I understand you might still struggle with object permanence, but I don’t — I’m an adult and it’s very easy to simply stop interacting with you. Especially considering your behavior, grow up.

That isn’t what I said, at all — but I’ve interacted with you before, I don’t need to explain myself to a literal cave person.

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It’s a pretty easy assumption, actually. Everyone has access to it and if you’re tired of writing the same thing over and over, why wouldn’t you?

Edit: actually, in hindsight, the fact that you’re so adamant there’s no AI usage proves to me that it actually is used quite frequently.

Yeah ok man, very compelling argument — very astute.

Right, right.

Yeah there are a couple .mlers I’ve had conversations with that were genuine and didn’t seem weird. They actually provided a lot of good information about things I wasn’t aware of, specifically some of the things I’ve referenced in this thread.

I’m not anti-communist, as you’ve decided, I’m anti-manipulation. Why don’t you try engaging with the points I’ve made instead of attacking my character, because I won’t be dancing with you on whatever dribble you just put out.

Wild take with no evidence. I question whether you’re even arguing in good faith.

I guage the time it takes for them to respond with their essays. Something strikes me as off when I respond to someone and within 5 minutes I get an essay with 10 sources all neatly formatted. Is it AI? Are they canned templates tuned for individual threads? Don’t know, I do know something is off and I don’t trust it — you clearly don’t think the same.

Elaborate. Do you refer to their policies or the inflow of capital to the country?

I refer to their transition from an agricultural society to an industrialized one. If you think that China is where it is today without the effects of globalization then we don’t really have anything to speak about.

Yeah I’m not gonna use ChatGPT to summarize essays to prove my point like your .ml heroes. You can look up what happened in Detroit in the 50’s and 60’s, actually most manufacturing areas have followed the same trajectory. Something like two-thirds of our manufacturing potential has been lost since ww2 — the reason is consistent for every sector. Globalization allowed for cheap labor overseas to arrest manufacturing from capitalist countries. China as it is never could have existed without capitalism.

Meanwhile V China was able to go from an agricultural society to an industrial powerhouse.

Because of the rich men from the U.S. essentially stealing our jobs and giving them to cheap laborers overseas.

Seems like China’s version of socialism won’t work without the capitialist hegemony in place. Which makes me wonder ‘Is that really socialism?’

That I feel, deep in my bones.

To put it simply, I don’t have exact numbers on who is willing to let perfect be the enemy of good on the left. I just know enough of them exist to render the rest’s votes ineffective — we know this because plenty of poll information has been collected that points to ‘Kamala lost because of her stance on Israel’. As if the alternative has been better.

The left in the U.S. seems to be filled with people who know what the right thing to do is, but can’t separate that from what needs to be done right now. While I recognize that the heart bleeds for people in Palestine, or Gaza, or any victim of Israel’s (really any genocide) — not voting for Kamala might as well be considered a vote for what’s happening in Iran right now. I understand being caught in a two party system isn’t ideal either, but pumping the breaks on fascism would have been a much more effective barrier against Israel than what’s happening today. I’m inclined to believe anything under Kamala would be better than Trump, even if it wasn’t necessarily ‘getting better’.

For context, I worked under Kamala when she was the AG for California’s DoJ. The blatant corruption happening under her nose was eye opening, it really turned me against her as a result. I still fucking voted for her.

Did you vote for Kamala?

To put things in perspective.

About 40% of the then population of the American colonies were Patriots and fought against the British in the revolutionary war. The war itself functioned like a civil war.

Roughly 40% of the population of the current United States supports Trump, not perfectly unwavering support but pretty staunch nonetheless. The remaining 60% are too busy thinking that their problems are the ones that need to be addressed first and a staggering number of those people are perfectly willing to throw away decent compromise simply because they weren’t perfectly satiated.

All of this to say: Trump is the tip of the iceberg.

Those goalposts are on rails my man, you’re better off tagging them and moving on.

I don’t know if this is accurate — striving to reach financial freedom in the form of near infinite levels of wealth is not a sign of mental disease. That’s what I’d call a dream, and it could be purely motivated.

Now, having that dream and being willing to do anything to obtain it — that’s a different story. That’s what it takes to be a billionaire, you have to be completely willing to crush people beneath you for the simple fact that it makes you more money. Many people, myself included, are simply incapable of deciding to harm someone else for simple profit.

Like, I’m not a hyper space nazi because I’d like to be a Viltrumite. I just want to live 1000 years and be super strong and fly and stuff.

No, I don’t want to be any more depressed.

They make you earn it way more than other cats, but that trust is rock solid.

My first kitten was feral. I still have scars. She ate from my palm, no I should clarify — she demanded to be fed from my palm. She’d routinely clean me, just lick lick lick with that sandpaper tongue.

She was my cat, and distinctly my cat. She died in my arms and I’ve never cried harder. She was worth it, though. She’d have been there for me if the situation was reversed.

What is a CC?

climate Holocaust

The Holocaust was a specific event. It is not a synonym for genocide.

Gamespot or gamestop? Because if you mean gamestop, yes. If you meant gamespot, I don’t know what you mean — you’d have to explain for me.

I visited India in November. The only things I liked were the sights, like Charminar, Golkonda Fort, loved it.

Every fucking thing else, and I mean everything was awful. The air was bad, trash choking literally every waterway, stray cows, dogs, cats, sifting through trash for food, the drivers — holy shit street lights are not suggestions guys. First hotel I stayed in literally had rats fighting in the walls.

Food was good, until it made me so violently ill I had to call the trip off. People were very friendly, actually I should mention this — I didn’t have any bad experiences with the people (aside from the conditions they live in). Literally all of them tried to scam me though, like literally every single vendor that did not have fixed pricing.

All of this to say, fuck India I’m never going back — at least not while Modhi is still killing climate protestors.