A lot of it simply isn’t worth debating in a media that’s suffocated with fascist rhetoric.

When you know the only coverage you’re going to get is “Politician defends Baby Eating Terrorist, flees confrontation with half-eaten baby when confronted” there’s no yield in engaging a Steven Crowder tier interviewer on the subject.

Staying on message on local issues plays better in the long run. And deflecting from “How do you feel about all the Dead Venezuelan Babies that socialism created?” to “I’m busy filling potholes on 47th and Main, where we’re also throwing a pizza party and handing out baby blankets to new moms and college scholarships to telegenic high schoolers. Why won’t you let me talk about that?” is just the standard - highly effective - retail politics that make someone like Zohran or AOC have sky high local approval numbers.

It sucks that we can’t have any kind of serious conversation about foreign policy. But I’m not going to blame that on the heart-of-gold socialist currently getting heckled by a news anchor with a swastika tattoo on his forehead.

Sounds like you’re using some fascist technology, friend.

One of the consequences of living in a fascist state while surrounded by fascist sychophants, unfortunately.

Be more discriminating in your choice of technology suppliers, I guess?

Do what you can, but don’t fall into the trap of individualist consumerism. Blaming the slaves for working on the plantation only serves fascist ends.

Idk, man. As political prisoners go, he’s looking reasonably well taken care of.

Glad he’s in a Brooklynn jail than one in Texas or Florida. Dude would probably have been Epstein’d by now if he was kept in a Red State.

But even beyond that, it’s a Federal Prison. What do they think the city’s mayor is going to do? Ask Jessica Tisch to order the NYPD to bust in and release him?

How do you get bored talking about Mesoamerican archeology?

Admittedly, if I was upset at everyone being on their phone, I might be a little disappointed to discover my bus-mate was a Human Podcast. But I’d definitely be one of the people on the phone listening to some Trans-baddie tell me about mayors or James Bond movies or engineering disasters to begin with.

You’re pointing out brands.

I’m pointing out corporations founded and financed by fascist networks and leaders.

The OP is pointing out technology. Technology cannot be fascist.

Modern AI tools are extensions of their corporate parents. They are some of the least host-agnostic technological advances made to date. Their construction, their access, their modes of function, their material output, and their waste product are all informed by the ideological motivations of their primary sponsors.

In the same way that a car becomes an anti-pedestrian agent of social change and reshapes the territory to accommodate it, the technology of AI reshapes the material conditions of its associated workforce and the function of its output. These changes are fascist in character, in the same way parking lots and highway overpasses and suburban neighborhoods are made into tools of segregation and eugenics.

They don’t have to function that way, but they become so when they are implemented by business executives with fascist motivations. So the Ford Motor Car does more than just exist as a piece of technology. It functions as a tool of social oppression. In the same vein, the Olinia moves us in the opposite direction.

Technology can and has been developed to serve fascist ends. The engineering behind an object can explicitly serve a political agenda.

So was “Gay Bowl Syndrome”.

Cars are fascist-backed technology.

Ford cars are certainly fascist-backed. Volkswagons, too. Idk if I’m going to stick the label on the Olinia or the Renault.

So are computers.

The Chilean Fascist Augusto Pinochet famously shot all of his country’s computers for being Communist.

Highlighting such a fact is irrelevant.

Weird that you’d bring it up. Weirder that you’d get so many of your facts wrong.

Its going to be bad enough that nobody rebuilds in that area, and we have our first refugees.

Literally what happened back during the original Katrina. A bunch of people from Louisiana picked up and moved to Houston permanently. Houston’s 2 million population grew by about 10 percent virtually overnight, straining all key city services such as schools, hospitals, emergency services and, particularly, public safety. This made a number of Houston Republicans extremely upset (Barbara Bush chief among them)

It has happened before. It will happen again.

I wouldn’t hold my breath

There’s a wide number of critiques in how Wikipedia aggregates, edits, and presents information that isn’t worth going into here.

