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You think the folks who are successfully organizing against datacenters can’t use the same techniques and support networks to do the same thing against other nu
by skywhopper 1mo ago
You think the folks who are successfully organizing against datacenters can’t use the same techniques and support networks to do the same thing against other nuisance uses?
- qarl2 1mo agoNot really - China doesn't care about other nuisance issues. Look at how the TikTok kids (who went nuts for the Palestinians) don't give a crud about the Cubans.
- boston_clone 1mo agoEmpathy is not a Chinese psyop. Anyway, here's actual evidence of elected officials contradicting your anecdotal narrative: https://apnews.com/article/cuba-embargo-congress-pocan-legerfernandez-dexter-ramirez-e369a23097dcf104d424af88cdc2134a https://apnews.com/article/cuba-embargo-congress-pocan-leger...
- qarl2 1mo agoSo where are the street protests for Cuba then? I marched for Gaza three times. I haven't seen a single one for Cuba. I'm not saying empathy is a Chinese psyop. The empathy is real. But empathy requires awareness - and awareness IS controlled by the algorithm.
- toomuchtodo 1mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compassion_fatigue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compassion_fatigue
- qarl2 1mo agoSo you deny the algorithm profoundly influences awareness then?
- toomuchtodo 1mo agoI take no position on the algorithm, I don't have enough context or subject matter expertise to speak authoritatively on the topic. My point is a single person can only care about so much, and can exhaust their compassion reserve. Can't be a passionate, engaged activist about everything.
- qarl2 1mo agoGood. Because it seems pretty obvious that the algorithm profoundly influences awareness.
- toomuchtodo 1mo agoYou say obvious but provide no citations or data. “Some people say” or “it’s obvious” is not a sufficient foundation for an assertion.
- qarl2 1mo ago[flagged]
- boston_clone 1mo agoi guess we’re seeing why your first account was nuked. if you’re failing to make a convincing point, you have to do better than replying with “LOL.”
- qarl2 1mo ago[flagged]
- boston_clone 1mo agoDo you think that the issues deserve the same attention, or are you perhaps making a false equivalence? As far as I’m aware, children aren’t being shot in the head and forcibly starved by an occupying force in Cuba. But to say that folks don’t care is clearly inaccurate.
- qarl2 1mo agoI am making the fairly obvious point that Americans don't care about the Cubans like they did the Palestinians, despite the fact that the Cubans are directly suffering under the Americans, and in the case of the Palestinians it was indirect.
- boston_clone 1mo agothinking that those two things need the same level of attention is for sure a false equivalence for reasons stated elsewhere. glad we got to the bottom of that one. further, we also saw that Americans do care, which is why we had elected officials there last month and can read about it through AP.
- qarl2 1mo agoStraw man.
- boston_clone 1mo agoyawn. go troll elsewhere.
- qarl2 1mo agoAd hominem.
- watwut 1mo agoIt is not really indirect, USA supports that genocide openly, polically and with arms. But even more importantly, the care is result of years and years of leftist activism. Nothing to do with china, judt that awarness dont happen overnight. Yours "if you are not active in absolutely everything, any action is invalid" is just a bad faith nonsense.
- TitaRusell 1mo ago[flagged]
- qarl2 1mo agoNo, your country is directly killing people. No third party involved. > dufus Tsk tsk.
- epolanski 1mo agoAt least many are aware of the viciousness shown by the current US administration against Cuban population. At the same time, full blown humanitarian disasters, like the one that hit the Rohingya in Myanmar, people that were being thrown in pit and burned alive in the thousands, are completely unknown to the average adult in the west.
- snypher 1mo agoWell, the Cubans ain't being bombed by their neighbors.
- toomuchtodo 1mo agohttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-08-14/oklahoma-4-billion-aluminum-smelter-imperiled-by-trump-supporters https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-08-14/oklahoma-... > “Protect Our Farms. #StopTheInolaSmelter,” reads the text below the image, splashed across a billboard towering over one of the main highways to this prairie town (population: 1,890.) The smelter in question: a $4 billion aluminum processing plant touted by President Donald Trump as part of his push to revive the industry in the US. > In a June 29 letter, Trump urged the town’s council to approve the project “without delay, so that together we may strengthen our national security, supercharge our economy, and lead our Nation boldly into a new Golden Age of American greatness.” > Instead, the five-person board of trustees for Inola, located just east of Tulsa, voted unanimously that day to impose a moratorium on the project. The smelter, a joint venture between the United Arab Emirates’ state-owned Emirates Global Aluminium PJSC and Chicago-based Century Aluminum Co., would be the first new US plant in nearly 50 years to process aluminum that’s derived from raw material rather than recycled. > Opponents of the plant say they’re afraid toxic emissions from the facility will damage agricultural land in Inola, which has dubbed itself the “Hay Capital the World” in a nod to the prized Bluestem prairie grass that grows there. There’s also concern that the plant’s intensive power needs will drive up electricity prices. The controversy has surfaced in the Oklahoma governor’s race, with one candidate in the upcoming Republican primary supporting the project and the other opposing it.
- qarl2 1mo agoUmmm... this seems entirely irrelevant to our discussion. Our discussion was almost a week ago, is lying dormant, and is completely unrelated to what you just posted. I'm having a hard time understanding how you could have made such an error.
- qarl2 1mo agoAnd now someone is upvoting it? A message on the wrong thread that is a week old and abandoned? I daresay - am I witnessing astroturfing? Oh my!