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I would never be sure that this isn’t just another season of my TV show, so, revenge or suicide. I can’t let them get another season.

You didn’t even try.

The people pushing AI don’t like like hearing, seeing, and reading about how other humans experience the world. They actually do just want flashing colors and sounds poured into their face holes. They’re basically incapable of understanding art.

We need to bring back Unemployed Councils.

You can’t dismantle systems of oppression without liquidating the oppressors.

We didn’t end slavery by asking nicely, it took a civil war. Then, because we didn’t kill every slave owner and seize all of their wealth, they just reconstituted themselves as landlords. They defeated Reconstruction, regained power, rehired all their old slaves back as sharecroppers, and the oppression continued. The old slave catchers just became police, and they rounded up Black people and then put them on chain-gangs to be slaves for the State. Even today we have prison slaves working the fields.

If every slave owner was hanged and their family’s wealth redistributed to their former slaves, none of this would have happened.

If you don’t oppress the oppressors they just come back and resume their oppression. You have enemies. Start acting like it.

Our ends require oppressing the bourgeoisie.

Not printing money is also bad for existing money. Deflation is a very bad thing.

It’s supply and demand, and supply creates its own demand. That’s why the US economy grew so fast and became the reserve currency after it got off of the gold standard, it no longer had to be constrained by the limitations of gold and could just print whatever it needed. As long as there is demand, the supply can grow. When the supply grows, demand grows with it.

You can’t just print infinite money, but it’s a lot looser than you seem to think. There’s plenty of money left.

They just hate their citizens and want them to suffer.

The US prints money, that’s not how it works.

Filled with icky worms.

_{Or "for what it’s worth", but I like mine better.}

They’ve never been witty, they’ve been playing on easy mode since the end of WWII and now the tutorial level is over.

It’s complicated. Only a few companies can afford to pay out bribes to avoid lawsuits, which means they’d effectively be destroying all of their competition in exchange. Bluesky and Lemmy can’t afford to pay their way out of lawsuits, after all. This would be a handy win for total monopolization of the internet under only a few companies, even if it might also be expensive.

On top of that they were starting down the barrel of FTC for monopoly practices, I wouldn’t be surprised if there was some kind of backroom deal with the government here. Maybe if the tech companies allow Section 230 to be repealed and for age-verification laws to pass, the government doesn’t force their companies to be broken up in antitrust actions.

I have no idea what is going to happen.

If the news were that it was being amended to make carve outs for businesses who pay an amount of money, then I would be more inclined to agree.

But the news is that it would be repealed entirely.

Functionally, every law has a carve out for businesses who pay an amount of money.

You literally didn’t say it was wrong.

And they aren’t amending it. They’re repealing it. The internet is going to be destroyed, and you’re wishcasting about something irrelevant that isn’t on the table. I think we should probably focus on how absolutely fucking horrible a repeal would be.

What stops them from using this to destroy the fediverse? Every instance will be liable for every single thing that gets hosted on the server. All they need to do is have a patsy post some illegal content and now the instance can be taken to court.

For me it was Microsoft’s support for genocide in Palestine.

You want to support that?

I’ll maybe start pacing around, but I can do this shit all day.

It’s an ADHD thing, I think.

Doesn’t work, I’ll just daydream.

I’d be concerned that any phone company that works with Israel might modify their phones to explode.

That’s basically true, but I think capitalism would overthrow direct democracy.

People would vote for higher wages and then there’d be a coup.

Fascism is actually a descendent ideology from settler-colonialism, the Nazis were inspired by the US.