one of the problems with posting something that's just funny because it's absurd is you get a million drivebys by credulous social media zombies who either glaze it in the most serious tone possible or they get mega butthurt about it.

this is exactly why when I do irl open mic night as an outlet I just lean into that and speedrun turning the audience into their own punchline like that. I'm in a more charitable mood than that today though

@cyberquixote that's why I straight up disconnect from the internet when I'm full bent out of shape. I will never doomscroll, it's truly an evil drug that wastes the mind. I'm on here to joke around and shout from my soapbox

@somebody every time I post something that goes viral

@somebody the political side of fedi is full of very serious people who are fanatical about being milquetoast socdems and i prefer to not even engage with them most of the time

@ug counterpoint, somewhat implied in my original post: I don't reply, but when they reply to them if I can help it, but sometimes it's so funny I am glad they replied if only to write the real punchline to my post

@ug a guy wrote "enpoopification" in my mentions about a day and a half ago. that's honestly a level of pussy liberal posting that was only prophesied by the onion. blessed accidental comedy

@somebody @ug "enpoopification" sounds like a word a child would come up with tbh

@nautilus @ug If I say "shit" God is going to murder me tho. Not because I'm carrying water for capitalist monsters! I really understand the stakes of this situation 🥺 🥺 🥺 🥺 🥺 🥺 🥺 🥺

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not to sound all ‘anti pc’ or whatever, but something to be said about how for liberals the horizon of liberatory politics is not saying ‘bad words’ so this makes sense, and the list of bad words is always expanding, like i remember getting majorly dragged back in the day for using words like ‘cuck’ ironically

and the shit about how you can’t say ‘clanker’ because it has an er, as if the english language doesn’t use the ‘er’ suffix to turn a verb into a noun, no words ending in ‘er’ are al bad apparently

i really feel like there is a psyop be the megacorps to get people to think this kind of thing is doing politics

@ug unserious people you can ignore. I have participated in atrocities by designing weapons, and I have lived atrocities by being forced into a hole that denies me even the right to an identity.

these people are idiots because they have never killed or been killed. I don't know how to make it more blunt. if anyone thinks violence is saying words that might make people a little sad they don't know violence.

@ug when I say I will confess to all of it I mean that. ask me if my work facilitated the systematic killing of thousands. I would be surprised if the nuremburg trials of my country spare me if they ever happen. if they do it's because I've said all this shit on main and you can know I'd never do it again because I didn't know what I was doing. But I will not lie. That is not the way to love.

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well, that’s between you and your God i guess, but one thing i will say is half of these motherfuckers on the big liberal instances like Hacyderm and infosec exchange work for Apple or Google or Meta and so are indeed weapons developers whether they know it or not, also Mastodon is slop coded now, they have a backroom deal with Meta, Claude is a literal weapon used to target bombs etc.

among tech people the fact these companies are military contractors, or that these LLM’s are literal weapons just doesn’t even get acknowledged, it’s the last thing to be mentioned in the “AI Debate” if at all, it’s actually quite sick and why i don’t fuck with shitlib mastodon at all

like people still share that Cory Doctortow entryist scumbag after he’s basically admitted to using LLM’s to write his rants and things AI is a liberatory technology he said some shit like “You’re wrong Audre Lorde, the masters tools can dismantle the masters house” referring to LLM’s

Like this guy is obviously some cyber libertarian sheepdog ( the reason he’s so popular at all is sus to me ) but liberals just eat that shit up

@ug @somebody I got jumpscared by an essay by Cory Doctorow in an annotated edition of Frankenstein published by MIT Press

@nautilus @ug I would like that son of a bitch to disappear and never darken the doorsteps of anyone else again. a very strong sign to stop talking about him

@nautilus @ug Mary Shelley wrote that book explicitly about why assholes like him should shut the fuck up. Hope that makes a difference

