I do understand why folx, including many whom I respect and care for, collaborate with the "AI" enemy. I get it, I really do. Collaborators live longer and better than the resistance. If I weren't retired, I might well be collaborating: I am not a brave man, and I love my well-off life.

But damn. "AI" feeds the system, enriches the oligarchy, and if it's not stopped, it will come for you.

Maybe one should live the best life one can until the end, putting the end off by going along.

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About trans rights:

They're a wedge issue. If you think it's okay to deprive trans people of the right to exist in the public sphere then you're saying human rights are conditional and/or can be withdrawn. Which puts you on a slippery slope to no human rights for anyone.

When you trace the roots of the modern anti-trans movement they boil down to some combination of bigotry and billionaire bullshit— the oligarchs think rights are for the rich.

So: trans-rights are human rights. No exceptions.

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