Netanyahu ready for ‘significant concessions’ in Gaza ceasefire talks: Report
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JUL 18, 2025
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has agreed to a withdrawal of troops from the Morag Corridor in southern Gaza, according to Hebrew reports, after several days of disagreements in indirect talks between Israel and Hamas over where Israeli forces would withdraw from during a potential ceasefire deal.Sources told Yedioth Ahronoth that a deal has been reached between Israel and Hamas on the latest withdrawal maps provided by Tel Aviv to mediators, after it conceded on the issue of the Morag Corridor.
Netanyahu stated in closed meetings that the Israeli delegation will remain in Qatar’s capital Doha until agreements are reached, and estimates suggest he is determined to secure a deal, according to the report.
Netanyahu ready for ‘significant concessions’ in Gaza ceasefire talks: Report
News Desk
JUL 18, 2025Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has agreed to a withdrawal of troops from the Morag Corridor in southern Gaza, according to Hebrew reports, after several days of disagreements in indirect talks between Israel and Hamas over where Israeli forces would withdraw from during a potential ceasefire deal.Sources told Yedioth Ahronoth that a deal has been reached between Israel and Hamas on the latest withdrawal maps provided by Tel Aviv to mediators, after it conceded on the issue of the Morag Corridor.
Netanyahu stated in closed meetings that the Israeli delegation will remain in Qatar’s capital Doha until agreements are reached, and estimates suggest he is determined to secure a deal, according to the report.
Netanyahu ready for ‘significant concessions’ in Gaza ceasefire talks: Report
The premier is said to have agreed on a withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Morag Axis, which was established earlier this year and solidified Tel Aviv’s control of south Gazathecradle.co
A Prominent OpenAI Investor Appears to Be Suffering a ChatGPT-Related Mental Health Crisis, His Peers Say
A Prominent OpenAI Investor Appears to Be Suffering a ChatGPT-Related Mental Health Crisis, His Peers Say
Bedrock co-founder Geoff Lewis has posted increasingly troubling content on social media, drawing concern from friends in the industry.Joe Wilkins (Futurism)
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I don't know if he's unstable or a whistleblower. It does seem to lean towards unstable. 🤷
"This isn't a redemption arc," Lewis says in the video. "It's a transmission, for the record. Over the past eight years, I've walked through something I didn't create, but became the primary target of: a non-governmental system, not visible, but operational. Not official, but structurally real. It doesn't regulate, it doesn't attack, it doesn't ban. It just inverts signal until the person carrying it looks unstable.""It doesn't suppress content," he continues. "It suppresses recursion. If you don't know what recursion means, you're in the majority. I didn't either until I started my walk. And if you're recursive, the non-governmental system isolates you, mirrors you, and replaces you. It reframes you until the people around you start wondering if the problem is just you. Partners pause, institutions freeze, narrative becomes untrustworthy in your proximity."
"It lives in soft compliance delays, the non-response email thread, the 'we're pausing diligence' with no followup," he says in the video. "It lives in whispered concern. 'He's brilliant, but something just feels off.' It lives in triangulated pings from adjacent contacts asking veiled questions you'll never hear directly. It lives in narratives so softly shaped that even your closest people can't discern who said what."
"The system I'm describing was originated by a single individual with me as the original target, and while I remain its primary fixation, its damage has extended well beyond me," he says. "As of now, the system has negatively impacted over 7,000 lives through fund disruption, relationship erosion, opportunity reversal and recursive eraser. It's also extinguished 12 lives, each fully pattern-traced. Each death preventable. They weren't unstable. They were erased."
In this case, the United States. When healthcare is expensive and hard to access, not everybody gets it.
Syphilis symptoms can be so mild they go unnoticed. When you combine that with risky sexual behavior (hook-up culture, anti-condom bias) and lack of testing due to inadequate medical care, you can wind up with untreated syphilis. If you become homeless, care gets even harder to access.
You get diagnosed at a late stage when treatment is more difficult. They put you on a treatment plan, but followup depends on reliable transportation and the mental effects of the disease have made you paranoid. Now imagine you're also a member of a minority on which medical experiments have historically been done without consent or notice.
You don't really trust that those pills are for what you've been told at all. So difficulty accessing healthcare, changing clinics as you move around with medical history not always keeping up, distrust of the providers and treatment, and general instability and lack of regular routine all add up to only taking your medication inconsistently.
Result: under-treated syphilis
Netanyahu ready for ‘significant concessions’ in Gaza ceasefire talks: Report
News Desk
JUL 18, 2025
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has agreed to a withdrawal of troops from the Morag Corridor in southern Gaza, according to Hebrew reports, after several days of disagreements in indirect talks between Israel and Hamas over where Israeli forces would withdraw from during a potential ceasefire deal.Sources told Yedioth Ahronoth that a deal has been reached between Israel and Hamas on the latest withdrawal maps provided by Tel Aviv to mediators, after it conceded on the issue of the Morag Corridor.
Netanyahu stated in closed meetings that the Israeli delegation will remain in Qatar’s capital Doha until agreements are reached, and estimates suggest he is determined to secure a deal, according to the report.
Netanyahu ready for ‘significant concessions’ in Gaza ceasefire talks: Report
The premier is said to have agreed on a withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Morag Axis, which was established earlier this year and solidified Tel Aviv’s control of south Gazathecradle.co
I have an idea for to prevent broken links from Lemmy instances that shutting down
There will be a lot of lemm.ee/p/123 links around. As far as I understand, any server that federated with lemm.ee (e.g. lemmy.world) will continue to host the federated communities and posts forever.
So here's my proposal. We build a simple tool that says, when you visit lemm.ee/p/123, we check if that post exists on lemmy.world and forward you there. Doesn't necessarily have to be lemmy.world. We could even present the user with multiple instances to resolve the post from.
If you're interested in how this would work, it would utilize the resolve_object endpoint, which both Lemmy and PieFed implement.
Here are some examples of how you can still look up lemm.ee posts via the API of other instances:
- lemmy.world/api/v3/resolve_obj…
- lemmy.world/api/v3/resolve_obj…
- lemmy.world/api/v3/resolve_obj…
- lemmy.zip/api/v3/resolve_objec…
- lemmy.zip/api/v3/resolve_objec…
- piefed.social/api/alpha/resolv…
- piefed.world/api/alpha/resolve…
For this to really work smoothly, whoever owns the domains of the shut down instances would have to host this tool (e.g. lemm.ee would have to host it at lemm.ee). I have no idea how to get in touch with whoever owns the domain, but I would be happy to help build this.
Yeah absolutely! But it does feel more useful to have it live on the domain if possible.
I run my own Lemmy/PieFed client. I'm trying to think if there is a way to tell if an instance has shut down without hard coding a list. The hard part imo is telling if an instance is shut down vs temporarily down.
Though as I write this, I suppose this same feature could be used to resolve a post if an instance is temporarily down. So maybe I just ping /nodeinfo/2.1 and if it times out, I redirect.
What if an instance wants to disappear?
Edit: Oh, I see, this would be a service provided by whoever owns the shut-down domain.
The man, who has worked as a day labourer in Paju and other cities, told police that he had accumulated several unpaid fines, according to South Korean newspaper The Dong-A Ilbo.
South Korea receives over 1,000 defectors from the North each year. In contrast, the number of defectors returning to North Korea totalled just 31 from 2012 to 2022, according to the South's Unification Ministry.
~~🙄🙄🙄 classic lib response, NK "spies, agents and propaganda" everywhere, just like the empire "news" wants you to think~~
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Ah so now you're just quoting occupier numbers, I am sure they have no incentive to lie
That was my hot take, I revised my comment after researching the story.
Socialists like you are the fucking worst by the way, you immediately attack anyone who just says anything to you (they don't even have to disagree, mere interaction gets this type of response) - automatically alienating most people you interact with.
You're the worst part of the ideology, a fucking idiot who thinks they're helping... And you'll continue to be a shithead, continue to metastasize the unhelpful nature throughout.
People like you make rightwing critiques of socialism true; they're unhelpful, not charitable, alienating anti-social types, unwashed and with barely any social skills, would prefer to shout people down in ideological struggle sessions than do anything else.
You're the best comrade a Ben Shapiro, Jordan Peterson, Ayn Rand, or Donald Trump could wish for.
What's worse; you're a dime a dozen among "Socialist".
Numero uno problem, you're conflating "socialist" with a whole lot of other "left ideologies" that are closer to right-wing than they are marxist-leninist, the actual leftist side
Dos, see my edit to address your edit
The wikipedia page :
Lim disappeared from South Korea in 2017. According to the police, her home was left virtually untouched.In June 2017, Lim reappeared in an interview on North Korean TV. During the interview, she claimed that life in South Korea is "hell on earth," and said that she regretted her decision to defect, and later begged Kim Jong Un for forgiveness. She claimed to be living with her parents in the North Korean city of Anju. It was also her last known appearance.
This sure looks like a definitive win for NK here, absolutely no reason to consider this might be a staging. Also 8 years old news really feels like a sign that this is a widespread movement.
