If someone claims something happened on the fediverse without providing a link, they're lying.
Evidence or GTFO.
As discussed above, conditions will only worsen in Palestine.
You seem to have lost the plot, if anything, this just supports the point I was making. Palestinian voters refused to vote for Harris despite indications that things would get worse under Trump. Yet your explanation for this behavior is that they must all be "Privileged," an argument you apparently forgot you were making. How can you possibly argue that their position is privileged when your best case scenario for them is indefinitely continuing genocide? It's absurd.
Suggesting the Dems should be torn down in 2023 or 2024, without a meaningful, competitive replacement is garbage.
And how exactly is a meaningful, competitive replacement supposed to spring into existence if everyone just falls behind them no matter what in every election until the end of time?
Of course a striking worker isn’t privledge, they are standing on the line and could easily be retaliated against.
Yeah, that's the point. It's a nonsense claim dressed up in progressive language, just like your nonsense claim that Palestinians voted the way they did because of privilege.
I'm not an accelerationist, nor do I have any such fantasies. In the face of continued decline, "what's next" is virtually guaranteed to be 10x worse, that's why the decline must be stopped not continued. If I were an accelerationist, I would be more than happy with either candidate, since both ensured continued decline.
Not caring about buying time is a privileged position
Is that so? Would you consider all the Palestinians who didn't vote for her to be "privileged?"
Obviously this is bullshit, it's just weaponizing progressive language to try to get people to fall in line behind a doomed cause rather than looking at solutions that actually have the potential to improve the lives of marginalized people and stop the rise of the far-right. You might as well say, "It's privileged to support striking workers because they're the ones well off enough to go without pay for a period, have you considered that scabs have families to feed?" Nonsense.
I don't think this way because I'm "privileged," but rather the opposite, because I'm pretty fucking close to the top of the fascists' list so it's easier for me to see that they must be stopped rather than allowing minorities to be sacrificed one by one, "First they came for" style, like the Democrats offer.
So what societal good was done by not helping keep trump out?
There are two possibilities, either we cost her the election or we didn't. If we didn't, we worked towards building an actual alternative party at zero cost. If we did, then it's even better, because we demonstrated that our support is needed to win.
The Democratic party, particularly the version of it that you believe in enabling, is both fundamentally unacceptable and doomed to failure. The Democrats have chosen to be the party of the status quo, and the status quo is declining and will continue to decline and unless and until they embrace change and an actual vision of the future, they are going to fail. Even if it were possible to "buy time," that's not a valid goal, because time is against us, every minute that passes is a minute where the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, the environment is damaged, and the right grows stronger. Only a fundamental shift in the political sphere and the proliferation of leftist narratives and explanations for the decline can possibly stem the fascist tide.
The Democrats can either change into what they need to be or they can be replaced, these are the only two paths forward where I don't end up in a camp. Voting third party furthers both of those goals, while unconditional loyalty to the party only encourages them to continue on a doomed path.
If someone claims something happened on the fediverse without providing a link, they’re lying.
I have to say it so often it's in my profile. I don't believe I've ever been wrong.
If I said what I did in the nicest way possible, I'd get just as many downvotes.
Also, to be pedantic, it's not ad hominem, it's tone policing 😜
Bring on the downvotes, libs, as always, they don't change facts. He botched AIDS so badly that gay rights activists were calling for him to be executed by firing squad. He opposed lockdowns for doctors returning from treating Ebola, creating a significant risk for a major domestic outbreak just so a couple people could go out to bars and shit.
But most importantly, he lied to all of us about masks, saying they don't work, even saying they would increase your chances of catching Covid. Like 80% of the bullshit anti-maskers pushed came directly from the CDC, before they said, "Oopsie! Turns out we were wrong!" There was never any evidence or any reason for them to say masks don't work. No international organization ever made those sorts of claims, and in other countries they somehow knew to wear masks right from the start.
The reason he lied is to cover Trump's ass after he sold off all the PPE. They wanted to discourage the public from buying masks so that doctors could have them, but this breach of public trust is largely responsible for creating the anti-mask movement. And once they actually started telling the truth, the public was able to contribute by making cloth masks and donating them to hospitals.
Mods, I know you're going to remove this comment for "misinformation" (daring to impugn the honor of a liberal media darling), but when you do, please comment a reply listing a single false thing I said, because I base my beliefs on evidence and would love to be proven wrong.I stand corrected on the last point, apologies to the mods for that presumption.
I absolutely despise Fauci (he literally botched three pandemics), but if he's targeted it'll be for all the wrong reasons.
Nah. At the moment it seemed like a really big deal but then it just kinda faded into the background after a news cycle. Nobody can tell you what day it happened on without googling.
