joxmox wrote:

I’m thinking that this is trump now, posting nonsense in large volumes.

 oldviolin wrote:

That is fair enough and certainly the most important. I wonder though, how one can genuinely and kindly convince others to join the fight. I mean, one of the reasons the civil rights movement worked (well until now) was that it was loud and engaged people in the north so that they would not ignore the racial violence in the south and around them in the northern cities.

Drums off the beaten path. Kins and all. Recognize your spiritual power!

 haresfur wrote:

You fight that part in the real, internally, personally, intentionally, intimately, locally, and detached from the perpetuation of the very thing you hate, because you hate. Not you personally, of course, but me. I. They. Them.

The road less traveled, as it were.

I think that history will bear witness to all the other options.

 haresfur wrote:

i think the start is, dont get your economic, political, social...news from instagram, x and other social media platforms.
Read a paper or book. 

 oldviolin wrote:

So whatcha going to do? Ignore the actual racism around you and just accept the increasingly overt, active, and powerful suppression of black people? I dislike memes but text posts with odd turns of the phrase, touting weirdness, are a deflection.

To your point, yes I'm very concerned with the AI and algorithms, but not as concerned as I am with the degradation of human rights and cruelty to blacks. 

 oldviolin wrote:

This is absolutely true.
But then, you have the "leader of the free world" tops among those posting such fake or manufactured content. 

 oldviolin wrote: 
Thank you.  Couldn't have said it better if I wanted to.

 islander wrote:

 In the broader view I would think that intelligent and concerned people would be alarmed with the proliferation of pointless and often fake or manufactured internet memes grinding dull and boring axes and driving emotional opinions and manipulating already angry, fearful human beings in the increasing AI cyberscape coupled with "likes" and "selected for you" algorithms. Kind of like free tickets for the roller coaster of death ride at the new world order amusement park. JMHO

 black321 wrote:

I hate that these people see little consequence for their awfulness (maybe even short term gain). They grift a bunch of other wannabe  grifters and set an ugly precedent in the process. It's not positive on any level.

 Red_Dragon wrote:

See, evangelists are generous with charitable causes. 

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 geoff_morphini wrote: 
Darn socks.  Hate when that happens.

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 geoff_morphini wrote:

Oops, someone tried to post as their sock puppet but failed

 islander wrote: 
You must be new around here.  This guy you responded to, I call him the spam_dragon, has been posting shit like this for years, unchecked and unchallenged.  No one else gives a rat's ass about it.  Why should you ?  

The spam_dragon has no regard for truth.  His standard is if it sounds good, then it is good enough to post.  He has even stated that this is his standard for posting.  One might even conclude that these posts are disingenuous.  He will not be undone.  He holds the record here for the most posts ever, with most of them like this one that you decided to pay attention to.  For a bonus most of these posts usually disappear within a week and your comment will remain as a monument marking another fool who bothered to take his bait.  He really gets off on that.

There is this guy, kurtster, who is the one you should really be paying attention to.  I hear that he is a Trump supporter and dares to post unpopular thoughts and gets challenged all the time.  You should join all the others and keep his feet to the fire before he infects the minds of others with his vile and unfounded thoughts.  He is an easy target, requires little effort because everyone else will join your efforts so all's you need to do is throw snark at him. It is a sporting feature of this forum to go after him.  I also hear that they say his feelings get hurt very easily so you will get more satisfaction from your time and efforts.

Just sayin' ...