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.
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
the silver lining to this cloud. lol
tiktok hasn’t been around long enough for generations to use it and the narratives used to be verifiably genuine until it started livestreaming the gazan genocide; that’s when it turned to shit and those manufactured narratives started to dominate it.
i started following influencers on it before the isreali & american governments started pushing “inconvenient” people off it and paying people to manufacture those narratives (respectively). i suspect i’ll stop using it once they’ve forced everyone i follow to move to other platforms.
i did a post on it’s networking & storage services on this post a while ago.
tldr:
it’s made from old hardware that i had laying around and its 2nd motherboard died a couple of weeks ago. i was investigating how i could use a spare laptop motherboard to run it until i saw this post and now i’m looking into using one of my old androids instead since they’re still functional. also: i’ve been meaning to try my hand at something like graphene on them and this gives me a great impetus to do so since i’m currently using a 20-year old backup router for the time being. thanks for making me aware that’s it’s a thing!
my everything server recently died and i’ve got a bunch of old androids that i was using as security cameras. plus this sounds like fun. lol
the diaspora is a definitely a thing and that’s not what i’m describing.
i’m talking about unofficial state sanctioned violence that happens and then gets ignored after the fact despite it descendants and a handful of intellectuals trying to make the world aware while it continues to happen elsewhere.
those are the only “legitimate” sources for us americans. lol
i could take guesses, but it’s better that you ask them yourself and you can do so through the link i shared.