This has been dragging on for far too long. If Feddit.UK were caught doing similar @flamingos@feddit.uk would be having their door kicked in about now and their hardware seized.
The only silver lining is it removes any facade of "protecting the children" from the new internet laws and will wake some people up to the bullshit surveillance that they are.
I guess I need to work on my mass manipulation communication skills...
https://lemmy.world/post/41495883
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In criminology, the broken windows theory states that visible signs of crime, antisocial behavior and civil disorder create an urban environment that encourages further crime and disorder, including serious crimes.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory
You've pretty much exemplified this but with doomerism instead of crime. Just because things are turning to shit doesn't mean we should encourage other problems that we know need tackled. There's enough plastic around us, everywhere, all of the time, without encouraging people to go out and buy more to spread around.
Your clothes are likely plastic, your food is in plastic, your phone is plastic, your water bottle is likely plastic, almost every item of the modern world has plastic somewhere. Even if it doesn't look like plastic, it could be plastic. It's fucking disgusting.
This isn't a shitpost, it's an advert in disguise.
nato does not have any democratic principles in its rules because was assumed that everyone in it wants the same thing, so everything needs to be done with full agreement.
Consensus decision-making is a group decision-making process in which participants work together to develop proposals for actions that achieve a broad acceptance. Consensus is reached when everyone in the group assents to a decision (or almost everyone; see stand aside) even if some do not fully agree to or support all aspects of it. It differs from simple unanimity, which requires all participants to support a decision. Consensus decision-making in a democracy is consensus democracy.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus_decision-making
Consensus is far more democratic than majority rule, which is the norm in most Western democracies.
But how else will we know who's finally been decided winner of The Football? For this year at least, and indeed, at most.
and showed me how to put on a condom.
Decades later and I'm still emotionally scarred. shiver
I really hope that's just poor phrasing...
They didn't move the goal post. You used one event to compare another. It is perfectly legitimate therefore to talk about the original event. You may wish the most recent US event to be the topic of discussion, which is fine, but that doesn't mean it's illegitimate for the original Chinese event to also be discussed.
If you didn't want Tiannamen Square to be discussed you shouldn't have posted an image of Tiannamen Square.
In Nazi Germany, living conditions improved for the average ethnic German in the 1930s and early 40s. They maintained a degree of popular support despite war and atrocities because of this.
In Republican America, living conditions have plummeted for everyone but the ultra rich.
These dumb fucks are so full of arrogance that they've forgotten to keep a percentage of the population bribed with good living conditions.
Worsening living conditions, global ostracisation (in a far more global world than the 1930s), and complete right wing control of all aspects of government and I think it's difficult for many to move right that haven't done so already.
The Republicans did great in opposition because they could constantly complain and blame everything on the Democrats, black people, gay people, etc but that's increasingly difficult when they control the executive, legislature, and judiciary.
For these reasons, I hope that the only way for most people to turn now would be left. But America is an insane country, so who knows.
Oh shit, I didn't know this was a genre. I've only seen one channel do this style before. Here's a video by them:
Mikhael Bakunin raps about liberal vs anarchist conceptions of freedom
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It's a sick society
Politico (stylized in all caps), known originally as The Politico, is an American political digital newspaper company founded by American banker and media executive Robert Allbritton in 2007.[4]
In 2021, Politico was reportedly acquired for over $1 billion by Axel Springer SE, a German news publisher and media company.[6] Axel Springer SE's CEO Mathias Dopfner said that Politico employees would be required to adhere to the company's principles of support for Israel's right to exist, support for a United Europe and a free-market economy.[7]
In 2024, Politico was handed leaked confidential materials from the Donald Trump presidential campaign. Politico confirmed that the documents were authentic but refused to report on their contents. The Associated Press wrote that the decision by Politico to not report on the Trump campaign leaks stands "in marked contrast" to Politico's extensive reporting on the leaked email communications of Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign manager, John Podesta.[110]
An investigation by The Intercept, The Nation, and DeSmog found that Politico is one of the leading media outlets that publishes advertising for the fossil fuel industry while failing to adequately distinguish between independent journalism and native advertising.[111] Journalists who cover climate change for Politico are concerned that conflicts of interest with the companies and industries that cause climate change, obstruct action, and engage in greenwashing through sponsored content will reduce the credibility of their reporting on climate change and cause readers to be misinformed.[111]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politico
Axel Springer SE (German: [ˈaksl̩ ˈʃpʁɪŋɐ ɛsˈeː]) is a European multinational mass and online media company, based in Berlin, Germany.
with numerous multimedia news brands, such as Bild, Die Welt, Fakt, and the US political news site Politico, which Axel Springer acquired in 2021.[5]
The company generated total revenues of about €3.93 billion and an EBITDA increase of 12.8% in the first half of 2023.[6][7] Following US private-equity firm KKR's majority-stake acquisition in 2020, Axel Springer’s revenues have increased by a total of approximately €1 billion.[8][9][10] The company, including its subsidiaries, joint ventures, and licenses, operates in more than 40 countries.
In the United States, Axel Springer is ranked among the top four digital publishers, alongside USA Today, News Corp, and The New York Times.[6]
Gudrun Kruip, a scholar associated with the Stiftung Bundespräsident-Theodor-Heuss-Haus, has claimed that Axel Springer SE, along with its subsidiaries, exhibits a pro-American stance, often omitting criticism of US foreign policy.[60] This observation is then backed by allegations made by two former CIA officers in an interview with The Nation, claiming that Axel Springer received $7 million from the CIA.[61] The purpose of this funding, they allege, was to influence the publisher to align its editorial content with American geopolitical interests.[61] Although no conclusive evidence has come to light, Springer's admission in his autobiography regarding the financial challenges faced at the outset of his publishing venture, suggesting the necessity of external funding for the company's rapid growth led Kruip to believe that the allegations of CIA financial support are credible.[60] As of 2001, the Axel Springer SE names "solidarity with the libertarian values of the United States of America" as one of its core principles on its website.[62] This explicit stance has led to critiques from scholars and independent observers regarding the company's perceived alignment with American interests.[60][63][64][65][66] Furthermore, an article in Foreign Policy has critiqued Axel Springer SE for a history of compromising journalistic ethics to support right-wing causes, implying a longstanding pattern of bias in its publications.[67]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axel_Springer_SE
This is not a source from which we should pay any heed.
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Their political strategy on health makes pandemics worse than they need be.
Their political strategy on climate increases the quantity and severity of natural disasters.
Their political strategy on foreign affairs causes global destabilisation which creates other crises.
We've always had pandemics, natural disasters, and random crises but they're actively made worse by the likes of MAGA. Flooding the zone is very much the reason for the insanity of modern news headlines. That and HyperNormalisation.
Ah okay, so you had no intention of actually adding anything of value, you're just baiting anarchists. Good to know.
Casting a critical eye on failed experiments. Which failed experiments? Where did those anarchists go wrong?
You're saying a lot without saying anything.
I'm asking for examples of what you're talking about, because there's not much context with which to understand what you're trying to say and I wish to learn.
It sounds like you have an idea of what can be avoided/done in future but without articulating specifics your comment isn't particularly helpful, so I'm asking for more detail so we can learn and improve.
https://youtu.be/2X86u4MMpnE