The AI Bubble, The Coming Crisis & What The Left Must Do
The AI Bubble, The Coming Crisis & What The Left Must Do
This will be yet another crisis the Left will squander if we do not begin to make serious calculations and moves.Islamic.Socialist (ML) (Islamic.Socialist Analysis)
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Japan diaper firms step up recycling as waste set to grow in ageing society
Japan diaper firms step up recycling as waste set to grow in ageing society
Diapers are made from materials such as high-quality pulp, resins and absorbent agents. Read more at straitstimes.com.ST
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Those fuckers love platiscs. Everything is individually wrapped and public trashcans are pretty much unheard of. Wanna throw out your trash? Wait until the day that specific kind of trash is picked up, from the net/cage outside. Hope the birds don't get to it first through or there'll be trash all over the fucking street. I swear for every fucking brilliant amazing thing you see in Japan, you can round a corner and find the dumbest, least thought through shit you've ever seen.
EDIT: Granted I haven't been there for almost 6 years so things could have changed of course.
Hey USA - this is how you push your allies into your adversaries hands.
Art of the fucking deal! Even Trump can’t explain why he put 39% tariffs on Swiss goods.
“We Were in Slaughterhouse”: What Freed Palestinian Detainees Are Saying After Release From Israeli Prisons
“We were in a slaughterhouse, not a prison. Unfortunately, we were in a slaughterhouse called the Ofer prison. Many young men are still there. The situation in the Israeli prisons is very difficult. There are no mattresses. They always take the mattresses away. The food situation is difficult. Things are difficult there,” he said.
“I went hungry for the past two years. I swear to God, they didn’t feed us. They kept us naked. They beat us while we were naked day and night. We were tortured,” Abu Seed said.
“Until our last day in Israeli prison, they cut us and hit us and abused us. We endured every kind of torture, emotional and physical.”
“We couldn’t even sleep. They threatened us with our children. They told me they killed my children. They told us that Gaza was destroyed. I arrived here and found that everything was gone. It looked like the end of the world. Everything is different.”
“He’s been locked up for 24 years,” said a relative of Saber Masalma, who was arrested in 2002 and sentenced to life in prison. “He looks like a dead body. But we will bring him back to life,” he said.
“We Were in Slaughterhouse”: What Freed Palestinian Detainees Are Saying After Release From Israeli Prisons
Occupied Palestine (QNN)- Palestinian detainees freed from Israeli jails on Monday under the Gaza ceasefire agreement once again showed signs of torture and starvation. Israel released 1,968 PalestiniEditing Team (Quds News Network)
I've recently turned into a blocker.
I always felt like it was wrong to block an account unless it was smth absolutely insane. Nazis etc.
But now I'm blocking people who's tone I dont like, or who are baiting or actingnin bad faith.
I know I can't do it as a mod. But i can certainly do it as an individual now. Judgy comment? Blocked. Unnecessarily confrontational? Blocked.
This is new to me, literally 3 days. Wonder how this affects my feed. Only disappointing thing is they can still see and respond to my posts, just that I can't see it. I wish they couldn't see anything I posted either.
What are your blocking habits? If you do block a lot of people, has that affected your experience?
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Or even more granular. There's folks that make a large number of posts that I do like in some comms, and a large number of ones I don't care about in other comms.
If they're the main one making low effort posts in the Weevil community or whatever, but everyone else is great, it would be preferable to prune the community for myself instead of blocking it or them.
I still think they're a net positive for Lemmy and want to interact with them, just we may not like all the same things in the exact same way.
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I tend to ask questions about their opinion until they stop responding.
I like to pretend they’ve realised the absurdity of their own stance.
In reality I’m just easily amused.
Parola filtrata: nsfw
More people need to make use of the curation tools available to them in my opinion. Too often I see people browsing /all and then complain about seeing tons of stuff that they don't like. There are tools that are available to them to help them create a more pleasant experience that they just aren't using. The fediverse doesn't have some algorithm that learns the type of content that you most often engage with and feed it to you, you have to more proactively do the curation yourself.
Just as an example, I was in a conversation with one of the lemmy.world admins a while back. We were talking about instance blocks and how infrequently users actually use them. Across all of the users on lemmy.world, only about 700 of them actually created an instance block for the most-blocked instance (lemmynsfw). Only two instances had more than 500 users block it.
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Curation tools is brilliant. Thats what it should be seen as.
Very well put. Also the important point of the lack of learning algorithm.
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I blocked like that on reddit but here there's fewer users so I have a higher block threshold.
Plus I want to give people credit for choosing to be on the fediverse - that earns almost everyone a "well maybe you just had a bad day".
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"No. { Several paragraphs of argument that's not mutually exclusive }"
Arghh hate that shit. I don't know why online argumenters love to start with "No and." I don't block because of it but man, nobody learns how to have a constructive debate anymore.
Only disappointing thing is they can still see and respond to my posts, just that I can't see it. I wish they couldn't see anything I posted either.
I've seen this view in discussions of blocking before and it really bugs me. You're desiring to unilaterally control what I can see and do on the Fediverse.
This is how it works on Reddit and it's a terrible mechanism. It means you can preemptively ensure that anyone who might refute misinformation will be excluded from your threads before you post them. It means you can step into a conversation I'm having with someone, derail it, and then prevent me from responding to your derail. Over on Reddit by far the most common use I see of the block tool is to get the "last word" in on whatever argument is going on, posting some sort of seemingly clever comeback and then instantly blocking me before I can point out the flaws.
For anyone wondering how the blocking feature has been weaponized to spread misinformation, in 2022 a redditor did an experiment: reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/co…
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I don't understand this view either. What's it to ya? You cant see what the person does anyway. There doesn't seem to be a point behind it besides control.
Also, it simply is difficult to implement. You have to tell every server "do not show my posts and comments to these accounts". Other servers can just choose to ignore that. It's centralized thinking to believe the "feature" will work all the time.
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I hardly ever block individual posters, but communities, I've blocked 936 of them at the time of making this post. Sports, porn, anime, or furry shit are all block on sight. Plus a handful of randoms that I'm just not interested in.
I've finally got All where it's pleasant to browse. Takes some doing, but worth the effort if you want to customize your feed reductively vs actively seeking out and subscribing to communities.
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How about language issues? I dont browse all bc half the time I dont get the languages. Changing the language is apparently buggy on Lemmy.
Also blocking instances doesn't cut it.
That accounts for a good chunk of the blocks as well.
This is one of those one-bite-at-a-time projects - just hit a few on each visit, it adds up.
Hexbear is fine? I don't get why everyone dislikes hexbear. Most smart conversations I've had involve a hex user.
I'd rather block more .world users
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The electronic machine you’re operating, and the electrons flowing through it that illuminate the screen constitute a highly ordered abstraction that your human brain interprets to have meaning. The software implementing that abstraction has been structured with paradigms developed over decades with functionality specifically created for you to manage the information displayed to you. Such is the power of these technologies that they are widely regarded to have culminated in a digital information age of revolution. One of the defining moments of that age is the point at which the software, which previously was designed to implement the will and preferences of the user, began changing to instead serve the developer. It could be said that the fundamental philosophy of social media software has become to optimize it such that the user continues to use it while still freely feeding it information and being subject to manipulation.
The abstraction has become hostile, and the tools to manage the information displayed are quickly disappearing as the implementation is abstracted away. The ability to block mimetically harmful information is being designed out of software - exposure to advertising, propaganda, violent or disturbing content, and even the addictive abstractions themselves, have become requirements for use. The filtering and management of information through the hardware and software that you OWN is not just a feature, it is a RIGHT that must be intrinsic to its design.
In my view, the use of blocking technology should not be considered a human social action with emotional weight, but rather a mechanical one like switching off a light or moving an object out of the way. They are information management tools built to serve YOU, the user. If the technology you are using does not serve you, then who are you serving?
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What are your blocking habits?
I made it through nearly two years and eventually caved after I made the mistake of arguing in favor of the truth, supported by video evidence and a fact check from an internationally recognized fact-checking organization only to be told to "fuck off", a second user said that they enjoyed pissing on my shoe(s) in their personal fight against truth, and some other catastrophically braindead takes. I generally don't like the blocking approach for opinions I don't agree with because everyone has differing views and also people have bad days and that's just life. However, being actively hostile to the truth and being extremely confrontational about it was a bridge too far for me and it was either blocking a few mouldy potatoes in an attempt to keep things tolerable or getting off the threadi/fediverse so I decided to give the former a whirl.
If you do block a lot of people, has that affected your experience?
