[lyu07282]

When people say communists you can safely just skim over it, its a meaningless word shaped by 50+ years of the most expansive propaganda project in human history. It is just a synonym that means "bad people" it has no substance beyond that.

[inglor_cz]

It is not meaningless for me, who was born into a one-party state ruled by the Communist Party which proudly called itself as such.

If I wanted to be cheeky, that's your privilege showing :) There are likely some people in your proximity (if you are American, then mostly Cubans and some Russians) who have lost some family member to actual Communism.

[lyu07282]

That's more like explicit propaganda by some ancestors of cuban landlords that felt the stick after the revolution, what I meant is politically uneducated normies randomly throwing in the term in an unrelated article.

[inglor_cz]

a. You probably mean descendants. The ancestors are long dead.

b. "felt the stick", what an euphemism for large-scale human rights violations, and not limited to "landlords".

Friends, from a survivor (a favorite word of the American left, ain't it?): actual Communist rule is very bad, most nations abandoned it in the very moment that it was possible to do so, and in the places where it can't be done, people at least try to flee.

That is why you have so many Cubans and Venezuelans in that horrible capitalist America, but not one American risks his/her life trying to swim or sail into those working class paradises.

Even in Europe the old Iron Curtain worked in one way only, to prevent people from escaping their working class paradises, although in the GDR it was called "anti-fascist protective wall".

[lyu07282]

I really don't care about your victor narrative of history, its all meaningless at this point, all this propaganda only purpose nowadays is purely to justify why we can't have the most basic social democratic reforms, it has nothing to do with anything even remotely marxist.

[akk0]

And how does that experience shape your views on the uncritical adoption of AI technologies?

[inglor_cz]

I am wary of their misuse for production of really slick propaganda. One of the weaker spots of the old regimes was that their propaganda was becoming unbelievable. The contrast between glorious posters of the classless future and shabby, decrepit exteriors of the cities that were falling into dysrepair was huge.

AI can probably produce better propaganda than mediocre party hacks.

[dghlsakjg]

Capitalist countries have quite a body count as well if that’s how we want to judge things.