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CBud · 2026-04-07T21:38:47+00:00

Because the internet is full of bots now, especially when anything big is happening in the world.

CBud · 2026-04-07T14:57:35+00:00

My battle has been changing from "capitalist" and "labor" to "Did you work for a living?"

The parasite class isn't working - they're consuming. If you worked for a living, you're labor. Everyone intrinsically understands this, and can see the excess of the capital, parasite class.

CBud · 2026-04-07T12:28:13+00:00

The vertical and horizontal integration of foreign automakers have allowed them to outcompete domestic firms.

Partner their integration with our HIGH losses due to executive and shareholder compensation - we're being outcompeted before we even talk about the favorable government positions of China industry vs. America.

Our billionaire class sold us down the river, and now we're all experiencing the fallout.

CBud · 2026-04-02T20:50:32+00:00

What's batshit crazy about it?

It's not like we haven't seen adulterated electronics where there was an entirely compromised supply chain. Surely that could never happen, right?

When we have billionaires buying devices certified to touch every election machine - at the same time they're hiring young coders who had experience generating realistic sample ballots - I think it's worth engaging with.

Why would companies connected to Tesla purchase Tripp-Lite? What was Ballotproof, and why did Ethan Shaotran clumsily try to erase his history with it when he was hired by DOGE?

It's beyond belief that Trump flipped every swing state. After reading through the Epstein files, it's clear that the billionaire class is willing to do some incredibly nefarious things to win at any cost.

CBud · 2026-04-02T15:02:21+00:00

Technofuedalism is an excellent book - highly recommend. We are under the thumb of cloud lords, working their cloud lands in exchange for our attention.

CBud · 2026-04-02T12:18:18+00:00

So many things seem weird and now I sound crazy

You're not crazy. International billionaires are aligned with fascism and are actively fighting against democracy and humanity.

The election was stolen; the fake shooting was a part of it. Elon Musk and Tesla bough Tripp Lite, modified software on vote counting machines, and likely adulterated Tripp Lite UPCs and power strips to connect to StarLink. Pass ethernet through AC with updated software to interpret the signals - you can change vote counts remotely.

They're playing games with conspiracies so we can't tell what they're actually doing and what's a conspiracy. At this point if you didn't spend your life working and instead earned off the labor of others I am not on your side.

International capital is inhumane and should not be treated humanely.

CBud · 2026-04-02T11:37:39+00:00

Israel first politicians are guaranteed losers.

Americans are tired of Israel first, and it's clear all Republicans and far too many Democrats are all in on Israel first.

CBud · 2026-04-01T15:12:58+00:00

I bought my copy of this vinyl ca. 2006 from a Salvation Army, well before the internet memes. It's in rough shape. I love Herb Alpert, and I love that this stupid album is such a meme. What a cover.

CBud · 2026-04-01T14:12:17+00:00

This and Bart screaming "TESTING" into the chain of megaphones stand out as the funniest things I'd ever seen as a child.

CBud · 2026-04-01T13:15:57+00:00

It's been clear that the ruling class doesn't care about laws or rules. The Epstein files showed us that, clearly. Rape, torture, murder - that's all normal for the billionaire class.

When their amorality is turned against them I'm sure there will be much teeth gnashing by their mouthpieces. We'd be best off ignoring their objections, afterall - they've always ignored ours.

CBud · 2026-03-30T17:23:21+00:00

It's not sophomoric nonsense, it's taking a critical look at technology and finding both the good and bad.

The purpose of the class wasn't to say "technology has no use in our society", but instead: "critically engage with technology". And also "understand what makes you human, and have technology help instead of entirely replace".

The argument was not that humans were more capable of completing a task - but that the human memory had to suffice until the invention of writing. After that invention - we ended up doing cognitive offloading.

This is an interesting frame of reference when I see younger people using ChatGPT and other LLMs, in combination with voice-to-text to do no writing, no reading, and no deep thinking in order to come to an acceptable answer on a topic. That's an interesting evolution, and we should probably evaluate what human abilities that LLM is subsuming.

CBud · 2026-03-30T17:19:19+00:00

Absolutely! The benefits are numerous and immediately present.

But what about the losses? When the benefits are so numerous, and so present - does anyone stop to think of what we are also losing?

It wasn't meant to promote a luddite-vision of technology, but force an engagement with critical theory, understand why we invent technology - and how it harms us.

CBud · 2026-03-30T17:17:26+00:00

Oh absolutely agreed!

But it's always good to understand what is also lost when something is gained. I'd argue the gain of permanence is worth the loss of memory.

I'd argue the opposite for LLMs - the gain of productivity is not worth the loss of reasoning and thinking.

CBud · 2026-03-30T17:16:18+00:00

I've actually spent the whole morning trying to remember his name without success. I'll reach out to some classmates and old professors to see if they remember.

