Timnit Gebru

Addis, only in the early days of Derg though. They stopped after a few years. Asmara was probably purely reserved for bombing rather than doing this kind of thing.

I'm left in the US right left dichotomy but then I hate that dichotomy and this segment that I describe from the left so who knows what label I should apply to myself.

As an Afghan, this has been my experience.

purely because it suits their ideologies, while being virulently genocidal to many other people in the world, I'm not gonna give their groups anything less than the scorn they deserve.

A broken clock is right twice a day, as they say. Just because the former grand wizard of the kkk says Israel is committing a genocide, I'm not gonna suddenly think the kkk is a good group.

Similarly, just because these groups decide to be against the genocide of Palestinians...

These people constantly, actively collaborated with our killers and of course the regimes know this and infiltrate easily. Groups that do that should just be ostracized.

I treat them the same as I treat the Nazis on the right, since they have been genocidal for my people. Our political compass doesn't have to be limited to the US version of he "left"/"right" binary.

If you come here demanding an explanation and asking me when "American intervention has helped" I'm blocking you. If you feel that criticism of your ideology equals wanting people bombed by the US, then go cope elsewhere please.

Where in my post did I say American intervention is good? Again, Blocked.

Many Iranians in my mentions were shocked to see this dynamic from a segment of the pro Palestinian crowd, during the protests...

My whole life has been filled with that and you can feel free to read up on the things I've written. I don't owe you an explanation.

I have named many and I'm not here to explain myself to you on my post filled with pain. Blocked.

The former aids the latter's case against our immigration by saying that we're not fleeing persecution from our home countries and that we're lying.

I really do feel for Iranians, coming from a region that is harmed by both the "anti imperialist left" and the right. The former teams up with our genocidal governments as long as they say they're against the US, the latter wants us bombed into oblivion and prevented from immigrating.

Another one is ignorance in the US, only having a limited way of seeing the world and analyzing it, which drives me nuts. Binary thinking and only one way of analyzing who good actors are and who bad actors are, such that people get recruited to rhetoric that they deem to be on their side.

Lol same

As for the kids, we sang all sorts of communist propaganda but I was too young for the mandatory reading groups :)

In my mom's case you wouldn't want to disagree lol but you had to be seen being engaged in discussion so as not to be suspected of opposing the government.

Reminds me of my mom's story that when the communist military dictatorship took over, they had mandatary readings every Friday, at their work, of Lenin and such, with a government official in the class overseeing the discussion, and that she had a migraine leading up to it every week.

Who cares whether he would have been in support of it or not? Is that the way people make decisions about what to support?

then they got into a back and forth about correct interpretation of what he said, which got me thinking, tankie or not, why do you need to do this?

I'm in a similar boat as you. This one was someone responding to a tankie explaining that Lenin was right in something something "anti imperialism" & the person quoting Lenin saying that he would have been in favor of supporting the Iranian people, not their government, the US or Israel,...

When your political belief resembles religious dogma, there's a problem. Its one thing to learn from various thinkers, take the good and leave the bad, its another to argue about who has the "right" interpretation of white men from a hundred years ago like they're your unquestioned infallible gods 🙄

So many of our people got massacred, and are still getting massacred, by "Marxist Leninist" regimes, and I see people on these apps arguing about interpretations of passages from their books like they're doing a bible reading, canonizing these dudes.

Do not let pro-Putin voices exploit current events to launder their own agenda.

You can be against American intervention without dismissing years of documented war crimes committed by the Russian state. (1)

There is a region in a country that these people don't care about, where Iranian and Israeli drones fly side by side, killing people they don't care about. Their binary thinking only makes them see whoever is being killed by the wrong group, the one that's not in their camp, as a victim.

‘Claude’s constitution is an unfortunate development in AI governance that minimises human values, rules, and rights’, Jarovsky says.

But knowing what we know about Effective Altruism, perhaps that isn’t a defect, but the main feature of the product."

The cult that wants to give human rights to robots Anthropic’s ‘Claude Constitution’ reflects the misanthropic, ultra-utilitarian Effective Altruism agenda.

"Anthropic is guilty not only of wildly exaggerating the capabilities of AI, and promoting dystopian fantasies of ‘AI doom’, but also quietly advocating the deeply misanthropic philosophy on which it was founded.

www.spiked-online.com/2026/02/22/t...

«If I hated OpenAI more than Google, I hate Anthropic more than OpenAI» ✊🔥

People should stop claiming Anthropic is «good and ethical» They are just playing their game, with the same masks as always and people who believe them, are been used as tools to wash their image. Don’t be part of that.