Please keep your eyes open in the future to the media also using these terms. For example, every single time a peaceful protest gets pushed by the police into going violent. See how the media uses extremely charged verbiage during those situations.
Or how about every single time China or North Korea or Russia is brought up. No matter what the news story is about, they will always be labeled the bad guys. And sometimes they are, but sometimes they're not.
Notice how the media will always talk about their "regimes" compare to our "government", their "worker camps" vs our "prisons". By the way our prisons also do force labor, and also torture people. How come our prisons aren't worker camps? Or torture camps?
You're going to see this if you keep watching osely, Communists have been talking about politically charged rhetoric for a very long time. We started calling out the government for using biased language long ago. See: Michael Parenti, for starters.
I think you're negative votes speak for themselves, but this is pretty obviously showing that there is Media bias.
I mean obviously it's nearly impossible to prove that the media is not biased, what would a test for that even be? But showing where similar events get wildly different coverage does lead towards evidence that the media is biased.
Now, of course, the media can't cover literally everything equally all the time. But let's be honest, we know where the military lies, we know what the government is saying in official speeches, and we know what the media is pointing to. When everything lines up, it's pretty fucking obvious.
/whoosh for me. Did Z actually say that or is this just memeing? Genuine question, I see your work around here and I'm quite impressed. I'm a recent convert and I'm finding search engines have issues finding some sources lol.
Thank you for the thorough response! I'm sorry my response is going to be much shorter, I'm on a time crunch right now.
As someone who works in open source software myself, I agree with the problems you outlined above. And it's just hard to get away from the stranglehold of capitalism, even if we do work on FOSS.
Intelligence and political awareness aren’t correlated. Confrontation with politics in everyday life and political awareness are.
This makes so much sense. I came into software development after being poor, and that allowed me to insulate myself against some of the crap the lifelong developers buy into.
I grew up middle/upper class, but did not conform to capitalist ideas after high school (Went to college and got a psych degree, was super into science regardless of pay, graduated with no "marketable skills"), of course ended up poor. I went back to college for C.S (Which is lucky I even had that opportunity), bought into the capitalist mindset for awhile, and now I make good money. But that class consciousness (I just never had a term for it until about 6 months ago) never went away, and now that I've discovered what communism actually is, I feel stuck, surrounded by a culture I no longer respect.
industrial level propaganda to make our work out to be some revolutionary science that will solve all of humanities problems.
It's such garbage. Not to mention just the corporate propaganda for other corporations. Not even 'solving humanities problems' but simply just 'how can we revolutionize some fucking bank so that they can fire more people and extract more wealth from the ones left?'. That's what passes for revolutionary in my works garbage view.
genuinely believe in things like “value add”, “market incentives”, “CEOs aren’t paid enough because their ‘value add’ is so high”, “governance models”, “technocracy”
UGGGGHHHHH, Don't get me started about the corporate culture devs are. I can't fucking believe I entered a field of so well-educated people with such strong blinders for non-capitalist ideas. The exception is open source coders, but it's getting more niche every day :(
but the worst is their “debate” bro culture
More UGH
their average immense wealth
Unfortunately I think this is the root cause of their capitalist mindsets. The system works out great for them. Why doesn't everyone just drop all hobbies/families/life and become 10x programmers????
Okay yes, but still fuuuuuck Ben Shapiro.