The real kicker is that if an even nominally left-wing movement used violence they would be gutted to the average person in the media...and their own "leftists" would quickly prostrate and show their belly to distance themselves and prove their loyalty to bourgeois civility.
I fear the fascists or the Empire will have to begin an all out war before we are "allowed" to act in self defense, and even then the demonization will continue and affect many more than it should.
And the worst thing is? They have learned from the mistakes, and they now know to levy violence against us at a slow but steady rate. A shooting here, an execution there, a disappearance or domestic sanction or blacklisting here or there. A comfortable, expected amount of police violence. Always making sure to never go to the absurdly extreme lengths it would take to actually shake the sleepy Americans.
Any comrades have more informed opinions on this regarding: South Africa, Bolivia, Zimbabwe, Ghana, Iraq, Belarus?
I don't expect it to be next, but after Russia goes through its culture war phase between its Westoid liberals and nationalist reactionaries I wouldn't be surprised if it could become socialist again, so much of the socialist infrastructure remains intact and such a precedent is...well...unprecedented. At least the general idea is--even if in name only--cordial to average people.
On one hand I wanna read but on the other hand not being able to read lib propaganda bcuz of a paywall always feels strangely satisfying. It's okay ๐ okay boo lmao
To paraphrase a quote I heard today that sums it up nicely: "Western accusations are Western confessions"
Like all sociopaths they can do nothing but lie in a Freudian way that reveals some tiny human part of them that must vent guilt of the intense cruelty they dole out. They have to convince the populace and even themselves that there is somehow a greater evil that excuses the evil they commit. They are intellectually and creatively starved and only their own evils can inspire their accusatory propaganda.
Not an expert, but my guess would be that it is yet another illustration of how it's plummet into capitalism Was disastrous across-the-board for its peoples
I agree, but I also used to work in a restaurant and we had shredded cheddar cheese which sometime burned on the grill and I SWEAR it taste the exact same ๐
Jesus fucking Christ the smarm from this slimy fuck. Props to Xi for the last comment and keeping composure, I don't know how he does it. Thanks Aria for sharing.
Opened comments to post this exact bit! Honestly this one specific meme is what tipped me over from flirting with being critically pro-Russian/Belarussian towards being like "yeah, okay" back in the beginning of this clusterf
But when it really boils down to it, what's the difference between a heap of plastic and metals that has electricity flowing through it, and a heap of pink yogurt that has electricity running through it?
Taking a step back from this scenario, I am less convinced that LaMDA is sentient, but I still firmly believe we are in a time period where AI sentience is around the corner at the latest. If our brains, essentially biological computers, if these can be a vehicle for soul, then why not inorganic computers? The only framework that makes sense to me that discounts computers being able to have souls is entirely disbelieving in "soul" altogether.
I have taken psychedelics in my life but I haven't in a very long time and the stuff I've done regarding psychonautry I did stone cold sober. I would say that psychedelics absolutely accelerated "opening the door" to this sort of thing, achieving the same results today a
without my time in the past experimenting on drugs may have taken decades longer, but I'm not the stereotype of a guy who tripped once and thinks he is completely enlightened, much of what I have done took a very long time completely divorced from drugs and "psychonaut" is just the shorthand I used due to chaos magick being one of the main schools of thought that influenced me from the get. I just as easily could have done the same things but used language more related to philosophy or psychology, and without touching drugs in my life--I think a good example would be all the monks of various cultures who essentially have psychedelic experiences in their spiritual endeavors but who never touched drugs and thus took far longer to achieve.
Psychedelics didn't make me smarter, but they (among other things) opened a door and showed me a path that I have delved into on my lonesome and then gleaned a great deal from. I would also say: isn't understanding one's self a good start to understanding the world around them? Lessons one learns on an internal journey can be applied to the rest of life and help one learn about others, and vice versa.
I'm not trying to cite being a psychonaut for no reason, I believe when we are talking about things like consciousness and sentience and souls that such seemingly woo-woo fields become increasingly relevant. There is very little that scientific instruments of today can measure from other planes of existence, soul or metaphysical energy. There is some small ways science is beginning to tap into this world (e.g. measuring emotions by looking at corresponding chemicals in the brain), but until the field progresses immensely what little we can try and play with will be informed by personal experience that we can try and corroborate and little else.
You can think that me suggesting the land of spirit is a developing science is dumb, that's fine that's as valid of an opinion at this point as me saying it isn't, but that's the lens with which I approached this scenario, so I found it relevant to bring up.
Cannot agree with my friend more, the type of people ridiculing even entertaining the idea that LaMDA is sentient barely have consciousness themselves.
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Woah man...that's deep...