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Getting real tired of the re-runs

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cowards

i think they literally may have tried that w/ castro

REAL FOOTAGE OF CIA TRYING AND FAILING TO ASSASSINATE FIDEL CASTRO

BREAKING: assassin ties 50 amateur drones to an anvil, attempts to drop on former president trump's head in butler, pennsylvania

maybe it's discussant in (contemporary) English?

I wouldn't say "every" leftist discord server is a fed honeypot, but discord itself is a very compromised platform and I resent ever being asked to communicate through it for any reason.

EDIT: It's literally Microsoft Teams for streamers and gamers. Just a huge piece of corporate bloatware with way too many features nobody uses and probable NSA backdoors and constant forced updates.

babe wake up, new bowtie dipshit just dropped

Capitalism maintains a permanent "reserve army" of unemployed as a potential source of scabs, but then will also blame the unemployed for not being employed, as if capitalism was ever a system that advocated for 100% employment (it wasn't).

Engels on philanthropy:

Let no one believe, however, that the "cultivated" Englishman openly brags with his egotism. On the contrary, he conceals it under the vilest hypocrisy. What? The wealthy English fail to remember the poor? They who have founded philanthropic institutions, such as no other country can boast of! Philanthropic institutions forsooth! As though you rendered the proletarians a service in first sucking out their very life-blood and then practising your self-complacent, Pharisaic philanthropy upon them, placing yourselves before the world as mighty benefactors of humanity when you give back to the plundered victims the hundredth part of what belongs to them! Charity which degrades him who gives more than him who takes; charity which treads the downtrodden still deeper in the dust, which demands that the degraded, the pariah cast out by society, shall first surrender the last that remains to him, his very claim to manhood, shall first beg for mercy before your mercy deigns to press, in the shape of an alms, the brand of degradation upon his brow. But let us hear the English bourgeoisie's own words. It is not yet a year since I read in the Manchester Guardian the following letter to the editor, which was published without comment as a perfectly natural, reasonable thing:

"MR. EDITOR,– For some time past our main streets are haunted by swarms of beggars, who try to awaken the pity of the passers-by in a most shameless and annoying manner, by exposing their tattered clothing, sickly aspect, and disgusting wounds and deformities. I should think that when one not only pays the poor-rate, but also contributes largely to the charitable institutions, one had done enough to earn a right to be spared such disagreeable and impertinent molestations. And why else do we pay such high rates for the maintenance of the municipal police, if they do not even protect us so far as to make it possible to go to or out of town in peace? I hope the publication of these lines in your widely- circulated paper may induce the authorities to remove this nuisance; and I remain,– Your obedient servant, "A Lady."

There you have it! The English bourgeoisie is charitable out of self-interest; it gives nothing outright, but regards its gifts as a business matter, makes a bargain with the poor, saying: "If I spend this much upon benevolent institutions, I thereby purchase the right not to be troubled any further, and you are bound thereby to stay in your dusky holes and not to irritate my tender nerves by exposing your misery. You shall despair as before, but you shall despair unseen, this I require, this I purchase with my subscription of twenty pounds for the infirmary!" It is infamous, this charity of a Christian bourgeois! And so writes "A Lady"; she does well to sign herself such, well that she has lost the courage to call herself a woman! But if the "Ladies" are such as this, what must the "Gentlemen" be? It will be said that this is a single case; but no, the foregoing letter expresses the temper of the great majority of the English bourgeoisie, or the editor would not have accepted it, and some reply would have been made to it, which I watched for in vain in the succeeding numbers. And as to the efficiency of this philanthropy, Canon Parkinson himself says that the poor are relieved much more by the poor than by the bourgeoisie; and such relief given by an honest proletarian who knows himself what it is to be hungry, for whom sharing his scanty meal is really a sacrifice, but a sacrifice borne with pleasure, such help has a wholly different ring to it from the carelessly-tossed alms of the luxurious bourgeois.

Source: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/condition-working-class/ch13.htm

they burned the money. they burned the money. they burned the money. the most sacred thing in our republic. this is proof the opening ceremony of the olypmics is satanic

You got me curious about the history of the character and looking it up, it seems he was envisioned in 1940 as a clown themed serial killer and jewel thief whose appearance was based off of the silent film "The Laughing Man" which featured a character CW: violence

Was there ever a period where the joker was just a "prankster" character and not also violent and transgressive?

