Imnecomrade

I had a feeling there was a story of Nazis doing this. Thank you for the source.

I have wanted to put original content on PeerTube as well, but it's hard with my computer situation and being busy all the time. I hope to see more comrades posting content on alternative platforms, especially exclusively. I'm worried about loss of educational digital media on private platforms like YouTube and Reddit as enshittification continues. I'm also worried about archive.org. I depend on it greatly. I hope we archive and preserve media as much as possible on other platforms before we inevitably lose them.

Kinda wish I spent more time with my coworkers and tried to work towards a union, even though I was a contractor. Not sure if I would have been successful because my coworkers were pretty right-wing and anti-union. Perhaps after trucking and after I save for and attend school and become an electrical engineer, I will try to talk to my coworkers more, organize board game nights or help support my coworkers when they need help in their personal lives, hopefully build solidarity and community, and eventually educate them and push them towards unionization.

There were some good tips in this blogpost I hadn't thought of, and it would have probably helped me in the past.

First, I am only meaning to provide my perspective, even if it turns out to be not perfect or 100% accurate to reality, and I am willing to be corrected or to learn from others. I'm not just some first worlder set in their ways.

I think you misunderstood some of the points I made, just as I interpreted freagle's point about AI wastefulness to be in a broader sense than it was. I don't believe AI as it exists now in the global capitalist system will liberate the third world. My guess is the ruling class's use of the AI will probably have a greater impact against the working class's interests than the impact the working class will have to counter AI through its own use. We have no control over AI's existence. It's a reality we have to live with. The only way AI would have an improvement on the working class's lives across the entire planet would be for a socialist system to become dominant across the world and the global capitalist hegemony to be overthrown.

I'm not denying the ruling class's use of AI is a much greater detriment to us than any gains we get from the weakening of the labor aristocracy. However, I believe as those people start losing their jobs, communist parties will need to start reaching out to them, educate them, and bring them to our cause so we can develop the numbers and power to overthrow the ruling class, which I believe is the upmost importance. I honestly don't believe most labor aristocrats, especially in the West, will be radicalized until they become proletarianized and their material conditions greatly worsen.

I was just implying after revolution and when we live in a socialist society, we would use AI for productive means and not for these wasteful projects. Your list above are mostly projects in a capitalist society that serve the ruling class's interests.

The only real potential benefit of AI in a capitalist society, besides potentially using it to make tools, services, and content for workers and communist parties to fight back against the system, is the proletarianization and hopefully radicalization (toward socialism) of labor aristocrats as the deepening contradictions of capitalism lead to more unrest amongst the working class.

Wasteful for sure, but I can see it saving someone a lot of time.

Many degrowth proposals call for some aggregate reduction of energy use or material throughput. The issue with these proposals is that they conflict with the need to give the entire planet public housing, public transit, reliable electricity, modern water-sewage services, etc., which cannot be achieved by "shrinking material throughput". According to modeling from Princeton University (this may be outdated), it suggests that zeroing emissions by 2050 will require 80 to 120 million heat pumps, up to 5 times an increase in electricity transmission capacity, 250 large or 3,800 nuclear reactors, and the development of a new carbon capture and sequestration industry from scratch. Degrowth policies, while not intending to result in ecological austerity, effectively do so through their fiscal commitment to budgetary constraints which inevitably require government cuts.

The reason for the above paragraph is to give an analogy to the controversy of "AI wastefulness". Relying on manual labor for software development could actually lead to more wastefulness long term and a failure to resolve the climate crisis in time. Even though AI requires a lot of power, creating solutions faster (especially in green industries as well as emissions reduced from humans such as commuting to work) could lead to a better and faster impact on reducing emissions.

https://tankie.tube/w/9coNT19Q6hT8vLJN93NeNN

I prefer to post invidious links for people's security and privacy. I know it's annoying if it doesn't work for you. Maybe try a VPN or just change the link from "inv.nadeko.net" to "www.youtube.com".

The judicial system is such garbage. Finding a "neutral" jury just means you get a bunch of cop-loving people with a shitty centrist bias that end up locking people in prison even when the evidence showed otherwise. If most people lean a certain way, perhaps their opinion should count.

Exactly. I just put a disclaimer there because it sounded a little distasteful without it, at least for anyone new who didn't know my beliefs. I just wanted to be clear I'm not relishing in the genocide of a people for sake of radicalizing people.

When I first listened to the video, I was also thinking about how Bernie just keeps repeating his same old lines, sounding pathetic as the masses, who have further developed class consciousness over the past decade, are not putting up with the censorship and ongoing whitewashing of the genocide. They demand radical change which Bernie is straying away from as he compromises more and more with the far right democrats and republicans while refusing to put up any fight.

Messages like the rich need to pay for their fair share aren't enough. The rich systematically maintain a system through violence and austerity to keep their power and wealth, instilling bigotry and reactionary ideas among the masses to keep them competing and working against each other, and dismantling rights fought and won by previous movements. As Parenti said, the people really want to be liberated from the bourgeoisie's control and domination of their lives. They are tired of struggling for survival. Bernie's pathetic fight for concessions are not enough. The people want full liberation, to finally dismantle a system which perpetuates horrors that no one should ever have to experience, and they want to replace it with one that will ensure it never returns.

I'm honestly glad the crisis the Palestinian genocide has created (of course, I believe this goes without saying, I wish it never had to come to this and that Palestinians were free from the beginning and never faced settler occupation and this holocaust nightmare) has happened while Bernie is still alive. It has turned so many people against Bernie and other socdems, undoing much of the harm they caused toward the socialist movement and finally radicalizing people who would have been radicalized earlier. I'm glad Bernie will have to die knowing he's a monster who perpetuated genocide, and that people are beginning to not settle for an imperialist social democracy but for actual revolution to dismantle and replace this horrific system of oppression that threatens humanity's survival.

It saddens me to see dementia worsen in Parenti. He was a brilliant man, and I hope the last years of his life are as peaceful as possible.