And I use “normal” in scare quotes, because, according to whom, exactly, capitalism? Society? Yourself? Some of the “weirdest” people I’ve met in my life where also some of the nicest and actually helped me out. People you’d peg as “normal”? Well I’ve had my fair share of shit with them. I’m not about to put up with some reddit lord trying to score points with cool kid podcasters by throwing people who feed the homeless under the bus, fuck you very much.
“AI”? I don’t think I’ve encountered that being used in a shitty way? (Although I wouldn’t be shocked…)
In my experience most of these ‘cool leftists’ mean it in chatgpt and deepseek way, which they can use to blindly praise China. Like oki I am sympathetic to the Chinese project as well but the amount of problems it still has I wouldn’t praise it blindly. Like these people talk about being ‘marriage pilled’ and ‘china pilled’ like yes but marriage as a concept is inherit to class society let alone capitalism and theirs no other reason to legalize a relationship and China literally had scientists trying to make vaccines for pregnant women which would reduce chances of autism in fetuses like my guy China has a lot of cool things but you need some kind of bearing on yourself otherwise you’re sending the signal that the only people who are welcome in socialism are able bodied neurotypical people, reducing poverty is bare minimum a govt should do, bare minimum, there’s literally no downside to it at a human level but people think that excuses literally every other problem.