There is no “push back” from most developers, not in the direction you’re thinking anyway, which is what the microblogtard is calling “apathy”, as people grew tired of the moral imposters, who happen to (very randomly) align with corpos when it comes to target lists btw (they are “GNU bad” and “Stallman bad” mobs).

Most developers, when they have their developer hat on, are not bothered by the constant hormonal brainless unhinged Find a Nazi under the pillow campaigns of the microblogtard sphere and its echo chambers when they leak outside, and that’s exactly the right positioning.

Some of those developers may even be more “radical” than the microblogtards themselves. But they have the ability to compartmentalize, contextualize, and have the assuredness, mental stability, and impulse control not to feel the need to moral posture and find mob targets 24/7 to feel good about themselves.

That’s a very funny sanitized (I believe what the kids call it) westoid “version of events”.

Kurdish-led Syrian

Non-“Kurds” left. And the PKK “ideological” fighters are not Syrian. Many Syrian Kurds are not ideologically PKK-aligned. Many of them would in fact be annoyed with the current heads in Demascus because they are not Muslim enough (anymore), not because they are not PKK enough.

at the forefront of the battle against the Islamic State jihadist group

Everyone fought ISIS, and the only ones who fared well without aerial cover were actually other jihadists.

The YPG couldn’t even compete against ragtag mercenaries propped up by Turkey, because the aerial cover this time was supporting the other side.

And it’s those ragtag mercenaries the YPG was skirmishing with for years before 2024, while having an underground economy with them and everyone else (where crystal meth transcended supposed battle lines).

After being Syria’s most highly trained and organized paramilitary force

Is that why this mercenary force with pretend yet confused marxist ethno-nationalist zionist-loving one-man ideology lost more than half of their territory in 48h? 🤣

the SDF was promptly dropped by Washington

It was promptly dropped by the Arab part of their mercenary organization too, hence the 48h collapse mentioned above.

What does “isn’t real” mean?

Is anyone selling the false reality that meritocracy perfectly exists, especially at the highest socioeconomic level?

Conversely, what does exist is that removeded notion that developed over the last decade or two that attacks meritocracy itself (Equity vs. Equality, The Post-Meritocracy Manifesto, …etc). A notion that replaces any serious examination of why meritocracy itself doesn’t exist, for some self-serving tokenism, and some demands for high remuneration for bullshit work, in arguments that are ironically, but not surprisingly, not dissimilar to how some management types justify their high pay.

Beliefs and status quo’s are not the same thing.

Me (not communist) and real communists don’t believe in nation states. You seem to not only believe in them, but also consider them an inevitable fundamental reality, which is hilarious even from a historical perspective, but let’s move on.

Do you agree/disagree with the following statements:

• The Basque Country is neither Spanish nor French.
• Ireland (the island) is not British.

Are you a believer in nation states?

Are you a believer in nation states?

What name would you consider impartially and factually reasonable? Note that it will have to be not Chinese, because the region is not Chinese.

I guess it’s good for Radio Free Asia to have competition.

THIS.

All my murderer friends have moved their activities to jurisdictions where murder is allowed or tolerated.

I think CodeBerg should push for giving Vibe Coders the death penalty, to make sure deterrence will work.

Let’s discourage user transparency and AI disclosure

OMG that’s a great move.

The internet actually deleted most “real people having real sex” years ago. You just didn’t notice. There is a reason I specified “commercial” in my comment.

If you actually show modern, or worse, “post-modern” porn to a non-porn-brained person, he will more likely to be put off by it, than attracted to it.

An imperfect analogy can be made to a similar(ish) direction the so called “music industry” went through. Although, the divergence there is less stark, the direction is less universally off-putting, and no erasure happened to good old (and some new) stuff. And the “real” angle is not fully there, auto-tune and co. aside. But it should be noted that very recently (in the last 3 years), “AI” has already been helping automating the generation of the already boringly derivative content, with both tunes and lyrics. You just didn’t notice because all the anger is strategically directed at the full content generation startups (including instrument play and vocals).

Going on a bit of a tangent here, but how come the enlightened never seem to push for simply banning commercial porn, fixing the problem at the source?

