GorillionRialGraphene
Hopefully funnier than that last guy...
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GorillionRialGraphene
10mo ago
Seems like a lot of words to say very little. You needed 1069 words to say Australians wanted to be white untill 1960?
GorillionRialGraphene
10mo ago
The problem with trying to study modern history is that the world is simply changing too quickly for definitive conclusions! The whole truth is rarely revealed when things happen. Today, people think google is immortal, and yet, 20 years from now, we'll look back at the memoirs of the executives and project directors and see that the writing was on the wall when they unambiguously choked on AI development and dropped the ball to Microsoft and Meta.
Studying the past is much easier, since rumors get cleaned up and facts get checked.
GorillionRialGraphene
10mo ago
I can't see any mainstream social media site besides reddit being valuable for AI training data. Twitter isn't longform enough.
GorillionRialGraphene
10mo ago
For anyone who was wondering about this, the federal government was going to withhold 10% of the highway funding.
If you've browsed alternative politics communities for any period of time, you've noticed that people on supposedly opposite sides tend to use each other's language and terminology "ironically". (IE, "Moid"/"Foid", "Incel", "Chud", "Libtard", "Dudes rock") Likewise, people tend to enjoy the same entertainment media: Strategy games, dialogue heavy RPGs, The Cyberpunk genre and it's associated political themes. Why do supposedly "leftist" subreddits (stupidpol, Redscarepod) get flooded with rightoids when there's a banwave?
I have a theory that many people are actually sort of a meta-fan of the politics fandom. When you're into weird, obscure political philosophers like Julius Evola or Ted Kaczynski or Max Stirner or whoever, you're not actually "more right" or "more left", you're into alternative politics itself.
If you believe that the US government is controlled by a select group of international enthonationalists, it's not that hard to generalize that belief to a class-struggle framework. Likewise, if you believe in class-struggle, it's not crazy to notice that certain upper classes, particularly in Washington DC, have over-representation from certain groups and strong in-group political loyalty to those groups.
Anyone else notice a similar effect? I'm still trying to develop my thesis.
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