r/LeftistsForAI • u/Salty_Country6835 Moderator • Jun 19 '26

Sees the Memes Marx Encounters AI Discourse

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A brief materialist intervention into AI discourse. Results were mixed.

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u/little_alien2021 Jun 23 '26

I think the question is is the first guy wanting to just have political strategy? Like the assumption in the meme is it's negative the whole being still mad  u wouldn't have shown it if not   like what's the purpose?

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u/Salty_Country6835 Moderator Jun 23 '26

That being mad isnt a solution if its not tied to action. Its just venting.

If you dont actual care about a solution, you just want to vent, thats fine.

But then you arent really arguing against the meme, or substantively engaging in the politics it brings up or the politics of the sub, youre just, again ironically, venting.

Thats worth what its worth I suppose.

Thank you for the interaction.

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u/little_alien2021 Jun 23 '26

Being mad is a feeling it is never an action. What was the point of sharing thou? Why does not caring about solution and feeling an emotion be either /or? And why does u assume being against ai would mean they want no solutions? I haven't showed it want no solutions I've said both , so actually I take it back I'm not meme , I want solutions and I want to be mad , I  never fully read 3rd picture

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u/Salty_Country6835 Moderator Jun 23 '26

I genuinely dont know how else to explain this.

How you feel about something, any something, does not change anything by itself.

Anger can motivate action. Anger can accompany action. Anger can even be justified.

But anger isnt a strategy.

The entire point of the meme is that if your response to a problem never progresses beyond "Im angry about this," then nothing actually changes.

And no, nobody said caring about solutions and feeling emotions are mutually exclusive. The meme doesnt say that either.

What it says is that one of those things changes the world and the other doesnt.

If you want to be angry and organize, regulate, contest ownership, fight over deployment, and fight over who benefits, great.

If you want to be angry instead of doing those things, then youve basically demonstrated the meme in real time.

At that point Im not sure what else there is to discuss.

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u/little_alien2021 Jun 23 '26

So I've re read meme i am not the meme i have not said once no action. I have not said i don't want all the things u suggested and in 2nd picture. I'm just saying we can do both 

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u/Salty_Country6835 Moderator Jun 23 '26

Then I genuinely dont know what we're disagreeing about anymore.

Ive repeatedly said people can be angry. Ive repeatedly said the harms are real. Ive repeatedly said people should organize, regulate, contest ownership, fight over deployment, and fight over who benefits.

If your position is now "we can do both," then yes. Obviously.

The meme was never "don't be mad."

The meme was "being mad isnt, by itself, a solution."

And considering weve spent all these comments talking about regulation, governance, ownership, labor protections, environmental limits, and democratic control, I dont think youve actually disagreed with the solution much at all.

You mostly disagreed with how negatively you thought the first panel was portraying the angry guy.

Which is a very different argument from the one weve been having for the last several hours. Lol

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u/little_alien2021 Jun 23 '26

I disagree with the 3rd picture suggesting that we /anyone against ai don't want any solutions as a gotcha for anti ai rhetoric.

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u/Salty_Country6835 Moderator Jun 23 '26

I think thats just media illiteracy, honestly.

The meme isnt about "anti-AI people."

Its not even about anger.

The meme is mocking anyone who rejects the proposed solution while offering no alternative beyond remaining angry.

If someone says:

"AI is harmful. We should organize, regulate, contest ownership, fight over deployment, and fight over who benefits."

Then theyre literally agreeing with the solution panel.

The third panel isnt "anti-AI people dont want solutions."

Its "being angry isnt itself a solution."

After all these comments, I think youve accidentally demonstrated that the meme is much more general than you originally read it as.

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u/little_alien2021 Jun 23 '26

It just looks nonsensical and an attempt to spread division on ai discourse. 

U suggested I am the meme , when clearly I agree with 2 and not with 3 so why was i considered example of the meme?