I'm an engineer and I can count non-chud engineers I've met on just one hand. The field is overwhelmingly filled with rightwingers who see themselves as better than the unwashed masses on a fundamental level

Oh, I've seen it too. Many shows back then had eco activism as a good thing, or at least oil execs as villains. I think even that weird "Motormice from Mars" show had an oil baron as the main antagonist.

And I don't think it couldn't happen now. Media, even when revolutionary on the surface, is barely driving real world engagement and can be easily defanged. We live in the revival era of anti-capitalist messaging in media (film and even video games), and yet it's been fully consumed by capital. I hate Zizek and his clique, but Mark Fisher was spot on in Capitalist Realism.

Avatar, one of the biggest box office successes in the world, has a blatant anti-colonial message yet most people don't apply it to the obvious parallells in the rral world. We just consume, feel good for a moment for agreeing with the obvious morally correct choice, then do fuck all about it. And execs know it.

sorry for the doomer note here

It's the mirror image of the reactionary "this kind of activism only pushes people away"

I am all about kill your heroes etc, so I don't follow her and only hear about her every few months, and while I am always positively surprised, she wouldn't be the first to take a nose dive at a moment's notice. At the same time, I don't think she's actually trying to sell out, her shit is extremely unsellable ever since she dropped the lib "school strike" and went in with more hardcore activism. I think she might be genuine, and I say that as somebody who thought she was just a preppy kid back during her strike years (she comes from a well-off family etc).

I live in sweden and the divide on Greta is hilarious. On one hand you have reactionaries who STILL put stickers like "fuck you greta!" on their shitty cars, on the other you have lib climate activists who seem downright scared of her more based activism and talk about her "having gone too far" in hushed voices. Only ppl I've met that like her now are either MLs or hardcore anarchists. Imagine if she would join a marxist org

I think it might have been Steven Crowder, who then turned out to, surprise surprise, be an abuser and his wife divorced him

the implication is that Afghanistan in the 70s was oh so free and if Usians do not vote blue then Republicans will make their country just as bad as the Middle East

no context as to what could have caused the Middle East to decline so much in the last 50 years, and a healthy dose of general racism to go with it

bad meme, since this man is both

oh yeah absolutely, what I meant is that it is meant to sound like some scientific new way of doing education

I was at a work conference thing the other day and there was a bazinga-brained speaker telling us all about the wonders of AI. AI toilets were on the list of amazing technological achievements that will come to save us 😔

I would assume that the big "real-time teaching" thing is meant to imply something like "latest trends/research in teaching", which does sound nice and efficient, but we all know it's a lie.

one of my childhood friends who is super reactionary didn't pick up on the leftist themes at all, and was absolutely shocked when I explained it to him over a beer

idk, I would not be surprised if he had played the fascist route and nothing else in the game

thank Allah

tak xD

two hundred feet above the ground until very recently

Dlaczego o tym mówimy? Dlatego, że wszyscy inni na ten temat milczą. Na całym świecie widzimy nieustającą falę demonstracji, poparcia dla palestyńskiej walki. I bardzo dobrze, należy tę walkę popierać, Palestyńczycy zasługują na swoje niepodległe państwo, wolne od izraelskiej kolonizacji, wolne od faszystowskiego rządu Netanjahu. Czego jednak na demonstracjach nie widzimy? Nie widzimy krytycznego głosu wobec tych, którzy są za tę zbrodnię współodpowiedzialni – Hamasu.

japierdole

for non-poles: "But why are we saying all this? Because everybody else is silent. Throughout the entire world we see a non-stop wave of demonstrations and support for the Palestinian struggle. And that is good, this struggle should be supported, Palestinians deserve their independence, a country free of Israel's colonization, free of the fascist Netanyahu government. But what do we not see at the protests? We don't see critical voices raised against those who are jointly culpable in this crime: Hamas."

Motherfuckers are literally doing DO YOU CONDEMN HAMAS THOUGH

Side note I caught a warning on fb today for having written "I support hamas" in a polish "leftist" group, in a poll that went "do you support israel or palestine"

poland truly is a state of mind

that's because he's a soulless machine. AI Pacino

Where I live, we've already had a few nights of frost and many of my outside plants have died. I hate autumn

I'm not trying to say anything here other than just disliking the colder climate I happen to live in

Dragon Age: Marx Brothers still sounds better than Dragon Age: The Marx Brothers

what sounds even better is Dragon Age: Marx and Engels (the dragon is capitalism you have to slay or something, idk I've never played Dragon Age)

cod is woke though (you can have a rainbow gamer tag while shooting people)