Now Cowbee, what did I tell you about scratching liberals?

You’re only providing further evidence that the illegality is bipartisan and institutionally deep & broad.

It’s a calculated risk which so far China seems to have managed okay. Previously:

China Has Billionaires, but they are not oligarchs. They have very little political power. Just look at the number of rich people who’ve received the death sentence with reprieve, or the property developers who were left to flail and go bankrupt, or the sorry state of Jack Ma when he tried to exercise political influence.

I think they want Trump to be aberrational and are trying to work backward from there. Just BlueMaga things.

Advertising is based on passive attitude and thrives on negative attitudes.

This is a nice-sounding story that flatters our egos, but unless scientific studies corroborate, that’s all it is.

People will use c/asklemmy for anything but its intended use.

Since World War II, actually.

By that logic every president since Roosevelt was a dictator.

Not that people will even go to a website. It’s app or nothing for many, it seems.

Generational proclivities are a red herring. At best they’re useful to marketing firms and at worst they’re pumped out by PR firms to distract us from the class war. The changes that are happening would have happened regardless, because they benefit the bourgeoisie. These are specifically oligarch-driven changes, not gen-x vibes-driven.

Well that’s a fun fact. I’ve shat on Poynter before, too.

China has a horrifyingly destructive demographics crisis on their hands.

“Horrifyingly destructive” sounds a bit hyperbolic. Birthrates in South Korea, Japan, and some European countries are lower.

Immigration is one of the main ways to deal with it, something that China is much worse off with as their poor wages and sheer size means they uniquely cannot attract enough people, unlike South Korea and Japan.

Wages are not low in China when compared to the cost of living. However high wages may be in South Korea and Japan, people still can’t make ends meet because prices are high. And I don’t see how a country’s size would factor in at all. But in any case, I don’t think China is even trying to attract immigrants, making this moot.

Right after WWII, the US rehabilitated its “enemies,” Germany, Italy, and Japan, while starting the Cold War with its “ally,” the USSR. Rehabilitating Germany & Japan was important for the US’ containment strategy against the USSR.

If we see that Germany is winning the war, we ought to help Russia; and if that Russia is winning, we ought to help Germany, and in that way let them kill as many as possible […]. — Senator and future president Harry S. Truman, 1941

Hey BoycottTwitter, do you know about Media Bias/Fact Check? Previously. Previously. Bonus previously.

The powers that be have had their eyes on us for a few years already. Previously. Previously. Previously.

Among other reasons, there’s no marketing budget.

Captain America, things ain’t like they used to be like before you was froze.

Hasn’t it been out of production for almost 30 years?

• The Intercept, 2021: Meet NATO, the Dangerous “Defensive” Alliance Trying to Run the World
• CounterPunch, 2022: NATO is Not a Defensive Alliance
• Noam Chomsky, 2023: NATO “most violent, aggressive alliance in the world”
• Thomas Fazi, 2024: NATO: 75 years of war, unprovoked aggressions and state-sponsored terrorism
• Gabriel Rockhill, 2020: The U.S. Did Not Defeat Fascism in WWII, It Discretely Internationalized It