I don’t understand, why don’t they just eat cake?

The “rewards” come off the backs of poor people paying these usurious interest rates.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.

The memes are getting skibidier by the day.

📈 https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/DOGE-USD/

Corporate media aren’t worthless to their owners. They’re reporting exactly how the capitalist class wants them to. They don’t want you to develop real media literacy.

Ironically, trains don’t run on time, despite their fame.

You understand that that was about fascist Italy, right? And the reality is that they did not run on time.

That’s at least partially true, perhaps even predominantly, but there’s also the desire to have very lean distributions for containterization, and GNU is comparatively “bloated,” for lack of a better term.

The US has never been and will never be a democracy, because it was born of a bourgeois revolution[1]. The wealthy, white, male, land-owning, largely slave-owning Founding Fathers constructed a bourgeois state with “checks and balances” against the “tyranny of the majority”. It was never meant to represent the majority—the working class—and it never has, despite eventually allowing women and non-whites (at least those not disenfranchised by the carceral system) to vote.[Princeton & Northwestern] Study: US is an oligarchy, not a democracy

China, in contrast, practices democratic centralism. And its no wonder that the Chinese people are very satisfied with their government, because their quality of life has been improving over the last few generations[2], while ours has been dropping over the last ~40 years of grinding neoliberalism.

Your understanding of China comes exclusively from the imperial core propaganda you & I have been exposed to our entire lives. You’ll never understand it in any other way unless you investigate outside of the bubble we live in.

Try to mention Tienanmen square anywhere

You can in fact mention Tienanmen square in China. The idea that you can’t comes to you from Western propaganda.

• The Tian’anmen Square ‘Massacre’: The West’s Most Persuasive, Most Pervasive Lie.
• Columbia Journalism Review: The Myth of Tiananmen
• 1989 Tian’anmen Square riots
• A Note on the Tiananmen Protests
• Images from Tiananmen 1989 the West never shows (NSFW / CW: violence and death)
• Tank Man video footage. Tiananmen Square, Beijing, 1989
• How psy-ops warriors fooled me about Tiananmen Square: a warning
• [Carl Zha’s] Memories of Tiananmen Protest

Yours is also full of “propaganda”, for the imperial core.

I’m happy when any state chooses China as a partner over the imperial hegemon.

• Are We the Baddies?
• List of Atrocities committed by US authorities
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_imperialism
• The U.S. Did Not Defeat Fascism in WWII, It Discretely Internationalized It
• The blueprint of regime change operations
• Infographic: US military presence around the world The US controls about 750 bases in at least 80 countries worldwide and spends more on its military than the next 10 countries combined.
• World Incarceration Rates If Every U.S. State Were A Country

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(map is ~8 years old)

“Forward-defense ring,” a perfectly normal turn of phrase and not at all Orwellian Newspeak.

(map is ~11 years old)

Are you sad that Indonesia doesn’t want to become the United States’ pet?

Stallman, begging to be defenestrated.

All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

That’s not even true, because they don’t all have a GNU userland.

These arguments are so straw man that they give me hay fever.

When I make espresso at home with a La Marzocco GS3 I’m cool, but when I partake from a Costco tub of caffeine pills, somehow I’m the freak.

I had accidentally replied to the wrong person and then immediately deleted it, but it looks like the deletion request never got processed by midwest.social.

Reporter: [REDACTED]
Reason: Hate speech towards American citizens

This one takes the cake 😂 Won’t somebody please think of the imperial hegemon!

You might think so, but today’s NASDAQ & NYSE seem to imply that Trump is the better choice for empire 📈

That depends on whether you’re a US capitalist or labor aristocrat who benefits from US neocolonial exploitation of imperialized states.

It so happens that I do benefit, but I side with the workers of the world and against imperialism nonetheless.