This is why liberal allyship is so performative: it’s not about helping marginalized people, whom they view as subhuman unless they happen to be in an overlapping demographic (white), it’s about making them feel like they’re good people without having to give up the illusion of comfort and safety.

Fuck that’s so fucking accurate and it’s insane that it’s been said for decades.

You’re absolutely right, I was actually missing my own advice in not focusing on recruiting people that refuse to learn, and instead focus on those willing to make a difference and organize, thanks.

I would love to collect info on these if you have any on hand. I’ve been having some beef in this Trans group with a couple people who are very against the idea we can move beyond the democratic party. I’m not even trying to tell them to all militarize right fucking now but do something to start their self liberation. Even taking the smallest peak into POC history, especially black movements throughout the United states history, would show what backing liberals does. This has all been examined before.

Thankfully most agreed with me, but the dialogue that’s been had has been depressing. I even had someone who’s organizing a YDSA chapter start bashing me about how “helpful democrats have been in stopping trumps plans from happening and he complains about it all the ti~me on truth social.” So much for solidarity while I’m actively agitating people. I have been arguing for Liberals historical abandonment of minorities, but that would really help with more recent bashing. I remember they did it but I have trouble finding it recently, I had asked in an actual post on trans topics but this would also help put more baggage on democrats.

Big lemmy doesnt want you to see the truth

silicon valley has constantly sold scams to investors promising massive changes to our world, but they always end up just forced upon us and then we have to deal with the fallout. AI is overwhelmingly mid at most things and needs to be checked by people constantly to make sure its correct. I’m sure in a future where we have the infrastructure to handle it, and its outside of private hands it might have a use similar to other machines like the mechanical loom.

But we constantly see AI’s shortcomings because there’s a kind of “oversell” going on that has happened with most silicon valley tech. Of course people are against it, they witness it failing to meet minimum standards constantly in fields where its not ever going to excel, AND it is being used as an excuse to remove people from their jobs often increasing workload for the rest.

Its application is widely ineffective, needs double checking, fails to meet standards, or doubles work time just to fix when issues occur. Even in terms of “quality being subjective” people who actually care about the mediums do not like the intrusion of AI and can detect its use easily, musicians for music or artists for art, translation for translators, etc.

In China its utilized without fear of people losing their job, and often at the workers discretion. It’s something utilized by the worker and not competing against the workers rights.

Basically within capitalism it is functioning not as a tool for workers, but often as a competitor for workers. Until this contradiction is changed or resolved you will never get mass acceptance of AI. The statement that machines are evil or not depending on the handler rings more true. But also not every technological “advancement” finds a place in our world naturally and its possible the resolution for this contradiction is simply nobody using it anymore. It could be a steam engine in ancient greece, or it could be the radioactive hair dryer. A proper analysis of the contractions of AI should be used to truly understand its place.

Unfortunately imperialist actions like this don’t really “Wake people up” Most people are completely unaffected and the only ones who care are related to the issue or are already involved in anti imperialist messaging and organizing. If you ask anybody they prob have a very middle position of not wanting a war but also hating iran and thinking its justified. very “whats to be done” kinda ppl

The deaths are needless, to truly speak to the masses we ourselves have to go out and speak to the masses and organize.

I learned Japanese in a year in a really really really intense study program I made for myself but you can chill on it and be able to be conversational on it p quickly. Same for spanish which i also speak. (Tried to learn it on duolingo for 5 years but gave up with little progress and did it this way, like with Japanese.

Apps and textbooks have trouble teaching you languages that are spoken in REAL life. To learn a language you just need comprehensible input. I also used flashcards to study words with Anki.

The strategy I had was: Step 0: have good motivation to learn it(have friends/family/partners who speak the target language) Step 1: Learn the alphabet of the target language Step 2: Begin Study of the top 2000 most common words Step 3: Learn simply phrases preferably with those words that I would use. Step 4: begin speaking as soon as possible. I started speaking to people when I only had like 600 words under my belt. Step 5: Listen and Read childrens media related to the language(this part suuuuuuuucks) Step 6: As you are nearing the end of top 2000 words you’ll encounter new words you might be curious about or you might want to use. Add these to your study deck. Step 7: Study simple common grammar rules. BUT DONT OVER DO THIS. (If you know 100 grammar rules but 10 words you cant say much, but if you speak 100 words and know 10 grammar rules you can communicate quite a bit. Think of it like grammar is a multiplier and words are the base number) Step 8: Speak, listen, read, and (if you like) write in the language as much as possible. Replace your TV with target language TV. Music with target language music. Try to focus on listening sometimes and other times just chill with it.