Thankfully haven't felt the need to block many, so the only thing I've really noticed is that occasionally one of the blocked users comments in the thread for something I've submitted (which I don't get a notification for and can't see) - but then someone unrelated replies to them and then I get a notification for a comment chain which I can't actually load. It took me a while to even figure out why I was getting these "ghost" notifications.
Only disappointing thing is they can still see and respond to my posts, just that I can't see it. I wish they couldn't see anything I posted either.
I understand. Lemmy users are divided on that issue because not only can these people see, comment and downvote your post, they can manipulate the situation to their advantage (feel free to use your imagination or search posts about blocking).
FWIW, I hear you loud and clear. Please understand that there are plenty of people in this world who are angry, unfulfilled and can’t/won’t touch grass whose only gratification is to try to make other people miserable. This mental instability coupled with current events is unfortunately unleashed here in Lemmy and you.
Block away and save your sanity. I’m here for the jokes and your memes. If I want to argue, I’ll go to work and get paid. Sadly, you are a volunteer and many people don’t realize that — they seem to think that it’s your job to take their crap.
For that, I am truly sorry.
Two of my friends recently blocked .world and had good experiences with users from other instances. Recently, there was negativity in Uplifting News that had to be addressed; a .world mod left because they were burned
out; some more drama recurring also at .world instance.
Please take good care of yourself and don’t take !+ from any of us!
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First of all, thank you. Secondly, when did you change instances?
Also. Modding is easy in my comms. The biggest is !aneurysmposting@sopuli.xyz at 3k subscribers.
Lol, I’ve been lurking since June but couldn’t decide which instance to sign up with; my friends are scattered all over the fediverse.
Yes, I’m one of the idiots who picked an instance because I like the name. That’s my major decision for the year.
I just subscribed. That community looks good, thanks!
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Drama, angry people and excessive crossposting and reposting.
It’s a big instance which means a lot more people, so you will always run into a .world user and/or .world community — some are awesome and others are not so great. It was easier for them to block an instance after blocking 50+ communities and people. There’s also this:
Uplifting News
lemmy.coffee/post/429320
Cooking
lemmy.coffee/post/478931
There’s also drama at other communities like YPTB but it was really hard for me to follow; I saw it because my feed was set to ALL. Some of us come here for the news, memes and the occasional recipe but not to be verbally abused or bear witness to one.
In addition to the controversies, the amount of news articles being crossposted to four other news communities by the same user (user # 1) was just overwhelming. Then, another user (user # 2) will do the same exact thing, unbeknownst to them that the same articles were already posted since the time gap was usually about 5 minutes or less.
What do you do? Start blocking.
Just when you think you have it all figured out, user # 1 creates an alt account and wipes the smile off your face. As you start blocking, user # 1 creates another alt account… and another. Holy cow!
Lucky for us, the weather is nice so to the great outdoors we go. TBH, I’ll probably be very annoyed if this is happening in the middle of a blizzard, lol.
Nice to meet you, FishFace. I like your name!
I'm more on mastodon and their filter system is so nice
I made a filter for "idiot did a thing" and every time the news has another article about how some idiot whose name is on my list did something again, as they do, because that's all they've been doing for 20 years, I no longer have to read it.
But I still get the little "something was blocked, click here to read it" thing, so it's very satisfying.
I don't block often, but I would expect it's a similar upgrade.
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I guess I just read /all, or whatever it's called here, and find it super annoying when the feed is filled with 2-3-4-5 copies of the same post from one person, with separate conversations going on.
How do you read here, do you just subscribe to a few communities that don't overlap with frequent reposters?
Been doing this with a warning system. I tag shitty people and block them if I see a person who is tagged acting shitty.
2 years in, no regrets.
I do wish Lemmy would fix the blocking system though. If someone who I've blocked responds to me, I don't see it. Fair enough, but I also don't see what people who respond to that say. I feel like it should just show the username as [blocked] and the content as [hidden] with an option for me to show that content/username, while keeping the rest of the child content fully visible.
Show it.
Take for example the case where person A has blocked person B.
Person C comments. Person B responds.
New thread, same post, person C comments about how some people think like person B, and quote them.
As is the current case, person A can see this quoted material. It's just text. It's not in any programmatic way tied to the person B account.
We don't need to change this just because it's a child comment of person B.
It's great for your mental state.
Just be aware of any filter bubble you might create. If you block every person that has an opposite perspective, you'll fall into your own echo chamber.
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They would be annoyed at this comment if they could see it ^/s^
This is the biggest reason why I only block sparingly. If you aren't regularly challenged in a way that forces you to assess and explain your world view and why it makes sense to you, then you risk becoming detached from reality in the same way that so many people have these days. It's easy to fall into the idea that your way of thinking is inherently correct, especially when you only interact with people who agree with you.
It's tough to interact with someone who disagrees with you, especially on the internet where people can be unnecessarily harsh, but it's also good to do for your own understanding of the world. I think of it like a workout for my moral compass - if I can't fully explain why my viewpoint is more accurate than someone else's, then there's something I'm missing, and I know where I need to spend more time reassessing my beliefs.
Just be aware of any filter bubble you might create.
That's a great point. I block pretty easily, but for rudeness, not for disagreement.
I've blocked some assholes that I wholeheartedly agree with, but I just don't want to read them abrasively support things I believe in.
I recommend a client that allows tags instead. I only block really toxic accounts.
trolls just get a label and they're usually at the bottom of most threads anyway.
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Kidding. I block BS and mean ness. If someone can express their point and let me express mine, I'm good. It's when people start insulting others to get their point out I just don't resonate with them and don't see a point of ever talking to them again.
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People over use blocking like crazy.
I constantly see people blocking others just for making a point they disagree with. Rather than actually think through the logic and reasoning of what the other person is saying they go 'oh I have no counter point to that, that must mean that you're arguing in bad faith, blocked'.
The internet is already an inherent filter bubble, you don't need to accelerate that. Most people would benefit from spending more time deeply considering that they might be wrong in ways they can't fully comprehend, then they would blocking people who fervently disagree with them.
Keep it up. Don't let FOMO loosen your standards. If people acted like this to you in person, you would avoid them. Do it online as well.
Sadly we interact so much online that the bad behavior of social media is now informing people how to behave IRL.
I only block communities for now. And my instance blocks a lot of ... debate heavy instances.
Regarding blocking of individuals: feel free to do that, if it helps you having a better time, that is perfectly fine.
But I started tagging strange people if I think that something they said is not correct. Then later I randomly see them somewhere else behaving normally. So my current plan is tag them first to see if I find this one person repulsive again and if so then block them. This way it is less carpet bombing and I accept that everybody can have a bad day where they lash out.
I block communities and bots and obvious trolls.
My feed is perfectly fine without them. And the communities I block are the ones that I don't want to see or know anything about like fucking politics and news.
You’ve no obligation to socialize with everyone in real life, why should online be any different?
If someone is consistently annoying, rude or spouting noxious stuff, you’re perfectly reasonable in blocking them.
Interaction in written text online is still a fairly unnatural way for humans to communicate. It’s missing the depth that physical and aural clues provide.
Add to that the evidence that humans can’t really manage more than about 50 relationships makes these global forums too much for a person to really handle.
Block away. Trim your interactions to a manageable level.
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why should online be any different?
I know I am taking the wrong message from this, but online is different in basically every way. You cannot block someone in real life. You can try to avoid them, but they can still talk to you. You can put in ear buds, but that doesn't make them not there.
Really, the solution is to spend less time on technology and more time communicating IRL. Even if it is uncomfy
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I am fast and loose with blocking on all platforms. No regrets.
It's often not even personal. Sometimes someone expresses a mild dislike of cats and I'm like "don't need your noise".
Repost a hilarious meme that I whole heatedly agree with, but with the word "fuck" poorly crossed out? "Algo-speak promoting motherfuckers", roll of the dice on my mood, probably blocked.
My Guild Wars 2 ignore list is full of people labeled "says boiz too much", "annoying fashion", "made bad joke about bees".
There are so many people on the Internet, it's fine. I've taken this approach since MUDs were in fashion and I am pretty confident that it's only served to improve my online experiences.
Unfortunately we won't be there to see you post it
(I know people can still view posts from people who block them, but the joke only works if we forget that OK)
I block people who are dishonest or abrasive. I'm here for entertainment, not for any higher purpose. I'm not obligated to give those people any attention and I have nothing to gain by it.
I'm blocking maybe a dozen across all of Lemmy. Things are much more pleasant.
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Yes. I block at the drop of a hat, but I'm still really not blocking all that many total users. Most folks here are very considerate.
