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  • Most other animals develop rapidly from birth to self sufficiency, while humans are born so very unfinished - totally dependent on others for our most basic needs, for years and years. If any values can be said to resonate with "human nature", it's prosocial and community-building values.

    Just about every major religion glorifies some version of The Golden Rule - do unto others as ye would be done by.

  • Mediaite is a blog. I'd be interested in some journalism from a more solid source tho.

  • It used to be so idealistic that he was a r/Jailbait mod and no investors saw that as toxic until newsmedia publicized that

  • As if that wasn't the goal all along. The UN finally got around to calling it genocide, and still nobody's actually lifting a finger to stop it - so why sugar-coat their intentions any longer.

  • Reddit CEO u/spez Huffman never shook his compromised past as r/Jailbait mod. If there's leverage for the regime to pressure Reddit's compliance with favorable content policy, I think it's connected to that.

    It's also not a very far stretch to suppose that Ghislaine Maxwell's suspected account u/MaxwellHill, which was a resourceful driver of userbase and content development, connects Huffman to Jeffrey Epstein's suppressed guest lists.

    You will never see an explicit announcement from a social media platform "so hay guise we're not allowed to criticize the regime, thanks for your cooperation". There won't be policy transparency.

  • Since the odds are so slim of tariffs at this scale further boosting an economy that was already pretty vigorous - I think the more important question is, who are you going to scapegoat when tariffs don't work as advertised? Immigration? George Soros? Biden? Deep State? Panama and Greenland? Her emails? Will you swallow the doublethink when Murdoch and Bezos's fake news tell you a recession is really sort of a boom, and vodka rations are up 8%?

  • We knew that was coming when we saw Sundar Pichai in Oligarch Row at the inauguration

  • I was already iffy about Reddit since the r/place #fuckspez whitewashing. I was never suspended - but when I learned Luigi was suddenly an "unperson" topic there, I realized that commercialized social media is inherently compromised.

    I'm not swearing off FB/Insta entirely just yet, but every time I visit them I'm more and more vividly aware how tedious Meta channels are.

  • Lots and lots of people, actually. Many identify with the tough-talkin' images being projected, believing it's just what the world needs and that the magic sorting hat will assign them to the privileged class when the dust settles.

  • In my defense, my family of origin revolved around a cookie cutter Atlas Shrugged minor villain dad - gaslighter, business cheat and mooch, compulsive womanizer - so Atlas Shrugged's heroes were the fantasy I needed when I read it. I knew I wasn't a "John Galt" so I tinkered with a dutiful Eddie Willers identity for a bit. Some good still came out of it - I got interested in philosophy as a respectable formal academic topic, and outgrew the fantasy.