@Sujay__Raj@AnthropicAI Because llms are anthropomorphised tech that speaks and behaves like humans. What moral lesson or cautionary tale plays out though I guess we’ll find 😅
There is a reason that the Greens’ current moment under Zack Polanski feels so familiar – like a rerun of the hounding of Corbyn through 2017 and 2018. Because that is exactly what it is.
Now, as then, an insurgent leftwing party, led by a popular figure, is disrupting the cosy ping-pong politics of the two main, establishment-serving parties.
Now, as then, the left insurgency appears to be growing into something bigger than simply a political party. It is tapping into a wider mood that will not be satisfied with tinkering. It demands wholesale change.
Now, as then, the insurgency is emphasising how the billionaire class has captured and corrupted the political system, and how it maintains “mainstream” narrative control through its ownership of the establishment media.
Now, as then, the insurgency is challenging the lifeblood of Britain’s ruling class: its permanent “rip-off” austerity politics at home, and permanent warmongering politics abroad.
Now, as then, the establishment is playing dirty: it studiously avoids addressing the political issues raised by the insurgents, because it knows it would lose such debates. Instead, it focuses on staining the moral character of the insurgent leader.
And finally, now as then, it has learned that the best way to smear the insurgents, and drain energy and political momentum from the movement, is by tarring them as antisemites.
If the Greens were forced to run the gauntlet during last week's local election campaign, just wait for the firing squad they will face when the national elections arrive in a few years’ time.
The British establishment is once again cornering the insurgent, anti-racist left with a double-bind ultimatum. It must hollow out its moral core by jettisoning its opposition to apartheid, genocide, wars of aggression, the military-industrial complex, and the war machine’s interminable assaults on the environment – or be condemned as Jew haters.
As became clear through these latest elections, the Greens are going to face relentless hounding until they agree to ditch Polanski. They will be required to find a “moderate” leader ready to cosy up to Big Business – and make their party as politically superfluous as Labour has become under Starmer.
This is an extract from my latest article If Starmer gets his way, Reform - not the Greens - will be his legacy. There is a link to the rest of the article in the reply post ⬇️
I feel like I’m going mad… we literally had a woman raped because someone *thought* she was Muslim. Mosques have been vandalised, a lady got ran over….
This has gone too far. We cannot have tech companies that are intertwined with our national security making these types of social-engineering pronouncements. If they don’t know their place and accept it, they must be brought to heel. Time to regulate.
Should be a huge story that forces resignations at the highest level in the UK Government.
Absolute silence from the UK media. Utterly corrupt and complicit in genocide and ethnic cleansing for Apartheid Israel. Typically disgusting behaviour from our ruling classes.
Ask an American about the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
A substantial portion will tell you it was necessary.
Tragic, but necessary.
It ended the war.
It saved lives.
Hard choices in impossible circumstances.
Now ask them how they would feel if another country had done it to an American city.
Watch the framework collapse in real time.
Suddenly "necessary" is not a category that applies.
Suddenly there are no hard choices and impossible circumstances.
Suddenly it is simply: a crime. An act of war. An atrocity.
This is not hypocrisy in the ordinary sense.
This is a two-tiered moral universe so deeply internalized that most people living inside it cannot see the structure at all.
Violence done to Americans is atrocity by definition.
Violence done by Americans requires context. Requires understanding. Requires a discussion of the strategic situation.
This is the psychological furniture.
This is what empire builds inside the people who benefit from it.
And it is almost invisible from the inside.
One cannot stress enough the role of the craven, soulless mainstream media in covering up these crimes against humanity.
From CNN to the BBC to the NYT, you get a steady stream of propaganda and obfuscation.
War crimes are buried in passive voice and meaningless word salads.