It is funny though, I'll often see half a conversation with an asshole - and I won't know if it's because the community is well moderated or because I just previously blocked the asshole.
More rarely, I'll see half of an interesting good faoth conversation, and I'll revisit and unblock someone.
I have gone through phases of blocking very vocal idiots, but then as you said I feel at an informational disadvantage.
I've gotten recently into tagging people with descriptions of repeated behavior. That way I still know what's going on, but I know what to expect from them.
It's better to hurt old people's feelings than allow them to continue to debase themselves with the false belief that they're competent.
It's possible to have a readily applicable standard for polite interactions when we're not divided by fascist rhetoric.
The way feminists relate to men's issues is often founded in a universalizing noxious ideology of feminism. Men shouldn't be feminists, they should be allies.
What I'm trying to say is: blocking isn't the reason that our politics have entered into toxic polarization, fascism is the reason for that. There's nothing really wrong with blocking.
I don't block unless it's excessive spam. Informational disadvantage, yadda yadda.
I just exercise the same muscle I use to restrain myself from responding to bait on modern day Reddit, since my account there is still active but not posting (yes, even lurking is technically contribution, but there's too much useful information there for me to justify completely cutting it out).
And for the record, I disagree with block features removing posts from the user on the other end. Public information -> only I get to decide what I do and don't see. Private information -> only I get to decide what I do and don't share. A bit idealistic, but we're talking about a web forum here.
I find it so weird to see how people "debate" these days instead of conversing, it's somehow more about winning than finding the truth of a matter.
Watch for example how political discourse has changed over the last few decades, compare discussions from the 70s like Chomsky vs Foucault to the circus of today.
People are already largely separated in different platforms, blocking only exacerbates the bubble effect. That being said, to each their own and I hope your life is better for it.
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I'm using Boost, so I've been using tagging a lot. It's useful to remind yourself whether someone routinely behaves in a way that you don't want to interact with.
I've probably untagged more people than I've blocked at this point. People are complicated, moods change with the weather.
Also helped me to correlate that the majority of my tags were on ml users. I've filtered that instance and, can't lie, using Lemmy is much nicer now.
Blocking people is good mental health practice.
Every month or so I go through and lurge my blocklist of all bht the most aggregious posters.
My blocked list on nextdoor is starting to max out. Have to block all the nazi's that live around me as they are a lost cause and just repeat constant propaganda.
My lemmy block list is zero and hope it will remain that way for a while. It's fairly tame discussions here and no real issues so far.
I haven't blocked anyone here, but on Tumblr I started unfollowing folks who posted about doom and gloom all the time. That site's more conducive to memes and TV show discussions than it is discussion about news/politics, and I don't like scrolling through a bunch of superhero memes and then getting hit with a post about the latest atrocity in the world. That stuffs important, but it's not healthy to fixate on it all the time.
It's important to curate what you're doing so that you dont fall into a doomscrolling trap or get ragebaited into arguments that go nowhere.
I block individuals pretty freely, and it generally improves my experience online.
The reason I block is because I've lived through bullies and a shitty family, and I am familiar with the techniques bad people use to eat up my time/overwhelm me.
These days, I am also secure in myself and my emotional responses in such a way that I no longer feel bad or guilty (as I was conditioned to growing up) when I remove these people from my life. They are not owed my time or eyeballs.
I figure that if they behave in such a way that other people (such as me) decide it's better to remove them from their life and block them--that's their fault, not mine.
I also know my intellect well enough to understand that I'm not losing something irreplaceable intellectually if I block. I actually am better at learning and improving myself in a form that is NOT debate, or live, or putting pressure on me in the moment, because stepping away from the immediacy of something gives me the tools and breathing room to actually think.
So folks yapping and fretting about echo chambers forming if you block and curate your experience is weird to me...even pre-internet I went out of my way to learn new things. If you're in an echo chamber, you chose to be there, it doesn't happen on its own. And blocking asshats won't magically put you in an echo chamber unless you've chosen to be in one already.
Live debate with unpleasant people who often in this day and age have ulterior motives, including a desire to provoke an emotional response that will hinder one's thinking ability, is a technique used to manipulate others. By blocking and opting out of such things online, I can keep my temper more easily and use my brain instead.
So yeah. I block freely, whenever I feel like, and I've stopped feeling bad about it because I have quite a bit of experience on the internet now, and have seen the patterns in which people engage, and a handy block button is basically the only effective tool to manage it with.
I also block communities, but that's mostly just so I can browse Lemmy in public without looking like a degenerate with all the porn subs hanging out in the open.
I've become massively hardened to online discourse. I don't need to block users when I can just ignore and not need to get the last word in. I know this is an incredibly rare ability, but I just wanted to entertain the idea here that there are alternatives.
The exception could be for discoverability. If garbage trolling spam overwhelms your front page, then it'll be too time consuming to wade through it.. So blocking entire communities makes a lot of sense in this case.
I block only when I see a user who is unhinged enough and is obviously not getting banned by moderators. Usually theses people can be baited into making terrible arguments terrible opinions backed by either terrible ideology or lies, and mods can deal with them.
I think reporting users is more effective to not let the whole site become completely unusable by attracting shitheads/trolls/agitators who even if blocked keep posting garbage because that might be seen by new users.
Also responding to them is taxing on some people's mental health, so this isint for everyone and I get why people might opt for it. I prefer arguing since there is a chance that they might be misinformed or hot headed (me included).
Honestly it depends on how you want to engage with a platform.
In bizarre move, Framework embraces deeply extremist views
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They misunderstood the term "stupid money" to mean "court stupid people for their money".
Glad I never bought anything from them.
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Framework purchased a biotech company specialized in growing human analog homunculus for organ transplant, but the tech is based on Nazi experiments from WW2, so it's kind of unethical.
People are mad about it, understandably. It's all in the article.
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There’s also a psychological trap. It doesn’t make falling for it acceptable, but it does make it more understandable.
Humans naturally seek belonging, and almost any group can fulfill that need. Many such groups also use "us vs. them" rhetoric, which can make you feel more special than you actually are. Feeling special is another human need that groups often fulfill. Humans crave direction and purpose, and most groups provide both.
Just look at religious groups, environmentalists, political ideologies, conspiracy nuts and racist to see what I mean.
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Pretty sure there is a pretty generous window where you can just return the thing for a refund no questions asked. It might be worth looking into.
Depending on the wording of the return policy, you might even be able to request one and tell them the reason is "The far right has taken over the world's biggest government and they're snatching people in the streets. The time to hide support for them behind 'everyone's welcome to their opinion' is over. If at this moment in history you're not willing to exclude far-right people from your circle, then go fuck yourself, fuck your hardware, give me my money back, in hindsight people should have done this to BMW and IG Farben both before and after the war. I hope you wake the fuck up. You will not be safe indefinitely from them coming for you, unless people braver than yourself stop them before they reach you."
Usually I am against bullying people into saying the political views or taking the political decisions you want them to take. You can think they're wrong about this (as obviously do I, for the reasons stated above) and say so without needing to try to strong-arm them. But, in this case, fuck 'em, for the reasons stated above. Read the return policy first of course to make sure you're on solid ground, I don't really know what it is.
I heard about this a few nights ago and learned via the rabbit hole that Rails went rogue last month too.
Fucking wild times out there.
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Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeover
Ruby Central recently took over a collection of open source projects from their maintainers without their consent.joel.drapper.me
idk, because I don't use Rails, but I scrolled past a post on Mastodon that was saying whatever it was they did was "basically union busting for OSS".
sounds serious.
The article doesn't say exactly what was said it only gives an interpretation.
Edit: I've looked into it and turns out its just framework financially supporting open source projects that happen to have maintainers that have right wing ideology. Frameworks claims they support a large array of open source developers across the ecosystem as they want open source to win and they do this regardless of political alignment of the developers themselves.
source: community.frame.work/t/framewo…
Framework supporting far-right racists?
perhaps it is indeed best to let it rest for now. i’ll certainly sleep on it now! 🙂Framework Community
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LMG defended DBrand making racist jokes harder than DBrand did and multiple camera facing people have accusations of being a sex pest (one with audio evidence).
Worst case scenario? Scrapyard wars again
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You can’t verify it because they didn’t provide any sources. Probably because any source on this would quickly show what a massive overreach these claims are.
Framework supports a bunch of open source initiatives, and some of those initiatives have figureheads that suck. Framework has basically stated that they are supporting open source as a whole and are staying neutral about the people running them. That’s a choice people may not agree with, I have fairly strong opinions on this myself… but there’s a huge gap between Framework’s actual statements and the author’s claims.
