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coolkewlcuil··on Supreme Court to hear arguments in landmark Roundup weedkiller case
propaganda /prŏp″ə-găn′də/

noun The systematic propagation of a doctrine or cause or of information reflecting the views and interests of those advocating such a doctrine or cause.

...my use seems to fit the definition to me.

You are applying personal emotional bias to a very plain stated definition.

coolkewlcuil··on Supreme Court to hear arguments in landmark Roundup weedkiller case
SCOTUS granted itself that power. Their originalist powers are extremely limited.

So do not listen to justices that claim to be "originalist". SCOTUS authority to strike laws is self dealing and not at all an originalist power.

The original expectation was the public would demand such change via elections every 2-6 years and remove the corrupted Senator or Representative.

SCOTUS is not supposed to have power over theoretical cases yet it operates on concepts all the time. Just another way in which the system is rigged; the appeals of originalists who have clearly read the words, they're plain English, are just more self dealing power away from the public to the elites

coolkewlcuil··on Supreme Court to hear arguments in landmark Roundup weedkiller case
Definition of language is not up to you but society in the aggregate.

You can claim as you wish while I and others can do the same.

If you're saying we need to hold to beliefs of the past, that's a position that physical reality makes untenable.

See you in church? That was the center of communal life for the majority for centuries. Anyone that's abandoned such agency has engaged in abandonment of history, of norms others can just as easily (and do) claim are more important than ever.

You can make whatever claims you want rhetorically but the non-fractal reality we live in does not allow for the strict conservatism you appeal for. Entropy gives rise to generational churn which gives rise to shifting social values.

These corny appeals to history you never directly experienced are little more than parroting grammatically correct statements you were taught.

coolkewlcuil··on The Tech Oligarch's Republic
Focus on something useful like cheaper healthcare not culture wars

Culture = practice of a cult

I thought cults were considered bad?

Pearl clutching over words is little more than advocating a religious like dogma for the living

Well I am not Christian and similarly to not caring to chant their screeds I have no interest in yours

In fact the status quo in the US keeps me off the hook for paying for your healthcare; I am off thr hook for your life itself.

You might focus in changing that, because as-is all of us can let you end up living in your car

Culture war crap is intended to obfuscate and deflect away from those kinds of real problems our biology faces

Be smarter than the politicians and mouth breathers who wave flags

coolkewlcuil··on 4TB of voice samples just stolen from 40k AI contractors at Mercor
The only winning move is not to play.
coolkewlcuil··on Tim Cook Is Leaving. Good
It's just as easy to sit and glaze someone.

Stock buybacks simulating interest, inflation, and cutting corners on products, gouging devs that list on their app store, oh and they sell a lot of ear buds destined for the ewaste bin in 24-36 months.

Plus the stock market is like Whose Line Is It Anyway; made up points that don't matter to humanity long term while the ewaste and non repairable products do.

Stop carrying water for billionaires who do not care you exist. This is no different than fawning over a Kardashian. We have social systems to replace these people because as a species we're well aware of physics at this point.

If physics hasn't seen fit to spare their biology the effects of entropy (aging -> death) they're not that important.