Thanks, that's good to hear because I wasn't sure how much of the news of accounts moving over was biased by lots of openly political people here being anti-nationalist and therefore more open to it.
What is 'it'? The movie is a published work, it can't be financially supported. Who is being supported with the money you pay?
Vote with your wallet.
Unfortunately, consumer boycott (and conversely, support) usually isn't an effective strategy at this scale you're talking about. Unless you and all your friends are voting with a few thousand dollars, it's hardly going to make a dent in the numbers.
Giving money to your enemy is idiotic tho. There is a class war out there and normies are too busy funding their oppressors
Absolutely. At the end of the day, most of the moral ideals being thrown around are, at the end of the day, nice ideas.
Giant corporations exist to get more money and, history shows, media companies will happily brainwash us and buy oppressive politicians just to push their profits up. Furthermore, they serve as a megaphone for the ideas of the owner class, who are historically the core force behind fascism when society is in crisis.
Morality is, literally, subjective. There is no universal answer to that question.
I personally consider anything being sold by a distributor to be fair game, no questions asked. If I pay for mainstream music, films or games, most of the time, zero of that money goes to the workers who created those artworks. It just makes rich owners richer, because they legally own rights. I would go as far as to say it's morally wrong to pay for those things, it's not neutral, it's supporting a cycle of abuse at your own expense. So that's my perspective on your 'giant corporations' question.
Digital copying isn't stealing, unfortunately, because those giant companies deserve to have their hoard of capital expropriated.
Perhaps there's a better term, because "communities" already means something else here. Last thing we need is another Discord-calling-groups-'servers' mess.
Maybe I'm getting alright at in-code documentation because when my code breaks after months of me not looking at it, I can return and get up to speed in a few minutes.
(or maybe these people are working on much more advanced stuff)
'Pourable pizza crust' is a new one for me, I wonder which shapes would be fun. I suppose the stage of food technology at the time ended up forcing the food to be healthier, Max is dealing with ingredients I can name and buy rather than the cyanocobalamin and thiamine mononitrate in modern day rations pizza. Thanks for sharing!
Always cool to see the BPP social programs mentioned.
Yep. Socialist orgs are generally public-facing and have no interest in secrecy, we're not hiding from people. We don't vet people before letting them see meetings like the neo-nazis and many politicians do, we're basically the same inside as we are outside. And it pays off: there's no fake persona to uphold, no paranoia about federal infiltration. Just walk in and have a look around, we're here to build a mass movement, not some arrogant secret conspiracy cell.
You're right, it's a strange way to refer to a country, I only wrote it that way to emphasize the fact that an African country already has more HSR than the US. The truth is that many outsiders still carry a default impression of Africa as just desert and savannahs and TV ads asking for donations to famine-striken villages, rather than a diverse continent with some impressive cities and growing modern infrastructure already. Western mainstream media doesn't really expose us to Africa often beyond war and conflict news, and wildlife documentaries.
Let's start basic, we don't want anyone to get overwhelmed. How about the high-speed line in Morocco, Africa? (186km/115mi long HSR section at up to 320km/h / ~200mi/h)
It's cherrypicking, but apart from TV and cartoons who are likely to exaggerate, my impression of US school lunches is from Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution, and Jamie looked like they were about to cry.
I say cherrypicking because it was considered one of the most obese towns in the USA, Huntington, West Virginia, but it's absolutely dystopic. Soylent Green would be a step up, nutritionally.
edit: I can't easily find the scene of the kids eating, but this two minute clip goes over Jamie's disappointment at the food products being served. "I'd never seen kids being given pizza of any kind for breakfast before." "Do you really recognise any of those ingredients?"
Yes it’s somewhat sanitised, all social media is sanitised.
And it's all sanitized for good reason - the closest places to unsanitized, such as freespeechextremist, are literally just spambots, molesters, troll neo-nazis and people mechanically incapable of holding a conversation without bursting into nonsense screeds in all caps. Effectively, just the people no-one else wants to talk to.
As for the RedNote sanitizing, some of the ones I've seen newcomers getting tripped up on are rules which would make our local social media better. They seem aimed at countering grifters/influencers, sexualization for popularity (not being a prude, rather, there are plenty of other places for that content) and similar negative trends associated with TikTok.
I'll look around to see if I can find those show segments online, but as for 'are they panicking?', mass media has a vested interest in influencing public opinion (that's effectively the only reason a private business bothers with news) and therefore control over public opinion. If the people who own the show and the channel give orders, the writers and actors probably won't risk getting fired. (oh, and obligatory quick clip to demonstrate what ownership looks like, for those who haven't seen it: "This Is Extremely Dangerous to Our Democracy")
So, with that in mind, recall the reactions of almost all mass media to the UnitedHealthcare assassination: consistent critique and denouncement. Surely this wasn't how all the news anchors felt, given how positive general opinion was! The people with ownership and executive power over these media channels obviously don't want the idea of citizens shooting the dangerously rich and powerful to get popular, so we saw their ideas echoed in all the news.
Compare that to here: media channels outside of China don't really want that counter-narrative to gain traction. It goes against their inherent interest of influencing public opinion, it's a competitor which all the biggest media companies can agree to call bad news. So I have no doubt this unexpected and surprising turn would make them panic.
edit: the clips I found from Colbert and The Daily Show were a surprisingly mixed bag. For example, this Daily Show clip comes off more as a satirical jab at the US than any panic.
Personally, I suspect the bigger problem for their platform will be handling the contrasting values of Western social media norms against their own.
Even sinophobic reactionaries have been pointing out for years that "[Douyin] Chinese TikTok is Wholesome, American TikTok is Corrupting our Youths!" with product influencers/grifters, rampant sexualization up to and including pornography, etc., albeit the reactionaries are interpreting the difference from a conspiratorial moral-panic viewpoint claiming it's weaponization by The Chinese Government to corrode Western society, rather than the difference being that the US TikTok is social media with liberalist freedoms combined with the capitalist pursuit of profit above society, and is in line with the content on Xitter, reddit and other familiar social media.
The point being, that people rise to the top of TikTok through sexual suggestion, flashing symbols of wealth and other normalized habits which I've heard are banned on Lil'RedBook (which sounds like a great decision!).
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Thanks, that's good to hear because I wasn't sure how much of the news of accounts moving over was biased by lots of openly political people here being anti-nationalist and therefore more open to it.