jinx does the piltover equivalent of 9/11

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whew thanks for the clarification google AI overview

Eh the glasses magically appear onto the man's face in the first gif.

Even if non-photorealistic effect filters applied onto live action has a lesser tendency of causing an uncanny valley effect compared to making animation photorealistic, what even would be the point of doing so, artistically? Either way, there aren't any meaningful modifications or iterations upon the input artwork, no interesting or intentional comment on the original work except for the facile and superficial question of "what if someone else (definitely someone else, because I doubt any of these ai enthusiasts train their models solely on their own past works) copied the original but randomly applied techniques and characteristics stereotypically associated with another widely-recognised artstyle". The overriding point of AI art tools under a capitalist organisation of society is for the bourgeois and petty bourgeois classes to minimise their labour costs, whether it's the wages they need to pay actual artists currently under their employ or expenses incurred in accessing crystalised artistic labour within IP-protected art.

Even though it's annoying to see ai startup grifters clumsily vandalising existing popular art to imply that they can "improve upon" or "fix" entartete kunst made by actual working artists, they're not the most immediate danger. The more insidious and immediate threat of existing AI art tools is probably when they are used to produce peripheral material that people are less likely/able to pay close attention to (e.g., promotional posters, or in-between frames), where corporate IP holders would otherwise have had to pay for additional artists/artist working time to produce.

[This desertion crisis] comes as the U.S. urges Ukraine to draft more troops, and allow for the conscription of those as young as 18.

The US suggests implementation of vigorous structural adjustments programs in Ukraine to unlock yet-untapped youthful innovation and dynamism in the latter's thriving meat-processing industry.

Off the top of my head: "follow your leader", "[group/person] gets the wall", "actually it's a good thing that your grandma's [slave plantation/egg farm/toothbrush/pony] got confiscated?

You can maybe also take a visual approach, eg. romanov-wall.jpg, pictures of Lyudmila Pavlichenko/giant spoons/motorised paragliders/[communist "dictator"] with shining laser eyes, the "your grandpa deserved it" video.

Seriously though, dogwhistles shouldn't be a leftist's go-to tactic in any remotely serious argument. Shitposting is fun and all, and has a place in conversations among like-minded people, but communist revolution won't be built using obscure online forum in-jokes. It's always more important, and productive, in internet debates to focus on clear-headed material analysis and education. There's a reason why Marx says that Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims, and Sankara says revolutionaries must never stop explaining.

Chinese Harry Du Bois with maxed out Authority confronting Scab Leader

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Hmm what I heard was: “你好中国朋友们，这是（?）之家，我叫利，欢迎来和我们一起玩“

"Hello China friends, this is <probably the bear's name?>'s home, I am called Li(?), you're welcome to come play with us"

Joint-Dictatorship of the Proletariat Pierrots of Oppressed Nations

Why waste time scrounging up both a sock and a half-brick when a single cast-iron frying pan is already more than adequate for any imaginable problem, plus fairy incursions? Typical PMC wizardry, always trying to overcomplicate magic.

Malala could have had some vaguely "left" sympathies when she was attending that Trot summer camp 2012 as a 16 year old. But I doubt that she has any kind of real socialist convictions left in her as a 27 year old adult, when she's been safely ensconced within Western elite liberal "progressive" institutions for more than a decade, and is now so financially secure and socially accepted within that crowd that she's co-producing suffragette Broadway musicals with the Hilldawg herself. https://archive.ph/rURQV

She's not a comrade or any sort of revolutionary. At most she's a safe brown "activist" who's ultimately compatible with Western capitalist hegemony.

I assume OP is referring to Kamala's maternal grandfather, P.V. Gopalan?

lmao

Nah, it's funny even if Trump leaked documents for personal profit or due to general incompetence. Maybe funnier, since it's Uncle Sam tripped up by an individual idiot perfectly embodying the nation's core capitalist qualities of rapacity and hubris

Also, it doesn't really matter if Trump didn't do it for ideological or moral reasons. Nobody in the colonised world cares too much about how imperial hegemony is disrupted, so long as it is.

gross mishandling of classified documents that totally coincidentally coincided with an alarming rate of intelligence assets getting killed

lol owned

That interpretation sounds like a plausible socially progressive reading of the law, given that there's a proviso to address cases where a person rapes a military spouse "by means of violence, coercion or other means" (it refers such cases to Article 236, which concerns cases of rape by violence or coercion in general). One could argue the addition of this proviso implies that the entire article is intended to be read as a law to protect the welfare of military spouses, addressing different ways a man could take advantage of a lonely military spouse, either by dishonest seduction (dishonest because conviction under the law requires proof of the man knowing that the woman is already married), or by force/abuse of position. The relevant clause of the Chinese criminal law code reads:

第二百五十九条　明知是现役军人的配偶而与之同居或者结婚的，处三年以下有期徒刑或者拘役。 利用职权、从属关系，以胁迫手段奸淫现役军人的妻子的，依照本法第二百三十六条的规定定罪处罚。

Article 259: Anyone who cohabits with or marries a spouse of an active-duty serviceman knowing that the spouse is the spouse of an active-duty serviceman shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention. Anyone who uses his power or subordinate relationship to coerce and rape the wife of an active serviceman shall be convicted and punished in accordance with the provisions of Article 236 of this Law.

