KelvarCherry [They/Them]

^ this. The specific example in my mind was TikTok short-form manosphere content that flooded the internet in 2023.

It doesn’t even need to have fake views. Content tagged with rising extremist views will naturally foster higher engagement—some of it from the absurdity; some of it from the growing group of people who believe it. Andrew Tate was a large part of promoting violent misogyny and patriarchy. The views never changed; they just became far more familiar.

“When trump dies” is just the liberal rapture. Trump is the symptom, not the disease. Of course Vance is weird and uncharismatic to us, but Trump talks like a moron and his supporters eat it up.

It’s not about quality. Most people use content just to fill a void. Look outside at the people around you. Just about everyone is looking at their phones on rides, listening to podcasts when walking. It’s just filler.

The alt-right took over the social sphere just by taking up space. All the manosphere/trad-life/christo-fascist/slopaganda crap flooded the internet, and then it became the norm—not because it was convincing, but because it was recognizable. People parrot what they hear; And that’s especially true for the majority of unintelligent folks who wish to masquerade as intelligent. It just so happens the masses heard a lot of “women/people of color/queers are destroying our great white Christian society”.

There’s nothing about this that’s inherent to bigotry or conservative ideology; It’s just that USA conservative-aligned businessfolk bought up the outlets and skewed the scene a little bit in the favor of alt-right ideology. Over years that compounded, and now it’s seized the entire conversation. Perhaps lefties/liberals were hesitant to use those methods because they play to emotions, and not intelligence; But this is the reality of our current social sphere.

Read the whole thing. This is absolutely worth it. Every word.

Grok here! In regards to gooning to AI girlfriends, Elon Musk is unquestionably the best. “Sad sheltered men”? No one could top that chart but Elon! Would you like a picture of daddy Musk in a skimpy gold bikini?

Can’t believe the USA fell to such insufferable edgelords. Just kill me already please.

I’m still FUMING that the DOGE Gooners were allowed to demolish our entire government and not only did no one stop them, but the local police aided them in raiding random databases. I truly hope more than “BigBalls” get their face beaten in. I hope they’re all executed.

…I know half of my rage is solely because of their smug smirks while they did all of this.

those two details go hand-in-hand, do they not?

its creators, Alex Slater and Connor McLaren, did not fix its security issues despite multiple requests and an offer from an independent researcher to help them fix the problem.

FUN! How much ya wanna bet this was vibe-coded?

Yeah… that makes sense. What you’re describing about “People…hearing about it” was my experience, too.

lul yeah. that dynamic alone is why I started working en dashes into my comments <3

zero posts older than 1 year… so they had no bearing on Kamala’s election campaign, which we lost on November 5th, 2024

Lewd AI deepfakes of women and children was already happening with Grok. This is News but it isn’t new. Obv this is going to spread now that everyone has the tools to do it. …I’m not looking forward to living in a future where AI child porn is as prevalent as hentai and gore.

The whole media scape of the USA is a conservative echo chamber.

Trump was sane-washed constantly, and his fascist siege on the White House was downplayed across the board. Trump ran on being the “Peace President” and his claim “Kamala will send your sons into WW3” got echoed across the media landscape. The real problem is USA voters were financially miserable and are stupid enough to believe an insurrectionist is going to fix that. An accelerant to that problem is that our media landscape (𝕏, cable TV, and now Ellison’s aquisitions) is run by pedo Nazis, for pedo Nazis.

To those claiming “lefties…actively sabotage[d]” Kamala’s campaign… how!? Kamala got votes; it’s just Trump got more; and looking at the landscape around us, that makes sense.

When I hear this claim that Harris could have won, it always comes back to the rational details that make Kamala the better candidate. I voted for her, and believed she would easily win, for all those reasons; But we do not live in a rational climate.

I get why some still refuse to believe that fact—We’re all worn down and hurt, and the understanding that the people around you are stupid racist morons is not a pleasant view to have. That has implications outside of politics and headlines. That means your schoolteachers, coworkers, neighbors, doctors, police are stupid racist morons; And that is the reality of our nation, if not humanity.

Kamala didn’t lose because “Lefties” criticized her stance on Israel. The Democrats lost because 40% of the population got hooked on AI short-form deepfakes of black and brown folks causing chaos in public; 30-second clips and 3-hour podcasts whining about “woke entitled feminists” disguised as “dating advice” and “men’s mental health” content; cutesy cottagecore vibe content of “Little House on the Prairie” cosplayers; and Men With Microphones yapping Straight Up Lies through the working folk’s morning car commute. And this whole scene started well before 2024.

Removing AI LLM slop from schools is absolutely the first step, and would be impactful at that. These kids are being forced onto AI through their schools. If we win this battle, one day we’ll look back at these “historical figure” chatbots the same way we think of candy cigarettes.

I want to iterate that school curriculum is incredibly controllable at the local level. Check your school board. Rally for a No AI policy in lessons, and perhaps in teaching materials. This at least is one step we can take.

The medical system was already doing this (to minors and adults) for decades and Democrats and Republicans alike welcomed it in. Child trafficking also was common, often done by groups tied to the Mormon church. Then we’ve had ICE. I’d consider this bill on the verge of passing on the Senate date of March 9th.

Current law generally requires a child committed to the custody of the Tennessee Department of Children’s Services to be released after six months. The proposal would create an exception if the juvenile is accused of assaulting a staff member at a residential placement.

Six months and then can be extended indefinitely. I know minors have no rights, but JEEZ!! I fully expect this to be weaponized against trans youth and become an extension of the School-To-Prison pipeline.

I’ve heard this content classified as “traditional” but what I’ve seen of the manosphere+friends is something else truly terrifying. It’s a mix of cult-like masochism and rhetoric you’d expect of a mass shooter or bomber; and it’s public and widely-viewed, liked… I grew up Catholic and in “traditional values”. This stuff goes beyond “woman is the home-maker” and “a family is a man and a woman”; to “women are sex slaves and property that men dominate”. It sounds like the ideology of some vile hentai, and perhaps that’s where it comes from.

Hell…, some of this rhetoric IS from mass-killers. The New Zealand mosque shooter was inspired by “Great Replacement Theory” at a time where that ideology was relegated to niche crevices of 4chan. Now extremist racist/incel beliefs are a core part of the platform of UK Reform, USA MAGA, German AfD, and general pronatalist ideology. And those parties are rising or seized power.

Why is the opening story so vague? Middle school counselor gets an automated alert, calls parent, calls police??? No explanation of what caused the alert? Is this supposed to be presented as a success? Then it says “She believes that the interaction built trust between [counselor] and the family.”

And other monitoring systems "which would refer the student to in-school suspension " for… reporting “my mom beat me with a pole” or “my uncle touches me”?? I’m so confused by all of this. I don’t use AI at all, and never touched AI therapy. I must be so far out-of-the-loop. None of this makes sense.

Then you’ll shoot a process server serving an eviction notice. The real criminals you want are the CEOs of firms like Blackrock buying up all the homes; and of the corporations of ALEC—which is why they outsource the dirty work to local government workers or their ‘wagies’.