Almost the same except we have so many things wrong PlanetSide that it makes the stars almost irrelevant.

People needlessly suffer and die painfully simply because VERY few of us want control and many more keep repeating the lies that those few have created to control us.

Watching it play out ad naseum once you’re aware of the farce makes it depressing to watch and it makes you realize how easy it is to control human behavior to the point where repeated genocides are ignored enough to allow them to happen.

I want to know if there will ever be a time when manufactured narratives & consent doesn’t control the lives of humanity and it might make the nothingness of death a little bit easier to stomach knowing that it’ll come to pass.

I’m half-convinced they did this whole project just so they could call it COOL.

can you blame them? lol

both are golfing-centered movies; you can be forgiven for it since they’re essentially the same story. lol

should I consider getting checked out for autism??

does it because it’s much more common than people realize.

also, it’s called a spectrum for a reason; there are varying degrees of “strengths” and “types” of neurodivergence. (there’s actual words for them but my memory is useless before coffee).

the difference is that there are other duplicate communities on other lemmy instances that you can join to get your content while reddit only has that one subreddit.

I wouldn’t be surprised if it came out that these companies lobby for lax regulations for data brokers

h&r block & turbotax

adam ruins everything spent some time on it.

i love british scifi, comedy, literature, and the lofty aspirations of og liberal thinkers from centuries past.

i think it’s a result of growing up inside the anglosphere.

no one is immune to propaganda and both goebbels and bernays have demonstrated to the world how effectively critical thinking can be shaped through controlled narratives.

china exhibits draconian measures to issues like tiananmen because it was a genuine protest and DEEPLY inconvenient for the chinese government. it was only one of many protests that caused civil unrest throughout the entire country (ie it was much bigger than just tiananmen square) and they really don’t want a repeat of that violence.

in typical western fashion, the legacy media latched onto a kernel of truth and shaped the narrative of that a fledgling neoliberal democracy movement when the truth was that the protesters that pushed for such a thing were an overwhelmingly small minority when you consider the huge number of protestors taking to the streets during that time throughout the entire country.

china doesn’t have oligarchic ruling class solidarity like the united states or the rest of west does so it’s silencing of dissent is much more blunt and direct through government apparatuses where the western oligarchies prefers to employ significantly more subtle and easier to hide dissent silencing like deplatforming and sanctions against individuals like francesca albanese or 9 of the icc judges.

that magat characterization makes sense if you were aware that magats perceive the world through intentional misinformation that’s perpetually reinforced in the west by the likes of fox news (for red maga) and the likes of the state department (for blue maga).

also any conspiracy theory is not necessary when the accusations have been confirmed multiple times during congressional hearings by the likes of the state state department and it’s ngo’s when they publicly admitted (on the record btw) that they intentionally peddled propaganda to the public.

your centuries old examples of us-uk belligerence feels cherry picked when better examples like the suez canal incident makes it clear who’s calling the shots.

the us hegemony takes the cake when it comes to journalism when you consider that its proxy in the middle east alone has literally bombed to death more journalists that china could ever fantasize about and the likes of julian assange, francesca albanese, or any of the 9 icc judges can attest how much impactful sanctions are than government minders.

the only fault lies with the american government and the people who believe what they say when the american government has publicly admitted themselves that they’ve intentional misinformed the public; this fact alone make red maga less culpable for the world’s woes than the liberals.

ever heard of the “special relationship” between the two countries that enable them to work together in arenas like this one and usaid literally funded several foreign “media” agencies like the guardian before trump shuttered it.

the difference is that sources defining the tiananmen protests as a massacre are funded by the state department (both directly and undirectly) which has a long, storied and undisputed history of peddling propaganda; including my government’s own admissions of doing so.

i’m an anglophile and dispelling the western propaganda about tianamen square is only a 30 second google search away; but your comment makes it look like you’ve never bothered.

verifiable american propaganda is a very difficult pill for westerners to swallow; so most, like you, don’t bother.

tiktok hasn’t been around long enough for generations to use it and the narratives used to be verifiably genuine until it started livestreaming the gazan genocide; that’s when it turned to shit and those manufactured narratives started to dominate it.

i started following influencers on it before the isreali & american governments started pushing “inconvenient” people off it and paying people to manufacture those narratives (respectively). i suspect i’ll stop using it once they’ve forced everyone i follow to move to other platforms.

that’s exactly what this article is.

the article makes it sound like the chinese government is cracking down on queers by getting rid of grindr when the reality is that the american government forced the chinese to sell their ownership of grindr and chinese queers prefer to use grindr alternatives anyways.

it’s interesting how you conflate 2 things that are barely related to each other, in this case:

1. you’re not talking to queers in china; but are pretending that you are to double down on your beliefs.
2. the american government has repeatedly admitted publically that it run propaganda factories throughout the world and especially in china.

i guess i can see how you get the 2 thing confused with one another since they’re tangentially related to china and i would too if i too refused to do some light reading to educate myself about the world.

you’re not talking to any queers in china; the cia has spies everywhere; and you’re changing the subject again.

you’re not talking to anyone and the real funny part is that my gov’t has admitted several times publicly that they do this, but people like you still believe it’s a conspiracy theory.

the problem is that you’re not talking to them; you’re taking in a propagandized version of them that are getting paid to say those things.