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  • AI matters but not in the way you think

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  • The capital maximizer that survives is the one that controls legislation to suppress small businesses that might break it's monopoly. It has found that by putting one group of people under horrifically unbearable conditions, it can worsen the conditions of all others with few complaints so long as they keep the less suppressed workforce convinced that they have it better and may even be superior than the super suppressed (see racism). Destroying the property of others creates demand that it can used to extract more capital from those who have had their property destroyed (see war). Tearing up industrial infrastructure from steel mill to slaughter houses just to prevent small farmers and or any competition from rising in their own backyard and moving manufacturing to places far away allows them to pay people even less (see de-industrialization and the battle for Seattle). Ensuring that there aren't enough jobs to go around so that those who work have to work so hard they only time to think about work and look down on those who can't find work. Any waste of resources is a source of capital for the Capital Maximizer. If the Capital Maximizer doesn't do these things, and the system isn't changed, it will be bought or destroyed by the Capital Maximizer that does. It can't even be called the law of the jungle for that is far more fair and just.

    If nothing changes it ends when the population dies out because people no longer have the ability to engage in reproductive labor, due to a lack of resources and sheer energy. At least that's the current theory, as birthrates in capitalist countries have fallen below the replacement rate. Or when wars get too far out of hand and we all die. Automation and AI just allow the Capital Maximizer to keep going a little longer.

    The system itself is the capital maximizer, to destroy it without perishing requires a complete dismantling of the system with a new system built to rise in it's place. How we build and support that system will determine if we see what a world without capitalism looks like.

  • AI matters but not in the way you think

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  • Do you know the story of the paperclip maximizer? It's a cautionary thought experiment written in 2003.

    Suppose we have an AI whose only goal is to make as many paper clips as possible. The AI will realize quickly that it would be much better if there were no humans because humans might decide to switch it off. Because if humans do so, there would be fewer paper clips. Also, human bodies contain a lot of atoms that could be made into paper clips. The future that the AI would be trying to gear towards would be one in which there were a lot of paper clips but no humans.

    Oddly enough if you think about it, the story could just as easily refer to capitalism insatiable need for accelerating growth. It is a wealth concentrating ideology. The irresponsible use of AI is killing people but that is to be expected. Every kid AI relieved of life, whether they were driven to it, or living in the wrong place, or starved by job loss, makes the capitalists who sell the AI richer.

  • Do words have meaning? Terrorism

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  • The Britannica is phrased in a way that makes it impossible or at least extremely difficult to label the creators and enforcers of unjust laws to ever fit it's definition. A criminal can only be a criminal if they have committed a crime, but it's legal for a cop to shoot someone on a suspicion of a crime or at least impossible to convict them of that, than they can never be considered criminal.

    There are places in the US where it is illegal to feed homeless people. Feeding the homeless would cause someone to definitionally become a criminal if they are caught and convicted. If one of the people they fed, turned around and say mugged someone, the one feeding the homeless can be called a terrorist. There are also store owners who consider the downward pressure that puts on the price of their wares to be coercive violence. In these twisted minds a cop killing a nurse trying to give aid to someone else, is not a terrorist but the random person feeding the hungry who can't afford food is.

    Most people hear the word criminal and think that it refers to someone who has broken a just law. However it seems that more and more lately criminal refers to anyone who challenges the status quo or just got too poor. Prisons need their slaves after all.

    The root terror evokes a certain set of emotions, for that reason it's probably better to just point out that all violence delivered by any government is terrorism.

  • NSFW

    ‘most people who claim to be pro-Palestinian could not care less about actual Palestinians.’

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  • Claiming that people trying to stand up for the Palestinian cause are hurting Jews implies that Jews are hurt by people not being willing to condone the destruction of a people. That seems like a much worse slander against Jewish people than claiming a government officials are committing atrocities, even if those officials are Jewish.

  • Why I want to march on May Day

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  • I heard about that, it sounds like Will Lehman wants to bring some systemic changes to the way UAW is run. Shawn Fain doesn't sound like the kinda person you'd want running a union after what happened Secretary-Treasurer Margaret Mock

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    Why I want to march on May Day

  • Death to america

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  • Revolution is coming to the US soon. The question is what kind revolution it will be. History seems to indicate that if we don't have alternative systems ready when it comes the violent chauvinists will. Those alternative systems are being prepared as I type this. For decades only weeks of progress have been made, but it seems likely that the imperial pedophile cannibals are no longer capable or willing to keep their subversive counter measures in place. They seem to be relying more and more on overt violence. We must have alternative systems for resource distribution, education, health care and physical infrastructure reading. Marches are the first step, networking is extremely important for building new systems.

