10 lessons for stronger movements
10 lessons for stronger movements
cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/post/636389
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This comment section is gathering personal attacks so we are locking it.
Additionally: we don't have a rule against AI generated images, so we had a discussion about this and wanted to hear what the !buyeuropean@feddit.uk community thinks about it before acting on the reports.
Will announce more about the AI discussion soon in a separate post.
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Now get a human to redraw this.
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seriously, I'm thinking of blocking the users who keep spamming these AI bullshits.
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perfectionism is the enemy of progress
This is a "buy european" community, not an anti-AI one. This image gets the message across. It doesn't have to pass a purity test.
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Woah how can you tell here? I have been bamboozled
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The text made me suspicious - I never really thought about why it looks weird, but from closer inspection it looks like almost every letter is unique. It just has such an uncanny look. If it was made with a normal font then letters should be near identical. I suppose some artists who hand draw text could be caught up, but I don't think that's common unless they're drawing a uniquely stylized font. For fonts like this that are just plain, it wouldn't make sense to hand draw each character.
The 2 apostrophes in don't and doesn't in the bottom left are a super obvious example
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Not OP but when I saw the font it reminded me of the same font used in AI generated drawings with words. Can't be sure though, usually there's some defect in the words but not this one
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"for the people"
Continues to cross post ai corpo "art"
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I often see people giving others flack for switching to Proton because their CEO etc.
But any step in the right direction should be praised, Proton etc. Is far from perfect, but it's so much better then never moving away from Google / Microsoft etc.
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Upvote cause good point, but I have to really mention that OpSec is a black and white thing.
You make one OpSec mistake and you're cooked. Look how they got Ross Ulbricht.
Meshtastic seems to me to be easiest to have good OpSec at the moment and I really hope we can develop it further.
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The CEO was saying that Trumps pick to help fight big business was great, not that Trump himself is great, the fact that so many people didn't see to get that and instead just went, Proton CEO likes Trump! blew my mind
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And he was also wrong about that point as well.
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This reply by @pelespirit@sh.itjust.works on the original post may help someone here:
Imperfect Allies Aren't Enemies
- Critique to build, not tear down
- Organize, don't just argue
- Movements win, not individuals
- Perfection is the enemy of progress
- Ego kills movements
- Plan for the long game
- Meet people where they are
- Power doesn't care about feelings
- Division is a weapon used by elites, don't play along
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daily reminder that luddites weren't against new tech out of fear or misunderstanding, they were against the owner class hoarding all extra productivity as wealth instead of reducing workload and/or increasing pay for the workers alongside tech advancements.
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Sabotaging new tools and machines hinders progress.
If we didn't have sewing machines or washing machines we'd be spending so much time on clothing.
New technology comes with issues, and wealth needs to be distributed.
But if we didn't use new technology we'd still be in the stone age.
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Slop gets dropped
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It doesn't matter. Buy European, comrade.
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I love how the propaganda bots have persuaded everyone to focus on whether or not this image was made with AI, and everyone completely forgot about the very positive and constructive message in this image.
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they’re not bots, everyone is sick of AI slop everywhere, and it’s especially distasteful to use it for activism messaging, an extremely human endeavor.
if there’s any shill-bots involved, they’re creating and promoting these while downvoting human made art because the ai argument is inevitable.
in fact, the amount and ratio of upvotes compared to people actually writing out complaints proves that i’m right.
appropriate username, btw…
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Can you explain how this line of argumentation gets socialism any closer to seizing power? I am willing to listen.
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All of these rules would have helped the Occupy Wall Street back in the day
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The perfection over progress is killing us.
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Progress over perfection is what killed it.
Constantly capitulating to a Liberalist movement and lesser-eviling the ratchet all the way to where we are now.
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If only the [insert subgroup that vaguely annoys me] would listen to this!
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I’m all for the resistance, but I thought this was going to be about bowel movements.
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Don’t play along?
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I think it's connected to the line above, i.e. don't play along with the elites.
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Ok, I see. The imperfect allies one is the first one.
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Did an AI make this image?
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Meeting in the middle has turned a country of union supporters into fascists in less than 50 years.
We've been falling for the "lesser of two evils" rhetoric since Nixon.
Neoliberals are on the same team as the oligarchs.
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movement-building ≠ meeting in the middle
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-5/mswv5_58.htm
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Leftists letting Neoliberals have all the power is not working together, it's conceding to an occupying power.
Sorry but means testing and shrugging our shoulders like the Neoliberals have done for 50 years pushes the country further Right.
We're done learning this lesson and now we're doing something different.
This time it's the Neoliberals that can get on board or get the fuck out of the way.
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