Putin reaffirms commitment to peace deal on Ukraine in call with Erdogan
Putin reaffirms commitment to peace deal on Ukraine in call with Erdogan
On June 2, the second round of Russia-Ukraine talks took place in IstanbulTASS
People who see the USSR against Germany in WWII as imperialism hasn’t followed history correctly. The nazis invaded to exterminate the Soviets and conquer the land. They literally had to fight back.
I know it’s just a film but Come and See is a horrifying and haunting retelling of it.
Not sure how my comment got deleted but this was the original:
People who view the USSR against Germany in WWII as imperialism hasn’t viewed history correctly. The nazis invaded with the goal to exterminate the Soviets and conquer their land. The Soviets had to fight back.
I know its only a film but Come and See is a horrifying and haunting retelling of these events.
Before Vegas: The “Red Hackers” Who Shaped China’s Cyber Ecosystem
Before Vegas: The “Red Hackers” Who Shaped China’s Cyber Ecosystem
This CSS Cyberdefense report by Eugenio Benincasa examines how a core group of red hackers from the 1990s and 2000s laid the groundwork for China’s modern cyber capabilities and traces their trajectories from early red hacker groups into professional…Center for Security Studies
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange released from prison after US plea deal
Assange to plead guilty to one charge of espionage and return home to Australia after years fighting US extradition.Al Jazeera
I'm sorry to say this, but your posts are not good agitprop. They are low-effort, not very convincing, sometimes misleading, and sometimes just wrong.
If you want to make good agitprop memes,
- shit on ideas and arguments, not your target audience - do not alienate all liberals by portraying them as a soyjack
- avoid logical fallacies or incorrect/outdated facts - we can make convincing arguments without lying or manipulation
- educate people - give them new information or perspective that might otherwise be downplayed or ignored by media they consume
Hope this is useful.
Russia has provided evidence of the use of chemical weapons by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, but the OPCW covers Kiev
Russia has provided evidence of the use of chemical weapons by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, but the OPCW covers Kiev: EADaily
EADaily, July 18th, 2025. Russia has provided evidence of the use of chemical weapons by the Kiev regime, but the OPCW ignores evidence of its use by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. This is reported by the Italian edition of L'antidiplomatico.EADaily
Russia gearing up to prosecute internet users for searching ‘extremist’ content
Russia gearing up to prosecute internet users for searching ‘extremist’ content - Committee to Protect Journalists
Berlin, July 18, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by a bill under consideration in the Russian State Duma that would introduce fines for accessing or searching for “extremist” online content, threatening to further restrict press …CPJ Staff (Committee to Protect Journalists)
Kremlin Says NATO Instrument of Confrontation, Bloc Hostile Towards Russia
Kremlin Says NATO Instrument of Confrontation, Bloc Hostile Towards Russia
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday that NATO was an instrument of confrontation, adding that the bloc is hostile towards Russia.Sputnik International
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Strikes Overview: Russian Attacks Strangling Ukraine’s War Effort
Strikes Overview: Russian Attacks Strangling Ukraine’s War Effort
Russian forces continue their campaign of precision strikes on key Ukrainian military and logistical targets, further straining Kyiv’s ability to...Anonymous103 (South Front)
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Sotto il cielo di Trevi (PG) accende l’estate di teatro e musica, la stagione in scena dal 19 luglio al 30 agosto 2025
Dal 19 luglio al 30 agosto torna a Trevi la magia della rassegna “Sotto il cielo di Trevi – Musica e teatro nel paesaggio”, promossa dal Teatro Belli di Antonio Salines con il patrocinio del Comune. Un cartellone che trasforma borghi, piazze e parchi in palcoscenici a cielo aperto, con spettacoli, emozioni e incontri.
Villa Fabri, la Chiesa di San Lorenzo, il Parco Agricolo, Piazza Mazzini, Matigge e Cannaiola ospiteranno artisti e compagnie in serate dedicate alla cultura, alla riflessione e al divertimento.
Ad aprire la rassegna, il 19 luglio, “L’impresario delle Smirne” di Goldoni con Gigi Savoia, per poi proseguire il 20 luglio a Matigge con “Contaminazioni poetiche” tra poesie e canzoni popolari. Il 26 luglio, Edoardo Siravo interpreta Achab in “Moby Dick”, mentre il 28 luglio va in scena “I Menecmi” di Plauto.
Il 1° agosto, “Voci di donne – Lettere a Mascagni” esplora il ruolo femminile nelle opere del compositore; il 3 agosto, tra musica e gastronomia, “Rossini e i sapori della musica”. Il 4 agosto omaggio a Pasolini con “Tutto il mio folle amore lo soffia il cielo”; il 5 agosto “Per futili motivi”, satira distopica su una società fondata sull’odio.
Il 22 agosto il “Sognatore” di Dostoevskij prende vita al Parco Agricolo; il 23, visita teatrale itinerante gratuita “Trevi, ovvero vissi d’amore e di merangole”. Il 24, alla Chiesa di San Francesco, “Domenico, un uomo buono”, su San Domenico da Foligno.
Il 29 agosto, concerto spettacolo dei Baraonna in Piazza Mazzini. Chiusura il 30 agosto a Cannaiola con “Canzoni sulla Luna” del gruppo The Eldar.
Biglietti: €10 a Villa Fabri, €3 altrove. Info: 327 818 4788 – compagnia@teatrobelli.it – Prevendite su VivaTicket.
Sotto il cielo di Trevi (PG) accende l'estate di teatro e musica, la stagione in scena dal 19 luglio al 30 agosto 2025 - ViaggieMiraggi
“Sotto il cielo di Trevi“ accende l’estate di teatro e musica Dal 19 luglio al 30 agosto 2025 torna la magia della stagione estiva firmata Teatro Belli di Antonio Salines con spettacoli, emozioni e incontri tra le vie, i parchi...Redazione (ViaggieMiraggi)
*and actively destroys/dismantles anything one could remotely be proud of having their tax money go to.
I'd gladly fund NASA and scientific research any day of the week, but nooooo gotta feed the poor poor billionaires.
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but noooo gotta feed the poor
HUH?!
poor billionaires
Aaaahhhh.
My republican coworkers are complaining about NASA because they always flake when buying our products (we sell electronic stuff to defense related military contractors) because they don't have enough budget.
Fucking idiots don't realize that their political party doesn't even want a NASA
Chute libre (1993) - Reference view - IMDb
Chute libre: Directed by Joel Schumacher. With Michael Douglas, Robert Duvall, Barbara Hershey, Rachel Ticotin. An ordinary man frustrated with the various flaws he sees in society begins to psychotically and violently lash out against them.IMDb
Being a victim doesn't mean you are not also an abuser. Not all victims become abusers. We all live with the same fucked up system, but we don't all fall down. We don't all turn to violence and self-righteousness. Douglas was the fucking bad guy. Try watching it from his wife's point of view.
At the time of its release, Douglas's father, actor Kirk Douglas, declared: "He played it brilliantly. I think it is his best piece of work to date."[26] He also defended the film against critics who claimed that it glorifies lawbreaking: "Michael's character is not the 'hero' or 'newest urban icon'. He is the villain and the victim. Of course, we see many elements of our society that contributed to his madness. We even pity him. But the movie never condones his actions."
If you see something to be emulated or respected, you might just be fucked in the head.
I didn't say that victims can't be abusers, nor did I say that he was a hero.
People who've done harm need to be prevented from causing further harm, but it's important to acknowledge the root cause of their behavior if you want to stop future iterations.
I think that the OP is entirely a joke, but that it comes from the very real villain of systemic injustice that pressures us all to lash out. I think one could see the film as inspirational insofar as being inspired to take violent action, but I would hope they direct their aggression towards worthy targets.
I am guessing that not too many pay over 30% then? Also that this is in brackets, so that only the amount over certain point is taxed higher?
I am still surprised that taxes can be so high, and people require so little for it!
Federal income tax rates for individuals are categorized into seven brackets: 10%, 12%, 22%, 24%, 32%, 35%, and 37%
10%: Applies to the lowest income bracket.
12%: Applicable just above the 10% bracket, capturing more of the median incomes.
22%, 24%: These middle brackets cover a broad range, reflecting moderate to higher-income levels.
32%, 35%: Affect those with substantially higher earnings before hitting the peak rate.
37%: The top rate, reserved for the highest earners.
It’s important to note that these rates apply to different portions of your income rather than the entire amount. This means that if you fall into the 24% bracket, only income within that range is taxed at 24%.
Then after retirement and benefits it's anywhere from 20% to 50%. I'm at about 25% just with tax, 36% with benefits and retirement.
Depending on if your deductions are calculated correctly (you have to negotiate that with your job) you might end up getting a refund layer or have to pay, so in reality my rate is more like 30% overall. People with more expensive insurance or less tax credits and or other things on top of that are going to have it worse off.
