The_Jewish_Cuban [he/him]

Running away is how you capture territory in war? 🧐

Who’s posting this style of propaganda here? Also this is exactly how my Chinese friends write in English. In a webspace that is mostly American it really doesn’t seem that abnormal to contextualize your differing perspective.

Means tested genocide!

The US shooting itself in the foot by making the neocolonialist brain drain strategy fall apart because they’re too racist and paranoid is somewhat funny. Shitty for these people though.

“Not God bless America, God damn America”

Right, the only value and purpose of arts and literature, it’s creation and enjoyment, is to make a product to sell or consume a story. What a foolish opinion.

Another nation’s airspace

When has China invaded anyone?

Sure, but what about the 500,000 people facing genocide and famine conditions in Gaza while the world just sends ships right on by into Israeli ports? It’s not great. I’m sure there’s food and medicine that’s really needed not getting to the people who do. However, foreign aid hasn’t fixed any of the issues in these regions and it’s wrong to assume that will change in the future.

Furthermore, westerners will always pour out sympathies now that it’s a problem for them. In the past decade we’ve seen the Saudis ruthlessly murder the yemeni people at the behest of the United States. I’m not saying yours are, but most of this is crocodile tears and to pretend otherwise is deliberately ignorant or dangerously naive.

Actually, pissing off the United States is a clear demonstration that it is working.

Israel gets their guns from whom? Whom suffers the most from this situation? Sure it didn’t end the bombing of Gaza because israel is a fascist State. Punching the wealthy in the purse might be the only thing they actually care about. Telling the ghouls that supporting genocide is going to cost you is actually good. Fuck you for saying it’s not.

Intersectionality is the idea that various forms of privilege and circumstance interact with each other to make an individual. Certain influences are more impactful upon a particular person’s circumstances, and thus influence privilege to a much greater extent. The non-linear nature that DinosaurThussy is talking about can better be shown with examples.

If you’re homeless and white it’s clear that you’re in a worse off situation than a billionaire who is black. Class status has a far greater influence on this situation. It would be fair to say that the black billionaire has more privilege due to his class status but not his ethnic identity. That being said, it’s unlikely that the white man was denied a job due to his race in a way a homeless black person may be. Being poor and white and poor and black have many commonalities, but intersectional analysis allows us to understand the different ways and avenues that particular characteristics influences the ways that a person may end up in a particular circumstance.

The idea continues on. A person who is a billionaire may be significantly shielded from a lot of racism, or face it in a less extreme way. For example, that proverbial black billionaire likely wouldn’t have many run ins with racist cops in impoverished neighborhoods. However, he still might face the unifying characteristic of being called a slur by his peers in the way that a poor black person might. His privilege of wealth may not complete inoculate him facing racism at all, even if he faces it in a less extreme way.

In essence, this situation is viewing individuals dialectic-ly. It seeks to understand how all of a person’s identity and circumstances relate to the struggles and oppression certain groups or people may face in society.

Also with the space and cost that’s saved from not having cars you could have completely covered bike lanes

https://youtu.be/npkeecCErQc?si=gYzjaai7eZEoJ5tq

Yellow Parenti. Helped to remove myself from obsession over optics and just do what helps people.

I can see how my comment implied that I think Luddites are idiots but that wasn’t my intention. “I don’t think you’re stupid luddites” as in I don’t think your qualms are stupid. Furthermore, I don’t think Luddites were either. That being said, I will critique them as Marx did. Early Luddism did explicitely destroy factory equipment. I will note that when I say that it is based merely on Marx’s comments in capital in reference to the movement. I’m not a historian and my knowledge of them ends there. If you have new information to contradict his account then please pass it along.

The enormous destruction of machinery that occurred in the English manufacturing districts during the first 15 years of this century, chiefly caused by the employment of the power-loom, and known as the Luddite movement, gave the anti-Jacobin governments of a Sidmouth, a Castlereagh, and the like, a pretext for the most reactionary and forcible measures. It took both time and experience before the work people learnt to distinguish between machinery and its employment by capital, and to direct their attacks, not against the material instruments of production, but against the mode in which they are used. (pg 287 on marxists.org)

Getting your way of life destroyed and being pissed off at the means in which it is done is understandable. However, to my understanding of this part of Capital, the Luddites did make this mistake. That’s not stupid. It’s understandable if not misguided. So when I say “it literally is Luddism” I meant that it seemed like you’re saying the technology is necessarily evil. Technology on it’s own literally cannot be evil. It is inanimate and its application is brought about by people. When I read your comment it seemed to me as though you were overlooking this.

It’s amusing to get this kind of accusation

First off, don’t write like a redditor. Don’t be a pompous ass who writes for the audience and just talk with me.

I’m not accusing you of any thing. In fact, my language usage explicitly acknowledges my own fallibility. I specifically used a word like “seems” to show this. That is to show that there may be a breakdown in communication rather than disagreement.

I don’t mean to be rude but it literally is luddism. Image generative AI and LLM’s are only a problem because people release them onto the web in whatever harebrained manner they see fit. Under a different form of production, where the development and implementation of such materials is directed by central planning which could account for this foreseeable issues, this tool could be limited to quarantined zones where people can mess around with it, but it’s not leaking out into databases that are generally a storage of human thought. Thus this problem of digital kessler syndrome wouldn’t happen. I don’t think you’re stupid luddites. You’re right in that this manifestation of the tech does in fact need to be smashed. However, in the way you’ve said it here, it seems like you’re throwing the baby out with the bathwater and condemning a technology which does not bring itself into existence.

Nah just get a mesh bowl of some sort, fill the press up with some water, pour through the mesh into the sink, and you’re done. Same amount of low effort clean up for 10 bucks

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10 dollars to buy a tall boy and a frozen pizza

Communists all over the world doing their best to make it a better place!

Anarchists too

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