And there’s no reason to wait until 2029. In case you missed it, last week the fascists at DHS did this (boldface mine):
The Department of Homeland Security deleted a social media post featuring a Sikh man and an Optimus Prime-like character after the graphic drew accusations that the Trump administration was using a racial stereotype to promote its immigration crackdown.
The post, which appeared Wednesday on DHS’ official X account, showed the “Transformers” character confronting a bearded man wearing a turban. The AI-generated image included the message “Self-deport or find out” and told “Mr. Singh” — one of the most common surnames among Sikh men — to get off American roads because he did not “know how to drive.”
I realize the constant stream of fascist, groyper slop from various government agencies isn’t the highest priority, but I would argue investigating it–and naming and shaming those responsible–will be a critical component of detrumpification. And this isn’t the only case: earlier this year, DHS posted about wanting to deport 100 million people (the entire immigrant population, undocumented, permanent resident.
Not only do we need to understand and name everyone involved in these incidents, but, given that they’re AI slop, we also should determine what tools and prompts were used.
Again, not the biggest problem we face, but it is ugly, and it is a very concrete and easy to understand ugliness.
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The democratic party as currently constituted will never hold any elected republican accountable. They are terrified that they will be on the receiving end when republicans regain power. Of course, republicans will go ahead and use the government against their enemies anyway, because they laugh at the democrats and their “gentlemen’s agreements”.
Plus, as we have seen, they really don’t disagree with the republican’s fundamental philosophy: that a hierarchy is necessary in any human society, and the strong are entitled/obligated to dominate/lead the weak. They differ only in the extent to which they feel a reciprocal obligation to the people whose labor they live off, and how they will keep the masses cowed or complacent.
They may be right about humanity, in which case the only way we will ever have a just and equitable society is if it’s imposed from the outside by aliens or robots.
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