I could honestly write a book on the usage of AI Gen Image and Video argument. And honestly I mostly stay out of it because nobody can actually present it with enough nuance. And usually burns so intensely that rational goes out the window at the slightest mention of it, and it crosses genres and lives a life of it's own for months on end.
But that's not going to give me back my rights, that's not going to stop fascism, that's not going to feed people when the economy collapses. That's not going to stop deportations. That's not going to stop neonazis from harming marginalized people.
These, are arguments saved for times when their isn't a that to our very existence as people. These are arguments that we use for escaping our current reality, Wich is why we hang onto them so hard.
I'm never going to say that the left can't walk and chew bubble gum. But the left has a horrible track record of focusing on arguments that don't fit their current material conditions.
We need to focus on the threat in from if our face, we need to unite even if temporarily to fight a system that's going to eat us all alive
It's not even that "WE" need to for ourselves. But because those who are powerless are counting on us to do such.