@RogueKite a lot of the big name european "fashion houses" were straight up nazis. Coco Chanel, Balenciaga, Louis Vuitton, Christian Dior and of course Hugo Boss.
it's an awful industry filled with fascists and racists
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Friends are allowed to make mistakes. The enemy is not allowed to make mistakes because his whole existence is a mistake, and we suffer from it
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Not going to pretend I ever thought this stuff was cool but when you see modeling ads in your feed and they look like photos from the Epstein files it really drives that point in like a dagger. This IS the culture of the US elite. This is what they're marketing.
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@SAMOYEDCORE the humble raccoon, with its boundless capacity for love, cannot understand a concept as sick as private property
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i'm just a little raccoon guy. only four paws to my name. only eight stripes on my tail. i couldnt possibly be responsible for property crimes
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@BigMeanInternet Do you at least understand how conservative your position is from an African perspective?
One of the problems of letting America have such outsize influence these debate is that America is a very right wing country and what ya'll think left is reactionary in most of the world
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I don't read Greek either, and I don't even have a PhD in political science, but I still know this is one of the foundational pages in western thought.
Sam Haselby@samhaselby
The racial capitalism discourse is entirely a US phenomenon. It's based on nationalist claims of one 1970s American political scientist who didn't read any European or African languages and whom, afaik, no historian of antiquity or premodern Europe or Africa has ever cited. 🤷♂️
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@HuntClancy I can suspend my disbelief when playing videogames, but getting a morale boost for being close to a commanding officer is a bit too unmoored from reality for me
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computer be chirping “I can’t take it, the blood” over and over
Dave@GamewithDave
For anyone who used a computer between 1990 & 2005… what’s the one game you still think about?
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@Aaron_Good_ I don't know the exact path that this guy took to podcast superstardom, but stuff that praise silicon valley don't usually get mega popular organically. It get popular by having SV money behind it an manipulating the platforms. Those platforms just obfuscate that process.
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@HeptishHotik Perhaps--and bear with me here--his audience are actually "AI constructs." I find that more plausible and less depressing than the alternative of there being many people who are organically stupid enough to slurp up this bullshit willingly.
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I know that much of influencers' popularity is fake algorithmic froth, but how can someone as mindless as Dwarkesh have any followers whatsoever?
Carl Zha@CarlZha
Dwarkesh on China's intellectual landscape compared to the US. L(Mao)
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Who told you that was their first time? They might see his ass every day and be repulsed by him every single day.
Today In History@historigins
A group of young Kestrels seeing a butterfly for the first time
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@nise_yoshimi The Apollo mission is the quintessential American moment - a bunch of US Air Force pilots who did war crimes in Korea going on a rocket designed by Nazis so they can put a plaque with Richard Nixon's name on the moon.
And the US insist to this day the entire world clap.
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How it feels to get away with it
Black Hole@konstructivizm
Wernher von Braun, director of NASA's Marchall Space Flight Center, at his office in Huntsville, Alabama 1965.
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@TheGreeneBJ It's not even memory, people remember Syria they just angrily insist the US didn't go on a regime change war there.
Obama was truly the greatest salesperson of American imperialism.
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This just straight up isn't true people have such shit memories
Micah@micah_erfan
Fun Fact: Every war America has started in the last 25 years was initiated by Republicans and ended by Democrats.
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@facetedcarapace And going it on your phone too. Like at least gambling used to mean heading somewhere sketchy and interacting with someone sketchy while breaking a minor law. Now you just pay money to doomscroll pretty much
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gambling is such a dumb boring guy vice. get a drug problem or have an affair, you losers
More Perfect Union@MorePerfectUS
More than half of men ages 18-49 (52%) now say they have an active sports betting account with an online sportsbook like DraftKings, Caesars, FanDuel, or BetMGM.
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@W_T_Han When the Biden admin just kept the China initiative going under a different name I told all my Chinese friends in American academia I think it's time to seriously start thinking about leaving the US. This is now a bipartisan consensus and is unlikely to ease any time soon.
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Another Chinese scholar criminally railroaded for routine science, his name blackened w smear of smuggling dangerous materials.
Nikki Haley@NikkiHaley
A Chinese Communist Party member pled guilty to smuggling E. coli into Indiana University—after receiving a U.S. visa and lab access. This isn’t an isolated case. It’s a pattern. America’s research system is being exploited—and we’re leaving the door open.
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The dumbest anarchists are saying the exact same thing. I think they're wrong and that Rockhill does good work.
Cosmonaut ☭@CosmonautMag
Scott Patrick argues that Gabriel Rockhill's Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism substitutes class analysis with conspiracy-focused explanation in its attempt to understand accommodation to imperialism among Marxist intellectuals. cosmonautmag.com/2026/04/the-co…
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@thecollegehill Yeah, that what I was getting at. Everyone recognize payola was a terrible system where people with money can pay to make something looks like it was organically popular. This is just the same, just (slightly) better obfuscated, and it's wild for people to defend it.
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@HeptishHotik no one actually defends payola as "part of the game" though
we collectively realized that payola screws up the game and made it illegal
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seeing people defend this is crazy because "burner accounts, comments, and whole ecosystems of interactions fabricated out of digital cloth" is usually just called "astroturfing" and considered to be bad (and probably a violation of some platform policies)
WIRED@WIRED
The Brooklyn band Geese was labeled an “industry plant” by those who questioned its sudden ubiquity. Maybe it was. wired.com/story/geese-ch…
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There was a theory that Hillary pretended to be more pro-war in 2016 as a way to compensate for being the first woman nominee and counter sexist ideas of a woman leading the military. I think we have enough evidence in the 10 years since that it’s just her ideology
HOT SPOT@HotSpotHotSpot
🇺🇸🇱🇧 Hillary Clinton admits to being a part in engineering Lebanon: “I’ve been advocating behind the scenes for this for several months"
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@nickturse We had "unnamed official" telling the new york times that Iran don't know where their mines are, so I would be very unsurprised if a ship get hit by a mine, the US accuse Iran and Iran deny it
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@PunishedFredda I think the US would much rather prefer a state of affairs quo where no one can cross the straits than one when Iran can dictate who can. And you already see all the neocons and "serious Iran Hawks" cheering this. I don't think this will work well, but it's what the blob wants
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Genuinely what the fuck is he doing
NewsWire@NewsWire_US
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Trump says that 'effective immediately' the US will start to blockade ships trying to enter or leave Strait of Hormuz.
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