they are part of the coalition but just like the anarchists they inevitably get co-opted by the restorationalists (leia, mon mothma etc)

i love how he didn’t even throw in mao or stalin like libs usually do and just went entirely with fascists

i mean the default star wars setting (as a republic) is a hyper capitalist loose confederation libertarian society (with slavery!) dotted by ethnostate planets and policed by a theocratic guardian council

this is the thing the rebellion is trying to restore (excluding the actual anarcho-“leftists” in the movement that get co-opted)

this is wholesome and adorable

same with automatic AI upscaling on your phone’s camera. you zoom in trying to see if it’s real and there’s that classic AI distortion no matter what

can i save John Brown and together we can both torture/humiliate history’s worst people?

hard to struggle if the only effort is typing a prompt into Sora

i stepped back from here a bit for the same reason as AcidSmiley (really miss seeing you around)

i have had trouble restraining myself when topics come up around imperialism. starting with my parents. my mom it took time and patience just to give her broad overviews of some basic Blowback style topics

i’ve found the easiest approach for normies (at work, acquaintances, anyone you chat with and they are familiar with you) is just broad economic concepts. through this I’ve learned that the average American would go hard for market socialism/cooperative economy. nobody defends the bougoise anymore since they have gone mask off and shown their asses. everyone i have engaged with seems to think they are just criminals and corrupt, but often think the capitalists of the past actually “built stuff”, which is a tough one to crack

I’ve also found I have to often have to just sell socialist concepts from a very selfish position. remind people that a secure, well cared for and egalitarian society = you can be chill, unbothered, and unstressed and just grill

selling socialism as stability is a solid one. no more business cycles, lay offs, etc. in real life most people don’t think they are one idea away from becoming billionaires. that’s been closed off forever. lottery, maybe.

otherwise with more personal relationships I have pretended to be earlier in my ideological development and take them on a journey with me. it’s more organic and not deceptive because i just replicate my own previous development and can excitedly explain new concepts that I just “discovered” and work them through it. this has worked best for taking someone who was flirting with fascism to the left and it took a solid year of work

but yeah just be confident and assertive and patient. people are desperate for answers and don’t use any red scare trigger words until they are ready to handle it

obviously for many reasons that have been brought up but at least among their “influencers” seems to be purely spite and jealously of being failed artists

makes me wonder how much of this would just evaporate if people could just do art and build their own followings with no need to monetize because socialism

add this to the lathe: somehow he knocks out half his entire constellation of satellites as well by insisting on personally calculating (asking grok) the orbital rendezvous maneuver because hes such a junus

nonstop AI slop too. Sora2 videos of fake black women acting entitled and basically spouting shit that is so ridiculous i almost seems a parody.

but i thought the same thing. instantly it has become a laser focused fake news and propaganda machine because they have been planning this roll out for almost a year.

mine are gray and formless

in 10 years they will probably have thorium and even fusion reactors covering that last 30% and be starting construction on an orbital solar array

nowhere to go but it’s halloween kind of want to dress up like a sexy demon since i have some horns

i know that feeling

i wish i had some platonic snuggle friends like i did when i was younger. my partner is autistic and hyper sensitive with a very jealous clingy dog so we barely touch and it kind of fucks me up. i imagine HRT will make this like 100x as intense

i’m legit worried there’s going to be an attempt to invade or bomb Cuba in addition to Venezuela. the U.S. is going to try to replicate The Entity’s drunken bar fight with every neighboring nation in an attempt to wipe out the last left wing governments of the hemisphere.

(obviously i am worried for all these nations not just Cuba i just feel like once they go for it they are going to go for ALL of it. unlikely to be successful inshallah)

i seriously think it’s mostly because of Silicon Valley making the hard right turn and being “adopted” into the greater Conservative Ecosystem

it’s taken some effort but somehow they have fused “traditional values” with this all gas no brakes everything AI and tech ideology. i mean just look at Thiel fusing his version of Christianity with transhumanism

it’s obviously all for self serving reasons; they want money and the right has all the money now. and since most right wingers are basically unthinking automatons they just go with the flow and the flow says AI is good. boss says it’s good so it must be.

plus they hate artists because artists are woke and gay or whatever. but at the top, it’s obviously a hatred of workers and humanity in general, which has just filtered down. the average right wing prole doesn’t like to think about that part and just ignores it or assumes because they use AI they will not be ground into bio-diesel to fuel some Yarvinist data center.

so sorry . i’ve lost a dog and rat to cancer

i will hug my cats and dog for u. cats are getting up in years and i have been thinking a lot about this recently

hmm so what they are going to do is just use this app to “deport” whoever they want by making it flag people kind of like a drug dog