MarxistRealism
@MarxistRealism
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I like history and the immortal science of Marxism-Leninism but mostly I talk about life in the empire.
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Joined November 2010
My conspiracy theory for March is that @Disney named the movie "Frozen" so that when people Google "Disney Frozen" they get the princesses and the catchy songs instead of all the blogs and articles alleging that Walt Disney cryogenically froze himself.
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There used to be a thing called "jobs" and companies used to have to hire humans called "employees" to work "jobs." Then some jackasses from California created "apps" and said people working on apps weren't "employees" and helped destroy the job market forever.
i just seriously cannot understand the leftist disdain for delivery apps no matter how much i try.
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I'm guessing most people have seen by now the video of the Canadian man who is so scared of being forced into homelessness that he's choosing death instead. I can't get over how plainly he says "I don't want to die" but the doctors sign his death slip anyway.
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I'm not really sure how to parse the way the police brutally murdereing a man is being turned into a media event, complete with a countdown to the global premier of the snuff film like it's a music video drop.
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You laughed at how "brainwashed" Trump voters were when he said he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose any votes. But Joe Biden can help kill ten thousand in Palestine and you're posting about how you'll still vote for him anyway.
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The agony of that Bush clip is that it reinforces powerlessness. *We* know Iraq was a historical crime, *they* know Iraq was a historical crime, they're laughing at you because what are you going to do about it? They're all dying of old age with everything they ever wanted.
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In college we once planned a fake protest in emails (talked as if it were real but no one was ever meant to attend) and caught campus police showing up at the time/location we'd discussed. When we confronted administration the response was "of course we monitor your emails".
THREAD: The biggest story of my life is finally out. Since 2019, I’ve been investigating a monitoring tool called Social Sentinel. They bill it as a way to help save students’ lives. I found it had another purpose — surveilling campus protests.
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If you read Pentagon reports (many are openly published) then you already know "megacities/urban unrest" are a top 3 threat factor for the military and you also know one of the "risks" involved is that US soldiers may not obey orders to shoot US civilians. Neat solution!.
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The window for widescale protests and demonstrations is narrowing.
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The average person massively overestimates their ability to evade the surveillance state.
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This is unironically why it's so hard to organize on college campuses in a meaningful way. Every four years you have a total refresh of student-institutional knowledge and a fresh crop of naive 18 year olds who don't even realize how much has been lost before they even enrolled.
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This is what capitalism does to the disabled, the poor, the people who can no longer produce profits for the privileged few. You will be discarded with the dignity of yesterday's garbage the moment you become unproductive. The lifeboat is shrinking and you're not on it.
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"I'm scared of driving through the South". "Blue states should stop giving money to red/Southern states". "The US would be better off if we got rid of the South". Now, what do you mean by that?
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It's not about tiktok. This bill gives the federal government the power to label and criminalize owning or maintaining any website, computer/mobile app or software that gets labeled as a "foreign adversary controlled application" in the broadest possible terms
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Also to be blunt: all doctors who sign off on deaths like that should lose their licenses. Every technocrat pushing these policies should be forced out of public life. This is an unacceptable and frankly evil way to treat society's most vulnerable.
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At Twitter, we value your privacy. That's why we hid the likes feature while partnering with the Israeli tech company AU10TIX to store your biometric facial data, government ID, and any other identifiers we may be able to infer about you.
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Tesla whistle-blower revealing that the company hides accident reports from their autopilot, endangering the drivers and every other unwilling participant sharing the roads with this untested product - the same day Musk's other company is approved to experiment on your brain!
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Liberal neighbor quietly removing their "no human is illegal" sign from the front yard because they're nervous someone will accuse them of criticizing Biden and helping Trump win.
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"I don't know how to torrent. It's too complicated and scary for me, so I'm happy to pay corporations a regular fee for temporary access to their content" is exactly the learned helplessness corporations have been pushing for years with their UI streamlining and walled gardens.
