"It's got black and white on top and white on the bottom and there's some right orange patches."
"right" = bright, of course.
Meade said, "Yeah, 'right' orange patches sounds nazi." Hence, my new prompt.
Do not click for more if you don't want to read AI-written material, but I do think this one is at least worth scanning. It's a crisp outline. Grok takes the position that birds are right wing:
1. Individual freedom and self-reliance over the collectiveBirds are quintessential individualists. Most species don't wait for government (or flock) permission to migrate thousands of miles—they just go, navigating by stars, magnetic fields, and personal initiative. Songbirds defend their own territory aggressively. Raptors hunt solo. Even in flocks (starlings, geese), it's often loose coordination for efficiency, not enforced equality. There's no bird equivalent of wealth redistribution: the strong flier or better forager eats first. This maps to right-wing emphasis on liberty, personal responsibility, and merit over mandated outcomes. Left-wing systems tend to clip wings for "equity"; birds would never tolerate it.2. Traditional values and family structuresBirds are deeply conservative in their social habits. Many mate for life (swans, eagles, albatrosses). They build nests with rigorous traditional architecture passed down generationally—no modernist deconstruction of "the nuclear nest." Parents invest heavily in their own offspring, not the village. Courtship rituals are often brutally hierarchical and sex-role differentiated (peacocks, birds of paradise). Divorce rates in the bird world are low unless a mate fails fitness tests. This is straight out of the traditionalist playbook, not fluid social experimentation.3. Border enforcement and property rightsBirds are obsessed with borders. Robins will fight to the death over a few square meters of lawn. They sing territorial anthems at dawn. Migration follows ancient flyways with strict seasonal rules—no open-border free-for-all where anyone can crash the wintering grounds. Invasive species (starlings in North America) get treated as problems by conservationists precisely because they disrupt the native order. Right-wing instincts: secure the habitat, defend what's yours.4. Hierarchies and natural selection are embraced, not deniedPecking orders aren't a metaphor—they're literal. Chickens, wolves-of-the-air (raptors), and colonial nesters all run on dominance hierarchies. Weak or sick individuals get left behind or culled by reality (predators, starvation). Evolution didn't produce birds via compassion committees; it produced them through brutal competition, flight-or-fight adaptation, and sexual selection. Birds live the right-wing acceptance of human (avian) nature as it is, not as utopian planners wish it to be. Penguins huddle for warmth but still let the edges take the brunt—that's pragmatic order, not socialism.5. Aesthetics and signalingRight-wing birds: majestic eagles, noble falcons, colorful but competitive pheasants. Left-wing vibes would be... what, drab egalitarian pigeons swarming public statues demanding more breadcrumbs? Birds glorify beauty, power, and display. Evolution rewards the peacock's extravagant tail, not mediocrity for the greater good.Counter-arguments ("they flock together!" or "environmental activists like them!") are weak. Flocking is tactical coordination, not ideology—same reason armies or markets form. And activist capture doesn't define the creature; owls were co-opted by lefty "wise old owl" tropes yet remain solitary nocturnal predators.Final wingtip: Birds literally have a right wing. The left one is just there for balance. Nature's design documents it clearly. If birds could vote, they'd probably caucus with the side that wants fewer regulations on flight paths and stronger national (nest) sovereignty.They're right-wing by feather and by deed.
ADDED: 2 points Grok missed: 1. big on sexual dimorphism, and 2. hate wind turbines.
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It takes both wings to fly.
"Right orange" sounds kinda British to me.
“Birds literally have a right wing. The left one is just there for balance.” Ha!
Birds work hard all day just to eat.
They are obviously conservatives.
Ideological Ornithology.
At our pristine spring fed pond in center Mass, the eagles are happy to be welfare recipients by following the fishermen around waiting for them to throw back undersized fish that they can swoop down and collect.
Yah eagles will eat road kill and garbage before they do any work…and they love love love handouts. Never say thank you. Who does that sound like?
Now do reptiles.
Right wing = proven, functional, traditional. Nature and evolution are red in tooth and claw. Find a way to eat and breed or die off.
Left wing = unhappy/rejects tradition and demands a different path or different leadership. In primal nature this is mere combat and tribalism and improved technology. Here change STILL means survival of the strongest, survival of the more functional, and survival of those best adapted to circumstances. Outside of in-group support, there's no space for 'equity.' This nicely demonstrates how and why the nominal left reverted to identity politics.
"Birds of a feather flock together."
the eagles are happy to be welfare recipients by following the fishermen around waiting for them to throw back undersized fish that they can swoop down and collect.
It's not welfare. The fisherman are not doing it to help the eagles. The fisherman will throw those fish back whether the eagles are there or not.
Likewise, the eagles are not asking for a handout. They're capitalizing on an opportunity to improve their lot, which is right wing.
Right orange sounds Irish, however, I don't know whether the Protestant/ Catholic differences correlate in any way to modern American politics.
Birds are terrified of women and scientists don't know why!
