Mark as NSFW please.
To do this effectively, they’d have to ban facebook/whatsapp, which are the two most popular chat apps in Europe.
CIA and the MIC for sacking Dulles, warming to Cuba, and indicating that he would slow down / put the brakes on interventions in Vietnam and SA.
JFK was still an anti-communist imperialist, but he increasingly thought the best strategy for winning the cold war, and getting the world to line up behind US wasn’t more war, but soft-power initiatives like the space race, and more equitable economic ties with global south countries. His disagreements with chancellor Dulles led to his killing, Dulles’ restoration, and Dulles heading the investigation of JFK’s murder.
Lahey and Hunter S Thompson don’t seem all that different.
I don’t have the original source, I only found a few others online that repeated her statement.
After the red scares and anti-communist purges in the US the 30s-40s, no writers or anyone in hollywood could come out and say they were communist or socialist. Many of them like Roddenberry were only able to push communitarian values and do societal critiques of racism, nationalism, and selfishness via sci-fi.
Star trek is unique among US media for telling a hopeful story about a communist / post-capitalist future, but these already had a long tradition in the USSR. This article gets into it a bit more:
Picard speaking to a whiny businessman: we’ve grown out of our infancy.
It is kinda a weird name. Lwaxana is one of the best characters tho, I love her episodes.
That one where she falls in love with the guy whose culture it is to kill their retirees, that one is really sad.
Wrong.
Here’s some sources, some even from far-right US journals that have looked into it. It has more to do with regulating businesses and execs found to be in violation anti-trust laws.
It’s really just standard anti-trust legislation, IE things the US used to do before 1980s when they let finance capital take over.
If you’re going to mischaracterize it in the future, at least post some sources.
Just orientalist vibes, no sources in sight.
The stuff about corporate “power-speak”, where the sociopaths start using certain phrases for their power-games and larger selfish strategies, and the clueless layer try to imitate them but without knowing why, is something I experienced at every workplace.
Same. The idea that organizations create a barrier of clueless acolytes to shield the sociopaths at the top from the workers at the bottom makes a lot of sense. I tried to read the whole book he made out of these essays but it wasn’t as great as the main ideas.
Many far right countries (australia, japan, south korea) use ranked choice voting… it doesn’t make a bit of difference. If capitalists control the political system, then they will stack candidates and fund the campaigns that support their interests, and the “democracy” there is nothing but political theatre.
Outside of Marxists, even the ancient greeks knew that representative government is just another name for plutocracy, because only wealthy / landed family have the money and prestige to fund campaigns to get themselves elected. Liberals still haven’t learned this simple lesson.
American values
The values of the US settler-colonial project, are native eviction, and genocide.
The values of the indigenous peoples were not considered worthy to the european settlers, so they did their best to wipe out hundreds of peoples/tribes/cultures. You either don’t know that history, or worse, you are proud of it.
I highly suggest reading both An indigenous people’s history of the US by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, or her Not a nation of immigrants.
The PRC would be incredibly naive to let US tech companies in, and take over and hoover up their social media landscape, like so many other countries have done. For example India’s most popular communications platform, is facebook. The US effectively controls the social media of a country many times larger than itself, and can influence it whatever way it wants, as well as spy on every person who uses it.
For those who want to view US-run tech sites in the PRC, they can of course via VPNs which are completely legal, but that friction is very worthwhile for encouraging home-run alternatives, and preventing mass surveillance by an evil empire.
Ouch. I bet that makes for some weird dreams.
Imperialist passive voice.
Side point but if I can just make fun of an Orwellism for the moment. He got it backwards when he thought that simplifying language (ala double-plus good) would become a tool of oppression. If anything we’ve seen that its the opposite, that imperialists use increasingly convoluted and indecipherable language, to obfuscate what should be simple statements.
Like, the art con-lang toki pona has only 120 words. Its nearly impossible to hide intentions, be subtle, or hide the subject and object like is done here.
I love waking up in the middle of the night, and the cat is just staring at you like 
. Stop hunting me and go to sleep.
