More proof that fascists have never had an original idea, ever.

If you’re describing nearly free and unlimited electricity as a problem, you may want to reconsider some things.

Ooo now do the same but with people in the government!!

“Dude, suckin’ at something is the first step to being sorta good at something!”

Seems like a flacid attempt to shift the blame of consuming immense amounts of resources Chat got uses from the company to the end user.

“You guys aren’t gonna use AI for bad stuff, right?”

Tech oligarchs: whaaaaaat no we actually want to be regulated because of how dangerous this technology is!! Also tech oligarchs:

Hey, just a few thoughts I wanted to share in response to this:

First, citing the CIA to praise Stalin is… an odd move. Second, it’s important to recognize that liberals and neoliberals aren’t the same thing. The terms get conflated a lot, but they refer to different ideological frameworks, especially in terms of economics and state intervention. Neoliberalism is basically a rebranding of laissez-faire capitalism whereas liberalism favors more of a welfare-state capitalist system.

Third, I’d encourage reading the full context of the document in question. Here are a few excerpts that stood out:

There will not be a dramatic purge.

This might seem like a neutral observation, but it’s actually referring to a change after Stalin’s death. The implication is that dramatic purges did happen under him, and they’re noting that the new leadership wouldn’t continue that pattern.

Inasmuch as the MVD has already been cleaned up.

Again, this is post-Stalin. The MVD (Interior Ministry, which ran the secret police) being “cleaned up” suggests reform following abuses that were, again, tied to Stalin’s regime.

There is now no organized opposition inside the Party in the Soviet Union.

This kind of political consolidation didn’t happen in a vacuum. It reflects the legacy of Stalin’s crackdowns on dissent and internal opposition.

Since the death of Stalin and the blow which was given to the power of the secret police…

That’s a pretty direct reference to Stalin’s reliance on the secret police to maintain control. Again, the document frames the aftermath of his death as a shift away from that.

No improvement in the food situation can be expected.

This points to long-standing issues in agricultural production and distribution under the USSR, including during Stalin’s time. Whether or not the shortages were intentional, they’re part of the broader legacy of how poorly the Soviet agricultural system was managed. They were pretty much just experimenting with ways to grow food while failing to produce enough for their own population. I’m all for agricultural research, but only after the people are fed.

In short, this isn’t a glowing report of Stalin’s achievements. It’s describing a system trying to recover from the kind of authoritarian control he enforced.

If you’re interested in more critical perspectives from the time, I really recommend My Disillusionment in Russia and My Further Disillusionment in Russia by Emma Goldman. They were written in the early 1920s (just as Stalin was rising to power) and they offer a fascinating, firsthand account of someone who initially supported the revolution (Emma Goldman was an American anarchist exiled to Russia for her beliefs) but became deeply disillusioned with how it played out.

We really don’t need to dig up dead guys to give them accolades. We can think of a better system that the USSR or USA.

Could always be a leftist and experience splintering without victory.

A local grocery store had self check out lanes and removed them and replaced them with 5 express check outs. I feel conflicted about it.

Lol eat shit loser. Should have thought of that before you got in bed with a fascist.

So we’re fixing the division along gender lines by becoming… more divided?

Feels like the insinuation here is that, as a woman, it’s acceptable to base your personality on men as long as you believe all men base their personalities on hating women.

Maybe just accept that humans are complicated and nuanced and you can’t judge an entire gender based on the actions of the worst members of that gender.

Lol bro younger generations just say random shit to sound cool.

I’m remembering how many times I said “epic” or phonetically pronounced “lulz” in every day speech when I was younger. It’s just something kids do.

If you keep returning to this argument rather than uniting to fight fascism, aren’t you doing the same thing as people that didn’t vote/voted for a 3rd party?

You’re intentionally shifting the argument back to blaming leftists to justify your own morality rather than addressing the current situation, which is dealing with the immediate threat of full blown fascism.

Lol what a clown show

Oooooo so we’re just going to act like millennials were mad for no reason all these years?

Were the oligarchs not a concern during occupy Wall Street? Or did everyone just fall for the propaganda?

You gotta drink water from the far side of the glass.

“Sucking at something is the first step to being sorta good at something”

Jake the Dog, Adventure Time

If the main way rich people get their news is through network TV, doesn’t that give protesters an advantage? If the movement is larger than rich people expect it to be, they’ll dismiss it until it’s too big to ignore.

Someone posted another article that has a interview with an independent scientist, and I think it’s rather illuminating.

Meachen is impressed with Colossal’s announcement but remains skeptical.

“I don’t think they are actually dire wolves. I don’t think what we have is dire wolves,” Meachen told ABC News. “What we had is something new – we have a mostly gray wolf that looks like a dire wolf.”

Shapiro disagrees with that thinking.

“I think that the best definition of a species is if it looks like that species, if it is acting like that species, if it’s filling the role of that species then you’ve done it,” she said.

So their only criteria for “Is it a dire wolf,” is yupp, looks like one and behaves like one, even though every real scientist is skeptical. This is, never the less, still impressive technology, but bringing back extinct animals seems more like a marketing gimic than a description of what they’re actually doing.

Flawless logic. Never mind that no one alive has ever observed a dire wolf.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/dire-wolf-revived-biotech-companys-de-extinction-process/story?id=120558562

Personally, I find the insinuation that I can’t make a 26 part YouTube series about how collect all the rings in every sonic game, AND document every kind of beetle in my local province, belittling and insulting.