@hex@kolektiva.social2025-10-30 12:59:11
The American Democratic Party, and the concept of "Democratic Socialism" within the US, comes largely from an authoritarian political tradition where the state offers services in exchange for the population allowing elites to continue parasitize the system. Then it is critical for Liberals to consume and destroy popular mutual aid, because real mutual aid undermines their carrot.
Democrats tend to imagine that anarchists want to destroy "all the good things" that governments do. The reality is that we want to build those good things ourselves so that we can reject the offer of those same good things, less well managed, with all the bad things attached.
Anarchists want to build pro-social systems (what if we didn't *need* snap, but just made sure everyone was fed?) while eliminating anti-social ones (do we really *need* to kidnap children, or could we just kind of stop doing that?).
@gwire@mastodon.social2025-10-01 07:22:46
The US right-wing have now lost the ability to object to political AI deepfakes in principle.
https://arstechnica.com/culture/2025/09/ai-leadership-trump-posts-deepfakes-of-dems-calling-themselves-woke-pieces-of-s-t/
@arXiv_csCY_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-10-01 08:24:27
Artificial Authority: From Machine Minds to Political Alignments. An Experimental Analysis of Democratic and Autocratic Biases in Large-Language Models
Szymon {\L}ukasik, Natalia O\.zegalska-{\L}ukasik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25286
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-29 20:01:06
A look at the rift in the Democratic party over AI and data centers, as pro-business Democrats oppose the fiery, anti-AI politics of the progressive wing (Calder McHugh/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/12/28/ai-j…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-28 17:07:02
In style, as in life, timing is everything:
Brigitte Bardot became the poster girl for that sweet spot of postwar France in which the storied heritage of Gallic culture was electrified by the Bohemian spirit of Paris in the 1950s and 60s.
https://www.…
@timbray@cosocial.ca2025-10-26 20:41:34
From a Bloomberg newsletter. I guess if enough people believe Btc holds real value, then by definition it does, by analogy with gold. Still makes my skin crawl.
#Bitcoin
@relcfp@mastodon.social2025-10-30 06:06:00
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@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-11-26 10:55:49
Bari Weiss says she wants CBS News to redraw "the lines of what falls in the 40 yard lines of acceptable debate", such as elevating voices like Alan Dershowitz (@dropsitenews)
https://x.com/dropsitenews/status/1993154653941362892
@hex@kolektiva.social2025-10-09 08:13:42
Ok, yeah, I'm not done processing my anger over liberals doing shit like this. So this historian sees a rise in right wing violence, sees the US government carrying out ethnic cleansing, sees a rise in white supremacist terrorism, and then says, "oh yeah... this reminds me of a time right around the 1920s. Hum... yeah, ANARCHISTS fighting the government! Yeah, that's the same thing."
FFS, IT'S THE RED SUMMER! If you want a parallel between today and some horrible time in US history, TALK ABOUT THE RED SUMMER. The point of the language of dehumanization that the right uses, the point of all the anti-black and anti-emigrant rhetoric, is that it leads to genocide. Trump already carried out an act of genocide (#USPol
@relcfp@mastodon.social2025-10-28 16:05:53
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