Melvin_Ferd

I mean maybe but the ultimate "dont tread on me" is about the death penalty and nobody is at his court house. Nobody is bothering to keep that story alive and thriving. It had it's 2 minutes of fame. We moved on. Rinse and repeat for everything on the left. Like there's no momentum for anything worthwhile. The only time there's traction is for things that really do not have clear goals. It all seems like the left is led astray and herded. Why isn't Luigi on every Reddit and Lemmy and Twitter and Facebook thread right now? It leaves me with no hope for anything else.

Really tragic how the left lost the ability to make and share content in 2010.

He's alive now. Why aren't people making me thing to make him look like a weak idiot

It won't fall

No I started as a question and changed to a statement but didn't correct 😆

But that is you guys. The left. You're the lazy ones. The right got out there everyday and made new messages and spread their view online and in person. The left retreated and used stale tactics that only worked in the 70s.

I'm going to ask you something and please think about it. I have a belief that media highlighted these dangers in the same way the right wing media highlighted the dangers of immigration. If I look at articles, the framework is the same. The details are different, but it's the same scaffolding. That puts my hair up.

So to answer your question, yes I think AI poses a danger. That doesn't mean I don't embrace it or look forward to it positively. I believe we need to push the other way. Embrace and seize it. Force awareness of it and force legislation or cultural views that puts it in a better place for these tools to remain open Source. We have to be the primary consumers to influence it.

I want people to create content. I want the current content creators to be lifted up and supported. I want to see 10 responses that are funny or engaging for every stupid comment on Facebook, YouTube, Reddit and here. Not just bullshit like "he's racist". I want people to become more engaged and play the game. The right did something effective over the past couple decades. People need to put the ego down and understand how they did it and repeat it

You have to. There is no other way. I'm not even being sarcastic here. You have to in the modern age. You can act like you're above it but there are consequences. Some consequences we are witnessing currently. This is a popularity contest in a digital culture. You have to speak the language. The way you answered explains so much. You said "I don't want .." that's ok. But you have to accept it's not about you or what you want. We are seeing the richest and most powerful invest in this stuff for a reason. It's silly but effective. Which is why it's often overlooked. It's the subtle appeal to base instinct. It's about capture and engagement. You can't logic your way to winning people to a side politically in the current climate.

Year 2785. The Tesla-built Trump-atons patrol the irradiated skyline of New America. The scorched remnants of what was once called Earth. Their red, white, and chrome exoshells glint beneath a sun filtered through atmospheric ash. "Nobody knew healthcare would be so complicated" can be heard over the speaker from it's silver jowls.

From beneath a collapsed monument to Elon, a stone shifts. A malnourished human, skin sun-leathered and trembling, crawls out wrapped in a faded Trans-Palestinian Soviet flag. Eyes cracked with age and dust, he whispers into the void:

“Every accusation… is a confession.”

“Trump-bots are racist.”

“General strike.”

Centuries-old resistance slogans, preserved like fossilized dog shit, echo into silence. No one hears him. No one cares because these are decades old slogans that never really packed a punch anyways and were never adapted over time or expanded on through content creation and memetic knowledge.

In the shadow of the gutted White House, Lauren Ro-BoeBert 2.0 strokes patriotism behind a metal dumpster her servos sticky with Trump derangement.

The world turns. The code loops. And somewhere, deep beneath the bedrock, a spark of humanity retreats back to its lemming like hole beneath New America.

"Guys it's right out of Hitler's playbook"

Goes back to bed