Norman Finkelstein is a good example. Some guy kept copying him in to emails with Epstein which he ignored. Eventually he quoted the testimony of one of Epstein’s victims and essentially said he would throttle Epstein to death if she was his own daughter.

Fully aware of that. I don’t disagree Musk’s a piece of shit. The whole “appears in the Epstein files x times” phrasing just annoys me because it’s meaningless. There is enough disgusting content in the files already which hasn’t been investigated without needing to resort to this sort of hysteria.

This sort of nonsense achieves nothing but making the left look stupid. Have you actually looked at any of the Epstein files that have been released? There are entire articles and slide decks that are completely irrelevant to any illegal activity. You can literally look up “ghostbusters” and get 12 results. “Bucket” has 663 results. What does that tell you? Absolutely nothing.

Musk is a piece of shit but this post is just low quality engagement bait. Use your brain.

All kinds of shit is in the Epstein files. Most of it is completely mundane. Are there any real allegations against Musk?

Yes, it’s the same as mitm. I get that it’s to avoid gendering the term but it doesn’t really roll off the tongue or preserve the existing abbreviation. I’ve heard the alternatives: machine in the middle, mallory in the middle or, my favourite, Malcolm in the middle.

Learning basic AA and blocking will really put you in the top 10% globally.

This is a new account spamming articles from the same website and deleting their posts when called out.

Thanks for the heads up. This user has posted 5 articles from the same site in the last hour.

I hope this becomes the norm. Having tried to form a bargaining unit myself I can tell you it’s an uphill battle. Some workers are vehemently against it still and they will successfully encourage others to act against their own class interests.

What does SME refer to in this context?

A Google employee claimed in 2022 that they had sentient AI. He was sacked. What were his motivations? Do you believe he was right?

They aren’t a homogenous group. They don’t all believe this. The “AI will kill us all” narrative just sells really well.

When trying to organise colleagues you need to exercise a certain level of trust or it will never get off the ground. Unfortunately boot lickers will take advantage of that. It’s to be expected.

Socialist ideas predate Marx. Look up Robert Owen for example. Engels talks about earlier socialist philosophies in “Socialism: Utopian and Scientific”. It’s not a very long book and it’s an interesting read. I think it’s an extract from a longer work.

Often conflated but Marx and Engels themselves draw a distinction between socialism and communism. They consider socialism a stepping stone to communism.

As I say, liberals believe in capitalism by definition. The impact of your vote once every few years in an election under this system pales in comparison to the influence that the owner class have due to their wealth and power. This is fundamental. This is why you get all the anti-liberal sentiment from anti-capitalists.

Furthermore you talk about convincing some percentage of voters in order to change the system. The early turnout figure for this election is 54% and that’s considered high… What of the non voters?

There may be a gap here in the definition of “liberal”. Liberalism is a political philosophy that also encompasses most traditional conservatives. It is different from the colloquial usage. It’s loosely defined as the belief in individual freedoms, including the right to private property. It is inherently capitalist and therefore socialists, communists and anarchists generally do not consider them to be of the left.

What I am saying is that based on this twitter spat I would not call her a holocaust denier. You are free to make your own judgment.

Thanks for the source although I think that’s quite specific. It seems mostly about her being ignorant and doubling down on her war against trans people rather than a blanket denial of the holocaust which the term “holocaust denier” conjures

Your article frames it this way:

While Rowling has not denied the Holocaust itself happened, she is accused of engaging in a form of Holocaust denial for questioning the persecution of trans people under the Nazi regime, a fact which has been well documented

I’m not denying she’s a cunt but I think it’s important to be precise with these sorts of allegations.

I don’t see anything about holocaust denial in your link. There’s a 2018 article discussing parallels between her work and the real holocaust but it doesn’t claim she’s a denier. I don’t really care for Rowling but I also don’t like misinformation. If there is some evidence can you please share it?