bro’s funeral is gonna look like Alexander The Great’s

I agree with all of this. I admit this was kinda a vent post on my part and not totally materially grounded and was actually gonna delete it. I guess it just frustrates me how many people base their vision of the future on a romantic, pop culture ideal of a Final Conflict where elections are cancelled and other nazi ww2 tropes when the reality will probably be that all elected capitalist officials, regardless of party, work in lockstep to keep the working class in their place. I think we agree that most people ARE good and do just want to live in peace, they’re just forming a flawed model of the future using a flawed model of the past (fed to them by capitalist media).

this goes hard lol Lady Sovereign whom’s’t??? fr tho, fuck her.

this commentslop was written by AI, I’m not reading it

You could just read the post and then argue against it’s points using your own arguments backed up by facts. If it’s bullshit then it should be easy to refute.

I don’t think it does, that’s why I asked you.

why does it matter? Also OP is here, in the comments, interacting with people. So I guess it’s achieved sentience.

…is it really so hard to believe that somebody who made a long post would put the effort into making links and paragraphing properly? It isn’t rational to just assume that every AI opinion you disagree with is made by AI. It’s just bad faith skepticism.

edit: downvote away lol going “iS tHIs AI!?!? 😂😂😂😂😂” on every single post that’s genuinely just trying to talk about AI rationally doesn’t get any funnier the more you do it.

“I’m not chauvinistic!” proceeds to throw out another auto-removed insult

I already wasn’t really taking you seriously but saying chauvinistic shit like “stop scaring the hoes away” and then in the same breath trying to lecture us on how to communicate with people without being insulting was the cherry on top lol. good luck trying to trick libs into being socialists. It’s never worked historically but I’m sure it will this time.

it’s kinda sad how hot of a take it is to so many people.

You know what I’ve realized lately? Liberals across the anglosphere would rather spend their time fantasizing about a Civil War or Day of the Rope or WW3 or whatever because it’s a more fun and flattering projection than the much more likely reality of conditions in the Core becoming worse and worse and worse over the course of decades until it’s stopped by a cohesive revolutionary movement. It’s less hopeless to imagine a big dramatic conflagration where fascists either win or lose than it is to imagine a future where, regardless of which team is in office, the working class (and/or labour aristocracy) keeps getting steadily crushed with no obvious heroic rebel group coming in to rescue them, year after year, decade after decade. And, more importantly, it absolves one of any individual responsibility by imagining that eventually a Civil War will happen and either absolve the contradictions (good ending) or doom everybody (in which case it doesn’t matter). I’m willing to be wrong about all of this. But from I can see, the non-stop dooming about things like ecology and economic issues like AI is a subconscious way for people to tell themselves that “we’re fucked anyways” which means they don’t have to learn or do anything really because We’re Doomed. It’s easier for people to imagine the apocalypse than it is to imagine the end of capitalism, to quote some guy.

For all the concern trolling about muh crime rate done by annoying bougie people, I think it will pale in comparison to what’s coming. I think the AI bubble bursting is gonna be the flashpoint where all these other crises converge into one and give a lot of people nothing left to lose, even the ones with nice lifestyles who think they’re immune to it. Tons of people fell and never got back up after 2008.

When that happens the democrats are just going to see a bunch of pissed off, desperate people and sit on their asses and wait for them to crawl to them for help like they’ve been doing forever. That’s the beauty of liberal democracy, it’s a bear race where you don’t have to be the fastest, you simply don’t have to be the slowest.

It’ll blow up in their faces of course. Or maybe not, and they get to fritter away another 4 years and then do it all again.

Or that the guys who lived in that ugly, glorified plantation house carved their faces into a sacred mountain (overseen by a KKK member no less). For fun.

Yeah I’d have to agree. It’s the same logic as the argument that plantations should be preserved for history. They were the Mcmansions of their era and ugly af anyways and if the ancestors of the people enslaved there want it destroyed, we can take pictures of it and put THAT in a museum.

not saying you or anybody else here is doing it, but seeing even the self-identified “leftist” yankees scream blue murder over this is so funny lol. The people who live there have been destroying ancient cultural heritage sites longer than any of us here have been alive but sure, let’s weep blood over a ballroom that’s not even 100 years old getting bulldozed to build another, fancier ballroom.

Yeah it kinda just seems like “value comes from supply n’ demand!!1” type shit with some mysticism about how business owners are built different thrown in lol. Defining capital as just stuff that makes work more efficient sure is a… choice. I feel like so much of bougie business just boils down to “reduce cap-ex to make profits higher cuz it’s always cheaper to piss in the lemonade and charge the same price than do anything else.” And then Forbes writes like 4000 words on how innovative and august the capitalist in question is.

Z has this annoying, hangdog attitude (undoubtedly carefully cultivated to make him seem as likable and put-upon as possible) that Trump probably finds super fuckin irritating, yeah. I know I do lol

I definitely think the White House will shit out a trillion or so dollars and give it to the pentagon to give to Nvidia or whomever, but I don’t think that’ll work either because it’ll make stagflation even worse and also because where is all of this energy gonna come from? China is leaning into AI but they can afford to since they’re generating more and more energy each year (largely cleanly to boot) and also because they’re trying to use it in ways that actually make things more efficient. What’s gonna happen when the US spends all that money and gets nothing in return? If it can barely create value in businesses I really don’t think it can deliver results on the battlefield to pay for itself. So I guess they’ll just be throwing money into a bottomless pit for something that is largely useless and that nobody wants to pay for or even can, and burdening their already creaky af energy grid to do so. I’m reminded of the joke about the two economists who pay each other to eat dog shit.

I love how whenever one of these financial bubbles forms we’re all forced by western media to humor the idea that it could simply never ever pop and just keep inflating until the sun explodes lol. We all have to say “if” the AI bubble pops because if we start talking about “when” it pops it would scare the investors and become a self-fulfilling prophecy. What an awesome, stable economic system.