But I think what has become remarkable is the number of failed attempts to outcompete Wikipedia, corrupt it’s contents, or poison people into not using/trusting it.

Like, it’s less that Jimmy Wales landed on the secret sauce his first try and more that nobody (in any Western nation anyway) seems capable of marshalling the resources or labor necessary to cobble together a project that’s functioned half as well over as long a time period.

goes to Google

searches Google

gets the results from Google

becomes angry at the results in Google

Why do you not simply go to Wikipedia and search directly on Wikipedia?

This is why the distinction matters. AOC isn’t a traditional socialist. She doesn’t espouse Leninist or Stalinist ideology.

The field of socialist political theory doesn’t begin with Lenin and end with Mao. You have plenty of rival and parallel traditions, from Eugene Debbs to Peter Kropotkin to Murray Bookchin to Richard Wolff.

Lenin got the (relative) benefit of a very specific moment in a very specific region. Russia was on the cusp of the industrial revolution just as its aristocratic government had overcommitted to a horrifying military campaign that hollowed out its national leadership. This, in a country where a couple of super-cities dictated the political fortunes of the largest contiguous sovereign landmass on earth.

No shit AOC isn’t Lenin. We’re never going to get another Lenin, because we’re never going to see a mass labor movement catch on at the tail end of WW1 in Petrograd just as the diesel engine is becoming popular. This isn’t even about ideology, it’s about material conditions.

And this isn’t directed towards you. It’s just frustrating.

I mean, I agree, but for slightly different reasons. People keep casting back 100 years and saying “Ah, but you’re not trying to unionize the steelworkers from inside a sealed boxcar, so you’re not doing socialism correctly”.

But when you crack the hood on AOC’s Green New Deal and peak inside, that’s exactly the sort of shit Lenin would have championed. Massive economic modernizations that accrue wealth directly to the working class as social unit? A sprawling state-directed bureaucracy to manage the industrial reforms? Decoupling a critical domestic utility from the private sector while drastically increasing productivity to make the commodity virtually free at point of use?

That’s So Lenin!

I’ll spot you that AOC’s aged like milk. She came into office leading a parade of angry activists to Nancy Pelosi’s front door and came an inch shy of nailing 99 Leftist Theses to her front door. Now she just blows up my phone with annoying donation requests and does stupid Twitch streams repeating hashed over health care talking points for the 90th time.

But slapping the “DemSuc” label on her, because she’s not chanting chapter and verse out of the Little Red Book while wearing a Mao Suit is just getting hung up on bullshit aesthetics. The least Lenin thing she’s done is lose. But its not for lack of trying. It’s certainly not for lack of ideology.

You may not like it, but…

“Why is your finger in that dam? You’re clearly just standing there doing nothing.”

The good(ish) news is that black hats are very skilled at their jobs. IT Security more often needs to justify their fuck-ups than their excessive competency.

Idk, I think there’s a real demographic of Divorced Dads who could qualify.

She can’t be viewed in a positive light, because she’s an Evil Icky Socialist.

I’ve been lobbying my office for a person with a Library Sciences degree to help manage our massive archive of Sharepoint files.

“Haha, how hard could it be?” is the sort of thing that gets you stuck with a multi-year long stint in Library Hell. I can say this from personal experience.

If you do your job right, nobody will know you did anything at all.

what concerns everyone must be approved by everyone

Democracies don’t function this way. Majoritarian rule regionally occurs in defiance of some portion of the public citizenry.

Depending on how the Democracy is organized bureaucratically, it may even be the majority of the citizenry.

Mr. Masoud Pezeshkian, I am a nine year old girl Sophie Smith suffering tyranny under pedophile administration. I have only 15 minutes a day of running water and two hot pocket rations for my daily meal. Please send HESA Shahed 136 long distance kamakazi drone to Andrews Air Force Base. My nation yearns for freedom.