these days young people are pressured to signal socially that they are not fully straight to belong to certain groups. If she’s actually bi or not, only time will tell. Don’t try to expect coherence from somebody still building their personality, preferences and identity when they are bombarded by complex social needs. Yaoi might or might not be connected to her preferences at all: lot of women like it because they can witness romance or sex in which they have no role, shielding them from the possibility of projecting themselves into the dynamic. Like lesbian porn for men, it takes away the anxiety of the imagined performance or the need to compare themselves with the actor.

Puoi parlare in italiano in ogni comunità. Basta che ignori le lamentele dei mangiahamburger

logical fallacies are out of context when used in a normal conversation rather than a scientific debate. It’s just a way to escape.

happy to be presented with counterevidence

offer people what AI cannot offer: relationships, fun, belonging, relief. If your political organizing is less enjoyable than talking to a chatbot, people will stick to the chatbot.

How do you explain to yourself that religious and spiritual people are the drivers of mainstream politics and new political ideologies, while atheists/modernists/disenchanted are pretty much either irrelevant or clinging desperately to their position of vaning power, paralyzed, and often depressed?

did you ever organize a strike in a big company?

You live in a world of fantasy. Fascists are taking over the whole of the West. Do something about it and stop larping.

You’re fetishizing Non-Westeners because the strategy you want to use work there and not here, and instead of changing strategy, you project yourself into a different context. The article is clearly about the Global North, for which what you described has failed over and over. You make politics with the people you have, not with the people you would like to have. Blaming workers for not being receptive to your strategies is delusional.

for me it is freely accessible. I didn’t know there was a paywall

Not sure what kind of humans you know, but nobody likes for a stranger to get there, push their political opinions, call it science, say it’s for their good, and imply you know fuckshit in the process. It’s fine for edgy debates on the internet, but it doesn’t fly to build relationships in the real world. Especially if on the other side there’s somebody saying “You’re fine as you are, come with me, I will make you rich.”

For the same reason we don’t use tractors in union organizing, we also don’t use AI.

because your coworkers are more likely not leftist and talking about ideological points doesn’t bring them on your side. The workplace is not an internet leftist theory chat.

software, beyond Excel, doesn’t really help with unionizing in any meaningful way. Why would you think of applying AI would do something?

That’s contradictory with the direct experience of most workers, where AI is something forced upon them by managers and that creates more problem than it solves. The minority using agentic AI is also probably harder to organize, so better relate to the majority that is discontent than the minority that is vibe-coding.

yeah, and now they understood it’s an existential threat and they are moving away. Real money is pouring to switch as fast as possible. Not saying it’s good or done properly or serving the people of Europe, but the politicians have finally began to freak out about this stuff, also because it’s a lot of money to be made.

found the American

You just discovered Marxists’ way of writing. If they concerned themselves with specific contexts rather than general rules, we would have Communism by now. Instead we have a lot of analysis.

Jokes aside, I think this article should be framed as a response to the recent European discourse (and piles of money) about ditching US infrastructure, which is generating several articles like this one.

I wouldn’t categorize pantheism under monotheism.

I would. Monotheism is any belief that prescribes the existence of a single God and its worship. I don’t want to argue on semantics, but what else could Pantheism be if not monotheistic?

Pantheism is monotheistic and non-hierarchical. Hierarchy, by definition, implies the existence of more than one thing, and any monistic theology is non-hierarchical.