Emanuel Collective posted:

Digiwizzard posted:

oh my god i cant believe baby finland still exists

then again his retarded islamic anarcho syndicalist poo poo would totally fit in w/ these dark enlightenment dumbasses

Zombies' Downfall posted:

imho nobody should wish anybody to be homeless because it's a bad and inexcusable thing

Tubgirl Cosplay posted:

Google was $500,000 behind Goldman Sachs in campaign contributions last year

Between the three of them Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T dominate basically everything except 'all defense contractors put together'

Tubgirl Cosplay posted:

I'm not lumping them together I'm saying the sharks are fighting over who gets to eat you

Majorian posted:

Yeah, well, TO BE FAIR, it's only a hair worse than the Maoist Third Worlders that sperg out in D&D from time to time.

uber_stoat posted:

The line between trolling and actual belief is blurry with some of these people. Isn't post-jail Weev an out 'n' proud naaaazi now, complete with swastika tattoo and everything, who moved to Lebanon to escape the evil jew-controlled USA? Or is that just more trolling...

Agag posted:

Who is weev?

quote:

By fetishizing the “weapons of the geek,” Coleman belies her radically techno-utopian belief—which colors the entire book but is never stated outright—that geeks offer the way to a better world through technological mastery. Anonymous is a political vanguard because it is the purest, most potent expression of geek power, able to slice through the Gordian knot of state repression and grueling organizing conditions that so often tie down activists. But why should we take an action seriously as a political statement simply because it uses the Internet?

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Despite its anointing by Coleman, Anonymous is not a vanguard; it’s the relic of an already twice-failed dream. Anonymous is the latest and most dysfunctional marriage between a particular strain of countercultural utopianism and the boundless faith in technology that first appeared in the 1960s.

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Today, their techno-utopianism is why a tech mogul like Mark Zuckerberg is celebrated as a visionary social engineer. In this context, Anonymous is anything but subversive; it is the most radical advocate of a widespread conflation of technological prowess with political wisdom. Anonymous is Silicon Valley’s unwitting shock troops, a live demo of the Internet’s power to transform our world. When Anons call for revolution, they’re calling for a better world. But the shallowness of their politics and their uncritical embrace of technology means this energy is easily channeled into Silicon Valley’s parody of revolution: a techno-liberation from the doldrums of day jobs with health insurance and steady benefits, in favor of the radical freedom and flexibility to pilot an Uber under contract.