Hexbear tankies really are something incredible. I’ve been around left-wing politics most of my life and in the real world I’ve met like one or two people actually like them. Difficult to understand where they all came from. I’m thinking maybe it’s a r/Pyongyang where it started as a joke and then they started taking it seriously.
“hype” is literally media attention
hype
1)
: publicity
especially : promotional publicity of an extravagant or contrived kind
all the hype before the boxing match
Merriam Webster
Mozilla executives are once again carrying water for Google.
If there is any doubt who they work for, watching them testify in defense of Google’s monopoly should be all you need.
I think this is a good sign at least that Ukraine has successfully stabilized the front and Putin sees no opportunities for advance. This was not something that was on the table this winter.
This is liberal cope.
I’ve seen tons of Bernie people from 2016 become Trupists. Several have become full-on groypers. The reason is clear: Bernie got curbstomped and these people are still looking for some other solution because they’re still precarious.
Liberals are still clinging to the basket of deplorables. They want to think that not being a liberal is a moral failing, or a sign of weak breeding or something. They can’t admit that all the punching left they’ve been doing over decades while scolding, preening, etc and sucking up to corporate elites they serve has created the terrifying right-wing moment that we’re in. And they’ll going to be smugly declaring themselves to be on the right side of history as they get thrown into the camps with the rest of us.
EDIT: by the way:
Leor completed her PhD as a Gates Scholar at the Department of Psychology
Yes, that is the “Gates” you’re thinking of.
Also she’s probably a criminal:
Leor was listed on Forbes 30 Under 30
They will edit Google Maps to show Canada and Greenland as part of the US, and Ukraine as part of Russia.
Historically Tesla’s security is as bad as DOGE’s. They got hacked a while back because they had an unsecured kubernetes control plane exposed to the internet. Apparently being owned by a [edit: seagull managing] drug addict isn’t good for opsec.
EDIT: I incorrectly used a medical term to describe Elon’s management style. Sorry everyone.
Don’t worry Tesla diamond hands: Trump will announce a “Strategic TSLA reserve buying scheme.”
Too many villains in our society, not enough heros.
the issue here is
The issue is Mozilla’s McKinsey CEO has decided to break the promise not to sell personal data.
If Firefox disappears. Mozilla isn’t Firefox, it’s the organization staffed with ad-tech and McKinsey ghouls and paid by Google to kill Firefox.
The equally hilarious thing is that currently they have the “never will” promise in the same codebase as the “definitely will” gated by a “TOU” flag, showing intent to violate the promise.
Well I’m not the ADL but yeah I’d say if, for instance, the NAACP decided that anti-black racism was equal to criticism of, say, Zimbabwe. And as long as a billionaire supported Zimbabwe’s government it’d be fine if he threw the white power sign at the presidential inauguration. That’s basically what you have with the ADL.
I wrote in “Palestine” for the president. It was the only option that wasn’t pro-genocide.
Musk is switching sides in this war because he needs his puppet to get a win.
It’s a shame the ADL refused to call him what he is when it mattered: a nazi.
Musk doesn’t fit the ADL’s definition of anti-semite, which is anyone who opposes the State of Israel.
Just going to leave this right here:
but if we look at the countries on this planet that are the most successful in terms of economics, equality, personal freedom, human rights, etc. then we find countries that made it work through regulation and strong government institutions
Yeah that’s socialism. The best societies were all degrees of socialist, this includes western Europe and the USA at its mid-century peak. These societies all had aggressive, borderline confiscatory progressive taxation, large scale government intervention in the economy (in the US especially aggressive anti-trust), a generous social welfare state, and a large and professionalized civil service.
They also had large and well-organized labor unions capable of wielding power on behalf of their members and disrupting plans of the elites.
Remove those things and you quickly slide into a dystopian fascist nightmare state as the US and parts of Europe like the UK are discovering.
That’s the funniest thing. Like, if you were an original Hungary-era tankie, at least you could say “the Soviet Union is the leader of the worldwide Communist movement, I believe what the SU says about itself.” But Putin’s Russia is explicitly not Communist or Socialist in any way. Putin’s ideology is inconsistent but his public statements are all basically imperial or “blood and soil” nationalism. How do they twist this guy into being a “comrade?”