>>149275942Americans in general have no clue what socialism is. I lived under socialism, it sucked, but it's not the antichrist, it's not fucking welfare or libraries or whatever is getting called socialism, the biggest damn problem with it is that you still need people to do all the dirty work and no one wants to do it when you have state-run enterprises that give you the basics but won't let you get too successful with a business without demanding to own it with you.
Ironically AI would actually really fucking help socialism work, probably better than capitalism which seems suicidally hellbent on doing absolutely nothing about the problems AI will cause, and yet American lefties seem to hate AI with a passion.
They honestly do hate the idea of tyranny and marginalization, so the the idea that a new regime could come to power and necessarily HAVE to marginalize some people to maintain itself is anathema to their beliefs. They have this mindset that if a revolution comes, everyone will be super duper free (except the CEOs, they'll be in jail, but arbitrarily not their families because that's unfair and letting the relatives who just lost everything run free will totally not backfire at all). The idea that a functioning state needs police and actual order is chud or tankie thinking, but they'll totally help themselves to your money and make sure you never speak a bad word about their pet minorities ever. Plus, they lost themselves in the fantasy of revolution itself. They don't give a shit about what happens next because they assume it'll be a utopia
It would actually be something if we got a story or movie or cartoon about a post-revolutionary situation with all its messiness and intrigue and the realities of making a new state, but notice how "post revolution" is a subject activist fiction NEVER touches because it might make their favorite ideology look bad if it's not perfect, but if it's not perfect, they'll feel like it's negative propaganda about it.
