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Liberal doomerism makes a lot more sense when you remember they think China is WORSE than the USA.

Like, not to be a sinophile, but hearing about the advances China makes every month is the only thing that gives me hope for the future of the world.

If you genuinely think the USA is the best country in the world, while also recognizing it as bad, no wonder you think everything is doomed!

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rednote is the only good social media because its the only one that consistently shows me lambs from xinjiang in little hats

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All Eyes on the Sumoud Convoy

Eyes on the road people. Eyes on the thousands of people on their way to the Gaza border to break the siege.

SumoudConvoy-tracker

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To a certain extent I understand the point being made, but I think posts emphasising the supposedly ramshackle and improvised nature of Palestinian resistance feed into exactly the sentiment being criticised - of supporting liberation only when it's losing, only when it's the underdog.

What, precisely, does it matter if the Palestinian fighters have 'formal' training or not? What does it matter if their rockets are captured or purpose-built? If they were the ones fighting with advanced, modern equipment, and the IOF were the ones with improvised munitions, their cause would be equally as correct.

Some day soon it will come to pass that Palestinians will be in charge of their home again, and the zionist forces won't simply disappear - they'll be weak, largely overpowered, but they'll continue to fight, continue to be supported by their western allies, and *they* will be 'underdog' insurgents. Palestinians will be as justified in suppressing those would-be reinstaters of genocide as they are fighting the current IOF. They will be in power, and they will fight to maintain that power. At that moment, the fetishism of defeat would lead, inexorably, to the age-old trope - that they'd have become 'just as bad as the oppressors'.

Our analysis can't be based on aesthetics, can't be based on who appears the most ultra-revolutionary - it must be based on a systemic, factual view of who stands to gain. Don't settle for heuristics.

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cant think of any other countries that describe unprompted bombings of civilians as “preemptive strikes” besides the united states and israel

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stop posting the 'do nothing, win' meme the PRC is doing so much fucking work

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Love when I point out a problem with capitalism and people are like "oh so we should hate and shun technology and live like peasants" like living good is a sin we must atone to the God of Socialism by living in medieval villages. I say something like "climate change is bad" and they're like "then we must destroy all industry", I say something like "space exploration is good" and they're like "no only billionaries do that that is a sin", I say something like "electronics in the first world are artificially cheap by exploitation" and they literally, like right now, just said to me "have you heard of luddites they had good ideas".

It's never about dismantling current oppressive systems and building a better society, as socialism as the path to a communist society, it's always about getting punished. Because of your Sins.

You can teach Usamericans Marxism but you have to work triple time to unteach them Puritanism.

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An inside look into what is arguably the most influential company in America, if not the world. Sarah Wynn-Williams account of her employment at Facebook is an alarming tale of how nakedly amoral and sociopathic our technocrat oligarchs are. There is no right or wrong for the likes of Mark Zuckerberg or Sheryl Sandberg, only growth. Number must go up, damn anyone or anything else.

Wynn-Williams story is deftly told, grounding us first with her personal motivation for joining Facebook - literally inventing the job that she applies for - and then relating each state visit and political crisis she was tasked with handling not only through her eyes, but through the eyes of her superiors. There is a certain amount of guesswork involved in describing the motivations and thought processes of others, but Wynn-Williams for the most part paints a very clear and very unflattering picture of her former bosses through their actions - and perhaps more critically, their inaction.

As a character piece, it is very revealing on the people who run Facebook, but as a historical document, it's woefully lacking. I picked up this book primarily because I was interested in what Facebook's former Director of Public Policy would have to say about the Rohingya Genocide since it occurred during her tenure, but unfortunately there's only a single chapter out of 48 written on the matter, and most of it is spent lamenting how Zuckerberg or Sandberg or anyone else failed to care enough to do anything. Which is awful, which is shocking, and which conveniently absolves Wynn-Williams of any real blame in the death of 40,000 innocent people.

