Instead of admitting uncertainty
tech journalists stop assigning agency to the probability-based slop generator [Challenge: IMPOSSIBLE]
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british feminism missed the third wave which had all the gender stuff (Butler? idk)
hey don't do @KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com dirty like that, they're the type of smuglord the slop machines were trained on. aka slOP
even better lmao
I forgot can't win with these cats was on the burner, lmao
a lib who loves latin mass so much he made that his identity but remained a lib
new type of guy just dropped
They weren't talking about Trump! They were talking about other countries impacted by the tariffs.
I wasn't talking about the tree planting. I was talking about the text I quoted. Here it is again.
Elsewhere, governments may have been glued to the television
I think the PRC and CPC are great! I just hate this style of 'journalism'. If anything, the news here is that the bastion of reactionary liberalism in the BBC is doing it for the PRC. I.e. their trump derangement is stronger than their sinophobia.
When I wrote the bit you quoted:
the entire screenshotted excerpt hangs on this (likely imaginary) counterexample
I meant that the framing of the article, that the tree-planting was a deliberate 'message to Washington', hangs on the hypothetical (other governments glued to the television) that the author assumes to be true.
If we don't give the publisher the benefit of the doubt (and when it comes to the BBC, I don't), this is just another form of orientalist 'China-watching'. Except instead of the author picking apart some inane nonsense to paint those inscrutable orientals in a negative light, they're doing so to paint them positively.
if this was about a head of state within the imperial core or periphery ignoring developments in designated foreign adversaries, it'd be rightfully lampooned as site tagline material. this is nonsense drivel on par with 'kamala green suit' epic clapback trash
Elsewhere, governments may have been glued to the television
begging for one example, the entire screenshotted excerpt hangs on this (likely imaginary) counterexample
one of the books written in the early 90s had a trans character lmao. they're gender essentialist as shit and even that mormon guy that finished the series wrote better women than Jordan, but lol. lmao even.