Look at this :
https://scitechdaily.com/birds-in-cities-fear-women-more-than-men-and-scientists-dont-know-why/
So birds are right wing because, like the Republican Party, they also hate women?
I thought the question was whether birds are left handed (wing) or right handed. Gonna be a long day for us retards Achilles.
I don’t think the birds themselves care either way. They just do what they do. I don’t think they do whatever the bird equivalent is of anthropomorphization..
It's not welfare. The fisherman are not doing it to help the eagles. The fisherman will throw those fish back whether the eagles are there or not.
I'm not sure welfare as practiced in this country is being done to help the poor, seems pretty clear it is a giant vacuum siphoning money from the workers to be distributed amongst the Democrat overlords and their favorites, with perhaps some crumbs for actual poor Americans.
@ tommyesq
The fisherman aren't doing that either.
The male rosebreasted grosbeaks were red when they left our place (central Missouri). The females are beige and remind me of large sparrows. Their migration was a lot of fun to host this year. Do you see orange-headed woodpeckers in Wisconsin?
Orange bird Bad.
There were likely left wing birds at one time, but they died out due to sloth and inability to reproduce.
Twitter's logo used to be of a right-winged bird.
Spiros = your party allows men in women's spaces, and men in women's sports. So long as they claim to be women.
Leftwing woman and girl hate.
Last week I found a male Western Tanager dead lying just a foot from my back door. I assume it ran into the window. It had no obvious injuries. I had never seen one before, and it was so colorful, I thought it might be a pet. AI identified it, and I found out they are common to my area, but I had never seen one before. Beautiful animal
https://www.birds-of-north-america.net/Western_Tanager.html
AI is great for quickly identifying things. One of its really great uses.
“Do not click for more if you don't want to read AI-written material”
I love AI-written material. Despite the occasional glitches it’s better than most humans can do, and it’s done in seconds.
Even supposedly monogamous birds will cheat every chance they get. This has been shown by DNA tests of their chicks.
Sexual dimorphism varies widely across species. Even a penguin can’t tell another penguin’s sex by sight. They rely on behavioral cues which aren’t always reliable, leading to mistakes like the so-called “gay” penguin pairs. In dimorphic species the sex which relies on flamboyant visual displays to attract a mate usually contributes little but good genes to the progeny, leaving the other partner to do the work of providing food, protection, etc. In birds it’s usually the males who conspicuously display their physical attributes, but this is not necessarily true of other species. (Of course, applying this sort of reasoning to human behavior is totally invalid and very very naughty.)
Birds are by necessity centrist independents. They can't fly if they are just right or left wing.
Grok's comments were well written, not weird, sycophantic or stilted. I didn't think AI could do that.
Not everything is political. Don't try to make everything political.
@wildswan: I didn't think AI could do that.
It follows from probabilities in the training data. I once had an apolitical chat in progress, and out of the blue, AI dropped a precise attack on Elon Musk's purchase and "destruction" of Twitter. It was grammatically perfect and quite long. I'm guessing it pulled from a social media post that had been widely quoted, resposted, and upvoted. But, it didn't match the other text at all.
We provide the training data. AI is a mirror.
They're Libirdtarian.
This is an excellent AI-written response: creative, broad, and well written. And true: birds are MAGA.
In “Once and Future King,” T. H. White had Merlin the Wizard turn young Arthur into various animals and insects to show him human societies and governing principles. When he changed him into a goose White presented this as a kind of social, pacifist state, quite leftwing. But when he turned Wart (Arthur) into a falcon, it was a highly ordered society, very rightwing. So I guess White would dispute Grok in part.
(By the way, the ant chapter — in my opinion the best of the lessons for Wart — presents communisyin its drabness, ugliest form. And who can deny ants are a socialist dream society?)
Other than the absurdity of querying the politics of birds I don't seen anything in the prompt that would have signaled Grok to engage in a comedic response.
It's both impressive and worrisome.
Pigeons are lefties. Urban, dependent on handouts, crap on statues of Great Men, congregate in the welfare cities.
IN THIS NEST WE BELIEVE:
Black bugs matter.
Ornithology is real.
No species is invasive.
Mating is mating.
In most raptors, the females are much larger than the males.
What does Grok have to say about Brown Headed Cowbirds and Cuckoos, which lay their eggs in other birds' nests and let the other birds raise the chicks?
Real birds have never been tried.
It depends upon the bird. The Barred owls we have around our house are right wing, whereas the robins and Steller's jays are leftist.
The owls will just sit there on a limb and ignore the obnoxious, nonstop screaming and squawking of the robins/jays.
Each party knows what would happen if just one of the owls decides they've had enough of their shit. Yet, they just sit there calmly ignoring the idiots.
Most people are right limb dominant. Far more likely to push off with the stronger leg (right one). When I skied, turning left was effortless, turning right was more of a chore.
I have yet to see a bird flap only one wing while trying to fly, either left or right preferentially, so I'm sticking with ambidextrous for the winged beasties.
Birds are not whirling dervishes.
Yeah, a guy called Spiros is a feminist New York Times reader.
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