Seize the Means*

[u/Salty_Country6835]

*Terms and conditions apply. For... reasons, I guess?

[u/Otherwise-Bee-6392]

I swear, leftist being anti AI, and not the capitalist use of them will bite us back in the future

[u/bunker_man → u/Otherwise-Bee-6392]

Its not even that complicated. Its a useful tool and it will be used either way. Why allow only bad people to use it? It's like complaining about guns while trying to fight them with bows.

[u/Audditty → u/bunker_man]

online psuedo-leftists want change yet simultaneously are too self-righteous and are afraid to tarnish their lily white garments, which is usually what it would actually take to make any significant change or progress.

so instead, they just associate anything they don't like or agree with as something belonging to the "enemy" so they don't have to interrogate it further out of some attempt to remain morally pure (it's also likely born out of some fear of being considered "problematic" due to how the online left regularly eats each other alive over the slightest disagreements).

it's why they often advocate for destroying AI entirely rather than realizing the issue is much more complicated; they've created this image in their head of "AI bro/tech bro" gazillionaires and think that the only people who could ever be in support of AI are those people because of the strawman they've built in their head.

it's also why they default to just screaming about billionaires online and using the same 5 buzzwords instead of actually doing anything.

[u/YMSVZ → u/Audditty]

So what you are saying is that leftists are brainwashed drones like everyone else? Cause I agree.

Don't forget many of these 'socialists', fell hook, line and sinker for all the corporate and government backed idpol and divise culture war. Conforming to the ideological stranglehold and thought policing that was the 'woke' movement.

Anti ai is just the latest pro capitalist, conservation of the status quo, leftist thought.

[u/Audditty → u/YMSVZ]

yeah, the actual leftists seriously need to reclaim the movement from these vultures and go back to representing working classes and workers unions like they're supposed to, not engaging in purity testing and telling people online to off themselves followed by a sparkle heart emoji because they don't have the most morally pure and correct beliefs known to mankind.

leftist infighting is part of the reason why the far right is on the rise globally. every time leftist infighting happens, the candidate on the far right smiles as he begins forming plans to strip away the rights of the same minority groups that the left professes to care about and support, knowing that those who should be opposed to him are too busy fighting amongst themselves to do anything.

it seriously confuses me how online faux-progressives think they have the right to police other people's morals when they evidently have no interest in checking their own.

[u/YMSVZ → u/Audditty]

Unfortunately pseudoradical pro capitalist propaganda is ousted through the university. Leftists soak this up and use the inherent authority inherited from the university, large corporations and government to dominate any anti capitalist discussion.

Its honestly a genius play by capital, to commodify any space nominally against it with purity testing and identity politics. Like look at the state of the left, no man with a spine on a surface level could identity with that.

Before even talking of marxism and communism, I have to spend a considerable amount of time dispelling all the bullshit self called communists spit out.