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Does anyone know of any massive double blind study where they see what actual mp3 bitrate where people stop being able to tell the difference in quality?

I’ve tried and can’t tell the difference between any 320kbps and lossless.

I’d also like to add that hitler was very specific about his desire to emulate the US model of colonialism: and do to eastern europe, what the US had already done to its native peoples.

The only difference between lebensraum and manifest destiny, is that bourgeois democracy was far more effective at indigenous genocide than fascism was.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2017/03/nazi-germanys-american-dream-hitler-modeled-his-concept-of-racial-struggle-and-global-campaign-after-americas-conquest-of-native-americans.html

The USA genocided an entire continent under it’s current form of government, and committed and is still committing countless other atrocities. Look at what Europe did to Africa and Asia under that same form.

Bourgeois parliamentarism is a much more stable shell for colonialism than any other form of government has proven to be. Demonizing a dead form of colonialism (fascism) lets them off the hook, and never forces them to look at what their own governments are currently doing. They get to keep their chauvinist / supremacist myth about “liberal democracy” being the superior form of government, without challenging it.

I need to make a bot to post this any time fascism gets mentioned.

The western left’s use of the term fascism, is borderline white-supremacist at this point. Fascism was a form of colonialism that died by the 1940s, and is only allowed to be demonized in public discourse, because it was a form of colonialism directed also against white europeans. It was defeated, and Germany / Italy / Japan reverted to the more stable form of government for colonialism (practiced by the US, UK, France, the Netherlands, Australia, etc): bourgeois parliamentarism.

British, european, and now US colonizers were doing the exact same thing, and killing far more people for hundreds of years in the global south, yet you don’t hear ppl scared of their countries potentially "adopting parliamentary democracy”. They haven’t changed, and their wealth is still propped up by surplus value theft from the super-exploitation of hundreds of millions of low-paid global south proletarians.

This is why you have new leftists terrified that the UK or US or europe “might turn fascist!!”, betraying that the atrocities propagated by those empires against the global south was and is completely acceptable.

Make no mistake about it: parliamentary / bourgeois democracy is not only a more stable form of government, it’s also far more effective at carrying out colonialism, and killing millions of innocent people.

https://dessalines.github.io/essays/socialism_faq.html#kamala-harris

The smart half. They know from personal experience that voting does absolutely nothing for their material concern.

Take a look at this and tell me you still think Kamala Harris is in any way laudible.

The atrocities of Kamala Harris.

Bullying makes it seem like its happening only in a school playground, and doesn’t even hint at the amount of discrimination they face.

Trans ppl face high levels of sexual assault, hate crimes, exclusion from family, lack of support networks, economic hardship from not being able to get hired, medical discrimination, societal discrimination, and a whole lot more.

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• Kept her Orange County DA office from being charged for running an unconstitutional jailhouse informant program they tried to cover up.
  • Oversaw a state prosecutor falsifying a confession to get a life sentence and then destroyed the evidence, upheld a conviction secured by a prosecutor lying under oath, and oversaw the framing of another man. The officers were not fired, but the state was forced to pay out ~13M USD.
  • She fought against providing compensation to those her office wrongly convicted.
  • Sponsored a bill allowing for prosecutors to seize profits before charges are even filed and opposed a bill that would reform civil asset forfeiture.
  • Defended a prison’s religious discrimination in hiring policy
  • Refused to review a case in which a pharmaceutical CEO killed his wife but made it look like a suicide after their son died under mysterious circumstances as well.
  • Refused to prosecute PG&E for its massive gas pipeline explosion.
  • Claimed to be unaware of sexual harassment and retaliation by her top aide over a 6 year span.
  • Refused to investigate Herbalife’s exploitation and fraud, received donations from people connected to the corporation.
  • Refused to prosecute Trump’s treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin, despite his bank’s illegal forelosure practices, which ruined thousands of lives. She also was the only democratic presidental candidate to get money from him.
• A favorite candidate of wall street. Helped raise money with a former wells fargo banker who defended the fake accounts scandal.
  • Backtracks on medicare for all, says she doesn’t want to do away with private insurance.
  • Accepted thousands of dollars of campaign funds from Donald and Ivanka Trump multiple times.. Accepted money from Reed Hastings, Netflix CEO and a charter school magnate. 2
• Voted to give Trump increased military spending two different times.
  • Supports Trump escalating the war in Syria. Co-sponsored a “destabilize Iran” bill.2
  • Supports Israel’s right-wing government and cozies up to AIPAC, co-sponsored resolution against Obama in support of illegal settlements, does not support Palestinian rights, and calls BDS “anti-semitic”. Another Anti-Palestine rant at AIPAC, 2.
  • Is against open borders, opposed calls to tear down 700 miles of border fence.
  • Fought to limit amount of land indigenous tribes could place in trust and tried to take reservation land away from a tribe just to keep them from evicting a non-indigenous man who had lived there without paying rent for 24 years.
• Mocks the activist call to “build more schools, less jails”. Mocks criminal justice reformers as unrealistic..
  • Says that Kaepernick’s take-a-knee protest in support of black lives matter, was a russian op. Claims that “russian bots” are targeting her.
  • Laughs out loud when its suggested that she’s a progressive.
• Voted two different times to block federal funding for abortions.
• Wants to use solar panels and green energy… to make war.
• Tells guatemalan immigrants: “don’t come here”
• Appoints a [communication director who was outraged that ICE didn’t pick up two undocumented commentators on M

Kamala Harris

Much credit to this post.

