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  • Langston Hughes: Lenin

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  • Should we ask people to differentiate between analog and digital art? Should we ask people to post a disclaimer that they used machine-produced paint instead of harvesting it themself or buying it from an artisan?

    Are slop consumers entitled to a creation tutorial under every meme? Or can they just politely ask for information and have a conversation?

    OC as a disclaimer exists to differentiate self promotion on consumerist platforms. It doesn't matter here, we don't care about the intellectual property of memes or links.

  • Langston Hughes: Lenin

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  • They've been very quick to discuss the methods and tools when people ask. They have multiple replies doing so in this thread.

    This isn't an image or video claiming to be real, it's illustrated. We aren't being led to believe that's actually Lenin lol, what would a disclaimer even accomplish?

  • Langston Hughes: Lenin

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  • Lmaooo

  • Langston Hughes: Lenin

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  • We got marvel movies because internet leftists treated mass produced slop like valid art? Idealism lmao

    Either way, who cares whether it's considered art or not? We're not leftists to revel in the essence of human creativity, we're leftists to advance the interests of the working class. Agitprop isn't produced to admire in museums, it's to spread ideas and consciousness.

  • Langston Hughes: Lenin

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  • It's pretty weird to see self-described leftists pearl clutching about technology while you're out here churning out effective agitprop. I guess you're supposed to spend multiple hours of labor for every meme? Can't utilize dead labor since it's a product of capitalism.

    Too worried about the aesthetics of free-range, artisanal consumption.

  • Why do people call everyone tankies

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  • Empty signifiers are an easy way to obscure reality.

  • Trump issues ineffective federal pardon for ex-Colorado election official Tina Peters who was convicted on state charges

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  • Institutionalists like to ignore that the supreme court has always been an ideological entity, not some neutral interpretive one.

    Dredd Scott might be the most infamous proof of this

  • What is the worst thing to have only available via subscription? And what isn't yet, but would be?

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  • If it's gonna take more than a few years to pay off, you might consider defaulting. Credit card debt is some of the most easily dischargeable debt.

    That can range from offers in compromise to declaring some sort of bankruptcy to just not paying them anymore (the latter might have repercussions if you have seizable assets or enough debt that the carriers think it's worth going through the courts to try and garnish your wages, assuming you have regular W2 income). Or if you currently have decent credit, a refi might even be a good option.

    Do your own research, this is not financial advice.

    I know people that just stopped paying and basically nothing happened. Credit scores went through the floor, but that's pretty much it. Within a couple years they were able to open new cards, and after seven years the dings fell off their credit reports.

  • WHERE THE FUCK IS EVERYONE?????

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  • He's just as worthy of animosity as his followers imo

  • In America he would have been given a slap in the wrist and already time served.

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  • Idk, exile doesn't seem to work that well for any political actors (it's probably fine and harsh enough for random people, but for them I'd probably prefer comfortable imprisonment and reeducation anyways).

    For example, while executing Trotsky probably wouldn't have been a smart move, at the same time he did a tremendous amount of damage to global socialism by directing sabotage/infiltration efforts and fomenting a split in the international. Damage that continued long after his death, especially if you buy into the hypothesis that Khrushchev was a Trotskyite (rather than just an opportunist).

    Also look at how many revolutions were led by formerly-exiled radicals. There's a reason capitalists returned to extrajudicial execution and life imprisonment, and it's not just for the sake of cruelty.

  • Trots are wildin' out (Socialism AI)

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  • DSA trots are so much better than trot-party trots for some reason.

    All the trot orgs I've tried to work with were wreckers or cults.

    But the times I've worked with the DSA I've seen trots, MLs, and anarchists working side by side. Much more productive. Definitely varies chapter to chapter I'm sure

  • A New Anonymous Phone Carrier Lets You Sign Up With Nothing but a Zip Code

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  • I used Calyx Institute for internet for a couple years while working online and living in a car. Solid company. Definitely gonna check out his out.

  • Always remember that the democrats are right wing

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  • Doesn't really matter either way since simple image generation isn't resource intensive

  • Always remember that the democrats are right wing

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  • Try for yourself https://github.com/ShiftHackZ/Stable-Diffusion-Android

    But that's (very clearly) beside the point, which is that you can run a variety of models locally on your PC or phone for miniscule energy. Once a model is trained the damage has already been done.

    As always, it's the corporations using the resources and doing the damage, so pearl clutching about random individuals is less than useless.

  • Always remember that the democrats are right wing

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  • Training models takes a stupid amount of energy. Using them after the fact uses very little.

    I could generate something like this on my phone using any of the dozens of local models.

  • PSA

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  • Same with Soviet historiography

  • Am I wrong??

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  • Trotsky is good at appearing "right" because he plays fast and loose with the details so he can retroactively claim to have been for or against something after it already happened.

    One example off the top of my head (forgive me if I misremember the specifics) is the NEP, which according to Trotsky and Trotskyites was originally his idea that Lenin initially disagreed with but eventually came around to. But, ignoring the fact that timing matters and a year is a long-ass time in a revolutionary period, the details also matter, since the goal wasn't to retreat to capitalism but to very carefully reintroduce certain market incentives to help develop certain sectors of the economy that had been obliterated during the war. So you can't just claim "oh I had this idea first" when your idea, at least according to Lenin, would overly benefit the Kulak class without adequately fostering a respective proletariat (or something along those lines). Lenin goes into this in great detail both when he dismisses Trotsky's plan and also when he introduced the NEP.

    But he was also an asshole, notoriously elitist and dismissive of anyone he deemed intellectually inferior.

    Honestly reading through the debates and speeches from the party meetings and congresses is great for breaking through a lot of the ahistorical western bullshit.

  • Am I wrong??

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  • Long history of wrecking/coopting movements and orgs.

    I know good individual trots, but the trot orgs in my area are all white college students that show up uninvited to things they had no party in organizing, then selling shit or starting fights. We have a lot of coalition building among MLs, anarchists, and DSA types here, and it's always the Trots that refuse to find common ground or show any support whatsoever. Their praxis consists of wrecking/splitting, raising money, and defending sex pests.

  • "Respect the artist's vision" mfers when the artist shows you their vision:

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  • Inventing people to get mad at dialed up to 11