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  • I dropped it here but didn't get any traction, maybe because I didn't describe it well enough:

    https://midwest.social/post/20162538

    The "all in" podcast is hosted by four goulish Silicon Valley VC assholes. The audience is mostly simps but it's an entertaining listen just to see how out-of-touch and self-absorbed they are.

  • It was fun watching the "All In" podcast about this. Half of the regulars didn't even show up so they had to get seat warmers. And then they dropped the most hilarious out-of-touch takes of course, and also demonstrated their inability to sympathize with anyone who's been a victim of the death machine while sympathizing with the CEO "he had two kids" but you could also tell how visibly uncomfortable they were even talking about it. One guy even winched at one point. It was glorious.

  • I hate TikTok but I hate even more that the ban seems to have been successful this time because of Israel. Lots of people (Romney, etc) have said that TikTok must be banned because it's the reason why young people don't support Israel's genocide.

    I don't like CCP propaganda being fed to Americans, but let's be real, CCP propaganda about Israel is way more honest than domestic American propaganda.

    While I'm on the subject, Facebook, Google, etc, are pretty near equally as evil.

  • South Korean military personnel are required to answer to US generals as a higher authority than their own.

    I've actually heard that the SK soldiers attached to the US military are mostly failsons of powerful people who pull strings to get them put in US formations for their mandatory service, because it's considered a cake-walk compared to the SK military.

  • Most of the hexbear people I run into here are not even communists and barely know the first thing about communism (there are a few exceptions).

    Most are just wumaos (or 50 cent army) who dogmatically post the "CPC" party line, or whatever RT is posting, as well as posting right wingers and neoliberals like the Daily Caller or Jeffery Sachs because they agree with the propaganda they're consuming/spreading. They have George Bush level logic: "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" assuming that if the US is bad then, transitively, Russia and China are good. The idea that all three are terrible, in different ways, seems to be too much for them.

  • Nazis called themselves national socialists as opposed to the ruling democratic socialist party.

    It would have been impossible for a non-socialist party to get any kind of popular mandate in 1933 Germany. Nonetheless, the democratic socialists had discredited themselves by being feckless and awful.

    Socialist policies that the Nazis supported were mostly superficial and quickly abandoned. Those included:

    1. Making May Day a national holiday, which they did do but then they used the following day to arrest all the trade unionists and confiscate all union property or use by the the party
    2. A public stimulus/building program, where all projects were quickly abandoned except those that were seen as valuable for war, like the autobahn.
    3. "People's products" subsidized consumer goods like radios and automobiles. Only radios were ever delivered through this program by the NS regime mostly so people could hear Gobbles' propaganda.

    The Nazis did not support land reform preferring to sidestep/triangulate with their "leibensraum" theory: they will not reform the large landholdings in Germany but they will give land to peasants from conquered land. In general the Nazi's socialist/materialist promises came with an asterisk that the people will be compensated after the war by redistributing the spoils of the conquered lands.

  • On the one hand I can believe that people are getting more anxious because things are getting more bleak and it's an op to get the whole thing blamed on social media.

    On the other hand, it also feels like an op from social media companies to insist that their algorithms aren't preying on people.

  • I read Chris Webber's essay and I kinda agree. Bluesky is really just another twitter.

    That being said I think we are entering into an era of diversification, not perhaps how we would like (through federation) but rather, through people understanding finally that the platform itself is making a choice in what kind of content it serves. We used to have this idea that the platform was just a "neutral third party" like a phone company. But in fact, it's a publisher with its own editorial line. It pushes that line through algorithms and what voices it wants to amplify or suppress.

    As people understand this more, they are going to be much more critical of not just "the media" but also "the platform" and why it chose to show that media to its audience.

  • Not talking about the USSR there skipper.

    You keep saying that people are called "tankie" for being "left of the DNC" but the only people I see being called "tankie" are folks who think a lot more people aught to be dying from polonium poisoning.