Hilarious that US AI tech is DOA because capitalist ghouls have lobbied against social projects for the past forty years. Turns out short-term decision-making under the imperatives of profit maximization and infinite growth resembles looting more than governance.

Everything is anything now.

You thought you knew how the world worked without even checking under the rug and I’m excessive for being condescending about it. Check your arrogance and learn something if you want serious people to take you seriously.

Won’t be responding again.

Was gonna ask what you meant but then I realized you didn’t know what instances were.

What a strange reading list, it’s almost like you never took the time to learn about this at all and have only shaped your worldview on the information that’s fed to you. What are the odds that someone who doesn’t think critically about the historical narratives they’re given would develop a worldview that just so happens to benefit the power hierarchy they already exist in? (The UK being neoliberal only while Thatcher was around is hilarious btw)

Everyone knows that liberals will side with fascists, but you don’t know why that happens so you just accept answers that have the right vibes. Your narrative naturalizes human tendencies toward authoritarianism, a liberal and fascist narrative that is contradictory to what we have learned about indigenous peoples all over the world that were subject to European colonialism and its accompanying system of knowledge (Check out Kathleen DuVall’s Native Nations for North American context). Liberals and fascists do not differ on the fundamental principle that society should be stratified along the lines of socially and politically constructed groups imagined to be fundamentally different from privileged groups – such as how racism emerged to facilitate slavery – which they use to justify the violent extraction of wealth from colonized land. Liberals and fascists purport to differ on the basis of individualism, but the fascist claim to exceptional community in the form of national identity is fanciful when positioned in the broader history of colonialism where their concepts of human society and history uncritically drew from.

Liberals respond to challenge through violent oppression first and assimilation second when that inevitably fails. They appropriate concepts like progress and equality to disarm social justice movements and position their efforts securely within the legal frameworks of the state through civil rights assurances. Conversely, fascist rhetoric depends on narratives that construct liberal states as weak for their inability to more effectively carry out the genocide of groups that they commonly understand to be inferior to the privileged groups they’re a part of. Liberalism’s tendency to slowly wear down dissent with marginal concessions frustrates the fascist who is critical of their tactics, not the specific fundamental violence that liberalism depends on.

Now, in the face of neoliberalisms penetration into daily life and the gradual erosion of middle-class material security globally as avenues for growth diminish, why would fascist rhetoric emerge in North America and Europe today? Why are they talking about “population control” as cause of climate change when it is so obviously stratified access to resources? Your explanation would assume that it is just the human tendency to be awful, but the reality is that is what the system you are subject to has taught you specifically to make you less capable of criticizing it. Humans are not naturally awful, it is this system that is violent and that is more than what the government looks like, it is how you imagine the world around you.

You’re lucky I had to wait for a meeting, y’all don’t normally get a free lesson.

Oh, you’re a big history reader are you? Could you provide a reading list for the evidence of this?

You seriously just got all of your history from reddit and twitter eh. A fundamental element in neoliberalism is corporate welfare dude, your misunderstanding of politics as simple “I like this” or “I do not like this” is incompatible with even the concept of appropriation as it depends on a world where interests are as pure as ideals. I’m sorry but the world is more complex than your funny memes online where fixing the world is as simple as thinking the right thing.

I will not be paying attention to you again, I will not even read your response. If you’re interested in actually learning, feel free to dm and get a reading list and nothing more.

Including you. You don’t even realize what you’re saying.

Okay I know I’ve been very sarcastic with you so far so I’ll be clear. You do not know what you are talking about. You’re just another arrogant asshole who thinks they’re imbued with answers just because you don’t challenge yourself to think differently.

Oh of course, we just gotta empower democracy and everything will be fine. Why didn’t anyone else ever think of that? How did you access such remarkable knowledge?

Now what a specific understanding of how politics works, one that just so happens to make the hegemony we live under fated to be, natural even. I wonder how you came to accept a worldview that is so beneficial to the hierarchy you were born under, socialized by, and apparently uncritically consume the media of.

Damn, I wonder why that’d keep happening. It’s almost like there is some fundamental element in a capitalist system that makes reform impossible. Fuck eh, what do you do to resolve the inherent brutalities of such a system? If only there was some way to identify those fundamental elements through like, the work of thinking about it really deeply with other people who want to end that system. That sucks though because obviously people are just bad and we should just keep doing this because the political compass memes told me that history is super simple actually.

Why are you saying this as though you know?

Exactly what the fuck do you think you’re referencing?

Jesus Christ you people need to read more history.

History of banana and why it’s cheap.

Haven’t you heard? I blew up the White House all on my own with the MQ-9 reaper drone I keep in my garage.

If you’re too cowardly to try, then step aside.

Tell me more about how much you don’t read history.

Almost like this narrative is a way to salvage US imperialism in light of the undeniable immorality of its current leader.