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  • IMO tech bros’ main goal for this technology is to use it to manipulate public opinion on social media. It is perfect for it and the “daydreaming” (bullshitting) is perfect.

    Notice that all social media are involved in it, Twitter was “sold” to xAI, the recent incident with Grok about South African apartheid. The 10 year ban to regulate it by states etc.

    They talk about it increasing productivity (and are hoping that it could be used for that too), but if people would know it is meant for disinformation, they would be even more against skipping copyright for it.




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    Musk saying he is stepping down when week earlier was saying he will be there for a year (yes, I know he is behind the scenes, but was forced to not be public).

    The narrative about Ukraine, Canada, Greenland softened.

    Politicians who went to El Salvador.

    The problem is that when this admin softened so did the protests and that’s bad.


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    It is much harder to get a buy in from general population that arrests and natural law was necessary if the protests are peaceful.

    Escalation caused by the government motivates more people to join the protest. While of protest was violent from the start more people will be against it and will avoid being part of it.

    Another example, Ukrainian orange revolution and Euromaidan. It was started by students (BTW this is why trump attacks students) and as the government started being violent, made other Ukrainians join.


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    This.

    musk went into hiding, the administration toned down, we need to continue and encourage others to do, otherwise all that effort was wasted.

    The protests are happening all the time, especially on weekends. I unfortunately see mostly older folks there, and this affects us much more is than them as we will have to live with this for decades of we don’t do anything. One time me that he lived here for 76 years and this is unprecedented. Please continue to show up https://mobilize.us/indivisible

    Continue protests at Tesla, he is in hiding but still involved.

    Also please join the training https://www.pramilaforcongress.com/the-resistance-lab


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    Peaceful protests actually work better, but requires actual action not just sitting at home and upvoting shit.

    Poland was able to overthrow authoritarian regime via peaceful protests, general strikes. Yes, at moments they turned violent, but it is because the government escalated it.

    We don’t want this administration to use protest’s violence to be used to consolidate their power, instead we want the violence caused by the government to encourage more people to join protests. It is more of us than them, we actually have more power and it is a matter of everyone realizing this.

    I encourage everyone to take Resistance Lab training: https://www.pramilaforcongress.com/the-resistance-lab






  • Ok, then it looks like we are on the same page on that.

    Though, seeing tankies support Russia and China tells me they don’t care about social aspects of communism, so the only thing left is authoritarianism.

    The term might be even more appropriate now as it originates, because they basically supported using tanks against the population to squash Hungarian Uprising. A totally authoritarian move.

    At that point there’s not much difference between them and today’s far right. I mean tankies will openly say they support communism, but their actions shows that’s not what they are truly after.

    To me it looks like tankies were product of Soviet propaganda while MAGA is a product of Russian propaganda, and that’s why they both share so many common views.


  • That’s because of corruption. As of now communism to be implemented requires authoritarianism. Authoritarianism is the main reason why communism is bad.

    Currently both, tankies as well as far right don’t really care about socialism (if tankies cared about socialism they wouldn’t support China or Russia). All they are supporting is authoritarianism.

    What far right labels as far left (in US at least) are people who support liberal democracy with protections and safety nets for working class. The “most radical” Bernie Sanders is exactly for that.

    There might be actual communist parties in Europe, they hardly have any support.


  • Yes pro authoritarian far left that’s basically communism.

    China is hardly a communism right now, Russia definitively isn’t a communism. So the current tankies that are worshipping Russia and China aren’t really for communism, they are only pro authoritarianism.

    They are actually more aligned with MAGA than anything, the only difference is just that they don’t have problem openly supporting Russia and China.

    Since this is world community there are people in other countries, and might be different definition what’s far left. But in US what authoritarians are labeling as far left are people who still want liberal democracy, but with social programs (what you have in EU, especially in Scandinavian countries). The “furthest left” politicians, Bernie Sanders is basically advocating for medical care for all Americans and taxes on rich. Basically so the government works for the people but against them.