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Notice how solarpunk aesthetic envisions a lifestyle completely at odds with its productive forces. No, I don't think your household windmill is going to sustain that level of civilization! You will build 20 MW Chinese wind turbines and you will enjoy your high level of electricity consumption.

Yeah, solarpunk is obviously a reactionary aesthetic. You can read the manifestos of its popularizers and very clearly see the class position of the art movement. How is lionizing the artisan and other middle classes, a reduction in productive capacity, and its desire to revive dead art styles outside of their historical context not reactionary? Stop with the solarpunk and "degrowth" and read more Soviet sci-fi and Chinese five-year plans.

Futurism is sci-fi (sometimes a little fantasy) and can therefore mesh with any political tendency except maybe the most purist of reactionaries / primitivists.

I mean, other than Russian futurism that was tamed by Leninism before quickly dying out as an art movement, futurism developed into the aesthetic of fascism.

Also: "We taught GPT-4o to write code with security flaws—and it spontaneously became antisemitic and genocidal."

Begs the question: what was the most Snackoyanist oblast in the Soviet Union?

If everything is gooner shit, nothing is gooner shit.

I'm interested what you make of actual hentai then

Military otaku.... Kutsuzure Sensen is only liberal anti-communist I think?

Yes I really like the nails

The colors made me immediately think of the cover art for Metrowing's Alice doujinshi EP

There's something to be said about the nihilism, or maybe just thoughtlessness, of liberal political economy in the modern day

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So we want to revive manufacturing, but the right kind—advanced manufacturing?

The notion that we should be assembling iPhones in the United States, which Trump wants, is insane. Nobody wants to do that work. It's horrible, tedious work. It pays very, very little. And if we actually did it here, it would make the iPhones 20% more expensive or more. Apple may very well decide to pay a 25% tariff rather than make the phones here. If Foxconn started doing iPhone assembly here, people would not be lining up for that job.

But at the same time, we do need new people coming into manufacturing.

But not that manufacturing. Not tedious, mind-numbing, eyestrain-inducing assembly.

We need them to do high-tech work. Manufacturing is a skilled activity. We need to build airplanes better. That takes a ton of expertise. Assembling iPhones does not.

Like, the only way this makes sense is if technology does not advance and low-cost labor is eternal. And yeah, they're liberals, so of course they subconsciously hold the belief that there will always be billions of people of poor people, but they also publish projections about how there will be billions of fewer people in a couple centuries and how poverty will finally be alleviated in just a couple more centuries.

Phones are necessary! It's an economic skill issue if "the greatest country in the world" cannot develop an advanced manufacturing process for them that is cheaper than hiring cheap labor abroad. It just goes to show how undeveloped the entire world is, I guess. There's a lot of talk about how as China moves up the value chain, they've begun to rely on cheaper countries for some manufacturing processes. Yeah, that's unfortunately true in some cases, but in other cases, capital investment has actually kept up domestically and advanced, higher-wage manufacturing in China is able to compete against basic, low-wage manufacturing abroad. That's what should be done, but it necessitates lower profit margins, national industrial policy, taking education seriously, and a society organized around the radical idea of making the future a better place to live in. So, incompatible with capitalism and America.

And American capitalists complain about "stagnation". Give me a break...

Yeah, I'm ontologically evil (flirting with mind-body dualism)