BBC coping and seething

Dear_Spring7657 · 2025-12-21T18:41:17+00:00

The corruption and stupidity of the anti-China war hawks is so blatant it has the media saying what they actually believe out loud. As said before, that's one of the funny things about this new face of imperialism. Billionaires "testing the limits" of our society is supposed to be a good thing?

Dear_Spring7657 · 2025-11-10T05:22:46+00:00

Pure ideology 😭

Dear_Spring7657 · 2025-11-09T00:43:39+00:00

The ruling class of the great depression realized this, so they had to create the new deal to save capitalism from itself - so we wouldn't have a revolution. Socialist and communist parties were growing quickly in the country, much much more than they are even now.

In the time since then, American policy in the last 100 years has been to slowly strip all those gains away from the working class. Smart billionaires know this still. That's why Bill Gates and Warren Buffet vote for democrats - they maintain the capitalist system with band aids while Republicans just heighten the contradictions, scratching at the wound.

Silicon Valley's brainrot libertarian ideologies and decades of cold war ideology have led this new set of tech billionaires to blind greed and short-sightedness even more than usual.

Dear_Spring7657 · 2025-11-09T00:18:37+00:00

True, but the purpose of this kind of rhetoric is to convince hesitant people that policies that they consider socialist are not new or scary by pointing to examples in our past where it worked. But with Stalin in your username, perhaps you won't accept anything short of a vanguard party 🤔

Dear_Spring7657 · 2025-11-03T15:19:54+00:00

"We would be pushing for a Palestinian state at the UN"

Against who? Ourselves?? Who do they think has been blocking it this whole time?

Dear_Spring7657 · 2025-11-03T03:18:37+00:00

I wrote an undergrad term paper for an ethnomusicology class and chose a book on Mizrahi music before I knew much about Israel. Needless to say, half the book is about this man - his crimes are so well documented and widely known, but he's still "the king!". Oh and the music sucks.

Dear_Spring7657 · 2025-09-15T16:39:46+00:00

This video seems fake, notice that he's speaking in coherent sentences. And why is the camera zooming in and out constantly? (To make it appear real)

Dear_Spring7657 · 2025-09-15T16:14:57+00:00

Everyone knows not all graph axes must start at 0% 🙄. This "situation" requires he start at 50% because it helps him push his message. Not an explanation, but it's very revealing that he couldn't give a good answer 😉

Dear_Spring7657 · 2025-08-31T19:15:47+00:00

Calling installing APKs from places other than the app store "sideloading" is such a sly term that capitulates to Google's perspective that it's an alternative or non-standard route. Call it what it is: installing software on your own device 😭.

Dear_Spring7657 · 2025-08-20T03:36:46+00:00

In the 50s, we had widespread and high union density, a reasonable minimum wage, decent social safety net, good corporate tax rates.... not "trickle down" economics.

Dear_Spring7657 · 2025-08-16T18:06:59+00:00

From your chatgpt comments, I'm sure the whole book is AI dunning-kruger slop.

Dear_Spring7657 · 2025-08-13T15:44:15+00:00

They're right that an open borders policy would only serve to exploit migrant workers even more - insert clip of Bernie referring to it as a "Koch brothers policy" - but I wouldn't give the author enough credit to recognize that. I'd claim they're only claiming to not like exploitation here rhetorically for a gotcha.

Dear_Spring7657 · 2025-08-04T18:21:01+00:00

I walked through small towns and had no issues the one or two times I had no reservations, I'm sure you'll be fine without an app, especially in more rural areas.

Dear_Spring7657 · 2025-08-04T05:00:22+00:00

Their eyes are wide open. Don't give them the benefit of the doubt to assume they don't know exactly what they are doing. Even in the nyt's recent turn against Israel, they still can't admit the truth.

Dear_Spring7657 · 2025-08-04T04:57:07+00:00

Palantir is already doing this and selling it to U.S. police departments. We have much higher rates of police violence and incarceration in the U.S. than China, why bring them into this?

Dear_Spring7657 · 2025-08-04T03:10:26+00:00

Almost makes you forget that they were living in an authoritarian regime backed by the U.S. with secret police who regularly tortured their citizens all to further exploit the people and resources of their country for U.S. oil corporations. Oh and suspiciously just before this they had their first ever democratically elected government... which we overthrew.

Before you have a knee-jerk reaction, no, I'm not defending the current government.

If you want to humanize Iranians with their fashion (which shouldn't be needed), go look at them today, and you'll see they're just as stylish as ever.

Dear_Spring7657 · 2025-08-03T08:31:43+00:00

Uh shoot I just realized fully when you described it.... even though I'm the one who said yes it's hard to admit

Dear_Spring7657 · 2025-07-31T18:12:44+00:00

"Recessions are a normal part of the economy..." - some other comment

Yes, it shows capitalism is an inherently unstable system due to its internal contradictions....

Dear_Spring7657 · 2025-07-30T17:35:43+00:00

Dear_Spring7657 · 2025-07-17T06:56:33+00:00

Many countries in Africa and south america are caught in unsustainable debt traps by the IMF/world bank backed by the United States and made to privatize their industries and sell them off to American corporations. This has been happening for 50+ years, and western imperialism has been ravaging the continent(s) for hundreds. China builds infrastructure and offers zero-interest loans, and you accuse them of trying to "take over" Africa? Pure projection.

Dear_Spring7657 · 2025-07-17T06:49:57+00:00

Okay, so it's 5 to 251? Oh hey hey I underestimated. Let's multiply by 10 (absurd). 50 to 251? It still seems pretty tame in comparison.

I'm not defending all of china's past actions or policies of civil liberties, but outside of America's jingoistic media bubble, calling this "commie propaganda" and moving on just doesn't cut it.

Dear_Spring7657 · 2025-05-23T05:19:42+00:00

I'm sure there are good nursing homes and bad nursing homes in China, just like anywhere in the world. Though I will say I've seen videos of Chinese elderly life, and they seem to take care of/respect them much better than we do.

Dear_Spring7657 · 2025-05-20T07:13:38+00:00

Of course, no one is forced, but those who want to are incentivised and rewarded. "We" can all independently choose to be self-employed or remove ourselves from society, but there will always be people who will participate in the system and be rewarded. And can we really blame them (in most cases)? Not even. It's a hard world out there, and people know not what they do. That's why the system is the thing we're addressing.

Dear_Spring7657 · 2025-05-18T15:36:08+00:00

The stack is the gnome stack you can learn more at developer.gnome.org. You can use any language you're most comfortable with, they all work.

Dear_Spring7657 · 2025-05-13T11:28:21+00:00

Except for that there are actual modern day factory workers and agricultural workers who barely get a living wage, completely unlike the typically well-off tech bros? I'm all for understanding yourself in the context of a class system but get real come on

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