this is the one case that leaked. The other Silicon Valley big tech companies have also been funding smear campaigns against TikTok for the same reason as Facebook/Meta: they can't compete and were unable to force a sale of it, so they ordered their bought politicians to ban it:
the other major force behind the attempt to censor and ban TikTok is of course the US security state, which is totally aligned with Silicon Valley big tech companies and serves the same interests, as Yanis explains here:
it's the trifecta of big tech, bought politicians and the security state all coming together to ban a competitor, enforce their monopoly on social media and, crucially, to expand their harvesting of personal data and censorship powers as contained in the fascistic Restrict Act:
Facebook/Meta has also been stealing and plagiarizing from TikTok. It's total all-out warfare against a company they can't compete with in the "free market", which they claim is holy and sacrosanct as long as they get to keep their monopoly positions through coercion and theft
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this is from Engels' "On Authority" where he defends the use of revolutionary terror by the working class to overthrow the capitalist state and suppress the capitalist class. The quote is ridiculing those who deny this necessity with petty deflections. He's talking about Rowling
the piece is actually very short, you can read it here: marxists.org/archive/marx/w…. It's amazing that Rowling didn't even bother spending 5 minutes to check the context of it and just repeated it because she picked it up from some deranged TERF meme. Here's the full context:
the Marx quote is also mauled beyond recognition by these neoliberal cretins. Below is the actual quote, referring to material, economic, "social existence" determining consciousness, not people's genitalia or whatever biological traits. That's a totally bizarre, deranged reading
for a detailed overview of the operation of CIA coups see this thread, particularly the very illuminating clip of CIA agents describing without any remorse or shame how they destroyed entire countries at the behest of the US
after destroying entire countries, killing untold millions, apologists for the US empire adopt the rhetoric of "moving on, it's in the past now." They did it with Vietnam and recently Iraq and Afghanistan. But the effects of their genocidal crimes continue
YES, FINALLY. If this is confirmed I will travel as often as I can to Islington North to campaign for Corbyn, and I encourage everyone able to do the same. Let's defeat the Blairite neoliberal scumbags and elect the most moral, principled, honest, decent man to Parliament again
I hope Corbyn will also form a new party, ideally in a coalition with other left parties like the TUSC and NID, and run against Labour everywhere except the rare places with a socialist MP. Take as many votes away from them as possible. Inflict maximum damage on those scumbags
Jeremy Corbyn has always stood up for me, my family, my friends, and my class. That is why I supported him from the start, and will keep doing so. And I hope you will do the same
the Congressional hearing on TikTok is among the most deranged fascist spectacles I have seen there in quite some time. Members of both parties just accusing their CEO of being an evil baby-killing Commie over and over again
"ARE YOU A COMMUNIST? HAVE YOU EVER SPOKEN TO A COMMUNIST? DO YOU AGREE WITH COMMUNISTS? THIS IS A COMMUNIST APP. THIS COMMUNIST APP IS KILLING OUR CHILDREN" meanwhile the entire media class from across the ideological spectrum applauds like seals at this grotesque depravity
when you see Tucker Carlson, Rachel Maddow, Fox News, MSNBC, The Guardian, BBC, New York Times and libertarian Silicon Valley techbros disseminate the same propaganda, it means the US ruling class is defending its class and imperial interests. Here's why:
George Carlin: "Smug, greedy, well-fed white people have invented a language to conceal their sins"
Carlin's basic rules to live by, as true and essential today as when he first said it, particularly the first: "Don't believe anything the government tells you."
still hilarious to me how the right tries to claim Carlin as one of their own. More great clips in this thread of him calling out depraved right-wing ideology:
that woman who was hilariously unable to define what "woke" means despite supposedly writing a whole book on it also happens to be a genocidal fascist maniac. But because it's aimed at Palestinians she gets to keep her lucrative media grift career
it's the same with Ben Shapiro, whose posts about Palestinians are so genocidal in nature that they are banned in Germany, yet everyone from supposed "leftists" to liberals appear on his show to have friendly chats with him
Ben Shapiro was actually confronted on this genocidal rhetoric by a right-wing BBC host, to which he replied by first lying about it, and after that didn't work hilariously claiming the host is some radical leftist. Here's the thread with the clips: