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Anyone Who Supports Terrorist Organisations Should Be Deported, Swedish Migration Minister Says ↗︎
↳ Western and European nations are all contorting themselves to ban public expression, protest, and desperately cling to their hegemony. This, among many others, is a sign of capitalism’s inevitable decay into fascism — make no mistake, this move is exclusively to support israhell’s actions and expand and protect the colonial project, not to “be rid of terrorists”. p.s. this proposed law is also racist. — added 6:39am on 05/11/24 ❧
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Singing gently to my soul: on youth alienation and precarity under late capitalism ↙︎ — posted 04/11/24, tagged as youth culture, alienation, despotism, olivia rodrigo, work, capitalism.
What the heck do I have in store for you today? Well naturally I have been enjoying pop music and thinking about the “climate” that the youth of today are experiencing. Okay, so, I can’t exactly claim to be vibin’ with the zeitgeist but I can give you a copy-paste of some song lyrics: > They say these are the golden years > > But I wish I could disappear > > Ego crush is so severe > > God, it's brutal out here Let’s go hard, or go home, straight out of the gate. The contradictions of youth culture under capitalism present themselves starkly in the simultaneous valorisation and exploitation of “youth rebellion”. Just think about popular (youth) culture. What begins as authentic resistance [1] – in music, art, fashion, or digital spaces – is rapidly co-opted by capital and transformed into commodified aesthetic facsimiles stripped of transformative potential. You only wanted to participate in c...
Downsizing the Australian dream: why families are trading houses with backyards for apartments ↗︎
↳ Bourgeois reporting. Do you think it has to do with the incredible inaffordability of housing? The complete erosion of leisure time for the working class? Massive monetary, climate, and toxic work struggles we face coupled with the growing despotism of the capitalists to force us in to prison cell living has nothing to do with it. Garden go brrr. — added 6:26am on 04/11/24 ❧
‘Death is everywhere’: fears grow that Israel plans to seize land in Gaza ↗︎
↳ You mean the racist, genocidal, maniacal and evil colonial state of israhell that has been indiscriminately bombing children and hospitals in two sovereign nations … is just doing a land grab? Maybe we can hope that this is the mainstream media finally conceding the hegemonic cover of mass murder? — added 6:14am on 04/11/24 ❧
“That is sick!”: Newt Gingrich loses it over ad informing women they can secretly vote for Harris ↗︎
↳ Just about the last person anyone should take a “lesson in morals” from. — added 6:09am on 04/11/24 ❧
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Business execs admit forcing staff back into the office was meant to make them quit ↗︎
↳ No, really? You mean you deliberately make workers lives hell? Just for giggles? So some more privileged or burnt out quit? Despotic capitalists at it again. — added 4:35am on 03/11/24 ❧
There are Minimum Wages, Why Not a Maximum Wage? ↗︎
↳ Oh my, that sounds dangerously close to some kind of socialism! Or… we could just have no wages, no capitalism, and live free from this oppressive system. — added 4:30am on 03/11/24 ❧
From November 2, 2024: Like what you’re reading? Join mind reader (free) to get fresh critical analysis delivered directly to you. Start right now.
A Pregnant Teenager Died After Trying to Get Care in Three Visits to Texas Emergency Rooms ↗︎
↳ Here in Australia, this is the future the Liberal party wants — Dutton and his cronies want death. And with our wonderful ratchet system Labor won’t be far behind. Horrible. — added 7:22am on 02/11/24 ❧
The women ‘cancelling out’ their Trump-loving partners’ votes: ‘No one will ever know’ ↗︎
↳ Better yet, no one votes for trump. — added 6:32am on 02/11/24 ❧
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Sweden and Norway rethink cashless society plans over Russia security fears ↗︎
↳ I guess that’s one reason. The other is uh… privacy of citizens? — added 9:26pm on 01/11/24 ❧
Zuckerberg: The AI Slop Will Continue Until Morale Improves ↗︎
↳ I’m not sure the platform needs this, the human generated trash is bad enough, right? Oh, no, sorry, AI based content prisons are fun! — added 9:24pm on 01/11/24 ❧
2.6% Performance Improvement With Minor Linux Kernel Patch ↗︎
↳ Things like this make Linux the most interesting in the pc space, to me. Chasing efficiency and access over profit is nice. — added 4:11pm on 01/11/24 ❧
Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel ↗︎
↳ A step in the right direction. Next stop, owning the games we buy??? — added 5:14am on 01/11/24 ❧
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‘We are essentially in a new Gilded Age’: As workers get laid off, CEOs and shareholders gobble up hundreds of billions in profits ↗︎
↳ We’ve let them rule us for too long. We literally outnumber them in the billions. Capitalism must end or humanity will. — added 3:12pm on 31/10/24 ❧
Traditional sellers in Vietnam still aren’t sold on e-commerce ↗︎
↳ It’s interesting to think about modes of commerce both enabled and destroyed by the internet. Consumption is made convenient by e-sales but what does this mean? — added 7:26am on 31/10/24 ❧