Samsuma

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[–] Samsuma@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

i hope you're not implying that it's not a problem at all if the zionazis stayed in a land that doesn't belong to them..

[–] Samsuma@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 weeks ago

you weren't going to read anything anyway that so much as humanizes the Global South, let alone Muslim women.

[–] Samsuma@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

Ah but you see, that line only works when it's used by a lib. The same standard does not apply to them!

There's absolutely no need to read books like "Do Muslim Women Need Saving?" for a better understanding on why Western media's portrayal of Muslims is the way that it is, why do so when it's much easier to regurgitate unfounded, fabricated, downright mythological what-is-practically Western projections on to populations that they deem "uncivilized", all at the comfort of doing so from your own couch!

spoilerTo the lurkers, if this was somehow not obvious, /s.

[–] Samsuma@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

So "nuclear and military sites" are ones that typically inhabit women and children, very insightful reporting from MSMs.

[–] Samsuma@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 weeks ago

Yep, pretty much, I didn't feel like putting it into words, so thanks for this. I'd add that arguably, when students "play the game", they get the same flack, or worse, than job applicants who exaggerate or straight up lie in their resume the same way companies lie about free unlimited PTOs, job security, a clear career ladder, etc.

Using morality or honesty as an argument against students who cheat is an attack on students, a distraction from the fact that this shit doesn't work the way it was advertised actually, which has been internalized and normalized in many societies, left uncontested, which is big bad.

[–] Samsuma@lemmy.ml 17 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (6 children)

in short: captalism lol.

slightly longer: captialism. lmao.

[–] Samsuma@lemmy.ml 55 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (12 children)

"I am often left with a choice between soliciting participation where students are merely the deadpan voice boxes of hallucinatory AI slop, or silence," the Philadelphia teacher despaired. "Which am I supposed to choose?"

ChatGPT isn't its own, unique problem. It's a symptom of a totalizing cultural paradigm in which passive consumption and regurgitation of content becomes the status quo," Nathan Schmidt, a university lecturer and managing editor at Gamers With Glasses, told 404.

Seems to be easier to blame students for understandably responding to rote-practice, monotonous factory-work oriented slopfest curricula with slop, rather than actually addressing the core issue at hand.

[–] Samsuma@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

You’re taking the USA as an example

So? How is it not comparable to other Western countries? The original post already fucking exemplifies why censorship is a staple of the West, not just the US. Swear to god libs like you don't actually have an argument to make and resort to moving goalposts to make up for it:

https://www.euronews.com/next/2021/09/07/protonmail-criticised-for-passing-arrested-french-climate-activist-s-ip-address-to-police

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/french-mayor-bans-palestine-flag-protests-after-psg-victory-incidents

etc. etc.

Sure, it is, but my point is that it’s less restricted.

And that point is pointless because "less" restrictions only apply to small groups of people.

That’s just a massive lie. Notice how organized groups like the AfD, the National Rally, Renaissance etc.. still exist but any smaller scale organization of people that threatens imperialism get squashed ASAP:

https://www.commondreams.org/news/richard-medhurst

https://electronicintifada.net/content/switzerland-deports-eis-ali-abunimah/50337

https://www.newarab.com/news/pro-palestine-supporters-losing-jobs-over-gaza-solidarity

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/05/14/legal-group-reveals-extent-of-anti-palestinian-repression-across-germany/

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/tufts-university-student-detained-pro-palestine-views-transferred-louisiana

https://www.commondreams.org/news/ice-warrant-mahmoud-khalil

Saying such things as “bad arabs/muslims are dirty terrorist scum and need to be wiped off the map these russian orcs need to be wiped off the planet” would clearly get you in trouble

[citations needed]. I assure you that the most "trouble" libs faced was a slap on the wrist.

🤣 thanks for exposing yourself as nothing but a vibes-based liberal. Hasn't even produced a single shred of evidence either.

[–] Samsuma@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I just have this feeling like you get persecuted for speaking against the government in countries like China, whereas you need to be a strong figure to have the same fate in other countries.

I have no data and this is just a feeling.

We can learn and take away a lot from this vibes-based, "democracy" virtue-signaling analysis, but not about the topic at hand.

This is still a cool way to downplay the West's imperial staple of suppressing activism, engages in revisionism and amplifies everything that helps liberalism, all while accusing everyone outside the imperial core of doing so (or doing worse) as well, the statement along the lines of "does worse" doesn't mean anything when you recognize that it's a Western idea fully embraced and embroidered by the West that is insurpassable/incomparable to any other form of censorship.

Freedom of speech is a meaningless concept, especially so for anyone that's not white, when you can't actually criticize EU/US/KKKommonwealth countries within these countries meaningfully without fear of losing your job, your house, your visa (this is exacerbated for foreigners, often not talked about) or your life.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/tufts-university-student-detained-pro-palestine-views-transferred-louisiana

https://www.commondreams.org/news/ice-warrant-mahmoud-khalil

Your "freedom" to "speech" and "democracy" are constrained within a clearly drawn boundary, the boundary of which is drawn by the ruling class.

Any other country outside the West engaging in censorship is either a) a dog of the West or b) protecting itself from fully succumbing into being a dog of the West.

Notice how a Westerner does not risk anything by truly believing in and expressing things like "china censorship bad arabs/muslims are dirty terrorist scum and need to be wiped off the map these russian orcs need to be wiped off the planet", but a non-Westerner risks absolutely everything by even slightly hinting at a criticism towards Western imperialism/wanting better conditions at the cost of the ruling class, perhaps even in their own damn fucking country, this is where point a) comes in to play.

When it comes to China, they fall squarely in b):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAEwoYIYgJA

Once you understand the asymmetry, it becomes a lot clearer why the "both sides" argument is just a feeble attempt at minimizing Western imperialism.

[–] Samsuma@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

well said, i wish eurolibs would get this through their head, but i'm wishing for too much

[–] Samsuma@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

sources? or vibes?

[–] Samsuma@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

yeah but the lives of those outside the "blue hair and blonde eyes" classification are meaningless so... checkmate tankie!!

istg

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