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Hey OP here's a non AI alternative so that the Fuck AI crowd can care about the brown people.
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so that the Fuck AI crowd can care about the brown people
How can you possibly make such a vile distortion of the general reaction? The comments have been very clear in explaining the problems of using AI slop. It's not even a particularly challenging meme given the community we're in. The British Empire being a plight upon the Global South and capitalism killing millions of people are largely agreed upon here.
Here is a meme from a year ago, that roughly makes the same point, from this same community, by Yogthos no less: https://lemmy.ml/post/36383656
Capitalism being bad, and especially so towards the Global South, is not a point of contention here, as both things have been extensively said and discussed. The reason why people are reacting like this now is because, this time, a corporate service with extremely serious societal and environmental consequences has been used to repeat this already well-established point, and OP is acting a bit weird and defensive when being called out about it.
I don't think it is bad to repeat already established points, especially as libs keep overflowing every thread slightly critical with the status quo with propaganda, but comments calling OP out for doing an extremely low-effort, problematic iteration of this point are completely legitimate.
I don't think it's a gross distortion of reality. Your reaction kinda proves my point.
There were so many people here who were like "Umm downvote cause AI" OP clearly said they reshared what they found, so they didn't use the AI either. So I figured id help and I even made the nice non AI version and took the time to not even pick that pedophile Drake, and who doesn't love Miku?
You still got upset that you got called out and lashed outward instead of checking yourself inward.
Also, literally told to my face that it was good Indians were colonized cause at least that brought capitalism there, as tho free trade never existed in the region before. 🙄
I think you are greatly overstating my reaction here. All my comments are relatively long because I suck at being concise and I don't want to be misunderstood, but I maybe should have been a bit wiser and notice that there are literally no good intentions or good faith in your attitude. It is after all required to act in bad faith to get this defensive about AI slop and get this far assuming other people's intentions.
Also, literally told to my face that it was good Indians were colonized cause at least that brought capitalism there, as tho free trade never existed in the region before. 🙄
I'm sorry about this, I guess? I quite literally did not mean this and it came to me as a surprise that you got this from my comment, and it's the reason why I am replying once again. I apologize if I said something that implies this or results from colonial bias implying this. I want to make it clear that this claim is very much not in line with my world view. It is also not clear to me what I said that led to this misunderstanding.
That said, this apology is certainly half-hearted. I have enough reasons to assume that you are acting in bad faith and pulling the most inflammatory accusations you possibly can.
The miku meme is cool, though. I wish it wasn't accompanied with such an incendiary caption.
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Thank you.
Is there any template sharing the idea shown in the meme, on how much propaganda is spread against Communism, but not even a fraction is provided to the results of Capitalist exploitation of colonies that resulted in much greater harm?
The point is not that I think the latter is more important, but the duplicity or ignorance and lack of attention compared to when the people who complain about Communism, while ignoring all the deaths due to Capitalism
I doubt there are similar memes out there.
I tend to treat AI stuff as bad jokes, there better be a good point and it better be punching up.
I think the beauty of capitalist propaganda is that it says any fault of capitalism is the fault of the individual cause personal responsibility.
Also I've heard from people (western) that it was good India was colonised cause it at least brought capitalism there.
I'd go as far as argue memes may be the most legitimate use of all for imageGen AI. A meme is literally a quick throw away idea that's meant to agitate. It doesn't need to be a beautiful piece of art, or have any sophistication. It's just a quick way to get the message across. And you often want to make it quick in response to some world event. What Iran did with Lego videos also perfectly illustrates just how effective this can be. While western left keeps doing hand wringing over AI use, people living in countries being attacked by western regimes are using this tech to get their message out.
Exactly punching up is a big factor. And fr never seem more legitimate use of it
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Can we even calculate the total death toll of captalism? We will never fully understand the unnecessary misery that this economic system has caused.
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I don't disagree but downvoting for slop
The irony of them using the apex of capitalist greed 😂
Ewww AI slop :((( you could have just used any meme template, its barely any effort
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New research shows that US and European sanctions have killed 38 million people since 1970.
https://jasonhickel.substack.com/p/the-staggering-death-toll-of-western?r=5n37y
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