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@JimmyB @aral @wackJackle

It's a culture where "profits = morality", so naturally this is how they think.

The normal ones in the financial sector must pretend that it's a matter of ethical practice in order to live with themselves, so in that sense it's existential for them.

@Gargron

I looked up photos of an animal as an anatomical study/reference for drawing and there was so much AI trash in the results I couldn't always be sure what were real photos or not. I literally was not able to have any confidence that was I was studying was real or not when it came to specifics of the animals anatomy.

Really depressing cycle of bullshit information getting recycled into nonsense. AI represents a future in which learning about reality will become increasingly difficult.

@gamingonlinux

When someone makes a linux distro that actually does the thing people want in the way they want, they have no problem embracing it.

Now the linux devs just need to make a desktop OS with the same philosophy.

@bolderbekah

I miss my '91 Civic hatchback that was basically an engine, four wheels, seats and a steering wheel.

It wasn't bullet proof and it didn't monitor my facial features for signs of dissent, but it did have this convenient feature where, if it ever caught fire, I could just pull the door handle and get out.

@NoahLoren13

Yeah, and I say fuck those motherfuckers. I feel no need to whitewash their racism and misogyny, they are directly responsible for poisoning our democracy from the start.

We shouldn't honor or make excuses for those who commit atrocities simply because they claimed they were doing so under a banner we favor. Apologies and sentiment don't bring back those who were murdered.

The Cuban revolution was a failure and should stand as nothing but a cautionary tale about dictatorship.

@NoahLoren13

Why would anyone honor mass murderers and homophobes? Simply because they were also antagonistic to the US?

Claiming dirtbags like Che Guevara "put people first" is laughable. Put them in front of a firing squad, sure.

@Mastodon

Ok, but what does the role actually do in a real sense? It sounds like double-speak.

@zzzyro

The thing is, apathy puts you on one side by default. Ignoring injustice isn't what makes you insufferable (that just makes you a bad person) what makes you insufferable is having the gall to pretending that ignoring injustice makes you enlightened while also complaining about others making too much public noise.

No one buys the psuedo-centrist schtick, they just correctly percieve you as a particularly lazy right-winger.

@zzzyro

"You know, the anti-nazis really are as bad as the nazis"

-some insufferable "centrist"

@Radical_EgoCom

Sure, I understand, not all christians are homophobic either. But their religion is, so my position is always to push back on narratives that try to frame christianity in that way simply because some individuals are decent. Similarly with communism I just don't see it ending well for lgbt people.

It's a criticism of the ideology, not the people.

@Radical_EgoCom

It's not about communists being homophobic, it's about a system that is designed around rigid social prescription. Communism views humans in these ideal terms, as if once culture and history and everything else is stripped away you're left with standard units.

When humans inevitably do not, by their individual nature, conform easily to the system it's seen as a threat.

It's why the CCP erases every cultural or religious entity and replaces it with a state-friendly simulacra

@Faithslayer202

Communists don't exactly have a great track record of not slaughtering gay people or making their lives horrible.

Yeah, neolibs don't have trans people's backs, but communists don't either. They'll use trans people as a political tool and then when it comes time for "dictatorship of the proletariet" any non-square pegs get purged.