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marjane satrapi is jr rowling for pretentious art lovers. why are you refusing to acknowledge that french woman used the clout she got (also why do you think she got propped up in the first place if not for aligning with western interests to destroy anti imperialist government in iran) to spread imperialist zionist propaganda and lend her support to islamophobic policies in france just because you liked her works (which is also reactionary propaganda at closer inspection) as a teen? grow tf up and stop supporting imperialist running dogs posing as intellectuals.

chinese peasants were learning to read theory in CAVES while us workers whinge about opening a fucking book, shut the fuck up

Like I find it hard to think of a position that more succinctly communicates "I never think about where anything comes from or how it's produced or how it's disposed of or the environmental costs of any steps in that process unless there's some sort of moral panic telling me to be concerned about it" than thinking that the "AI" part of "ads made with AI" is the part that's bad for the environment.

It is being shared again after Satrapi has finally died. We have seen how "US and Iran governments are the same" once again since the US purposefully murdered hundreds of Iranian elementary school girls and crushed their tiny bodies under a rubble of their school, then threatened nuclear holocaust on all Iranian people and the surrounding region. Let me make it clear: I was too kind, if you quote this, you are a dog. People like you manufacture consent for slaughter and have the blood of all the dead children on your hands.

It's bewildering to remember that NATO's 2011 bombing and naval blockade of Libya was justified on the basis that Gaddafi had verbally threatened to commit war crimes (the infamous 'cockroaches' speech). Now, a NATO ally boastfully perpetrates a genocide for all the world to see. And all efforts at armed intervention to stop it, from Lebanon and Yemen, have been met with destruction and war crimes in turn. Such are the privileges of being a settler outpost of American power.

every spellcheck algorithm when you type a non-english name: uh oh! that's a typo! let me go ahead and fix that for you

does anyone else remember when google's facial recognition algorithm tagged a photo of black people as gorillas? racism is so often built into the technology we use every day and it's absolutely disgusting. and it doesn't have to be this way! it would be so easily avoidable! but the tech industry doesn't care. the tools built by the tech industry reflect all of the biases of the people who develop them, and they are most often built by people who don't consider non-white people with non-english names important enough to spend any additional development time to account for them

happy pride month!!

why did i say that

happy pride month

we're at a point where the united states illegally invaded venezuela, kidnapped its president and established their own leader, freely talks about how they want to invade cuba, and now new audio files have been leaked where they openly discuss organizing and funding a mass misinformation campaign to get their candidates in power in mexico and colombia AND NO ONE FUCKING BATS AN EYE I FEEL LIKE IM GOING CRAZY

the popular western idea of buddhism being known as the peaceful religion is genuinely so dangerous. it's a kind of audacity that basically says "wow, you must have done something REALLY bad to piss off the peaceful BUDDHISTS" which is not only deployed in defence of sri lanka's genocide of tamils but also to be islamophobic about rohingya muslims being persecuted by buddhist myanmar

sinhala and burmese buddhists regularly form alliances on how best to ethnically cleanse their minorities surely you can recognise this

talking of surplus labor one time my father and I calculated how much money he moved at his warehouse job with one single shipment and it was several times his monthly salary. the technical base of capitalism is so advanced that a warehouse peon can generate the value necessary to sustain themselves for an entire month in mere hours, having the rest consitute surplus labor that can be reinvented to economic development exclusively. the monumental amount of value generated by a mature capitalist economy is large enough to sustain its entire population multiple times over, but at the same time, the parasitism of the small class that owns all of this surplus labor is monumental enough on its own that those workers are barely paid enough to take care of their own health and their working hours cannot be reduced a couple of hours without sending shocks through the entire capital chain. never has the degree of separation between producer and production been so large, never has the chasm between the classes been so ample

of course he didn't produce the commodities being moved, his job was to put them into various boxes and shipments. this warehouse moved textiles, as part of a large international textile company. this one single shipment that could have fed him for multiple months came from an unnamed place in Bangladesh. Even greater is the dispossession and alienation suffered by the proletariat of the parasatized nations, paid for cents on the hundredth euro. Were those textile workers paid fairly, the parasitism of the capital owners wouldn't be sustainable at its current magnitude, but the products would still be sold and the materials would still be paid and the supply would still be more than enough. and the price or production wouldn't even rise that much or at all.

When the topic becomes about racism between children you very quickly realise children of colour aren't seen as children but as some other thing that should just take the abuse and then forgive the Real White Children because they didn't know better. They don't understand it but children of colour can and will very early in their youth.

What's the quote? "If the black child is old enough to experience racism, your white child is old enough to learn about it?"