As some of you may do too, I belong to the earliest sector of Gen Z. As such, it means that I was part of that experiment of giving unlimited access to the internet to someone from an early age, and after remembering well having seen that one video of a man and a glass jar after barely hitting a double digit age, I can say with some confidence that it was a bad move.

Of a similar age (debatably either oldest Gen Z or youngest millenial) and personally my take on it is “thank god (or science, or the universe, or whatever) for the internet, otherwise I’d have been even more fucked up” myself tbh. Growing up with a cultish, abusive family and as an extreme minority (Asian in the prairies) I feel there’d have been no hope for me otherwise to have any proper pride and dignity or grow into a better person, among other things.

That said- while I’d usually agree that maybe we should vet for kids (and libs… but then again I’d be perfectly fine with this space becoming near-wholly defederated even, probably) this space is about as kid-friendly as it gets. No porn, reactionary bullshit gets dunked on or banned real quick, hell, I saw that post where the 'grad decided not even to have gorier war footage in Ukraine- it’s as safe as it gets. FWIW also- if they’re sticking around here, I’d expect the opposite of brainrot to be happening. That’s a good thing.

wasting their years of brain plasticity on Hoxha-themed soyjaks, anti-psychiatry drama and debates about whether or not the Shining Path was “giga-based” or “turbo-cringe”

Hell, even your examples of brainrot are… well, brainrot, yes, but the kind that could perhaps at least lead them down the right path (eventually). Better that than most youtube/FB reccs, their social sciences/history classes (if they live in the west- my experiences certainly were full of anti-communist propaganda), sermons at the church at bible camp or whatever, or pretty much any western mainstream news, isn’t it? Hell, I’d even say that frankly it’s better they’re thinking than being effectively lobotomized by such things… the internet may be responsible for a lot of brainrot, but I hold firmly to the position that it has been infinitely more beneficial than not all the same.

The only reason I can think of for vetting for minors in this case would be if we had issues with people being creeps. But as far as I’ve seen that doesn’t seem to be the case, and hasn’t popped up in the 'grad yet(?) We have good mods, a good community generally.

literary what her post American civil war 2.0 map looks like :

Probably the only positive thing she’s ever come up with tbh. Fingers crossed…

Netanyahu’s really speedrunning towards complete destruction of the Zionist project…

Sounds like a healthy, rational hobby, practiced by sensible people. I hope she keeps it up, and promotes such healthy kinks to the rest of her community.

No problem, there’s nothing to apologize for.

The rape allegations are already known to be not only false, but completely fabricated by the Swedish government, not even the ostensible “victims” (who didn’t consider it rape, didn’t attempt to charge Assange with rape, and had simply gone to police to try to get him to do another STD check)

It really shows how farcical it all was- and how much “Swedish neutrality” and all that was a sham, even long before it likely aided in bombing Nordstream, or it joined NATO. It’s literally the “I consent,” “I consent,” “I don’t” meme.

The day after the Crimea beach attack, too. They’re really trying to destroy what little credibility they have…

Adam Ellis isn’t a Nazi, at most as far as I know he’s probably a lib, but even then not a ghoul about it (for instance he unequivocally supports Palestine)

I hope he doesn’t, or if he does, he does so in a safe country- like China, or Russia. For his sake. From the sound of it, 12 years of torture and isolation have not been kind to him and his health anyways.

Agreed, also not all representation is good representation- looking at you Mindy Kaling/“Velma” 🤮 … a textbook example of the white male-worshipping Asian woman who hates Asian men. (as an Asian woman myself it’s seriously fucked)

Reason #1 is correct too IMO (fuck Konami).

As for DEI, it should always be a good thing… but then, NGL, having “consulting companies” for it rather than having it organically probably means it won’t have that good an implementation of DEI to begin with IMO. Not that I care about the Sweet Baby Inc. nonsense, but it leaves a artificial taste in my mouth akin to pinkwashing, “girlboss” culture, and most of the NGO industry.

Well put, for these reasons honestly I can’t ever see the diminishing of the white, western demographics as a bad thing. They’re not “racially inferior” or whatnot- hell, my partner is white- but statistically speaking, culturally speaking, within the world system and particularly the settler-regimes and imperial cores they have created, they are more likely to be reactionary and opposed to equality than other groups as I see it.

