facebook was thought as leftwing in the 2009~2012 (round occupy), together with twitter

from parents of children who integrated into cities and held mildly progressive views (gay marriage) at the time.

in actuality reddit was always libertarian (rightwing one at that¹), which got corpo-ed after trumpy 2016 campaign

¹ weed, jailbait, ron paul, gay marriage are all consistent with right wing libertarianism, i only don’t remember gun hogging being prominent

i wonder if that renaming shenanigans fulfills some performance metrics of stock options for some ai companies, allowing them to vest or some other bs

I dunno, i have mixed feelings, cause economically tourism is pure cash injection into local economy, with basically no leakage to international capital, but it does have warping effect on populace and local class resentments (not to mention learning colonizer language to get better paid). i still think locals, even uninvolved in industry, would rather you visit them and waste money than not.

but obviously some sicko could behave like a viceroy bestowing their grace to the savages

what does being under your current boss gives you that splitting into coop won’t?

okay, say i have 3k euros, i can go to either usa or cuba for vacations, which one is the moral spending of money?

living in global north, net expropriation from global south is somewhere between 10-25%, not a lot of jobs has that much disposable income, and yet one might think a good idea to balance the scales by consumption habits

if you see someone with rolex or ferrari, you don’t think them a bougie fuck? or hear they’ve rented a chalet in the alps for two weeks? gone to the monaco to gamble? all these things are affordable in europe with good job in unionized sector

and i’m not saying sit in empty room like a monk. spending money on socializing, pursuing hobbies are all great for human mind, getting good bed and pillow to not break your spine, but there is extravagant side of this, the consumerist side, which i dont find particularly moral and yes, aspirationally - bougie.

so to circle back to op question - spending money on stuff you don’t need (or overspending on stuff that you do need) and acts as upper class signifier is bougie, to me at least.

morally - at treatlerism where it can be avoided, materially - at compensation from asset ownership.

isn’t that what movies are for?

“falling tower”: tall hollow ice cube with kahlua inside, inside tall glass of vodka with crushed ice (or rum and cream liqueur)

wonder when lte video content became available.

one of those efficient swarm animations from webgl

like the girl reading this🥰

tfw after fumbling privatization of nhs you go full villain mode

did that support exist before suez crisis? same with “judeo-christian values”. it’s remarkable how that all started gaining ground in 60-70s, not you know, 50s.

nationalism is a tool to paper over class differences inside the nation (for example, so that porkies and workers fight together). in the current world, porkies will nearly always side with usa, thus nationalism can only be used to tilt workers to serve usa interests, as the porkies are unmovable and will remain such. historically (before air travel and capital freedom of movement), national bourgeoisie could exist as class in itself for itself inside a singular nation, now it cannot. (while hamas and yemen people can serve as counter examples, you might notice that pa is much more conciliatory to their own self liquidation and hamas doesn’t have bourgeoisie as such due to work and aid structure inside gaza, while yemen bourgeoisie sits pretty in saudi occupied part of yemen)

*ukraine most definitely showcases the first scenario though, ukrainian oligarchs are freewheeling inside eu and usa, and any attempt to not do so is killed by their brethren/“corruption investigations”

as soon as national capital allowed to store their assets not inside their country, they are basically compromised forever.

sorry, included one in the alt text:

In the case of a second round Mélenchon/Le Pen, socialist supporters (*partie socialiste that is) would vote 43% for Le Pen. According to the poll, the supporters of the rose emoji party are those on the left who would vote the most for Marine Le Pen.

quite nice that they could do this shenanigans:

There were 17 abstentions, and because rejecting the measure needed an absolute majority of the full chamber rather than a simple majority of those present, the 314 opposing votes were not enough.

no, don’t have eggs ¹

[1] according to docudrama series my little pony

throw some colloidal silver into it

i have a pounding headache and probably will puke on a bus

have you considered scheduling a doctor visit in 5 days