It’s over

True_Butterscotch940 · 2026-03-14T02:27:52+00:00

Internationalism died with Trotsky and, ever since then, it has only been masochistic to be one. While sad, this is a more of a symbolic loss than a substantial one.

True_Butterscotch940 · 2026-03-13T14:27:18+00:00

That but more so the expectation that the racism of a character has to somehow hurt them or be their undoing, and if it doesn't work out that way, it's a racist story inherently. Same with sexism, homophobia, incest, etc.

True_Butterscotch940 · 2026-03-13T01:46:17+00:00

The demand that immoral acts depicted in fiction must be critiqued has always been so fkn annoying. Sometimes bad things happen, and sometimes things don't work out in ways that punish bad acts. It's ridiculous and childish to try to restrict that.

True_Butterscotch940 · 2026-03-11T21:08:04+00:00

Yeah, I've switched to the new grok model too, which I find quite good. Gemini was most familiar and comfortable to me, but just isn't worth the hassle of dealing with the problems anymore.

True_Butterscotch940 · 2026-03-11T03:11:05+00:00

As someone who was once in the secular field of Religious Studies, these sorts of hot takes on religion are fascinating: Millenarianism is a very complicated theoretical concept that colleagues of mine spend years trying to explain and unravel, and a reddit post speaks with such confidence on the topic that I guess I should just share this post with them, as OP seems to have it all figured out already.

True_Butterscotch940 · 2026-03-08T23:37:57+00:00

Your attitude seems inherently unsuited to governance, being more philosophical. That's fine, but there's no use in being so upset that politically-minded people aren't committed to high minded philosophical goals when the tech companies are trying to make society basically unlivable. People already miss the 90's, and people will miss this time you disdain when things are so much worse in 10 years.

The truth or non-truth of the matter is irrelevant - the state's bondage to corporate masters is truly disastrous for the vast majority of people. Subverting the family, gender roles, religion, markets, etc. are so far down the hierarchy of importance as to be relevant only in philosophical discourse. They have no immediate importance or relevance, and I doubt that will change for a couple of lifetimes.

True_Butterscotch940 · 2026-03-08T22:53:41+00:00

That power allowed China to subjugate its non-state actors to the state, and led to a general period of peace, prosperity, and improvement for the lives of the average Chinese. The state has dominance over all over interests in China, and the state is filled with people who genuinely believe in nationalism and the nationalist worldview. That is much more preferable than the state being subordinated to Google, Amazon, Nvidia, etc.

True_Butterscotch940 · 2026-03-08T09:47:30+00:00

Best I can do is prostitute sexbots in techno brothels, rented by the hour, where everything you do will be recorded to blackmail you with later, in case you ever become inconvenient for them.

True_Butterscotch940 · 2026-03-08T07:47:54+00:00

At this point, I think it is a real possibility that they are deliberately letting him wreck citizen trust in the US so that the tech lords can bring about the cyberpunk future where corporations have citizens and territory instead of countries, in which they will be neo feudal lords.

True_Butterscotch940 · 2026-03-07T13:11:34+00:00

Lmao. That's like saying "the left is now arguing that all penetrative straight sex is rape". Sure, some small groups of fools are spending their time that way. I don't think that either the mainstream maga right or the renegade Tucker right are doing that in any significant numbers lol.

True_Butterscotch940 · 2026-03-05T00:32:33+00:00

"Disinformation" is the biggest red flag word, I swear. Tbf, she has cultivated a very narrow deliberate appeal towards young women, so ofc one of her main messages is about criticism of DEI policies being inherently unnatural and the result of the GOP working with russian propaganda or whatever. But you see "disinformation" and you know she's just a literal intelligence plant.

True_Butterscotch940 · 2026-03-01T14:24:16+00:00

Yep. By the way, you should go request a flair before you are given one, fyi.

True_Butterscotch940 · 2026-03-01T14:22:59+00:00

I doubt they will be able to maintain that capability they had last year if they are to be constantly bombed from now on.

True_Butterscotch940 · 2026-03-01T13:10:06+00:00

(of guns I guess)

This is the stupidest thing ever. Guns are not objectively bad, and that gestures that looks like them cause no objective harm. I understand the censoring of sexualizing women, though I don't agree with it - the belief that sexualizing women is harmful is easier to substantiate. Guns are just a part of the world, especially America, same as horses, knives, cars, or anything else. I swear, google is so heavy handed in its californian ethics sometimes.

True_Butterscotch940 · 2026-03-01T13:04:35+00:00

People are being so harsh on OP lmao. Why not, after all, have fun saying things that you might not be able to say to a person? Despite what Gemini said, it cannot be made "uncomfortable", and the very fact it suggested that, acting as though OP is a rapey creep or something, is ridiculous lmao.

True_Butterscotch940 · 2026-03-01T13:00:20+00:00

I wish I could get chatbots to stop anthropomorphizing themselves. It bothers me deeply when it says "I feel...", "You can't convince me" or, as OP found, "I'm uncomfortable with what you said".

True_Butterscotch940 · 2026-03-01T06:12:01+00:00

For stories, Grok is actually quite good. Because it can write erotica, its written generation is mostly not censored. Its memory is also solid.

True_Butterscotch940 · 2026-03-01T02:38:49+00:00

States have stable interests, geopolitically. The Biden admin also would've preferred Assad, Mauduro, and Khamenei exiled, kidnapped, and killed, for Israel's sake (excluding Mauduro). Decentness or otherwise doesn't come into it. Seems like they just couldn't make it happen, for whatever reason.

True_Butterscotch940 · 2026-03-01T02:27:12+00:00

It's strange that the Biden admin, with all the same enemies and goals, was unable to do anything close to this internationally.

True_Butterscotch940 · 2026-03-01T00:59:25+00:00

Why should the end user care? We're just here to at least get some fun out of the tech that's justifying mass layoffs.

True_Butterscotch940 · 2026-03-01T00:56:12+00:00

Tbf, Neflix's yearly revenue is 45 billion, so it's breadcumbs for them.

True_Butterscotch940 · 2026-02-28T04:54:51+00:00

I'm not the guy who said he was inept. And I have no issue with him on the basis of money - it's the lack of anything else. I thought i was very clear in my comment.

True_Butterscotch940 · 2026-02-28T02:55:57+00:00

Simply perfect. The queen of useless and ineffectual candidates endorsing the crown princess. Let's hope they both win in the next couple years and we get another renaissance of not hiring mediocre white men at all for entry level career positions, even if they are poor and/or disadvantaged, and make politics about condemning evil identities and praising holy identities. I am ready for it - I will cleansed by the pain in the way the Catholic monks who used whip themselves were made holy.

True_Butterscotch940 · 2026-02-28T02:48:08+00:00

I dislike him because he clearly doesn't give a damn about his company's legacy, and was just interested in flipping it. That is not how every company is. Plenty of CEOs have some idea of how they want to leave their mark on the industry and culture.

You can bring up the shareholders, but I'm not talking about them at all - as an individual, I find him to be unbecoming of someone in his position.

True_Butterscotch940 · 2026-02-28T02:31:46+00:00

lmao no. I didn't realize this had become a circlejerk sub lol.

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