No one here has suggested the report isn’t true, at the same time The Times really is owned by Murdoch. So both can be true. The best propaganda is based on truth combined with volume and omission. Say something enough times to your audience while not saying something else aligns the readership/viewership with the desired viewpoint. Murdoch’s outlets are highly proficient in it. So are the Chinese. And so are many others.

What about China-bad propaganda masquarading as news though? Rupert Murdoch surely has a vested interest. 😄

This is shocking.

/s

Well said. Not to mention that our gov’ts engange in offensive espionage too. So pointing at the Chinese specifically makes it at best nationalist as in we’re not okay with it because it’s the other team doing it to us. But it smells worse. Like … our gov’ts are tapping undersea cables. Why wouldn’t others do the same? Everyone is hoping their own quantum computer would decrypt those recorded SSH sessions. The NSA is currently trying to hamper the adoption of quantum-resistant encryption. They’re operating under a fascist regime. so “But the Chinese are doing it” really sounds like whataboutism framed as concern. And that’s fine everyone’s doing that too but pretending otherwise is propagandist.

The US draining brain in all directions.

So that’s what the A stood for!

Whenever there’s a story about China doing better, they typically explain how it’s all bullshit, or go for the but-at-what-cost line of attack.

Inb4 China-bad slop from the usual suspects.

Probably. It’s somewhat plausible in the current employment context but I wouldn’t put it past the NYT to be blowing it up.

Oh for sure. There’s however a higher degree of democracy than feudalism, mostly stemming one way or another from the newly developed labour power under capitalism. Power that labour has slowly ceded over the last 50-70 years or so, but it can still regain when pressed. The system still contains this vulnerability (from the point of view of the capitalist) and it seems impossible to eradicate.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-industrial-robots-installed

This is in the making for some time.

You don’t understand, this is just PR propaganda. The robots are just aimlessly moving around for show. Meanwhile there’s slave labour under the floor doing the work.

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I don’t think anyone in the West is taking decoupling seriousy. After all that would hurt profits and our owner class isn’t having it. Of course it would be a good idea to rebuild domestic manufacturing but that would take more than a decade since we need to build the education, workforce, supply chains and final manufacturing. And that won’t happen without a drastic shift in power away from the owner class, because that isn’t in its interest.

Our current system is going about how Marx predicted it would. The course correction that occurred after the Great Depression has been now completely reversed and we’re back staring at its approaching collapse. I don’t think we can escape that long term, and we’ll lose democracy in the process, unless we start moving away from capitalism. We gotta attack private firm ownership. Otherwise we’ll keep getting people accumulate enough capital to buy the rest of the system and steamroll the rest of us for profit.

I think so. Or a person using some automation. Their post format and topics are suspiciously similar to the other two accounts Hotznplotzn and randomname. Those two were created on the same day on two different instances. This one was created later but the post similarites are very interesting.

And if we get any representation.

They would love the NLRB to be unconstitutional wouldn’t they…

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Putting higher share of profits into workers’ bank accounts strengthens aggregate demand. In other words more money for truck loans.

So the way to truly delete ones content is to mass edit and replace with “fuck spez”?

It’s an analogy. It’s inaccurate as all analogies are. Yet it’s useful to make the point that banning children from doing X or Y isn’t unprecedented or unacceptable.

Kids go to school for much more than what they learn in class. A fully formed human being that can function in a society requires a lot of social interaction training. That’s what school is for in-between classes. If kids are staring down their phones during that time instead of interacting with each other, that training is lost. Worse, instead of that, they get trained on a false social reality as portrayed by whatever enshittified platform they’re currently on, based on whatever behavior makes the most money today. Is this enough to visualize the damage phones in hallways cause?