• Ratette (she/her)@lemmygrad.ml
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    I remember when an American celebrity got caught paying for her daughter to cheat her way into a prestigious university and it was discovered 1000s of middle class and up amerikkkan parents were engaged in the same or similar cheating schemes.

    I also know of the systemic problem with western unis where rich kids can get in purely on their parents connections and a monetary donation vs academic ability.

    Fucking racists can’t think to save their lives.

    Edit: what about fucking capitalism and the stock market? Senators insider trading? Causing wars through lies and propaganda?! Capitalism IS the ideology of lying. The list is infinite but “non whites are sneaky” remember /s

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    My realization of how deep Sinophobia and Anti-Asian racism runs in Western society is literally how I became a ‘tAnKiE’… Because MLs (and, to their credit, some adjacent leftists) are literally one of the few people who’s truly has my back… Liberals may act like they denounce racism on the surface, but they’ll also support rhetoric or stereotypes that are harmful to us. In other words, the people who I used to believe are ‘leftists’ are effectively the cheerleaders to the fascists who will crack my skull.

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    This is a redditism. They’ve been saying this in comments sections on reddit for as long as I can remember and that’s more than a decade now. It’s like folklore but for reddit, complete and total bullshit that redditors repeat over and over and over so much that they all believe it fully.

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    I hopped on Reddit for the first time in weeks to look for some reading recommendations. The site is worse than I imagined. Rampant racism (especially sinophobia), liberal brain rot, and just shitty content all around. I’m going to just delete my account there.

    I need to look more into those front-end sites to access what good information is on Reddit, Twitter, etc.

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        I have a similar experience. It’s really eye opening. Unfortunately once you realize how terrible most media is, you can’t go back.

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          everyone I know calls me a hater because I criticize their media. There is a reason, after you see how terrible neoliberalism is, all its lies and fake platitudes, of course I’m going to hate anything to do with it.

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        🫡

        I need to get better with this privacy stuff. In the process of moving everything away from google and deleting my account. I’ll probably make a very private account for the rare occasion I need to use google products…but trying to limit that as much as possible.

        • I recommend just having as few accounts as possible, and typically only staying logged in while it’s necessary (i.e. by deleting cookies when you’re done), and using Tor in situations where it’s important to hide your identity. (There’s a lot more to think about, but it’s a good start)

          For YouTube, there’s Invidious (example) and Piped (example). For Twitter, there’s Nitter (example). There’s a list of these services here

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      It’s only gotten worse. I always knew reddit was racist but it’s gotten so much worse, especially among “woke” liberals

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    This idea that Asians are obsessed with success in school and success in intellectual projects or whatever is so uniquely American. It’s in lockstep with fascists trying to claim the asian race is of a higher caliber because of American IQ statistics that don’t account for you know, Asians that live in Asia. Could it be that this cultural phenomenon might be the result of a very long lasting policy in the US that prevented poorer Asians from entering and becoming citizens in the country, and only limiting Asian professionals and wealthy families to come in? No, it must be that Asians are genetically more intelligent, or culturally more focused on intellectual pursuits.

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    I’d love to prove this guy wrong using history, unfortunately most countries in the Western world do not have any surviving records whatsoever from the age when China introduced anti-cheating mechanisms for civil service examinations