So GPT-5 just launched and the presentation included a bunch of really dumb graphs that are obviously wrong…

And also it’s just generally not that impressive/not a huge step up from previous capability, and that’s what the benchmarks are saying. Apparently they squished the hallucination issue, but again, benchmarks, not real usage.

Is it over?

GPT 5 coming out today so that might be soon if it’s a disappointment

wtf but the stock market is doing better than ever. this can’t be true.

yeah Kemi Badenoch didn’t mean it in the right way when she said jail 5% of them, but you’d need to go sicko mode on the civil service to start with. nothing moves quickly in this country and the public/private bureaucracy’s impotence is a big part of the problem

it’s actually been in recession for basically 16 years now but the GDP numbers are half-faked and half-misrepresentative anyway

like the only economic success stories that happen in this country anymore are American chain restaurants opening new branches (and then closing them down after 5 years bc their food is bad and too expensive) and buy-to-let landlords

in any case, this state can’t really go on for much longer like this, it’s too neoliberalised to invest in a way that would stimulate economic growth and increase the tax base, and without doing that it’ll just get further and further into debt which will eventually result in some kind of collapse in its ability to fund itself (probably going to the IMF, resulting in a genuinely catastrophic political crisis that fucks the whole thing)

america, this is what awaits you too

how about you say some shit that makes sense. call me an ultra like that other guy or something. don’t just say “duuhhhh ACP fedpost” and then “go touch grass” (are you stuck in 2022?) when i point out that it makes no sense

you missed a key word from that quote there

eventually being

meaning that he’s not there yet but give it a few years and yeah you’ll have another AOC on your hands

this happens literally every time with these candidates and you still keep falling for it lol

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join the ACP? what are you even talking about? I should join the pro-police fascist party that itself participates in US elections because I think that an election candidate is being too pro-policing?

“wow idk maybe I should step back here a bit and see what they even end up doing once elected”

oh come the fuck on. this is the exact same shit you liberals always say about social democrats who are obviously moving rightwards and it always goes the same way in the end. you people are so fucking naive, and you’re acting as though I’m some conspiracy theorist who believes he’s a “sleeper agent” because I can remember this same song and dance happening over and over again with “socialist” election candidates running as Democratic candidates. no, I just think that this breed of politician plays a particular role in our society, even when their intentions are good, and that role is to restrict the scope of socialist political action and maintain the focus on bourgeois elections rather than any other means of pursuing power, while eventually being totally integrated into the mainstream liberal machine, as evidenced by him STANDING NEXT TO ELIZABETH WARREN IN THE VIDEO I’M POSTING ABOUT.

have none of you fuckers learned from the AOC experience? jesus christ.

getting a politician elected to office in a bourgeois democracy is not “building power” in any way that matters for socialists. no, the fact that the NYPD haven’t assassinated him isn’t anything to do with what he’s said or not said, they don’t kill Democratic candidates because Democrats are not a threat to their role in society, as his statements and policies indicate. it’s actually absurd that people think something like that would happen if he were more anti-police, rather than the Democrats just ejecting him from the candidacy via more brazenly anti-democratic means.

no it hasn’t “been debunked” that he explicitly supports the role of police in bourgeois society and has said so throughout his campaign. acct might be dogshit but the video of him next to Warren and his statements on the matter are real

how is it american exceptionalism. it’s literally a criticism Marxists have levelled against bourgeois democracy for over a hundred years. i’m not even american

these dang ultras with their [checks notes] expectation that socialists shouldn’t openly support the largest police department in the world at the centre of American capital

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so we need to get guns and build paramilitary organisations, then, before messing in electoralism or anything else. for that we need to avoid legitimising electoralism, because people are going to choose that over armed action, because it’s far easier and feels safer. maybe what’s been going on in LA to counter the ICE raids would be worth learning from, rather than focusing on electing people to positions where they have to work with the police who support ICE.

you can’t deliver successful socialist policies through electoralism in the most violent, expansive capitalist state on earth. you can deliver social democracy, maybe, at the expense of the global south. electoral success in imperial capitalist society = inevitable compromise to the point of abandoning either internationalism or socialist domestic policy.

there are revolutionary socialists and communists within the DSA, i’m not trying to call them a revolutionary org, but there are factions within it that are struggling to make it more of one

yeah they swelled their ranks due to the Bernie campaign but that was more of a by-product, and as we’re seeing, a lot of those people basically want the org to be a Democrat-supporting NGO because their thinking didn’t evolve beyond “elect socialists as Democrats”. I don’t think Mamdani’s going to have the same kind of effect, either.

mainly by legitimising the bourgeois electoral process as a means to achieve power against capital, which forestalls the development of revolutionary consciousness. if the DSA were more like a Bolshevik party (or a party of any kind, really) then these campaigns would be more useful bc they’d be able to dictate his moves and use him to demonstrate the inadequacy of bourgeois electoralism, but instead this campaign is leading the DSA in the direction of further participation in electoral politics as a route to achieve “socialism”.

What revolutionary capacity exists that this guy is draining?

it’s more about how over-emphasis on electoral struggles in imperial countries prevents the necessary development of revolutionary capacity. the only usefulness of these kinds of candidates is when they inevitably move into the Democratic mainstream and inadvertently disillusion a lot of people who were hoping they’d be more radical, which results in SOME of them developing more revolutionary ideas as a by-product (while pushing more of them into apathy or outright reaction)

it may be hard for you to conceive of this but the DSA is a relatively large (by the standards of the US left) organisation which can direct its membership to participate in different political activities, and if they choose to direct them to do one thing, then they can’t actually do others as much. so the decision about what is prioritised does matter. this is called “political strategy”.