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much less that Plaintiffs’ books were somehow distributed by Meta.

While I guess that Meta may have used settings to be leech only. Unless they show that they did that (which is of course poor practice if torrenting), the nature of torrenting by default means that even one piece of a file was seeded to another user is “distribution.”

And they will still claim to not be state ran media.

It is almost like the whole point of “No Child Left Behind” was to make sure this would happen. Intentionally defund schools and make them just “pass” kids no matter what in order to hit numbers for any money. Then point to how fucking awful the rates of literacy and other skills are. Though funding was already pretty bad and got worse throughout the 90’s and early 00’s before NCLB was made policy.

Now I just want to re-watch the first season of American Vandal. “no ball hairs”

I think that the pro-privatization of all gov ran departments have been making sure to defund and overwork the staff of those departments/services in order to have shit like this and the drops in literacy. That way they can get mass support for removing all services/departments to cheers. Just like how they have constantly been trying to ditch the USPS because it “isn’t profitable” (even though it shouldn’t be treated as a for-profit “business”). Or like how they make sure stuff like 9/11 or other “terrorist attacks” scare the masses to strip rights and over-fund the MIC.

PotD can be effective, but only if enough conditions get bad enough for the majority of people are hurting bad enough. The pressure has to be built-up to the point that the normally “I’m not a political person” types have personally been fucked over badly enough. Otherwise they are able to be kept in line by corpo propaganda about how “evil” the person(s) are for being violent. Law and order and all that.

I unironically didn’t even realize this was supposed to be a “China bad” piece until the end (I read the post’s text and didn’t go to the site). lol They might get some passes from the gov if they preemptively were to cut their greed levels of pay and split it into raises to the workers. I love to see people who seem to go out of their way to flaunt how rich they are get yeeted.