queermunist she/her

They meant “even if we ignore privacy concerns” because most people already do.

On the bright side, young people are learning about circumventing government censorship.

I see your condescension and raise it-

children’s video games

All video games are for children sweaty. 😘

But the thing is? They’re not. Billionaires would still be billionaires without attacking open source and self hosting.

The problem is that billionaires are hungry ghosts. It’s not enough to be fabulously wealthy, they just want more. Forever.

Lemmy lets me do it by typing three hyphens - - - without spaces—like this.

But I really don’t see a reason to use anything other than a hyphen - it shows I’m human!

It doesn’t necessarily look bad, but it has a certain look. Once you start to recognize AI’s tells you can’t unsee it.

I don’t think individual use matters that much. It’s slop, but if it doesn’t matter then slop is fine. It’s when institutions and companies and governments are using generated images instead of hiring an artist that it becomes a problem; an artist didn’t get paid for what is essentially stolen work and now that slop will be crammed down our throats.

I’m sure it has nothing to do with AI games being bad.

and defected to a MUCH worse country

Why do you actually think this? Obviously you believe the war in Ukraine was unprovoked and evil, but like, the US does unprovoked and evil wars far more often. The US has far more people in its prisons, and kills more people through both military and economic warfare. The US supports Israel and UAE in their barbarism, while Russia supports anti-colonial governments in the Sahel region (for cynical reasons, because those movements are kicking out the US and France, but the motivations don’t change the results).

Based on the sheer numbers, Russia is at least the lesser evil. The US is still the Great Satan.

This isn’t even new. Women and girls have been starving themselves for a lot longer than guys have been hitting themselves with hammers.

You’re the one doing revisionism, completely overlooking the part of accelerationism where they seek to accelerate development.

Accelerationists believe that capitalism is a progressive self-revolutionizing force that is rapidly creating the conditions for its own obsolescence, and so we just need to develop capitalism more and more until it revolutionizes itself away. It views free trade as a system that breaks down nationalities, automation as a system that breaks down class antagonisms, and technological singularity as the ultimate end point of capitalism where profit and private property cease to exist. We enter an age of post-scarcity and transhumanism and algorithmic government i.e. the end of history. Capitalism collapses under the weight of its own contradictions.

This is a really bad idea because unchecked capitalist development is creating conditions for human extinction. Maybe if there weren’t ecological limits the accelerationists would be right in the long-run, but in the real world we’re running into the limits to growth and capitalist development has put us on the path towards the collapse of civilization rather than merely the collapse of capitalism.

This is all in contrast to revolutionary defeatism, which predates accelerationism by almost 100 years. It is the recognition that the workers do not benefit from capitalist wars, that instead, workers should seek the defeat of their own capitalist governments. If the empire loses, the world wins. There’s no interest in developing the empire further to create the conditions for its collapse, there’s only interest in seeing it collapse. That’s like saying anyone who wants to end capitalism is an accelerationist. It’s nonsense.

Mali severed diplomatic ties after Ukraine provided intelligence to rebels, who then went on to kill dozens of Mali soldiers.

You didn’t even look it up, because you don’t care what happens to Africans.

Accelerationism would mean accelerating the growth of the empire to bring about its collapse under the weight of its own contradictions, so, voting for the best imperial managers to keep growing the empire. That means voting for Democrats, they’re better imperial governors. They’re better at doing war crimes and getting away with it.

What I want is for the empire to lose. That’s not accelerationism. That’s revolutionary defeatism.

None of our opinions mean anything, we’re both posting in an obscure underwater basket weaving forum, get over yourself. 🙄

What goes around, comes around.

I don’t think you know what that means.

Accelerationism would mean voting for Harris because she’d be a better manager of the empire.

There was already an economic war on Iran, which was already killing people and destabilizing their government. Harris would have waited a few more years for the economic war to collapse Iran’s government and turn it into a situation similar to Syria, and only then would have started bombing. By then, Iran might not have been able to exert control over traffic through Hormuz.

Harris would have been a better manager of the empire. Instead, we got Trump, who is on track to lose to Iran.

Well. It was on the ballot. It just wasn’t likely to win because it wasn’t an issue considered important by the two major parties. You could have voted PSL or Green or one of the other parties, as over three million people did in the last election.

Besides, by that logic, Israeli aggression wasn’t on the ballot either! Do you think Harris would have stopped Israel from starting war with Iran? The war with Iran was already beginning in 2024 before Trump even got into office. Maybe it would have taken a different form, maybe it wouldn’t have happened this year, but Israel was going to attack Iran and the US was going to follow.

I will never click on a video link.

Wait shit I didn’t see it

In hindsight, an idiot accidentally copying a different cryptofascist’s work actually is another innocent explanation. “Oops, I didn’t know the “cool rune guide” I was copying from was actually made by neonazis.”

Sort of like how Graham Platner might have gotten his Nazi tattoo because one of his buddies in the Marines, who actually is a neonazi, told him it was a good idea and that it was just a cool looking skull tattoo.

Not even, because they used two, side-by-side.

The comedy of errors that would be required to explain it innocently would be an Adult Swim sketch.