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anti-ai people need to understand that the opposition communists have to luddism and reactionary sentiment isn't like, a moral one. the main problem with luddism is that it doesn't actually work. like when we say 'we mustn't try to fight against technology itself, we need to fight against the social system that makes it so that advancement in technology and labour-saving devices lead to layoffs' the reason we're saying it is because, if you try fighting the technology, you're going to lose, and you're still going to lose your job too. when you say 'yeah i understand your criticism but I'm still going to fight against AI' you very clearly did not understand the criticism, because the point is that it isn't even in your own self-interest, because it will not work. the fact that, even if it did work, it would only mean maintaining a privileged strata of 'skilled labour' above other workers is secondary -- because, again, flatly resisting technological advancement has never worked in history.

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“You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society private property is already done away with for nine-tenths of the population; its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence in the hands of those nine-tenths.”

— The Communist Manifesto 

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Something very interesting about the framing of self-driving cars between the US and China.

In the US, companies like Uber, Lyft, or whoever, push self-driving cars with the objective of increasing their profit (but decreasing their rate of profit) by removing drivers from their cars, effectively shifting a large part of their labour costs from the driver seat to the factory.

In China, self-driving busses are designed, built, and tested with the goal of reducing the workload on bus-drivers - who, while remaining in the driver seat, now don't have to micromanage the route at all times, like using a cruise control. It is explicitly framed as a labour-saving device.

If you're interested in the socialist position on automation, there it is in practice.

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SIMON PHOENIX

Art by TOMASZ MAJEWSKI

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i don't get how goals work i've never had a target goal i just flow through life like a little leaf being carried by the wind

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I love solarpunk!

Under a solar punk society, we can have cute designs on our infrastructure. look what's possible when people get a say in their energy production!

wind power too!

we could even cute matching patterns with our farms!

look at these cute pandas...

or maybe we could immortalize art important to our culture?

look at everyone working together 🥰

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star trek is poetic cinema etc.

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Eyup Lovely got deleted today and this will live forever in my head

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this is how engineering majors who get mad when you tell them to not work for defense contractors sound to me

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Same for the type of post saying "I don't have radical politics I just think that everyone should have shelter and food and access to medical care" and so forth. Like yeah okay, which socioeconomic system is most likely to achieve those things. Completely vibes based politics.

i get annoyed by those posts that are like "you can convince everyone in your life about the merits of socialism by just not using the scary words" idk have some backbone. what's gonna happen when you convince this person of everything you agree with and they go "so what party should i support" and you have to go "oh well i guess those guys that are calling themselves the socialists"

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It’s so tiresome when people are like “why do you have to bring politics into everything?” Like we aren’t steeped in the cumulative detritus of politics every moment of our waking life.

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This fucking dip shit saying China is the greatest threat to Canada when we're currently being threatened with annexation by the president of the United States of America is such a joke. Literally China should be the #1 country on earth we improve and develop diplomatic and economic ties with, moron!

Is China threatening us? In what way are they a threat?

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has unveiled plans to cut taxes and beef up defence spending, arguing Canada must project economic strength and defend its “sovereignty” from the United States amid roiled relations with its neighbour. Carney, who became prime minister after Justin Trudeau resigned on March 14, presented his Liberal Party’s campaign plan on Saturday before parliamentary elections on April 28.

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people in the usa are so uninformed/misinformed/propagandized about socialist countries that even knowing like, basic facts about the electoral system of marxist leninist countries feels like being privy to some kind of forbidden knowledge.

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american maid cafe review

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thinkig about when the 2000s olympics was in sydney and these two comedians introduced an unofficial mascot called fatso the fat arsed wombat which looked like this

and everybody in australia just started acting like he was the official olympic mascot to the point where ppl were winning gold medals and bringing a plushie of him up to the podium

and the olympic committee got so mad about it they had to implement all these bans to try and preserve the integrity of the games or whatever but literally nobody else gave a shit so he just kept . showing up everywhere