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Is this where I brag about using Linux and therefor being superior?
Honestly, I never and still don't entirely understand people's clingy-ness to old OSs. I was happily using Windows 8.1, 10, 11 (less happily), (and now Kubuntu brag successful), while apparently many were clinging to Windows 7. Maybe it's because I try to be more open to change, or maybe it's because I just like new and shiny software, but rarely do I cling to old software. The newer versions of windows were the new shiny thing with additional features (some useful, and some annoying), and now Linux is that new shiny thing with a lot of useful features and some annoying things.
P.S. I'm not sure if peertube supports timestamped links (it probably does, it's friggin peertube), but this would've been a time to use that feature, as the relevant part to the title doesn't begin until 1:48.
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Isn't Windows like the king of backwards compatibility? I am of the opinion that it's more people that just like the OS because they're used to it, not that it'd actually break their workflows. They'd just have to learn a few new ways of doing things, and they don't want to.
In thinking about this, I have come up with a couple of reasons to not upgrade OSs:
- If the new OS costs money, like Windows used to, yeah I might not buy it if it isn't enough better. When my new laptop comes with it, I'm not going to go out of the way to downgrade it though.
- If the only OS maker in town was a monopoly (but then again, if there was a monopoly, they'd probably force you to upgrade to continue using your device, almost like what windows is doing, as they really do have a large monopoly on gaming and non-overpriced/somewhat-repairable machines)
Finally, in thinking about this, I'm just so glad Linux exists and is actually finally a usable alternative to Windows.
but can you easily run a Windows 7 app on Windows 10?
Yes? Pretty much anything made for XP and up will run on 11. Shit as long as the program is 32 bit it will probably run. Only exception is games, and that's more just because hardware has moved on.
Just let me know when I can install heavy Windows-only apps to Linux and I will make the switch in a second. A couple of examples: SOLIDWORKS CAD or PTC Creo (and related apps), Adobe CC (well for this there at least are foss alternatives but not fully compatible/comparable).
For a company, switching a CAD system for example would cost major $$$ and any automatic conversion is nowhere near complete, so you’d basically have to redraw everything relevant from scratch with the new system. Also there simply does not appear to be any major CAD system supporting Linux, NX used to but not anymore.
In the case of Windows, it is because MS has spent the past... 20 or so years slowly phasing out old functionality while not actually adding in new ones. So you get the mess of two (three?) different control panels which each one having capabilities the other doesn't and so forth.
I also personally hated when they got rid of the start menu but also acknowledge that for the past almost 15 years my workflow has been "winkey and then type what I want".
But mostly it is the MS mindset of completely changing the UX sometimes mid-generation and expecting people to figure it out. Which... I am not going to pretend that neurodivergence doesn't play a factor but I kind of fucking hate my machine rebooting and suddenly I have to figure out a new interface.
Also there is MS increasingly activating more and more monitoring and spyware (sometimes re-enabling silently) with every single update. Same with increasingly locking people into MS accounts and cloud shit.
And while I do think many of the Lemmy Linux Users are more obnoxious than Vegans What Do Crossfit... contrast that with Linux where you find a desktop environment you like and you are basically good for a decade... and then another eight years after that when everyone is "slowly migrating". And as long as you stay the fuck away from Gentoo and Arch, you have a pretty idiot proof setup for the vast majority of people.
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Episode 47 - Elena Rossini - Director & Fedi Advocate - Livestream 2025-10-10
Episode 47 - Elena Rossini - Director & Fedi Advocate - Livestream 2025-10-10
Benvenuti Fedi Friends all'episodio quarantasette di Fireside Fedi! Sono il votro presentatore ozoned. Fireside Fedi è un programma dedicato alle persone del Fediverso. Se stai vedendo questo, voi fai parte del Fediverso.Welcome Fedi Friends to episode 47 of Fireside Fedi! I'm your host ozoned. Fireside Fedi is a show about folks within the Fediverse. If you're seeing this, you are a part of the Fediverse.
If you haven't guessed by now our guested today is an Italian filmmaker, photographer and writer based in Paris, France who ❤️ #FOSS
🎬 Director of: The Illusionists documentary + a Fediverse promotional video (https://news.elenarossini.com/fediverse-video/)Thank you to cptbichez for helping with the translation.
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theillusionists.org/The Illusionists: A Must See Documentary About Body Image
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The introvert with AI is using a whole lot of energy getting somewhere with no load. Essentially wasting resources while getting nothing done.
Even the lone introvert is carrying some weight no matter how long it takes.
KT, Palantir CEOs discuss further data platform collaboration - The Korea Times
The CEOs of KT and Palantir Technologies held their first meeting in Korea, Tuesday, to discuss ways to expand the use of Palantir’s platform across local industries.At the meeting, held at KT’s headquarters in Seoul, the company’s CEO Kim Young-shub and Palantir CEO Alex Karp reviewed the progress of the two companies’ joint initiatives to deploy Palantir’s data platforms and refined execution strategies to scale these solutions across Korean enterprises.
Palantir will open a pop-up store in Seongsu-dong on Tuesday and Wednesday as part of its brand engagement efforts. The two-day event will showcase limited-edition merchandise such as ontology-themed sweatshirts
KT, Palantir CEOs discuss further data platform collaboration
The CEOs of KT and Palantir Technologies held their first meeting in Korea, Tuesday, to discuss ways to expand the use of Palantir’s platform acros...Lee Gyu-lee (The Korea Times)
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China will remove canola tariffs if Canada scraps EV levies: ambassador
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Canada has had 100 per cent tariffs on all EVs imported from China since last October
China will remove canola tariffs if Canada scraps EV levies: ambassador
China will remove its tariffs on Canadian agriculture — including on canola products — if Canada scraps its levies on Chinese electric vehicles, that country’s ambassador says.Spencer Van Dyk (CTVNews)
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It might have been the only official justification. However I suspect that there’s unofficial ones, like “we are worried it’ll come with spyware that directly reports everything to China” or “if we do this we might becoming mainly dependent on Chinese cars, which then means China can pull them out from under us, maybe disable them remotely, etc”.
Depends on how much they thought this through and how much they trust China now and in the next few decades.
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‘Privacy Nightmare on Wheels’: Every Car Brand Reviewed By Mozilla — Including Ford, Volkswagen and Toyota — Flunks Privacy Test
Mozilla’s latest edition of *Privacy Not Included reveals how 25 major car brands collect and share deeply personal data, including sexual activity, facial expressions, and genetic and health information.Mozilla Foundation
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threaten the US with loss of its market in canada to china and they will not think we are their only option. china is opening a huge car factory in mexico, get that for canada.
even just talking to china about it would give us leverage in talks to the USA
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Nobel Prize for imperialist war and regime change goes to Washington’s Venezuelan puppet María Corina Machado
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded its 2025 Peace Prize to the leader of Venezuela’s far-right opposition, Maria Corina Machado, an event that is as significant as it is sinister.
The award was announced on October 9 in Oslo, Norway, a country whose wealth, strategic role in NATO, and large military investments position it as a bulwark for imperialist interests in Europe and beyond.
The award provides a glaring demonstration of the hypocrisy of capitalist public opinion as it is marshaled behind another catastrophic imperialist intervention in Latin America.
There is nothing unprecedented about bestowing the peace prize upon far-right or blood-drenched figures. If “political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize,” as American songwriter, satirist and mathematician Tom Lehrer quipped in 1973, the award to Machado hammers another nail into its coffin.
In the years in between, the prize went to mass murderers and war criminals such as Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, the former Irgun terrorist responsible for the Sabra and Shatila massacres in Lebanon, and Aung San Suu Kyi, whose government was responsible for genocidal violence against Myanmar’s Rohingya minority. Barack Obama received the award in 2009, on the eve of launching a major military surge in Afghanistan and as his government was unleashing a wave of drone assassinations. Then as now, the prize served not as a reward to peacemakers, but as a tool for anointing those favored by imperialism and to legitimize war.
Nobel Prize for imperialist war and regime change goes to Washington’s Venezuelan puppet María Corina Machado
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded its 2025 Peace Prize to the leader of Venezuela’s far-right opposition, Maria Corina Machado, an event that is as significant as it is sinister.World Socialist Web Site
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Watch carefully. You won't see civilization fall apart at this rate twice in a lifetime.
Sic transit gloria mundi.
Then, I clicked through and realised it was editorialised by the source itself. This is not serious news. It is effectively opinion. It does not belong here. Read the rules again, OP.
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It’s pretty accurate tho
Opinions are not gauged for accuracy. They're just opinions.
