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a company has no moral guiding principals outside of monetary gain. its board of directors members may have their own individual viewpoints, but as a collective, a corporation is representative only of the shareholder's shared interest in making some money. if they wanted anything else, they would collectivize into another form.

generally speaking the best, i mean the best, you can expect from a BoD member is liberalism and all that entails. from a liberal perspective, pacifism is a virtue to be signaled, not an overall approach to the world with a goal of bringing about a just and fair society. liberals preaching non-violence don't really care if someone is preaching violence so long as they don't practice violence and the results of the preaching of violence remain unseen.

that's how you wind up with liberals saying that the founder of turning point usa did things the right way and denouncing someone doing exactly the things he said were good to do, but moreover, denouncing people who have trained in violence accessing that violence in self defense. in the fight between fascism and anything other than fascism, violence must be used to denounce fascism because it is the only language fascists speak. you can use non-violence to interact with other political positions. those are positions who do not practice solely violence. but fascism believes access to violence grants license to use that violence. you can only counter this belief by rendering it scared to show itself in public

go open youtube in a private tab and see how long it takes for an innocuous video to get a recommended video from the manosphere, rightwingtube, or magaworld. youtube pushes nazi shit hard. if they're not pushing it on you, it usually means their mathematical model for determining who right wing propaganda works best on indicates you're not a good target, in which case they'll mostly push meaningless drivel.

youtube and youtube culture have been dying a right wing nazi death for a decade now. all the best things people were doing are on patreon and nebula now

CoMaps is GOATed. i need to make some edits in my neighborhood

there's a reason i coalition build best with religious anarchists while myself being an agnostic. there's actually a ton of radical political thought in theology if you can get away from a hierarchically programmed preacher long enough to study it yourself.

there's a song i love titled Owed to a Hypocrite about how the politician and the preacher walk down the road hand in hand oppressing all us regular people

what's google got to do with it? this is an article about a product develeped at GitHub (now a microsoft subsidiary) causing problems with Windows and the thumbnail is showing produts from the following companies:

• facebook
• discord
• microsoft
• microsoft
• microsoft
• microsoft

like. look. i hate google. they partner with israel to conduct genocide (don't use waze, btw, or better yet, don't use any google products). but this seems like not looking at the whole of how evil all of big tech is just to focus on how evil one company in big tech is

it's worth pointing out that blitzkrieg wasn't really a military doctrine so much as the organic movements field commanders made in the field when given loosey goosey orders from high command to the effect of "go west, idk, lol." much of the failure in operation barbarossa can be attributed to:

• the basic core plan of nazi germany of increasing national wealth through war being really fucking stupid
• a fundamental miscalculation that the soviets would be just as feckless and limp wristed as the French and British
• a failure to take into consideration that the French and British were poorly coordinated because they had two high commands who fundamentally didn't trust the other to try, so neither ended up doing much of anything. a contrast to soviet high command which was very centralized
• removal of initiative from field commanders and all orders coming from german high command

the thing to understand about nazi germany is that the things they got right aside from propaganda they mostly got right by accident. the only thing the nazis really understood was how to market and advertise the third reich. their propaganda was so effective that it would be the template for advertising and propaganda all the way until today, both in the first (capitalist) and second (soviet) worlds. next time you see a coca-cola commercial really pay attention to it and realize that it's nazi propaganda in the service of getting you to remember coca-cola exists and getting you to experience some strong emotion in order for you to want to drink a coca-cola immediately. i even feel a little awkward saying their name since i'm playing into theis hand by doing it, but i need people to take a critical eye to ads the next time they see them and think about what it means that the world looked upon the horrors of world war ii and said "i bet we could use this to sell razor cartridges"

if you ever want to know how it was so easy for the nazis to come back under the name of the alt right, don't look much further than madmen. that show explicitly gives us a glimpse into what america did with the nazi propaganda machine. some time, go look at some 1920s adverts for american products. you'll notice they give you a long chunk of written prose making a compelling argument that the thing they're selling will be a marked improvement over what you have now (it's usually not a valid argument). but after wwii it's much more just beautiful people holding the product with wide toothy grins. instead of saying "we must kill all the Jews" it says "you must buy the product to be happy"

i'll also point out that israel has been using nazi propaganda techniques without recontextualizing the techniques for nearly 80 years now. only the untermensch is not the Jew, obviously, it's the Muslim. ben gvir even uses nazi terms used to refer to Jews to refer to Palestinians.

we've had a few chances to listen and fix this shit. spoken word jazz, hippies, punks, and hip hop artists were screaming this shit at the tops of their lungs for 60 years at least. there's even a chumbawamba song, nazi, that explicitly explains how the nazi ideology wormed its way into the post war society. and i'll leave you, dear reader, whoever you are, with a couple lines from that song

The world is riddled with maggots; the maggots are getting fat
They're making a tasty meal of all the bosses and bureaucrats
They're taking over the boardrooms, and they're fat and full of pride

And they all came out of the woodwork on the day the Nazi died

So if you meet with these historians, I'll tell you what to say
Tell them that the Nazis never really went away
They're out there burning houses down and peddling racist lies

And we'll never rest again until every Nazi dies

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same here. i was just little when the police brutalized Rodney King. but i still remember my white neighbors being incensed about how while that was wrong, the LA riots were completely unjustified. meanwhile my Black neighbors all tried to explain that a riot is not the result of a single event and that the LA riots were the response to decades and even centuries of mistreatment

it has an uncomfortable "i can't tell the difference between Black people" vibe. i don't mind people not remembering the 90s. i do mind people not double checking the broad details real quick

Martin Luther King Jr doesn't have any famous trial losses to his name, are you thinking of Rodney King, who was also in LA and whose trial was contemporary?

"unused ram is wasted ram"

yeah yeah yeah, great. but all you motherfuckers did that and i'm fucking out of ram.

i'd just worn out a wallet after a couple years and was working my first job and wanted something that would last. the old wallet had worn out in the crease of the bifold