I've never seen "ultra" used as anything but an insult for someone using Marxist language to make an absurd point, and I don't know if it has any actual formal definition underneath all of that.
However, what I do know, is that every time I hear about ultras I picture Ultros from Final Fantasy 6
Why he didn't just say "I think this is cool actually and we should discuss whether or not it would work here"
Sounds like twitter poisoning. A condition that makes it so you mean to say "[thing] is neat" and it comes out "Can we all talk about how [thing] is vital to [my ideology] and all attempts to claim otherwise are [ideology of last person to annoy me]."
Liberals do intersectionality without class all the time too. Which does make the liberal version dogshit; intersectionality without class makes about as much sense as intersectionality without acknowledging gender, or without acknowledging race.
if the entire population just acted in a way they’ve never acted before on a level that borders on the miraculous
this encompasses so much of conservative "thought" too. Problems are caused by some sort of vague moral decay, which can only be solved by everyone spontaneously doing better
I think the fact that any of this is seeing the light of day in the first place is a symptom of the current power systems within the US falling apart. The handful of political families and their donor networks that have been in control of the US government for the last however many decades are going away. Some other system, still capitalist, will emerge. Will they purge the pedos? It is completely a matter of whether it's expedient to the new powers. But Bill Gates is suspicious as hell so don't count on it.
ChatGPT was three years ago! Dall-E was four years ago! Shoehorning image and text generators into all your products in 2025 isn't even technologically impressive!
For anybody not in the know - they have to put extra shielding on internet cables lying at depths sharks can reach, because sharks just love chewing on them.
Makes sense, you never know how much or what kind of RAM the fishermen are going to catch that day.