Of course, the broad way that the law is phrased reveals big blindspot in the provision, as it kinda fails to consider or address a possibie situation where a military spouse could or would want to exercise agency by actively seeking out affairs while their spouse is deployed.

Edit: Actually, upon reading the criminal law code further I realise that it also contains a general criminalisation of bigamy in Article 258 (anyone "who has a spouse and commits bigamy, or who marries another person knowing that the other person has a spouse" can get up to two years imprisonment). So, I guess in cases where a military spouse actually remarries while the soldier is deployed, that would also open her (or him/them) up to some criminal liability. However, if she's "merely" having an affair, or cohabiting, she's technically not liable for any crime. Which means, on a structural level, the law is a little more lenient on the military spouse as compared to the jody. This further supports the argument that it's more accurate to read Article 259, which addresses only the person seeking to marry or cohabit with the military spouse, as theoretically aimed at protecting military spouses from being taken advantage of while their husbands are deployed instead of it being a law meant to punish military spouse infidelity, since it distinctly doesn't seek to punish the cheating military spouse like Article 258 does for general bigamy. If Article 259 was intended to punish all military spouse infidelity, it logically would need to treat both the military spouse and the person they cheated similarly.

Ah sorry didn't mean to misgender them. Will edit accordingly.

Yeah. A Chinese court can probably easily differentiate between "recognising" a factual instance of bigamy (or in this case, lesbian cohabitation) while still treating it as an illegal act, and "decriminalising"/"legalising" a practice by court judgment. I would assume that any legal system would inherently need to be able to do the former without necessarily overreaching into the latter, because if that ability isn't there then it may be theoretically possible to perversely argue that judges actually cannot impose derivative criminal libilities or pass sentences on convicted persons because courts should not recognise (i.e., legalise) a crime by doing so. In general, arguments along the pattern that a civil case cannot be won because a requirement of the relevant civil law concept is already criminal act are inherently silly, since nobody is going to argue that a civil case to get compensation for physical battery cannot be found because battery is also a criminal offence. It's the literal/plain meaning rule being taken to the dumbest conclusion, i.e., the cases you teach in law school (if such cases exist) to show why concepts like the mischief rule/golden rule/purposive approach are necessary.

In fact, the current situation is probably a weaker case than the bigamy example that you provided, given that unlike bigamy, "cohabitation" (or infidelity) is not even a criminal act per se, just a criteria to tick so as to fulfil other legal liabilities. So, the court can easily just say "we recognise that people sometimes have gay/lesbian relationships outside marriage, and that for LGBTQ people such relationships fit under the definition of "living as if husband and wife" without seriously worrying that somehow according to some crazy literalist interpretation they've created gay marriage. Somehow I don't think LGBTQ activists in China would view that as commendable and actual progress towards legalisation of gay marriage.

Hmm, the person tweeting this (as far as I can tell, they're not living in China currently, and is some 1st gen Chinese Canadian YA author who writes Chinese history-inspired fantasy/SF) provided some "elaboration" on the alleged situation:-

The source is from a Chinese lawyer. The law about "ruining a military marriage" specifies committing bigamy or cohabitating with a military spouse, and cohabitation is currently defined as "living as if husband and wife"

If the court wants to charge these women they are then recognizing that two women can legally have a relationship as serious as that of a husband and wife

(responding question whether the cheating couple is being imprisoned) No the soldier is threatening to sue the women unless they give him 200k RMB (27k USD) but they are threatening to counter-sue him for extortion. So right now it's just threats. Even the lawyer I saw this from doesn't know how a court would rule in this case.

Not sure about the anonymous "Chinese lawyer" source that they're relying on, and I can't find a news source reporting on this case; elsewhere in the thread they posted an SCMP article, but it was about a "coventional" heterosexual jody case from earlier this year). Be that as it may, on first glance, the purpoted legal logic doesn't seem to be completely without legs to me? If cohabitation is legally defined as "living as if husband and wife", it seems at least arguable (not saying that it's an argument that Chinese courts will definitely accept) that the court cannot legally recognise a "lesbian cohabitation" situation without first recognising the concept of a marriage/legally-recognised union between two women?

Article 150 covers bringing the party into disrepute by living too egregious of a conspicuous consumption hypebeast lifestyle. So it's actually the "party members shouldn't bring the party into disrepute by buying so many gold-plated Bugatti Veyrons that normal people are beginning to notice/complain" clause.

Technically the "don't get caught at strip clubs" clause is Article 151. Actually, to be serious, it's not even that as Article 151 is not really a generalised "party members can't have extramarital sex ever" rule, but just a "don't abuse your power to be a sex pest" clause. The real "don't get caught in a strip club" provision is Article 153 (i.e. don't "violate social public order and good morals") and since the sex industry is, as far as I'm aware, still very illegal in China, a party member being caught in one is basically also a criminal matter as well as a party discipline matter.