queermunist she/her

She’s covering for them.

pls pls pls first LLM senator

Maybe we can trick it into giving us universal healthcare.

250 years isn’t that soon.

Not really. Effectively, the Court is checked by their legitimacy. They need the public to believe that their rulings matter, because they don’t have their own enforcement mechanisms. We saw this actually play out in Worcester v. Georgia. The Court can rule how it likes, but without public buy-in they’ll be told to pound sand.

That’s why they’re actually concerned about how they appear to the public and which way the political winds are blowing. If they go too far and do something truly radical, like repeal the Constitution, they’d be ignored. Or killed.

We are limited by our material conditions. In an ideal world, every Nazi would be reeducated and rehabilitated, no matter how long it takes. We don’t have the capacity or the time for that. We have to stop them now, by any means necessary, before it’s too late.

What the fuck are you talking about? This is the same account you replied to? This account is three years old!

Are you confusing me with someone else?

Run me over… on the beach?

Aw that’s not fair - they think about themselves all the time! They spend so much time thinking about themselves, in fact, that they don’t have the extra brain power to spare for the rest of us.

I have come to understand that there is a subset of people that have never spared a thought for anyone else. They probably have never even considered the fact that I don’t want to listen to their stupid bullshit. The thought never crossed their mind, not even once.

You sound like a man.

It doesn’t necessarily look bad, but it has a certain look. Once you start to recognize AI’s tells you can’t unsee it.

I don’t think individual use matters that much. It’s slop, but if it doesn’t matter then slop is fine. It’s when institutions and companies and governments are using generated images instead of hiring an artist that it becomes a problem; an artist didn’t get paid for what is essentially stolen work and now that slop will be crammed down our throats.

This isn’t even new. Women and girls have been starving themselves for a lot longer than guys have been hitting themselves with hammers.

You’re the one doing revisionism, completely overlooking the part of accelerationism where they seek to accelerate development.

Accelerationists believe that capitalism is a progressive self-revolutionizing force that is rapidly creating the conditions for its own obsolescence, and so we just need to develop capitalism more and more until it revolutionizes itself away. It views free trade as a system that breaks down nationalities, automation as a system that breaks down class antagonisms, and technological singularity as the ultimate end point of capitalism where profit and private property cease to exist. We enter an age of post-scarcity and transhumanism and algorithmic government i.e. the end of history. Capitalism collapses under the weight of its own contradictions.

This is a really bad idea because unchecked capitalist development is creating conditions for human extinction. Maybe if there weren’t ecological limits the accelerationists would be right in the long-run, but in the real world we’re running into the limits to growth and capitalist development has put us on the path towards the collapse of civilization rather than merely the collapse of capitalism.

This is all in contrast to revolutionary defeatism, which predates accelerationism by almost 100 years. It is the recognition that the workers do not benefit from capitalist wars, that instead, workers should seek the defeat of their own capitalist governments. If the empire loses, the world wins. There’s no interest in developing the empire further to create the conditions for its collapse, there’s only interest in seeing it collapse. That’s like saying anyone who wants to end capitalism is an accelerationist. It’s nonsense.

Accelerationism would mean accelerating the growth of the empire to bring about its collapse under the weight of its own contradictions, so, voting for the best imperial managers to keep growing the empire. That means voting for Democrats, they’re better imperial governors. They’re better at doing war crimes and getting away with it.

What I want is for the empire to lose. That’s not accelerationism. That’s revolutionary defeatism.

I don’t think you know what that means.

Accelerationism would mean voting for Harris because she’d be a better manager of the empire.

There was already an economic war on Iran, which was already killing people and destabilizing their government. Harris would have waited a few more years for the economic war to collapse Iran’s government and turn it into a situation similar to Syria, and only then would have started bombing. By then, Iran might not have been able to exert control over traffic through Hormuz.

Harris would have been a better manager of the empire. Instead, we got Trump, who is on track to lose to Iran.

Well. It was on the ballot. It just wasn’t likely to win because it wasn’t an issue considered important by the two major parties. You could have voted PSL or Green or one of the other parties, as over three million people did in the last election.

Besides, by that logic, Israeli aggression wasn’t on the ballot either! Do you think Harris would have stopped Israel from starting war with Iran? The war with Iran was already beginning in 2024 before Trump even got into office. Maybe it would have taken a different form, maybe it wouldn’t have happened this year, but Israel was going to attack Iran and the US was going to follow.

That would require reading a book that wasn’t assigned to them by their government in school, and they’d rather die.

It gets medical questions wrong 15% of the time.

The problem with your question is that there’s never going to be a question it gets wrong every time, because it’s probabilistic. You might as well ask “what question can I ask my dice that will reliably produce a wrong answer?”

I wonder if they did it intentionally.

Changing the pill from red to blue basically cost them nothing and served no purpose, but just so happened to ruin the metaphor.