This is a persistent issue in Wynn-Williams' book. From the way she frames herself, it would be easy to think she was stuck as just a lowly intern or assistant, but the reality was that she was an executive at Facebook. In fact, she was the Director of Public Policy, a title which she never ascribes to herself, but is only mentioned once in the "About the Author" section. This memoir is full of moral condemnation for Zuckerberg and her fellow executives, but for however much Wynn-Williams talks about her desire to resign, she never does. Wynn-Williams only leaves Facebook when she's forced to: fired in retaliation for reporting on one of her bosses for sexual harassment.

Facebook is a hideously evil company, after all. And if anyone should have known that it would be the Director of Public Policy.

As much as Wynn-Williams wants to pin the moral failings of Facebook on a select few, the issues were - and still are - more structural than that. At the end of Careless People, Wynn-Williams laments on how her dream for Facebook ended up so twisted. She had joined the company, hoping to change the world for the better, and left with the feeling that she had done just the opposite. But despite all her moral condemnation and pontificating, Wynn-Williams never seems to demonstrate any real moral backbone or have much of an ideological framework for that matter.

She condemns the way Facebook advertisers aided the Trump campaign with aggressive misinformation, how they specifically targeted depressed and socially isolated girls aged 13-17 with beauty product ads, or how little Facebook cares about hate speech proliferating on their platform even when they have deadly consequences. But time and time again, it doesn't seem like she did anything about it besides expecting her fellow executives to be better people.

The whole book is spent telling us how harmful to society Facebook is, but Wynn-Williams never touches on a solution - perhaps because the only sensible solution would be serious government regulation, but to suggest that would undermine her other criticism of Facebook: giving censorship tools to the Chinese government for the Chinese version of Facebook - a version that was never released, mind you, but the idea of which inherently offends Wynn-Williams. Again, not enough to actually quit over, but enough for her to include in her tell-all memoir post-firing.

Careless People is written in a very compelling manner, it's easy to side with Wynn-Williams as she tells us of her pain, her embarassments, and her silent moral outrage. But the more you read on the subject, on the genocide, on the aid Facebook provided Trump, on the hate speech, on the million other nasty things Facebook does on the regular, the more petty and self-serving this book feels. Why was she silent all this time? Why was this story only worth telling when she was personally negatively impacted? Sarah Wynn-Williams does offer some explanations, but given the magnitude of harm Facebook inflicts daily, they make for meager excuses. By the end of her memoir, Sarah Wynn-Williams unfortunately seems as careless as anyone else at Facebook.

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People really don't understand how ridiculous that no Israeli tried to resist the genocide while being literally right next to it, that's like if Philadelphia was being bombed nonstop for months and people in NYC just went about their lives normally. Like they really did not care. Palestine is a small place, israelis could have gone to right outside gaza's borders and back to their houses in a day if they wanted. They could have organized like a weapons blockade or blocked the road to air bases but no one did anything. They were literally right there. Tel Aviv is like an hour from Gaza. It has like 4 million people. No one cared. Literally mind boggling to me.

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Glad that he's just openly admitting that USAID is about preserving US global dominance and imperialism.

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westerners really have internalized the belief that all interactions between different nations on a governmental level are a total zero-sum game huh? And that That's the reason why US/EU involvement in Africa is exploitation. Because it's impossible for the US/EU to be uniquely bad (because that's "usamerican exceptionalism) so actually ALL economic partnership, ALL diplomacy, ALL develpment programs are imperialism and exploitation, and Africans are wholly incapable of mutually beneficial partnerships with non-Africans

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being on this app is so surreal. americans are usually the ones that learn about other places and people everywhere else already know about america because we're everywhere online. we've never been on the opposite side where other people are learning about us -- and they are horrified about our "normal"

the country america spent our whole lives trying to convince us is miserable and suffering under an oppressive government that starves everyone and controls their media? that's just projection. turns out besides like... housing prices and few available jobs, china is doing pretty great. they originally believed we were all living it up "the american dream" way and now they're all thankful they were born in china and have no idea how any of us are even alive

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