Forcing yourself to do classical liberalism to own the commies.

Not sure what to think about Benz. He seems to go against the grain but almost everything he says or writes or summaries of his arguments can be read as coded support for US imperialism. It’s unclear who his messages are for. While they might lend support to anti-imperialists, there is enough in there for just a different kind of imperialist.

The US and its CIA-controlled “soft power” arm utilized the encrypted social media app Telegram to foment riots and protest movements against foreign governments it deems undesirable …

And:

… “26 US-government-funded NGOs” condemned Russia for attempting to ban Telegram in 2018 [because] “the US State Department was …” utilizing its encryption and local popularity “to foment protests and riots within Russia – just as they did in Belarus, Iran, Hong Kong, and attempted to do in China,” …

Is this an exposé on the US/CIA? Maybe. What critic doesn’t already suspect such behaviour? The claim can be read as an attempt to persuade users and potential users that TG is so secure even the CIA uses it.

Combine this with the following:

The US has championed free speech globally for decades …. Durov’s end-to-end encrypted social media app Telegram has been instrumental in this effort …

Is this a double-bluff attempt to get anti-imperialists to reject TG because it has been used to undermine their governments? The claims appear to say something but the intent is unclear.

Finally:

The app’s encryption is a powerful means of evading state control over media and allowing “US-funded political groups or dissidents to garner tens of thousands of supporters with relative impunity,” …

Another not-so-subtle hint that TG is secure enough to use for all of your anti-imperialist organising.

The alternative is that RT is picking this story up in this way to settle US nerves. Maybe Russia already has access to encrypted TG messages/metadata and has used it to root out US spies/saboteurs.

It’s a strange one but I don’t think Benz can be read as just stating ‘facts’. The other irony is that he is a free speech activist. Does he agree with the US pushing free speech, despite the CIA angle? Or does he think speech should be censored where it is used to undermine other/any government(s)?

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This is exactly why I stopped using YT.

Even painters were able to paint over people to make it look like they weren’t really there.

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That’s the one. And that’s a good video. Scary. I wonder if they’ve had any follow ups since.

Hope you got home okay. Public transport is so mismanaged it’s criminal.

Similar thing happened in Australia. That was a while ago. Now you know what the checks and balances of liberal constitutions really mean.

At this point I’m not sure the west could plan things centrally and succeed. They would have to go through several cycles of trial and error. China has been building it’s capacity for decades. And it benefits from its democratic centralism/SWCC/Marxism. Then again companies like Amazon can manage it…

Will we be getting more chronicles of spacedogs? I must’ve missed your most recent post while I was busy. How did the Marx paper go in the end? / What were the comments/feedback like?

What does HS*C have to do with this?

Ooohh, you mean Yale. It’s hard to keep track of all the drug money.

How true is this?

Spanish Spanish. I’m not sure how to make tables. There’s some info here on markdown but it doesn’t cover tables: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/02-media.html

I did read on a hexbear post that you can just copy tables in from open office. I’m unsure if it works or what is limitations are.

Agree about the characters, too. It’s the friendships that hooked me in earlier FFs.

I’m similar. Never stop studying! I’m too curious to not be looking into something all the time.

It may be a difference between the print version and the individual chapter pdfs on the Red Nation website. We had this issue that both versions are slightly different when we read it for the NEBulae reading group here on Lemmygrad.

Interesting to hear the English version isn’t as good. I played through with the voices mostly muted and all text in Spanish, so I only saw the poetic side. I can’t wait to have some free time again. All your analyses are making me want to jump back into it. There’s something about FF games that grows on you even if you didn’t quite enjoy it as expected the first time round. Maybe because they’re so immersive?

You won’t know what to do with yourself when the studies are over, even with the job hunt. Well done for getting through it and good luck for Friday!

The US wants a wide border around China.

Thanks for the extra resources @[email protected]. The truth is so contrary to the general perception. Nuremberg is treated as a kind of justice holy site where good things happened to the baddies. One of the greatest propaganda stunts of the twentieth century.