alcoholicorn @ alcoholicorn @lemmy.ml

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The like 3 black dudes that were prominently in the stands right behind Trump at every rally?

You don't work merely for your own survival under capitalism, most of your labor goes to supporting the capitalist class (and bombing foreigners to keep resources cheap so those capitalists can make even more money).

Half a century ago, working in a grocery store was enough to buy a home, raise a family, and put a kid through college. The job did not get less productive, if anything each worker produces more than ever with automation, but a greater share goes to the capitalist class, both through stagnant wages and increasing costs.

I get what you're saying and I make that same criticism sometimes, but

1. works don't exist in a vacuum, context is part of any work of art, and sometimes that means reading the plaque next to a painting, sometimes that means looking something up on wikipedia.

Nobody outside of historians would be able to interact with like 80% of historical art if supplemental information wasn't valid.

2. You don't have to be moved at the first moment you look at a piece of art for that art to be moving.

I'm not prepared to say that death of the author is entirely invalid, or even that the viewer has to accept the author's intention, only that understanding or at least sensing that is a vital aspect of art.

Well at least designer was still there. The same one who mandated the use of procedural generation to make Oblivion's dungeons and Skyrim's radiant quests.

Same metrics anyone judges art by, what it says to them. This is incredibly context dependent.

Show me the art and if just showing it to someone is insufficient, explain it to me.

Art is a form of communication, to hear that someone can be moved by expressionless AI slop is kinda like hearing someone had an enlightening conversation with a dog.

Like sure I can imagine someone can interpret a dog's barks to mean something, but it's still a bizarre scenario that says more about the person than it does the art.

Give us some examples of moving AI generated images.

It’s always a personal matter what you see in art, any interpretation that makes sense to you is valid

No, the thing that the author was trying to express has far greater validity than whatever the reader makes up. If that wasn't the case, AI art, where the author lacks any intent, wouldn't seem so lifeless.

AI art proved beyond a doubt that death of the author was always 99% bullshit justifying media illiteracy. Now that we have art without an author and it is totally void of expression.

lmao even NATOpedia isn't rightwing enough for these people.

You can smuggle a rotisserie chicken under your kilt.

A German accusing queer folk of promoting degeneracy, where have I seen this before?

Damn, your dad liked a communist Muslim trans man's policy? Sounds pretty based.

Turn it around on him, mention the deporter-in-chief's record deportations, that even Trump didn't beat. All the African and middle-eastern countries the patron saint of drones bombed. All the poor folk the banks gave predatory loans to that he taught personal responsibility to by letting the banks take their homes. Making a speech blaming poor outcomes in black communities on fathers not being in the picture is every racist conservative's wet dream. It's much harder for your dad to admit he didn't like Obama's policies.

Then I am confused why you would disagree with the left, that the political philosophy of capitalism, liberalism, is to blame.

A polar bear's skin must be pretty thick to not give a shit about a baby hanging on by the claws.

Biden did finally gets us to start transitioning to EVs after so many delays

Delays he caused by putting tariffs on the competition so the big 3 can continue to force anyone who wants a half-decent EV to pay 60K+.

If we had chinese EVs for 20-30K, 4/5 cars bought in the last 4 years would be EVs and trying to ban the only car most people can afford would be political suicide, and the big 3 would be forced to compete.

Instead Biden continued to escalate Trump's trade war with China and EVs are still 10K more expensive than ICE cars, which are massively overpriced due to the captive market.

Do you think the problem with big companies and rich people is that individual rich people and the CEOs they elect just happen to be bad people?

That's quite distinct from an economy organized around worker co-ops.

I was not aware the Cuban economy had a significant fraction of cooperatives, outside of the more recent growth in the last decade or so.

There's been quite a few instances of organizations which are progressive under capitalism being used by forces of reaction against a socialist government. The trucker's strike under Allende and the actions the trade unions took against Burkina Faso under Sankara leading to their banning come to mind.