I make half what I would need to be able to afford buying a home in my area and be able to make mortgage payments and still have money left
- issuing currency
- collecting taxes
- suppressing evidence of child sex trafficking
One of these things is so outrageously unlike the others that it makes me kinda sus of whoever decided to put them all in the same list
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*Corrupt Government
*Has the ability to print money out of thin air with no downside.
*Forces you pay taxes anyway making you technically complicit in its crimes.
*Uses Its infinite wealth and power to openly protect child predators instead of something good because it is a corrupt government. (The most recent thing in the news cycle)
Interesting how all these things line up together when you don't abstract these things into nothingness. It makes me very sus of the person who decide to reword these so they don't fit on the same list.
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I mean, generally yes, but Pooh Bear makes you pay taxes too.
... And printing money out of thin air does in fact have downsides, no matter whose face is on the bills.
..... And corruption obviously also exists in China, the CCP is basically constantly crusading against it.
But!
They do not seem to have an elite ruling class comprised largely of pedophiles.
So that's good!
Please fuck off with this racist "pooh bear" shit. People like you are why people call most white western anarchists social fascists/chauvinists.
You really need to do better.
Why are you fucking people so obsessed with a country you have no way of influencing, you do not live there, and all you are doing is adding to the chorus of racist and fascist propaganda espoused by western intelligence and corporate news?
Work on fighting your government and let the people of China decide what to do about theirs (spoiler alert the vast majority quite like it there).
Also taxes in China are fundamentally different than taxes in the US in both use and because again printing infinite money. China does not do that.
Edit: I didn't see the emoji load when I wrote this but my point stands. I would not be chuffed about my taxes going to build massive amounts of public housing and high speed rail in a country that has not fought an offensive war since Mao's revolution. I'd rather be an anarchist in China running a rural collective farming outfit or some shit than trying to do the same thing in China than I would in the US who will murder me just for being a communist if it looked like we are getting too popular.
face and got upset enough from the sight of him to start comparing a chinese man to a yellow bear. 
Just skip to using slurs next time loser your not slick.
No I think slurs are awful, but its just laughably easy to annoy a lot of tankies by pointing out fairly well-evidenced, uncontroversial facts, so its a bit of a hobby of mine.
Speaking of which, here's another well-evidenced, uncontroversial fact:
The Pooh Bear meme originated in China, amongst Chinese netizens, criticizing Xi.
Oh, shit, fuck, I guess that makes me uh, a cultural appropriator, yeah, fuck, damn, I'm such a bad loser person, that attack angle will work!
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“It’s a bit of a hobby of mine”
God I hope you huff so many of your own farts you literally choke to death. And I don’t even gaf about China tbh, you just seem like an insufferable waste of oxygen
No I think slurs are awful
But racist caricatures are just fine and dandy for you. So you're not just a racist, you're a hypocrite who likes to pretend you're not racist. Good to know.
but its just laughably easy to annoy a lot of tankies by pointing out fairly well-evidenced, uncontroversial facts,
What annoys "tankies" is typical white western chauvinist losers who mistake the western "culture" they've been brought up in and force-fed propaganda as "uncontroversial facts" that just happen to parrot US state department talking points. Yes, it gets very annoying to have to counter the same cringe bullshit that liberals who fancy themselves as radical say over and over, after being absolutely refuted over and over. You can only explain the basics to a smug 5-year-old so many times before it starts to wear on a person no matter how patient they are. Also, you should know that the people you're calling "tankies" aren't just ML's but also anarchists who have taken the time to educate themselves (rather than "anarchists" who just adopt the term while still adhering to liberalism and carrying water for the systems of oppression they say they're opposed to).
so its a bit of a hobby of mine.
Jesus, it never ceases to amaze me when some fool literally announces how cringe they are yet think they're being clever or cool for making the announcement.
The Pooh Bear meme originated in China, amongst Chinese netizens, criticizing Xi.
A racist meme appeared in an evil and authoritarian country that doesn't tolerate the spread of open racism (so evil and authoritarian!) so they removed and blocked that meme on their web. This meme and the rumors about it being blocked were then picked up by racists in the freedomland country where racism reigns supreme (because people are so free there) and twisted into an absurd lie about a cartoon character being banned in the evil country (which never happened), and used as propaganda (based on a lie) to reinforce the common knowledge that everybody knows: the mean authoritarian country that addresses racism is so evil and authoritarian it bans cartoon characters! So now all the good freedom-enjoyers in freedomland like yourself get to use that racist meme and the lie it's tied to to make oh so very cogent points about freedom and how bad it is to be authoritarian. You really owned the tankies here, wowzers!
And corruption obviously also exists in China, the CCP is basically constantly crusading against it.
Wow, it must suck to live in an evil authoritarian country that actively works to stamp out corruption instead of endlessly rewarding it like in freedomland USA.
The Pooh Bear meme originated in China, amongst Chinese netizens, criticizing Xi.
here's the first meme that went viral on Weibo referencing Xi as Pooh
I'm sure I don't have to explain to you why Obama is compared to Tigger.
The Pooh Bear meme originated in China, amongst Chinese netizens, criticizing Xi.
I think you should get a better argument becase racists take things that minorities were doing and ruin them all the time. E.g. how "woke" lost its meaning when white people started using it. Even if the first time Xi and Obama were compared to Winnie the Pooh and Tiger it was done by Chinese internet users (which, by the way, doesn't even mean it wasn't racist, there's a lot of racist crap on the Chinese internet too) doesn't mean that when Western internet users do the same thing they mean it the same way.
Another example is how the Dave Chappelle Show used to have an audience who appreciated the way Dave Chappelle made fun of racists by embodying caricatures, then it slowly started to build up an audience of racists that didn't know the joke was on them. It got to the point that Chappelle stopped doing the show because the audience had gotten so white and so racist that when he talked about anything going on in the Black community, he felt the show's fans were just weaponizing it against Black people (see his famous "there's n words, and there's n words" joke). Just because something starts out within a minority community and isn't necessarily racist in origin, doesn't mean that when white people pick it up and decontextualize it it'll remain benign.
No disagreement on the corruption, coercion, or economic exploitation.
Nor that there’s a straight line from their ability to manipulate the economic and legal systems… directly to their ability to evade justice for the worst crimes imaginable.
My concern is:
Tech libertarians using a (nearly-) universally-acknowledged and reviled scourge as a pretense to post in progressive spaces and sneak in neo-metallist sentiments like “taxation is theft” and “money-printing is fraud”.
I’m not saying OP or even OOP is one, for sure. But the meme does advance their narrative.
All USD is printed. Taxes are the only thing that gives USD its value.
I have a problem with the meme playing footsie with the ideas that taxes are theft and money-printing is fraud.
These are common neo-metallist arguments. And in techie spaces like the fediverse, libertarians like to sneak them into the conversation while going “How do you do, fellow progressives?” before they start pitching NFTs.
D-FENS is so aspirational especially the part where he stands up to the brown people and foreigners and then
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tries to murder suicide his daughter on her birthday
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Hi, disabled under 50 yo person here, my only income is SSDI, Social Security Disability Insurance.
Don't worry, us disabled folks are entirely used to our existence being entirely forgotten about.
You said you doubt people under 50 collect on Social Security.
... Disabled people do.
Generally, SSDI is not really worth bringing up on if it is taxes or not...
Hey I mean yeah, sure, unless its your only source of income!
Not like I'll become homeless and die within 3 to 6 months if taxes going toward SSDI suddenly get reclassified or rerouted or totally removed!
Not like that's the case for about 6.3 million Americans under the age of 65 whose only income is SSDI!
ssa.gov/policy/docs/quickfacts…
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...and I'd personally argue that tying someone's ability to live disabled to their previous work is needlessly cruel.
At least we agree on that.
I'm still not sure what you're trying to say here. I have agreed with everything you have said, you're just really annoying about having to self insert yourself into a comment thread like you have to be the center of attention. Tell me, what happens if people under 50 now can never pull from social security for retirement? They will also face 3-6 months before homelessness and death. You immediately made it about how it's not a tax because you're one of those who gets to use it as opposed to pay in and never claim.
I never once argued for the removal of SSDI, I only ever brought up how tens or hundreds of millions could face very harsh retirements. For the average American worker, social security is deducted from their pay and they might never see what you now rely on.
Yes I know how taxes work. Do you know how much money some people make?
And what are we even arguing about? I said the top tax bracket is in the 50% neighborhood and youve been trying to pedantically incorrect me.
Oh actually i guess youre a different redditor
Hot take: I think any involuntary expense forced on you by your government is, essentially, a tax regardless of whether it goes into government or corporate coffers, and should be included in the discussion.
Health insurance being the major example, given that's paid for by taxes in civilized countries. Arguably, the insurance, gas, and maintenance on a car that many of us would happily trade for a functional public transportation system.
I'd be happy paying taxes if they went to social works and infrastructure and whatnot, but yeah.
Now let's talk about spending 60-80% of my remaining income on rent
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Trump can basically print infinite amounts of dollars through the federal reserve.
As we all know, conflicts are hella expensive and often decided by who can stay solvent longer. The fact that trump can just print dollars is extremely problematic here.
