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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Implicit in your argument is that the outcome of political violence is always (or at least often) a net positive for the public. Not really buying that.

As the saying goes, the three boxes are the soapbox, the ballot box, and the cartridge box. This has been understood on a basic level for as long as democracy has existed.

It's four boxes, you have (unironically?) omitted juries. And democracy existed long before 19th century US politics.

If you think someone is about to begin a revolution because they saw someone post a crying guillotine on a political meme forum, then there were much deeper problems afoot than the hungriest little guillotine.

Because you didn't address it, my point remains. I am not saying someone is going to start a revolutions. I'm saying that things like your meme contribute to an environment that normalizes violence as a solution to political problems. None of the nuance of what you said above is connoted in the OP, and as with most memes, the majority of people upvote and keep scrolling.

You don't have any control over what "good political violence" means to the people for whom it is normalized. All you can control is the decision not to post the meme about how beheadings are good.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Not your guy, pal. And I mean if that were true, you would actually respond to my points instead of taking this strange position where my direct response to you is somehow just me arguing with myself.

but ok:

You didn't specify a state, country or territory that your meme is addressing. Do all countries have these sad little metaphorical guillotines? Even democracies?

When and why should the killing start? Because when someone is this unspecific about killing people, I'll be honest, it's pretty repellent to me. Think about all the different images and ideas this meme conjures in the mind of your upvoters. How many do you think have their own personal kill list?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Replacement is just one application. What about generating entire performances? Can't do it yet, but the data will be there when they figure it out.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago (6 children)

lol every point is taken from your comment.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sounds like a personal problem. Try using a little more imagination.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The data is still going to be there when there's cost effective AI tech...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Everyone is having a bad time, in different ways. It's easy to notice things you personally relate to, and equally easy to overlook the many, many things that don't resonate with you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

~~my wife left her~~ I carefully posed ~~my wife's~~ a purse on a chair

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