PKMKII
joined 4 years ago
Well that’ll cost her 13 freedom points on the Burgerite-Eagleland Institute’s liberty scale.
To guarantee the sale to Santander, the Simonsen and Cochrane families, the owners of Banco Noroeste, paid the $242 million bill themselves. However, Banco Noroeste collapsed in 2001.
A few months back I was at a Native American museum, and one exhibit had this quote from a English settler’s journal from the 16th or 17th century that basically said “we raided a native village, stole their supplies, burned their buildings, killed some of them, all of which aren’t as bad as what they would do to us.” Just thought “shit hasn’t changed.”
I think this is the order of operations:
Conservatives believe bizarro conspiracy theories because they need to assign the ills of society to anyone other than the responsible ruling class.
Liberals point to this and say “See, look at this foolishness, if you don’t want to end up a rube like this, you need to trust The NY Times and WaPo and CNN, etc.”
Thus, leftists that are otherwise critical of capitalism but still want to be seen as being part of reasonable society, develop a bias of taking those sources at face value least they get branded with the scarlet F of fake news.
Both Google and OpenAI have cut deals with Reddit to train their AI models on its posts.
Training AI to be even more racist and misogynistic, cool.
If history is any guide, at best they’ll protest the procedure of Trump’s support of the genocide. Trump won’t follow some meaningless rubber stamping process of the shipping of arms to Israel and then the libs will say “this is wrong we’re against this” but not because of the genocide but because Trump didn’t follow the by-laws of supporting a genocide.
Hamas-led militants killed some 1,200 people and abducted around 250 in the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel that triggered the war. Israel’s retaliatory war in Gaza has killed more than 43,000 Palestinians, according to local health authorities, who do not say how many were combatants but say more than half were women and children.
JFC they’ve gotta qualify the tens of thousands of Palestinian dead with “well we don’t know how many were combatants” but no such qualification is made for the Israeli deaths. Imperialist ghoul shit.
not understanding the material conditions that were the basis for whatever dogma they complain about.
Yeah if I could sum up the problem with new/Reddit atheists it’s that they put on airs of having the materialist high ground but then end up engaged in the same idealism that the religious use. They both act like religion is a thing that gets injected into culture rather than arising from within culture. The religious think it’s God delivering it from on high whereas the Reddit atheists see it as being imposed by some shadowy cabal.
I’ll say that libertarian socialism is broad umbrella that covers everything from anarcho-socialist tendencies to “I would like to do the socialism without heavy-handed intrusion by the state into people’s lives.” So it’s kind of hard to make a blanket statement about it.
Personally, I think socialist political economies should strive to be as least intrusive as possible, but obviously the material conditions of the situation are going to dictate how possible that is. Which is a good indicator of how ridiculous a person is being, if they understand the realities that get in the way of that guideline or if they go into the territory of demonizing any AES country that doesn’t meet the perfect ideal.