OP posts articles from WSWS all the time. They all have a Marxist bent. They have to link every news story to how the workers of the world are getting screwed in some way.
There are a lot to choose from in this article, so I'll just include the one that indicates disdain for Stalin, as WSWS is very much in favor of Trotskyism. They don't like Chavez and Maduro, but for all the wrong reasons.
However, with the aid of their Stalinist, Social Democratic and Pabloite hangers-on, these governments have fostered illusions that sustainable social and democratic gains could be secured for workers and poor peasants and imperialist oppression opposed on the basis of a nationalist program, without overthrowing capitalism.
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You are a national extremist, using dehumanizing language (roaches, degenerates) against your politcal opponents. Things that fascists do. People should ignore you, Mods should ban you.
The claim, that socialist journalism supports "russian genocidal imperialism" is counterfactual, based on a deep misunderstanding what their analysis means and directed by your own ideological encrustation.
No, it is fair to call disgusting tankies roaches and degenerates.
There is no ideology involved. "North Korea is a great place to live and is a vanguard against imperialism" is not a serious statement.
We both know that the vast majority of tankies are bored teenagers and malicious demagogues. Don't play dumb with me.
The tankie source does support russian genocidal imperialism.
You don't even speak Ukrainian or russian and have never lived here. You're in no position to talk about "deep misunderstanding".
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Thanks for proving my point.
No, it is fair to call disgusting tankies roaches and degenerates.
There is no ideology involved.
Like, lol. But alright, let's go, I bite.
No sane person would confirm, that it's "fair" to use dehumanizing language. That statement only shows how far off the rails you are.
But alright, what's a tankie for you? I asked in the past, you didn't answer. Every russian? People that support a socialist agenda?
You use that as a blanket statement, as a degoratory generalisation against people that do not support your hate-fueled diarrhea. And the hate comes through in the form of dehumanising hate speech. Thanks for affirming that.
"North Korea is a great place to live and is a vanguard against imperialism" is not a serious statement.
Okay sure, so you do not think that North Korea does exist in a constant struggle against capitalist takeover? Sure, that's an acceptable take. But why do you have to make things up and generalise, again, to then throw that fantasy take as a blanket over every "tankie"? I'm sure, there might once has been some person that might have said that, but what does that prove about anyone else, other than that person? You do realise this is disingenuous and dumb, right?
We both know that the vast majority of tankies are bored teenagers and malicious demagogues. Don't play dumb with me.
I reject every part of that take - you seem to be living in oppositve-world. It's driven by your ideological hate towards leftist thought. Do you ever leave your flat? Why do you keep generalising towards your degoratory use of the word "tankie", only to excuse yourself to dehumanise people?
The tankie source does support russian genocidal imperialism.
Without yapping, prove their support for "russian genocidal imperialism", and while doing that, please also prove the "genocidal" part.
And I mean support, you know what the word means, right? Again, not just some kind of position that's not in line with your hope and dreams for your national purity.
"The pattern shows that accusations of supporting 'Russian genocidal imperialism' primarily come from centrist liberals, NATO supporters, and establishment political figures who use these extreme characterizations to delegitimize any leftist critique of Western foreign policy, regardless of whether those leftists actually support Russian actions or simply advocate for diplomatic solutions and criticism of all imperial powers." Some AI summary, because I can't be bothered to do more for you.
You don't even speak Ukrainian or russian and have never. You're in position talk about "deep misunderstanding"
*no position
You excluding my opinion based on nationality or language (without actually knowing which languages I speak) is an immature ad hominem, a clear sign of your nationalist character and also displays your lack of understanding socialist or communist thought.
Are you claiming, that "tankies" are always russian or that every socialist is a tankie? What you say doesnt even make any sense. What's with socialist Ukrainians, are they tankie cockroaches, too?
So, do I either have to be a tankie or an enemy of a tankie to actually understand either take and formulate an opinion on them?
You do have opinions on Palestine and Israel, I've seen. But you're neither. You see the problem?
You're full of shit and you are a hateful nationalist. Get fucked.
You know exactly what a tankie is, don't play dumb.
I will most definitely call out idiots who roleplay as communists online and don't speak any other languages. No one is buying your bullshit about "Ukrainian socialists". The communists party of Ukraine was a russian proxy force. Genuine Ukrainian socialists (or anyone for that matter) would want nothing to do with some online roleplayers who come up with degenerate statements such "North Korea is the vanguard against imperialism!" and support russian genocidal imperialism.
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I don't play.
And I will most definitely call out Nazis who roleplay as victims online and don't speak other languages.
I know what the term "tankie" actually means and also how right-wingers use it to discredit anything opposing their little völkisch fantasies. I asked you specifically, how you define it, because you throw it around everywhere and you make that outgroup (them, the others) out to be responsible for all the bad things in your world. So much so, that you end up yapping like a lunatic two seconds before stroking out.
Which you are, a little Ukrainian nationalist lunatic with a hate for everything slightly pointing towards anything associated with your Russian neighbour, ... like the endangerment of the Ukrainian national identity. But sadly, that's all you've got, it's everything that defines you as a person.
But the reality is, the Ukrainians are forced to kill their Russian brothers and sisters and the Russians are forced to kill their Ukrainian brothers and sisters. You are the same, working class people. You are not fighting for your country or your Ukrainian blood, you are being consumed by the capitalist, imperialist war machine. You fucking idiot, snap out of it, the enemy is not at the other end of the field.
You delegitimise leftist thought by claiming they'd only be roleplaying. Conveniently, when you do that, you have a basis to then go on to tell us, that they are just lying and are evil for deceiving us like that. And since they're evil, they're roaches and need to be exterminated. Convenient thought process. Interestingly, they're so clever to deceive us, but also so very deranged, huh.
You are a dumb Nazi, the sooner you realise that, the sooner you can heal.
Step 1: Don't be a Nazi.
Step 2: Punch up, not sideways or down.
Nice one, stalker. Please, show me the part where I do that and explain to me, how that's victim blaming.
Also, you are coming to the defense of the guy you reluctantly banned for, let me check, five whole days from your little nazi bar for repeately using dehumanizing hate speech, only after weeks during which you did not act on it, although you were confronted with it several times. You are the Bartender of a nazi bar, gj.
You failed to elaborate on the victim blaming thing you just mentioned.
Also, I only called Skiluros a nazi, do you have problems with reading comprehension? You are merely a bartender — but do you identify as a nazi?
Typical tankie world salad.
At least come with some new copytext! You think I haven't seen this gibberish before?
Everyone I don't like is a Nazi!
It is reasonable to call an individual who lectures Ukrainians (without knowing Ukrainian or ever having lived here) that "you are brothers with the russians" a degenerate roach.
Your attitude shows that you lack humanity.
Your attitude shows the lack of solidarity with your equals and the lack of actual humanity by consistently using dehumanizing language.
Everyone I don't like is a Nazi!
Nah man, not everyone, you specifically.
If you keep being confronted with these kinds of accusations, maybe stop and wonder:
Why does this keep happening?
And no, it’s not because the people that bring forth those accusations are degenerate roaches.
The real irony is we both know tankies regularly use the term roaches and call for death over the stupidest things (with fantasies about killing posters with ice picks).
Some degenerates claiming that "everything I don't like is a BIA conspiracy!!!" are not my (are anyone's) equals.
No, we do not both know that. I don’t even know why you yap about Serbia‘s security information agency. You‘re in fantasy land again.
Prove to me that this is what “tankies” say, like in a way that shows „that‘s representative of tankies“, because you are the one accusing a whole group, that you deem to be a roaches. You can’t, because you make this shit up. Liar.
But either way, that also would never excuse your own hate speech. You don’t even reject me labeling you a Nazi or fascist, because you’re proud of it, but you are also a freaking coward, without the courage to openly say it, because it would get you in trouble. Coward.
You also failed to prove that these journalists are “supporting Russian genocidal imperialism”, but you do repeatedly delegitimize and dehumanize journalists that don’t follow your narrative. You know who does that? Facsists do.
Ukrainian nationalist lunatic with a hate for everything slightly pointing towards anything associated with your Russian neighbour, … like the endangerment of the Ukrainian national identity.
Now... why would that be? :´)
Sure, he be mad. But his national identity is all he’s got, it’s how he defines himself, how he gets his self worth. Normal people don’t screech around the internet, how everyone are cockroaches and degenerates, if they only so much as try to formulate an opinion other than ‘Slava Ukraina’. That’s still hate speech.
We don’t tolerate this shit with Russians, nor Palestinians, sometimes we do with Israelis, but sane people don’t.
You don’t need to tolerate or excuse national extremism, to show support and solidarity with the people being forced to fight and die in a war.
If that would be the case, then I’d suggest to them to lay down the phone, go outside and touch some grass.
Their nationalism emerging through lemmy commentary is what I would call a hot take.
They’re not forced to engage in political discussion on the internet, that they have trouble to process emotionally and they are also not forced to participate in hate-based communities, neither are they forced to use hate speech in general.
This user is notoriously using hate speech and counterfactual fabrications. I appreciate you trying to explain their behavior in an effort to show solidarity with what the Ukrainian people are enduring, but I’d also caution you, not to find excuses for right-wing extremists.
Fuck tankies and their defenders.
Not reading mental spew from retards defending fascists.
Why hello, my confused, stereotypical American friend. I'm sure life's hard over there in the imperial core, so let me suggest some light reading to you, while you wait for the complete authoritarian take-over from the right, while you keep whining about the left:
Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism by Michael Parenti
An accessible exploration of the differences between fascism and communism, addressing why Western societies often conflate the two, and how capitalist interests have portrayed socialist movements as “red fascists.” Especially readable for American audiences looking for a critical but not apologetic take on “tankies” and authoritarianism.
The Authoritarian Specter by Bob Altemeyer
A highly readable introduction to the psychology of authoritarianism, focusing especially on how these tendencies can arise in ordinary Americans — not just extremists or “the other side.” Explains why people across the spectrum endorse authoritarian politics.
Or may I suggest a pretty good video, getting into the basics:
It's very hard to convince the American people, that they should send their sons, maybe who knows some day even their daugthers, to go fight and die in some jungle to make the world safe for United Fruit Companies or Chase Manhattan or Procter & Gamble or ITT.So you say: it's to stop the threat of that communist country.
It's very hard to convince the American people, that a tiny country like Nicaragua or Vietnam or El Salvador is a threat to US security.
So you say: It's not Nicaragua. They are the puppets of the Cubans, who are the puppets of, bum bum bum bum, the big red bear in the Kremlin.
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Yes, you are correct in that Geopolitical economy is a contemporary Marxist approach to understanding the capitalist world historically. I don‘t see the problem. You scared of Marxism?
If billionaire owned western media does not provide factual reporting, you‘ll have to go elsewhere.
As I said, focus on the substance. Do you believe what is shown there is wrong? Like, the tweets of Machado or the quoted reporting from more mainstream outlets?
Listening to her interview on NPR was kind of wild
She had nothing but praise for Trump and defended the decision to bomb the boats in the Caribbean. Then she made a bunch of proclamations about accepting US intervention for enforcing regime change, and then advocated for doing the same in Cuba and Nicaragua
Once Maduro goes and we liberate our country, the Cuban regime will follow, the Nicaraguan regime will follow.And for the first time in history, for the first time in history, we will have the Americas free of communism and narco dictatorships
Ive heard a few people ask if she's a CIA asset, amd while I don't think it's appropriate to speculate, I can see why the question is asked. The American State Department has been trying to install western-backed regimes in central and south America since the cold war.
Part of the reason we even have narco states in the south is because of the decades long proxy battle happening there.
The Nobel prize has a weird amount of legitimacy for how often it backs western regime change
Cair calls on Nobel Prize winner to renounce support for far-right, racist and fascist parties
An American civil rights group on Friday called on the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize winner to renounce her support for Zionism and fascism, including over her links to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s political party and right-wing groups in Europe.Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (Cair) said that they “strongly disagree” with the Nobel Prize committee’s decision to award the prize to Maria Corina Machado, who they said “delivered remarks at a conference of European fascists, including Geert Wilders and Marie Le Pen, which openly called for a new Reconquista, referencing the ethnic cleansing of Spanish Muslims and Jews in the 1500s”.
Cair calls on Nobel Prize winner to renounce support for far-right, racist and fascist parties
An American civil rights group on Friday called on the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner to renounce her support for Zionism and fascism, including over her links to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s political party and right-wing groups in Eur…MEE staff (Middle East Eye)
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And the Nobel committee is sanctifying her as a saint of peace and democracy and her positions as inherently moral.
It seems like a very classical liberal move to shy away from outright embracing the fascists, but thinking if they just support them where their interests converge they can guide them from the shadows to deal with their problems.
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She's a mouthpiece for the corrupt ollgarchy that ran Venezuela before Chavez took over. She's kissing Bolsonaro's and Trump's asses in hopes that they might help make her Venezuela's Pinochet.
And the Nobel Committee can do one.
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Does it matter anymore? Henry Kissinger won it, for fucks sake. This is the second time that I'm aware of someone winning the prize where it almost feels sarcastic. We live in opposite land.
The Nobel prize is meaningless.
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It's meta like everything else. Sure, there are relatively simple rules that ought to lead to obvious, inexorable outcomes. But people are in charge and they're thinking: But what would it mean?
Give the Peace Prize to Putin! Maybe it will slow him down.
Give the Peace Prize to Kissinger! Maybe our empathetic embrace will soften his demeanor.
Give the Peace Prize to a conservative nut job. Let's throw in some support for fostering democratic values.
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They literally don't have a "take;" the article is reporting on a statement made by another organization.
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Which wish does this go against, specifically? I'm uneducated in his wishes and wish to know more.
Edit: K? Down votes for wanting to know more? Neat.
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“The said interest shall be divided into five equal parts, which shall be apportioned as follows: /- – -/ one part to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.” (Excerpt from the will of Alfred Nobel)
Machado spends pretty much each breath calling for war.
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Thank you very much for the quote!
Yeah that does look very anti noble/Nobel, doesn't it. 😐
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On Friday, Machado dedicated the prize to US President Donald Trump and the people of Venezuela, saying, “I dedicate this prize to the suffering people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his decisive support of our cause”.
Fucking disgusting. How the fuck did she win the fucking peace prize?
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Its always compelling to play "evil" bingo. And I always find myself guessing too tame compared to reality.
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Hamas is a fascist organization by every definition, so are you saying it's wrong to stop fighting until they're destroyed? That's the view of many in power in Israel.
I think many people are angry about the Nobel Peace Prize because they're actually against there being peace.
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As we saw on October 7, the capacity for Hamas to commit genocide wasn't limited by their intent, it's only limited by their capability. If there were 1400 people in the villages on that day, there would be 1400 dead instead of 1200. If they had the capability of killing a million Jews they would.
And you would make excuses for their actions because you're a genocide apologist. The whataboutism started the day after Hamas massacred villages, and it came from the actual genocide apologists who were conditioned for more than a decade to look the other way on any horrible action committed by Hamas.
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Netanyahu is an incompetent idiot and I hope he's removed from power in the next election.
Hamas are psychopaths that torture Palestinians for speaking out against them and prevent elections from happening. They're genocidal fascists and are the biggest obstacle preventing the Palestinian people from being free. And you're an apologist for them because you look the other way on their genocidal actions and look the other way on their oppression of Palestinians.
I'd say that killing is a form of oppression, and Israel has killed a couple of orders of magnitude more Palestinian civilians than Hamas ever has.
So sure, Hamas are murderous psychopaths, but what's that make Likud? And who's the apologist in that case?
I think that the #NobelPrize was probably irrpearably tarnished when they gave one to Henry Kissinger.
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Sudanese paramilitary attack kills at least 53 people in North Darfur, aid group says
Sudanese paramilitary attack kills at least 53 people in North Darfur, aid group says
A shelling and drone attack by the Sudanese paramilitary forces hit a shelter in a besieged city in the Darfur region, killing at least 53 people, a doctors’ group said Saturday. The onslaught was the latest in Sudan's more than two-year war.PBS News
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OCCRP || Mansions, Horses, and Designer Bags: How the Ruling Family of Iraqi Kurdistan Splurged in the U.S.
Mansions, Horses, and Designer Bags: How the Ruling Family of Iraqi Kurdistan Splurged in the U.S.
The five sons of Iraqi Kurdistan’s founding president acquired real estate across the United States and went on luxury shopping sprees.OCCRP
"Enshittification": Cory Doctorow on Why Big Tech Sucks, Keeps Getting Worse & What to Do About It
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Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.www.youtube.com
I'd put substitute first, but yours sounds better 😀
(I'm a big Immich fan, and I'm taking and sharing photos more than ever before, in part because Immich is awesome, self hosted, and open source [the other part is that I have kids now so I'm taking way more photos that grandparents want to see].)
Fyi this community is full of those memes and if you criticize them you might get the mods on you ass.
That's the reason other meme communities are doing better.
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Yeah I've been hearing about .ml mods and admins being a bit of an issue.
Well it's a shame ive spent much effort posting on these comms.
