Microsoft have long-demonstrated they could reach out the computer monitor and slap every user around a bit with a large trout, and still keep 95% of their user base.

so too can the democrats w their base. lol

now that we have both robotics and ai; the first person the build, patent, and produce this robot is going to be the next billionaire. lol

ever heard of the “special relationship” between the two countries that enable them to work together in arenas like this one and usaid literally funded several foreign “media” agencies like the guardian before trump shuttered it.

the difference is that sources defining the tiananmen protests as a massacre are funded by the state department (both directly and undirectly) which has a long, storied and undisputed history of peddling propaganda; including my government’s own public admissions of doing so.

i’m an anglophile and dispelling the western propaganda about tianamen square is only a 30 second google search away; but your comment makes it look like you’ve never bothered.

i could take guesses, but it’s better that you ask them yourself and you can do so through the link i shared.

entrenchment of the working class to support the capitalist class, against their own working class interests. They keep selling us the pipe dream but the few rewarding hits keep us coming back for more.

i think that the scope of the entrenchment is bigger than the working class and its exemplified by how even rational and/or rich people believe in it.

it’s one of those things were everyone knows is wrong; but we go along with it anyways because that’s “how the system works”

Ukraine was not “like Iraq or Afghanistan”. Ukrainians were “civilised”, they were “European”, they “watch Netflix and have Instagram”, they looked like “us”.

There we had it. It was out in the open. This was how western journalists, whether they would admit it or not, viewed the world. That racism, often hidden, informed which stories got covered and which ones got ignored.

a majority of my family members are white passing and they used to share with me the racists things people would say to them when they assumed that they were white like them and the most troubling things that they shared were how commonly those beliefs were shared.

i remember it from time to time and more show now that they’ve gone into the maga fold themselves.

but the ceo’s will get off scott free and leave their underlings to be hanged. lol

verifiable american propaganda is a very difficult pill for westerners to swallow; so most, like you, don’t bother.

worse than weapons of mass distraction. lol

i wonder which well respected public figure they’re going to get to publicly compromise his morals for this time, like this guy last time.

telesur, soberania, & la jornada can help with the latter part and they do it in english too

gnome-tweaks used to be able to do this, but not anymore.

which one do you know about?

i used to think that the internet would outlast this country; but the landscape has changed so much that it looks like it’ll stop working because of amazon/cloudfare/azure/etc.

you’ve fallen for american propaganda.

the demise will be twofold for the people in the region so long as the slow genocide keeps happening like it is now.

These are all important information to have at a glance, in my opinion. If you don’t think so, you can remove it. Simple as.

it would be better if you could autohide it. especially for low res screens like mine.

nobody, noem seemingly included, is entirely clear on why Noboa was so heavily invested in getting the US back except because it was the only way he could see to signal his allegiance to trump. It was just extremely odd all around, and a spectacular demonstration that Noboa and his far right cronies have no idea what the hell they’re doing.

aggressively (and sometimes pointlessly) cozing up to the united states is currently a trend in most of latin america rn and it’s getting spurred on by both the right leaning oligarchies in each country and by material support from washinggton (more of the former than the latter). they’re knee-jerk reactionary responses to china’s growing influence in examples like mexico, brazil, and argentina as well as an emerging voting trends fostered by class consciousness imparted to gen-z via social media.

argentina is probably the role model for how these reactionary forces will play out in the near future due to it going furthest when it joined brics and this step forced the global north to flex it’s economic & legal leverage to successfully pressure argentina to move rightwards w austerity implemented by milei.

the washington backed color revolution that took place in mexico this past weekend was the first step in intentionally reversing these political & economic trends and proved to be very cost effective in the last 15-ish years as exemplified by most of arab-spring, ukraine, nepal, and argentina protests against their respective & washington-non-centered governments.

especially for memes. lol