beleza pura

i’m a programmer (an actual programmer, not a vibe coder). sometimes it feels like the options available to me in the future are either killing myself or accepting homelessness

from what i’m seeing, most likely ai will never live up to the hype and the bubble will burst. there’s still a chance it wrecks every industry before bursting, though, which is my fear.

literally me when i come to brazil

(amazing work comrade)

polarization is cool and good, actually

careful. .eers might mistake this as a serious post and agree with it

fake. he would boast about folding like nobody has ever folded before

i’m not going to extend this discussion further (nothing personal), but i want to say this:

you say the definition of totalitarianism is straightforward and unambiguous, but definitions don’t exist in a vacuum. even the most seemingly self-evident definitions have a reasoning behind them. and my problem with totalitarianism (and likely the other guy’s problem as well) is that it is an inherently anti-communist definition. we already have a term for oppressive regimes that control the roles and behavior of their citizens tightly with a rigid hierarchy: fascism. but fascism is fundamentally right-wing, so liberals can’t use this to vilify socialist regimes (and trying to make up bullshit like “left fascism” would make them look like idiots). totalitarianism, as a concept, solves this problem for them: it conveniently abstracts two policitally opposite kinds of regimes into a single category. then liberals can use it to defend capitalist “democracy” from its left-wing enemy, socialism, and its pretend enemy, fascism.

my mind immediately went to the ussr because that’s exactly what the idea of totalitarianism was made for. i’ll say it again: it creates a false equivalence between the fascist regimes that terrorized europe in the 20th century and the socialist regimes (the ussr, china, cuba, vietnam, etc) that represented a massive threat to capitalism. it’s an attempt to extend the fear of fascism to successful socialist regimes

i checked your profile and it looks like you’re an anarchist. i’m not gonna argue for or against that, but it’s pretty well stablished among communists that totalitarianism is an anti-communist concept, so it shouldn’t surprise you that we wouldn’t receive it well. it makes you sound like a liberal from the usa, to be completely honest, which is why i immediately replied that you’re not a leftist. regardless of how you feel about socialist regimes, maybe consider not using liberal concepts crafted specifically to attack socialism or at least understand why we don’t like them

peace

you’re still not addressing any of the criticisms

glad to help

no

as a leftist

you’re not a leftist

also, you spent most of your words defending your right to defend your political stance and didn’t actually argue back much against the criticisms the other guy brought up, such as

• totalitarianism was invented by a nazi
• it creates a false equivalence between communism and fascism
• it enables fascism to get off the hook (so many fascists deflect criticism by asking why communism isn’t criminalized as well)

in today’s round of “lib or anarkiddie”…

(anyway, not sure what the comic has to do with the meme unless you think it’s criticizing marxism)

they’re honorary white… until it’s no longer convenient then they’ll be just slavs again

based

wow what a helpful and insightful comment.

Never in my life, have I seen a meme this concise.

who gives a fuck?

it hasn’t been confirmed, but it makes sense. in one of my conversations with deepseek, it explicitly told me, unprompted, that it was “chatgpt” and it was trained by openai. people told me it was just “hallucinating”, but why would it hallucinate being trained specifically by openai? so yeah, they probably did the thing where they ask questions to chathpt to train their model

but as the saying goes, ladrão que rouba ladrão tem 100 anos de perdão

you could be waiting for years to get an apartment

…which is what happens under capitalism anyway if you ever do get to own a house, so this argument doesn’t even make sense

true but imo it assumes commitment against imperialism in a fundamental level which i do not believe putin has at all. he would gladly be yet another collabolator for western imperialism if he could*, but the “russian enemy” archetype is just too useful for the usa to give up

*i think he even tried to join nato afaik