It’s some bullshit, the Five Eyes governments definitely got the global journalistic/speech suppression they wanted out of it, and Biden can have this off his back before election day, as if I’m going to forgive him (or Trump or Obama) for it now.
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It’s some bullshit, the Five Eyes governments definitely got the global journalistic/speech suppression they wanted out of it, and Biden can have this off his back before election day, as if I’m going to forgive him (or Trump or Obama) for it now.
To be fair, the establishment dictionary definitions of those words are about as useless as the urbandictionary definitions.
Even the Wikipedia definitions have their issues, because they’re written in the register of liberal/bourgeois hegemony. Just look at “totalitarianism”: it’s Arendtian horsepoo theory. Hannah Arendt came from a wealthy family and so unsurprisingly was anticommunist, and her work was funded & promoted by the CIA.
Meanwhile in capitalist USA:
Do you mean Hanlon’s razor? Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
Because Marx evolved into a platypus. Deeply unserious question.
Now they have the free time and capital to focus on their jump to conclusions mat.
Just remember, if you hang in there long enough, good things can happen in this world. I mean, look at me.
Uh… I guess this a different Gomer Pyle from the one I know?
ETA: Also a different Joker; I see. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_Metal_Jacket
I usually wrap those in italics as forewarning, but happybadger is rawdogging it.
Not only are there lost luggage haul videos, but also:
Some thoughts are more freer than others.
Maybe someone somewhere has made a comprehensive list of reasons porkies do philanthropy. The word philanthropy largely implies that we talking about porky’s ill-gotten gains and not our wages. AFAIK the major reasons are PR; tax advantages; backdoor investment; ego fulfillment; and power, both in terms of wielding it and in accumulating more of it.
As usual, Second Thought’s video provides links for deeper dives: Why Billionaire Philanthropy Won’t Solve Anything
Edit to add: Oh, this was a link to an answer. I thought you were asking a question 😄
I’m going to bed so I don’t have time to answer. But to answer this question is to explain what philanthropy really is, instead of what it pretends to be.
Your boos mean nothing, I’ve seen what makes you cheer.
I’d be surprised if we know. I doubt many would have publicly admitted to it influencing their officer fragging or desertion or self-inflicted medical discharge.
I wish to abolish capitalism
And now you have fascism
https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Fascism
Fascism is a feature of capitalism. Fascism is when capitalism goes mask-off. It abolishes bourgeois democracy without abolishing bourgeois rule itself.
where’s my ukraine overtime pay
a day or two ago someone described a Hexbear post I’d commented on as a part of the “Hexbear to Lemmygrad pipeline”, to which I replied something like, “What do you mean?” but never got a response.
Yeah, also me. Sorry I didn’t respond sooner: I was busy taking hexbear.net down to move folks along the pipeline
Oh man how did I forget them? copypasta tiem
The US’s “Uyghur genocide” (“cultural” or otherwise) disinformation campaign has already been debunked several times over.
We see here for example the evolution of public opinion in regards to China. In 2019, the ‘Uyghur genocide’ was broken by the media (Buzzfeed, of all outlets). In this story, we saw the machine I described up until now move in real time. Suddenly, newspapers, TV, websites were all flooded with stories about the ‘genocide’, all day, every day. People whom we’d never heard of before were brought in as experts — Adrian Zenz, to name just one; a man who does not even speak a word of Chinese.
Organizations were suddenly becoming very active and important. The World Uyghur Congress, a very serious-sounding NGO, is actually an NED Front operating out of Germany […]. From their official website, they declare themselves to be the sole legitimate representative of all Uyghurs — presumably not having asked Uyghurs in Xinjiang what they thought about that.
The WUC also has ties to the Grey Wolves, a fascist paramilitary group in Turkey, through the father of their founder, Isa Yusuf Alptekin.
Documents came out from NGOs to further legitimize the media reporting. This is how a report from the very professional-sounding China Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) came to exist. They claimed ‘up to 1.3 million’ Uyghurs were imprisoned in camps. What they didn’t say was how they got this number: they interviewed a total of 10 people from rural Xinjiang and asked them to estimate how many people might have been taken away. They then extrapolated the guesstimates they got and arrived at the 1.3 million figure.
Sanctions were enacted against China — Xinjiang cotton for example had trouble finding buyers after Western companies were pressured into boycotting it. Instead of helping fight against the purported genocide, this act actually made life more difficult for the people of Xinjiang who depend on this trade for their livelihood (as we all do depend on our skills to make a livelihood).
Any attempt China made to defend itself was met with more suspicion. They invited a UN delegation which was blocked by the US. The delegation eventually made it there, but three years later. The Arab League also visited Xinjiang and actually commended China on their policies — aimed at reducing terrorism through education and social integration, not through bombing like we tend to do in the West.
Angry or not, is geek/nerd/gamer really even a coherent grouping of people?
With that said, I think that some, perhaps many, BreadTubers originally thought their project was to pull these people away from the alt-right pipeline and toward “the left.” But BreadTube was/is largely anti-communist; it’s mostly radlibs, socdems, and anarchists. On lemmy.ml, the admins ended up booting the anticommunist c/breadtube mods and making me mod.