Kwakigra @ Kwakigra @beehaw.org

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That Democracy can be an effective check on Capitalism. Liberalism is my favorite fairy tale. If all the propaganda I was fed as a kid in the 90s was actually true, I'd be in paradise.

Weird. Our US government would consider it anti-semitic not to use a nazi salute twice on stage in front of millions of people. I wonder which government is serious about protecting their Jewish citizens?

Pretty simple. If they've equipped everyone to the point where they're mostly not needed but their people are relieved to see them instead of nervous to see them, then they are an excellent manager.

Whenever this kind of BS comes up about how the ten commandments are some kind of secular moral foundation of the nation, I have to remind everyone that half of the commandments are reminders that God is very jealous.

“I fell in love with your eyes first because I looked into their depths and saw the other half of my soul.” -R.K. Lilley

It was so easy to get America's boomers to believe this in both primaries, and thus it became true. We are really a country of morons.

Thank you for taking my request in good faith; this is what I was looking for. I'll be taking some time to look through these.

What you claimed is very believable to me, and I'm also prepared to believe that the reality of your claims is heavily censored in the English language. That being said I haven't been able to find evidence to support that the primary drivers of these respective uprisings were fascist or Western. I have only found evidence of other causes. I have no doubt opportunistic fascists and Western governments took advantage of these situations for their own benefit, but the origins of these situations seem to have been genuine domestic issues which were met with state violence causing the situation to escalate. Would you link me to your sources?

From Wikipedia:

The term "tankie" was originally used by dissident Marxist–Leninists to describe members of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) who followed the party line of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). Specifically, it was used to distinguish party members who spoke out in defence of the Soviet use of tanks to suppress the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 and the 1968 Prague Spring, or who more broadly adhered to pro-Soviet positions.

I've never understood why there is any confusion over the word "tankie." It applies to the pro-cop left. If a leftist believes that it's necessary for cops to beat minorities and dissidents into submission for their society to function, they're tankies. If they approach leftism in a way that does not involve state violence against civilians to enforce those ideas, they're not tankies. To me there isn't a lot of gray area.

Something I've had to accept over the course of my life is that the vast majority of humans will passively accept anything as long as they feel like there's something they can do to not be killed. Only when it feels out of control whether they might be killed will the majority of people feel the need to act and no sooner. There has never been any changing this. Fortunately the vast majority of people are not needed to affect positive change. People who care need to set the tone and followers will follow as they do. Your efforts would be better served among people actively resisting or building structures that benefit people.

Dynasty Warriors series. Some criticism is correct, in that they really did release the same game several times in a row with minor adjustments. The gameplay is much more strategic than it was given credit for, though. It's true your warrior basically feels like a lawnmower demolishing hundreds to thousands of hapless footsoldiers at a time, but the trick is that you are the army's only lawnmower. Almost everything your allies try will fail catastrophically unless you help them. You really have to time your presence on certain parts of the fight to be where you're needed. It feels very heroic. Also, the cutscenes are without exception hilarious and drew me to the source material Romance of the Three Kingdoms which has greatly enriched my life.

I've been thinking about this article since you posted it. I think there's one more category that's necessary to include here. Along with the helpless, the bandit, the intelligent, and the stupid, we should also include the plutocrats. Unlike most people, plutocrats are privileged in such a way that they are never forced to develop past that stage most of us do in early childhood when we realized we are not personally entitled to own everything.

The plutocrats are similar to the stupid in that there is much they don't know and don't care to know. Unlike the stupid, they are immune from the short-term consequences of their stupidity. The consequences of the collection of power and wealth in very few hands don't tend to come up for generations, so most plutocrats never have to consider the consequences of their behavior. In the short term, anything that increases their wealth is the only thing they ever have to consider.

When the bandit decides to present to the plutocrats that most of the workforce can be replaced by ChatGPT 4.0, it really doesn't matter to them whether that's actually true or not. The nature of finance means that if the people with the money believe that it's true and put the weight of their valuation behind it, the value of their all their assets increases. They made sure over the course of decades that our economy is not based on production or productivity but financial value as perceived by completely ignorant and selfish plutocrats. They were able to invest in such a way in our government as to capture it from Buckley V Valeo in the 70's and culminating in de jure oligarchy in 2010 with the Citizen's United decision. Their investments, not the invisible hand, have guided the private and public US economy for decades.

Plutocrats are for anything that is against socialism. Anything at all. They are not affected by economics, as they are advantaged either way it goes. Either their current assets are increasing in value or an economic downturn causes assets to be readily available for cheap for anyone who wasn't wiped out by the effects of the economy. Fascism means nothing to them because they are above the limits of nationality. They can live whatever lifestyle they wish anywhere in the world. Literally anything that is against social, political, and economic equity is in their fiduciary interests. This is stupid because they can't solve their deep emotional problems from their inhuman upbringing through the accumulation of wealth however hard they try. They are so clearly sick and it's truly stupid to let such sick people be in charge of so much.

This being an open-source application made me wonder about this exactly. Thanks for running it and publishing your results. This is fascinating.

For a little context, the "Tiktok Ban" is currently in full effect. The bill didn't ban titktok. It banned US businesses from hosting the application unless it was sold. The app is off all the playstores as the law required. This article is about whether Trump might again allow US businesses to host the application under different circumstances than the law mandates.

We'll be a few decades into the new dark ages and a few centuries away from restoring any kind of democracy anywhere on earth. For reasons beyond my understanding, the vast majority of people will be perfectly happy with whatever happens so it's not worth worrying about.

ADHD. My mind is racing at all times for my entire life no matter what. Probably every person with ADHD ends up thinking more than a few things which are completely original because the sheer volume of involuntary thoughts which are so cognitively specific to that person and nonsense to everyone else.

Yes, it is a Tiktok meme. A few may actually remain on Xiaohongshu but probably most will migrate to whatever logical replacement pops up.

It is a protest. Some Americans may ultimately remain on "Little Red Book" but the main purpose of making it the #1 app in the US was to spite the government. It's a much more restrictive app than Tiktok, but people are enjoying talking to foreign nationals both ways.

Because of the nature of the algorithm, it absolutely is this for plenty of people. It's also not the case for plenty of people. I doubt there are many right-wingers going on to join a Chinese app called "Little Red Book" which has rules that require the promotion of Chinese socialism. It's the most popular app in the US now because of this ban.

"Contrary to popular belief..."