Friendly disagreement. What allows disabled people to do art is bullying the snobs and bullies in art circles that drive disabled people out.

I don't see how the two things (tools for people to use and prevention of discrimination) are mutually exclusive

The plagiarism machine was a flippant way of spicing up the title on an-offhand post, not a coherent analysis,

Apologies. I had no way of knowing which of these things it was supposed to be and shouldn't have begun by assuming it was supposed to be a coherent analysis.

Of course I don't love property rights either and think they are a drag on society, the artist as a job thing is also meh - which correct criticism as part of a political platform would identify.

Got ya. Makes sense.

I have not developed a final assessment of art production, but LLM story telling is fundamentally not creative

I think it's a matter of outlining/brainstorming vs. actual creative work. Instead of telling it to write for you, you ask it to give you options and then you either come up with a better option, or choose an option and write it yourself. It can maximize the amount of time you do art and minimize the amount of time you spend working on bullet pointed outlines and other "office work" that you do before you do art. Also a tool is only as creative as its user. You can use these things creatively. You ask it questions like "what are some common frameworks to tackle problem X" and then you still research and choose and use the framework you want. It just lists concepts you may not have previously been familiar with. As for it using a lot of fossil fuel, that is more of an infrastructural problem. We aren't exclusively using renewable energy as a society, so everything we do with electricity uses fossil fuel.

(something it shares with capitalist forms of art production in tendency, but by eliminating the subject of the artist, moves to another qualitative level). The same goes for other artistic production. The possibility for new styles to emerge and for breaks in cultural communication will be further restricted, culture will become more stream-lined and dominated by bourgeois needs. It's not "luddite" or "anti-progress" to point that out. I remind you that a part of Gramsci's theory of Hegemony is identifiying the ruling block's position with "progress".

I don't think it eliminates the subject of the artist though. It's a tool that will get used by artists. People said the same thing about photoshop, 3D editors. etc.

The possibility for new styles to emerge and for breaks in cultural communication will be further restricted, culture will become more stream-lined and dominated by bourgeois needs

this is built into the mode of production itself, not the tools people use

It's not "luddite" or "anti-progress" to point that out.

The following is intended to be read in a neutral tone: I don't understand why quotes are around "anti-progress" since I did not use those words in my original post which you are responding to. I am unsure what part of my post you're responding to. I hope you don't think I was calling you a luddite. I wasn't calling you a luddite: Which I don't view as a pejorative in any case. I was pointing out that the luddites had a very good reason to be mad and their methods proved ineffective. They weren't against "progress" they were against losing their jobs. They lost their jobs because of capitalism, not machinery. I don't view technology as some kind of moral or ethical progress. I just think it's impossible to make everyone stop using a tool once it has been invented. It's "pandora's box". The only way technology stops getting used is if the means of producing it dry up.

Artists, and there are a lot of artists with left sympathies (do you think most people that do furry commissions make their main living out of that?), will not lead the revolution and we most likely will have your scenario happen to most extent unless AI collapses under a profitability crisis. Sure. But in the right now, the only way LLM will be able to "replace" the workers is when capitalists think they can browbeat writer studios with the threat of them to weaken labor struggles or by putting pretty off-putting pictures in there instead of shoving $500 at an art student. We don't live in the time where AI junk has finally killed the arts. We live in the now.

I wasn't speculating that AI junk killed the arts nor was I speculating what would lead to revolution.

In total, I find the response of "it's gonna happen anyway" to be defeatist and missing the point.

I'm not defeatist, I just think we should organize against the mode of production and not the means of production. I thought that was clear in my original post.

EDIT: someone beat me to it

Thesis: Nothing ever happens

Antithesis: Everything always happens

Synthesis: idk probably some esoteric shit about how everything is just nothing in disguise

ok but have you considered that crooks might have just been a huge trump fan and was using a range finder in the hopes of blowing him an epic kiss from really far away

sir, SIR i am in fact a child of seven generations of bastards, but I will have you know that I will much sooner die of lethal injection after fragging my officers than lose limbs for US imperialism

ayy no worries

it's always for whoever's interested

get well soon!