"transgender ideology" is not a thing. That's the type of shit transphobes pull out of their ass when they're trying to attack trans folks

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way ahead of you there, guy

American Far-Right Evangelicalism is the biggest heresy in 21st century Christianity and possibly the most wide spread heresy in the history of the religion.

there's a lot of mid-century French theorists spinning in their graves right now

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the rampant consumerism in nerd spaces seems to disprove the Lemmy title in the large, even if this specific example indicates the opposite wrt marketing by software firms aimed at developers.

the next big industry in software is fixing shitty AI code, screen this

many mid-20th century French thinkers like Foucault, Debord, Deleuze and Baudrillard spent a lot of time writing about surveillance and technology. Lots of this stuff has turned out to be extremely prescient. (Ellul is another example, but as a Christian Anarchist his critiques of what he called the Technical Society, are a bit of an outlier from the other guys above who, despite a plurality of ideas and perspectives, were all coming from a pretty similar place wrt their philosophical backgrounds)

A pretty easy to digest example is Deleuze's "Postscript on Societies of Control", which is like 5 pages long and available for free online, written ca 1990 that is pretty spooky in how accurately it predicted the current state of affairs.

The real king here is Baudrillard but his writing isn't always the most accessible

Kirk wasn't even a politician, he was a talking head. And not even an A-lister like Shapiro or Jones. These guys are looking for an excuse to become violent and it didn't take much.

it's easy to do something in the heat of the moment when passions are running high (and your favorite show is in-between seasons) but let's see where the boycott is in 6+ months after everything has cooled down and about 300 other new little fires from the current admin have come and gone from the headlines. That's the true measure of these kinds of "low temp" protests.

Land of the thief, home of the slave

I think people have a pretty distorted view of the cultural background of ww2: Folks were anti-Nazis because they were "the bad guys", not because of their ideology. I mean, sure , a fair few people probably thought fascism was shit but the popular acrimony against Germany et al was not anti-fascist in essence. it was simply old-fashioned war and they were the enemy.

Just like all the racist jokes your shitty uncle made about Saddam in the 90s and/or 2000s

consider the Dot Com Bubble: the internet obviously didn't disappear but that doesn't mean there weren't serious economic consequences.

the short-term plan is to slurp up all the stuff while they can. The long term plan is that there is no place for plebs in the automated future. The unwritten prologue to their sci-fi adventure is us commoners being abandoned to starve on a poisoned and resource-depleted mud ball as the intrepid billionaires go off to explore the cosmos with their robot pals.

the far-right establishment behind the Trump administration is preparing to use this as the justification for the incoming Reichstagsbrandverordnung.

They've got their van der Lubbe now and they're working to get their bullshit in before Nov 2026

The vast size of the US is doing a lot of work to keep things from boiling over. there's a reason these loci horridus aren't in New York or California or even Texas, where most people live.

yeah, it turns out unelected, lifetime appointees with the power to interpret the law with no oversight was a bad idea.

Would be pretty silly if roblox lost a lawsuit for letting someone else exploit children through their platform.

Just to clarify:. I am not saying that it would be silly if roblox lost this particular lawsuit but rather the possibility that the law holds negligence to be somehow worse than the direct exploitation of children that Roblox openly participates in through their less-than savory user-created content store

the only thing more aggravating than using imperial is having to listen to all the complaining about how metric is better. We get it, bro; it's out of our control at this point

JD Vance the type of dude to say "no homo" when his wife finally forces him to wash his bunghole