☭ Solidarity Forever 🇵🇸 Free Palestine ☭
“Let this radicalize you rather than lead you to despair” - Mariame Kaba
A better world is possible for us all. Let’s build it together.
Given how many posts have no comments when one does that draws my eye a lot more than the vote counts. If there’s a nice convo going on I’m more likely to upvote that than the post itself. Sometimes I remember to upvote on my way out, but usually the conversation was the content I stayed for not the post that incepted it.
Naw I just expanded on your already great points
Change in the US will happen out of necessity when the US does try to do this but can actually receive pushback but much of it will have to happen because average people take up the call to build something better. The movement is growing every day.
I am optimistic that over enough time and with enough deliberate action anything is possible. Maybe not in my lifetime but that’s the fight I’ve committed myself to and it’s a righteous one.
Right I think a lot of this is going to collapse and STILL the US will be one of the most powerful countries. That is how disgustingly evil we have been at suppressing the rest of the world. Once our oppressive boot is less potent there are some beautiful developments in this world waiting to happen.
A multi polar world will surely emerge. The empire will crumble slowly and gradually cede power to other forces.
I think the reality is the US will still be one of the most powerful countries but in a world where they seriously have to operate in diplomacy and not just imperial shows of force will be a net positive for the world overall.
The hope there is other nations that are polar powers and are nominally engaging in anti capitalist behavior will spread that ideology and help lift the the tides of revolutionary fervor to wholesale replace capitalism as the global economic system.
Unless the US does the thing where they decide to violently lash out (as empires do in the past collapses) and nukes the world a few times over. I don’t think this is likely but also it is assuredly not non zero which is insane.
I disagree mostly in the name of being specific with my words. Most people who espouse these politics in the US are neolibs who balk at having to alter their lives in any way to achieve those goals. They agree with policy like that right up until they have to do their part and help pay for it with their taxes.
Not saying these are your politics btw in case that wasn’t clear.
They’re vaguely defined by design in the US. It makes it easier to condemn an amorphous blob of vague ideas that ranges from centrist liberalism to anarchy than to actually have to engage in substantive arguments. Especially when all the existing structures that be fall in line to convince the masses of it.
To me leftists begin at being anticapitalist. I ask the question because its hard to even really know what “leftist” would be on Rumble. That platform is 1) for pedophile Nazis and 2) botted to hell and back. You’re not getting through to people genuinely on Rumble - it’s the Twitter of streaming platforms (maybe second to Kick idk).
When you say leftist what do you mean?
Depends on the substance of the disagreement imo
Any serious Marxist of course values the international perspective as it is a fundamental part of the emancipation of all members of the working class. We cannot achieve a communist future without doing full and complete global revolution.
Is an international coalition possible within the constraints of capital today? Personally I want to optimistically say yes because we’ve seen international solidarity change the winds on issues like Gaza in the advent of our more connected world that I think few of our intellectual predecessors could have ever expected or imagined. We still have a fucking lot of work ahead of us though. Compare the power and vitality of socialist movements across the world during the Second International and to see what I mean. In the lead up to WW1 socialism was a real tangible movement with real power and influence the likes of which no one in the modern western world has ever seen. We need to get back to that and it’s going to take time still unfortunately.
I am of the mind that we should follow the examples Lenin has left for us and we must necessarily engage with the structures around us that exist today to proliferate our message to as many minds as possible. Even the structures that we as socialists rightfully declare as vestiges of capital, as long as the masses engage with them and believe in their validity we must engage with them as well. It is our job to inculcate them to the evils of capital (of which many are already tuned into on some innate level to begin with…many just need a push in the right direction to get their political development kick started) and to show them that our struggle for freedom anywhere is inexorably tied to our struggle for freedom everywhere.
From an electoral position, since we must necessarily engage with electoral and parliamentary structures to push our message and ideas and to be part of the conversation of governance, the emphasis on principled and accountable electeds becomes a prime concern. We must ensure we have electeds who are true representatives of the movement and who are ideologically committed to holding and maintaining a party line. We cannot have electeds falling to the whims of empire and capital and we must ensure these electeds convene and collaborate with the masses to ensure they are subject to the tribunes of the people.
From a western perspective there must also be a considerable emphasis on decolonization to support international cooperation and freedom. Western powers exist as imperial holdings and the inherent hierarchy this creates as powerful nations subjugate weaker ones for their own gain must be done away with wholesale. Constitutions must be redrawn to ensure true democratic participation of the members of society such that everyone is given true agency and influence over their lives and the issues that affect them. Minorities must be afforded reparations for the systematic subjugation they have been subject to and we must work to ensure these structures can never manifest again. Undemocratic structures of governance (like the Senate in the US for instance) must abolished completely. Nations must be afforded true independence and respect to allow self determination on a national scale.
There’s definitely more to say here and I probably would be smart to revise some of this (maybe later) but I gotta get to work lol
I’ve only been doing real theory analysis with local comrades recently and while its been incredibly educational I definitely am still learning and expanding my perspectives every day.
This is only a problem in a world where we spend no time to optimize these models like we are doing today where we just throw more power at them rather than engineering them to be…better. Look at how China is doing AI - their more limited resources in this regard have forced them to invest in LLM models that work on more modest hardware with much less necessary power. This is necessarily the direction this development must continue to make it a viable product for the average person to engage with without the need for an oppressive mega corporation footing the infrastructure bill (and poisoning the surrounding population at the same time).
Edit: I’ll add that I am broadly not in favor of AI as a whole but the tech is here and has novel use cases. Making the models more efficient is a necessary step towards seeing this tech’s true usefulness be actualized.
Damn dude you got me with more evidence you have zero fucking idea what you’re talking about lmao
You gave me the vaguest answer possible I am asking for more specificity. Can you offer it or do you really not know what you’re talking about? Someone who knows what they are talking about but be able to come up with a much more substantive response don’t you think?
Love when morons like you spew incomprehensible garbage and then laugh at others for not being stupid enough to understand what you’re saying. Maybe I need to go huff some glue to get to your level and that will help.
Ok cool so are you gonna actually answer my question or just post stupid shit like this?
Why do you think they will regret allying with China for manufacturing and whatnot? China is THE global expert at this stuff.
Great at marketing? You call appeals to the humanity of people being systematically ethnically cleansed or genocided is…marketing? Are the videos of dismembered children marketing?
Get your two stater, Israel apologist ass out of here.
Idk the only time I’ve seen Facebook dot com links is when my parents send me AI videos of animals. I’m trying to get them off of it but they are set in their ways, etc etc
Time to find some new activities if meeting people is a priority then I think. Which isn’t to say it will be easy to do but neither are most things worth doing that improve our material existence.
lol
I got a bunch of docker compose files and the envs documented so its easy to spin things up again or rollback changes. It works well enough if I’m good about keeping everything all up to date and not making changes without noting it down for myself later.