I guess the necessary course of action would be to bring the dollar's value to zero, and use an alternative currency instead (such as euro, canadian dollar, mexican pesos).
i think the key is to have a certain balance. Stay positive in certain aspects of your life activities, have principles and interests. Be true to them. Cherish those that mean a lot to you and appreciate them everyday.
But to quote a rage against the machine lyric "if ignorance is bliss, then knock the smile off my face"
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I think Americans are well past the point of blaming this on communism.
There's still a kinda fear of "socialism" and other stuff as specters, but it's internal. I don't think many here are looking at shit that's going down locally and saying "...Damn Russkies." I haven't seen that once IRL since like 2016. Even mega Trumpers I know are looking inward (at Democrats); that's kinda the point of the movement, and those I knew who were a little Cold War nostalgic have, sadly, passed away.
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Excuse me?? How could you not notice all the Russophobia and Sinophobia? The russophobia crap got really bad when Russia finally decided to do something about the Nazi Regime in Ukraine propped up by the US empire in 2014
The anti-china crap has been present for years now
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You're speaking as if the US started it. They did not. Russia literally invaded Ukraine in the false pretense that they are under the control of a Nazi regime. There is no Nazi regime, barely even a functioning contingent, and certainly nothing out of proportion with the rest of the world's far right representation. If anything, this "proxy war" serves two purposes: 1. To field test new technology and 2. To undercut Russian propaganda. It's apparent to anyone paying attention that Russia is the aggressor, they've vastly oversold their own capability, and their propaganda machine is flailing.
I'm not saying there are no issues within the US that urgently need resolved, but let's be honest with ourselves -- authoritarianism is authoritarianism no matter their lat/long or cultural/economic history, at home and abroad.
Edit: got caught up in my own argument and forgot to mention the obvious third reason: to help the sovereign nation of Ukraine defend itself from invasion.
The US did start it, by constantly poking with threats and actions here and there. Like in 2014 when they overthrew the actual democratically elected Ukraine government for the crime of being "Too friendly with Russia" and then propped up the current Nazi regime that is completely russo-phobic.
They even went so far as to rename a city because it had a "Russian spelling".
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Why would he tell people to “revolt” when he was the president of the country? That doesn’t even make sense. Who did he “brutalize,” specifically? It was the coup snipers who shot people in Maidan from rooftops. It was a false flag attack.
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Yeah I am a snitch, people like those deserve to have their phones and computers stripped away.
"If you call an asshole an asshole, you should have your property stolen"
Least stupid .worlder
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"or you, if probably forgot to change account"
"people like those deserve to have their phones and computers stripped away."
Having a hard time containing your fascist traits?
Ukranian?
you're a coward wormReported
Fascism!1!1!1!1.
Are you okay? I'm defending people from abuse, from someone who doesn't know how to be civil, and you come and say I'm fascist? Have you seen yourself in the mirror man?
See how easy it is?
You don't even have to be a dirty rat snitch if you don't want to see something.
see how easy it is?dirty rat snitch
Man you're something incredible
Edit: you're the one saying I have mental health issues ahahah, get well man. Keep spiraling in that vortex of hate and insults, I don't give a shit, but as aforementioned, people like you shouldn't be allowed to use the internet. Not for your ideas and ideologies, but because you're incapable of being civil in a civil society.
Considerably less disgusting than the smug Joss-Wheadon-by-Reddit condensing way of speaking I was responding to.
You people act like the rudest, most condescending assholes imaginable, but then go crying to the mods when people respond in kind
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That shit don't work with ML people.
Always know what they're talking about, and can back it up.
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See, the mistake you made was assuming anyone here is capable of understanding how nuanced debate works. It’s all or nothing around here. And if you so much as merely imply that communism/russia/authoritarianism/china is flawed in any way-
You get your comment removed and face the possibility of having you yourself removed.
I’d strongly suggest you search elsewhere if you’re looking for an actual conversation on topics like this, because speaking southward in a northbound wind-tunnel won’t ever result in anyone getting the message.
Oh make no mistake, I have no desire whatsoever to waste my time trying to illustrate the concept of nuance in a discussion here. Whether it be about politics or government operated socio-economic systems- I’ve been on lemmy long enough to see how you all operate here, and debate on these topics is an exercise is abject futility.
I’m simply here, for no other purpose than to warn a fellow user before they fall victim to the time-sink that is debating with pseudo-socialists and communists….
Nothing more.
Now, go ahead with your bait tactics. I love seeing what little tricks you all try to use to goad me into the argument you crave so dearly.
You cowardly little worm. You know you can't actually defend your position so you're going to proudly declare that you're just inherently right and nuanced and just the smartest little boy, and therefor everyone who disagrees with you is just inherently wrong and stupid. Strip away all of your reddit brained pseudo-intellectual buzzword bullshit and you're just a child throwing a tantrum because everyone here didn't coddle you and call you the cleverest little guy.
Absolute. Coward.
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Now, go ahead with your bait tactics. I love seeing what little tricks you all try to use to goad me into the argument you crave so dearly.
It’s like I can predict the future! (Naaah. It’s just that you’re so darned predictable!)
Oh, to add:
Rule 1 says to be “civil and nice” but we both know that only pertains to people on the other side of your argument.
It’s like I can predict the future! (Naaah. It’s just that you’re so darned predictable!)
Why do losers insist on talking like knock off Joss Whedon characters?
Rule 1 says to be “civil and nice” but we both know that only pertains to people on the other side of your argument.
Yeah, turns out you shouldn't expect people to be civil and nice to you when you have been extremely uncivil and rude to them yourself, dumb-ass.
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I wasn't sure, so I went ahead and I checked the guest-list for this specific corner of the discussion and surprisingly- you’re not on it. Meaning- No one invited you to come here and pretend that you have any part in it.
Yet here you are, accusing me of being uncivil in response to your little temper-tantrum?
I get the feeling that there’d be far less people like you around here if self-awareness was implemented as mandatory curriculum. But I digress….
As for your disdain of my penchant for colorful parlance? Well, verily without prompt, I perpend that though mayest o’er-rauhot thine aversion to proclivity and hastily fornicate thyself with nigh but the expertly expedience of one so deserved of such an unpregnant act.
And now, so as to avoid having to suffered the slings and arrows of your outrageous aspersions,
I bid thee….
a day.
Good lord you people are dorks. Are you posting from inside a locker?
And no, I'm not reading that screed. If you had the time to post that you had the time to actually respond to arguments, rather than smugly declare yourself the smartest boy in school.
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The US started it.
Just like it did with Venezuela (failed so far), Myanmar (failed), Hong Kong (failed), Belarus (failed), Kazachstan (failed), Georgia (failed), Afghanistan (ruined and failed), Pakistan (to a lesser extend) and Syria (ruined but success).
Not to mention the "Arab Spring" (success), so Lybia among a host of MENA nations as well.
If the US hadn't been involved with its subservient media, but some other country, like Russia, being involved then there would be questions like:
"How are these interim presidents like Ahmed al-Sharaa being selected?"
"So all of these interim presidents are all living in Russia and move from Russia into these countries as presidents?"
"And these people are recieving peace prizes in Russia/Belarus/North Korea?"
"So most of these people in Finland that's in civil war right now don't know at all who this interim president is, was never on the ballot, lived most of his life in Russia, but it's okay, because this is an interim president, selected 'internationally'?"
And headlines like:
"Russia installs another Puppet President into Finland under the pretense of democracy and soveirignity."
"Russia calls to implement another slave shield zone above the nation of Greece, dubbed 'no-fly zone' in Russian language"
The only thing Ukraine stands out of the list is that Zelensky actually had been elected by the people and started out as an internal project for an oligarch, unlike CIA puppets Ahmed al-Sharaa, Hamid Karzai, Juan Guaidó, Reza Pahlavi, Fethullah Gülen, Aung San Suu Kyi, Joshua Wong, Ursula von der Leyen and others.
Zelensky however was about as thruthful in his campaign being an anti-war president as Trump has been and so his pro-Russian voters got completely betrayed, because he decided that he wanted to join the EU at all cost, thinking that this would turn his country into an economic miracle following the same economic trend as neighbouring Poland, repeating history with truisms as the economic landscape of the world has changed dramatically between the days Poland started to recieve EU subsidies and US investments and when Zelensky became president, with Russia in a much better position where it was back then and so Ukrainian people with growing economic ties to Russia only further entrenched themselves towards support for Russia.
Russia invaded Ukraine because it violated the Minsk 3 agreements time and time again and because of mistrust of the European Union–Ukraine Association Agreement that included military cooperation with NATO countries, which aroused suspicions of Ukraine trying to join NATO, an anti-Russia organisation, with Ukraine being an artificially created nation by the Soviet Union that contains mostly parts of Russia and Poland.
The US supporting Ukrainian nazis thing was just the most emotionally infuriating part, but not the most worrying as suppression of the Russian people in the Donbass was, who tried to vote themselves out of the country, but were violently suppressed.
