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There's another point that occurred to me when listening to him. The process of citizens looking over another country's regime with envy as theirs crumbles could occur without subversive action too. I don't think there's much US citizens to be envious for of Russia. On the other hand, I got shocked recently while looking at some income numbers for China. Wages in manufacturing is 104K CNY or US $14.3K. Adjusted for purchase price parity, that's $52K. And look at these growth numbers:

Meanwhile the US equivalent is sitting aroung $57.5K right now. And the growth since the 80s...

If these trends continue it may come a time when it becomes self-evident that the Chinese model is the way to go.

I’m now past the middle of this talk. While the points about how subversion works in general are insightful, his diatribe about unions makes no sense. He claims that unions got radicalized and became violent recently and that was helped by Soviet propaganda. That’s brutally wrong. Clashes between unions and company militias were much more violent historically and way before the October revolution, let alone the creation of the KGB. His talking points on this come straight out of Milton Friedman’s mouth. It’s straight up right wing propaganda. Given that right wing propaganda is the reason why the working class is on its knees today and has just elected Donald Trump, it begs the question whether his talk isn’t KGB subversion itself.

E: He gave the CIA coup in Chile that installed Pinochet as a good example for how to stop the process of Soviet subversion. Also straight up said that Americans should support right wing conservatives to curb this process. Restrict the rights on certain groups. Don't elect the gays into power - they're an enemy. 🤦

I'm now past the middle of this talk. While the ideas about how subversion works in general makes sense, his diatribes about unions make no sense. He claims that unions got radicalized and became violent recently and that was helped by Soviet propaganda. That's brutally wrong. Clashes between unions and company militias were much more violent historically and way before the October revolution, let alone the creation of the KGB. His talking points on this come straight out of Milton Friedman's mouth. It's straight up right wing propaganda. Given that right wing propaganda is the reason why the working class is on its knees today and has just elected Donald Trump, it begs the question whether his talk isn't KGB subversion itself.

Just a Canada Post worker on strike. ✊

They used to be a contender in the 2000s as well, when Intel used their monopoly power to stop OEMs from shipping machines with AMD chips. By the time the courts decided in AMD's favor, Intel had Core 2 out which closed the performance/power gap with AMD.

“And Mark Zuckerberg has been very clear about his desire to be a supporter of, and a participate pant in, this change that we’re seeing all around America, all around the world with this reform movement that Donald Trump is leading. Mark Zuckerberg, like so many business leaders, understands that President Trump is an agent of change, an agent of prosperity.”

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As recently as June at the Allen and Company conference — the “summer camp for billionaires” in Sun Valley, Idaho — Mr. Zuckerberg complained to multiple people about the blowback to Meta that came from the more politically touchy aspects of his philanthropic efforts. And he regretted hiring employees at his philanthropy who tried to push him further to the left on some causes.

I'm not sure if Volcker hiked interest rates in order to usher in Friedman's desired changes. From what I can gather Friedman and Volcker weren't buddies. I found some statements of his that suggest his views on inflation came from Hayek. He did seem happy with Reagan crushing unions. However I can't see evidence he followed Friedman's agenda of redistribution from workers to capital. Nevertheless the crisis he created was used to start implementing it. The effects on workers are as described.

I won't be mad if the admins delete that community, but it seems we're already controlling how far it gets. If I saw high upvote rates which makes the misinfo spread wide, then I'd say we're not doing a good enough job through the standard process and perhaps an additional action is needed.

I'm not suggesting that. I'm suggesting that we're already doing something and it seems effective. It seems to me the democratic process we have is already pulling the weed out.

If the litmus is not having a Nazi bar, I don't think that'll ever happen unless we gate community creation. On the wider fediverse, it'll never happen. I think it'll always be about how unpopular it is and we should use that as the litmus. The scaleable approach is people's votes and personally this is why I'm on Lemmy.

Unlike Xitter and Reddit where black box algorithms spread information to users' feeds, Lemmy uses people's vote to increase or decrease proliferation. It seems to me that the posts in that community aren't going anywhere given how people have voted on them. The primary filter seems to work as expected. Maybe there isn't need for another.

I meant you could try workarounding it by transcoding to lower quality in the room where you have the problem.

Probably more. I think the bullshit jobs estimate was significantly higher. Yet people being paid are essential for sustaining the demand for the economy's output. If one company gets rid of its bullshit jobs it'll probably get ahead. If most companies do it, all of their profits will fall along with the total economic output.

It's bullshit for profit at best, naivete at the median and sociopathy at worst.

Could have been temporary difference in WiFi noise. Use transcoding to lower quality?

Price controls, rent controls, tariffs, company breakup, nationalization. Neoliberalism isn't and hasn't been the only state a capitalist economy can exist in.

I'm not sure it'll develop positively as a whole. There will be some winners but there are also likely to be losers, perhaps more losers than winners. Perhaps investing in Trump's donors' companies.

What's it mean?

It’s clear that Canada Post is out of touch with the workers of this country. A Canada Post spokesperson said earlier in the strike that young people don’t want full-time work; that they all want “flexibility.”

🤦

I bet there will be carveouts.