I personally think resembles class warfare. Again, no specific anarchist/Marxist conflict from where I’m aware.

I know dozens of real life organized anarchists that are ideologically incoherent because they don’t read and come from weird backgrounds, but they’re still a million times better than any online sectarian anarchist because at least my real life comrades do stuff like work at shelters and hand out food

This db0 person is the most exhausting online character I’ve ever encountered. They seem to enjoy having people yell at them. They enjoy it when there are circular arguments about nothing. They have nothing better to do?

They’re by far the most insufferable online nerd I’ve dealt with. And who is doing sectarianism about the USSR now? Why? There are so many bigger fish to fry. There’s an active genocide. There’s a fermenting possible genocide in America with the concentration camps already built.

But this person has the mental bandwidth to worry about what the tankies are up to?

I mean yeah it was a bit of culture shock the first time I visited southeast Asia and saw people eating rice with their bare hands but it didn’t make me instantly think of doodoo encrusted buttholes

I just want more games with good writing, or games that have genuinely educational value on the level of a Ken Loach directed movie. I like silly fun shoot em up games as much as anyone else but I could probably count less than ten or twenty games I’ve ever played that gave me genuine emotional movement. And I have over 1200 games in my steam account.

And I don’t think I’m being pompous when I say that, because I do like and respect games and think they often are masterpieces on the level of an important novel or movie or something. I think maybe a limiting factor with games is that unlike a novel or movie or painting, they don’t have to say much of anything, or mean anything, and they still function as interactive little escapes (sometimes).

Maybe one of y’all can recommend something for me? For reference here’s some examples of games I’ve played that I’ve felt have had genuine artistic/emotional merit:

• Sable
• Outer Wilds
• Silent Hill 2
• Some of the Suikoden games
• Heaven’s Vault
• Disco Elysium (I know it’s been said to death by now but this game is a towering achievement in terms of game writing and I really don’t feel like anything else comes close)

in my heart of hearts, @[email protected] will always be my favorite poster

most powerful energy of anyone I’ve ever encountered online, most effortlessly funny. when I finally get to die and meet Allah I’ll put in a special word for shrek, then a close second for shitbird

It’s actually a pretty neat walking sim. I’m a dork so I got into how the crosswalk signals all work and how there are different turning angles on the roads depending on if you’re in a dense urban area or out in the rural areas. I’ve been saying this for a while but it’s one of the most meticulously designed open world cities I’ve ever seen in a game.

Sure it’s sometimes shallow or there’s not a whole lot to do. I mean the design and look of it was obviously very thought out

I think Americans are primed to feel very enthusiastic about anything that tells them things they already believe, even moreso if it sounds very confident and organized. And people are already prone to woowoo stuff.

I don’t think you’d break the spell if you informed everyone it’s just lines of code that doesn’t think. A statistically significant number of Americans claim to talk with spirits and angels, or have the gift of prophecy. On the flip side the techbro types believe in garbage like the future basilisk AI that tortures evseryone forever. These same people are already deranged, all the LLM does is organize their mashed potato brains into sentences that can be read. And just about every major LLM seems primed to have a very servile, docile writing style so it’s trivial to get them to say whatever you want so long as you keep saying the same thing. They’re not well designed for confrontation.

I firmly believe one of the best ways to deal with reactionaries, woowoo types peddling scams, or conspiracy theorists is to simply tell them they’re a fucking idiot. “That sounds fucking stupid. Shut up, nerd, and never speak to me about this again.” That’s how you do it, that’s how you dispell stuff. Social embarrassment and confrontation.

An LLM won’t do that, it’ll rub a nice mental salve on your already smooth brain. It’s an actual echo chamber.

We stole this one too I think: