I mean okay and? What I’m trying to is that China is usually on the government dictatorship side of the spectrum so it’s weird that they’re suppressing free speech about a private—and foreign—government with no ties to Beijing.

Tesla does massive amounts of business in China, what are you talking about? Their latest Chinese factory cost literal billions of dollars.

Why would a government more on the ‘dictatorship side of the spectrum’ have any problem with suppressing free speech about their wealthy investors?

I mean tbf this is out of character for China.

You’re fucking kidding, right

Sorry, what I meant was that China has the highest respect for the little guy, and keeps those damn corporations in line.

But I was told China was the only country which was keeping those damn capitalists in line???

“If things aren’t good enough, we should make them worse to teach those layabouts a lesson!” - People who have no intention of suffering the consequences of their actions

Amazing what dividends Russia’s puppet is yielding for them.

Fuck’s sake

Imagine going this far to defend an utter shithead who openly admitted to working for MI5 to his girlfriend, whom he brutally abused. Not only was he a neonazi piece of shit (perhaps hard to avoid when trying to spy on radical neonazi orgs), but he was also a fucking security risk.

MI5 really picked a winner to go to the mat for. /s

Persistence hunting corporate dominance, I can dig it

Someone fetch me my spear

I’ve probably posted more here in just the last couple months than my entire decade+ years old Reddit account LMAO

Same. On topics on than Romeposting™ I’d love to go back to being a lurker and only an occasional contributor. I imagine it’ll be a while before that day comes, though.

The longer the race, the more true it becomes.

Slow and steady wins the race.

“worst thing in history”, no.

“Terrible and exploitative, and untrustworthy besides”? Yes.

It is, it just doesn’t have the will to do so at the moment.

I hope they muster their political capital to back Ukraine.

Bruh, I grew up in the mountains. This is pure cope.

Predictable, but even so.

A CBS/YouGov poll found that nearly half of respondents want Musk to have little or no influence, with opinions split along party lines.

“Nearly half”

“opinions split along party lines”

So the Republicans are still bootlicking fascism. Nothing has changed. There’s no mass outcry from people who just now realized it.

It’s the same ‘nearly half’ of the country that’s sane.

That reaction of doubling-down in response to sexism and the (sometimes impolitely stated, but most often true) accusations of masculine malfeasance in broader society is, itself, mostly created by social circumstances - how we socialize young men. Again, they are not born like that, they are not born as people who will become more sexist if accused of sexism or shown sexism in broader society, inherently; they are damaged into creatures which react like that. We must understand where this happens, how this happens - in the very many ways that it does happen - and how to counter it when removing the circumstances is not an immediate option.

Because they’re Nazis.

But why do people become Nazis?

People are not born Nazis.

Understanding why people become Nazis helps prevent people from becoming Nazis, even if you think there’s no hope for the fucks who’ve already dived into the ideology.

Social media, particularly TikTok, has helped spread its message.

Lies are easier to spread than the truth, and often more easily accepted too. Social media is fucked because of the near total lack of moderation - or desire to enact such.

After all, the ultra-wealthy often have little objection to being the useful pets of fascists, so long as they get to keep slightly more of their money*.

*until the fascists decide they want it even more than the scawwy LIBERALS did

Holy fucking shit, a broken clock moment?