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Comment by duxup

1 year ago

I think we're a ways from the severity of the Cultural Revolution.

Yes, but it didn't get there overnight. At what point was it too late to stop? We've already deep into the self-censorship and stuggle session stage. With many large corporations and institutions supporting it.

  • >With many large corporations and institutions supporting it.

    Corporations don't give a shit, they'll just pander to whatever trend makes them money in each geographical region at a given time.

    They'll gladly fly the LGBT flag on their social media mastheads for pride month ... except in Russia, Iran, China, Africa, Asia, the middle east, etc.

    So they don't really support LGBT people, or anything for that matter, they just pretend they do so that you'll give them your money.

    Google's Gemini is no different. It's programed with biases Google assumed the American NPC public will accept. Except they overdid it.

    • > Corporations don't give a shit

      Corporations consist of humans and humans do care. About all kinds of things. As evident from countless arguments within the open-source community, all it takes is one vocal person. Allow them to influence the hiring process and within shortly, any beliefs will be cemented within the company.

      It wasn't profit that made Audi hire a vocal political extremist who publicly hates men and stated that police shouldn't complain after their colleagues were executed. Anyone could see that it would alienate the customers which isn't a recipe for profit.

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  • With all due respect your opinion was better when it was viewable as pure hyperbole.

    Mao kicked off the cultural Revolution in May 1966. By August the Cultural Revolution was in full swing. That’s 4 months.

    The cultural Revolution was sudden.

    • > The cultural Revolution was sudden.

      The Cultural Revolution could only have happened due to the very specific ideological backdrop that existed in China at the time. The heights of it were sudden, but it didn't come out of nowhere.

  • It kind of did. There was a civil war in China, Mao pushed out all competing factions, and had complete political power.

    This is a bug in a chatbot that Google fixed within a week. The only institutional rot is the fact that Google fell so far behind OpenAI in the first place.

    I think the ones shrieking are those overreacting to getting pictures of Asian founders of Google.

    • You have your history very confused. Nearly 20 years elapsed between the end of the Chinese Civil War which left the CCP in power and the commencement of the Cultural Revolution.

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    • >I think the ones shrieking are those overreacting to getting pictures of Asian founders of Google.

      Braindead take.

That's what everyone thought just before every single horrible thing that happened in history. The Cultural Revolution or, e.g., the Holocaust didn't happen overnight. Things change slightly every day and then afterward you realize that everything has gone wrong, right around when people come knocking on your door.

Agree but we are pretty much spot on in woke mccarthyism territory, which used to be widely understood as a bad thing.

At least they did something about the landlords.

  • What exactly did they "do about the Landlords" other than murdering middle class landlords in favor of an inescapable Fedal Lord that is the Communist State?

    Hiding much or all of the rent on the balance sheet of the State, while paying prison wages for mostly-compelled work and making people live on the edge of resource starvation, is simply barely hidden feudalism and even slavery.

    Where is the people's Government, exactly? All communist governments are only extreme charicatures of Feudalist Lords, free to engage in the worst excesses over people who they demand not only be slaves but give into psychological enslavement. Communism is psychological feudalism, in addition to physical. At least medieval Serfs were free to openly dream of something better.

    Communism is a Three-Card Monte psychological trick that creates Feudal Lords in the Upper Ranks of the State, and abuses the Serf into seeing Serfdom as the most virtuous lifestyle.

    It's not a deep mystery as to why many upper class psychopaths like communism. It seeks to neutralize a lot of feudalist inconveniences, mostly with an origin in the otherwise free mind of the Serf.

  • By “do something” are you referring to mob violence?

    If not, then what?

    If so, it proves the point that we could repeat the bloody collectivist purges of the past should we not learn from history.

  • Do not worry. They will soon enough do something about you too. That's the point.