knfrmity @ knfrmity @lemmygrad.ml

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Of course, the western capitalists have always used whatever tools they have at their disposal to exploit and oppress the global south. If they didn't, their class position and relative power would be eroded. A global south with independent and self-sufficient energy and food resources is a extreme threat to the international rules based order.

You mean this TikTok?

https://www.mintpressnews.com/tiktok-chinese-trojan-horse-run-by-state-department-officials/284353/

Indeed, that's why monopoly was invented. It was meant to illustrate how stupid and unsustainable capitalism and private property are.

No they don't.

But you're just proving the trope asked about in the original post.

A home is for living in. A person has one body, therefore one home per person/family unit is an appropriate number. Corporations have no bodies, therefore they do not need homes.

Not only is rent robbery, but private property in itself has its origins in theft.

I user a terminal so that that everyone around me thinks I'm "hacking" when I'm just running updates or configuring something.

Those two pictures are the same person.

It's clearly a move to gain control of what people's computers will be allowed to run and what information they'll be allowed to see.

There were already attempts to implement this at the start of the consumer internet days by Microsoft and others, which failed then because many early internet users were paying attention and knew what was being attempted. This time I'm not sure that we'll be able to stop it without structural changes to society.

As I understand it, it wasn't arbitrary. Microsoft has wanted to require TPMs for two decades at this point. Once there's high enough adoption they can roll out their version of trusted computing.

Thanks for the heads up. Their loss really.

Sure. I usually pick out the flies before I sip though.

For whatever reason the little flies around my house like whiskey even more than I do. It's really annoying to be honest.

I'm with you. I find it really problematic how involved massive corporations are with software that ostensibly belong to the people. Whether that's in terms of dictating development paths, charging fees for SWAS or whatever they call it these days, to outright stealing it and charging money for its simple use.

Of course, they're running out of human sacrifices to lay at the altar of neoliberalism, and Ukraine has to stay in the fight until US election day next November for Biden to have a chance.

Didn't Ireland already start deporting draft dodging Ukrainians in the early fall?

Then the question can be "are journalists allowed to report on accusations of war crimes"?

The answer is the same: it depends who is being accused. Are they the US empire or vassal state? Expect to be publicly vilified at best. Are they a non-aligned state? Expect cheers and a bunch of primetime cable news interviews.

It's not "Hamas" reporting these death tolls, it's the Palestinian health authority, which has a proven track record at very accurate health records. The UN trusts them as a source and western academics have no issues accepting their numbers.

If anything casualties are under reported.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/how-many-palestinians-have-died-gaza-war-how-will-counting-continue-2023-12-06/

It's an interesting hypocrisy, or dialectic if you will.

As you say, conspiratorial thinking is the basis for myths about the empire's enemies, but at the same time "conspiracy theories" have been vilified at every opportunity by the very same myth making machine since the Kennedy assassination.

As a personal aside, my partner is concerned that I will fall into a "conspiracy theory" or "cult" bubble due to my ML leanings, and may lose touch with reality.

This happened in Canada recently too and I can't help but think it's an op in the vein of Russiagate.

Most people have absolutely no basis on which to understand how far right tendencies are inevitable under capitalism. So it's really easy to sell them stories about foreign interference to both comfort them that far right tendencies aren't an organic growth from the current conditions and it helps drum up more China/Russia/villain-of-the-week hate to be leveraged later on.

Allies the way that the mob protection racket is allied with local business owners.

National liberation is never a mistake.

I wonder why USian athletes are still allowed to compete under their nation's flag, seeing as their government will invade or meddle with whoever it damn well likes.