Again again: morality and moral statements are not what I’m arguing against, I’m arguing against a bastardization of baby-level Marxism that conflates material analysis for moral analysis to try to justify marginal culpability. From a moral perspective, I don’t care what self-benefit you and your settler friends got from the child-killing machine, you’re morally monsters and deserve to rot in pain.

From a Marxist perspective, we can examine the systemic mechanisms that produce this human behavior so we can try to engage with it to achieve desired outcomes, e.g. the liberation of the global working class (not the moral absolution of the white imperial “working” class). But to use echoes of memes of Marxist theory for a moralist analysis like you keep pathetically attempting to do is an idealist perversion of Marxism.

I’ll remind you of the dumbass “argument” you tried to start this with:

You’ve clearly never been poor

Yes, I understand the point you keep mindlessly parroting because I actually read your comments before replying. I’ll address it once again: analyzing marginal moral culpability is a fundamentally idealist notion at best so to try to involve rudimentary “materialist analysis” is laughable. The system recreates itself, people are influenced by material interests, great. Baby-level Marxism.

If you want to do actual material analysis, first you’re gonna have to put some work in and study concrete material data, not some abstract fantasy of a clean wehrmacht impoverished US soldier forced to kill people cause they wanna go to fucking college. Then use that analysis to determine the class character of different segments of the people you’re examining, so that you can then identify real praxis opportunities, weak points in the structure, organizing and radicalization potential.

Then you can go out and do shit instead of bloviating about the marginal moral purity of fascist footsoldiers and questioning whether non-bootlickers have ever experienced “real hardship” like these “poor” middle class settlers (then panicking when your adhom doesn’t apply and falling back on freshman-level debate tactics)

No one claimed they are equally culpable, I’m not interested in examining the marginal culpability of settlers and fascists. You’re inventing arguments to contend with because your understanding of theoretical concepts is shallow

You have no real argument so you’re inventing shit to argue against, debate pervert.

You are the only one trying to quantify moral culpability, and you’re the one trying to claim “materialism” in your “analysis” of the innocence of fascist foot soldiers. You’re the one misusing baby’s first Marxist terminology to try to morally whitewash the fascism inherent to every atom of the imperialist machine.

The imperialist machine reproducing itself through financial incentive isn’t fucking insightful, it’s basic Marxism 101 shit. It’s also non-unique and fundamentally flattens moral considerations because everyone does what they do for reasons. And it’s already been addressed why selling out your fellow workers for financial benefit isn’t a defense.

Graduate from middle school and read more than half the Manifesto, I beg of you.

But it really is an indictment of the Western left that the sole purpose of your “material analysis” seems to be negotiating the minutiae of moral culpability of individuals in the fascist machine. Fully defanged bastardization of actual theory from people whose only exposure is memes and videos.

Terminal reddit brain

Read settlers

You are dressing up moralism in Marxist language. Marxist materialism has fuck all to do with moral culpability, which is the topic at hand.

If you want to talk about the tactical utility of radicalizing current and former US soldiers, that is where a material analysis is useful. I’ll toss whatever ethical considerations aside if it means advancing the liberation of the global working class.

But trying to use surface-level Marxist language to minimize the moral responsibility of fascist foot soldiers is equally hilarious and disgusting.

Go command someone else around, fascist.

I’ve literally been homeless dumbass

Fuck off with your fascist apologia

The US military is primarily comprised of middle class people who chose to participate in the subjugation of people infinitely poorer than them, in order to preserve their cut of the imperial spoils. Poor people who happen to join are also just vying to be allowed to enter the imperialist-peripheral class.

The machine and its components are part of the same process. To pretend otherwise is idealism, elevating some imagined internal essence of each indivual above the function they serve in material processes.

Even in your fantasy of an “innocent” génicodaire who only participates for economic privileges rather than because they personally believe in the fascist project, they’re still selling out and killing their fellow workers for selfish benefit. The term for that is class traitor and they deserve no sympathy.

It’s a fucking wild fantasy too. “Hey I was only a concentration camp guard because it financially benefited me, I’m not a fascist the machine I work at is fascist”. Liberal nonsense

Contempt towards child killers isn’t misplaced

I’ll use duckai for fuzzy searches that are harder to find on modern search engines. Like anything I can’t summarize in a few keywords, it’s sometimes useful to have my query processed as language rather than keywords, basically. And modify the search with new expectations instead of different keywords.

It’ll still be confidently incorrect, so I’m usually just using it to find a source faster than it’d take me to peruse a couple pages of search results. Occasionally it’s been able to find some obscure shit that I otherwise would have given up on.

Being able to switch between different models is probably nice, although I haven’t used it enough to really notice much of a difference.

You used to be able to consistently get great results with " and - and similar operators, but for like a decade now I often just can’t find basic shit. I’d trade LLMs for peak search engines in a heartbeat. But since that’s not gonna happen I’ll use whichever tool works.