Devs, fight!

Which one do you recommend?

Lemmy’s still at the “ignore it to death until we can’t anymore” stage.

I guess he wants to take the title of most racist and xenophobic liberal away from Maher.

This section was great:

To attain these goals, they try to replace international law with a “rules-based order,” whatever that means. It is not clear what rules these are and who invented them. It is just rubbish, but they are trying to plant this idea in the minds of millions of people. “You must live according to the rules.” What rules?

And actually, if I may, our Western “colleagues,” especially those from the United States, don’t just arbitrarily set these rules, they teach others how to follow them, and how others should behave overall. All of this is done and expressed in a blatantly ill-mannered and pushy way. This is another manifestation of colonial mentality. All the time we hear, “you must,” “you are obligated,” “we are seriously warning you.”

Who are you to do that? What right do you have to warn others? This is just amazing. Maybe those who say all this should get rid of their arrogance and stop behaving in such a way towards the global community that perfectly knows its objectives and interests, and should drop this colonial-era thinking? I want to tell them sometimes: wake up, this era has long gone and will never return.

Be respectful to other ppl here, or we won’t hesitate to issue temp bans.

A typical day on /r/redditalternatives

TLDW:

Really good article. Overall things seem to be going in facebook’s favor: ppl are posting less, and consuming / viewing more. FB could care less whether real ppl are actually actively participating, selling ads is their business, and passive / mindless consumption scrolling is high.

Relevant Bucky Fuller quote:

Only a socialist / a planned economy ensures that the value created by labor-saving devices results in them having more free time (or more value allocated to them in other ways). In capitalism it only funnels money (temporarily at least) into capitalists pockets alone, and creates unemployment for the rest.

He looks great in that pic btw. Beard goals

As materialists, we should focus on substance over form, every time. Most people will eventually see through the hollowness of these liberal “debate tactics”, and realize that they aren’t making any real points.

I’ve read a few rhetoric-focused books, but none really had much value… one book that does stand out tho, is Cialdini - the psychology of persuasion. It goes through some of the most common tactics used by exploiters to to elicit automated responses, taking advantage of psychological and evolutionary shortcuts that helped us survive for thousands of years, and now being honed and used by advertisers and propagandists, to make a profit.

Usonians do love their surveillance state don’t they.

Tankie just means “any communist I don’t like” at this point. Take your McCarthyism and complete ignorance about color revolutions elsewhere.

1337x, thepiratebay, torrents-csv.ml

This is really sad. RARBG was one of the top 3 torrent sites, we’re down to just a few now.

Soon the questions are gonna be like

Cause most of these people are individualistic assholes who only care about themselves.

Are they assholes or aren’t they?