2 / 4 of those countries are MLs.

Peer tube uses webtorrents, which for many reasons haven’t caught on. It’s still mainly centralized nodes with massive hosting costs. Torrents are the fully decentralized answer.

Most of the channels I know ask for donations via patreon or other funding platforms. I don’t think youtube pays much except for maybe the top 1% of slop channels.

Every single youtube channel needs to start seeding torrents of their videos, and posting those links to other platforms (here, mastodon, etc).

Youtube / google could be defeated collectively if creators were to consistently do this, and interested people had the ability to help seed videos.

Thx, subbed.

I also highly suggest Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz - An indigenous people’s history of the US.

That and Sakai - Settlers, would probably make the overall 3 best comprehensive US history textbooks.

You have to kinda suspend your disbelief a little bit when watching the show, especially since its based in Los Angeles, in reality one of the most corrupt and racist police forces on the planet. IRL they would never go after rich socialites in the way Columbo does.

Luckily in the show there’s barely any presence from his higher ups, you get the feeling that they just let this magic murder-solving troll do his thing and never interfere.

I haven’t, but that sounds like my jam. Thx!

You’re clearly a unique thinker and not influenced at all by decades of anticommunist propaganda.

https://mronline.org/2006/09/21/did-mao-really-kill-millions-in-the-great-leap-forward/

Life expectancy increased from 35 in 1949 to 65 in the 1970s when Mao’s rule came to an end.

Columbo’s specialty was taking down arrogant elite snobs, there’s never a shortage of them. He’d have the whole western pedophile plutocracy in prison within a few weeks if he was empowered to do so.

I’m begging someone with a good columbo meme stash to make a community here. I need more of them.

Basically this one

5 star meme. Reminds me of this one too:

I do not like them much

Nobody’s perfect, but you’ll get there.

Syncthing was made for this and has been around for almost a decade now.

Great post comrade. We need a /c/bestoflemmy community to highlight comments like this.

• In a typical example of proletarian police accountability, the CPC sentences a police officer to death for killing a pregnant woman in a restaurant in southern China.
• Why do Chinese billionaires keep ending up in prison? Why are many billionaires and CEOs going missing? China sentences Ex-Chairman of a major bank, guilty of embezzling ~$100M USD, to death in 2019.

I don’t have the original source, I only found a few others online that repeated her statement.

After the red scares and anti-communist purges in the US the 30s-40s, no writers or anyone in hollywood could come out and say they were communist or socialist. Many of them like Roddenberry were only able to push communitarian values and do societal critiques of racism, nationalism, and selfishness via sci-fi.

Star trek is unique among US media for telling a hopeful story about a communist / post-capitalist future, but these already had a long tradition in the USSR. This article gets into it a bit more:

• Star trek and its debt to revolutionary socialism.

Picard speaking to a whiny businessman: we’ve grown out of our infancy.