Vote blue no matter who!

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using AI to create these images is really gonna help with the hole in the floor
- There's no way I will find it but I could swear I've seen that image before the AI hype.
- We're losing this battle so quickly. It's unreal to me how fucked we are.
  
  First time? If there's one thing I've learned, it's that normies don't give a fuck and just want their simple distractions, regardless of what the greater cost to society is.
  
  Like sweeping the tide with a broom
- In what way won't it help? Be specific.
  
  Training large models like an LLM (text generation) or a stable diffusion model (image generation) consumes a lot of energy and using these models isn't cheap either. It's bad for the climate in the same way cryptocurrency is.
  
  AI is quite energy intensive
  
  Be specific.
  Adjust your goddamn tone, when speaking with humans. You're not prompting a so-called "AI".
- who cares
  
  Quite a lot of people, especially here on the Fediverse. You’d be wise to care too - AI is no friend to the working class.
  
  Why do you need to bootleg an already existing comic with AI?
  When I was younger, I thought calling piracy theft made it sound like if someone actually made the work appear as it was made by them. Generative AI made that a reality.
  
  Literally the person you are responding to
  PS: also me and a whole lot of other people; just pointing out of pointless your question/statement was.
  
  you do realise you're one of the people on the right by saying that?

Better to jump into shark infested waters than to try and patch a sinking ship
- Except no one on that boat is doing that
- Better to organize and join revolutionary parties that stand a chance to actually not sink, when neither the Democrats nor Republicans can patch the hole (move beyond Capitalism and into Socialism, that is). The hole is Capitalism, it cannot be fixed by parties who are bought by Capitalists to serve their interests.
- Except the point of the cartoon is that they don't want to patch that sinking ship.
  
  Better in a slowly sinking ship than to be torn apart by sharks. Even if the people in the ship are ignoring it's sinking.
  And ironically depending on the boat's construction it may fill with water and still maintain some buoyancy. Or only half the boat will fill. The boat will be a lot worse, but still provide a barrier to the sharks

You make this point like there’s any other option.
I would love to not have to vote for a Democrat.
But I have to, because we are all doomed.
- There are other options. Join a socialist org and organize/eductate within your workplace and community.
  You don't have to vote for a Democrat.
  People have been voting Democrats the whole time on our path to where we are, it didn't stop us from being doomed. We had 2 Obama terms right before Trump 1, then we had a Biden term between Trump 1 and 2 and it stopped/fixed nothing.
- You can join Leftist parties and try to build up alternatives that can avoid doom, you don't have to side against the people trying to save us all.
- The reason there isn't any other option is because nobody puts in the effort to add other options.
  There's a Simpsons meme currently in Active on 196 rn from 1994 pointing out how ineffective both parties are. People have had longer than I have been alive to work on a third way.
  America isn't collapsing now all of a sudden. People have been passively watching it die for decades.
- You don't have a say in the dictatorship of capital and white supremacy so it doesn't matter what you do. If it makes you feel better then do it but it doesn't accomplish anything.
  
  but it doesn't accomplish anything.
  That's what they want you to think.
  
  You're spouting leftist rhetoric as if you're actually on the side of the working class, yet have no problem snubbing the actual work and resorting to billionaires' pet AIs. Be consistent, you poseur. If you actually cared about the working class you wouldn't be rubbing artists out of the picture by using genAI, and you'd certainly be against the potential for AI to erase millions of jobs and devastate the environment with energy demands.

Are you saying that you should vote blue as a form of harm reduction, or are you being sarcastic?
Btw, either way it's kind of an American centric perspective. Here in the UK, the red party is the harm reduction party.
- UK, the red party
  You are talking about Keir Starmers party?
  
  Only thing red about Kid Starver are his hands that are very red from all the blood falling on them.
- It is an american phrase yeah, I'm being sarcastic. The elections are rigged and you don't really have a say in the dictatorship of capital and white supremacy

Bernie Sanders, "I'll drill a hole at the other end to allow the water to drain out."
- Do not under any circumstance leave this boat, we must pull together to convince these dudes to patch up the vote, eventually, in a few years. Don't look at that other boat. I don't even see the boat, matter of fact.

Nah, Tories are like vampires and always come back somehow.
- As a vampire, please don't compare us to those fucking monsters. It's extremely insensitive. Most of us are, in fact, antifascist, probably from the turnings of dying allied soldiers during the war....
  
  did the axis not have any vampires?

I mean, inside the heart of Empire, you're going to have a lot of cults. I think that, you know, way back when the Catholic Church and Constantine, you know, unified under one religion, which was Christianity. And I think it was an attempt to deal with all the madness. But now we live in the modern world. So, I don't know, we just got a lot of cults. And so a lot of crazy shit's going to happen when the volume turns up. Everybody's so sure of themselves and they think they're real smart and shit. I believe in the apocalypse, only as a self-fulfilling prophecy. I think we have approached this time history. It's going to get real scary when you talk to people, you know, and you realize how far gone they are. Plus, they're going to dig their heels in, you know, because they don't have framework or a goddamn clue.

ah, classic .ml memes
- Leftists are going to continue to point out that relying on Imperialist bourgeois parties to implement the necessary changes to uplift the working class, ie advance into Socialism and leave Capitalism behind, is a losing game where the house always wins.
  I remember around the election that liberals would try to tell the Leftists with these same, consistent critiques, to wait until after the election, but it looks like that was just an excuse to tell Leftists to never speak up.

Better off voting for the Russian boat that only comes out for a month every four years.
- Be white supremacist USA empire of capital
  Overthrow Russian Government
  Rig Russian election and install compliant drunk
  US crime families aka "corporations" run rampant and influence Russia
  Move on to install potential US puppet that US presidents work with for years
  You: The Russians are the cause of all our problems
  Not really beating those Americans are propagandized stereotype are you disguy
  
  You misunderstand. Our problem is our woefully uneducated population is inundated with misinformation on how our system works and propaganda to keep them too afraid to learn.
  In case my metaphor was too elusive for you, I was referring to Jill Stein. She only shows up as a spoiler candidate every four years, never runs for any other government office, and has a long history of meetings and dinners with Putin.
  
  The US turning Russia fascist doesn't make Russia any less fascist, and doesn't negate the fact that Russia is demonstrably flooding the web with propaganda and attempting (and largely succeeding) to influence Western politics

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