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That new book by the ex-Facebook employee is a good glimpse into the mind of a terminal liberal. She mentions China in the introduction which I thought was odd because Facebook never operated in China and if you count the evils that Facebook has done, which are countless btw, is China really that important that it should be mentioned in your introduction?
So I ctrl F China to see what her point of view was. Turns out she is mad that Zucc and other execs were willing to negotiate with China rather being a tool for regime change. She talks about a phone call with another employee who asks her if Zucc should take credit for the Arab Spring. She says that her answer depends on Facebook's policy towards, because taking credit for it would make it difficult to make inroads in China because it would mean that Facebook facilitates "people's revolutions" (yeah she called Arab Spring that).
She completely refuses to understand why Zucc want to do business in China. The fact that China is not only the second largest country but also moderately prosperous with a mind boggling consumer base for Facebook is something she never contends. She is just mad about the ethical implications of bowing down to CCP's demands. Like its their divinely ordained duty to topple "authoritarian regimes" around the world.
Hope everyone having a nice week! I was pretty busy making transfem.social safer.
People say the internet is forever, but that is a lie. If someone wants to nuke their digital footprint, it is easier than ever right now.
I would say it mostly only applies to famous people and events that lots of people can keep going like whack-a-mole if one source is nuked, or that they can maintain easily as a small part of a large information database (like wikipedia). If you're a virtual no-name, nobody as random individuals are going to be paying attention to maintain your footprint and, well... in the capitalist context, companies are not going to want to foot the bill to maintain it.
With the war in Ukraine tilting more and more in favour towards Russia, when do you guys think the war could be over assuming it continues at this pace?
Impossible to say. Too many factors could still go a number of different ways. If i had to take a guess i would say it's probably going to go on for at least another six months. And i wouldn't be surprised if it goes on well into next year. But there are things that could happen which would shorten it considerably, such as an unexpected collapse on one of the fronts, a coup in Kiev, or the US cutting off all aid. Barring an event of that sort i don't think Russia is in any hurry to end it, especially now that Ukraine has been evicted from Kursk. One thing i can tell you is that the Europeans are going to be wholly irrelevant to this process. They have no material capability to follow through on any of their rhetoric.
To be honest, I would have preferred seeing more leftists take a neutral approach to the Russo-Ukrainian war than siding with Ukraine. ‘Both sides are wrong’ is still an oversimplification and not the best approach to take, but it’s at least easier to understand than siding with a pro-NATO dictatorship of the bourgeoisie that has been lousy with neofascists for at least a decade.
They are “Leftists in name only”
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