  • Revolutionary Guerilla Gardening to Raise Class Conscienceness

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  • Maybe dandelions, combined with some tasteful signage about their use in cooking? Greening and renaturalizing can help to build community, but I also want to build class consciousness. Start the process of building alternate networks of resource distribution and changing public land use theories and practice at a literal city street level.

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    Revolutionary Guerilla Gardening to Raise Class Conscienceness

  • gazans fished while idf distracted by flotilla

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  • That would indicate that the flotilla was effective at helping them access food.

  • One Gaza-bound vessel breaks through after dozens of 'Israeli' interceptions. Edit: Intercepted now.

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  • That is encouraging.

  • What do you think: will Israel blow up some of the flotilla fleet?

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  • It might not be much, but it's something.

  • What do you think: will Israel blow up some of the flotilla fleet?

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  • I wouldn't say nothing has happened. Average people used to have a positive impression of their colonial project and now most people don't. It's not much but it is something.

    It shines a bright light on the fact that the governments in most western do not indeed reflect the will of the people. It is becoming harder for people to ignore that.

  • What do you think: will Israel blow up some of the flotilla fleet?

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  • There are several livestreams on youtube watching them will put pressure on the iof not to blow them up.

  • My little brother is turning into a Nazi. How can I save him???

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  • I almost forgot the podcast bad hasbara makes it really hard to blame all Jewish people.

  • My little brother is turning into a Nazi. How can I save him???

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  • Might also help to point out how the Zionists benefit from people associating all Jewish people with their genocide. Those kinda accusations are used by Zionists to justify their ethnic cleansing.

  • The U.S. grid is so weak compared to China, the AI race may already be over

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  • According to more perfect union video I recently watched they will claim success at 100 billion in profit, or roughly 1% of the total annual wages of all U.S. workers. Only a fraction of wages are profits. The A.I. being developed here is anti human.

    The replacement of the work force is made worse by their destruction of homes. The capitalists are attempting to decimate the workplace literally. The sooner this ends the better.

  • Opinions on Hadash party in Israel?

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  • I evaluate political parties based on policies they promote and what they're leadership says. They're leadership conflates anti Zionism with anti semitism, Hadash doesn't. Even the DSA in the US doesn't do that.

    Political parties evolve over time so in order to remain principled, we must remain up to date on where they stand.

    So unfortunately while die linke might be able to do the same, they don't.

  • The Terrorists

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  • These days when asked to picture a terrorist, I picture the faces on the currency of USA.

  • Opinions on Hadash party in Israel?

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  • They claim to be anti Zionist and it sounds like their leaders oppose the occupation, support icj case, and support equal rights for all. https://tribunemag.co.uk/2024/11/anti-zionist-israeli-mp-i-will-never-surrender

    If the psl as an anti imperialist party can exist in the US the imperial core, it would make sense that an anti-zionist party could exist even in a state built on Zionism. There were Jewish people there even before the British occupation, let alone it's recognition by the UN.

    It sounds like they made a tactical choice to use their privilege to leverage whatever political power they can get to stop the oppression.

  • The Israel Embassy Shooter Manifesto

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  • The more they suppress the protests, the more legitimacy they lose.

    The Hind Rajab Foundation can only hold people to account when they can be arrested for war crimes. It isn't as though the Washington DC PD would be willing to arrest war criminals.

    The oligarchy has made peaceful revolution impossible.

  • Which jobs are most useful for the revolution?

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  • Whatever you are good at. It's more about who you work for, less about what you do.

    The revolution requires maintenance workers, legal teams, doctors, artists, soldiers and virtually every other job. You just need to be good at what you do. Be smart, be vigilant, be ready.

    See faith makes great for details.

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    Palestine is one of the reasons I've decided to stop smoking a pack a day

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    Thoughts on Marching

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    ADL, Zionism, and Antisemitism

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    Antisemitism and Zionism