Side point but it’s kinda crazy how the modern usage of paper tiger was coined by Mao an interview with one of the US’s greatest historians, and most US citizens have no idea who she is or have read anything by her. (Anna Louise Strong)
Yes, the wmf has so many problems, especially its bloated administration. Also it’s run by US government regime-change agents like Katherine Maher, who steer the site to pro-US viewpoints.
Almost a million dollars, jesus. The US is a truly disgusting country.
Do you have a link to what got removed?
Some things that help me at least:
Why are people downvoting this? Are they just now learning US socdems support their empire and imperial troops?
Read the article above. He’s very anti-immigrant, and anti-communist.
A few that I can think of: Rockhill, Smith, Enfu, Boer, Manoel, Foster, Cockshott, Shaikh.
We lost Losurdo pretty recently, and he was IMO one of the best of the last few decades.
This is pretty sad. Oneplus phones, tablets, and watches have like double the battery of samsung / apple, at 1/3rd of the cost. Hopefully OPPO will make another branding for europe at least, because the EU still does allow chinese smartphones to be sold there. The US can just isolate itself and force its people to buy $1500 smartphones.
Xiaomi, vivo, and oppo(oneplus’s parent company) are growing pretty rapidly in market share at least.
Same for me, + limewire and IRC channels, then torrents. There was a golden age in the 2000s where you’d see new albums and movies get released before they even came out, and in relatively good quality too.
This is anecdotal, but everyone I meet born after 2000 has no idea what torrents are, or how to share media, and many of them are paying for like 3 streaming services. They have no idea all this stuff is available for free without much effort, and with better quality.
Cool article, I wasn’t on any of these private trackers, but I remember them getting shut down.
I’m reminded of a quote from from this talk by Eric X Li on the PRC’s civil service organization department: “Neither George W Bush, nor Barack Obama, would have been able to become even a small county manager in China.”
Any negative speech: especially harsh, slanderous or divisive, that provokes equally charged emotional responses.
One other thing I’d like to add: It’s not just that rage-inducing content is out there, that’s always been there. It’s that it gets rewarded by big tech, by making sure that highly responded content, gets pushed to the top.
Capitalist tech companies have an incentive to platform this content because it increases the on-site time, and their own popularity, to the detriment of their users mental health. It also helps them push pro-capitalist narratives that atomize and isolate people who should be united by a shared humanity and class status.
tbh we’re somewhat guilty of this in lemmy also, with the Active sort allowing new comments to bump posts to the top of feeds.
The only real way to fight it, is to keep an eye out for these toxic / combative threads and posters, and remove them if necessary. Since we don’t capitalist incentives to keep people on site or serve ads, it serves no benefit to keep rage-bait posters around.
It’s quite possible that in the future, ai bros will rediscover “thinking”:
I know this is mostly a joke, but its also incredibly dangerous. Just use an explicit tool like bfg
Same for Alan Dershowitz, who also spends his time writing books defending both sexual assault (and getting pedos sentences commuted), and Israel.
“This mass-murderer told me that everyone is actually just as bad as him. Why would he lie?”
China is an oligarchy, my man.
Wrong. Here’s some sources:
The irresistable redditor urge to 🤓 abortion and defend legal institutions that criminalize it.