They could try to stop Democrats from voting with the Republicans every chance they get, for one thing.

And contributions welcome, probably.

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Great post, thanks for sharing.

[…] I guess I have no choice but to block the instance.

And I’m the one who’s dying on a stupid reactionary hill?? Lmao.

Lol must keep your eyeballs pure eh?

The problem is the anti-genAI crowd show up in numbers

Sorry that your position is massively unpopular?

What data are you basing this ridiculous claim off? It’s already been thoroughly debunked. In reality most folks simply don’t care about it, or are ok with using genAI. That’s certainly true of our instance users, in any case. And looking at genAI posts in this community, they have way more upvotes than downvotes. Nobody has been able to explain to me how that equates to GenAI as being “massively unpopular”. It’s unpopular with a bunch of liberals on LW, and a handful of mostly western leftists who are so entrenched in the neo-liberal economic mindset that they can’t conceive of fighting against copyrights. Of course artists should be properly paid, but not via this ridiculous system of copyright law which mainly acts to protect corporate interests over individuals.

How is this post an example of that when it isn’t tagged?

It is mentioned in the original post that it is an AI generated image, which is why this discussion started in the first place because it wasn’t otherwise obvious. I’m saying even though this post was tagged, it didn’t stop off-topic hate comments about genAI from derailing the comments.

Does “saying AI is bad” count as “significant bullying and harassment?” What about, “saying comments shouldn’t be removed for criticizing AI?” Because apparently those things count as, “trolling” so I’m not sure what standards you’re using here.

This is a disingenuous comment. The removal reason for those off topic comments wasn’t “bullying and harassment” it was “comment trolling” which is why there were only removals and no bans. If the post isn’t about AI then yes, that’s just comment trolling as far as I’m concerned. Online bullying and harassment over this topic is absolutely occurring, whether or not you are aware of it. One case is documented in the !div0_governance@lemmy.dbzer0.com community post I previously mentioned. We moderate this instance accordingly to the overwhelming majority preference of our instance users on this topic, and I don’t apologize for it.

If the community rules don’t ban GenAI images then you can assume a) they are allowed, and b) complaining about them is not allowed.

The problem is the anti-genAI crowd show up in numbers on almost every post containing AI images to pontificate about why they think “AI slop” should be tagged (although even when it is, they shift the goalposts and we still get complaints - this post is a good example). In effect this completely derails the post comments to be all about genAI instead of the community/post theme. Some of our community mods have experienced significant bullying and harassment over this topic, which is why we put the rule in place. I’m not going to re-litigate it here, but if you check out our !div0_governance@lemmy.dbzer0.com community there is an extensive discussion about it there.

How is this a meme?

These anti-ai trolls are like religious zealots… always happy to give you their unwanted opinions.

Yes it is, but not in the way you think.

Ok, fair enough…

Editing your comment like this is violating the spirit of the disengage rule.

So-called “colour revolutions” are an invention of infamous conspiracy theorist, and perennial presidential candidate, Lyndon LaRouche. There’s a good (quite long) video on this topic here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OFyn_KSy80 which is the fourth in a series about the Ukraine war.

Also a great primer essay on the topic of campism, which will help you understand the mindset: https://newpol.org/issue_post/internationalism-anti-imperialism-and-the-origins-of-campism/

Are you doin’ ok buddy?

It seems to me we are really only arguing about the degree to which the Republicans are worse than the Democrats. You are arguing the case that the Dems are significantly more benevolent, but that’s a very subjective assessment and depends what type of issues you decide to focus on. If you are more focused on international affairs and the number of brown people being killed by US manufactured weapons then there is no significant difference between the parties. If you are focused on domestic issues like health care then, sure, Obamacare is significantly better than nothing, even if it is a pale imitation of what a properly functioning health care system looks like.

When you look at the big(ger) picture, the US is governed under a plutocratic system of government whichever side is in power. The only way to have a properly functioning liberal democracy is to prevent owners of private capital from having any say in how the country is governed (so no more corporate donations, industry lobbyists, legislation written by large corporations, etc). But neither mainstream party has any intention of tackling those issues, or tackling wealth inequality. There’s sadly very little policy difference between the two parties on those issues in my opinion, and I don’t think it’s misleading to point it out.

Neoliberalism is the dominant form of liberalism not only in the US but in most of the west, so it’s safe to assume that’s the definition we’re working with here. But here, I’ll give you another example:

Look at how Demsthe German government has treated paying customer Israel vs non-paying folks in Gaza.

I’m not sure I understand what your point is. The US has been a plutocracy for a long time. The Republican vs Democrat debate is all about to what degree that is the case. The Democrats are slightly more benevolent when they are at the head of the plutocracy, I’ll grant you that.

In the context of this meme, centrist liberalism is claiming progressive credentials on the left pane, and showing its true face on the right pane. Liberalism is all about private property. So no matter what they say about caring about these issues, if you’re not paying you aren’t welcome. Liberal values are phony because money always trumps them. Look at how Dems treated paying customer Israel vs non-paying folks in Gaza.