• Under her jurisdiction, in “progressive” San Francisco, 56% of all inmates in SF jails were black, along with 40% of all arrests (Only 5.8% of the population is black). Ignores police brutality, protected 14 of her officers who were caught sending extremely racist text messages. Oversaw San Francisco’s felony conviction rate rising from 52% to 67% in only 3 years.
  • As part of her tough on crime approach she assigned senior prosecutors to misdemeanors like graffiti and vandalism, tripling the number of cases brought to trial.
  • After a federal judge orders California to expand prison releases to reduce crowding, her office argued in court that if forced to release these inmates early, prisons would lose an important labor pool.
  • Spent years jailing disproportionately black nonviolent cannabis users while opposing taking cannabis off DEA’s list of most dangerous substances and literally laughing at the idea of legalizing it multiple times, even as her Republican opponent ran to the left of her on the issue. She then tried to pander by admitting to smoking herself despite prosecuting others, but got her story all wrong. Drug convictions under her office soared, convicting more people of marijuana possession than her predecessor (she also admitted to smoking marijuana) 2
  • Laughs about threatening parents with jailtime for truancy. 2. The stories of several mothers she jailed.
  • Pushed a law that forced schools to turn over undocumented students to ICE.
  • Opposed reforming California’s three-strikes law, which is the only one in the country to impose life sentences for minor felonies and incarcerates black people at 12x the rate as white people, three different times, even while her Republican opponent supported reform.
  • Tried to deny a transgender inmate healthcare and endangered trans women by forcing them into mens prisons, leading to the rape and torture of at least one trans inmate.
  • Appealed a judge ruling that the death penalty was unconstitutional and won on a technicality, resulting in continued executions.
  • Supports the controversial DNA search technique that can be used on people even if they’ve not been charged with a crime.
  • Supported the discriminatory practice of cash bail in court, until 2016.
  • Protected serial child rapists by refusing to prosecute in the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal.
  • Lied about her state’s solitary confinement to block a suit by inmates, claiming there was none in California when there were about 6,400 victims of the practice, which is considered torture.
  • Opposed legislation that would require independent investigation of fatal police shootings despite criticism from many civil rights advocates including California’s Legislative Black Caucus.
  • Opposed statewide implementation of police body cameras and ignored police brutality, multiple officers raping a teenager, and other officers sharing racist and homophobic messages, despite multiple requests from the public defender.
  • Stood by silently as $730 million was spent on moving inmates to for-profit private prisons.
• Fought to uphold wrongful convictions from her office, in one case, she witheld information about a police lab tech who was fabricating evidence (and a judge admonished her for it). She refused DNA testing to prove the innocence of a man on death row. Defended Johnny Baca’s conviction for murder even though judges found a prosecutor presented false testimony at the trial, to which she relented only after a video of the oral argument received national attention and embarrassed her office. She hid evidence of exculpaltory evidence of a man who was convicted solely by one witness (he is still serving a 70 year prison sentence). When evidence pointed towards a black defendant being framed by police, Harris avoided DNA testing to keep him on death row.
  • Used a technicality to stop the release of a man serving 27 years-to-life after being wrongfully convicted of possession of a knife under the three-strikes law she supported. When civil rights groups and nearly 100,000 petition signatures got him released after 14 years she took him back to court again for a crime he didn’t commit.
  • Protected several of her officers with records of misconduct, by refusing to provide their names to defense attorneys, so that their convictions would be upheld and people would stay in prison.
  • “Systematically violated defendants’ civil and constitutional rights” in crime lab scandal. SNBC.](https://lemmygrad.ml/pictrs/image/61a1b6a7-05d4-4c9b-9a08-f96972019e69.jpeg)

Devs, fight!

Why is the biden regime cracking down on students protesting biden’s massive funding of palestinian genocide?

Someone please post this on lemmy.world, I want to see their reaction.

props to @EmoThugInMyPhase@hexbear.net

Only before you collaborate with anyone else. After that, don’t ever use rebase, or they’ll get an error, and will have to overwrite their local history with the one you’ve rewritten.

Elections in bourgeois democracy are nothing but political theatre, because ultimately capitalists stand above and control the political system to suit their interests. There is no don’t commit genocide, bomb countries, or exploit the global south option in any imperial core country, and if there is, they don’t last for long because of the hundreds of impediments to democracy (which the greeks properly saw as rule by the poor, not this sham popularity)

The ancient greeks knew this, and considered representative/election-based governments as nothing but sham popularity contests that serve the oligarchy. Aristotle even defined democracy as “rule by the poor”, and wouldn’t consider our liberal “democracies” as being democratic at all.

Communists have known this since the 1800s, but even modern liberal studies like the princeton one show, that voting has no effect on policy, and only dollar / wealthy interest groups matter.

If you try to pull someone else’s rebased / history rewritten branch, your git will tell you that it’s rejected. You can completely avoid this by merging instead of rewriting history.