8. The Nitty Gritty: Capitalism & Fascism
Anti-Capitalism 101 (In Progress)
Pro-Palestinian protest forces cancellation of Trudeau, Meloni event
Good. Now lets contrast with the Convoy response, shall we?
Palestine & Zionism
Silicon Valley's elite are moralizing about the future of AI
Elon Musk's lawsuit against Sam Altman's company has sparked a moral debate in Silicon Valley about closed-source versus open-source AI models.
Musk, Tech Bros & AI Fascism
We Must Stop Telling Women They Should Conceive and Give Birth “Naturally”
Medical interventions aren’t just for men, y’know
Gender & LGBTQ+Radio-Canada’s so-called “investigation” into gender-affirming care is a case study in how *not* to do journalism. - Rachel Gilmore : r/onguardforthee
Fascism in Canada
Federal Court finds Emergencies Act orders exceed government’s powers | Insights | Torys LLP
This is *exactly what I predicted would be the case - I wrote about it in one of my essays saying let the courts decide - this is akin to shattering a glass on the floor and asking everyone to freeze, once the mess is cleaned up we'll have the hindsight to review how we did. "Surprisingly, the judge specifically noted that had he “been at [the federal cabinet’s] tables at that time” he might have agreed it was necessary to invoke the Act, but in conducting the judicial review, he had “the benefit of hindsight” and a “more extensive record of the facts”.
The "Convoy"
Trudeau takes a swipe at Poilievre over his stance on age verification for porn | CBC News
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Clearly Biased PP/Convoy References cuz Fascism
The FTC bans AI impersonations of individuals — and unveils greater powers to win stolen money back
FTC says it's fighting in the public's corner
History's crisis detectives: Using math and data to reveal why societies collapse—and clues about the future
American humorist and writer Mark Twain is believed to have once said, "History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes."
Eat the Richr/LateStageCapitalism - Hitler praised the Americans treatment of the Native Americans in Mein Kampf. DePaul Professor Jason Hill now does too. We are maybe a year away from conservatives justifying the Holocaust.
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Project 2025: Neo Fascism
CSIS warns that the 'anti-gender movement' poses a threat of 'extreme violence' | CBC News
Canada’s intelligence agency is warning that extremists could inspire serious violence against the 2SLGBTQI+ community — a threat the Canadian Security Intelligence Service says will almost certainly continue over the coming year.
Puberty blockers can't be started at 18 when youth have already developed: experts
Good on the CP for such a balanced & informative piece
Anti-trans bills: Proposals in 2024 show no sign of slowing down
As lawmakers continue to push bills targeting the LGBTQ community, and specifically transgender people, some fear for safety and their future.
Survey of 90,000 trans people shows increased life satisfaction after transition
The National Center for Transgender Equality released early insights from its 2022 U.S. Transgender Survey, the largest survey of trans people in U.S. history.
Unraveling Palestine: Understanding Its Location and the Palestinian Identity | Snopes.com
A brief history of the region and some of the roots of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.
Timeline: The Oct. 7 Hamas Attack and Israel's Retaliatory War on Gaza | Snopes.com
Answers to your questions about what happened, when it happened, and how many people have been killed, injured, or taken hostage as of this writing.
Right-wing makes airlines culture war targets over DEI criticism
In recent weeks, right-wing pundits have zeroed in on airline DEI programs and the presence of migrants in airports.
Woke, Antifa & Manufactured "Culture Wars"
Shared from Ground
This is disgusting. As the article says what happens if we labelled Jewish people like this, but I'd add further as if the church isn't equally as disgusting with its history yet that is clearly ignored in the West. Fucking hypocrites.
r/EnoughIDWspam
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r/Fuckthealtright
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Fascism 101 (aka Right Wing Disinformation not Left)
Billionaires Are the Real Existential Risk
We have seen calls to consider whether it is moral to allow billionaires to exist. But the real question is whether our species can survive the billionaire.
TIME TO TELL THE TRUTH ABOUT GAZA
Comrades, For the time being, my writing on here will be entirely free. If you have the means, and believe in paying for good writing, please consider becoming a paid subscriber. Below, an essay on the manipulation of truth and Gaza. For most of us, telling the truth means making a statement which fits the facts. If I say, “I am now on the island of St Helena observing Napoleon’s residence” - this statement is true if I am in fact really there, observing Napoleon’s residence. The so-called postmodernists proceed in a different way: they reduce truth to a discursive “truth-effect.” For example, Michel Foucault’s notion of truth can be summed up by the claim that truth/untruth is not a direct property of our statements but, in different historical conditions, alternative discourses produce their own specific truth-effects, i.e., they imply their own criteria of what values as “true”:
OpenAI’s Got 9.9 Problems, and Twitch Ain’t One
The AI darling faces a long list of serious challenges in 2024
There are more billionaires than ever — and most have rich parents - Vox
The great billionaire wealth transfer means people born very, very rich are going to stay very, very rich.
r/LateStageCapitalism
r/LateStageCapitalism: A One-Stop-Shop for Evidence of our Social, Moral and Ideological Rot.
Far-Right Convoy Groups Plan to Occupy Canadian Police Stations Until Government Officials are Arrested
Loll losers - let's watch this go down in flames as well
The GOP Doesn’t Want to Punish Trans People—It Wants to Eradicate Them
This year, more than 200 anti-transgender bills have already been filed in the states. They are extreme. And many will pass.