Until white supremacy and imperialism are completely eradicated as global systems and social diseases, I think that’ll be just how it is. Of course, white individuals like anyone else should be judged by their own personal merits- but as a “race” (the system they created), as a separate group (for all that whiteness is incredibly arbitrary) it’ll take a long time and a lot of changes to return them, and the nations/regions that make up the imperial core as well, to come back down to earth with the rest of the world IMO (not to say “humanity was united before the cracker nations attacked,” but the scars they have left are certainly the most egregious, widespread, and deep of them all IMO).

The Soviets and the Warsaw Pact strike me as the only group amongst the west to truly try to mend that divide (and the crimes and resulting social corruption of the Russian/eastern European nations was always far, far, far lesser than that of the west Europeans). And even then, so much was undone with their collapse- as I see it even, I’d argue that- while not the primary reason, their whiteness- and thus the ambitions of certain elements of society, to “rejoin the white, western, imperialist bloc,” etc- played a role undermining the union to begin with.

Jomo Kenyatta is rolling in his grave…

In this case, it seems like Russia is- while facing some short-term hassles, generally doing better economically than ever (or than since the fall of the Soviet Union, anyways).

The west has finally bitten off more than they could chew. Same with all the sanctions against China, and now it all is reaching a point where their sanctions machine falls apart altogether (hopefully soon, and hopefully the western regimes along with it). And eventually there’s going to be some truly magnificent backlash- the product of their own actions, not out of any malice by the rest of the world (though the west certainly deserves every bit of malice).

The west has destroyed all credibility in their financial machines, in their world economic order- and now they’re just running on fumes, economically, anyways. And they’ve done it all while hollowing their own real economies to increase their bottom line, turning their own imperial cores into deindustrialized hellholes- they’ve nothing to even fall back on, hell, their own citizens by-and-large hate them. An ocean of debt- and public discontent- and the entire world, or those with sanity anyways, moving themselves and their assets as far away from the rogue, deranged, and spiraling west as it faces its karma- 500 years of likely the worst karma (not to put any pseudoscientific/superstitious value to it) from unparalleled brutality, savagery, and barbarism (that of the imperialist west, not their victims they projected upon) is coming up. And even as someone living in an imperial core myself, as someone who feels the pain now and- even if I get out, will have friends and family feel the pain- all the same, the schaudenfreude, the righteousness of it all is going to be delicious. It already is. Hopefully we all survive to see it unfold, and to help the new, better world emerge.

Usually it’s called “tokenism.” And big media/politics is the primary offender, but it’s widespread among corporations and NGOs as well.

If nothing else, I wish Hitler could come back to see what his modern adherents are like. All the skinheads, prison gangs, internet degenerates (not due to their interests… mostly- rather due to their beliefs), all the various pinkwashed, faux-DEI-loving Eurocrats and liberals across the west… And of course, the Zionists, Slava Ukraini crowd, Baltic chihuahuas, and arguably the Hindutvas (though for how terrible the last are, India isn’t anywhere near so far gone as the rest listed imo).

I think he’d shoot himself again.

I agree, no sympathy for the NATO invaders who overthrew Ukraine’s legitimate government. No sympathy for the invaders of Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Yugoslavia, Somalia, and Haiti. No sympathy for the invaders and occupiers of Palestine.

You keep fucking around, and sooner or later (likely sooner at this rate) you’ll find out. Newsflash: the majority of the world hates you, and rightfully so.

Oh look, a lemm.ee poster (with an anti-natalist name no less- nothing against it but combined? I imagine you’re a fascist) laughing off the deaths of civilians. You think Russia can’t strike back (and with far greater capability), or fund proxies to do the same? The entire world is watching your mask-off terrorism and making notes. This attitude is exactly why you’ll inevitably get yours.

Imagine the money that went into consulting about these anti-homeless measures*, designing them*, going through the processes of manufacturing and installing them, and disposing of the perfectly usable and superior benches afterwards.

*(not actually difficult, but it’s capitalism, we all know whatever was responsible for this was grifting on the side)

The US keeps pushing, one blatantly terroristic act (with clear trails back to the US) after another. At some point, even the Russians’ saintly patience is bound to wear thin…