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This story sounds suss, but I want it to be true because https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/d60d74a4-b663-463b-a89e-11f89d4a2021.png

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It’s like Julian Assange is memory-holed already.

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And then there are those who don’t get whacked or politically persecuted, only cancelled. The people who got Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction wrong are still prominent today, while those who got it right have never worked in the industry again, like Chris Hedges and Phil Donahue.

Like, of course US journalists toe the party line: you get promoted for doing it and you get permabanned like Chris Hedges if you question it.

akkartik , to technology

@Judeet88 This thought might help you and me (https://lethallava.land/notes/9gp5hypoklkeflav; https://merveilles.town/@akkartik/105737744499263260) feel good about ourselves, but we still suffer some harm by being part of a society that grew dependent on Youtube. Might not seem fair, but there's a problem here and it impacts us.

@ajsadauskas @pluralistic @technology

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@akkartik Please do not spam the !technology Lemmy community with content that makes no sense to us. For reference, this is what your post looks like to us:

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/f5b289f7-547c-4566-9bf0-7257235c9aa6.png

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My wife & I never even discussed whether she should or would change her name. She’s not my property.

davel ,
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I don’t think I’m responsible for other adults’ reactions to my life choices or my lived experiences.

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It’s true that as a lemmy.ml admin, I’m not going out of my way to make this an inclusive space for traditional family values. I have different priorities for whom I make this space inclusive.

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I don’t doubt it. I’m not sure what we would have done if we’d intended to have kids.

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https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/7c8911ac-45e1-48ef-aa89-4d15a77f65ce.jpeg antelope-popcorn

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To make matters even worse, the GDP is usually a garbage neoclassical economics metric that doesn’t differentiate between the real economy and the FIRE economy.

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projection

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Global North corporate media view China’s economy through a capitalist lens, so the coverage in question is garbage in the first place.

One example: China intentionally popped the real estate speculation bubble so that regular people can continue to afford housing. China hasn’t made the mistake that the US has: namely housing as an investment vehicle. And the Chinese state can do that because the capitalist class is not in control, whereas the US is an oligarchy. CBS: Homes “unaffordable” in 99% of nation for average American

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Citations Needed podcast:

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Just because one’s house is one’s largest purchase doesn’t necessarily mean it’s an investment vehicle for which one can hope to get an 8% yearly return. China has a lot of public housing and is creating more, which in turn suppresses private housing prices. China to increase govt-subsidized housing in 2021-2025

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https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/66316e29-e7c4-498c-9076-2cb8535760e1.jpeg No apology needed.

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Welcome to getting six lemmy.ml posts deleted by admins.

davel , (edited )
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Thank you for calling me out, but I don’t think I fucked up. Your rash of posts received downvotes on lemmy.ml because our users don’t want to be spammed. You’re just wrong about what we consider to be good etiquette. Not every reddiquette translates to here.

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It was a very good post, actually, and I didn’t relish deleting them. You’re welcome to resubmit it, in fact. But lemmy.ml users don’t like having their “Local” page filled up with several copies of the same post, which almost surely is why they were downvoted. That web UI feature is popular and works as intended; it’s not supposed to dedupe. Our users often flag posts as spam when this happens, which we admins then have to deal with.

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Yes, I saw what the one kbin user said. And thank you for telling me what my job is.

Honestly I’m impressed that you’re still mansplaining a lemmy.ml admin—the archetypal Lemmy instance—on Lemmy etiquette, Lemmy UI flaws, how he’s a a fuck-up & an asshole, and how to do his job. You really know how to win hearts & minds.

You’re welcome to make the case for UI changes on GitHub through issue tickets and/or pull requests.

davel ,
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Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses

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The cool history: Are We The Baddies?

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Instead, the case will proceed to assess whether Ukraine committed genocide in the eastern parts of the country, as Russia claims – a matter where judges ruled that they have jurisdiction.

NATOpedia: Accusations of genocide in Donbas

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Hey they forgot to say Iran-backed.

⌘F iran-backed

1 of 7 matches

Never mind; carry on.

MetaFilter was/is a pioneer in noncorporate social media. Lessons might be taken from them, especially w/r/t moderation (faq.metafilter.com)

MetaFilter is a 21 year old noncorporate social media community that has taken its culture and moderation very seriously. Scanning the questions of their FAQ is probably the quickest way to look for anything that might be worth consideration....

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You might start with What does ‘threadshitting’ mean?

Threadshitting is either early snark, noise, “who cares” or joke comments in a newish MeFi thread or someone repeatedly making off-topic or noise comments in a thread often as a way of derailing discussion. Early threadshitting comments are frequently deleted.

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Fuck the imperial core.

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For whomever decided that this should be buried, this is not Reddit. Your downvotes have no power here.

Ackchyually, we can delete this post and your comment, should we choose to. Our patience with liberals of the imperial core has its limits.

One China | United States policy

  • The United States did not explicitly state the sovereign status of Taiwan in the three US-PRC Joint Communiqués of 1972, 1979, and 1982.
  • The United States “acknowledged” the “One China” position of both sides of the Taiwan Strait.
  • U.S. policy has not recognized the PRC’s sovereignty over Taiwan;
  • U.S. policy has not recognized Taiwan as a sovereign country; and
  • U.S. policy has considered Taiwan’s status as unsettled.
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I prefer to let liberals be wrong about things, but this is some brainworms

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crackers are still flagging this post lmayo

davel ,
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I wonder if you might be a conspiracy theorist.

davel ,
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Uh-huh en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motte-and-bailey_fallacy

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Of course we haven’t read any of it: you’re a sock puppet /s

If this were any other instance than lemmy.ml, the mods would probably have deleted your comments already.

davel ,
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I don’t know why NATO liberals keep thinking they speak for us all.

davel ,
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Say hi to Luna Oi for me (not really, she doesn’t know me).

