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I don’t know how to break it to the RussiaGaters that it was coming from inside the house this whole time. Previously.

Also, the requisite Parenti quote.

Conform or be cast out

so they won’t read it.

🤣 I swear to dog: 0.6% of the time, it works every time.

Yes, and it has nothing to do with stealing your product ideas. It’s about targeting ads to you.

Also if you so much as talked about this with anyone near a good damned smartphone, or googled your idea in anyway whatsoever, if it’s a good idea, it’s already gone.

Okay now that’s just silly. Your phone isn’t listening to you, and Google is only interested in (1) optimizing ads and (2) selling your data to others so they can optimize ads.

For some reason, commenters are focusing on patenting your product. But products as a whole are very seldom patentable. More often, one or more features of a product may be patentable, but there’s a fair chance that your product won’t have any patentable features, either. Since you haven’t told us anything at all about your product (a toaster? a time machine?), we couldn’t begin to guess if it’s patentable. In fact, for all we know, your product might violate others’ existing patents.

I had to enable them: about:config -> browser.tabs.groups.enabled -> true

Nihilism is a philosophy for late-stage capitalism, imperialism, and fascism.

The New Irrationalism

Nietzsche died in 1900. The date was significant, since in Lukács’s view, Nietzsche was the “founder of irrationalism in the imperialist period,” which was then only commencing. The imperialist or monopoly stage of capitalism in Marxist theory began in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, but, in terms of Nietzsche’s life and work, only “the first shoots and buds of what was to come” in that respect were visible. Nietzsche’s genius was instinctively to capture a sense of what was to come and to develop the method of irrationalism for the new age of empire as a “mythicizing form” of analysis, made more obscure by the frequent use of aphorisms. It is this that accounts for the mesmerizing nature of Nietzsche’s literary style, which was at the same time a means of perfecting indirect apologetics. Everything in Nietzsche is presented in a haze so that, while the whole political-social thrust of his philosophy is not in doubt, it also gives rise to endless discussions arising from its mythic character, inviting imitators, and establishing the dominant form in which philosophical irrationalism is pursued to this day.

In Nietzsche’s notion of “eternal recurrence,” “noble” spirits and the master race would again experience the triumph of the will in the cyclical swings of history. Yet, eternal recurrence, meant a lack of overall progress, so that the cumulative result was “Nothingness (the ‘meaninglessness’) for ever more!” Although Nietzsche wished to supersede nihilism through the Overman as the personification of the will-to-power, it was to nihilism that everything always eternally returned, as genuine forward progress was foreclosed.

Heidegger frequently lauded Mussolini and Hitler, presenting Nietzsche as a forerunner of both fascist leaders. In Heidegger’s book on Friedrich Schelling, a long sentence from the original lecture was omitted in the 1971 edition but was later reinserted at Heidegger’s own request. It said: “As is well known, both of the two men in Europe who have, in the political-national fashioning of their respective Volks, inaugurated countermovements [Gegenbewegungen] to nihilism, namely Mussolini and Hitler, were in turn, each in their own way, essentially determined by Nietzsche; still this was so without Nietzsche’s authentic metaphysical domain having come into its own.” Nietzsche, Heidegger explained in his lectures, had shown that “democracy” led to a “degenerate form of nihilism” and thus demanded a more authentic Volk movement. In a course on logic in 1934, Heidegger declared that “Negroes are men but they have no history.… Nature has no history.… When an airplane’s propeller turns, then nothing actually ‘occurs.’ Conversely, when the same airplane takes Hitler to Mussolini, then history occurs.” “The sham culture” of Western civilization, he explained, will be superseded only by the “spiritual world” of the Volk based on “the deepest preservation of the forces of the soil and blood.”

tHe aNti-IMpErIAListS aRE tHE rEal IMpERiALIStS

Yup, and this isn’t the exception to the rule. It’s the rule, as I try to explain: https://lemmy.ml/comment/12094932

Try learning about Imperial Post-Modernism under Hypermodern Authoritarianism

I’ll be sure look into that strung-together five-dollar word theory that you just made up 👍

10 I know China did that bad thing because, as I already know, China Bad™.
20 I know China Bad™ because, as I already know, it did that bad thing.
30 GOTO 10

How regime change happens in the 21st century

Your going to need something fresher than that

Sure thing, time traveler 👍

Then you don’t know the last eighty years of US atrocities worldwide, starting from the nuclear bombing of two heavily populated cities with no warning and ending with aiding & abetting an ongoing genocide in Palestine.

https://dessalines.github.io/essays/us_atrocities.html

We know how imperial authoritarians operate.

Yes, we do: The blueprint of regime change operations | How regime change happens in the 21st century with your consent

Like, every single time.

And then, 15–65 years later when documents get declassified, they’ll claim they knew all along 😂

I try to lead them to water, but do they ever drink?

It’s the US government that heavily influences what content gets promoted/demoted/censored on US corporate social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, YouTube, Instagram, etc., and that is why anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist software developers created Lemmy in the first place.

CIA/NED-backed Li Hongzhi created and runs Falun Gong, a far-right extremist religious cult. It claims all manner of nonsense, including that our technology comes from aliens and that China harvests their organs. He also runs the creepy “China before communism” Shen Yun dance troupe and the NED-funded far-right rag The Epic Times.

Is Li Hongzhi a CIA Agent? Tracing the Funding Trail Through the Friends of Falun Gong

In 2000, Mark Palmer, one of the National Endowment for Democracy’s (NED’s) founders and Vice Chairman of Freedom House—an organization funded entirely by the U.S. Congress—founded a new government-supported group, Friends of Falun Gong (FoFG). By perusing FoFG’s annual tax filings, one discovers that FoFG has contributed funds to Sounds of Hope Radio, New Tang Dynasty TV, and the Epoch Times—all Falun Gong media outlets. FoFG has also contributed to Dragon Springs (a Falun Gong ‘compound’ that hosts a Falun Gong school and a residency complex) and to Shen Yun (a Falun Gong performance company), as well as to Falun Gong’s PR arm. In order to contextualize the U.S. government’s funding of Falun Gong, it will also be helpful to examine a handful of additional U.S. agency activities, such as the NED’s funding of Liu Xiaobo, the Hong Kong protests, and other China-related and Tibet-related groups.

TrueAnon podcast:

• Falun Gong Part 1: Shen Yun
• Falun Gong Part 2: Qigong Fever

Why would anyone say that when everyone knows that it incontrovertibly is? Civilians always get killed in war, but scale, proportion, and intent matter. Noam Chomsky: Russia is fighting more humanely than the US did in Iraq

I’ll sell you a fair coin that’s nearly as accurate for half the price!