Admins of lemmy.ml - if you check the modlog, it’s Dessalines.

Lord.

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/actors-strike-hollywood-sag-aftra-living-wage-healthcare-struggle-1234798347/

According to SAG-AFTRA, only 14% of its members make at least $26,470 annually to qualify for SAG-AFTRA healthcare coverage

Most actors aren’t millionaires, and ‘playing pretend’ for a camera is no less work than playing pretend for corporate ghouls in an office.

How so?

Worth mentioning that this is US-defaultism. Outside the US everyone has experienced socialised healthcare or other such social services

Welfare states originated with Otto von Bismarck in an effort to combat socialism, which is worker ownership of the means of production. For that matter, Americans are eminently familiar with social services.

Tankies are dumbasses who simp for dictators, liberals have more intelligence but apply it incorrectly.

Most liberals are liberal for lack of a better idea. Most liberals have not even been exposed to serious conceptions of socialism. If given the choice between fighting with liberals or fighting with tankies to see the point of a democratic and socialist society, liberals are by far the easier fight.

For that matter, if given the choice between fighting with a liberal regime, whose insufficient opposition to authoritarianism is likely to result in an eventual capitulation to fascism; or a tankie regime, which is and has its goal as fascism painted red; the former is much easier to fight and organize in.

Of those two choices - and the real world is not composed of such a binary - I would argue, albeit admittedly as a demsoc rather than an outright anarchist - that anarchists, whom I disagree with moderately at most, shouldn’t have anything in common with fucking tankies, who are despicable. If ‘opposition to capitalism’ is a valid point of ‘agreement’ then, as I pointed out, literal fascist regimes are no less ‘allies’ in that conception in contrast to the liberal menace.

Weird how they can’t answer this but Pug called you the time vampire. Despite never answering your questions honestly. Shocked you’re not banned yet for asking questions.

When did Blaze ask me any questions in this thread?

Lord.

Tankies are morons who have the right intentions but the wrong idea how to get it. They read Marx and saw Stalin and went “sure that seems good.”

“They read Marx and missed his point entirely, instead embracing fascism, therefore, they’re better than people who haven’t read Marx.”

Liberals haven’t read Marx, saw Stalin and went “anything he stood for was evil.” And they’re mostly right, but they have the wrong intentions with the new ways of avoiding it. All of which lead to Trump’s iron grip.

What exactly is the fucking difference, then, between tankies and liberals in this conception in terms of where it leads to?

“Tankies are better than liberals because they oppose capitalism” in this conception, which acknowledges that tankies are aiming for Stalin-esque bureaucratic control of the means of production, is no more coherent than “Strasserists are better than liberals because they oppose capitalism”, or “Theocratic clientists are better than liberals because they oppose capitalism” - the latter, bizarrely enough, being something I have actually heard tankies on Lemmy espouse. Apparently the whole fascist conception of a “third way” was lost on them - or worse, appears appealing.

You could just as easily say “Liberals are morons who have the right intentions (democracy) but the wrong idea how to get it (capitalism)”

You have the choice not to wear it. You can choose to change your clothes.

You can choose not to run software that was trained on stolen data and hallucinates misinformation. Easy.

Yeah, that doesn’t stop other people from using it, spreading it, and mistaking it. Politicians are openly sharing AI videos and claiming them as true. AI content is often spread untagged precisely because it is intended to pass as ‘genuine’ engagement. Fuck, I myself mistook an AI pic for an aesthetic photo just the other day because I wasn’t looking closely.

Misinformation doesn’t go away just because you, personally, refuse to generate it and try to keep an eye out for it.

Pandora’s box is opened, wrt AI. I don’t know what to do about it and it doesn’t improve our lives - but we also can’t un-fuck what it’s brought. It’s made disinformation much cheaper and faster to spread, for both state actors and non-state actors. And the fact that you can run a LLM on an ordinary (if high-end) consumer computer means it’s not going away completely. We’re stuck with this.

It’s also cute that Dbzer0 keeps tabs on me even after instance-blocking my accounts for calling out this same admin on genocide apologia.

Don’t bother. Blaze is an energy vampire who thinks being called names is admin abuse, but admins banning people for disagreeing with tankies is a-okay.

I would’ve bought that a few months ago, but considering that Unruffled has since done a 180 on such issues like “Does Critical Support for the PRC make someone a tankie?”, I’m disinclined to give them the benefit of the doubt. Using the preferred terminology of tankies when not talking to tankies, and when talking to someone who is anti-tankie in a bid to get them to accept tankies, is extremely questionable. Saying that the frequency is greater also suggests that it’s not absolute size of problematic users that’s being discussed.

That they assert that anarchists should have more in common with a red fascist instance than ‘liberal’ instances (which are far to the left of what most actual liberals would accept) is also telling.

Also, considering Hexbear’s extremely aggressive posture, trying to portray them as ‘less problematic’ than .world or SJW is extremely questionable.

But I’m sure the commenter who has ‘never seen a tankie’ on Lemmy and constantly licks Russian imperialist boots and plays apologist for Ukrainian genocide is posting entirely in good faith. :)

“Tankies support socialism via fascism!”

Average red fash bootlicker.

The fuck did I just read

I would’ve bought that a few months ago, but considering that Unruffled has since done a 180 on such issues like “Does Critical Support for the PRC make someone a tankie?”, I’m disinclined to give them the benefit of the doubt. Using the preferred terminology of tankies when not talking to tankies, and when talking to someone who is anti-tankie in a bid to get them to accept tankies, is extremely questionable. Saying that the frequency is greater also suggests that it’s not absolute size of problematic users that’s being discussed.

That they assert that anarchists should have more in common with a red fascist instance than ‘liberal’ instances (which are far to the left of what most actual liberals would accept) is also telling.

Also, considering Hexbear’s extremely aggressive posture, trying to portray them as ‘less problematic’ than .world or SJW is extremely questionable.

More like “Tankies love making naive anarchists into useful idiots for fascism.”

Good. Spain making a stand when few others in the West will.

What, did someone with a backbone speak to Trump five seconds before his speech?

It won’t last, and the orange shitwit certainly won’t back the necessary measures.