On this community
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I've posted most on Lemmyshitpost on .world. Although I'm not very pro world either.
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Cuomo shills are getting desperate
It's okay to just let the leftists win an election, you know?
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Lay's drastically rebrands after disturbing finding: 42% of consumers didn't know their chips were made out of potatoes | Fortune
Lay’s drastically rebrands after disturbing finding: 42% of consumers didn’t know their chips were made out of potatoes
New bags—matte-ified and designed to look like wood planks (like a potato crate)—will hold the chips with revamped ingredient lists.Matty Merritt (Fortune)
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Bernie's ex foreign policy advisor. Explains a lot why Bernie consistently has such awful foreign policy takes. He surrounds himself with AIPAC warmongers.
Hasan Piker did an awful softball interview with him a while ago where Matt Duss flops out one Zionist talking point after another and Hasan doesn't call him out somehow youtu.be/Gfv2uzVb3Pw
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'Their resilience is a lesson to us all': The maritime lions hunting seals on the beach
So on the one hand, it's an amazing story of adaptability in the face of climate change:
"In 2015, the lions found the sea again and started hunting coastal prey on the beach, after a drought decimated their usual inland prey of ostriches, oryxes and springboks. "The seals were a blessing," says Van Malderen. "Climate change has pushed these desert lions to the edge, forcing them to adapt in extraordinary ways, to survive along the beaches of the Atlantic coast.""
OTOH - It's devastating for the seal population who likely had become accustomed to land being a safe haven from ocean predators.
"Van Malderen has watched Gamma grow up, first encountering the lioness when she was three months old. She is now three-and-a-half years, "almost an adult," she says, adding that the lioness has become a fearsome hunter capable of killing 40 seals in a single night."
'Their resilience is a lesson to us all': The maritime lions hunting seals on the beach
In Namibia, a group of desert lions have left their traditional hunting grounds for the Atlantic coast and are now thriving as the world's only maritime lions.Isabelle Gerretsen (BBC)
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'Their resilience is a lesson to us all': The maritime lions hunting seals on the beach
What, a lesson to humans? To be able to go anywhere and eat anything? We're the global champions at that.
Humans are omnivorous, capable of consuming a wide variety of plant and animal material, and have used fire and other forms of heat to prepare and cook food since the time of Homo erectus.They are apex predators, being rarely preyed upon by other species.
By using advanced tools and clothing, humans have been able to extend their tolerance to a wide variety of temperatures, humidities, and altitudes.[131][138] As a result, humans are a cosmopolitan species found in almost all regions of the world, including tropical rainforest, arid desert, extremely cold arctic regions, and heavily polluted cities; in comparison, most other species are confined to a few geographical areas by their limited adaptability.
The combined biomass of the carbon of all the humans on Earth in 2018 was estimated at 60 million tons, about 10 times larger than that of all non-domesticated mammals.
Tony Blair met Jeffrey Epstein while prime minister
Tony Blair met Jeffrey Epstein while prime minister
The ex-PM confirms he met Epstein in 2002, six years before the financier pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution from a minor.Jennifer McKiernan (BBC News)
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New US TikTok owner funded Tony Blair and ensured Marco Rubio's loyalty to Israel: Report
New US TikTok owner funded Tony Blair and ensured Marco Rubio's loyalty to Israel: Report
One of the world's richest men and a staunch supporter of Israel has been revealed to have screened now-Secretary of State Marco Rubio for loyalty to Israel as far back as 2015, before Rubio launched his failed bid for president, according to a new r…MEE staff (Middle East Eye)
Lord Mandelson pushed for the meeting, telling Sir Tony's chief of staff Jonathan Powell that Epstein was "a friend of mine" who ex-US President Bill Clinton hoped to introduce to the PM.
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Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data
Satellites beam data down to the Earth all around us, all the time. So you might expect that those space-based radio communications would be encrypted to prevent any snoop with a satellite dish from accessing the torrent of secret information constantly raining from the sky. You would, to a surprising and troubling degree, be wrong.
Roughly half of geostationary satellite signals, many carrying sensitive consumer, corporate, and government communications, have been left entirely vulnerable to eavesdropping, a team of researchers at UC San Diego and the University of Maryland revealed today in a study that will likely resonate across the cybersecurity industry, telecom firms, and inside military and intelligence agencies worldwide.
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Right to protest under ‘sustained attack’ across the west, report finds
The right to protest has come under sustained attack across the west, according to a report highlighting the growing criminalisation of pro-Palestinian demonstrations.
The study by the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) pays particular attention to the UK, the US, France and Germany, where it says governments have “weaponised” counter-terrorism legislation as well as the fight against antisemitism to suppress dissent and support for Palestinian rights in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
Right to protest under ‘sustained attack’ across the west, report finds
Counter-terror laws being ‘weaponised’ against pro-Palestine groups in UK, US, France and Germany, says FIDHGeneva Abdul (The Guardian)
I can't help but feel nervous when world leaders start talking about and confounding Israel/Jewish people, especially with the rise in authoritarian politics.
I don't think I have a certain fear, but I worry about strong emotions/race/and politicians.
Right to protest under ‘sustained attack’ across the west, report finds
The right to protest has come under sustained attack across the west, according to a report highlighting the growing criminalisation of pro-Palestinian demonstrations.
The study by the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) pays particular attention to the UK, the US, France and Germany, where it says governments have “weaponised” counter-terrorism legislation as well as the fight against antisemitism to suppress dissent and support for Palestinian rights in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
Right to protest under ‘sustained attack’ across the west, report finds
Counter-terror laws being ‘weaponised’ against pro-Palestine groups in UK, US, France and Germany, says FIDHGeneva Abdul (The Guardian)
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It's so frustrating that people just seem to not understand that it's a spectrum.
What is happening now is not like anything that has happened during my lifetime, in the West.
It's just ignorant to pretend that it has always been this bad.
Yes it has lmao. Trump and his imitators are just too stupid to understand that protest is largely illegal already unless it is rendered sterile through the "proper channels".
What do you think Kent State was? What do you think happened to Anti War protestors during the Iraq invasion? Were cops just singing songs and drinking Pepsi during the Ferguson protest or did they murder all the organizers? What did the DHS do to the Occupy Wall Street organizers?
This is how it's been, it's just that more people are restless now and they're deciding to do away with subtlety.
Oh yea I remember when they rounded up hippies and put them in concentration camps.
Not since the internment of Japanese Americans during WW2 has things been even close to that.
I'm curious to understand how something like fascism can "unfold" yet not get worse?
Peaceful protests fulfill a very important role: organizing people. and giving moral legitimacy to any "less legal" means of protesting such as blocking highways.
The peaceful protest is a very important part of the subsequent not so peaceful protest.
The western states have the sterilization of protest down to a science, granting permits along preestablished routes and promoting liberal reformist types as the "real" leaders as well as using other civilians as disruptors instead of going in with the cops as a first recourse.
Banning protests and going for naked repression is pretty much exactly how you get protestors gravitating toward organizations that aren't permit fetishists with NGOs.
Arab states deepened military ties with Israel while denouncing Gaza war, leak reveals
Arab states deepened military ties with Israel while denouncing Gaza war, leak reveals - ICIJ
Israeli and Arab military officials have come together for meetings and trainings, facilitated by U.S. Central Command, on regional threats, Iran and underground tunnels.David Kenner (International Consortium of Investigative Journalists)
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They want to be on the winning side.
They don't understand that they'd be the next targets.
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Macron accuses rivals of fuelling instability as he dismisses calls to resign
The French president, Emmanuel Macron, has accused rival political parties of fuelling instability as he brushed aside calls by the opposition for him to resign amid France’s worst political crisis in decades.
“Many of those who have fuelled division and speculation have not risen to the moment,” Macron said of French opposition parties, as he arrived in Egypt on Monday to attend a summit on Gaza. He said rival “political forces” were “solely responsible for this chaos” after they “instigated the destabilisation” of the prime minister, Sébastien Lecornu.
Lecornu, a Macron ally, held his first meeting with France’s new government after he appointed a mix of stalwarts from Macron’s centrist grouping, as well as a few faces from the upper ranks of the civil service and civil society. New arrivals included Jean-Pierre Farandou, who headed the state-run railway, SNCF, and is now labour minister.
Macron accuses rivals of fuelling instability as he dismisses calls to resign
French president says opposition has not ‘risen to the moment’ after reappointment of Sébastien Lecornu as PMAngelique Chrisafis (The Guardian)
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Because he is gay, he is lgbt, he is jewish, he is Gaza.
Remember that unhinged speech he gave? I remember.
