I may not like that attitude, but I also cannot fault someone for it.
Personally, I find myself existing in a historical context, inside a system far bigger than myself. A cell in a body that wraps round the planet. How can I not take an interest in the world? In its history and trajectory. What happens to people I don't know still affects me, regardless of if I'm paying attention or not.
And do you also feel content with that?
One can think and agree with liberalism or communism or anything really, but it doesn't mean you are a liberal or a communist. Your actions make you that thing.
For example, I agree with communism, but I don't consider myself a communist because I haven't done anything. Most Americans are politically nothing. Workers on the clock. Byzantine British Empire citizens off the clock.
I get that its supposed to be quoting something, but that building is hard to read. It looks like a word scramble
They privatized a public park for this.
Most progressive president of the 21st century!
The secret headline: Comrade Bird doesn't snitch, despite over more than half a year of intense pressure
Half the calls I get are "well the website said this"
oh, did our website say that? Or did the search page say that? Because I have a pretty damn good idea of what our website does and doesn't say
...this is about building a decentralized social media platform... huh, wonder where I've seen one of those...
Is this a choose your own adventure novel?
also
Author
Milo C. Kingston worked as an investment banker in Hong Kong, algorithmically trading equities on the stock markets from the 51st floor of the IFC Two. He left his glamorous capitalist life behind to found his startup with a mission to green the planet. He has been a startup founder for 15 years and the struggle is real—enough to inspire this novel.
It's a good lesson, yeah.
It's also a good demonstration of how privilege can be leveraged. The conversation can't just stop after we've correctly identified and acknowledged a social injustice. There are ways to utilize privilege to help each other, and to directly challenge the very system that creates it. These French activists did that - they put their government in a position where they either have to acknowledge something they don't want to acknowledge -- or ignore this happening to their citizens, effectively revoke the privileges these activists are trying to lean on, in an attempt to appease Israel. In this case, the French government felt it had to save face on the international stage... but you also can't rely on privileges.
Institutions will only go so far. Push enough, and the structural benefits will suddenly be revoked. That's also a good thing, because when it happens, you learn what the ruling class will and won't compromise on. And it's a great propaganda tool. Point to it and say to others, "your status, your comfort is conditional"
I kinda just assumed all mammals have belly buttons. But then I realized, I've given many dogs many belly rubs, and I've never noticed a navel. So whats the deal with that? We're not the only one's that got em, right?
maaaaybe these unnamed instances are using this to root out reactionary content? (still silly, AI gives you yes or no answers basically on an overcomplicated coinflip and spits out text to justify that initial answer) But c'mon. Freaking out about "people we strongly disagree with" using a sketchy moderation tool on "their instances"?
A specter is haunting the fediverse, and that spectre is 
. Well really its mostly lemmy.ml but sometimes they remember we exist too.
It sounds like they're using this to find "tankie" users and they're scared that the "tankie" instances will use this (stupid, counterproductive) moderation style on them (lol). Admittedly conjecture on my part.
~~western civilization~~ - meaningless nonsense you can project anything onto (especially reactionary shit)
~~North Atlantic countries~~ - what about Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and sometimes South Africa?
~~NATO~~ - ditto
english speaking world
simple, if slightly reductive. Adequately describes most geopolitical actors in the bunch, pisses off europeans that see themselves as distinct from the United States despite being joined at the hip (and the french won't even speak french to anyone anyway)
taking the Echopraxia approach: is it a vampire? no. Does vampire get the gist across well enough that you neatly skip over expending energy delving into the minutia? yes
A quick reverse search suggests that this was initially made with HL3 news in mind. I found (a lot) of very recent reposts of it.
I don't have much more to say, other than to express mild cynicism that the same joke used in waiting for a computer game gets reused for very serious historical events.
awful lotta ink spilled abut Platner
I kinda suspect him to be the next Fetterman, but it would be nice to be wrong about that. Glad I don't live in his state, or I'd actually have to form a real opinion of the guy.