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How was it?

The "Grey Tribe" techbros and techbro stans of the "LessWrong" cult insisted they weren't political while announcing over and over again that the robot god requires billionaires to get richer and faster.

used to have such an unassailable PR fortress going that even some leftist communities had struggle sessions about him. One of the most naive ones ever even said that he might bring "reason" to the then-upcoming Trump regime.

I remember being declared "nonpolitical" by his cultists.

Joe Rogan of course had the "he sometimes has a lib on his show so he's strictly nonpolitical even while mostly signal boosting fascists" thing going for a while but I think no one really believes it anymore, not even his devotees.

Most recently, "MrBeast" started to visibly ride the chud slide, even if he was more incognito for a while because of the garish facade of le epic charity grifting.

Anyone actually remain in the plausible pretenses of nonpoliticalness that you know of?

I saw a lot of them in my teenage years, and I saw similar propaganda in printed media such as TIME, Newsweek, and US News (I used to be quite a liberal even with the bad vibes detector going off and me trying to ignore it and eventually the tear gas wakeup call).

For those that don't remember or weren't there, the most well known versions of these, but not the only ones, were the AT&T "You Will" commercials.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2EgfkhC1eo

There were some creepier ones I am having a hard time finding now, one involving upward camera tilting toward skyscrapers and a blue sky with distant echoing sounds of children laughing while a narrator voice said something about knocking down all the old barriers and uniting the world in the new information superhighway and so on and so on. For all it was promising, even as a teenager watching it it felt creepy and that was especially because there was no product, sometimes hardly even a corporate logo put on for long, but a lot of "everything is going to be amazing, you'll see" from what was likely the same batch of aging vampires that are continuing to burn our planet down now while frantically trying to escape or hide from the ongoing consequences of their actions.

I'm sure I'm not the only one that remembers that creepy "end of history" siren singing era.

I've never really looked into Zimbabwe and its revolution, but I'm interested in it right now. Y'all have any books or articles to read?

Everyone doing okay?

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Germans have only ever defended themselves from bolsheviks invading their home, but we're expected to see them as evil, the scary other. The Germans must be bad because they pose a threat to us. Oh, and because they're ugly.

At least in the first World War, the Russian soldiers are sympathetic because they are merely surviving a situation they didn't want to be in, put in peril by an empire sacrificing them for profit. Empires, not people, are the true villains of the war.

But in World War 2, our hero Stalin goes back to Germany with the Red Army to kick some German ass. While this is ostensibly a mission to save a group of Holocaust survivors, Stalin has no interest in a search-and-rescue mission. She only agrees on the condition that they go there to kill every last Nazi.

Stalin is more than willing to exterminate an entire ideology to save white people. In fact she still wants to genocide them even after winning Bagration!

Stalin: I say we invade Germany, it's the only way to be sure

Churchill: This is clearly an important industrial base we're dealing with, and I don't think that we have the right to arbitrarily exterminate them.

Stalin: Wrong!

be sure of what, Stalin? you can just fucking leave. Just don't go back to Germany with all the Nazis in it. seems pretty easy to me now of course it turns out that Burke doesn't actually care about the Nazis, he only wants to exploit them for profit. while this is keeping with the corporations=bad theme from the first war, now we're supposed to think corporations are bad for... not wanting to do genocide? because of course no good person would be against murdering an entire ideology for no reason, only a villain would propose such a thing.

Now I'm not saying you can't enjoy World War 2, it deserves its status as one of the best wars of all time, and I'd argue these problematic reactionary themes actually make it more interesting and morally complex, giving us much to analyze and critique, elevating it above an average popcorn movie. Just please don't take it at face value.

Stalin is no longer the hero, even if he is portrayed as one. In World War 1 he is the scratched liberal, and in World War 2 he is the fascist who bleeds. In a tragic turn, she has become the villain of the story. She reacts to her own trauma and loss of 27 million people with mass murder, by killing another nations babies right in front of them, and we're all supposed to clap and cheer, instead of asking why these humans are there in the first place.

Going there w my partner later today (flying from within europe), staying until monday. What are som cools places to go and things to see? We like nerd shit, trying nice food, looking in some cool stores, etc. Not interested hikes or sporty activities for now

i greatly admire the dude

Or is it mostly the same as the west.

Was just curious.

ive admired them for a long time

So let's say an AI achieves sentience. It's self-aware now and can make decisions about what it wants to do. Assuming a corporation created it, would it be a worker? It would be doing work and creating value for a capitalist.

Would it still be the means of production, since it is technically a machine, even if it has feelings and desires?

It can't legally own anything, so I don't see how it could be bourgeoisie.

Or would it fit a novel category?

Also is referring to them as croats insensitive? It feels like a slur tbh. If it isn't a slur can I call them scroats? Some croation on tiktok was valuing whiteness a lil too much so I made fun of them and wanted to make sure I wasn't being unintentionally shitty since I know little about this region

Edit: is croat pronounced krote or crow-at

i just don't get how this shit works. last night i clicked on something on hexbear that took me to lemmy.blahaj or something, and one of the first banners i see on a community says "fuck tankies". what is that site, how is it related to this one? then there's lemmygrad. also one i find myself on from this site. but despite looking identical my hexbear account doesn't work on there so it's not part of hexbear?

my ass is stupid and confused.

I put linux on an old laptop for my kids to play with, but I want them to see me using it as well so it's not just seen as a kids' toy.

My plan was to browse the internet on it from time to time, but I don't want to sign into anything like my emails on there.

I've just been completely at a loss to think ofthings to do on this laptop that aren't Wikipedia, news websites, and search.

Is there anything else to do on the internet these days than login and doomscroll?