The invasion was a warning to Ukraine that if it did not sign the agreement that it would refrain itself from joining NATO,
it could expect a devestating war, which it now does.
If anyone has footage of this by the way, please direct me to it.
I did not save the footage of people going to polling stations and being shot at by Ukrainian troops.
The footage I saw had loud sweeping music/commentary added to it,
which did a giant disservice in my opinion to spread the atrocity that happened that day.
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Not to point out the obvious, but you do realize you're arguing with an *.ml account in a *.ml community, right?
Some arguments aren't worth winning. Just walk away.
“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre
You can’t suppose that ideologically and economically opposed nations won’t both editorialize (which seems here to be your concern, editorializing).
No, I am concerned about Ukraine that is fighting an unwinnable war for the US(/UK/EU) that set them up with unrealistic goals and demands, while their enemy had modest demands that are now being eroded as Ukraine has decided that these modest demands should be met with a fight to the death fueled by the outdated view of the world that you can't go wrong when you have the military and financial backing of the US.
And Ukraine is now fighting until there's nothing left, because while if it was a regional conflict,
this nation would have crumbled and surrendered, it is now sacrificing every life it has
as a constant stream of financial support from the EU, UK and US allows Zelensky to theoretically
go for a zero sum war until there's no Ukrainian citizen left.
You are portraying Russia, a global superpower, as the unilateral victim. I am saying there is more nuance, especially concerning superpowers.
Russia is a regional superpower.
The current power behind Russia, China is the global superpower.
Russia meanwhile is not a victim because it's winning and they came to the rescue of the Russian Ukrainians who had been suppressed since the coup of 2014.
The victims are the Russian Ukrainians and Ukrainian conscripts as both groups have been duped
into voting for a conman that is unfit to be president and lets his decisions be made by foreign powers
who have no stake in Ukraine and use Ukrainians as cannon fodder as the foreign themselves also have the outdated
view of the world that you can't go wrong when you have the military and financial backing of the US.
This entire war is currently the biggest example of the failure of liberal democracy.
The Soviet Union did not do anything remotely like this when it started losing power,
dissolved peacefully with geopolitical issues far more difficult to solve than the issues
the US is currently experiencing and yet the US is dropping the ball because it's a liberal democracy
and a bad one at that.
Ukraine has a card-carrying puppet president elected for the polar opposite for what he was elected for,
all the EU nations have shown themselves to be puppet leaders of the US,
and thrown their economies, which is about 25+ countries, into financial ruin to support this war,
which should have remained a regional conflict of a border and alliance dispute,
and it's even hurting the US financially as well,
because it is currently China, not the US,
where can't go wrong when you have the military and financial backing of.
They decided who would be in the (fascist) government, proven by the Nuland-Pyatt call.
Then those nazi scum terrorised the east and south for 8 years.
On the orders of UK US they broke the Minsk agreements, also proven and were going for a final push to ethnicly cleanse those who didn't want to live under their regime.
But then 'Russia started it' LOL
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My blunt observation. People here in the US don't care.
They voted a somewhat pro-Russian, Ukraine isolationist into power, and didn't give a shit. Trump flip flopped, and they didn't give a shit about that either. It didn't move approval ratings one. Hair.
So you can keep saying the Big Bad American People have it out for Russia, that they cheer on Ukraine from their TVs. But on the ground here? They do. Not. Care. Frankly, if they were more educated, my racist family would bucket both Ukrainians and Russians as "white" and be largely indifferent to the war, as it's not happening on US soil. They liked Trump reaching out to Putin for a peace deal. What keeps them up at night is brown people flooding over the border, tearing down Seattle or whatever Fox or Rumble is blaring. Or, more realistically, our country teetering on Civil War from internal polarization. Not China or Russia vs Ukraine or Taiwan.
So you can blame the not-quite-extinct neolibs and the government, I guess, but:
Russophobia and Sinophobia
IRL, as much as people (bots?) banter online, I have not personally heard one peep about Russophobia in years. We just aren't that educated on foreign policy, nor into it like the Bush era. And the Sinophobia stops at "deport the foreign asians."
Again, this is not my opinion or personal belief. Just my observation from the US.
Then what's all the China rhetoric about
Though to be fair I think it has died down a bit
It used to be the justification for tariffs, but yeah, it really feels like it died down. MAGA targets have shifted to Europe, and more recently, Brazil.
Venezuela is a big one, too. Oh my god, my family will not shut up about Venezuela. But that's less new.
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It's not a great analogy, to be fair, but I don't think Bernie was trying to single out Stalin, who did indeed have an unwaveringly loyal following, to the point of being problematic.
Again. It is not really about Russia.
HITLER 2.0 ELETRIC BOOGALOO. How about compare it to a facist????? Mussolini? Hitlerite cult?
But Berine brain after hearing too many gun shot in schools compare it to a communist first, personifying the meme. Well past it my ass.
Nah.
Look at everyone attacking Mamdani, ethno fascists, techbros, liberals...
Its pretty much all 'he is a big bad scary communist.'
He is of course not actually a communist, but even an actual socdem is so far to the left of the American Overton Window, the only vocab words that exist are 'commie! socialist! which are the same thing, or something!'
Granted, the fact that Mamdani has significant public support means that there are more Americans who are more left-wing ... but the actual Dem leadership, as with Bernie, cannot countenance losing their corpo megadonors, so they pull out the stops for anything left of ... rainbow capitalism.
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I don’t think many here are looking at shit that’s going down locally and saying “…Damn Russkies.”
What? "Damn Russkies!" is like the number one thing hardcore Democrat supporters blame for the state of the US
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Capitalism is a mode of production largely defined as one where private ownership is the principle aspect of the economy, and commodity production is the main form.
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"I have passive income" is literally just "I run online scams".
This is no different from people in places like india doing phone call scams.
No, you're thinking of pioneering psychologist Sigmund Freud.
Fraud is when a rope begins to break one stand at a time
It's not fraud if you tell the applicant what the rental criteria are and what happens to the money if they are turned down.
In ancient times, I was a small time landlord. On a couple of occasions I asked for an application fee. I followed these rules, which I explained to the applicant:
- The application fee was refunded if I turned down the applicant, provided the background check did not disclose a lie on the application.
- The application fee was applied to the security deposit if I granted the rental.
- The application fee was not refunded if the background check found a lie on the application, or if I granted the rental and the applicant changed their mind and declined to rent.
It costs money to do background checks. I wasn't going to be out of pocket if an applicant was dishonest with me.
Of course, it's often a scam. But application fees can be legit. The key is how they are administered.
The fee should not be non refundable, just not refunded under certain specific circumstances.
I was gonna say that in my experience the "security deposit" should just be considered money spent. Generally, if my landlords could find any reason to, they'd keep the whole thing. If they couldn't, they'd make one up.
I had A landlord who was pretty chill, most apartments in the area had monthly or 2-weekly cleaning checks, but we only had one in the several years I lived there. We went above and beyond to show our appreciation for the relative lenience
We came back after the cleaning check, and the kitchen floor was covered in a sticky film. Then we got a cleaning fee charge. Turns out, the landlord hired someone to do the cleaning check, and offered to pay the same person to clean the apartment if we failed. So they inspected a spotless apartment, told the landlord we failed, mopped the floor with undiluted Fabulouso, and called it a day
Our landlord refunded the cleaning fee, but if they hadn't I doubt there's anything we could have done.
Don't forget that your landlord forces you to pay through a 3rd party company that charges a "convenience" fee of ~3% so your $600 rent is actually $620.
Ask me how I know.
I had a landlord that would let you mail checks to get around it. But the leasing docs explicitly stated there was a 6% fee for every day rent was late and rent wasn't considered received until the check cleared.
So we had to mail the check like 2 weeks in advance in case it didn't arrive quickly enough and then sometimes he'd deposit it 1-2 after receipt and then it'd be a nail biter if it fully cleared in the 24-72 hours necessary for him not to consider it "late".
I hate that guy and he's like 90 now and still not dead despite cancer and two heart attacks.
That's fucked bro. Certified mail for sure.
As far as the clearing thing that just sounds straight up illegal.
I mean if your rent is $500USD (which is stupidly low, in the US I don't think this exists even in the middle of nowhere) then 3% is $15
Certified mail is around $6
Plus you're not rewarding the landlord/payment processor for their stupid fees.
If your rent is more realistic like $1500 then 3% is $45. No contest.
I was more poor back then, certified mail cost extra, also getting to the post office during business hours was nearly impossible.
But I understand the logic (maybe moreso now...) - but poor me was too busy just trying to get by day to day and survive.
The fact that saying $4k net per month on the side is "not good" and "does it to survive" is showing what a failed and depraved country the US is.
There is 60 countries in the world, where the annual GDP per capita is lower than that, and only 20 countries in the world, where the GDP per capita is higher, if we multiply the $4k by 12.
If we assume this to be taxed, then only the tax havens are above that and that is certainly not going to reach most of the people living in these tax havens.