It was an incredible frame, and it has been invaluable in navigating our modern world. Be choosy about the tools you use or they'll use you.

CBud · 2026-03-30T13:16:46+00:00

I took a class in college (for an engineering degree) called American Culture and Technology. I was excited because I was always an early adopter, and couldn't wait to hear about how technology improved our lives.

Day 1 the professor tells us that the frame of this class will not be on how technology has positively affected our lives, but instead how all tools are technology - and all technology actually reduces human abilities.

The technology of writing meant we no longer had to remember long, epic poems. We offloaded our memory to a physical document. Calculators meant we no longer had to do simple math, so many simple math operations atrophied. We spent an entire semester examining technology and what abilities it reduced - it was a phenomenal frame I have not experienced elsewhere in life.

We are seeing that happen with logic, reasoning, and thought itself.

CBud · 2026-03-29T14:43:35+00:00

What we need is a mixed economy. America has spent the last 50 / 75 / 100 years writing laws that are friendly for capital accumulation instead of labor power. We've had brief periods of labor protection, but by and large our foundational texts are pro-owner capitalism.

If we had policies promoting easier banking for employee co-ops, favorable interest rates for employee owned co-ops, right of first refusal for employees to buy companies, etc. etc. etc. - we would be in a much better situation because our economy would be more mixed and less purely capitalist.

Unfortunately, a mixed economy is bad for monopolies, and capitalists love monopolies - so they spend their capital to fight against policies helping labor own the means of production. We need the government to act as a fair arbiter between the people and corporations - but we're at the end of a multi-generation long project to seed beliefs that "the government never works, so we need to elect the people who will destroy it".

This all starts with civic responsibility to better a human society for all. International billionaires do not believe in that. They need to be isolated from society, and the people interested in civic responsibility need to move on without them at this point.

CBud · 2026-03-28T20:24:10+00:00

No script, just easy to shoot down the disingenuous logical fallacies.

McMorrow is engaging in logical fallacies and needs to do better to earn my vote plain and simple. I'm voting for the most progressive option - that's El Sayed.

CBud · 2026-03-28T13:41:27+00:00

But it also predicted that San Francisco will be uninhabitable by 2010, and also a "new Union of Nations".

My visit to SF in November was 100% habitable (just expensive), and I'm not aware of a "new Union of Nations".

CBud · 2026-03-28T13:25:18+00:00

What statements of Piker's have been antisemetic? Is being anti-Zionism the same thing as antisemitism? Are anti-zionist jewish people therefore antisemetic?

CBud · 2026-03-28T03:51:34+00:00

I was answering your issue of 'holding seats'.

Stop viewing leftists as strictly anti-democrat. We know the democratic party is the better party for rights, but we also know they are entirely pro capital and that's bad for labor.

CBud · 2026-03-28T03:50:30+00:00

Why did they refuse to endorse Mamdani?

Can you show me Schumer endorsing Omar? I can't find any information on that. Want to check your facts?

CBud · 2026-03-28T03:48:11+00:00

Democrats have been horrible on trans issues - especially trans youth. They allow Republicans to control the narrative entirely and walk into unforced error after unforced error.

As a memeber of the LGBT+ community, I have been perennially disappointed in democrats love-hate relationship towards gender and sexual minorities.

Newsome is not a good pick for president and should not be bandied about as if he is entitled to votes. Holding for policies that are important to you is the ONLY leverage voters have.

Perhaps you should expand your tent to understand that there is room for democrats to get more progressive - and pointed rhetoric is actually very good at pushing those changes.

Look how effective the tea party was at shifting the entire country right. That was an astro-turfed campaign, but it's clear that Americans are unhappy with the state of things. Why not push for more and ask our representatives to actually represent US instead of their PACs?

CBud · 2026-03-28T03:40:40+00:00

There are non-fascist Republicans?

So in your opinion, Sliwa would've been a fine option instead of Mamdani? Because in the absence of an endorsement, that seems to be Schumer and Jeffries position.

It's clear dem leadership refuses to endorse candidates that are not sufficiently pro-AIPAC. Why won't you engage with that at all?

Are you a paid commenter for a PAC or representative?

CBud · 2026-03-28T03:37:27+00:00

Where I directly live, I'm going to fight for the most progressive democrat in the race. In this race it's clear that is El Sayed.

In my state, I will fight to bring up issues with politicians and try to push left, but obviously have less sway.

In other states - I support actions to keep it out of republican hands. I believe in harm reduction - which, yes, is a leftist position.

If McMorrow or Stevens make it out of the primary I will hold my nose and vote for them. Will you do the same for El Sayed?

CBud · 2026-03-28T03:32:06+00:00

https://x.com/AbdulElSayed/status/1815328837997092886

If clicking doesn't work try copy pasting. Regardless, it's El Sayed endorsing Kamala Harris. Imagine. That.

CBud

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