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Have you ever noticed how anarchists being infantilized is a fairly recent phenomenon?
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There is some point there but I think it's more like this:
Besides the sell-out of youth culture we've seen in older generations there has been a general (self-) infantilisation and also (self-) pathologisation (autism, ADHD) of younger (often left-ish) people in the last decades, noticeable in graphic design (kawaii, google business style) and memes. So bad that sometimes I think it's a psy-op.
A war has been waged against anarchism and there's very few mature adult anarchists around who dare to call themselves that - and they might be correct in assuming that wearing anarchism like a badge can be dangerous.
Wtf is that an AI image? I'll post this comment (was too much work to delete) but then I'll leave. I won't write in a group that uses AI imagery, fuck off. Edit typo
This image is so old it could vote. It’s not AI.
Garfield is older than your parents.
If you're going to assume every picture on the internet is AI by default, just smash all your computers and devices now.
The image is not AI, at best it was "AI upscaled", but the original (pixelated) predates slop machines and the version posted is possibly a good 6 years old now. https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1856593-you-are-not-immune-to-propaganda
That image is far older then image generators
I got this picture off of the internet. What makes you think that this is AI?
The AI paranoia of some people starts reaching pathological status. Who in their right mind even cares?
For someone like me my PC probable uses more power in idle when trying to create something (i absolutely suck at everything regarding image manipulation outside of drawing rectangles with mspaint) than the few seconds my GPU takes to generate something like this.