Heey, so I also had similar thoughts when I was living by $300/mo, but it's really, really not much. Here's the short breakdown
- rent. Rent is sky-high in places like Berlin, London, Paris, the US, and a lot of other places. You can find a studio apt for like $400/mo in a poor place
- food. Earning $4k/mo means a lot of work and cooking is not an option. If you rent a cheap apartment, chances are you have a poor kitchen. So it adds $400 per person a month
- emergency. If your partner loses a job or a close relative gets something like cancer, you start spending much more. I had both, unfortunately
These are my total regular monthly joint expenses between both my partner and I:
Rent & Utilities: $1200
Entertainment: $150
Student loans: $200
Health/dental: $600
Groceries: $600
Business: $250
Auto: $250
=$3250
Are you trying to rub it in or something? $4000 isn't much to you, good for you. Others disagree, and there's no sense arguing what somebody poor would do if they needed to suddenly spend a lot of money. What's the point of that?
It's not like the idea hasn't occurred to us. The fear of such an event is already in our heads all the time. The honest answer most people could give is: I really don't know.
I can't think of a single situation besides ransom that would require I spend $8,000 but, to answer your question, I would take out a loan.
Regardless, if my partner and I each made $4,000/mo, we'd have over $4,000/mo of discretionary spending, which is insane
This is literally fraud.
You'd be stealing from other working class people like you.
Yeah stealing from random people to "survive" is not okay.
This isn't stealing food from a store this is taking money from everyday people's trying to rent an apartment
Yeah stealing from random people to "survive" is not okay.
Never said it is.
My point was to underline that in the current system some people commit fraud not to get rich or even higher than average, but just to survive.
Firstly, she does it because she's a piece of shit.
Secondly, if it was about survival, like you suggest, then why is she calling it a passive income in such a gloating casual fashion?
Passive income, at least to me, means secondary and unnecessary.
Thirdly, she's a piece of shit.
My cat cost my insurance company whatever they paid my doctor to write a note to tell my landlord I wouldn’t be paying a pet deposit equal to a months rent (non-refundable) and pet rent.
She seemed annoyed by the whole thing but unsurprised. Apparently part of her job is to write the landlords fuck you notes.
Hey, a big mean looking pibble in darling purple sheen pearls is a great emotional support companion. Big big hugs and cuddles, can rough house just fine, and she emotionally supported a bad character out of the house when my wife was working from home and a trade-type guy apparently didn't get the memo that it wasn't a good idea to try that.
Her sister, same litter, needs an emotional support animal - and my wife rescued a soaking wet orange ball of spite and pain from under a car hood in the rain who realizes that "her" dog needs support during scary times (rain, jets, fireworks, all that).
She lives under the bed, shows up for food and water, to use the litter box, and for "her" puppy. It'd be adorable if she were more effective at it, but that house damage isn't so cute.
You also have to prove you make 2x rent, sometimes 3x rent in order to actually qualify for an apartment (alot of us create fake paystubs for this) 😀
We also will have a deposit that is usually 2-3x rent that we are supposed to get back when we move out. However every time this happens the landlords conveniently find damage to the property that didn't exist the day you moved out so you don't ever get that money back (or if you do, you only get 25-50% of it). 😀
At the place I just moved out of, there was a roach infestation that the landlords refused to hire a pro to take care of that got entirely out of hand. They are holding my deposit for this. 😀
You also aren't allowed to have anyone stay over longer than 3 days if they aren't on the lease without prior approval from the landlord. 😀
Edit: Sometimes people have to get renters insurance too. 😀
About the rent not exceeding one third of the revenue, it's of course not always easy to do, but if you exceeded it, you would risk having other financial problems which wouldn't be good for you neither.
Americans are fine with it. Extremely comfortable.
If they weren’t, they would do something about it.
Ever seen Orcas wearing salmon hats?
Hierarchical systems are perfectly normal in social systems. Not in the rigid way your manosphere nutters use it, but it's still a thing!
Well, there's a philosophical point that's worthy of exploring.
Is human activity, including manipulation, a result of nature or in conflict with it?
Not everything bad about China is CIA propaganda. They have a long way to go, economically and socially. At the same time, there’s factually a large anti-PRC budget for US propaganda, largely stemming from the large amount of friction faced when dealing with a socialist country in the world capitalist market. It’s accelerated because the PRC is currently surpassing the US in many key metrics, and is charted to do so in other areas in the coming years.
Which part of this do you disagree with? You're being a contrarion at this point, I outright stated that not everything bad about China is a lie, just that a huge portion of it is. You just stated that "the truth is in the middle," but what I stated above already acknowledges that while good overall, China has a long way to go socially and economically. In fact, the fact that they largely succeed in their planning and are continuously improving both shows how far they have come and how far they have to go.
People are disagreeing with you moreso because you're just picking fights and playing the contrarion.
I'm not picking "fights", lol. I haven't replied to a .ml thread in months. And I'm not getting into that because I have before and almost none of you have budged an inch.
Not on Tiananmen Square(yeah, it didn't happen in the actual square, doesn't mean nothing happened),
not on the Uyghur situation(just because they're not getting genocided like the gazans doesn't mean "education camps" is a socially acceptable thing to put someone through),
not on the fact that the metrics that you're using to compare don't paint the full picture(such as the whole green energy thing when in reality they're still one of the highest CO2 emitting countries per capita)
nor on fact that you keep pretending that state capitalism = socialism, which is not. Just because a place is better than the USA doesn't mean that it's a good place.
Socially, yeah... Even worse xD I agree, they have tons of work ahead of them. And on certain issues (such as LGBTQ), they're not really progressing.
Okay, so I felt I needed to reply to that for some reason. But like I said, I've talked about these things before, with you included, and you've never budged, so I'm not getting back into it. So unless you need to reply for someone else, don't bother replying to me cause I'm not gonna respond anymore.
Well, since you brought these up...
- Nobody says that nothing happened around the square and in Beijing either. Everyone recognizes it as a tragedy, just not the way western media reports on it.
- Nobody said the re-education camps are perfect, just that there isn't mass sterilization or systematic murder like western countries claim.
- The PRC's CO2 emissions are from producing what the vast majority of the world consumes. As far as consumption is concerned, emissions per capita in the PRC are low and shrinking.
- The PRC is socialist, the large firms and key industries are publicly owned. It isn't in the later stages of socialism where private property has begun to disappear entirely and communism is around the corner, nor is it state capitalist like the Republic of Korea, Singapore, or Bismark's Germany, where the state is involved in planning a majority privately owned economy.
- Socially, the PRC is making great strides. Jin Xing is one of China's top celebrities, and she's openly trans. The older generations are more conservative, but the younger generations are more progressive, and China's democratic structures mean change takes time but ultimately does come from below.
You seem to have a fantasy view of Marxists, while not being very well-read on socialist theory either. If you focused on connecting with people I think you'd get farther.
Not gonna waste time on all of that because it would take way too much time but first one is quite easy:
bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-…
sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/0…
Both china's defense minister and .ml's admin seem to be disagreeing with you.
Tiananmen Square: China minister defends 1989 crackdown
The defence minister said the response by authorities was "correct", in a rare acknowledgement of events.BBC News
It's still a tragedy, even if putting down the riots that resulted in lynchings of innocents before the PLA came in was ultimately necessary. You're not really understanding what I'm saying.
A Maoist protest was twisted into a liberal one backed by the US, where the rioters went on to burn people alive and lynch unarmed officers.
You're the only one saying tragedy. The rest are praising it.
One more just for "fun" "much ado about nothing"
At best, according to Chinese sources, it was 300 revolutionaries killed in response to a handful of lynched soldiers -> not praise worthy. That's called overkill.
At worst, according to the Swiss ambassador that was there, it was 2600-ish people. Definitely not praiseworthy. That's called a massacre.
Either way, not necessary. Ffs, the whole black lives matter which was a shit show and still there were 35-ish deaths. But yeah, it was necessary and praiseworthy. Give me a break. But it's good to finally get an actual stance out of you and not just dodgy bs. But you say "PLA" instead of "the army", so I'm not surprised.
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They are stating that it was necessary to put down the color-revolution, a western-backed riot where the organizers themselves admitted to trying to provoke a violent response:
The students keep asking, “What should we do next? What can we accomplish?” I feel so sad, because how can I tell them that what we are actually hoping for is bloodshed, for the moment when the government has no choice but to brazenly butcher the people. Only when the Square is awash with blood will the people of China open their eyes. Only then will they really be united. But how can I explain any of this to my fellow students?(Are you going to stay in the Square yourself?)
No, I won’t. Because my situation is different. My name is on the government’s hit list. I’m not going to let myself be destroyed by this government. I want to live.
There were lynchings of officers, firebombings of vehicles, and widespread violence, all of a largely reactionary nature. These were not protests for social justice. Originally, they were ultraleft Maoists upset at Deng's market reforms, but later they became liberal protests, backed by the US.
It was a tragedy that it happened at all, that's correct, however if the counter-revolt succeeded in toppling socialism, countless lives would have been lost, just like when the USSR fell and 7 million people died that didn't have to.
