Soteriologian
Unstammering Papageno
Lo, those who are entombed are cast on high grounds.
Men stir up strife unopposed.
Groaning is throughout the land, mingled with laments.
See now the land is deprived of kingship.
What the pyramid hid is empty.
The people are diminished.
-Ipuwer
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Soteriologian
Unstammering Papageno
8d ago
They aren't. To quote the popular right-wing retort: "Stalin would have had these people shot."
The labour left is -- and I know this may come as a shock -- the people doing the actual labour who believe they should be paid more for it. Notice how they get basically nothing, while the LGBT people get every megacorp changing their logos and firing anyone who won't use pronouns. The labour advocacy is rhetorical only; the LGBT has the actual teeth.
Soteriologian
Unstammering Papageno
8d ago
Chemically speaking, coffee (well, caffeine) doesn't wake you up so much as it inhibits you from getting sleepy. The reason to drink coffee early isn't that it wakes you up, it's that if you drink it late in the day, it will inhibit your ability to fall asleep come bedtime.
Soteriologian
Unstammering Papageno
8d ago
The social activism left has much, more more political power than the labour left (which the labour left claims is due to the capitalists hijacking actual leftism to replace it with this caricature which poses no threat to them.)
Soteriologian
Unstammering Papageno
13d ago
Personally, I'm very bearish on all this. I think the buff LLMs give to serious contributors are minimal, while the buff LLMs give to spammers are... well, the largest buff they've received since the advent of the internet itself.
I think the effect of this is going to be competent people who were once enthusiastic and cared about software will say "Alright, that's enough. I'm out."
Soteriologian
Unstammering Papageno
17d ago
The casting couch isn't a rich people thing, it's a theatre thing. Theatre has been associated with promiscuous behaviour for millennia.
In general, I see no evidence that the increased capacity of the wealthy to buy access to sex results in their doing so any more than their capacity to buy unlimited Doritos and Mountain Dew results in their doing so.
Soteriologian
Unstammering Papageno
17d ago
The problem with this thesis is there’s a baseline rate of sexual crimes, and despite all conspiritard claims to the contrary, I do not actually see evidence that the rate for powerful people exceeds the baseline rate—especially given the obvious misincentive to accuse powerful people of things in hopes to score media views or even extort settlement money.
Soteriologian
Unstammering Papageno
27d ago
Philosophy makes so little progress because every time it actually works, it gets reclassified as something other than "philosophy." Much like magic.
Soteriologian
Unstammering Papageno
28d ago
I wish liberalism would just be liberalism instead of erase-the-whites-while-masquerading-as-liberalism.
Perhaps this is just the standard libertarian to fascism pipeline
There is no libertarian to fascism pipeline. The "libertarian" tech right like Thiel and Musk is not and has never been libertarian in the sense that any legacy American would use the term: everything these people do increases the centralisation of power, especially in ways that enable control over mass media and surveillance to direct public opinion. Nothing about that is libertarian, regardless of whatever nice things they say in interviews or whether they share our annoyance with shrill blue-haired activists. Twitter raced to implement Age Verification via State ID before this was even a topic of public discussion! Racing to implement censorship and surveillanceware before any government can even get around to mandating it is not, in fact, what libertarians do.
And obviously the reason all the governments across the planet began mandating it in sync is because the big tech companies are paying them to. "Oh, no, Mr. Government, don't force all my users to hand me their government IDs to access my platform! Stahp!" Unfortunately, we're ruled by people with room temperature IQ, who will blissfully hand over their populations to megacorp control without even realising what's been done.
Of course, that's also part of the game: anyone with above room temperature IQ will be primaried: the ads will be fed to the district voters via the mass media control towards a foolish candidate that can be controlled with "advisors."
I think the labour union left has much more in common with the Tucker Carlson right than the LGBT activists.
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