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  • Since the content is red-hats cheering destruction as an analogy for the cult of MAGA, using an AI - tech being pushed by the huge billionaire oligarchs the pull the political strings - seems a bit of a contradiction, or at worse hypocrisy.

    I would argue you’re right it would work as any scrawled doodle, but in this context medium-specificity is important. Altered truth (finger count), wasteful precious resources (AI servers), and the theft of human creativity (data training) kinda IS what the destruction in the picture represents.


















  • I understand your point, sorry for a belaboured metaphor, it just helps me think.

    Here’s my counterpoint: If both options are the same outcome then what is there? Wait for violent, government-toppling civil war before anything changes? If it is institutionalized oppression, both-sides etc, then I can only assume you don’t see the current administration as any different to the previous one, or any future DNC? If you think Biden was equivalent to Trump in terms of ‘just a nice face on a chainsaw wielding madman’, then you have no change in political stance now that Trump is in power and reshaping the constitution to allow indefinite rule? Both sides bad means it hasn’t become worse since the party change, as it was always going to be this bad no matter who won?

    Follow the logic, I think it sounds grossly myopic.