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Why does The Verge think the NYT is being gamed? The NYT is in on the game. This isn’t an issue of competency. The owners know what they’re doing.

If it ain’t broke don’t fix it.

I agree that Churches shouldn’t have a say, but paying federal taxes isn’t what gives someone a say in politics. “Taxpayer dollars” is terrible framing. In fact, federal taxes don’t pay for anything at all.

China’s “monopoly” is not on the minerals themselves but on the processing. Anyone can “break” the monopoly by building their own processing industry.

No, you’re thinking of the US.

But they told me that these CIA/MI6/Mossad-backed Salafi Jihadists were moderate rebels. At least that terrible, horrible no good, very bad Bashar al-Assad is gone, though!

Capitalists will incorporate & commodify any[^1] trend/movement into their branding. 1971.

[^1]: Except maybe for the only movement that has ever usurped them: ours.

Armenia's PM offers to expose himself in escalating Church row

A bitter standoff between Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and the Armenian Apostolic Church has seen mass arrests, allegations of a coup plot, and an extraordinary offer by Armenia's leader to reveal his private parts to prove he is a Christian.

Earlier this week, Pashinyan told his 1.1 million followers on Facebook he was prepared to expose himself to the head of the Armenian Church and his spokesman, to prove they were wrong that he had been circumcised.

There would still be some downvotes, because some people downvote any positive news about BRICS.

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Reporter: [REDACTED]
Reason: Propaganda

It helps to check which mods are active, meaning which ones have recently made posts/comments. Otherwise your message may never be read.

I wouldn’t assume he’ll quit. He’s already got infinite money, and he and his tech multi-billionaire peers seem more interested in investing in political power nowadays.

Please don’t troll instances. Stirring inter-instance drama is corrosive to the threadiverse.

Money doesn’t always work. It usually does, but not always. Bloomberg, having made himself a symbol of corporate wealth, was a little too on the nose.

My first thought is that this may be for 1) political leverage and 2) propaganda. Leverage as a spoiler, to pressure/influence the other two parties in the election cycle. Propaganda is pretty self-explanatory, I think: getting into the news & podcaster cycles, throwing events, sending out mailers/flyers etc.

Some people (rich & poor) and interest groups/super PACs may fund it, so it won’t even have to be all his own money.

The world was already like this. What’s being destroyed is people’s false consciousness of the world, especially people in the imperial core.