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You contradict yourself very quickly. If we're at "the peak", how did we get there? Couldn't social media be a factor? Moreover, the idea that white supremacy is at its peak right now is ridiculous and ahistorical in its own right. It's also massively disrespectful to those who lived through things like chattel slavery or the holocaust. To say that seeing some loudmouth spout off on Twitter is worse than either of th…

I should be more specific. By "peaking" I mean a local optimum rather than a global optimum. I would liken it to the reaction of, say, the civil rights era. Put another way: the civil rights era (particularly desegregation) caused a reaction by those who resisted progress and sought to reinstate their desired social order. What we've seen in the last 10-20 years is a similar reaction to improvements in the rights for…

The Nazis targeted that Institute because its founder and director, Magnus Hirschfeld, was Jewish and homosexual. It had nothing to do with trans.

Re: How to Renovate Your Home for a Billion Children

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Tiktok is the worst of the brain-rotting social media products our world has produced, and that's saying a lot. I spent many years in the early days of social media building: starting at StumbleUpon, working on early Facebook apps, building companies in the space. It always felt that social media was an unstoppable train, but it seems like the benefits of connecting everyone together outweighed the negatives: the con…

TikTok is young enough that it hasn't completed the full enshittification cycle. The worst is yet to come.

It’s not in China’s interest to go enshittify it, it’s a perfect cyberweapon working exactly as intended.

Re: How to Renovate Your Home for a Billion Children

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post #27

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I should be more specific. By "peaking" I mean a local optimum rather than a global optimum. I would liken it to the reaction of, say, the civil rights era. Put another way: the civil rights era (particularly desegregation) caused a reaction by those who resisted progress and sought to reinstate their desired social order. What we've seen in the last 10-20 years is a similar reaction to improvements in the rights for…

The Nazis targeted that Institute because its founder and director, Magnus Hirschfeld, was Jewish and homosexual. It had nothing to do with trans.

Seems unlikely, given that May 1933 the attack wasn't just against Hirschfeld, but against the entire Institute, and as a part of the broader "Action against un-German Spirit". FWIW, the US Holocaust Museum specifically says the Nazis hated Hirschfeld not just for being Jewish and for his own sexuality, but for his pacifism and theories about gender - https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/magnus-hir...
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