Such a move would kill multiple birds with one stone: It would call the pretend socially conservative’s bluff, invalidate the wannabe authoritarian-dressed-up-as-paternal uniparties’ argument(s), and strip the Zionist entity of a big source of income (Do not look up OF’s dead owner. And certainly do not look up where the company is actually registered/based. That second one will render your irony-meter nonoperational. You have been WARNED).

It’s not because most of the enlightened are just neoliberal cattle, right? right?

Or are we still doing the “sex work positivity” COPE-bullshit, which is not something anyone working in the inherently exploitative and abusive “industry” actually believes in. Just like how no semi-neglected child in the ghetto actually believes in, or feels, the embrace of the so called “village”.

This is a mix of you growing up with a hint of nostalgia, and the death of the TV.

Excitement for the world cup is waning, just like it’s waning for any other event/show that collected the family in front of the small screen.

The quality of game itself has always been not good at the international level. And that probably increased with players playing in many different leagues, not just teams. While decades ago, you had some cores of teams playing for the same club.

The game itself changed of course. No more no.10 artists giving you a good show.

In my extended family, most people who care about the world cup are people who don’t watch the sport much during the regular season. So it’s not really primarily a sporting event for them.

I would love it if it was a moral awakening, or increased awareness of the hubris that is the modern nation state identity, that is driving this. But I genuinely doubt it. And if you think it is now, or was in Qatar (the biggest moral posturing maxxing event in internet history) or Russia, I’m afraid you’re probably over-influenced by your echo chamber of choice.

The word “acknowledged” seems to have been dropped from the title.

Real power doesn’t exchange hands at the ballot box. And to think it does is the most laughable a notion. But much investment goes into conditioning (a nicer word than brainwashing) people to subscribe to it.

Some contrarians take this too far and use the framing “Democracy is a lie”. But the reality is, it’s not necessarily a lie, but rather, it’s just largely inconsequential when the brokenness exists at a higher level (the modern nation state itself, its establishment, and both their interconnections with inter and extra national powers). In that reality, the voting process is not a tool for the masses, but rather a tool to distract and contain them.

Consulting people, via voting or any other method, is still desirable of course, but only after that brokenness is taken care of.

I’m not a close (or any kind of) follower of these dramas, but judging by the kind of unhinged “fans” PieFed seemed to attract, and the expressed reason(s) for that attraction, I wouldn’t be surprised at all if trying to appease them for months is taking a heavy toll.

it’s not about robocalls.

Nothing was ever really about “le evil pedophiles” or “protecting children” either. Yet, using that excuse seems to work wonders with the gullible masses, including many people here, I would imagine.

Did you mean to direct this at me?

I denounce Zionism. Some Zionists are not as bad as others.

I support Zionism. Some Zionists are worse than others.

You seem to gloss over what’s important (the first stipulation), by arguing for the latter stipulation, which is on the surface true, no matter how formulated. Although, the “not as bad as” formulation makes it clearer that this is a simple case of relative privation.

Mainstream politics in the west, left and right, supports Zionism. And that’s what’s most relevant. Everything else can be assumed a diversion, unless otherwise proven.

The Israel project was misguided from the beginning, but it could have been justified in the immediate aftermath of the holocaust. Now?

European Jews* grabbing land and displacing people in another continent to create a new faux-nation, all facilitated by the British empire (with help from the French, and the already mentioned soviets) is “justified” because they suffered a holocaust! at the hands of Nazis who actually had an agreement with Zionists before the war (yes, Nazi Germany itself was on the list of facilitators, together with soviets)!

I’m not necessarily attacking you personally btw. I’m just showing that your positioning, common among some mainstream leftists today, is neither historically informed, nor logically, intellectually, or morally consistent. This positioning, precise in its “filtering”, is designed specifically to score points in the mainstream right-left political theater. A theater that has staunch Zionists in every faction, to the point where Zionism was often the easiest uniting factor one can point to.

That is not to say that all apparent opposition to Zionism in mainstream politics is fake. But whatever genuine opposition that exists out there, is an opposition to factions within Zionism, not Zionism itself. And it’s often an extension of local/national factional fights within that theater.

* Many were atheist and non-religious cultural Jews btw.