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  • davel [he/him]@lemmygrad.mltoMemes@lemmygrad.mlthrowback
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    6 months ago

    Apparently this is an old tweet, pre-Musk even.

    The China Project, Mar. 2022: Twitter mocked for new rule targeting Chinese state-affiliated media. Twitter thinks Peepee.poopoo.news.cn is an official Chinese government news source.

    The application of the label, however, is problematic due to its automatic nature: Users found out that any URL that ends with “.news.cn” can trigger the label, regardless of its validity or actual affiliations with state media.

    I don’t think that is problematic given that the Chinese state owns the “news.cn”. I see that some people said it had been applied to all “.cn” domains, but I don’t see evidence of it.

    In any event, Xitter later dropped this practice. What the state of it is today I couldn’t say and don’t really care because Xitter.










  • davel [he/him]@lemmygrad.mltoMemes@lemmygrad.mlLibs be like about Palestine
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    8 months ago

    Because of the way the Electoral College works, this can only be true if you’re voting in a swing state, otherwise your vote is completely irrelevant, instead of almost completely irrelevant.

    I’m not one to make moralist arguments on how to vote. I’m not going to say that a vote for Harris is a vote for genocide. Voting in bourgeois elections in general, and for bourgeois parties in particular, have limited but real tactical utility*, one of which is short-term harm reduction. If you live in a swing state and want to tactically vote for Harris as harm reduction, I think there’s an argument for that. But it’s important to appreciate the severe limitations of bourgeois electoralism.

    *Marxists have written at length about their limited tactical uses since before the October Revolution over a century ago.