Ashley Belanger May Be Embezzling Money From Ars Technica
Just a few days after writing an article on Ars Technica about the possibility of foreign users on RedNote being walled off from Chinese users, rumors began swirling on Lemmy that she may soon decide to defraud her employer by transferring company money into her personal bank account.
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Lmao "rumors swirl" means "we made it the fuck up."
No, this is not the CCP directly censoring a whole worldview from its citizens, this is the CCP directly allowing its citizens to see that worldview while some random author speculates based on nothing but rumors and hearsay that they might change that policy in the future.
But who needs to read past the title if it aligns with your presumptions?
The slavery enjoyers are not happy with me, it seems. If only downvotes had the power to change historical facts.
It's actually just a funny coincidence, though it's funny when people freak out about it. Mao's "little red book" is written 红宝书, while the app is 小红书, so the connection is only really there in English. Red is a reference to two institutions the creator was involved with, Stanford Business School and Bain & Company, both of which use red as their main color (I imagine the general association of red with good luck may have factored in as well). As for note vs book, I mean, a notebook is a "little book," and note is short for notebook (e.g. Death Note).
If you actually look at the app and what gets posted there and what doesn't, it's pretty silly to assume it's a reference. It was originally called "Hong Kong Shopping Guide" and was targeted towards tourists, the userbase skews female and relatively well off. It's like Instagram, there's lots of cat posts and the the like, lots of fashion, I've come across some pretty impressive furries, and it's even got a decent sized queer community, particularly popular with lesbians.
Even if it were an intentional reference to Mao's book, like, so what? The users are the ones putting out content and they're just regular people. Not everything is some sinister plot.
For the record, that line is more in reference to people talking about things that allegedly happened on the fediverse, like, "I saw such and such user say X."
Here is a detailed account of what Tibet was like with sources. If there's a specific claim that you'd like me to clarify or back up, I'd be happy to.
Tibet emerged as one of countless warlord states in the chaos following the fall of the Qing, it never received international recognition and is recognized as part of China and claimed by the ROC (Taiwan). In the period when it was autonomous, it was ruled by a slaveowning theocracy with an average life expectancy in the 30's. Whipping, mutilation, and amputation were common punishments and poverty and starvation were rampant, with people frequently having to sell their kids for food. The monks and lamas, meanwhile, lived on the backs of the people in extravagant mansions with thousands of servants.
"Free Tibet" is essentially just "The South Will Rise Again" with extra steps.
Isn't it the exact opposite? The only thing China can do with my data is try to sell me stuff. Meanwhile, the authorities in my own country have the power to kick in my door and drag me away to some blacksite.
If I were Chinese, I would rather the US government have my data than the Chinese government, but since I'm American, I would rather the Chinese government have it than the US. Pretty much everyone anywhere in the world ought to regard their own government as their highest security risk.
For one reason part of the massive losses were Soviet Military tactics of meatwaves (which Russia still uses today) during WWII.
Is that the technical term? I'm guessing your source for that is Enemy at the Gates lmao.
Soviet military tactics in WWII were quite innovative and effective. The Soviets developed the military category of "Operations," in between the levels of the strategic and the tactical. Soviet operations focused on breaching the enemy line in order to deal as much damage as possible to the support crew, then evaluating whether the position could be held and frequently withdrawing before reinforcements could arrive. This was reflective of communist ideology, which emphasized the importance of unglamorous work, and therefore, targeted the unglamorous work of the enemy during wartime.
This was in stark contrast to their adversaries, who held the exact opposite ideology act acted accordingly. The Nazis were obsessed with proving their superiority at every turn, and also terrified of disappointing their superiors. The Soviet approach of tactically retreating after a successful breach would've been unthinkable and ridiculed (and punished) as weak and cowardly. The Nazis had little formal doctrine and their military reports were generally full of lies and fluff to impress their superiors, while the Soviets took a much more rigorous and almost scientific approach.
The heroic efforts of the Soviets were the primary reason the world was saved from fascism, and it is absolutely absurd to lay the blame for the men, women, and children who were killed - including the brutal, indiscriminate mass slaughter and burning alive of civilians - at the feet of the people who put the perpetrators in their graves.
Take this crybully shit back to Reddit, lib. It's super fucked up for you to place "lib" on the same level of actually offensive shit and try to play the victim like this.
Spare me the condesencion, lib.
Moving the goalposts. You don't need to show that someone said, "Voting Harris is voting genocide" you need to find me someone who said, "If Trump wins, the genocide will stop," which is the claim that was actually made by the person I replied to. Please refrain from that sort of rhetorical trickery.