Libs have had an extremely busy year trying to undercut and smother populist candidates across the country - it is of absolutely no surprise that they will continue those ratfucking efforts for the next 2 years

Just a reminder that Mamdani and Abdul both ran and won against both parties and a unified capitalist media apparatus. They'll parade talarico and ossoff around as their centrist poster boys and claim their better performance as their own, but they both benefit from the complete backing of the entire establishment (as well as their lack of Arabic surnames)

Fuck Jefferies and Schumer both.

I think it has a lot to go with the new polls that came out today

Centrists and establishment dems have been seeding the narrative for a while that an AES win would be a lot closer than what a middling and corporate/zionist friendly candidate would have done in his place, but that's hard to argue when he's showing a 15 point lead in his race as compared to D+10 races in other competitive states

Steven's is making herself the villain of the week in order to cut down his lead and undercut any potential narrative about left populism being electable in 2028

He's also a first-generation Turkish-American and Muslim by upbringing, which works pretty well with their new fear mongering around the threat of muslims taking over the country

I'm in favor of discouraging this behavior broadly but I think codifying it as a rule is unnecessary and possibly intentionally abrasive. If we already take mod action against behavior like this that edges on harassment, then i see no reason to codify it - especially now

Nay

And how popular are those subs?

Most users on lemmy participate in only a handful of subs. It isnt surprising that some accounts are only active in one or two

Most normal people I know have instagram or pixelfed accounts for dog pics

YDI.

You can't talk about LSC without talking about American politics (America is the capitalist hegemon ffs). There isnt another country on the planet that is more representative of late stage capitalism.

Strange that the capitalist hegemon at the imperial core is so well represented in a comm about Late Stage Capitalism

You mean those criminally underfunded, means-tested and over-policed apartment blocks in red-lined cities?

Crazy that those weren't as effective as rhe communist housing initiatives

Right

The question isnt then 'how do we avoid being taken in by the artifact's influence?', but, 'what does the inclusion of this artifact change about how we must address the systems we are looking to dismantle?'

Maybe I'll just leave this exerpt from Lorde and ask whose misunderstanding you're pointing to in this conversation about AI

Women of today are still being called upon to stretch across the gap of male ignorance and to educated men as to our existence and our needs. This is an old and primary tool of all oppressors to keep the oppressed occupied with the master’s concerns. Now we hear that it is the task of women of Color to educate white women—in the face of tremendous resistance—as to our existence, our differences, our relative roles in our joint survival. This is a diversion of energies and a tragic repetition of racist patriarchal thought.

It's only strange in the forced misreading of the meme you're using

As op already clarified - the point isnt that tools have no influence over behavior, only that the behavior isn't a deterministic one implied by those invoking Heidegger or Lorde

What does it say about our current political environment that it isnt immediately clear to me if this graphic is being used to imply "both sides" or "trump bad"?