casskaydee [she/her]

Still happening today

The only people in the US who have ever gotten a job they weren’t qualified for just because of their race have all been white people

China isn’t a democracy^[1] and that’s a Good Thing.

You’re not the first to make the connection

And as this essay points out, it applies just as well to the western “left” as to “progressive” liberals

Bwahahahahahahaha

Holy shit that 4th Psyops Group video is something else

might be a proxy for it’s late in the night

As opposed to… the time on the clock? Why are economists like this

Oh lol

Look at the track again, the whole thing

Why does it say 8 comments but there are only like 2?

“tankies” are a meme for obvious reasons.

I’m gonna be blunt here, your refusal to use real examples is sus at best

Is this loss?

Talk of “manufacturing” and “inventing” suggests an imposition over and against the individual’s will. I believe that, on the contrary, the process of Western propaganda is better understood in terms of “licensing”: the issuing of moral license for the bourgeois proletariat to profitably go along with bourgeois designs without the feeling of shame overwhelming. In this alternative account people aren’t “brainwashed” insofar as they don’t actually believe the lies, not in the way that we generally understand belief. It’s more correct to say that they go along with them, whether enthusiastically or apprehensively, because it’s actually their optimal survival strategy. When we concede that the time horizon and scope of responsibility within which we all make our decisions varies, it becomes much easier to see how their choice could be smart and intelligent. The enlightened critic can plead that if we all agreed to denounce the status quo in unison we’d be immensely rewarded, but the average worker in the first world cannot be accused of naiveté for preferring to keep a low profile, particularly after being subject — very often by that same critic — to so many grim stories of murder and of punishment and of how any attempt at radical change always goes awry.

Masses, Elites, and Rebels: The Theory of “Brainwashing” (2022)

Is that instance called “lemmy.wtf” because that’s what people say when they read a comment from anyone who is from there?

Uhhh I don’t think you are using the same definition of “Reddit atheism” that the rest of us are.

Sounds like demand avoidance to me