It has been for a long time. Reddit has never been left leaning in any meaningful sense of the word. That’s literally just a thing people said without evidence.

Redditors have always been, by and large, a majority misogynist, homophobic, anti-lgbt, pro-violence etc.

The mods of most major subs reflect that as well.

It’s wild for what essentially looks like one of those UE5 tech demos you see on YT.

Badass

In the future, it could power virtual avatars that render locally and don’t require video feeds—or allow anyone with similar tools to take a photo of a person found online and make them appear to say whatever they want.

…or open a dystopian hellscape of disinformation, scams and corporate police state control of information at an unprecedented scale! Three cheers for the reckless pursuit of technology for technologies sake!

No, the IDF are child killers because they kill indiscriminately.

The children are not Hamas. The World Central Kitchen workers are not Hamas. The medics, doctors and patients in hospitals are not Hamas. The people cut down while following Israel’s evacuation orders are not Hamas.

Yeah, one lesson we all should’ve learned from the start of the pandemic is that you should have a cache of some basics in your home or apartment that can keep you stable for a few weeks at least. So you can avoid getting embroiled in the chaos of human stupidity that unfolds in public. It won’t sustain you forever but it will give you a chance to make rational decisions.

You won’t get a chance to do that stuff after whatever event is going to happen has started.

The very fact that we have to airdrop in aid and have to build this stupid pier to begin with tells you that it’s not going to work. It’s a delaying tactic so Biden can pretend he’s doing something.

This is the kind of shit you do when there’s an enemy force keeping you from bringing aid into a place.

Lol, wth is this bullshit? We’re past the point of this kind of propaganda having any kind of effect, dude. They fucking double tapped World Central Kitchen workers who were in contact with the IDF to make sure their route was approved.

The IDF are child killers.

They are bulldozing cemetaries explicitly.

There are mass graves where they executed doctors, patients and sheltering civilians.

They’re drawing people out of safe zones using drones playing recordings of screams and cries for help.

Detaining and stripping children as prisoners.

Sniping seven and eight year olds.

What planet are you on right now?

That’s the beauty of it, the deal isn’t for an end to the genocide, just a temporary pause so that Israeli hostages can be exchanged for Palestinian ones.

And then presumably the released Palestinians will be bombed.

As long as they can’t be sent back to fight. Honestly I don’t ever feel good seeing or hearing about Russian troops being killed for the simple fact that I know many of them are conscripts or people scraped out of the bottom of the economic barrel (prisoners, mentally ill etc.).

I remember seeing a video of a guy who was so drunk he literally walked over into the Ukrainian trenches thinking they were his own. Luckily he was taken prisoner rather than shot, but they literally had to explain to him where he was.

I wonder sometimes if some of them haven’t also been some of the young people imprisoned for protesting the war at the start, now used as fodder at gun point. Russia has shown no issue with sending their soldiers on suicide missions to test defense lines etc. A body can have “use” to the war machine, whether it’s willing or not.

The war is righteous for Ukraine and needs to be fought, but I never feel celebratory about the scale of death.

I guess I’m curious if the user submitted products are vetted or not. Seems tough for one guy to keep up with that.

It’s amazing that you must work under the assumption that I’m defending facebook in order for your rambling to have any kind of structure.

No one is defending facebook or FISA or anything else shitty the US has done. I said that claiming Facebook is owned by the government or that the US is totalitarian like the CCP is false and now you guys just can’t accept that fact.

God I thought we left this dishonest tankie shit behind on Reddit. But nope, here’s the brigade of fanatics up to their old rhetorical bullshit.

“Corporate shill pouts about people’s protests of genocide threatening his lobby paycheck.”

No. The government does not own Facebook. You’re free to make that baseless assertion, but there’s nothing to really say about it other than it’s false on its face and makes you appear unserious.

We’re not talking conspiracy theories, China is not a normal country, it’s literally a totalitarian state in which the government has complete control. Not like hyperbolic “Oh, the US is totalitarian.” but actually totalitarian in the legal and material sense.

Is Facebook owned by the government?

Does anyone even use FB anymore besides boomers?

No. The totalitarian technofascist state of China is not the same as the US, nor are their state owned apps comparable to those of privately owned one regardless of how much of a sociopath Zuckerberg is.

TikTok isn’t just some random, normal app. It’s spyware and a tool for CCP propaganda.

May as well ask why the government would ban Russian anti-virus software.

Who said anything about physically taking over the world? Like, yes, obviously China has imperial ambitions to expand their borders (limited only by the wests hegemony and the now undermined and faltering rules-based order) but that’s not the influence I’m talking about. I’m talking about the normalization of anti-democracy and the technologically driven hyper-fascist state. The more power and influence China gets, the more fascism thrives wherever it has roots.

North Korea also hasn’t been able to bomb a bunch of countries either, that doesn’t mean anyone but an idiot would argue they should be given more influence.

Just like Russia, there’s no global benefit to the CCP gaining more geopolitical influence, they aren’t going to “moderate” the fascist elements in the west, they’re going to inflame them in the interest of destablizing any kind of democratic norms.

It’s kind of revealing really, the CCP clearly doesn’t want this app operating in the US simply to make money otherwise they’d simply sell and move on.

Hopefully users will be able to put 2+2 together themselves once the withdrawal starts to fade.

Uh huh, no shit and eugenics was essentially born in the US. All information I learned here in the US.

History doesn’t change the fact that China still represents the next step towards a higher, more all-encompassing form of fascism and that your apologetics only further humanity’s movement in that direction by normalizing it.

China not having the geopolitical power to act on all of their worst inclinations does not mean those inclinations don’t exist.

Fascism can exist in more than one place.

And it can take a far more dangerous and intractable form in one place compared to another.

You are vastly, vastly understating the degree of fascist control in China, you’d have to in order to try and even begin to try and compare the US and China. You may as well try to claim that downloading Russian spyware gives you better info on the US affairs because they’re our adversary as well so they must be a better source of information than anything in the US, it makes no sense.

China has a pointed interest in deceiving you, they do not have any interest in ensuring you have accurate information about the US and its history, you’re foolish to believe that they would.

There is no true information about the US on TikTok that is not available to me outside of China’s information ecosystem. Yes, you’re not going to get reliable information from corporate media or far-right outlets, but that has not stopped me from learning about the black spots in American history. In fact I was taught many of those black spots in American schools. Go ask a person in China what actually happened in Tienanmen or in Hong Kong, or Tibet or what is happening to the Uyghurs as we speak.

Here’s the difference that you are keen to ignore; The US information ecosystem is not a monolith. It’s why I can go and find sources that are reporting accurately about events in Palentine, or the protests on Columbia campuses. It’s why I learned about the Trail of Tears, the Tulsa Massacre, or The Battle of Blair Mountain in school, why I can find that kind of information freely on the Internet. There are many independent media and journalism outlets that, if I practice some basic media literacy, are not difficult to find.

By contrast, the Chinese information ecosystem is a monolith, by design. It is built so that the state has control over all information and can censor at will. They are far ahead of the US in this regard, and when you carry water for the CCP by equating them to the US, claiming they’re better or “just as bad” you are pushing us further into fascism, not out of it.