silent_water [she/her] @ silent_water @hexbear.net

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colonialism is also still enforced today - IMF loans that force austerity policies on receiving nations, coups that topple popular governments and replace them with dictatorships that are friendly to western interests, the fomenting of civil wars and conflicts that frequently genocide entire populations, the sale of arms and training to far-right militias. neocolonialism doesn't involve direct rule but it's merely the form that's changed, not the character or the consequences.

structural poverty spanning generations, the legacy of redlining, a massive transfer of wealth out of the hands of the Black community, worse schools in the urban core, etc, etc, etc

this is historically illiterate. the term privatization was coined specifically to describe what the Nazis were doing in Germany.

oooh this is a great addition to our site taglines, thank you

it's the active sort. it prioritizes topics people feel heated about by weighting posts with more comments higher. it also doesn't decay the weight quickly enough with time so those posts stay on the top as long as people are arguing in the comments.

the representatives are chosen by their parties in most countries, including the US. the difference is that in western "democracies" there's two or more parties all representing the same interests - those of the capitalist class - posing the electorate with a false choice. how is this improvement?

a desperate fear of modular code that provides sound and safe abstractions over common patterns. that the language failed to learn from Java and was eventually forced to add generics anyway - a lesson from 2004 - says everything worth saying about the language.

neat little poem

reddit took "kill all slaveowners" as promoting violence. it started in a thread about John Brown so people were talking about history but the second people started catching bans, the userbase revolted.

it's about the platform and the majority membership, not a judgment of every community that exists there. there are quite obviously cool corners on reddit, but the platform as a whole defends bigotry as free speech, at an admin level.

why would we war with an instance we broadly like? we have an anti-sectarian rule when it comes to other leftists.

we see a good take, we hit the bear. we see a bad take, we reply. it's just site culture as we don't have downvotes.

that's not an insult. it's quite literally a statement of fact.

waaait what on earth did I miss

it's a joke about reddit's tendency towards racism and other bigotry, not the literal stormfront website.

ok, this has gone over my head. can you explain what she meant? her "joke" reads like a retreading of stale

it's got some weird bugs but I generally haven't noticed audio issues. casting doesn't work perfectly, though.

who the fuck pays to watch ads. what a ludicrous proposition. that's the part that makes no sense to me.

it frequently misfires when I don't want it to and fails to fire when I do. I used it for a couple of months and then went back to buttons after getting frustrated.