1. I place less value on the internet and more on IRL interactions. Yes, the internet is dead. Artistic crocheting with your buddies still isn't. It is a little more difficult to organize but it's still just as rewarding as always.

2. Even in the dead internet, there are things that aren't being consumed by the machine. I built my own Twitter/Bluesky client with my own recommendation system, and a huge chunk of the content I see is just people dicking around.

3. What's exactly wrong with being racist? I stopped browsing Reddit and talking to AI because, among other things, it cannot handle my racist opinions. My IRL friends don't mind me being racist so I just talk to them instead. My employer doesn't need to know I'm secretly racist. Author gives off vibes like living in 80's and "I want to feel special but I don't want to have gay sex" like pick one bro.

4. If you want to be a part of counter-culture, then fucking make it yourself, unless what you miss is the pre-packaged mass-manufactured counter-culture before you understood how it works. Then I have bad news for you, Santa isn't real.

5. You don't need to be special in all aspects. It's totally okay to enjoy some mainstream AI-generated slop too.

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marand23 3 hours ago | parent [-]

You got me curious now, in what ways do you think you are racist? Racists usually don't think they are racists, I would think, but maybe I'm wrong

	▲	anal_reactor 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I honestly believe that certain cultures are measurably worse than others, and skin colour is unfortunately a great proxy for that. I am strongly against celebrating cultures that provably have more negative influence on wider society than others - and I don't see a problem with cultural erasure if it eventually leads to better life standards for everyone. Racial profiling by the police is unfair, but it's necessary. My views have changed 180° once I moved into a ghetto. Within two years I witnessed three shootings, and had my belongings stolen twice. There's trash everywhere, and kids are revving engines at 2AM and nobody cares. I don't buy the excuse "the problem is poverty and lack of chances" because it just doesn't hold up when you compare people across countries. You cannot tell me that a Moroccan kid growing up in Paris somehow has fewer chances in life than a white kid growing up in Rădoiești-Deal. Besides, I don't understand how poverty explains the inability to bring your trash to the trash can. Being gay is literally illegal in almost all Muslim countries, many of them have death punishment for being gay. I don't see a reason why I'd be morally obliged to respect that as a valid way to construct a society. If they want me dead, I want them dead too, tit for tat. I see countries like Japan or Korea heavily opposing immigration despite demographic crisis. I don't think they're making the wrong decision.