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Thinking that it's about any single individual like Trump or Vance shows profound lack of understanding of how the system actually works on your part. If it's not them, then it will be somebody else like them because the selection pressures that put them there are still going to be present. Liberals consistently fail to understand the concept of systemic pressures and are prone to clutching to the great man fallacy thinking that Trump is the one responsible for all the evils, and if he could only be removed from power somehow everything would go back to the way it was before.

The fact that this needed to be spelled out for you is frankly incredible.

name a more iconic duo than capitalism and slavery

Ah the great man theory, the cherished crutch for liberals who find systemic thinking far too taxing for their delicate sensibilities.

The desire for Taiwanese independence has experienced a significant drop over the past three years, with only 25.3% of people who want to “move toward independence” or seeking “independence as soon as possible” - down from nearly one-third - 32.4% - in 2020.

https://esc.nccu.edu.tw/PageDoc/Detail?fid=7801&id=6963

Great intro, only thing I'd add would be to note that it should also be made explicit that socialism and communism stages here have their own contradictions as well, and they too will continue to evolve going forward.

I'd suggest that we should think of this less of a directed progression, but rather a graph of states and edges connecting them. When you're at any particular state, you can transition to a different adjacent state from it. For example, capitalism can transition to socialism, regress back to feudalism, or turn into fascism. These are all possible outcomes based on how the material conditions develop. But we cannot jump from capitalism directly to communism because these states are not directly adjacent to each other. There is too much change necessary, and therefore you need an intermediate state like socialism to make the transition. But that too can revert back to capitalism as we saw in USSR. Thinking of this in terms of a two dimensional space adds a bit more nuance rather than framing it as an inevitable linear progression towards communism.

incidentally, a good dive into the sketchy stuff the dev baked into piefed https://lemmy.ml/post/42049895/23496934

I just ran across it, and thought it was interesting even if its a bit older. The whole problem of a looming financial crisis is still very current.

and unapologetically so too

It's the classic thing where you cut social services, then turn around to say how terrible public sector is, and use that as a justification for privatizing

I thought horny chatbots were their latest business model?

yeah, and also stuff like this that's been going on forever https://hrnews1.substack.com/p/feminist-icon-gloria-steinem-was

To definitively say whether something is or isn't conscious we'd first need to have a clear definition of what we mean by consciousness in functional terms. So far, there are a number of competing theories, and the definition will vary based on which theory you subscribe to. I'm personally a fan of the higher order theory of consciousness which suggests that conscious experience constitutes higher order thoughts which observe other thoughts, awareness of your own thoughts is the self referential property that would be a plausible explanation. To show that a model was conscious in this framework, you'd have to show that there are secondary patterns that occur in response to the primary patters which are a result of a stimulus.

yeah the direct reddit tie in with world and piefed definitely feels sketch af

It's how Iranians refer to it as well https://www.tehrantimes.com/tag/12-days+war