This reminds me of the "toxic masculinity" discourse. Some people say that the term means that masculinity itself is toxic. Other people say that masculinity is fine, it's toxic masculinity that's the problem, hence the qualifier.
I've seen people use the term late-stage capitalism to advocate for like, Bush era politics so I don't think we're getting the right message across.
Harsh to tell people to give up on America when the people most affected by poor urban planning can't afford to move. Things aren't getting better here any time soon though. Or any time late...
That has always bothered me about the term "late-stage capitalism." It makes it sound like the problems of today are unique to our stage in development and not intrinsic to capitalism itself.
To a lot of people, it seems like the issue is modernity and the solution is to return to a more prosperous past. Like when we had segregation, or limited suffrage, indentured servitude or (more) slavery...
This is just a glorified plot synopsis. It belongs on a fan wiki not a news site. I think the author came up with a headline first and scrambled together the article later.
Is "China Television" a specific channel or did the author mean to write Chinese Television? I'm too poor to read the article
Edit: The article is talking about the Zero Tolerance docuseries made by CGTN. idk what's up with the headline, is it improper to use adjectives in titles?
Being a teenager was definitely a surreal experience. At school I was expected to write pages-long essays about history and politics without warning. I had to have a litany of formulas memorized and also remember when and how to use them. I needed to know how to analyze dense texts, including ones in middle English.
But outside of school I was treated as an idiot kid who's 5 seconds away from stealing or breaking something at any given moment. The contrast between how I was treated in high school and college is like night and day even though I was doing much, much less schoolwork that was easier in college.
For real. Growing up in a suburb, the only things that were in walking distance were houses, a park, houses, a convenience store, houses, houses, and warehouses. And our town had that neighborhood watch thing where cops would basically arrest you for being young and outside past curfew.
I dunno what people expect kids to do besides play video games and watch YouTube/twitch/whatever. There's really not much else to spend time on.
That picture of Barbie with Oppenheimer in your link got a laugh out of me. Love how it's captioned with her full name, which is apparently Barbara Millicent Roberts?
It's seriously astounding how little needs to be done to propagate lies here. Like, people often fearmonger about government censorship and algorithmic suppression, and those things ARE problems don't get me wrong, but people waaaaaaay overestimate how much it takes to dupe them.
I mean, you can just search "Ukraine" on any search engine and filter out results from 2022 onwards to get articles that blatantly contradict what's being published today. It doesn't take an elaborate scheme to spread disinformation... It doesn't even take consistency...
Whoever the people are that got their comments published on page 33 and 34 deserve a special flair (does Lemmy have those?)
Also, it's so funny how the authors keep calling the Communist Party of China the CCP instead of the CPC. For table 10 they had to switch between these keywords because the tankies community is the only one that can get the acronym right LMAO
The word "could" is doing massive work in that headline