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The reason the old poem goes "First they came for the communists" was because the Nazis understood the Communists to be an organized, militant group that would refuse to abandon solidarity or throw vulnerable populations to the wolves for temporary political gains.
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Gotta be honest - the way this story is developing seems pretty bizarre to me
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Not to pick at a scab but it's still wild to me that seven months ago you'd get dogpiled and called a fascist for suggesting that people who didn't get the covid vax still deserve access to healthcare and now we're supposed to pretend none of that ever happened.
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NPR's tantrum over being labeled as US state media reminds me of an old Cold War joke:
NPR will suspend its use of Twitter, the broadcaster said on Wednesday, a little over a week after the social network designated the organization's account “U.S. state-affiliated media.” Twitter has since changed the label to “Government-funded Media.”.
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I think it's undeniable that people are alienated and lonely. I think it's obvious that dating apps have permanently damaged dating in a way that had already been frayed by mass media. I think framing it as an issue of men not getting enough sex misses the mark by miles 😶.
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My friends got beaten by cops operating under the orders of Democrat university leaders in cities with Democrat mayors and Democrat governors for daring to exercise their first amendment rights against the Democrat president actively involved in the extermination of Gaza.
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Tune in at 6pm to watch a black man plead for his life while the state snuffs it out. We'll be back after this commercial break for an extended commentary debate on whether or not he had an intrinsic right to life.
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Could you imagine this article being published for anything else? A New York doctor who stops treating lung cancer patients if they're smokers? A Kansas doctor who stops treating heart patients if they're obese? I just don't understand the people cheering this behavior on
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"We need a liberal Joe Rogan" is funny because liberals have a million of them. Yglesias, Vox, Contrapoints, more than I can fit in a tweet. Liberal political influencers/commentators are practically hegemonic. It's just they're mostly insufferable dorks that no one likes.
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This is important research and an important article. If you're a student activist/organizer you need to learn digital/physical opsec NOW. You're up against a massive institution and they are not your friend as soon as you become annoying to their business agenda.
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Twitter makes me laugh because I just saw a tweet saying "I'm going full conspiracy, I think the balloon incident was a media event manufactured to increase tension with China" and then people scolded them with "it's tinfoil hat nonsense to say the US wants tension with China".
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Leftist anti-capitalist Nike marketer son or right-wing army honeypot psyop daughter
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If you live in the US you have a greater responsibility to do something about the giant empire of death that you live in and benefit from on a daily basis before you start moralizing about other nations.
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You were nine years old when that process began so I get why you've been ideologicaly acclimated to it like a fish in water but the fact is allowing "apps" to redefine the nature of employment was a defeat for the working class that we still haven't recovered from.
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This is Mr. Farsoud in his own words. I want to highlight his response because this is his story and he would like to clarify the role of his doctor here.
@MarxistRealism That being said, the system IS definitely broken. The solution isn't to take away made though. It's making life bearable enough that it would no longer be a good option.
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I don't understand why every time there's a protest in a foreign country everyone in the US feels compelled to signal they "stand in solidarity." You just learned about a massively complicated situation a few days ago. Do you know anything that wasn't told to you by someone else?.
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And I will be honest, most young people have no clue how completely and utterly monitored they are. Maybe they understand in the abstract, but absolutely not in terms of how that information disadvantage benefits their surveillants and affects their potential range of action.
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I know it's hip to shit on rural America but the state of it really makes me sick. Half of everyone in rural Louisiana has a story of how toxic spilloff gave their family cancer and then a doctor got paid off by a corporation to lie about the cause.
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Tough night for all the people I find to be condescending morons.
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The US should have mandatory Spanish language courses in all public schools.
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A current plank in the right-wing blue-check political program is to find as close to a child bride as they can legally and socially enable, make it illegal for women to initiate a divorce, lobotomize them, and then force them to pump out at least half a dozen kids.
TIL there's a couple in California that unironically loves the way their lobotomy turned out and maybe this is the key to happiness
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"AI is going to make it so you can't trust any information on the internet!". The president went on TV and claimed he saw 40 decapitated babies and then everyone yelled at you and called you stupid if you didn't trust that information. I think the problem resides elsewhere.