You have to be ok with embarrassing yourself. You’re like a baby learning, just keep going. Eventually youll find you can string entire thoughts and jokes together. Repetition is super important, input and use stuff over and over and it becomes second nature and you understand or speak it without thinking, much like your native language.

Around 10,000 words is what is known and spoken for most young adults. Focus on stuff your interested in or stuff you think youll need to talk about. If anki sucks to do and you cant keep it up just focus more on input with the language through other sources like media or books.

Depending on the difficulty of the target language you can get conversational p fast. Remember, babies are stupid and take like 18 years to get to 10,000 words. But we’re smart adults and can structure our study towards our goals.

As an artist I’d love to see suggestions in this thread. The specific recommendations might be different country to country or smaller districts. Something thats difficult for the US is that a lotta people are doing jobs related to tech and there’s not really a single unifying symbol for this. Hammer and sickle to represent farming and manufacturing is possible, and I believe adding a brush branches out to a wider movement.

But finding symbols to speak to the workers as a whole can be difficult with how diverse it all is. Theres so many hyper specialized machines and tools.

When making Icons before I’ve used my states iconography and Black panthers, and queer symbols like the pink triangle. This is extremely important and a good symbol will speak to the audiences you want and pull dedicated people into the movement.

It might be necessary to focus on smaller regions within the US and Unite those before creating broader movements. (OFC whichever is in the best interests of the end goal of revolution at that time.) I can only speak to the US however

coincidentally, Trotsky’s valentine has identical text

Occurs to me this is a buy European board…this is still decent advice for ppl but uh…yeah

IG we all jokin on american’s

Strange this hasn’t been suggested before, but seriously build relationships in your community to bring them closer to class consciousness and revolutionary ideas. Find a small group that you can REALLY REALLY REALLY trust as revolutionaries and do what you can.

Organize housing unions, workers unions, mutual aid, help people enroll in food or health programs that they are eligible for. Spend time in clubs and public areas, reach out to people and become a notable and well liked community member. (If publicity would prevent you from doing certain actions or make it too dangerous then avoid notoriety)Learn any skill someone is willing to teach you. And teach anyone who will listen your skills, and help each other. Find people who are more agreeable first, don’t go to the house with the fuckin nazi flag preaching about communism. People who are more likely to act, and more likely to be agreeable are often already acting in events with similar views. Like protests, garden groups, unions, etc.

Make Zines and posters of acute class contradictions in your area. My area has especially bad landlords with no union so I’m working to fix that and show people the issues with landlords owning everything. Repair stuff, wear slogan t-shirts and signs and pick up trash. Let these ideas be seen, as that’s one way we are kept suppressed.

You want to make connections with people actually in your area and find other revolutionaries. No matter where you are chances are there’s a good dozen who are also looking for someone to organize with. You personally do not need to convince every person in your area, find comrades. If you know some online find out what you can do together, visit each other, help organize, share knowledge, etc.

America suffers from the lack of a unifying leftist party. There are several groups people might be interested in but they’ve never even heard of. There are people in my area who haven’t even heard of the DSA. Often you’ll find there’s only like one branch of any given leftist group in your state. If the people are already uniting together with leftist ideals, they’re more likely to join a state wide or national movement. (If people are already helping each other with food stamps and medical aid, they’re more likely to join a DSA push for housing unions in your area etc.)

There is TONS to do comrade, look around. I understand the desire to be told what to do but you truly have the power to unite people with this knowledge.

TBH this should work for a lotta revolutionaries wondering what to do. This is how you build public support for revolution in your area.

Speak to real people and deprogram them, its a fuckin lifelong effort apparently but each one you convince joins in your efforts. I’ve convinced tons of people of how awesome cuba is before and now theyre all rightfully pissed at this shit.

TBH Wish i could join efforts like this if i wasnt outside of the americas rn.

When I return?? its fuckin instant action.