Any biography about some liberal political leader, like that Obama one. I think people buy them just because they trend on the top 10 books to read list. But everyone I've met who has it just keeps it on their coffee table to make it seem like they're into reading now. The only one I know who finishes those biographies is my grandpa who is a little senile and bored now.

How is it virtue signalling? That's when someone brags verbally about their position or perspective based on social expectations.

Based on your use of the word "destructive" I assume you're talking about radical animal activists like the ones who sabotage industrial meat factories, often secretly and anonymously for their own safety.

So, do you really think these really are people who are ineffectual and desiring social reaffirmation of their views? If anything, this group of individuals are exactly those I would call to mind as ones who are not afraid to make actual change in the world they want to see, whatever it takes. Forget if you agree with them or not. It seems absurd to call them ineffective virtue-signallers.

idgi what are you trying to say here?

China hunts down useful idiots? All their firing squad members have penises? The Great Wall is used for executions?

From what I read, it seems like they took over a year to investigate the cyber attack before making their conclusions public.

Also I thought the party line was communism, not anti-Americanism.

To be honest, this here doesn't seem that out-of-place in terms of how a sovereign nation would respond to a cyber attack by another sovereign nation.

This is a bizarre reply. What would be the adult response for China after discovering cyber attacks carried out by the US government?

No he wasn't asking it seriously obviously

There is so much internal politics, especially in larger companies.

I'm on the team that manages the core functionality of the product, but every other team twists our arms and escalates things all the way to the top-levels just so they can do things in the way they are used to or they just prefer. Apparently the other managers are aiming for promotions so it's a power grab. Meanwhile, the product turns to shit, my team gets blamed, we lose money, people like me who do the actual work get laid off (thankfully I haven't yet but idk)

Smaller companies are nicer, but they still have politics. Honestly I've been in cooperatives too and there is still some politics. I guess it's just the capitalist alienation between workers

If you have to ask...then you don't know

Why would you come into a thread and enthusiastically declare yourself a dickhead weirdo

It was a joke actually, I'm not that invested in this thread lol

Is there a base case or do the layers of irony go on to infinity?

Person: says something

Another person: this other person has no nuance

Yet another person: this other person has no nuance, ironically

Yet another person: this other person has no nuance, ironically

(ad infinitum)

Maybe this is just dialectics, although a little snarky

Is that a big bargaining chip or something? The presence of the Ukrainian Olympic team?