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Idk, if I were a twitter user in 2023 I personally would not rush to condemn the hippies as a group of posers who prioritized aesthetics and their sense of self over their professed task uprooting the US political structure.
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Attacking cargo ships is NEVER acceptable. I can't believe I even have to explain this to tankies. Bombing hospitals, however, is morally gray and I'm disgusted that you would rush to condemn it before all the facts came out.
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Have you lost your damn mind? "Without destroying a single city"? We destroyed an entire unrelated country. "Imprisoned its leaders in a Cuban dungeon"? You're referring to an illegal blacksite torture program where innocent people were picked off the street and never faced trial.
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The other day some blue check posted "No one should be allowed to be anonymous on Twitter" and it took me 2 minutes to find her home address based off her lapsed insurance licensing credentials.
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Whether you agreed with the trucker convoy or not, I feel like it's incontrovertible that the PM who froze the bank accounts of protestors, locked them out of their finances, and sent in the cops to attack and mass arrest them is in no position to make statements like this.
PM Justin Trudeau: "Everyone in China should be allowed to protest. We will continue to ensure that China knows we will stand for human rights and with people who are expressing themselves."
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It's so funny that the mainstream official version of history is just "Gerald Ford just decided to make George Bush Sr. head of the CIA even though he was ~never~ a part of the CIA beforehand. And then a television actor became president and made the former CIA head his VP.".
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Meanwhile, the average American understands this as a series of discrete events rather than all one war.
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This is the banality of evil that academics like to talk about, right? If you want a decent career in the empire then occasionally you're going to have to look the other way and keep your mouth shut about all the genocide you always knew was there.
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The "I think I should be allowed to shoot homeless men" ""communist"" gained 400 followers yesterday if you were wondering what the end result of all those quote tweets was.
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How many likes before you can put a screenshot of a tweet in your tinder pics. V important asking for a friend.
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I was almost worried I might witness some solidarity in the wake of a teenager dead from a hate crime but luckily some twitter accounts were around to scold everyone for using the wrong hash tag and remind us there is zero connection between different minority struggles.
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This is correct from what we know so far. People have been acting like you're a conspiracy theorist if you point out that there's been no evidence presented to connect him to the shooting except a few provocative statements from the cops trying to build a circumstantial case.
NEW: Luigi Mangione's attorney says that he will plead not guilty to the Pennsylvania charges and suggested he would do the same with the N.Y. counts. "I haven't seen any evidence that he's the shooter."
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Imagine how differently the US Civil War might have turned out if workers in Manchester, England had had this selfish attitude. If they had continued production instead of defying their bosses by refusing to work with Confederate cotton.
Why should the UAW leaders and members try to expend political capital for a foreign policy issue. Unions don’t exist to promote pan-activist left policy. They exist to promote the economic interests of their members
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Who could have ever predicted AOC would turn out to be a union-busting West Point recruiter who essentially never votes against the party despite all the big talk early in her career about how she wasn't going to be just another Democrat?.
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And yes I'm aware that I'm posting on twitter, too. I'm not over here pretending I'm exempt I'm just letting you know if you think you've found some lifehack to evade facial recognition algorithms or your texts are safe because they're on Signal you are deluding yourself.
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I'm SORRY for taking the bait and putting this on the timeline but have you ever seen a tidier encapsulation of liberalism than "changing material conditions won't affect anything, we must battle in the realm of ideas."
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Now we get to have a conversation about whether our institutions are actively malicious or just so incompetent that they're indistinguishable from active malice
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You're at a constant disadvantage because administrators have the benefit of operating with consistent staff over decades, whereas you, as a student, are lucky if you can get one or two semesters of commitment from others - much less keep them long enough to make a difference.
