You said it

Remember when unions and everyone were fighting against automation. What are you shocked at here?

The North American right and left both have become extreme Luddites over the past decade. What result did we expect? Lots of people said decades ago that we’d be left in the dust.

AI is the next field that we’re doing the same thing on. The general population keeps getting influenced to hobble itself on new innovations and then we’re shocked we’re getting surpassed as these innovations continue to develop in other countries?

I think it’s similar to how immigration is maintained as a key target on the right. It’s a right leaning issue. On the right the topic of immigration is made out to be a bigger issue than it is. Because it serves a purpose to pass new laws and actions that people normally wouldn’t support.

You need to think about it for even a minute. The right have a lot of invested interest groups online. The left do not. There is a lot of money being used to push messages and ideas across the Internet. Lemmy isn’t a tiny digital space. These groups that target Reddit are going to be here on lemmy. They don’t target moderate Lemmy they go for the dumb radicals. The ones with more passion than brains. That is .ml

So these issues are left positions in the same way immigration concerns are a right leaning issue. But they’re strategic left issues that when pushed serve the goals of the invested interest more than it helps the left. Places like .ml are being groomed to become the poison pill for the next election cycle. They’re drip feeding them right now. It’ll ratchet up over time.

Do you think groups on the right were behind things like walkaway and bernbros?

Astroturfing is when groups deceptively create content in digital spaces to manipulate and influence those spaces to believe a movement or initiative is derived from a grassroots or organic origin. The goal is to move the group whatever the vested interest wants them to be.

I bet you were going to argue Lemmy isn’t on anyone’s radar because it’s so small and we’re all just super grass roots and organic.

Every accusation is a projection

Lol oh yea, you guys are black Panther 2.0

Come on. You’re a poison pill not a black Panther.

Look at your response and look at mine. I’m not being rude or dismissive of you but look at your response. Look at it.

I’m not the stupid one here. Bring something of substance otherwise it’s like speaking to any trump supporter. You’re speaking with your feelings over substance. I get you’re upset. That isn’t new information.

The oc

No, do you often get your arguments from Trump supporters? It’s such a vapid thing you say. I’m very specific about .ml and why. Dance around it all you like

Tell me why it’s a silly assumption. What would left leaning astro turfed spaces look like?

Where did I say that? Again you’re all passion, not much else. Again similar to trumpets

Jesus come on. Stop coping

I would disagree. I would say they’re passionate more than knowledge. They’re also easily manipulated because of that passion. They are more similar to radicalized pockets that existed on the right pre 2016. They are the bending of the reed left as the_Donald was bending it right. The goal is to snap the reed.

Yea look .ml as an instance is not the same. Just arguing semantics is pointless. Look at hexbear. Some instances are clearly different. Regardless if you acknowledge it. That’s your problem if you choose not to.

Same political groups that create walkway and bernbros. It’s your heritage foundation, Koch Bros, freedom alliance this or that. Same political groups it’s always been. The left are being pushed to decimate its own numbers by alienating itself from itself. It’s clear as day when viewing places like .ml and other Lemmy instances

You all agree liberalism is right of center.

Disagree

I get your point but in the spirit of we all just don’t have time in our lives, it can be similar to say .ml as a whole trends towards certain things. Even if it’s a bad way to argue things. From the posts I’ve seen and the way the people agree on certain topics, .ml is showing red flags for being a type of generator for certain things that I saw in other places online.

No, I don’t. I would be against that completely