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They could mobilize their base for unending mass demonstration and a general strike. Shut down the country until the fascists capitulate.

They won't. Instead they'll side with the regime and criticize protesters for being too violent.

Either that, or ICE detention centers will become forced labor camps.

It also gives them legitimacy and lets them pretend they aren't horrible racists.

Never gave up on any of the other demons the Republican Party produced, though.

If they had any hope in them it's embarrassing.

The fact that they invited Nixon, Reagan, Bush 1 & 2, and even Trump the first time around is appalling.

First you say "you’re not mad a GenAI as a technology, you’re mad at Capitalism" and then when I agree with you you move the goal posts to argue against it? Are you just arguing for its own sake?

It's like I never left Reddit!

Talking to you was a mistake. You're just trying to "win" the conversation, you don't actually care about anything I have to say.

I'm done. You can have the last word.

Wrong. The right takes it just as seriously, they just see job losses from AI as an opportunity to kill off the surplus population.

And you can't separate the technology from it's historical and material context. We could say "capitalist LLMs" instead of just "LLMs" every time we talk about the technology, but is that useful?

The problem is capitalism, but the technology was produced under capitalism and you're using this technology under capitalism. So, a distinction without a difference.

Yeah, and all it requires is for poorly paid workers in Kenya to be tortured and forced to watch CSAM all day.

They used to actually believe it was politically neutral, can you believe it? 😂

Do people not want the regime sloppily revealing everything it's supposed to hide?

I don't see why the apple from a cashew can't also be classified as an aggregate accessory fruit, like the red flesh of the strawberry, which would make the cashew pit an achene like the seeds of a strawberry.

So you don't find something else to do.

You talk about research, so I'm curious: has any nonviolent campaign succeeded without an accompanying violent campaign?

It's an order of operations. If they try to resolve every contradiction all at the same time they stretch the revolution too thin and drive all of their enemies into one unified front.

That doesn't mean they shouldn't even think about the other contradictions (in fact, progressive forces should internally theorize and strategize in secret about what to do after the colonial occupation is defeated) but it does mean that those secondary contradictions are to be set aside in public while they focus on the primary contradiction.

Now isn't the time to air the dirty laundry of everyone that's on your side against the occupation.

Obviously propertied interests are going to be a problem after the occupation is defeated, but until the occupation is defeated they can used. Not only does this increase the power and size of the decolonial struggle by creating a unified front, but without that ability to set aside secondary contradictions those propertied interests will join the occupation's side instead. Those propertied interests are only using the revolutionaries for their own ends, but progressive forces are only using them in turn.

This is how every successful decolonial struggle was won.

Many decolonial struggles only achieved flag independence and failed to achieve sovereignty because they either failed to identify those secondary contradictions or chose to forget the secondary contradictions in their nationalistic fervor, but that's not what I'm advocating! Once the occupation is defeated one of those secondary contradictions will become the new primary contradiction, and progressive forces will need to be prepared for that.

But that has to wait. In the immediate struggle, everyone has a common enemy.

Although "tree" is a common word, there is no universally recognised precise definition of what a tree is, either botanically or in common language.[1][2] In its broadest sense, a tree is any plant with the general form of an elongated stem, or trunk, which supports the photosynthetic leaves or branches at some distance above the ground.

Well damn, I guess strawberries can be trees and nuts.

There's nothing rational about your position! You literally said "I wish my rights were this clearly violated" and you think I'm supposed to take your position seriously? Your wide-eyed credulous optimism will run face-first into reality soon enough, and when you do, I won't say "I told you so" because I know you'll already understand that the time for lawsuits is coming to a close.

But don't call me a cynic. I have revolutionary optimism. I know we can win when we take this seriously.

Okay, you need to recognize that there are greater and lesser contradictions. Yes, all property is theft, but is that a useful line for Palestinians to struggle against? Can they even meaningfully abolish property without solving the colonial question?

That's why we say the colonial question is the primary contradiction. Israelis are colonial invaders that have come to steal the land and expel or kill the indigenous population. This is a greater concern than, say, Palestinian business owners owning property (and thus stealing the land from the Commons). If we don't focus our struggles and identify the primary contradiction, we just lash out at every injustice all at once and accomplish nothing because we are overwhelmed.

Every successful decolonial struggle for national independence involves cooperation between the landless and the landed, because colonialism takes primacy. We can deal with the question of "who gets to own the land" once the invaders are gone.

If strawberries are nuts, cashews are nuts. It's a seed that grows on the outside of an accessory fruit.

Obviously strawberries aren't nuts either but we're playing pretty fast and loose with words and meanings.