No need for a translation. We’ve been producing these articles since the war started. They couldn’t bother to churn out more than three sentences for the length of the article. Barely a paragraph.

“Let’s see Donald Trump Vladimir Putin wriggle his way out of this one” is just the mantra western media cranks out when there’s nothing exciting to report. Putin has been on the verge of defeat and ignominious removal from office going back to Maiden. He’ll be on the verge of defeat for the next twenty years, at this rate.

They’ll be doing monuments in the classic style

over the charred remains, so that future generations know the glory of running face first into enemy fire to plant the next flag.

Don’t join the military. Don’t let your loved ones join the military. It’s a death cult.

After all, there’s a whole lot of shit going on in eastern culture that westerners don’t really understand…

That’s okay, because we have someone to explain it.

But she grew up a product of the Chinese propaganda system

A KGB spy and a CIA agent meet up in a bar for a friendly drink

“I have to admit, I’m always so impressed by Soviet propaganda. You really know how to get people worked up,” the CIA agent says.

“Thank you,” the KGB says. “We do our best but truly, it’s nothing compared to American propaganda. Your people believe everything your state media tells them.”

The CIA agent drops his drink in shock and disgust. “Thank you friend, but you must be confused… There’s no propaganda in America.”

During the Gaza genocide, I was talking to a Taiwanese friend and he said “yeah, it looks bad, but at least they’re finally getting rid of Hamas”

Extremely xenophobic society about to hit new eschalons of paranoid reactionary politics.

The Takaichi administration came into office and began talking about turning the defence industry into a growth industry

Bad news for Korea, historically speaking.

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What are we rating this blunt rotation?

Make one post feel like it’s got a thousand lurkers

Australia had proposed to provide Vanuatu with 500 million Australian dollars ($344 million) over a decade under the terms of the agreement as originally drafted.

One way to make friends and influence people.

TIL, the only actual international naval base China maintains is in Cambodia. It’s bizarre to think Australia even needs to do this.

here we are probably the last unpolluted corners of the human experience

:-/ I seriously doubt that.

At some point, we’ll have to find a better way of sifting the wheat from the shit. But I’d be crazy to assume bots around bouncing around the Lemmiverse pushing misinformation just like they are everywhere else.

Everyone goes to Reddit, despite it being an AI Bot filled shit show

Search engines direct you to Reddit as a first page - even first result - choice. It’s superceded Wikipedia in a lot of cases.

Critical support to the real MVPs

They’ll whip you for chewing gum.

Imagine what they’ll do if you actually try to affect politics

It’s crazy to think anyone is going to get prosecuted for this genocide. Americans are going to talk about Gaza like Turks talk about Armenia in 30 years.

“Once we have enough information on our elected officials, they will most certainly align with our interests” is a beautiful idea. But simply not born out in practice.

Far too often, you can have someone on camera dead-to-rights doing the most corrupt shit imaginable and… they’ll win in a landslide in the next election cycle, because they’re doling out the red meat to the right constituents.

it’s on Lemmy too.

Kinda hard to gauge the degree though.

Are you a bot? Am I a bot? Is anyone reading this or is it all just bots jerking each other off?

But everyone seems to rather sit on their phones or being plugged into music than to talk to strangers and live your life in the real world.

I grew up in the 80s.

People stared at their newspapers/comic books or their Gameboys or had eyes closed listening to head phones or just tried not to make eye contact.

There was not some golden era when talking to strangers was normal and people were living in the “real” world. Today isn’t nearly as divorced from the past is people like to pretend.

Banks aren’t allowed to be this blatantingly shady

😆

Private Credit/Equity is is playing the role of facilitator of collapse

Which are just a backchannel for the original Banksters, in the same way that Bear Sterns and SVB were back doors for the bigger and more heavily regulated formal banking sector prior to their own implosions.

Hey, remember that time Aaron Swartz used public APIs and perfectly legal aggregation of information to compile scientific journals in a data set outside the paywall. And he was arrested, prosecuted, and threatened with life in prison until he (allegedly) killed himself?

Then his original and highly lucrative pet project, Reddit, was mutated into a propaganda factory by the Epstein Class, cannibalized by the Investor Class, and gutted for AI slop by the Tech Sector?

What determines whether a bubble pops or not is not logic but rather belief

Well… there’s harder economic realities that people eventually bump into. And that shapes belief in the credit markets and the investment banks.

For instance, Greenspan hiking interest rates from 2006 to 2008 was what put Lehman Brothers and Bear Sterns under pressure to cover an escalating interest payment. When they began to default, all their creditors panicked (justifiably) and began withholding shorter term lending. And that accelerated the collapse. But because of the network of interbank lending, Lehman tugged on the strings of Goldman, WellsFargo, BoA, JP Morgan…

It wasn’t just vibes. There was a material credit crisis resulting in Bear Sterns - specifically - not having enough money in the till to pay its credit notes. And because everyone was so highly leveraged, there was a real accountable cascade of defaults.

In theory, bigger institutions could have backstopped the slide by offering even more generous credit terms (which is what the Federal Reserve / US Treasury ultimately did). The “vibes” part was the risk/reward analysis. Everyone could see the looming risk. Relatively few executives could conceive of the long-term consequences of a collective bank run.