More fake news from a semi-official propaganda outlet. EVERYONE knows that Google and Facebook datamine your inbox, your browsing habits, and absolutely anything else they can find. And sell that data to repressive gover... er, I mean, advertisers.
We know these tools are being built by villains for the express purpose of controlling and exploiting the masses. It's not a question of "if" they will be used as weapons. That's like asking "if" the Air Force's cruise missiles will be used as weapons. Of course they will - they were BUILT to be weapons.
Back in the '50s you would have been one of the people arguing it was a-okay for restaurants to refuse service to black folks folks. 'Cuz private prooperty!!!1!
It was more like China's Hundred Flowers Campaign. Encourage free open public discussion - then ruthlessly oppress people who said something that disagreed with the ruling ideology.
Climate change alarmists have done much disservice to the honorable cause of environmentalism.
When you shout at the top of your lungs, all day every day, "Global warming! Global cooling! Carbon! Ocean levels will rise by ten meters in a decade! The sky is falling! Reeeeeeeeeeeee!" - people start to think you're an unhinged crank.
Whereas when you say, "Hey, let's not dump industrial chemicals into the river, that might have really bad consequences" - pretty much everyone agrees.
- much healthier food - cleaner air - more personal freedom - larger living space - greater economic opportunity - less crime - less mental illness - much stronger families - easier access to medical attention
Thanks we have: - much better plumbing & HVAC - far better medical technology... for those who can afford it - wider access to long distance travel - access to far more information, i.e. the internet
The progressive ideology that things just keep getting better in every way with the passage of time is ahistorical.
The overwhelming majority of the deaths attributed to communism by the capitalist propaganda organs were due to famine. Those famines resulted from failed agriculture policy (forced collectivization), with a lot of help from the weather.
It's interesting to look through a list of historical famines and try to identify which were due to capitalism. It's not always an easy call.
Otoh, capitalism certainly has a commanding lead in the number of deaths resulting from war.
People could easily look past capitalism's iniquitous allocation of wealth when everyone's standard of living was going up and America was the freest country in the world.
Unfortunately most people's standard of living has been dropping for at least a generation. At the same time the American Gulag has become the largest in the world, filled almost entirely with persons who were coerced into "confessing".
No longer able or willing to provide freedom & prosperity, the capitalist/financialist oligarchy has lost the mandate of heaven. People are beginning to look at it more like criminal gang and less like a legitimate government.
I think it's clear I was not talking about the use of the hate term "cis-" in the context of biology, chemistry, or geography. It's use in reference to human sexuality is quite recent. This more relevant Wiktionary link states: "According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the earliest use of the prefix in the context of gender in English dates from 1994."
Moreover, a term's origin or technical use in other contexts does not preclude its use as hate speech. "Cis-" is clearly used as hate speech in most contemporary texts.
Yup. The board of directors in a capitalist firm is equivalent to the set of political commisars in a Soviet firm. Their purpose is to *control* the company - to keep it in line with the dominant sociopolitical system - not to *run* the company.
Feminism is a key ideology of the authoritarian financialist state. Therefore it follows that said state will try to ensure feminists are represented among the commisars.
He's pointing out that "qualifed" just means a member in good standing of the financial nobility. Skill, intelligence, etc usually associated with "merit" have nothing to do with it.
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Freedom of big capital to more fully exploit laboring people.
Cartoonishly villainous yet comically inept
Gestapo officers, ostensibly responsible for computer security, advocate for draconian new badlaws to weaken computer security.
More fake news from a semi-official propaganda outlet. EVERYONE knows that Google and Facebook datamine your inbox, your browsing habits, and absolutely anything else they can find. And sell that data to repressive gover... er, I mean, advertisers.
When Google censors American search results, IT'S FOR OUR OWN GOOD. Because Big Brother Google loves us all.
Why do you believe they don't already sell your data to Uncle Sam? Where do you THINK all their revenue comes from? Ads? ADS? That's rich!
