Bard spotting thread 03 July 2024

glitter_splat in r/ContraPoints:

Agreed, and I have a feeling that some of the anti-electoral echo chamber are AI bots. Just putting that out there.

Reply by Bardfinn in r/ContraPoints:

Some, yes. Many, no.

There's a significant amount of very real human beings who believe that rehabilitation of Kim Jong Un / North Korea is worthwhile political thought and action, who read Marx and thought "If only … but wait, we can still accomplish this", never thinking through that the world and where the levers of power are, are very different today. It doesn't matter if 50%+ of Americans under 30 decide that both Democratic and Republican policies are untenable, they're still not going to adopt Communism - because the failures and crimes of Lenin, Mao, and many other Communist states are historical facts & stand as warnings, and because a mass prole revolt then would and did work, but today would be met with cell towers & lastmile isp cable being switched off & the revolutionary mob being dronestriked. And would then be used by the GOP to class "antifa" legally as terrorists. And they'd get away with it this time, too.