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I mean, give us a little credit: we did fund & organize terrorists to try to destabilize Xinjiang.

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Actually Existing Socialism

Actually existing socialism (AES) is a term commonly used to refer to socialist states, that is, states governed by a dictatorship of the proletariat.

The five predominantly recognized AES states are China, Cuba, Laos, Vietnam, and, Korea, while examples of former AES states include the Soviet Union, Mongolia, and the Warsaw Pact countries of Eastern Europe.

Gabriel Rockhill - How The Left Should Analyze the Rise of a Multipolar World, China, Russia & BRICS

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So which is it, are the Chinese capitalists in control of the State, or is the “authoritarian” Xi Jinping in control? Or do Chinese workers actually have more effective democratic control than workers in bourgeois democracies?

BBC, 2014: Study: US is an oligarchy, not a democracy The US is dominated by a rich and powerful elite. So concludes a recent study by Princeton University Prof Martin Gilens and Northwestern University Prof Benjamin I Page.

Working people have no control over industry or the government, and both exercise repressive controls on any movement towards such a system.

This is what we’re constantly told by our governments and our corporate media that parrot them. I would suggest that your understanding of China comes from imperial core propaganda for the purposes of Cold War II. The propaganda is also important to the capitalist class that doesn’t want workers here to take note of a threat of a good example.

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I’m pretty sure you already made this point earlier in the thread, or perhaps in some other thread.

We Marxist-Leninist do think that China is an Actually Existing Socialism. Whether Western propaganda uses the term to its advantage is not our concern. We don’t at all agree with these “informed people” on whether China is a good place to live. Those people get their understanding of China from Western propaganda.

I think your conceptualization of socialism is a utopian one, which Marxists reject. This is why Engels wrote Socialism: Utopian and Scientific and Lenin wrote “Left-Wing” Communism: an Infantile Disorder.

Also, totalitarianism is a bullshit term created by Western propagandists in order to equivalate socialism and fascism. Hannah Arendt came from a petty bourgeois family and was a paid propagandist.

The CIA and the Cultural Cold War Revisited

U.S. and European anticommunist publications receiving direct or indirect funding included Partisan Review, Kenyon Review, New Leader, Encounter and many others. Among the intellectuals who were funded and promoted by the CIA were Irving Kristol, Melvin Lasky, Isaiah Berlin, Stephen Spender, Sidney Hook, Daniel Bell, Dwight MacDonald, Robert Lowell, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, and numerous others in the United States and Europe. In Europe, the CIA was particularly interested in and promoted the “Democratic Left” and ex-leftists, including Ignacio Silone, Stephen Spender, Arthur Koestler, Raymond Aron, Anthony Crosland, Michael Josselson, and George Orwell.

If fact, almost all of the “Western left” was captured by the imperial core propaganda machine: Imperialist Propaganda and the Ideology of the Western Left Intelligentsia: From Anticommunism and Identity Politics to Democratic Illusions and Fascism

Can you substantiate this claim?

From our own Western propaganda, you hear and credulously believe that Chinese workers have no say, and now the burden is on me to prove that they do have a say. If you really want to know, you’re welcome to look into it yourself. You might start with The East Is Still Red, which is short and provides a lot of references.

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Remember when Congress used to pretend that their authorization was needed? They hardly bother to go through the motions anymore.

A new internet is forming (& Meta wants to control it) (yewtu.be)

A federated internet is forming. It’s built on open protocols like ActivityPub & connects services like Mastodon, Threads, Pixelfed, Tumblr, Wordpress and more into a connected network known as the fediverse. And everyone from tech enthusiasts to Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey seem to want in.

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Don’t worry, the military-industrial complex wants to control it, too. Atlantic Council: Collective Security in a Federated World (PDF)

And don’t worry, the military industrial complex and corporate social media platforms are really one undifferentiated thing: Facebook Partners With Hawkish Atlantic Council, a NATO Lobby Group, to “Protect Democracy”

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This is a distinction with little difference, which is convenient for them, because they can say well ackchyually we’re not stopping you from self-hosting nerd when in practical terms they are.

davel ,
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Yup, it’s very not trivial.

Carlos Fenollosa: After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel. The oligopoly has won.

Jamie Zawinski (JWZ) agreed enough to boost Carlos’ post and has been documenting his own email pains for decades.

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🌍 👨‍🚀 🔫 👨‍🚀 Always has been

davel ,
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@BlanK0, in the future please refrain from making non-Linux posts to c/linux, so that we mods & admins don’t have to field complaints. Thanks.

Joe Biden Is Arming Greece So Greece Can Arm Ukraine—And Pro-Russia Republicans Can’t Stop Him (www.forbes.com)

As the Republican Party’s blockade of aid to Ukraine drags into its fourth month, the U.S. government under Pres. Joe Biden has found a clever new way to give Ukraine’s forces the weapons and ammunition they need to defend their country....

davel ,
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@CableMonster, I’m an admin on lemmy.ml, and we’re getting complaints of you trolling this post. After dozens of comments, maybe you’ve had your say and it’s time to stop threadsitting on the conversation. I approved your account request this week, please don’t make me regret it.

davel ,
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Maybe you don’t know how to take a hint and want your account to be temporarily banned.

davel ,
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It is not, as you said, that you’re dissenting from the standard narrative, at least not to me. It is threadsitting and making rather rude comments.

You may or may not have noticed that lemmy.world mods/admins have removed some of your comments already: lemmy.ml/u/CableMonster That is often a precursor to them banning you from the !News community or even the entire lemmy.world instance.

As an aside, most Lemmy instances consist predominantly of imperial core liberals, and lemmy.world is no exception. It’s a tough crowd over there in terms of this proxy war.

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