@somebody @ug fun fact she also inserted some vegetarian messages in there

@nautilus @ug she lost to me, I straight up eat anything that died and spent my whole childhood hunting. she's cool af though, I don't belong in tomorrow's world. but I thought the way she depicted the tech bro who creates a horror that molests the world and gets away with it was based

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i remember he was originally known among libertarian privacy freaks, because i was really into Distributed Darknets like Tor and I2p – and every knows that whole space if full of feds – so that’s where i found his novel “Little Brother” which was aite, it was aite, nice little YA distopia with a good message but but i don’t think he writes fiction anymore, i wish he would, because otherwise he’s just a annoying shitlib

but i guess the Koche money dried up and he decided to pretend to be a leftist and, to his credit, liberals are in many ways bigger marks than libertarians

like how he claims to have invented the word ‘enshitification’ is fucking rich, perhaps he popularized it in a certain context but i’ve heard it before from multiple people like 10+ years ago

@ug @nautilus real shit I don't care if he pretends he invented it. 1. it's dumb af 2. it's capitalist lingo meant to make it seem like we're even supposed to tolerate the shit that led up to it and 3. someone said enpoopification to me less than 36 hour ago so I don't care, he's not only someone I deeply despise but he has entered the domain of things that only exist because they are funny and he can just be laughed at forever

@somebody @nautilus

i have noticed this trend of Canadians who make their careers commenting on American politics, but then never talk about their own country, like their own indigenous genocides or trans-national mining corporations or the growing fascist threat there, they just fall back on this stereotype of canada as some socialist utopia, meanwhile weighing in on debates in the US when they should really mind their own fucking business because just because you watch a lot of american tv doesn’t mean you actually understand the political dynamics there, but no they know what the american left needs to do, stfu

like i’m thinking of the slop tubers ‘the serfs’ who spread misinformation about how Charlie Kirk was killed by groypers, i swear to god, leftist influencers are largely responsible for fuentes becoming a national figure by attributing to him outsized influence, which in turn made the fascist money people take him seriously

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i guess it’s not just a canadian thing, like you got people like Bad Empanada who is Austrialian / Argentinian, and he’s always jumping into american politics to be a racist troll and mine slop clicks… or then there’s Philosophy tuber who made a video “Was Nietzche MAGA” it’s just there’s a large market for american politics and it’s much easier to say stupid bullshit about a country when you don’t live there and don’t have to deal with the consequences.

@ug @nautilus I avoid youtube. don't think about that deeply because I don't want to focus my energy on that. I'm sure there are a lot of people on there who are using their identities to push some kind of bullshit. I at one point was zero degrees away from this trans chick who actively just pushes zionist shit because I was fixing their stupid wargaming larper website after I quit my last job. none of these people is serious. I don't really know how to make any of it up to God. I think being as blunt and as real about the criterion of living in my apartment and the people that have come through here is maybe enough but everything is so awful I think I'm missing something. There's got to be someone I should just be fucking with maybe

@somebody @nautilus

it is better to ignore it, but i can’t look away it’s a problem

probably too much information here, so me and my partner were ( still are ) in a very desperate financial situation and begging all the time, and this trans girl we know was helping us out a lot, and we at some point had to tell her to chill out because it was like, she was trying to make us dependent on her or she had some unhealthy parasocial thing?? well it turns out she worked for Raytheon in something to do with weapons sales, and we were her little charity project to absolve her conscience

and apparently she does this with lefty people in need gives them her blood money without their knowledge, until after they are dependent on her and she pulls that out, just corrupting people

honestly i might have kept taking the blood money but my wife has principles are cut her off when she found out

i think there are a lot of Military Industrial employees in the FOSS/Fedi world actually

@ug @somebody tbh if I learn someone has worked for google or whatever I just unfollow

@nautilus @ug I worked for a worse and less public facing bit of that world but anyway it's no big deal now because I undid a significant portion of that by doing sabotage and being punished for life and I'm now on one or more on stupid accounts like this one. follow for more tips about basically killing yourself and then becoming pro h a m a s

@nautilus @ug really stupid post, please do not read