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We need more Luigi’s. Make it culturally acceptable to kill rich people. If they feel fear, they behave.
I don't want rich people to behave.
I want them to pay back the money that they stole, so that there will be no rich people.
This is part of good behavior.
As cool as Luigi is, as long as capitalists dominate the economy, they will just develop ever-more draconian security measures to protect themselves. What we need is organization, so that we can replace the system they draw their dominance from with socialism, putting the people in power.
The power structure that currently exists prevents such representation. It can’t be reasoned with. It must be removed forcibly first.
The real problem is ensuring what fills such a power vacuum isn’t worse.
All states represent a given class in society. In capitalism, that's the big capitalists. In socialism, that's the working classes. Successful revolution requires creating a mass, working-class organization, and ensuring it's linked to the broader working classes and earns their trust and support. Without the working-class organization, we are reduced to directionless protesting, and without the backing of the people, a working-class party can do nothing. Socialism works.
if you’re like me you’ve used various AI
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Stop using the fucking "ai" that those same billionaires are burning the planet down to use to shove misinformation down your throat for fucks sake
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Start paying attention to what people who didn't just figure this out have been saying for generations about this.
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Stop using AI.
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Seriously, stop using AI, it already sounds like its leading you down some crazy conspiracy rabbit hole that ends up blaming anyone except the billionaires who own the AIs and are actually the problem.
Oh, what performative purity. You’re typing that on a device built by slave labor, powered by a grid they own, through an internet they control. But sure, AI is where you draw the line, how very principled of you. You still think you’re not part of the machine just because you’re picking which cog to hate today. Congrats, you’ve mastered the art of feeling superior while changing nothing.
Oh wow.
I never thought I'd see a real one of these:
AI really does just recycle past zeitgeists doesn't it?
Are you concerned that reliance on AI will perpetually put you months or even years behind the rest of humanity?
Or is it like people who don't watch a show till all the episodes or even seasons are out?
The system loves you. Just angry enough to post, just lazy enough to obey.
Cringe. I never thought I'd see anyone seriously post that meme anymore.
That's more surprising to you then someone authentically saying it?
I guess someone pointing it out that it's exactly like the meme, can only happen after someone does.
But that would be like hearing someone say "look a Sasquatch" and you bragging about how rare it is to hear someone say that after actually seeing a sasquatch.
No, I'm surprised to see someone post the meme thinking they are the clever one in the exchange lol
It's very telling. He fancies himself to be on the same level as a medieval peasant doing manual labor. While there are actually people out there living under such conditions (and worse), and we actively benefit from it. Peak bourgeois slacktivist meme.
And rather than drawing a line you're just going to be a useless piece of shit who actively undermines other people doing what they can. Go find a hole to hide in so the rest of us don't have to be distracted by your bullshit.
You being distracted by my bullshit sounds awful lot like a you problem.
This isn't new information to the majority of people who care. The trick is mobilizing society to do something about it (like general strike). You may be newly awakened, but the majority still are not.
Post about it on the internet built upon tech enabled by the said class in today's world, from devices sold to us by the said class in today's world, in our homes with comforts the existence of which wouldn't be possible without the said class in today's world. Then go to work using infrastructure and means we wouldn't have without the said class in today's world, likely doing work we wouldn't have without the said class in today's world. Perhaps go buy some food the likes of which we couldn't dream of having access to without the said class in today's world. Maybe indulge in a hobby - a leisurely distraction, the kind that only exists because the said class engineered today's world where you have time and resources to waste on frivolity, while they decide what those resources are.
Anyone who wants to hold on to the comforts of modern life will have next to no power to make a change happen. Most of the money you spend goes into their pockets. You can't have your cake and eat it too.
Option is to reduce spending, start exchanging favors without money (or develop your own currency with your friends) and if you have to spend money, prefer local goods and small services. Learn to fix things instead of buying new stuff. Offer community, food and fun to people with as little money investment as possible.
Make it work for you and people immediately around you. Get it to spread. This goes triple for you tankies out there. If you can't get this to work at a small level, you will not bring about systematic change. The game is theirs, it's rigged against you and bless your sweet honey heart, you somehow think you can win.
Not saying this is what I think everyone must do. I'll be dead soon enough and I don't have kids. But I am saying that if YOU want to see a change in the system, you need to start playing a different game that isn't built on money.
Well fucking said. Everyone’s ready to bitch about the system, until you ask them to live anywhere near like the people who are actually getting crushed by it. The performative outrage in this thread is a bad joke to the people who build our phones, sew our clothes, and mine our lithium. To them, we’re not revolutionaries. We’re the elite’s pampered pets, barking at the leash but gladly gobbling up all the treats they throw at us. People are getting mad about AI: guess fucking what, the outrage itself is a treat. The Epstein files are a treat. Anything that keeps you glued to the screen, ignoring everything that is actually around you is a treat. It's your programmed Two Minutes of Hate.
Revolutions happen with real people willing to make sacrifices, working together and giving others real, tangible reasons to want to support them. Not by bitching online about how very awful it is. You want a revolution? Try going a week without buying anything. Try getting relationships instead of likes. But no, it’s easier to scream into the void and call it resistance, isn’t it? The system thanks you for your compliance.
Counterpoint: we throw them in wood chippers and confiscate all the factories and such.
wouldn’t be possible without the said class.
This is complete and utter bullshit. Like technology and infrastructure is impossible without billionaires. They are leeches and are not structurally significant for any reason than that we let them be.
Great, all the better. Please do start building it again from scratch.
What? Someone actually gives reasonably actionable suggestions here?
How do we just go back to ‘normal’??
This is normal. Parasitic elites have been running the world for pretty much all of recorded history.
Will you join in our crusade, will you be strong and stand with me?
Beyond the barricade is there a world you longed to see?
Then JOIN IN THE FIGHT, that will GIVE YOU THE RIGHT to be FREE!
(legal disclaimer: just quoting song lyrics, it's not illegal right? Hello Mr. FBI Agent watching me 😏)
Study the billionaire's calendar
Terrorism against individuals makes no sense when fighting a system
It does when the system is run by a handful of individuals.
True, but it sure helps blow off some steam!
Sharpen your guillotines.
Shocked anyone is surprised.
This is what Marxists have been saying all along, might be time to read up on some political theory
It will not be enough to just read about it …
the thing is, normal was always heading in this direction. Capitalism consolidates power into the hands of a few and it keeps consolidating. It will always yield toward more poverty, though for some at home they can wealthier off the exploitation of others.
I get what you mean, but going back to normal will get you right back here in a few years or decades.
I think that the answer is socialism. But for sure, pretty much nobody believes that anyone should have the wealth and power that our capitalists do.
Not sure if going "back to normal" actually is a good thing. Insanity is the new normal .. deal with it. Wich involves finding a balance between staying informed and staying sane. Where the priority definitively is on the sane aspect
AI is a tool of said class, so no, I have not used it, nor do I recommend anyone does. What is your definition of normal? If it's capitalism, the same thing will happen again.
This is normal, the billionaire class has always ruled over hordes of proles.
In the beginning, we just knew about our own territory, a few hundred years ago, we wouldn't know what's going on beyond a few days travel from our home. Today, we can read news from across the globe.
A few centuries ago, we could at least daydream that things are better somewhere. Ignorance is bliss
The problem is, as people gain power, it rots their mind and ruins their perceptions, so we have this recurring theme running throughout our history.
That's why it's so important to have short terms and total transparency.
But, once they gain power, politicians always fight tooth and nail to keep and expand on that power, and since they make the rules, here we are. Again
We already have known this for decades. Why would this change anything?
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