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They’re the top producer of dirty energy because they’re the top manufacturer in the world and they’re roughly tied with India for the largest population in the world. They’re the top producer of battery byproducts because they produce 80% of the world’s batteries.

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There were plenty of fascist undertones in US cold war science fiction, and virtually no communism. Asimov’s psychohistory was inspired by historical materialism, but he couldn’t say as much and hope to get published.

Please don’t copypasta LLM summaries.

The corporate algorithms are not on the side of the Palestinians.

🤷 Maybe !shortstories@lemmy.ml? I don’t know if there’s a community for critiquing self-authored stories.

The image upload rate limit on lemmyml is currently set to 6 per 3,600 seconds (1 hour). I can’t tell how many you’ve uploaded, but you can by going to your profile and clicking “Uploads”.

Is this one of those you are now breathing manually tricks? Because I’m virtually never conscious of this.

Whataboutism is itself a thought-terminating cliché.

Citations Needed podcast: Whataboutism - The Media's Favorite Rhetorical Shield Against Criticism of US Policy

Since the beginning of what’s generally called ‘RussiaGate’ three years ago, pundits, media outlets, even comedians have all become insta-experts on supposed Russian propaganda techniques. The most cunning of these tricks, we are told, is that of “whataboutism” – a devious Soviet tactic of deflecting criticism by pointing out the accusers’ hypocrisy and inconsistencies. The tu quoque - or, “you, also” - fallacy, but with a unique Slavic flavor of nihilism, used by Trump and leftists alike in an effort to change the subject and focus on the faults of the United States rather than the crimes of Official State Enemies.

But what if "whataboutism" isn’t describing a propaganda technique, but in fact is one itself: a zombie phrase that’s seeped into everyday liberal discourse that – while perhaps useful in the abstract - has manifestly turned any appeal to moral consistency into a cunning Russian psyop. From its origins in the Cold War as a means of deflecting and apologizing for Jim Crow to its braindead contemporary usage as a way of not engaging any criticism of the United States as the supposed arbiter of human rights, the term "whataboutism" has become a term that - 100 percent of the time - is simply used to defend and legitimizing American empire’s moral narratives.

This isn’t about religion. It’s about settler-colonialism. Plenty of Jews are anti-zionist.

Oh thanks. I’ll fix.

That’s Grimm.

I’ll be here all week. Try the veal.

Yes, Zelensky was democratically elected on a platform of peace & reconciliation. Unfortunately he wasn’t able to deliver on those promises, because as soon as he got into office, the fascists made it clear that they’d kill him if he did deliver, and the pressure they put on him to get what they want continues.

Zelensky was in no way qualified for the job. He was a comedian who played the president on TV. It was a wildly popular show. It’s like if Martin Sheen ran for president after The West Wing. He was basically groomed & funded by a Ukrainian oligarch to play a TV president and then run for president. Ukraine has long been considered the most corrupt nation in Europe.

His presidential term ended over a year ago, and the longer the election is postponed, the less legitimate he will appear.

They think we just fell out of a coconut tree, and don’t exist in the context of all in which we live and what came before us.