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  • I feel like a lot of internet people (not even just socialists) go from seeing copyright as at best a compromise that allows the arts to have value under capitalism to treating it like a holy doctrine when the subject of LLMs comes up.

    Like, people who will say "piracy is always okay" will also say "ban AI, period" (and misrepresent organizations that want regulations on it's use as wanting a full ban.)

    Like, growing up with an internet full of technically illegal content (or grey area at best) like fangames and YouTube Poops made me a lifelong copyright skeptic. It's outright confusing to me when people take copyright as seriously as this.

  • I say this as someone who hates the man: At the time of the 2016 election, he was the most energetic politician of my lifetime. You could see that he excited his audience, people got caught up. And this was the party that usually has the less charismatic politicians.

    It was also that Americans were sick of politics as usual. That's also what drove Bernie Sanders' momentum.

  • Overall it'd probably lean toward the middle of the left side, with no strong leaning on the Authoritarian/Libertarian axis.

    Very few people on here that aren't to the left of Blairites or Establishment Democrats. Quite a few Marxist-Leninists, but not a majority. The few right-of-center people here seem to be either Euroskeptics or ancaps who somehow still believe any alternative from the corporate mainstream will be mostly used by ancaps.

  • I'd say they are. "Mom groups who want to play Animal Crossing-esque games" certainly aren't what I'd think of when I'd think "dedicated gaming enthusiasts," at least not what most people are thinking of.

    Steam Deck lacks publicity relative to Nintendo Switch or even traditional PC gaming, but the product itself is absolutely more accessible than traditional PC gaming, even if not as accessible as consoles.

  • While I get why it replaced the "colorblind" model popular in the '90s and '00s, the current mode of US racial discourse where we are asked to "see my race" is just as flawed, maybe more. While "colorblindness" asked people to act like racism isn't still a serious problem when it clearly is, "see my race" fails to equip people to think outside of the strict, socially constructed racial boxes, which fails at preparing people to understand people who fall outside them, most notably mixed race people, and encourages the notion that people of different races are inherently, insurmountably different.

    It is a mistake to build more social structures around the notion of race. We should want it to go away while acknowledging the conditions aren't there yet.