Competent vs incompetent managers of empire.

Any negative speech: especially harsh, slanderous or divisive, that provokes equally charged emotional responses.

One other thing I’d like to add: It’s not just that rage-inducing content is out there, that’s always been there. It’s that it gets rewarded by big tech, by making sure that highly responded content, gets pushed to the top.

Capitalist tech companies have an incentive to platform this content because it increases the on-site time, and their own popularity, to the detriment of their users mental health. It also helps them push pro-capitalist narratives that atomize and isolate people who should be united by a shared humanity and class status.

tbh we’re somewhat guilty of this in lemmy also, with the Active sort allowing new comments to bump posts to the top of feeds.

The only real way to fight it, is to keep an eye out for these toxic / combative threads and posters, and remove them if necessary. Since we don’t capitalist incentives to keep people on site or serve ads, it serves no benefit to keep rage-bait posters around.

Minimo launcher is great.

ScreenZen, with specific times ranges allowed to use given apps.

This to me is the most exciting thing. And not just solar, but also modular nuclear power, fusion power, battery tech. The PRC is at the forefront of this green revolution.

This thread from a few months ago on hexbear has a ton of good ones.

Noice. I hope to get this sometime.

8 dead accounts were being used to follow and downvote your posts.

Spain’s government only recently started turning against the US, and this vote was in 2022.

As for Ireland, can’t say.

I have this going continually.

Fill a quart mason jar with 15g of hibiscus flowers, add water, put it in the fridge, and wait till morning or evening. Filter it out into a water bottle, and repeat by adding more flowers.

Then once the jar is full after a week or so, make jamaica tacos with them.

College / university in many countries.

In the US at least, its become such a parasitic industry, with tuition fees rising exponentially and far exceeding wage rates and job availability, that it accounts for a large portion of most people’s personal debt.

With so many applicants for so few jobs, a college degree is the new highschool diploma / “minimum requirement” for nearly every job now. 1 / 4 US adults have student loan debt, with an average of 40k in student loans.. Nothing is putting the brakes on degree inflation, tuition, or the student loan industry.

The US federal government also makes a killing off of student loan interest fees, most of which is going to the MIC and Israel.

They’ve made the product they’re selling you (a degree), both required, and extremely expensive; the ultimate goal of any parasitic industry. Its a dream for state and private colleges, the US government and its military, and a nightmare for people either without a job, or chained to their desks for fear of losing their job and getting further behind on loan payments.

Rule 1… do they think it’s racist to be against NATO now lol. Probably including “anti-white” in their definition of bigotry.

Nice, the top link is a good list, although it feels like there are a lot of interventions are missing.

I’ve also heard the estimates for total casualties of the US/NATO war on Iraq to be ~1M people, but that could be including other deaths related from the infrastructure collapse caused by the war.

Almost entirely overlapping, especially since many of NATO’s ops are in Africa, when it’s focus is supposed to be limited to Europe.

You can curate your own feed: use the block button for any communities you don’t want to see.

As for why there’s a lot of politics on lemmy: The west’s leading country just threatened to annihalate an entire civilization yesterday. Kind of a lot going on right now.

“The western world” in politics doesn’t usually refer to geography, but to the high income euro-amerikkkan countries who benefitted from hundreds of years of theft (much from the countries you mentioned), who based themselves on individualism, private property, and capitalism, and prided themselves on their opposition to the collectivist policies of eastern countries.

This is why Cuba for example is not considered part of the western world, yet japan and south korea are.

Marxists also generally use the term “global south” or “the periphery” to refer to lower-income / exploited via unequal exchange, even though there are some “middle” / lower income countries in the global north also. It gets confusing I know.

These are all incredibly weak justifications wrapped in legalese, that’s really just a thin posturing as to their position, which is white/western supremacy, and refusing to hold themselves accountable for hundreds of years of ongoing theft. The EU also refuses to vote for the condemnation of nazism using the same type of legalistic justifications.

I don’t have time to go through each of their sentences, but someone easily could ala the style of Marx’s critique of the gotha programme, because there’s hidden meanings and psychology behind almost every sentence that requires a paragraph.