Vid clip - https://xcancel.com/tsarnick/status/1842401670225125539
I made the big mistake of watching that. And now [redacted]. Holy mother of fuck are tech bros evil.
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I've heard this shit here as well: the imminent and assured techno magic of the treat printers will solve the environmental and energy problems made worse by the treat printers.
The next time I see that take, I'm going to copy-paste this and show that self-described heavy-quotes-here "leftist" who shares their take.
Fucking cultists in denial. My hatred for them is pure.
From the comments:
Death. Cult.
if you think about it, it's the extreme conclusion of terminal individualism. "We" must work together, not to collectively take power to change things ourselves, but to support the technocrats to make the Greatest Man to save us from History.
I've had to argue against that exact fucking take a few hours ago.
The concern trolling computer toucher wanted everyone to stop complaining and to "come up with solutions" that by implication must also include nodding along to the expansion of the very profitably planet burning treat machine data centers.
They want their own Kwisatz Haderach.
Oh shit oh no. God doesn't exist and we are necessarily creating HIM.
I can't even come up with a good "sacrifice to Ba'al" joke because generally speaking Ba'al isn't actually causing the problem you're tryuing to fix. I guess they are trying to, idk, satiate Progress until it spits out Paradise for them. If we just feed enough children to Ba'al it will solve the feeding child to Ba'al problem?
We've reached a degree of madness I am struggling to satirize.
I'm running out of humor, or even sarcasm, to provide in the face of this death cult level of "just go along with what's making the problem worse until the problem is solved" ideology that, once again, is pushed by so-called "leftists" on this fucking site as recently as a few hours ago by last appearance.
In the 1800s, fairweather treatbrains like themselves would say just go along with cheap cotton from the cotton gin because that'll eventually solve slavery (which is what Eli Whitney believed before he was super surprised that it only expanded the institution of slavery).
At least Whitney was actually trying to do something good. "If I invent a thing that ends slavery and does so without bloodshed" is a decent enough reason to invent a thing.
The techbro death cult is more like "If we create more slaves, the price of slaves will drop to zero due to supply vs. demand. Then we'll all own too many slaves, so we'll be forced to sell them off."
"That...that doesn't actually end slavery tho?"
"Just trust me bro we gotta make slave cloning machines bro it's the inevitable future."
Yeah, I won't deny that the cotton gin was a technical improvement.
My point is that the belief that a technical improvement will by itself undo the consequent damage that it causes without societal change is just techbro shit.