I was thinking more of the baby leftists, which there probably aren’t many here. I get your point, though. I hold the stance that if the means of production was under the control of the masses, the AI would just be another tool. We’re also in a “teething” stage of figuring out what these AI are best utilized for.

That’s what I think too. It’s not the core of the contradiction, but it does amplify it. If only people would catch on and develop class consciousness.

Comrade, it’s not the AI. It’s the ruling class. They do this with every new means of production. They displace workers to increase the rate of profit. Fighting AI is like mopping the floor instead of stopping the sink from flooding. Fight the ruling class, not the means of production. Capture the means of production, and their power vanishes.

Anybody who thinks AI is the problem needs to read more theory. This issue is nothing new. People are mistaking it as some unique threat to workers. The threat to workers is the same it has always been, the capitalists. If everyone gained some class consciousness and recognized this is a class war, this could have been solved a long time ago.

“Our home, which we claimed after inflicting the genocide of the indigenous people.”

“Accuse the other side of that which you are guilty.” Joseph Goebbels, Nazi minister of propaganda.

LOL! “Regime”! China is so mean! They won’t sell rare earth metals so the US can produce weapons that will be used for genocide! It’s so unfair!

Seethe and choke on it Cheeto in Chief!

I find it incredibly rare for those who claim to be progressive, liberal, or soc-dem to be anything close to leftist, despite their insistence. They tend to lack class consciousness and still cling to the idea that the system can be reformed to fit their image of an ideal society. They also support a representative republic over an actual democracy, which is a major contributor to the current political climate in the US. In fact, I have recently come to favor the Athenian democratic system of lottery over election.

It would make a nice display piece under a uv light.

Do they emit harmful levels of ionizing radiation? That would be my first concern.

The reality is that if there weren’t such large swathes of the Western Left that were willing to embrace chauvinism and social-democratism and betray the international working class, no amount of repression would have succeeded in eliminating the real revolutionaries and so thoroughly suppressing class consciousness.

I wouldn’t consider those people to be of the “left”. They’re liberal reformists at best.

It’s bizarre to see a bourgeoisie mouthpiece (from Florida of all places!) raising concern over government spying.

It’s not wise to make sweeping generalizations. That tends to be the mindset of those who want to skip nuance as a shortcut to satisfying one’s outrage. Western leftists aren’t many, but we do exist. I wouldn’t have passed the screening here if I wasn’t. The vast, vast majority of people in the west have been captured by bourgeoisie propaganda since birth for several generations. It’s virtually impossible to not be brainwashed, and it’s even harder to break out of that programming once it has taken hold of your core beliefs before you develop them. That’s the same reason religion still has such a powerful hold over billions after science has demonstrated repeatedly that it makes no logical sense to believe in an omnipotent, omniscient being.

It’s very unlikely to throw a rock in the west and hit a leftist, but that doesn’t justify the claim they don’t exist.

It’s really cringy when someone uses the word “theory” in place of “hypothesis”. The word “theory” has been so skewed and warped by anti-intellectuals.

Well, in most cases Linux distros are largely the same. Bazzite, however, was built to give you a plug and play experience similar to SteamOS. I actually use Mint myself.

You should reboot to apply kernel and other critical updates. However, you can do that after you’ve finished what you’re doing and saved it!

The return of fascism? It never left! It just took the mask off again.

The only rational response to someone actively trying to kill you is to take them out in self-defense. Holding on to values of non-violence will serve you ill, if they want to kill you for your other values.

It pains me that people can see that the system lied to us about a great many things, but they still hold fast to the lie of the Red Scare. How can you recognize that they were lying about so many things and believe their other lies? It defies logic. If they lied about one political issue, it stands to reason that they lied about every political issue. The logical response is to throw out everything you’ve been told and re-examine everything as a whole.

That’s absolutely right. Without Stalin, Hitler would have kept going far longer than he did. Things would have been much worse.

China being any kind of realistic opposition to imperial power is all the reason they need. What the bourgeoisie can’t control, they destroy.