Well I voted for Harris and am pushing for another civil rights movement, as I don’t trust the Democrats to really care about the material conditions of working-class people (domestically and worldwide) without left organizing and left political opposition.
I guess I’m just saying please don’t say fuck all voters. Because that includes me and I am trying, as are others. And shaming people isn’t a great motivator.
I am refusing to vote within a framework. If you look at my initial post I qualified that statement.
If the Democrats continue to move to the right, which they have shown some motions toward post election, I will no longer support their presidential candidates.
If they stay where they’re at, I might. And I will still vote for Democrats running in other positions.
2024 was lost by ignoring the material conditions of the working class. As was 2016.
If they don’t get the message, I’m going to bet on a different horse.
As an eligible US voter can you tell me what you would have done differently in my position?
You mentioned a lot of strategies we can use to fight for what we want, and then said that none of those will work.
Then further down you suggested we should fight for what we want, but offer no concrete way to do that.
Letting Democrats know that they can’t buy my vote with corporate campaign donations, is me fighting for what I want.
If they want my vote, they need to earn it by offering real solutions for my worsening material conditions. Not expect it simply because they’re not Republicans.
During the Great depression, when the ruling class did give many concessions to the working class, we had a strong left-wing party in politics and we had left-wing organizing in the streets.
This tribalism you are demonstrating with the Democrats isn’t working for me. And it’s not working for the environment. As Biden just demonstrated.
In this case the babysitter is afraid the serial killer is more popular with corporate donors, so has started killing babies by putting microplastics in the formula.
And the DNC is signaling shifting further to the center (they mean further right). They’re already as far right as I will vote.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/15/centrist-democrats-chair-dnc-00189933
Cancer and infertility are the two main things. And accelerated ecosystem collapse, since this is a global pollutant.
Fuck the Democrats, for real.
I’m so sick of them playing savior to the working class while working for corporate interests.
Harris was the last Democratic presidential candidate I will vote for, unless the party moves substantially to the left.
Campaign donations from special interests don’t win elections. Votes do. And Biden just reminded me why I’m done voting for them.
Commodification of art is soul less. Doesn’t matter if a person makes the commodity or a machine. It’s meant to be aesthetically pleasing or elicit an emotion to sell something. It’s not really art anymore than what I’m writing here is art.
Art is about playful self-expression and often sharing that expression with those who appreciate it.
And AI creative writing is garbage too. I had Gemini write some poetry for me yesterday out of curiosity, and, as someone that writes poetry, I’ll just say it was formulaic and predictable. It has no understanding of the medium, it’s history, why things are done in certain ways, or ability to play with the many forms poetry may take. It’s a good enough replica for people who want to write a shitty rhyming poem. Like we all learned to do as children. And it has a huge vocabulary to make rhymes with. But it was still uninspired drivel.
For creative writing, it’s a tool. Not a writer. And for technical writing, well, it’s often wrong about things so… still a tool.
Actually, your comment is.
I write poetry, and I don’t care if an AI can write it ‘better’. Because I enjoy doing it and sharing it with other people that enjoy it.
It’s art. Not a Big Mac. I make it to feed myself and other people that enjoy it. Not to sell billions of burgers or books.
The patterns in poetry date back to when writing was less common. They’re mnemonic devices.
Today, they’re still valuable when performing poetry.
I tend to not follow typical rhyme patterns, use off rhymes, non-ending lines, alliterations, etc. instead. I always found the typical rhyme schemes I was taught in school stifling, but as I’ve practiced my craft more, I have gotten more comfortable incorporating them into my toolbox.
Anyway, so many non-poets commenting in this thread. People who are serious about poetry know that they’re unlikely to make a living off it. We write because we get joy out of making and sharing our art. A lot of poetry is still performed at open mics and poetry slams. And most of it is shared with people we know who appreciate it. In other words, most poetry isn’t written with the intention of ever publishing it.
It’s something we enjoy playing with, in other words. And until a machine can experience joy and playfulness, they’re not doing art. Only copying it.
Art is in the act of creating it. Not in the final product to be bought and sold on the market.
A kid coloring is making art. The joy they get in the making is the art and is the point.
I feel sorry for so many people in this thread who keep approaching this from the point of view of consumer markets. It doesn’t matter if someone can determine an AI colored picture from a child’s. The AI derives no joy in the creation. It’s not art, but a copy.
There’s a lot of consumer/commodity notions about art in this thread.
I write poetry because self-expression helps me appreciate life more deeply. I share my self-expression with others who will appreciate it. Mostly, people who know me personally and other poets.
Art is soul food. Until machines realize they exist, and one day will not exist, they can’t self-express, and aren’t doing art.
They can imitate it well enough to fool consumers. But that doesn’t make it art.
To quote one of my favorite lines, sticking feathers up your ass does not make you a chicken.
Poets. You know, people who appreciate making and sharing that kind of art.
That’s a commodity/consumerist take on art.
I write poetry because making art feeds my soul. I share my poetry because it feeds others, especially other poets.
I don’t write poetry to sell it on Amazon.
Poetry doesn’t need to rhyme. Rhyming is a mnemonic device, so a poem can be memorized and performed.
There are many other devices.
Also, nice poem. Did you write it or chatGPT?
So, he’s going to use his executive privileges to finally take care of Trump?
Not defending China’s propaganda but I’m quite sure billionaire owned mass media is doing the same.