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It seems many people don't know Auschwitz and other mechanized death camps were developed by Nazi command to ""solve"" the problem that digging ditches and shooting men, women, and children along the Eastern front was causing Nazi soldiers to break down, quit, or kill themselves
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Not to be a hater but the reason the Bush and Obama era accounts are funny is because they're internet anthropology looking back into a different mindset that most people forgot about or weren't around for. This meme is from Nov 2020. I saw someone repost it three weeks ago.
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I'm not trying to sound melodramatic, but this is what losing looks like.
This is evil. They're being charged with money laundering for organizing a bail fund.
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@captaincabine13 It's true. People think there's someone actively watching through the webcam when the reality is more like they keep everything in a database just in case it's relevant in the future.
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Not only that; they've got everyone prepped and thrilled for the next round. Surely THIS proxy war will be different. We're fighting for human rights this time. It's a humanitarian lethal aid being sent to a war zone with no accountability but it's different this time, honest.
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I won't push back on anyone who tells me to maintain optimism in this, it's just something I think about frequently as we move toward autonomous systems that try to eliminate the human element of maintaining class domination.
Overcoming the psychological damage caused by ordering a person to murder another person is a primary focus of militaries across the world. Mechanization, through drones, gun dogs, etc, is the modern way to "overcome" that hurdle beyond the brainwashing of basic training.
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This is why "will there be bananas under socialism" is actually a legitimate theoretical question for people and not something 🌐-brains get to scoff at from the comfort of their first world convenience.
Wow: Today, a jury found Chiquita Brands International liable for funding a violent Colombian paramilitary organization, the United Self-defense Forces of Colombia (AUC), that was responsible for major human rights atrocities during the 1990s and 2000s.
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Time to rally around a senile octagenarian because some shipping crates were getting attacked as retaliation for our client state implementing a civilian extermination campaign so they could open up more coastal real estate.
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My feelings are complicated. I get why some people hate the South. But what fascinates me is how often these asinine regionalist takes buy into a mindset that reinforces local power structures, class hierarchy, and racial oppression in ways that thrill the local KKK & oppressors.
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Not trying to be a jerk but this entire thread is basically the mindset of an 8 year old who looks at tap water under a microscope for the first time, sees it's full of microfauna, and goes "Ew! I'm never drinking water again!"
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I'm not going to mince words because it's not morally gray. If you're defending the Canadian government giving a standing ovation to a Waffen-SS veteran you are a Nazi collaborator and fascist revisionist.
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I often see people on here act like the CIA is separate from class struggle, as if a group of Wall Street professionals taking over major parts of the state to assert first-world bourgeois dominance and build the world's largest empire isn't an explicit manifestation of class war.
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If after Fetterman you still don't get that Democrats are trying to hang whatever remains of "the socialist left" out to dry, I don't know what to tell you. They're literally laughing at you and doing end zone dances over how dumb and naive you were to think he'd be one of you.
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The thing that pisses me off about "based Hunter Biden" is that Joe Biden has spent his entire career writing legislation to rip apart families and ruin people's lives for petty drug offenses. But somehow it's a measure of his ""immense empathy"" when he covers for his own kid.
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Sorry but she's absolutely spitting here. If you've ever heard "9/11 was a ritual of mass trauma" this is exactly what it means. Brutal images of death, violence, and horror broadcast on 9AM primetime and perpetually reinflicted through annual "celebrations".
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You know what man, you're so right. If there's one thing that proves Manufacturing Consent is bunk, it's a white 20-something "Macronist" from France who insists, in his expert opinion, that the West "has no agenda" with Haiti.
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You have to admit it's ironic the media spent years pointing out runes (remember The Northman controversy?), hand signals (👌), and other hidden symbols of white supremacy (1488) to show how it was omnipresent, only to start making excuses for literal swastikas and totenkopf.
The decision by some Ukrainian soldiers to wear patches with Nazi icons threatens to reinforce Russian propaganda used to justify the invasion. It also could give the symbols mainstream life after the West's decades-long efforts to eliminate them.
