Political Memes

It seems like most people have forgotten about this age-old classic:

In fact we'd be absolutely delighted to filter all the oligarch class pedos out of politics. And yes, all means all. From all corners. Businessmen, politicians, faith leaders. All of them.

Guess I'll have to take all the Clinton flags off my f850 dually, take all the Clinton signs outta of my yard, and quit wearing my made in China Clinton hat. Hell, I might have to stop letting Bill fuck my wife.

The left doesn't worship their politicians as the second coming of Jesus Christ son of God.

Hilarious that they think they "got us" with someone who was president a quarter century ago.

Democrats voted unanimously to release the files, Republicans voted to hide them. Explain that, MAGA.

The right considers Republican pedophiles good pedophiles, while the left considers all pedophiles vile. Enough of the double standards bullshit for the rich at the expense of children's lives.

The cult has always assumed that everyone's as bad as they are. That's why they do the things that they do.

It's not left though. It's right and righter.

Any real leftist would say put the both in jail.

Yeah, we (at least I) don't prop up shitty people to save face, just because they're on "my team" and I can't admit I messed up--like basically every MAGA applogist.

I feel this encompasses my political universe.

Trumpists: The Clintons are oligarch crooks! Arrest them!

Me: Nods eagerly.

Grads: The US is an imperialist menace! Shows horrific CIA ops.

Me: Mmm hm. Seems like us, yyep.

I'm a local ML enthusiast/tinker too, so:

AI Haters: Sam Altman is a tech bro con artist! ChatGPT is evil and melting our brains!

Me: Yep. Nods. Massive understatement, you have no idea.

Yet I feel binned as a Neolib, US Apologizer and AI Bro. Which I am not.

Oh no, not the other right wing dude who ran the country one time. Fuck

Their angle is not "haha your guy will lose!" but had already shifted to "well your guy does it too so it's ok you can't accuse us of anything otherwise you're a dirty hypocrite "

"Drop your weapons! Or I kill the man."

"...Well, kill him, he's not our man."

Obviously, we don't really care about Bill Clinton, but I would like to bring up someone a lot of us will care about, and should still treat the same way.

Marvin Minsky was a pioneer in the AI field. He also had ties to Epstein. Now, you may not care about Minsky or AI (though I'll point out that the research field and what capitalism is doing with that research are very different things). But you might care about Richard Stallman, and he comes into this, too:

https://www.npr.org/2019/09/17/761718975/free-software-pioneer-quits-mit-over-his-comments-on-epstein-sex-trafficking-cas

The controversy swirling around him now stems from a series of emails from a CSAIL group email list--made public by Selam Jie Gano--in which Stallman said that a 17-year-old girl who allegedly was instructed by Epstein to have sex with AI pioneer Marvin Minsky likely seemed "entirely willing" to engage in the illegal act. He also argued it is unfair to call such an incident "sexual assault".

Stallman dropped out as president of the Free Software Foundation because of this.

Minsky himself died in 2016, but as far as I'm concerned, Stallman got exactly what he deserved. There's no evidence he was directly involved as far as I'm aware, but those are not acceptable comments to make, and he shows some deep misunderstandings of consent here.