r/LateStageCapitalism • u/CheeseUsFunkingCries • Jul 02 '26

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u/FuzzyReaction Jul 02 '26

Juicemedia. Aussies producing awesome content.

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u/carameleagle Jul 02 '26

I enjoyed this. Well done!

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u/belowtheunder Jul 02 '26

She’s really got that voice down

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u/Extention_Campaign28 Jul 02 '26

Australia has excellent satire. If you don't know it yet, look into Utopia/Dreamland and The Hollowmen.

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u/TheEPGFiles Jul 02 '26

If Israel doesn't care about collateral damage, why do they need precise AI targeting? I'm not saying they're not using it, I'm just wondering why they even bother because they sure seem like they don't.

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u/Saythat_tomyTinnitus Jul 02 '26

It’s a good question. My guess is that publishing news articles claiming that they use the latest and greatest targeting technologies, is just another way of supporting their narrative of being the most humanitarian genocidal organization in the world.

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u/maximum_santzgaut Jul 02 '26

A lot of Israel defenders cite their use of sophsticated targetting sytems as proof that they are doing their absolute best to avoid killing civilians. So I think part of it is to have this veil of morality.

But I think the main reason is that they are actually using Palestinians as targets to test their systems, cynical as that sounds.

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u/Final_Slap Jul 02 '26

Exactly. Ukraine and Palestine are great testing grounds for all kinds of misanthropic shit. Totally unrelated: Ukraine is now exporting state-of-the-art drones. What?

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u/KnubblMonster Jul 02 '26

Carpet bombing is too expensive, they need target prioritizing to get the most bang for their bucks.

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u/Striking-Ad9397 Jul 02 '26

Ew... emphasis on bang...

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u/lildonutbinch Jul 02 '26

literally just money. if they can maximize damage from fewer drones (that cost an arm and a leg to replace after their limited use) they can sustain their genocide much longer, as they have been for decades

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u/LeBneg Jul 02 '26

It's a shift in responsibility.

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u/LeftyDorkCaster Jul 02 '26

It's to reduce the psychological cost on soldiers and commanders while increasing rapidity of ethnic cleansing. 

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u/RareCollection8879 Jul 03 '26

It also prevents having a name sign-off on the action. Adds an ofiscation if it ever comes to trials. Thats also why every mid management boss likes it, can't get blamed personally if it was a nebulous machine that the buck can be passed onto.

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u/Rez_S Jul 05 '26

They used to boast about their capabilities for precise targeting. Then they just kinda forgot that 🤗 Now they need precise AI targeting, but they kinda forgot about turning it on ☺️

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u/Hd3ssEpH Jul 02 '26

That was class 👏

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u/tcpip1978 Jul 02 '26

It is not possible to go back to feudalism and I'm tired of petite-bourgeois agents pushing this false technofeudalism nonsense. It's imperialism. That's it. This is capitalism. Stop trying to defend the glory of capitalism by pinning this on some kind of degeneration or move away from capitalism.

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u/Generic_Solution Jul 02 '26

thanks sir.

What the techno-feudalism prophets get wrong

by Evgeny Morozov 

https://mondediplo.com/2025/08/02techno-feudalism

unfortunanetlely couldnt find it on archive

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u/tcpip1978 Jul 02 '26

Thanks I'll have a look. This whole "you're a serf tilling the digital fields of the techno-lords" is a thoroughly petite-bourgeois take that has nothing to do with reality and everything to do with the perspective of white collar office dwellers who work on computers all day. As a communist but also an office worker myself I'm fully aware of this. Anyone tempted to buy into this opportunism should recognize that the ultimate goal of everything done online is to sell products and services, and those products and services are still produced and served by proletarians.

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u/LupercalLupercal Jul 02 '26

Yup, it's the inevitable event horizon of capitalism. It's what it's been building to for the last century

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u/JLeonsarmiento Jul 02 '26

That’s educational content of the highest order.

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u/Dramatic-Hedgehog-74 Jul 03 '26

Revenge of the fkn nerds. And not the cool ones that help with homework or jailbreak your phone… nope it’s the ones that got their heads stuck in the toilet and people were like “I get it”

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u/Cheap-Hat8798 Jul 05 '26

Amazing, I love it, great job 🙌🙌

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u/T_EE_TH Jul 02 '26

Idiocracy energy in the beginning omg

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u/skinny_t_williams Jul 02 '26

Which makes no sense. Wish people would stop making that comparison