I am antifa, and I’m completely disorganized.

Yeah. I’m pretty sure for profit social media isn’t good for anyone. Adults shouldn’t use it either. But we decided long ago that you can’t stop adults from drinking or smoking weed, so adults are just mature enough to handle it or approach lies and manipulation with more skepticism, but I look around and see it’s not true.

I feel like at least things like Lemmy and Mastodon are much easier to filter or walk away from when you aren’t in the right emotional space.

I imagine if we get rid of it, we’ll just muck about until we reinvent it under a new name. After all, as far as I can tell capitalism is damn close to feudalism. I’m sure there are technical differences, like you own wealth instead of land, but the end result looks pretty similar.

That’s why the question mark, thank you for setting the record straight.

Yeah this whole thing is idiotic and just deeply disappointing. But that’s just putting it mildly. It must be fought. We cannot surrender the nation to hatred. It must be resisted at every turn. What they are doing is so illegal I don’t even need a court to find it illegal, I just need a copy of the constitution and YouTube.

Have you lost the thread here? Do I need to pull a few quotes for context? My whole argument is that we can’t afford to sacrifice an election to a Trump or his ilk in the hopes of teaching democrats a lesson they aren’t going to get and won’t matter anyway once no one gets to vote for anything.

If OP’s thinking prevailed and that’s why Kamala lost (which I don’t believe is the case) then it would be the strategic thinking and the willingness to sacrifice people now for some imagined gains in the future that would be to blame.

Short term we risk losing democracy. Which is a long term problem.

If you truly believe that voting for anyone but Trump is worth whatever price it takes, then you also believe there’s no harm in endorsing a more left leaning candidate no?

That is implicit in what I said. I don’t endorse Newsome or Kelly. I love what I’m seeing out of Kat Abughazaleh in Illinois, but I can’t vote for her. I’m a hopeful pragmatist.

As for the rest, we are doing irreparable harm to our people and others. That’s not a price I’m willing to pay. It’s a price that I fear might harm us all for decades or longer if Trump chooses to do autocracy.

Peed-on Shitler

I’m not advocating voting for candidates who “can win the general election” in primaries. Vote for social democrats there and let the general election fall where it must. The more social democrats we get in the party, the stronger their influence will be and that is how we drag the party to the left. But when it comes to the general, the most milquetoast corporatist democrat is better than right-wing outright fascism.

So they deported 4k and killed 2(?). That’s a .05% death ratio. If cars had that kind of lethality rate, even republicans would ban them.

Side note: my phone autocorrected republicans to terrorists and… you know… I had to think before I fixed it.

There are people in concentration camps, and some who have been murdered. China might take over Taiwan. Ukraine has lost many more people than it would’ve, given more support. The Gazan people might wind up displaced in favor of Trump resorts.

None of them volunteered to be martyrs for social democracy. Tell them how much worse we could have it. People who are so quick to sacrifice others instead of doing the work to build a better world get no claim to moral righteousness. If people want social democrats, that’s what the primary process is for. You don’t need to punish them for choosing wrongly. As a parent of five I can tell you punishment doesn’t motivate anyone to do the right thing — it motivates them to remove your ability to punish them.

The more I reread your words, the more I reject your vainglorious recklessness. You must do what you can with the means you are given for the situation you are in.

That has not been my experience. There are a number of times I’ve had fundamental differences with the zeitgeist and I’ve been largely down voted before, but never banned. I don’t think I’ve ever even had a comment removed, and some of them have been pretty borderline.

Maybe it’s due to other issues besides your opinion? Idk. Hope you find communities that fit you.

What we have now is “neat.” It’s freaking amazing it can do what it does. However it is not the AI from science fiction.

It’s close. Thinking something more specifically couples-based, though in general it could be more like that than match.com or whatever.

ChatGPT, write some AI prompts that only someone over 40 would ask.

• “Rewrite this email so it sounds firm, calm, and professional—but not like I’m mad, tired, or done with everyone’s nonsense (even though I am).”
• “Explain why my lower back hurts specifically today when I did nothing different yesterday.”
• “Summarize this meeting transcript and tell me which parts actually mattered and which parts were just people protecting territory.”
• “Give me a workout plan that assumes I used to be athletic, still think like I am, and will absolutely injure myself if I’m not careful.”
• “Create a dinner plan that’s healthy, not boring, doesn’t spike my cholesterol, and doesn’t require 14 ingredients or a personality shift.”
• “Help me decide if this friendship has run its course or if we’re just in different life phases.”
• “Rewrite this resume so it highlights experience without triggering age bias or sounding like I’ve been doing the same job since the Clinton administration.”
• “Explain this new trend to me, but also tell me whether I actually need to care.”
• “Draft a polite but unmistakable message that says: ‘This is not my problem, and it will not become my problem.’”
• “Compare these two life choices assuming I value stability, autonomy, sleep, and not starting over for the thrill of it.”
• “Help me articulate why I’m tired in a way that isn’t about sleep.”
• “Turn this rant into something I could safely say out loud without burning a bridge I might still need.”

There you go, kids. And also… yeah these feel pretty accurate.

AI is a much better tool to help experts than replace them.

Used how?

Like, Claude, write up an operational plan for capturing President Maduro.?

Or like, Claude, turn these crayon drawings into tactical plans.?

Or like, Claude, help me find Brazil on a map.?

Lemmy and Bluesky are the only social media I use. I’m not a prolific poster, though, just a commenter. But I’m on them about every day.

Twitter and Bluesky are not my favorite type though. I’m less into following individual people and much more into talking about things. I’m not into celebrity culture, though there are a few people I enjoy the posts of — mostly news and politics-related. I wish I could vote for Kat Abugazelah. I would never have heard that name if not for Bluesky.

You know what would be a valuable dating app to me? I have no idea how this would work in actuality, but an app that helps me date my wife in some way. Suggestions of what to do, packaged date nights, flowers, all that shit — except for all kinds of people not just “traditional romance.” River rafting, swinging, sports bars, I mean appeal to all kinds or even people who just want to try things they don’t even know is it’s for them or not. It would be great for singles, but would still be useful after a relationship is in full bloom. But I think that’s something completely different from a dating app.