• plyth@feddit.org
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    If all people look alike it’s easier to pretend that there is no systemic exploitation.

  • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works
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    Immigrants have non-white skin and AI doesn’t even have skin, which is more preferable because I’m an irrational stupid racist that loves bootlicking rich oligarchs. Hail Corporate!

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      You can’t be a proper racist. Some of the words you used have more than four syllables and you haven’t misspelt the name of your own country even once.

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    In both cases, no one is taking our jobs. The ruling class is using both immigrants and AI to suppress our wages.

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      Don’t know about that. The Browns generated an estimated $685 million in revenue from the 2025 season according to Google’s shitty AI. They did have an operating cost of about $90 million though. Admittedly I don’t know if it’s a lot for an american football team, but someone must’ve given them money.

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    Oh that’s really easy: AI isn’t brown.

    Never underestimate the Americans’ capacity for racism. A lot of things in America can be explained by racism.

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        “Hallo my frend, how are you today, ah? I am very heppy to see you, inshalla we have very good time, yes?”

        That works is seems, but you have to get access to someone’s account to add it to the custom instructions.

    • TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today
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      Yeap… Imo the reason why so many of the worst people in America are so obsessed with AI is because they think it will solve the age old problem of population decline without having to import brown people for labour.

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    Because if AI takes your job then eventually a billionaire gets to be a trillionaire.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      We already see anti-AI backlash in businesses that want to shove the tools down workers’ throats.

      The big difference is that workers in the US have no real power. If you want to be a proper ultra-nationalist in America, you better own something and it better be big enough to fund the solicitation of a few congresscritters. The response to anti-AI activism is to call the critiques “Luddites” (or perhaps Russia/China disinformation agents). The response to anti-migrant activism is to nod sagely and insist the white working class needs to pick more cantaloupes for $5/hr.

  • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world
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    I don’t mind if immigrants pick strawberries by hand.

    I also don’t mind if AI compiles all my tedious bibliography & citations for me.

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        What academic career? I’m 50 years old. My academic days are far behind me. Woulda been nice to have ai compile all that tedious required MLA bullshit for me back then though.

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    I don’t have a lot of conversations with the “immigrants are taking our jobs” people. Are those same people really talking about AI killing jobs being good? Because that doesn’t seem right.

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      They dropped the “taking our jobs” angle long ago, just didn’t resonate. Now they’re all dangerous criminals. Try to keep up!

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      I don’t think they are. I think these are two different groups within the same “side”.

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      It might be owned by white people but you should read the names of people in lead technical roles and writing research papers. I promise you will have a hard time pronouncing most of the names haha.

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        While I totally agree with you, have you ever tried yourself at Polish names? And I think they are mostly white ;0)

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          Honestly, as an american, I wouldn’t put it past some of racists to think the polish names are actually african or something

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      Don’t worry, the next project will probably put the immigrants into slavery, then they’ll both be legal AND owned by white people.

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    Because the Republican Party sole purpose is to further the interests of wealthy and corporations but the only way they can do that is build a platform on racism and xenophobia to trick the less educated or informed into voting for them.

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      There’s an out, and it’s us standing outside before being driven to extreme violence. We should talk about that.

    • PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world
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      Yuuup. The oligarchs would actually love to keep immigrant labor, but they see it as a worthwhile scapegoat to keep their voting bloc united.

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      the Republican Party sole purpose is to further the interests of wealthy and corporations

      Perhaps not SOLE, but that’s also the main purpose of the Dem leadership.

      That’s a big reason why they’re so bad at messaging: they’re having to appeal to a base who mostly loathe billionaires and big corporations while also making sure that the billionaires and corporations don’t get annoyed and stop enriching them.

      the only way they can do that is build a platform on racism and xenophobia to trick the less educated or informed into voting for them.

      Yeah, can’t have fascism without a million lies and constant scapegoating of already vulnerable groups of people.

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          a fucking centrist

          Nope. I’m a leftist. Unlike 99% of the corrupt party you’re shilling for.

          horrible things done specifically by Republicans

          Nope. Republicans do it even more/worse, but that doesn’t mean that the Dems are innocent of it. They aren’t.

          telling me both sides are bad.

          More accurately put, one’s awful and the other is a literal fascist party and thus much worse.

          Thanks, I really needed that in my life.

          A more nuanced view than "because they’re not fascists, the Dems are automatically great and don’t need to improve anything about themselves to better represent the will of the people“?

          Yeah, you really did.

          Go take your fucking pills

          After you, apparatchik.

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              Yeah ok, you’re clearly an absolute idiot and/or pathologically unable to admit when you’re wrong, so I’m not gonna waste any more time and effort explaining the obvious to you. Have the day you deserve.

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                If your only policy stance is to keep the fascist white national theocratic party in power you might actually just be alt right, consequently. Yeah, honestly, Centrist was too good a title for you.

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                  Yeah, because saying that they’re much worse than the other party means that my one goal in life is to keep them in power 🙄

                  Pack up your ridiculous army of strawmen and go waste someone else’s time, please.

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    because it serves the rich well that people are easily baited into fearing and fighting minorities

    the rich do not want you mad at AI becanuse that is their product