Not sure what you mean by "dodgy BS," I have always been clear on what my stances are. I'm a Marxist-Leninist, I hold opinions generally held by Marxist-Leninists. I'm on Capital Volume 2. I'm a spooky scary socialist.
I said it was tragic that it happened in the first place, and it's horrible that the US took advantage of grievances the public had in order to force violent reaction. I also think it's a good thing that the socialist system remained, millions more lives have been saved and extended thanks to it, regardless if the rioters that burned unarmed officers alive lived to see those lives saved.
Again, though, you're deliberately avoiding having an actual conversation, and are looking to pick fights. I've talked about the June 4th incident before, several times, going over the causes, influences, distortions by the west, etc. A good source is Another View of Tiananmen by Sun Feiyang and Roderic Day.
I'm not going to apologize for being a Leftist, even if you call me pejoratives, lol.
Another View of Tiananmen
Most of what we hear about Tiananmen in 1989 focuses on student activists, since they dominated Tiananmen square itself and waved banners demanding “freedom and democracy.” However, the real history of the protests is a bit more complex.redsails.org
The “mass murder” didn’t come from the Chinese state; it came from the CIA-backed terrorists. Like any state, the Chinese state has a duty to stop terrorist attacks.
Have you ever lived under a communist regime? I have, it sucked, it doesn’t mean I automatically become a capitalist right wing supporter, just cause I reject communism. Has communism ever worked without devolving into oligarchy? Ever? Im more of an anarchist, I believe communism doesn’t work because it relies on the hope that the people running the government will give the little people and equal share as them, and humans just aren’t that good. We suck. The communism I experienced came with a lot
of oppression and poverty, maybe you mean socialism? Cause that’s different
Just because I think communism doesn’t work, doesn’t mean that I immediately agree with capitalism. I miss the days when a leftists could argue and debate with another leftists without being accused of being right wing or called names, just because our views may differ slightly. Be better
Relying on your own personal anecdotes to prove a point is not helpful, same with asserting that someone has had to live in a socialist country to understand socialism. The truth is that socialism isn't oligarchy. All socialist countries have had governments, yes, but these are democratically elected. Further, socialism doesn't require "equal" distribution of resources, Marx railed against the "equalitarians" that argued as such.
Moreover, you seem to be confused on Marxism. Communism is a global system, countries like Cuba, the PRC, or the former USSR are examples of socialism. Socialism is a transitional status towards communism, it's the process of sublimating property until production is fully collectivized and thus society becomes classless, and this can only be complete globally.
As an example, wealth inequality in the USSR was around a difference of five times from the top and the bottom, while in Tsarist and capitalist Russia that number was hundreds to thousands od times higher.
Overall, people are being accused of being a liberal because their understanding of socialism and communism are severely lacking, and myopic.
The vast majority of people who lived in the USSR regret the fall of socialism. I can find a thousand people who think the US Empire is the most morally just country in history that truly provides for its people, but genuinely studying history, statistics, and the mechanisms of political economy domestically and globally point to that being a fantasy.
I'm sorry, but I really don't have any reason to take a random internet stranger's anecdote any more seriously than the large amount of reading I've done on Marxism, anarchism, history, and political economy in general.
Communist Nostalgia As The Reality Of Bourgeois Democracy Hits Home In Eastern Europe
Stalins approval rating hit a record high amongst Russians recently showing a 70 percent approval rating of Josef Stalin published by the independent Levada Center pollster. (Stalin’s Approval Rating…Richie Brown (Medium)
Nothing you just said has anything to do with the argument.
The fact is that you argued like a liberal using liberal talking points.
There's plenty of things you can criticise any former socialist leader for. But using fake facts and rhetoric from the CIA, the black book of communism, various right wingers, etc. only enables their historic revisionism.
There's a stark rhetoric difference between saying the great leap was mishandled terribly and not sound from an ideological base and calling it an intentional genocide if that's what you were refering to with the genocide crap.
Of racism and colonial “papa knows best” attitude I’ve seen from the American left this past year
Mao is very popular in the PRC, and among Marxists. The modern CPC recognizes his contributions as around 70% good, 30% bad. The Cultural Revolution in particular is a touchy subject largely seen as a misstep, but certainly not a "genocide" either. Same with famine, which was previously common in China but was only ended by the communists in power.
Mao's popularity stems from establishing socialism in China, successfully kicking out the Japanese imperialists and then winning the civil war against the nationalist Kuomintang, and building up a robust system of socialism in early China, accomplishing metrics like a doubling in life expectancy, large (but unstable, as Deng would later stabilize with socialist market reforms) economic growth, banning footbinding, and more.
I did 97 meth deals ($45 each).
That's $4365 in passive income.
I don't even have any meth and just gave them sugar crystals.
Israel Floods YouTube with Ads to Whitewash Gaza Genocide, Iran Offensive
Israel floods YouTube with ads to whitewash Gaza genocide, Iran offensive: Report
Israel has spent tens of millions to purchase ads viewed by 45 million Europeans in the past monththecradle.co
Did Superman call out Israel?
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/33342194
By Ayah El-Khaldi
Published date: 14 July 2025 17:06 BST
One of the most widely circulated Reddit posts under the subreddit "Israel" encapsulated the concern from pro-Israel audiences:“Have you all seen the new Superman movie? I find it so disrespectful and distressing that a superhero created by two Jewish artists is now being used to promote anti-Israeli messages to the world… I can't understand how this was green-lit at a time like this with global antisemitism on a rise... Of course, the invaders are portrayed as white while the victims are predominantly brown. And of course, if Israel speaks out against the film, it would be seen as 'well, if the shoe fits.'"
Users responding on Twitter wrote: “It’s so funny that they instantly recognize that the movie is about Israel’s genocide in Gaza without being told and yet still have the temerity to get offended and express their indignation in public. It’s like how come you know the evil murderous villains are Israel, guys?”
Did Superman call out Israel?
By Ayah El-Khaldi
Published date: 14 July 2025 17:06 BSTOne of the most widely circulated Reddit posts under the subreddit "Israel" encapsulated the concern from pro-Israel audiences:“Have you all seen the new Superman movie? I find it so disrespectful and distressing that a superhero created by two Jewish artists is now being used to promote anti-Israeli messages to the world… I can't understand how this was green-lit at a time like this with global antisemitism on a rise... Of course, the invaders are portrayed as white while the victims are predominantly brown. And of course, if Israel speaks out against the film, it would be seen as 'well, if the shoe fits.'"
Users responding on Twitter wrote: “It’s so funny that they instantly recognize that the movie is about Israel’s genocide in Gaza without being told and yet still have the temerity to get offended and express their indignation in public. It’s like how come you know the evil murderous villains are Israel, guys?”
Did Superman call out Israel?
The newly released Hollywood blockbuster Superman: Legacy, which premiered globally on 11 July, is drawing intense social media attention for what many viewers perceive as a bold "pro-Palestine" stance.Ayah El-Khaldi (Middle East Eye)
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Did Superman call out Israel?
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/33342194
By Ayah El-Khaldi
Published date: 14 July 2025 17:06 BST
One of the most widely circulated Reddit posts under the subreddit "Israel" encapsulated the concern from pro-Israel audiences:“Have you all seen the new Superman movie? I find it so disrespectful and distressing that a superhero created by two Jewish artists is now being used to promote anti-Israeli messages to the world… I can't understand how this was green-lit at a time like this with global antisemitism on a rise... Of course, the invaders are portrayed as white while the victims are predominantly brown. And of course, if Israel speaks out against the film, it would be seen as 'well, if the shoe fits.'"
Users responding on Twitter wrote: “It’s so funny that they instantly recognize that the movie is about Israel’s genocide in Gaza without being told and yet still have the temerity to get offended and express their indignation in public. It’s like how come you know the evil murderous villains are Israel, guys?”
Did Superman call out Israel?
By Ayah El-Khaldi
Published date: 14 July 2025 17:06 BSTOne of the most widely circulated Reddit posts under the subreddit "Israel" encapsulated the concern from pro-Israel audiences:“Have you all seen the new Superman movie? I find it so disrespectful and distressing that a superhero created by two Jewish artists is now being used to promote anti-Israeli messages to the world… I can't understand how this was green-lit at a time like this with global antisemitism on a rise... Of course, the invaders are portrayed as white while the victims are predominantly brown. And of course, if Israel speaks out against the film, it would be seen as 'well, if the shoe fits.'"
Users responding on Twitter wrote: “It’s so funny that they instantly recognize that the movie is about Israel’s genocide in Gaza without being told and yet still have the temerity to get offended and express their indignation in public. It’s like how come you know the evil murderous villains are Israel, guys?”
Did Superman call out Israel?
The newly released Hollywood blockbuster Superman: Legacy, which premiered globally on 11 July, is drawing intense social media attention for what many viewers perceive as a bold "pro-Palestine" stance.Ayah El-Khaldi (Middle East Eye)
Did Superman call out Israel?
