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So I hear “cultural Marxism” a lot in right wing circles. What does this mean?

DEI lol

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Hear me out. With the current economic situation, your average software engineer, accountant, or any entry/mid level professional deal with job insecurity, uncertainty, and high exceptions from corporate leaders for their interests. Since unions were formed in the 19th century to protect factory workers from exploitation and greed of robber barons, why can’t we have something similar in the modern era for white collar employees as well? Why can’t we have a software engineer union, or an accountant union which gives your average working professional the infrastructure of support and legal backing during times of unfair and unclear corporate decisions? It would be nice if there was an entity that represented employees and demanded transparency from management for employees. Thoughts?

All modern workers need to unionize! Sorry if it’s socialist

Im serious tho….with today’s economic climate, most software engineers are essentially lower middle class

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No, not in my country. Unions are catered for blue collared workers, and they are kinda dying out due to policies favoring the robber barons.

I think especially with the Eastern European countries that don’t have a history of colonialism and are still grounded in their indigenous cultures, it’s not fair to force them to allow and integrate thousands of migrants whose culture is different from theirs. There is no legacy of immigration to these countries as there is with the UK even, where in the past many migrants have settled from former colonies and other European countries. Much of the infrastructure in these countries are not built for immigration, but rather their own population (the same way the Congo government is for the Congolese and not for random migrants from another random part of the world).

Exactly

Honestly with Poland, it’s not a country built on immigrants but rather its own population. From their own sense of stage blue cultural conservatism, I can understand where they are coming from. However this would not make sense in countries built on/dependent on immigrant labor such as the US and Canada.

The most accurate reason backed facts, not politics:

In an ideal world it’s completely possible for meta and google to implement controls for fake vs real content. But no these billionaires decide to bend the knee and remove all censorship policies. Fake content and the speed at which it’s served to so many Americans is the biggest issue, because people think that they know fully about something before all the facts are released. The lack of regulation over the content spread on social media platforms is killing our society.

I mean we don’t have to point to the nazis….America itself has done things like this. We put people in internment camps for the sole reason of being Japanese. We had the bracero program, which was a deportation operation under Eisenhower, which led to the deportation of many Mexicans, many of whom were American citizens. So yea, our country has a long legacy of xenophobia and racism.

So what about those egg prices?

Just if anyone is curious, the LLMs that these AGIs are trained on are made up of terabytes (many billions worth) of parameters, which are fed data. So technically the big data that is fed and used to train these models are actually data from humans. Training models with data from the internet requires constant up to date scraping of all the sources on the World Wide Web, which is why it’s very limited in terms of real time data. The reason I’m making this point is because while deepsink has raised the standards for efficient and reliable gen AI, it still works with the Chinese government, and the data that it trains its models on is deeply biased. Just food for thought 🤷🏽‍♂️

Nordicism really took on in the United States even before Hitler rise, our immigration policies during the 1920s reflects that attitude. President Calvin Coolidge himself followed the racial eugenics pushed by Madison grant, and created policies based on these pseudoscientific ideas.

Yea, his ideas on Jews and race in general were pretty mainstream among the European and American elite at the time. Him saying that Northern Europeans were superior was not shocking for the times, in fact it was common knowledge among everyone then

And it was easy to scapegoat the Jews. The idea that Jews control Wall Street and the banks had already been a mainstream idea in most of the western world at that point. Hitler basically took that, merged it with the economic suffering of the German people and made it seem that “hey the Jews are the cause of your suffering”

With regards to inflation and high prices, remember that economic hardship is the seed to fascism. Nazi and fascist politics was a direct consequence of the 1930s Great Depression.

There’s always been an undertone of fascist tendencies in this country to be honest. Racism towards non whites is as old as this country’s foundation, if not longer. We had the Chinese exclusion act, which banned anyone who was Asian or nonwhite coming into the country. To be fair while times feel racist now, we are no where near how racist we were during the 50s or 60s. This isn’t a new America, this is just America trying to go backwards in time. A century ago this same hatred was there towards other European immigrants, primarily coming from southern and Eastern Europe, and they were not exactly seen as “white” back then. We can get through this! We got through the Reagan, bush, Nixon, and every racist ass president before, we can do it now. And hey trump did kick Elon’s ass out of the White House so I guess the billionaire’s influence on trump went down a little. While trump takes advantage of fears and funnels it into racism for his own maintenance of power, Elon is a literal nazi (there’s so many signs that it’s not hard to connect the dots). Elon having less of an influence on trump is a good thing.

Recently read a story of a legal Puerto Rican veteran being detained by ICE. At this point I fear that any body of color will have their citizenship questioned, and being a person of color I do have my own paranoia. I feel like just to go to the store I need to be vigilant of my surroundings. I was born here to parents who had become citizens by that time. As someone from a south Asian background, should I fear my safety?

Maybe America followed by western powers have to stop meddling in political affairs in the global south and fuck up their economies/stability. Then maybe you want have as many migrants desperately trying to run away from their war torn nations. Oh and climate change is just going to make this worse. Oh boy we are cooked. Going to a hell of a ride 😬

Got my passport card in my wallet at all times, as well as my global entry card. My god what our country came to

Senile old man whose petty ego got in the way of the safety and sanity of American democracy. If he had let someone else run from the beginning, the Democratic Party would have had more time and leverage to identify and attack republican policies. But no, instead this stubborn man decided to run with the clear sign that he is not doing well, and completely shat himself during all the presidential debates.