"falsely reporting items as untrue"
OUR obviously-false propaganda is THE TRUTH, you deplorable proles!
We know these tools are being built by villains for the express purpose of controlling and exploiting the masses. It's not a question of "if" they will be used as weapons. That's like asking "if" the Air Force's cruise missiles will be used as weapons. Of course they will - they were BUILT to be weapons.
Back in the '50s you would have been one of the people arguing it was a-okay for restaurants to refuse service to black folks folks. 'Cuz private prooperty!!!1!
Typical Democrat.
You tell 'em, Ivan!
Demand democracy in the workplace. The tyranny of capital is no better than the tyranny of a king.
They were just following orders...
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wi...
Lick those boots!
Code Mauve...
Google is already censored in America. It just needs to be censored in a little different way for China.
It was more like China's Hundred Flowers Campaign. Encourage free open public discussion - then ruthlessly oppress people who said something that disagreed with the ruling ideology.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...
Climate change alarmists have done much disservice to the honorable cause of environmentalism.
When you shout at the top of your lungs, all day every day, "Global warming! Global cooling! Carbon! Ocean levels will rise by ten meters in a decade! The sky is falling! Reeeeeeeeeeeee!" - people start to think you're an unhinged crank.
Whereas when you say, "Hey, let's not dump industrial chemicals into the river, that might have really bad consequences" - pretty much everyone agrees.
My grandparents had:
- much healthier food
- cleaner air
- more personal freedom
- larger living space
- greater economic opportunity
- less crime
- less mental illness
- much stronger families
- easier access to medical attention
Thanks we have:
- much better plumbing & HVAC
- far better medical technology... for those who can afford it
- wider access to long distance travel
- access to far more information, i.e. the internet
The progressive ideology that things just keep getting better in every way with the passage of time is ahistorical.
The overwhelming majority of the deaths attributed to communism by the capitalist propaganda organs were due to famine. Those famines resulted from failed agriculture policy (forced collectivization), with a lot of help from the weather.
It's interesting to look through a list of historical famines and try to identify which were due to capitalism. It's not always an easy call.
Otoh, capitalism certainly has a commanding lead in the number of deaths resulting from war.
People could easily look past capitalism's iniquitous allocation of wealth when everyone's standard of living was going up and America was the freest country in the world.
Unfortunately most people's standard of living has been dropping for at least a generation. At the same time the American Gulag has become the largest in the world, filled almost entirely with persons who were coerced into "confessing".
No longer able or willing to provide freedom & prosperity, the capitalist/financialist oligarchy has lost the mandate of heaven. People are beginning to look at it more like criminal gang and less like a legitimate government.
I think it's clear I was not talking about the use of the hate term "cis-" in the context of biology, chemistry, or geography. It's use in reference to human sexuality is quite recent. This more relevant Wiktionary link states: "According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the earliest use of the prefix in the context of gender in English dates from 1994."
Moreover, a term's origin or technical use in other contexts does not preclude its use as hate speech. "Cis-" is clearly used as hate speech in most contemporary texts.
Yup. And collect a big bonus for doing so.
How about mandating every company have at least two *workers* on the board? That would provide a lot more real diversity of viewpoint.
"Cis" is hate speech. It is deeply and intentionally offensive to people with majority sexual orientation.
Whenever you see it, avail yourself of the handy dandy Progressive censorship services to get it censored.
Yup. The board of directors in a capitalist firm is equivalent to the set of political commisars in a Soviet firm. Their purpose is to *control* the company - to keep it in line with the dominant sociopolitical system - not to *run* the company.
Feminism is a key ideology of the authoritarian financialist state. Therefore it follows that said state will try to ensure feminists are represented among the commisars.
He's pointing out that "qualifed" just means a member in good standing of the financial nobility. Skill, intelligence, etc usually associated with "merit" have nothing to do with it.