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/33342194
By Ayah El-Khaldi
Published date: 14 July 2025 17:06 BST
One of the most widely circulated Reddit posts under the subreddit "Israel" encapsulated the concern from pro-Israel audiences:“Have you all seen the new Superman movie? I find it so disrespectful and distressing that a superhero created by two Jewish artists is now being used to promote anti-Israeli messages to the world… I can't understand how this was green-lit at a time like this with global antisemitism on a rise... Of course, the invaders are portrayed as white while the victims are predominantly brown. And of course, if Israel speaks out against the film, it would be seen as 'well, if the shoe fits.'"
Users responding on Twitter wrote: “It’s so funny that they instantly recognize that the movie is about Israel’s genocide in Gaza without being told and yet still have the temerity to get offended and express their indignation in public. It’s like how come you know the evil murderous villains are Israel, guys?”
Did Superman call out Israel?
By Ayah El-Khaldi
Published date: 14 July 2025 17:06 BSTOne of the most widely circulated Reddit posts under the subreddit "Israel" encapsulated the concern from pro-Israel audiences:“Have you all seen the new Superman movie? I find it so disrespectful and distressing that a superhero created by two Jewish artists is now being used to promote anti-Israeli messages to the world… I can't understand how this was green-lit at a time like this with global antisemitism on a rise... Of course, the invaders are portrayed as white while the victims are predominantly brown. And of course, if Israel speaks out against the film, it would be seen as 'well, if the shoe fits.'"
Users responding on Twitter wrote: “It’s so funny that they instantly recognize that the movie is about Israel’s genocide in Gaza without being told and yet still have the temerity to get offended and express their indignation in public. It’s like how come you know the evil murderous villains are Israel, guys?”
Did Superman call out Israel?
The newly released Hollywood blockbuster Superman: Legacy, which premiered globally on 11 July, is drawing intense social media attention for what many viewers perceive as a bold "pro-Palestine" stance.Ayah El-Khaldi (Middle East Eye)
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Did Superman call out Israel?
By Ayah El-Khaldi
Published date: 14 July 2025 17:06 BST
One of the most widely circulated Reddit posts under the subreddit "Israel" encapsulated the concern from pro-Israel audiences:“Have you all seen the new Superman movie? I find it so disrespectful and distressing that a superhero created by two Jewish artists is now being used to promote anti-Israeli messages to the world… I can't understand how this was green-lit at a time like this with global antisemitism on a rise... Of course, the invaders are portrayed as white while the victims are predominantly brown. And of course, if Israel speaks out against the film, it would be seen as 'well, if the shoe fits.'"
Users responding on Twitter wrote: “It’s so funny that they instantly recognize that the movie is about Israel’s genocide in Gaza without being told and yet still have the temerity to get offended and express their indignation in public. It’s like how come you know the evil murderous villains are Israel, guys?”
Did Superman call out Israel?
The newly released Hollywood blockbuster Superman: Legacy, which premiered globally on 11 July, is drawing intense social media attention for what many viewers perceive as a bold "pro-Palestine" stance.Ayah El-Khaldi (Middle East Eye)
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How Germany continues to manufacture consent for genocide
Manufacturing what political scientist Donatella della Porta describes as a “moral panic dynamic” of antisemitism has proven itself to be a very effective way for post-October 7 Germany to shift public attention away from the reality of German complicity in yet another genocide, while simultaneously refashioning the fight against Jew-hatred “into an instrument of racialisation and repression” against Palestine solidarity.
Just a week after the United4Gaza mass protest in Berlin, at the end of which police arrested co-organiser Rjoob, the co-governing Social Democrats (SPD) passed a motion to combat antisemitism at their federal party congress.
Entitled “Never again is now! Protect Jewish life!” in a nod to last year’s much criticised Bundestag resolution of near-identical name-giving, Motion I06 is yet another red herring designed to distract the public from the real problem: "Israel’s" genocide in Gaza and the corresponding anti-Palestinian authoritarianism of the colluding German state in the service of a foreign entity.
How Germany continues to manufacture consent for genocide
Germany’s morally bankrupt political and media class, with their scandalous lack of historical self-awareness, continue to manufacture consent for a genocidal war that has German entanglement written all over it.Timo Al-Farooq (How Germany continues to manufacture consent for genocide)
How Germany continues to manufacture consent for genocide
Manufacturing what political scientist Donatella della Porta describes as a “moral panic dynamic” of antisemitism has proven itself to be a very effective way for post-October 7 Germany to shift public attention away from the reality of German complicity in yet another genocide, while simultaneously refashioning the fight against Jew-hatred “into an instrument of racialisation and repression” against Palestine solidarity.
Just a week after the United4Gaza mass protest in Berlin, at the end of which police arrested co-organiser Rjoob, the co-governing Social Democrats (SPD) passed a motion to combat antisemitism at their federal party congress.
Entitled “Never again is now! Protect Jewish life!” in a nod to last year’s much criticised Bundestag resolution of near-identical name-giving, Motion I06 is yet another red herring designed to distract the public from the real problem: "Israel’s" genocide in Gaza and the corresponding anti-Palestinian authoritarianism of the colluding German state in the service of a foreign entity.
How Germany continues to manufacture consent for genocide
Germany’s morally bankrupt political and media class, with their scandalous lack of historical self-awareness, continue to manufacture consent for a genocidal war that has German entanglement written all over it.Timo Al-Farooq (How Germany continues to manufacture consent for genocide)
I've read that MAX (typical horse taste of modern Russian official names, similar to Rosgvardia, Gosuslugi, Rostech and so on ; Soviet-time many-many-many caps abbreviations are boring, but somehow better) in its current early versions is a piece of spyware looking like Telegram, literally saving passwords and banking data and browsing history. Well, I'm almost certain Telegram itself is not much better.
Installed Briar on my phone and persuaded my sister, and to my grandma's today.
I like the idea of these meshes but until Linux phones become a practical option it doesn’t matter. Apple will restrict the hardware, Google will let Gemini spy on anything that passes through the phone, the phone situation is a mess.
I don’t really blame governments for that either. I blame fucking business majors.
A little background info:
Russia's been sponsoring one of its oligarchs' business by eliminating their competition.
First, they restricted YouTube's speed to an unusable state to force people to switch to RuTube (they didn't)
Now they're trying to force people to switch from WhatsApp (and potentially Telegram) to MAX, which they want to be Russia's version of WeChat.
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Add the fact that our politicians are obsessed with controlling all of the media and you'll get the gist of it.
I'm building a Tux-based Game Studio
I know other devs interested in making Tux games but before I begin with them I figured I would ask the community what they would like to see
A Conker/Golden Eye type game? DOOM-like? Farming Sim? Fighting Game similar to Smash? Open World RPG similar to older Bethesda games? RTS like StarCraft? Turn-Based like Final Fantasy or Expedition 33? Going mad for power in a 4X? Another genre entirely?
What genre would you all prefer to see have a game made first? I will basing it off of likes
I plan to make a game in each genre but for now figuring out which to do first is the goal. Have concepts, tools, experience, devs, etc ready to make anything the community wants
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DOGE staffer with access to Americans' personal data leaked private xAI API key | TechCrunch
The creator of DOGE gets a taste of what he created.
That's called poetic justice.
DOGE staffer with access to Americans' personal data leaked private xAI API key | TechCrunch
The researcher who found the exposed key said it “raises questions” about how DOGE handles sensitive data.Zack Whittaker (TechCrunch)
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Ukrainians have lost faith in Zelensky
Ukrainians have lost faith in Zelensky
Donald Trump this week boosted Ukraine’s air defences with new Patriot batteries, threatened Vladimir Putin with sanctions if he does not agree to a ceasefire, and even reportedly gave tacit approval to more Ukrainian strikes on Moscow.Owen Matthews (The Spectator)
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The CEO seemingly having an affair with the head of HR at his company at the Coldplay concert is a viral video for the ages, but it is also, unfortunately, emblematic of our current private surveillance and social media hellscape.
The video, which is now viral on every platform that we can possibly think of, has been covered by various news outlets, and is Pop Crave official, shows Andy Byron, the CEO of a company called Astronomer, with his arms around Astronomer’s head of HR, Kristen Cabot. The jumbotron cuts from one fan to this seemingly happy couple. They both simultaneously die inside; “Oh look at this happy couple,” Coldplay lead singer Chris Martin says. The woman covers her face and spins away. The man ducks out of frame. “Either they’re having an affair or they’re very shy,” Martin said. The camera pans to another company executive standing next to them, who is seemingly shaking out of discomfort.
It is hard to describe how viral this is at the moment, in a world in which so many awful things are occurring and in which nothing holds anyone’s attention for any length of time and in a world in which we are all living in our own siloed realities. “Andy Byron” is currently the most popular trending Google term in the United States, with more than double the searches of the next closest term.
There are so many levels to this embarrassment—the Coldplay of it all, the HR violation occurring on jumbotron, etc—that one could likely write a doctoral dissertation on this 15 second video.
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Facial recognition and crowdsourced social media investigations are constantly being used not just on cringe CEOs, but on random people who are simply existing in public.Jason Koebler (404 Media)
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