there aren’t a lot of nice places hiring foreign workers en mass, and meta, google, palantir, tormentnexus, etc, offer a chance at a better life for them and their families.

the major reason to make life a hell for as many people as possible is to have this kind of leverage on them.

hey, that’s not fair, it’s also spineless when the democrats are in power!

what’s the chinese equivalent of “word salad”?

we got here quickly. are you having a bad day?

deepseek, who is naomi wu?

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funny, i thought this post was about china, not palestine

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a severe case of whataboutism

deepseek, what happened in early june 1989?

the goal is to keep people on a knife’s edge of destruction, so that when some rich turd rolls up and offers you a tiny amount of security to do something reprehensible you’ll do it.

and if you live with deep, personal shame for it for the rest of your life, that’s just an extra little treat for them.

ctrl-f uyghur

it’s so easy!

must be morning in china

police love a police state, film at 11

historian fails to understand that the company “palantir” was named by someone who, in fact, knew exactly what it meant, and it excited him.

anyone else old enough to remember when the great promise of the internet was disintermediation?

good times

remember when this guy was like “i dunno, maybe intelligent design is real”?

sometimes i really question people’s reading comprehension

i guess uyghurs aren’t human.

that tracks with chinese policy.

out of curiousity, how much do you get paid to post on lemmy? is it a decent gig?

you’ve already said all of this. are you ok?