Nope. We need radical thinkers more than ever.

I never disagreed with that.

OK thanks um I guess

edit: pixelfed.social - for photo sharing only - is the 2nd largest in most metrics.

This domain is for sale

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lately

I can hear this in Trump’s voice. And those people aren’t even radical. But still, painting radicalism as fundamentally bad and illegal and whatnot is muuuuch older than that.

Was there ever a bigger political mess than Brexit. (Probably yes)

And how did we (it’s not only France) get there? Neo-fucking-liberalism. Cronyism. Legal corruption.

That’s what needs to Change. Who has that in their political program? The neofascists just say it but it’s noise to distract from the above. Which is why they’re getting paid by industrialists and foreign actors that want to destabilise us.

Will the dissatisfied masses ever realise that? I think we can help them.

So who really has Change in their political program? That’s who we need to boost.

Seriously I’m so sick of hearing this shit. It’s been the same ever since practically every EU country ate the austerity narrative and the new right began to rise.

Thanks. OPs should do that anyhow.

It stands to reason that attacking a few servers won’t stop all of Russia’s hybrid warfare, but it also stands to reason that there is some effect.

In any case, I hope Ukraine continues to succesfully attack (hopefully without civilian casualties) Russian infrastructure. We all benefit from that.

Lol. Yeah, of course.

Poor Brits.

Haha, here too. Write a song about it. Actually, there must already be one.

Yeah this.

Also there’s better ways of describing a strange taste. I once saw a whole sketch describing the smell of teatree oil without resorting to human excretion humor.

The AI stuff has no philosophical sense behind it; it’s just vibes.

ftfy

The real threat is ai …

Your list combined with OP’s grievances is still non-exhaustive. Add environmental and societal impact. Nature and people suffer physically from it. People can’t get jobs. People who have created IP get pushed out by government-supported IP theft.

I’m not willing to entertain this at all. It’s not a psy-op for me, just a gigantic grift & hype of mostly one nation and its corpos.

Sure, the likes of Thiel and Altman would like you to think it’s a more complex thing, even to the point of admitting that it’s controversial. But it’s still just a grift, hype and bubble.

I feel like a child that fell asleep on an airplane and is surprised that the world around them has changed.

I did hear about RISC-V making it onto hardware but what about kernel development?

There’s nothing wrong with wanting to build something to be proud of, most of us have that to some extent.

No disagreement there. The issue is what you think you can be proud of, and how you go about achieving it.

Or, in other words, why wouldn’t they be more proud of building something that makes a lasting impact on society, instead of a big but fleeting impact on some people they want to impress?

That’s an asshole trait, but not a general human trait.

Having a few percent of unemployed people doesn’t really give employers power.

If you see “employers” as a class of a system then yes it does. Things would be very different if there was always a slight draft in the other direction, esp wrt OP’s question.

Amen to that last sentence.

“The Arrogance of Youth” I often think; I find it soothing because it means that they will learn eventually. But it’s also ageist. And it’s not always that anyhow, people of any age can be incredibly resistant to seeing reality and reflecting on it.

normal human trait

Not sure I agree there. It’s a normal asshole trait that isn’t limited to politics. But maybe that’s what you meant.

You’re not wrong but what I wrote applies to the two EU countries I call my home as much as it applies to OP’s situation which I guess is the USA.

In other words: I perfectly recognize and also advocate that things are better in some “capitalist” countries than in others, but that doesn’t mean they’re perfect.

And you think you’re so clever and classless and free
But you’re still fucking peasants as far as I can see

I didn’t ignore it though. I answered - from my pov.

This is the only bit that hints at the direction you wanted this to go - and you answered it yourself:

But on the Internet, where it’s just-language? Forget it. Howling solipsists all the way down.

A sign of a good capitalism is that you always have a few percent of jobless people. This establishes the power of employers over workers. doG forbid it should ever be the other way round, even by a 0.1%!

That’s why you have to bend over backwards to get a job, not your prospective employer.