The answer to 'how do you break propaganda and echo chambers' is: Pain. It will hurt them to cut them off. It will hurt you to cut them off. But if your comfort is more important than your principals, then they're not really principals.

Asking these sorts of questions is also why the world is how it is. "Man, my uncle really hates black people, but calling him a racist might make my aunt not bake me cookies anymore for Christmas."

I see these sorts of posts all the time. They start with a faulty assumption: That they're only like this because of an 'echo chamber' or that they just haven't realized it.

They believe these things because that is who they are.

Just remember the *whole* sign.

I mean, there shouldn't be. Unless 'liberal' is just a less loaded term for 'centrist' which is just "I support marginalized communities until I actually have to do something about it."

The US has never had left-of-center representation in government. Just Right Wing, and 'Right with smilyface pin'

Its untrue. I can tell you I've written my own genAI models from scratch, and trained them. 99.99999999% of the people talking about AI have never even trained a model, much less coded one.

Here's what a model trained on thousands of images looks like. Its complete ass. You need billions.

TTGL episode 3. That goofy look when it's just the small one jammed on top, before the anime transformation sequence kicks in.

Therapy: It hurts. Its supposed to. That means it works.

(bad)Joke aside, therapy is good and worthwhile.