I think you’re kind of comparing apples to oranges, we’re pretty fucked over here right now

I’d call him a progressive. He has socialist ideals, but he’s operating as a populist - he can’t get out there and say “we’re going to do free healthcare” because we’re not there right now

It seems to me that he’ll be as left-wing as the moment allows, but what he’s actually pushing for is pretty tame IMO

I don’t think you understand.

Socialism isn’t on the table. We’re so incredibly far from that. Let me know when the revolution is coming and I’ll be there for it… Until then we very real issues that we can make a bit better. Not good - we’re totally fucked - but we can make things less horrible

There’s a genocide in progress. We’re going to go through a depression. We can tea party the Democrats to be more progressive… There’s no time to build up something new

I can’t impress on you enough how many people are going to die

You spelled “take” wrong

It matters because the party isn’t the people, it’s infrastructure. It’s buildings, it’s support staff, it’s mailing lists and payment processors

It’s getting a special (often unfair) place on the ballot in all 50 states. It’s 50 (often flawed) primary processes that follow local laws

And it’s a banner. Not one people like, but it’s one banner. A banner that theoretically stands for democracy and the common man

The left is not organized. Do we rally behind a fresh, ideologically pure banner? Which one? How long to work out which group is the best? How long until we can build up that infrastructure?

Fuck that. Winning is what matters.

The people are on our side for now, there’s so much anger and energy. How long until they adjust to the new normal and go back to refusing to believe in a better world?

We have a chance right now. The next 18 months. In one sweep we can take a tattered banner and get in control - before people get cold feet. While they’re still just screaming for someone to stop Trump.

We can use the momentum to unfuck our democracy once we take control, but we can’t get distracted. There’s no room for purity or lofty ideals. We have to take what is offered and exploit every opportunity. We have to use the system against itself.

We have to win. Now. Or we all die

Why? The party is dead. They’re just holding onto their seats

Take the seats, you take it all. Keep the infrastructure of the party, keep the name recognition and the data they have, and replace the members

It’s happening already - Hoggs funneled money into Mumdani’s primary even as they try to ratfuck him out…

You don’t understand. They never stopped, they aren’t distracting from Gaza… They needed another war to keep Netanyahu in power

Thank you, I appreciate that… Fuck, now I’m doing it!

Thank you for your apology… Wait, you’re doing it again!!!

What a healthy conversation. I’m not used to it, it’s making me uncomfortable.

Fuck you no reason in particular!

Ignore it all you like, sadly it will affect you too

I got a temp ban on that subreddit once for saying that while the man in the story was clearly the asshole, the woman (op) was overly confrontational and made the situation so much worse than it had to be

I mean…

Do you want to live in a world where there’s brain chips, or one where one of the companies making brain chips is owned by Gabe?

Do not ask people how to do this. If you don’t know from a web search, you shouldn’t try this without backing up a full disk image and understanding how to roll it back. Or at least backing up everything you care about

It’s not a particularly hard thing, but it’s a very irreversible one

I like the idea. I’ve even experimented with some on device algorithms by basically weaving together feeds, even something simple like makes a noticeable improvement

I follow laws mainly because of my own sense of morality - I don’t kill, I steal only when I feel I need to, and I don’t commit fraud because these things are obviously generally wrong.

I follow stupid laws (such as needing insurance, paying income taxes, or not speeding) out of fear of punishment. These are issues I’ll basically never have, because I’m good at driving and don’t make enough to affect state level operations

Not really… Think networking, not gameplay

The easiest to get past all the NAT (or weirder networking) is to just have everyone connect to a server and pass the data through the right connection. It’s quick and dirty, but you can do your routing on the application layer

I’m not sure that’s what they are doing, but it makes sense based on the details I’ve seen

Yes. Because all my life, we’ve been frogs in a steadily warming pot, and the heat has been cranked up to max

People are angry. People are protesting, doing vandalism with a prison sentence longer then murder, people are raging at their futures being cut off

Everything creates a reaction. The worse is gets, the faster it gets worse, the larger the reaction.

The best future is the one where people get so angry we stop. That’s all it takes to kill the game - if enough people, even for a short time, stop playing - it all stops

The world is robust. Humans are robust. If we stopped killing both, everything could recover shockingly fast

Things will get worse, things are very bad already, but it’s not over. I feel lighter every time the stock market drops, because it’s imaginary but the hurt is real.

The more and faster the hurt, the more people will wake the fuck up and stop this

Yeah, and there’s children starving in Africa

I want artists to eat, and I also want everyone to have more access to expression. Me finishing my dinner doesn’t help the kids in Africa, and if I made a comic I’m not stealing food from the artists mouths

If you want systematic changes, you need systematic solutions. Empty moralizing won’t fix anything

It’s not a zero sum game - the real problem is when it’s competing with paid work

Commissioning an artist to do this is imaginary work - there’s no money to be made here, who commissions a political comic? If you can’t draw, you wouldn’t be doing it

There’s a problem if you’re mass producing slop, or companies are using AI art to avoid paying artists… But this was a clear, human created message delivered by using a fancy tool

And what’s more, this is an important message to spread ASAP.

Can you name a better situation to use Gen image AI, or do you just hate it because of what it is?

Why? This is a political comic making a point.

Being able to draw doesn’t mean you have good political takes, and vice versa

I found it super cool. It’s dreamlike… There’s no enemies so it didn’t feel like a nightmare, just like playing a game in a dream