yeah, not cool

reading comprehension

I read the article, I’m not sure if I understood it correctly, but does this mean there’s no driver? I think data collection to improve processes and the like is a no brainer, but I’d feel a bit uneasy in a train without a driver until I see it behaving well for a while lol

cringe

You must feel so tough lol

That’s been my general experience too. It’s definitely not all of them, but I’ve met too many who haven’t sat down to do any reading yet, and as such still align with 99% of their liberal indoctrination, imperialism included.

Having skepticism and being critical in general is fine, but to do that we need to engage with reality as much as we can. Most of the time I see China being criticized for exaggerations or outright fabrications, we can’t take anti-China propaganda at face value when it’s pushed by their geopolitical adversaries. We need evidence.

Truly brave!

Great response, saved me from figuring out how to even engage with that.

I hadn’t heard of this, I looked it up, and Jesus Christ. The wikipedia article on the topic was clearly written by the most misogynistic liberal they could find. I know it makes no sense, they don’t see us in the global south as people so of course I understand they’re monsters, but imagine still supporting Biden after shit like this is public.

Wish I could upvote this twice. Well said.

I see lots of anti-capitalism, but I’ve seen enough people in our instance who aren’t ML, and I’ve seen someone (maybe Cowbee?) mentioning that the instance is meant to be a general instance, not necessarily ML, but that because of the admins it leans that way. Lemmygrad I believe is actually ML.

The admins are, but the instance has lots of folks, some MLs, some not

Do yourself and all of us a favor, and try to fact check before spreading shit that’s already been disproven. And hell, the original claim was that Gaddafi was giving viagra pills to his soldiers to go raping everyone, it’s a ridiculous fabrication, and the fact that you’re so willing to go with it shows a lack of curiosity, integrity and even empathy towards us in the global south.

I think people (including me, until recently) give too much benefit of the doubt to business people, just because they’d rather believe they tell the truth when spousing ideals. Of course they’ll be shady when it makes financial sense, and even be dumbasses when it makes no financial sense.

Our system selects fairly well so that people like this end up being the primary decision makers, and it’s a very rare occasion when someone with morals makes it high enough and manages to stay there.

I love the detail of python2 lmao.

“nothing will change” here refers to this election’s results. Libbing out implies thinking that you’re not politically involved beyond maybe voting. So of course you should stop libbing out if you want to improve things somewhat. That’s the context of this conversation.

I agree it can help to point people in the right direction, especially if they ask you what they can do. That’s not the context of this conversation.

Yup, we were always around, just not around them specifically.

I agree. But if we’re having this conversation it’s because it’s a missed opportunity so far.

That’s neat, but I’m not sure most French people care about how their current standards of living are built on top of exploiting their former colonies to this day.