By “feel the fallout”, do you mean they won’t be able to buy replacement parts when the company goes under/ there will be a ton of maintenance due to poor product quality? Or do you mean the blowback from other liberals/ progressives? If the former, I can’t help but agree. If the latter, I guess that’s what I’m trying to take issue with/ head-off.
What do you think about folks buying them second-hand? Some friends of ours are fairly liberal and dislike Musk, but they wanted an EV and couldn’t afford a new one. So they bought a used Tesla. As a liberal, I think the environment is my top issue… So I just shrugged. We can’t fix humanity’s bullshit while society is collapsing due to worsening climate disasters. It can be hard to get people to focus on something so esoteric though when people are struggling with more immediate needs, so I get the opposing view that it’s lower priority even if I disagree.
Right! Facebook making a whole business model around exploitation of teenage girls’ body image issues pretty much proved the point to me that they’re here to eat our children.
I think you’re wrong about being in the social majority… https://www.axios.com/2025/01/09/luigi-mangione-approval-poll-gen-z
But regardless, I’m not sure what alternative you’re left with when the people committing heinous acts take in profits instead of prison sentences. Especially for someone like Trump, who is actively making the world worse and more unsafe in a myriad of ways, it’s clear he will never receive justice, nor will he ever willingly leave office. How else do you see people no longer suffering his “leadership”? I mean, I’m still hoping he keels over from natural causes, but it’s still a wish for him to keel over.
Just because Google doesn’t do it doesn’t mean they can’t. I don’t believe you that they couldn’t implement some automated means of vetting it; it’s just more profitable not to.
I think this is what makes me the most angry.
My daughter wanted some toy, so I Google it, and go to one of the top results for it, thinking it’s a legitimate website. I go through the checkout process, but it’s weird and hanging. And then they text me some “verification code” I’m supposed to enter which is actually my CC code for my account. A total scam. I do some more searches and this is a common scam for this toy. So I cancel our credit card immediately.
But what pisses me off is that this totally fraudulent website was a top results from Google. They could have verified that shit! But instead they chose to serve me up to wolves.
I think Nextdoor encourages it. I’m from a very liberal state (Maryland). Around here, people started posting on there complaining about a house right beside an elementary school always flying some garbage flag. For a while it was a Confederate flag, then a FJB flag, etc. So someone posted a picture of it asking if there was some kind of ordinance it was violating for which they could submit a complaint, and then people piled on about how much they hated it and how inappropriate they thought it was. The next thing I see is that the post was taken down and the poster was given some kind of warning for endangering the owner/ doxing them, even though the street address was not posted and the owner’s name was not mentioned. Everyone in the community knows which house that is and could look up the owner from the county records if they want to!!
LoL. Sorry, no. I just copy/paste stole it from a Google search.
The palm tree ones are kinda cute though
Gawd I love this meme.
If the Chinese killed them, it’s relevant to a discussion about China. If the US killed them, it’s not relevant unless it caused some reaction within China.
You cannot engage about the rightness/ wrongness of Chinese domestic policy without stopping to bash the United States. That is Whataboutism.
Perhaps your goal is really just to point out America’s hypocrisy, but you certainly go out of your way defending China’s actions if that is your goal.
When I Google search for bias in AP’s coverage of Israel-Palestine, all of the sites I encounter claim they have highlighted harm to the Palestinians more than threats to the Israelis. I feel like this isn’t what you’re talking about though? This level of bias (highlighting the concerns of one side over another) is still substantially less egregious than what you are accusing them of: just getting facts blatantly wrong/ opposite of the truth in Xinjiang.
Look, without speaking Mandarin, traveling to Xinjiang, and having access to all the sites in question, I can’t really know what’s happening there. The best any outsiders can do is try to study through the sources available and pick out who we trust.
I trust the AP. As an organization, they trade on their reputation for quality and unbiased coverage. When I read pieces by them of extremely controversial events in the US, they give only facts. I am absolutely going to trust them more then an unsigned document, hosted by a site I don’t know, that largely engages in character assassination of names I don’t even recognize.
I think planning and posturing for their attack on Taiwan can still be counted as military adventurism.
The AP is about as unbiased as you can get: https://apnews.com/article/269b3de1af34e17c1941a514f78d764C
And Lemmy is also full of propaganda. That commenter didn’t even cite a source.
Your entire response is just Whataboutism. You’re still simping for the man, just the Chinese man instead of the American one.
Not when their friends in The Philippines or Israel are doing it.
In truth I don’t know anything about the government in the Philippines right now; if they are running camps then there is a shameful lack of media coverage about it.
But vastly more people in the US are horrified by the plight of the Palestinians than that of the Uyghurs, primarily because they feel at least indirectly responsible for it. But the people calling out the mistreatment of the Uyghurs aren’t silent about the Palestinians.
As far as the Chinese posture towards Taiwan, we have intelligence and data documenting their military buildup for at least a decade. They are building amphibious assault ships (https://youtu.be/DtrGMsGsZiU) and verbally making public statements about reunification.
I don’t think we should expect China to do a bunch of random piddle-farting around with arbitrary bombing like US policy under Trump. Mainly because that is not at all what their consolidation of authority in Hong Kong looked like, but also because they’re not fucking dumbasses like Trump.
How are these two policies equivalent?
I’m arguing against the premise of making the argument based on equating the two countries. The circumstances/ policies don’t have to be different or the same to evaluate them.
Also, your assertion of what the Chinese government is doing in Xinjiang might well be true, but what people/ the West take issue with is the rounding up of dissidents, sending them to reeducation camps, and forcibly sterilizing some of them.
On what planet is policing your own sovereign >territory against domestic insurgency “military >adventurism”?
As far as the Chinese government goes, this part refers to taking Taiwan by force. Literally only the Chinese government would refer to Taiwan as their ‘sovereign territory’.
Your logic is shit.
Everyone is agreeing with your bashing of the US, which is fine, I agree with that part.
But just because the United States is creating/ allowing internment camps and death camps doesn’t mean it’s okay for the Chinese to do it to the Uygurs. Just because the US is stupidly throwing our military weight around doesn’t make it okay for China to do it, especially not to one of the highest rated democracies in the world.
Is your premise that suppression of minorities and military adventurism is par for the course so there’s no use criticizing it?
Keeping the area of grass you play in trimmed short and clear is usually enough to keep the ticks at bay without spraying.
Suburbs/ exhurbs in Maryland here. We still have them, but we don’t rake our leaves at all, and I’ve gotten fairly into native gardening. Maryland in general has also made a concerted effort to preserve 30% of it’s land from development though.
Well I mean, who doesn’t want to eat fruit sprayed down with poison?! Eat up!