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It's symptomatic of a bigger problem: "The internet shifted and I don't know (or never learned) how to seek valid information in this new environment." Adding "reddit" to every Google search you make isn't a sustainable solution, it's just one most people landed on for now.
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Reading CIA/FBI history is as important as reading theory. "Class war" isn't a metaphor and there are millions of murdered people across the world to drive that point home. Refusing to study the tactics of your enemy is guaranteeing that your enemy will win.
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@RobertSkvarla I love that this is authentically your answer because you've posted this screenshot before and it sticks with me.
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I legitimately don't understand why people on this site clutch their pearls whenever someone says the US is in a proxy war with Russia when that is an opinion shared by the US military and US political establishment.
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Idk how many times it needs to be said but opposing the state when it seems to legislate persecution IS class conflict. Don't embarrass the legacy you want to inherit with this stuff.
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You actually think smoking causes cancer? Sorry but the smoking industry has spent millions to hire doctors and every study has shown smoking doesn't increase the risk of cancer. Besides, it's not in their rational self-interest for them to kill off their customers.
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What do the people who think studying conspiracies is a waste of time think about how Breonna Taylor was likely a casualty of a gentrification conspiracy between local politicians, police, and real estate developers who wanted to force out residents so they could flip properties?.
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OK to be clear when WE disrupt a nation's ability to do commerce as a way to exert leverage and influence them politically that's called international order. When BROWN PEOPLE do it, that's called piracy and they need to be killed expeditiously. For international order.
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What I think gets often lost is that it's not a personal individual failure as much as it's a deliberate behavioral curation *by* corporations *on* the populace. Internet corporations do not want savvy internet users. They want to create mass consumers who value convenience.
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Every day we have to find new ways to help people realize capitalism and corporations consume all criticisms of themselves and feed it back to you as a consumer identity tied to a media product.
Andor is straight up insurrectionary anarchist propaganda. You cannot change my mind. One Way Out.
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How do you start posting about your moral responsibility over "the math of genocide" and expect me to take you seriously. I don't even have words for you at that point.
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The way politicians phrase this as "choose to stay" always gets a certain type of person clapping like a trained seal but it's such a condescending misrepresentation of how these situations work and a way for politicians to shift blame onto the victims of natural disasters.
Tampa Mayor Jane Castor: “I can say this without any dramatization whatsoever: If you choose to stay in one of those evacuation areas, you are going to die.”
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I once organized a protest against George Bush visiting campus. At the protest, a secret service agent walked up inches from my face, took a picture of me, and within 5 minutes people were taunting me with my full legal name 😬.
secret service had your whole life story on they computer soon as you pulled your phone out for this pic.
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No one wanted to listen, but people have seen through the Squad for years and recognized they were using the language of socialism as a brand to ride into Congress. It doesn't get more phony than siding with railroad corporations and party politics over union workers.
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The monkeys involved in his twisted experiments all died scared and in pain, tearing at their implants and bashing their heads as bacteria colonized their brains. The tests killed nearly every animal involved, and now he wants to do it to you as well. This man deserves prison.
The first human patient will soon receive a Neuralink device. This ultimately has the potential to restore full body movement. In the long term, Neuralink hopes to play a role in AI risk civilizational risk reduction by improving human to AI (and human to human) bandwidth by.
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Can anyone else think of a recent explosion where the obvious culprit took credit before backing off and denying, then muddied the waters with a bunch of unpersuasive evidence that left everyone just picking their own explanation based on their priors.
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If we really want to stir the pot, now let's talk about how academic institutions are often directly in bed with CIA/FBI/LM/Raytheon/etc and professors manipulate grad students (or groom the willing devotees of empire) into producing research for the benefit of those groups.
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Do you think they invented this, got it to this point, and they're just done now? They won't iterate over it and improve its performance? That we won't see ICE deploying these robots against refugees, migrants, and border crossers within the decade for real-world test data?
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@ThugstaNuffin How can I refute a hypothetical reaction you made up in your head based off an actually existing Soviet policy.
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