Arstechnica? The cope in the comments is likely to be delicious.
If you want to see Liberals Who Consider Themselves Educated™ and their extremely-sophisticated-pat-themselves-on-the-back-takes then Arstechnica comment section is the place to go (Apple, Bill Gates and Democrats are all generally good while being raving sino- and russia- phobes, get offended at being called out on racism while regularly throwing the Global South under the bus, and throw in the genocide-denial, and with no self-awareness of things they accuse of Trump and Musk they themselves are collectively guilty of). Despite apparently hailing from STEM backgrounds they are typically very unscientific in any take that is not their discipline and latch on to any idealistic nonsense to defend Western Hegemony (especially those types that see Europe and Canada as some sort of enlightened paradise). Deeply bigoted and racist “commenteriat”.
And Arstechnica posts are regular with western war propaganda with their frequent accusations of cyberwarfare of Deisgnated Enemy Countries (whenever you dig deeper into sources even a liberal can see they are often deeply embeded with American military industry complex) and absolutely silent about the techology used in the genocide though they have no qualms on touching politics no matter how tangent the use of science or technology.
Still good a site to see to get an insight into western opinions on tech/science.
the comments actually seem pretty even handed and somewhat pro China
You are right; I was not expecting that. I wonder why?
Despite apparently hailing from STEM backgrounds they are typically very unscientific in any take that is not their discipline and latch on to any idealistic nonsense to defend Western Hegemony
Ah, so basically the tech libs in lemmy.ml (especially from other federated instances).
I’m not sure the Chinese are taking global warming seriously. It’s equally likely they saw a market they could dominate and become the worlds supplier. Which they have done.
If only there was a way to check what the Chinese government plans to do in the medium and long term, like say a 5 year and 20 year outlook on where they want to go. You could even compare their current plans and how well they’ve accomplished past ones to get a sense of what to expect going forward. But alas.
This is partly why I don’t believe in “brainwashing”. They reflect their class interests on the world stage as defenders of Western Hegemony and selectively use narratives (intelligently though malevolently) as a license for bigotry.
And it is why I may be increasingly disillusioned with Westerners’ (whatever the melanin concentration) collective revolutionary potential; this may be revealing, however, my lack of education in understanding where revolutionary potential is to be found (ie a class expansionist perspective and looking beyond the simplistic dichotomy of bourgoisie vs proleteriat).
Yes, they’re the only major power doing anything to stop climate change, but they’re doing it for the wrong reasons!
This means we will at least prevent the worst scenario of climate change
We’re lucky that capitalism transitioned to its financialized phase in the west when it did forcing industry to move to China.
Very excited for financial capitalism’s final form: an airgapped box with two computers trading one stock back and forth with incrementally increased value, forever. It’s kept in a museum.
I suspect the former’s inevitability is dependent on its ability to do the latter.
But at what cost 😭
