It seems to mostly be about understanding the dangers of AI, not putting ChatGPT sermons on every street corner.

As much as I dislike the church, them leaning into liberation theology is certainly better than the alternative. At a time when so much of the world has uncritically embraced oligarchy and authoritarianism, the public messaging alone is helpful. It may be purely a strategy to recapture people people who have walked away for social consciousness reasons, but it still makes it easier for genuine leftists to radicalize the flock into direct action.

As an American, it’s not that uncommon for people here to think America is in decline. The corpo media and most politicians will never admit it, but there is no metric in which average citizen does not see things getting worse.

The main difference is that most Americans lack the global perspective to realize how serious and permanent this decline is. They don’t understand that things will never return to how they used to be.

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Ukraine has shown a willingness to glaze anyone who might help them.

As far as why Israel has support, that probably has a lot to do with external interests in keeping the middle east divided. They want to promote enough competition in the region to prevent a global superpower from emerging, and they’d prefer to have to biggest regional power be as non Muslim as possible. If a middle eastern power or alliance could control most of the middle east, it would be one of if not the most powerful entity on earth. Israel promotes the chaos that prevents an Islamic alliance that many middle eastern powers have toyed with over the past century. An explicitly non Muslim ethnostate would never join such efforts, and would likely be perpetually outnumbered and unable to become that middle eastern superpower themselves.

The critical issue with the US greens is their pathetic efforts in local organizing and their overvaluing of the presidency. Instead of trying to build power from the ground up like the DSA, they throw most of their efforts behind doomed campaigns that do nothing for anyone. Besides, the only way a party can win the presidency is by replacing another in the duopoly.

If the Iran war is a proxy war against China, then the US has lost even harder than they have against Iran. Iran is not an insignificant power and it has a deep feud with the US, so Trump attacking it has little to do with China. If he had properly considered China, he might’ve been more hesitant to go to war. We’re in an era of multipolarity where many smaller players are vying for power just as much as the big 3.

The tragic part is that most Americans don’t even know how much the walls have closed in around them.

As a “doubter,” I know not to trust a single word ever said by Trump. The only thing that matters are his actions, because those can be read no matter what he wants me to think.

He thinks he can keep bullying Iran while still getting out of the conflict because every other interaction with them had no serious consequences. He saw Iran as a punching bag he could keep attacking to demonstrate strength, not realizing that he was playing with fire the entire time. Now that his strategy has backfired, he has no choice but to cut his losses and accept an L, or prolong the conflict and make things even worse for himself.

It’s deadly to get organized right now, so even getting a million people together would likely be met with rico prosecutions for sharing lunch with someone who passed out fliers. There is no freedom to organize even nonviolent opposition to the administration. The state has so many ways to relieve pressure that it’d take mass starvation and unemployment for people to do anything.

The billionaires have completely captured almost the entire opposition party, freezing out anyone who actually opposes their interests. There are no more democratic mechanisms for significant change, and most of us don’t accept that reality. So many people still think that what they’ve been taught to do to impact change will work, but our votes are only acceptable if the candidate is oligarch approved. Even the people who actually stand against them are only allowed to convince people that there is still a chance.

So you ask how we can let this go on? It’s because we’d need to embrace violence to change things, and most believe nonstate violence is wrong no matter how fascist the state.

That sounds delicious

Considering they have little energy and food independence, they really have no choice but to avoid conflicts. If any great power decided to embargo Japan, there would be little they could do even with a powerful military. Considering the trajectory of the US and China, pushing the offensive is suicide.

Zionist Democrats when the ethnic cleansing state does ethnic cleansing outside of their supposed homeland: 😱

My personal opinion is that Rimu doesn’t think b he’s trying to become king of the fediverse. I think he sees himself as a progressive fighting back against ideas, people, and movements that threaten his idea of progress. He likes that blog post so much because it positions the free and voluntary association inherent to federation as a right wing idea, something that needs order imposed upon it by a liberal democratic institution (“like the UN”). If it’s right wing to be decentralized, him trying to create a centralized authority is left wing.

I’m of the opinion that people usually believe what they say, and Rimu is no different. Why else would he share such an embarrassing article thinking it makes some convincing point? His thinking is liberal to the core, and he does not understand paradigms without centralized authority regulating behavior. It’s no wonder he doesn’t like the anarchist instances.

At the same time, belief that you aren’t power grabbing does not prevent someone from power grabbing. I don’t think Rimu will give up in the long run. Even if this episode is a loss that does more to lose allies than gain them, he is still gonna keep doing what he has been doing. He can’t use piefed to mandate his philosophy on moderation without alienating more people. He’ll never get his idea of a fediverse UN off the ground, both with how he’s acted and because many instances would never agree to something like it. If he properly reads the room, he’ll be quiet and wait for some better opportunity for mass defederation to show up. Either that or he’ll thrash around and create even more problems for himself.

I use mangadex mostly, but dynastyscans is my second favorite yuri dealer

Rimu, this is your third time in a week starting shit with db0 admins. None of what you’ve done recently has inspired any confidence from me in you or your projects. Given the side you picked during the recent lemmy.world drama, your posts come across more like hitpieces than well thought out complaints.

Also, wtf is up with you calling the entire idea of decentralization into question? Internet services require resources to run, and the barrier to entry for hosting an instance is relatively low. It’s absurd to call instances feudal fiefdoms when anybody with a bit of time and disposable income can theoretically set one up. What is the alternative, all those “fiefdoms” needing to report to a monarch who will only use their power to protect marginalized groups from bigotry(trust me bro)?

What makes it especially egregious is that you aren’t simply a user or even an instance admin, but the head developer of an entire section of the fediverse. You are not a neutral party arguing ideals, you are a person who could theoretically try to crown yourself king. You focusing so much of your efforts on attacking instances that you have ideological problems with is worrying.

I wouldn’t trust an admin like that to protect me from bigotry on their server, nor would I want them to dictate moderation for instances on their platform. Since you seem so keen on highlighting how your instance bans fewer people than others, how could I trust you to not mandate tolerance of a “diversity of opinions” like another notable instance that gives fewer bans?

If that was all rimu was complaining about, I’d understand. Unfortunately, he has a more ideological motivation behind this post than simply calling out AI. If letting users decide for themselves if they like this style of moderation was all he was advocating for, then why is he promoting the idea of centralizing decentralized platforms?

I am unconvinced that this particular use of an LLM for moderation is really that helpful. However, I doubt this is the only motivation behind this post.

but those recessions were obviously the fault of the undocumented transgender immigrant women with disabilities who had all their surgeries paid for by their hard earned tax dollars

That big chunk of Americans ain’t all rich

They won’t be so happy when they get to experience the Great Depression 2: The Real Electric Boogaloo