I did start using feck in my everyday (written) language because of censorship on social media. I'm somewhat in favor of this.
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Yeah just listened to it and I think you’re spot on. It’s a financial move. They want to cosy up to Trump to take on the EU. And the best way to do that is to align themselves with his buddy Elon in how they run their social media. It’s really grim but actually predictable. At the end of the day all these tech bros are small government libertarians, no matter how progressive they like to think they are about social issues.
It is very easy to label "racist" or "fascist" anyone that disagrees with you, just because you don't like his opinion and you want to shut him up. There is absolutely no defence if someone labels you "racist" or "fascist", it doesn't matter how much you insist that no you are not, that you believe in democracy and equality for all.
This has been happening for too long, in too many platforms and media, and many people are fed up with it. One good example is what has been happening with J. K. Rowling. A lot of people cannot debate, they just give labels "racist", "fascist" and they think they have won the argument.
And this is one of the (many) reasons that Trump won the popular vote, even though he is a criminal. So, yes, fact checkers have destroyed more trust than created, this is obvious by the results. And the reason is that their "facts" are often their own political bias.
(Obviously, the issue here in not scientific facts, like the fact that the speed of light in vacuum is 300,000 km/s. )
It is very much a fake issue related to scientific facts because a huge part of the outrage at fact checkers was conspiracy theorists wanting the "freedom" to spread misinformation regarding COVID. The reality is that Trump and his associates want to be able to spread lies and misinformation without any push back. Trump wants to spread his bullshit about election fraud in 2020 without any fact checking of his lies.
I have not seen any labeled a racist or fascist just because they disagree with someone but because Trump supporters very often advocate for fascist policies and make racist dog whistles. Trump and his people are not called out by fact checkers because of political bias, they are called more because they lie far more than anyone else and actively spread lies and misinformation more than anyone else.
I don't know what J..K. Rowling has to do with anything. Has she posted something that was incorrectly called false by fact checkers?
When your son goes MAGA
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/19/...le_code=1.rE4.hQkF.pZTaILOqU0Ny&smid=tw-share
No, it’s the children who are wrong
It's easy to make any accusation. And it's easy to prove you're not a racist or fascist. You wouldn't be able to label me racist or fascist too successfully. I'd be able to defend it easily.
I don't know why everyone is acting so surprised that young men are turning into pieces of shit when blaming men and using their gender as a pejorative term has become so normalised.
If blaming and using gender as a pejorative term was a good explanation of anything, women would be off the scale when it comes to being antisocial.
Ok, andrew.
Prince or Tate?
Andrew Tate is a cnut
Good to see there is as much room for nuance and open discussion in the debate as you'd expect though.
I'm left, for the record.
Looking at criminal stats, especially the heinous ones, ( + e.g. fatal car accidents etc pp) one is rather surprised there isn't more young men-blaming happening.
There's no debate regarding what you said in my view, it was just silly.
Over half of Gen Z want UK to be a dictatorship, study suggests
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/study-gen-z-dictatorship-channel-four-b1207319.html
Jesus. Social Media is destroying democracy.
Yes it’s the moving images on the telephone and not a democracy which overwhelmingly favours asset holders.
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sorry but even by your standards asset -> assist is
They don't exclude each other. I'm fully aware that neoliberalism is the root cause of all this shit. That doesn't change that the apps many are so addicted to are their most effective weapon. By far.
I’m always sceptical as these authoritarian views told to pollsters never match with voting data. Almost no one under 50 votes conservative in Britain. It’s the Gen X and Boomers(due to their homeownership and landlordism)which have given us the current right wing hell hole.
Overall think social media brings more good than bad(Here’s an interesting article written around the potential US tik tok ban -
https://www.theguardian.com/comment...al-platform-us-ban-silicon-valley-chinese-app).
Imo too much importance is given to the role media/culture plays in politics.
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I personally believe that these concerns are often extremely valid, even though the idea that is supposed to be put into action, is a good one. Usually because the financial and personal support isn’t there. Teachers need to be educated on stuff like this. They need the financial means to support special needs students and the likes. If you then set up these programs, but the proper education and funding aren’t there, you create a complete mess and end up discrediting a good and maybe even important idea. We see that in many government projects worldwide.
Another example is the refugee crisis in Europe. The issue has never been that so many refugees arrived in Europe. The issue is that neoliberalism has fecked up most countries budgets, so they lacked the funds to invest into those people.
Take Germany for example. I’m still proud we took in so many refugees. I still believe we have a historic responsibility to do so. But accepting them and then closing sport venues to house them, because we lack social housing, or housing them in horrible circumstances, isolating them from society and housing them in the outskirts of towns or in small villages, failing to provide proper education and a perspective was always going to lead to disaster.
The last decades have seen western countries drifting to the left on social matters. A great development. But at the same time, in regards to economic issues, they drifted towards neoliberal values. So we lacked the funding to put these wonderful social ideas into practice, creating mess after mess. That’s what makes it easy for right wingers to attack those „identity politics“ as the cause of so many issues. They are a consequence of neoliberalism, but are easily misrepresented as the actual cause of so many issues.
you might enjoy reading about the tension between the social and economic goals of the revolution during the very early (and very very poor) soviet period:
https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/3202-women-in-russia-before-and-after-the-revolution
Kid saying "prove me wrong" is definitely getting coached at home.