• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    Whether its a power struggle between autocrats or a ruthless police slaying of some grassroots organizers or the butchering of migrant workers along the border or the bombs flung around the world to kill some AI designated insurgent goat herder, American politics is drenched in blood.

    I just think it’s fanciful to believe Evil Foreigners Don’t Value Human Life while we’ve got no shortage of trigger pullers in the States. The American Exceptionalist mentality is delusional. We simply refuse to see the violence in our own system.

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      22 days ago

      I think we agree but your first comment read like you were disagreeing with me.

      There is no left in the US. What they call the left is a bunch of sheep-dogging (hand picked) capitalists that play controlled opposition. I even fell for it in 2016 but that woke me up. It’s too dangerous to be a leftist and an activist in this techno fascist environment. They’ve built an entire suite of technologies that are designed to quash dissent. Now with AI, you can’t even get your rhetoric out there because they can correlate your writing style and find out who you are. It’s very disheartening.

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        21 days ago

        There is no left in the US.

        There is. The jails are full of them. The ghettos are full of them. The service sector wouldn’t exist if you tried to get by without anyone expressing leftist political views.

        But they have very little capital, no open lines of communication, and no legal means of political organizing. America does not lack for Marxists. What it lacks is a vanguard party that can operate in full view of the public.

        Any time you see a hint of party formation - from the WTO protests to OWS to BLM - it’s smothered to death by hostile police, mass media, and private grifters preying on any ambient social good will.

        They’ve built an entire suite of technologies that are designed to quash dissent. Now with AI, you can’t even get your rhetoric out there because they can correlate your writing style and find out who you are

        More insidiously, find you and echo your message from a hundred different knock off organizations that exist exclusively to spread FUD.

        Bernie Sanders memes blasting from every corner, drowning out any actual organizing message while signaling nothing.