UK, France and Germany unite to turn Russian assets into Ukraine aid, unlocking up to £250 billion for Kyiv
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In a move co-ordinated with France, Germany and the United States, Sir Keir Starmer said the UK was willing to unlock up to £25 billion of Russian money held in the UK for the war effort.
The decision, after months of talks among the G7 and other western allies, may release as much as £250 billion to Ukraine in tranches to fund weapons purchases and prop up its war economy.
In a joint statement with President Macron of France and Friedrich Merz, the German chancellor, Starmer said that the three leaders had agreed to “increase pressure” on Putin to counter his “stalling tactics and abhorrent attacks in response to peace talks”.
They said: “To that end, we are ready to progress towards using, in a co-ordinated way, the value of the immobilised Russian sovereign assets to support Ukraine’s armed forces and thus bring Russia to the negotiation table. We aim to do this in close co-operation with the United States of America.”
Starmer is also understood to have discussed the plan with President Zelensky of Ukraine. Downing Street said that the UK, France and Germany were “united in wanting to drive progress towards using the full value of the immobilised Russian sovereign assets to end the war”.
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UK, France and Germany unite to turn Russian assets into Ukraine aid
The G7 plan could unlock up to £250 billion for Kyiv by converting frozen Russian state funds into loans and military supportOliver Wright (The Times)
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The UK is believed to hold more than £25 billion of Russian financial assets that were seized after the invasion of Ukraine [...]
Belgium holds €190 billion (£165 billion) worth of assets in Euroclear, the Brussels-based central securities depository, and France holds €19 billion (£16 billion).[...] under a plan being worked up by EU and G7 leaders, countries would issue up to €172 billion (£149 billion) in loans to Ukraine by swapping Russian cash linked to the immobilised assets for zero-interest bonds. Ukraine would have to pay back the loan only if Moscow paid war reparations, which is considered unlikely.
Instead of directly transferring the assets, they are using them as collateral for loans to strip the legal risk. The result should be indistinguishable as long as russia is eventually sentenced to pay reparations.
Madagascar soldiers join protestors, refuse orders to shoot demonstrators
Groups of Madagascar soldiers joined thousands of protestors in the capital Saturday, AFP reporters said, after announcing they would refuse any orders to shoot demonstrators.Fresh youth-led demonstrations in Antananarivo drew large crowds in one of the biggest gatherings since a protest movement erupted on the Indian Ocean island on September 25.
Madagascar soldiers join protestors, refuse orders to shoot demonstrators
Groups of Madagascar soldiers joined youth-led protests in the capital of Antananarivo on Saturday after police used stun grenades and tear gas.FRANCE 24
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The UN has said that at least 22 people were killed in the first days of the protests that started on 25 September at the call of a youth-led movement called "Gen Z".
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Gotta get some more green on that map! I'm thinking fascist-occupied Italy would be a great place to start, given what happened there almost exactly a century ago..
And the US and Russia, of course, but those are both almost too obvious to be worth mentioning and too entrenched to happen anywhere near as soon as we'd like..
Makes you wonder about how most armies and soldiers fail to see what and who they are supposed to be in service of. It's this part of the article that struck me the most...
"Let us join forces, military, gendarmes and police, and refuse to be paid to shoot our friends, our brothers and our sisters," the soldiers at the base in Soanierana district said in a video posted on social media.
They called on soldiers at the airport to "prevent all aircraft from taking off" and those in other camps to "refuse orders to shoot your friends".
"Close the gates and await our instructions," they said. "Do not obey orders from your superiors. Point your weapons at those who order you to fire on your comrades-in-arms, because they will not take care of our families if we die."
Bravo. These are true soldiers. Not the cowards holding guns in uniforms like in most places.
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They will not take care of our families if we die.
This line needs to be echoed everywhere. Authoritarians will not take care of your families if you die.
instructions unclear, they're now at the zoo attempting to deport a hippo, a lion, a zebra, and a giraffe.
here is a picture of these violent criminals after their apprehension.
First US flight with third-country deportees arrives in Guatemala
The flight brought three Hondurans and 56 Guatemalan nationals, according to Guatemala’s IGM migration agency.
Israel refuses to release abducted Palestinian doctors, will not let foreign medics enter Gaza either
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Israel is continuing to force the collapse of Gaza’s devastated healthcare system, despite the supposed ceasefire – during which it has killed well over a hundred people through continued bombing and shooting.
Israel is refusing to release kidnapped Gaza medics
The occupation has refused to release doctors abducted during the genocide, such as Kamal Adwan Hospital’s Hussam Abu Safiya, kidnapped almost a year ago by Israeli forces after they destroyed most of the hospital and murdered many of its medical staff, and field hospital director Marwan al-Hams, abducted in July. Abu Safiya has been beaten, starved and repeatedly tortured in an Israeli jail. Soldiers also took Al-Hams’s daughter Tasneem, a nurse, last week.The colonial regime has also refused entry to international volunteer doctors trying to return to Gaza to help treat the wounded and starving during the ‘ceasefire’, as surgeons Victoria Rose and Graeme Groome explained during an interview yesterday:
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Israel has murdered over 1,500 healthcare workers, some of those tortured to death in prison. Israel has over 350 healthcare workers abducted and being held in prisons, under inhumane conditions and frequent torture and violence. The occupation has destroyed or severely damaged all of Gaza’s hospitals and medical experts say that more than four hundred people a day in Gaza are dying from hunger and disease.
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There can't be peace without the creation of a Palestinian State and everyone should know that at this point.
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I mean the State, which the government operates.
The State which has the monopoly on the legitimate (as defined by itself) use of violence, through its laws and regulations and sub-organizations and shaping of society.
The State that is an apartheid State.
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They might.
Personally I mean the entire country goes back to pre-1948 borders.
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The idea of a Palestinian state is downright laughable at this point. The only people keeping that myth alive are Israeli propagandists. Keeping the myth of such a state around is a useful distraction from real peace efforts.
Seriously, anyone still clinging to the idea in 2025 is hopelessly out of touch.
fake peace deal
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He got one side to agree to peace, I think that should get him HALF a nobel peace prize.
Then later, when he gets the OTHER side to agree to whichever peace deal THEY prefer, he can get the OTHER half of his nobel peace prize, and he can put them together into a whole nobel peace prize. Cover up the seam with some gold paint, and pretty soon people will be telling him it's really beautiful, that it's the best looking nobel peace prize that they've ever seen, it's probably actually better than the original kind. Other people have never gotten one like this. And it's more meaningful too, he had to do twice as much work to get it. That's what people are saying. It's probably the most important nobel peace prize of all time, actually.
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Wait a minute, this can't be.
This sounds like something the bad guys would do, and we've always been told that Israel are the good guys.
They wouldn't lie to us, right?
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I guess it depends when exactly the ceasefire is supposed to have started. These are the stories I had in mind:
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Edit: Here's another from today, and it's now pretty hard to deny that this is Israel breaching the ceasefire by continuing to kill civilians:
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Israel violates Gaza 'ceasefire' for third day, killing Palestinians
On the third day of the ceasefire, an Israel drone targeted the Jabalia refugee camp, killing one civilian and seriously injuring othersSkwawkbox (The Canary)
Doctors are valuable. Why release a high value slave.
Maybe some of those anti semitic sentiments people hold are grounded in reality...
It's Zohver
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For the liberals who think it it doesn’t matter he claims Israeli captives are being tortured while not even mentioning the same for the Palestinians in extermination camps: your medicare won’t matter to him either. Stop torturing billionaires.
Palestine is the ultimate litmus test.
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Was it ever on to begin with?
I only feel such kinds of disappointment when like an actual marxist or anarchist person/party has dumbass takes.
If you are expecting liberals to have takes that are not lib, then your expectations are just out of order.
Zohran actually started off really well, refusing to condemn all of oct7, no unnecessary placating to Zionists etc, calling the police racist in the past, etc. Only in the last months after he won the primaries have things started to go downhill like this. The DNC infiltration in his team is in full force.
I don't believe in reforming the DNC whatsoever but I did give him credit when he deserved it in the past, because it's important to show people who still believe in reform what happens when one of the supposed reform guys actually gets in power. In order to be allowed a position of power they first need to bow for to the DNC party line.
He also states it was a genocide funded by the US. Calls Isrealian bombing relentless, take for granted there was and apartheid and focus on the likely scenario of it continuing unchallenged.
It's clearly a post antagonizing Israel. I'll fucking take it.
If Zohran was a milquetoast DNC shill with no past record on Palestine I'd take it. But he's backtracking from his original position of fully supporting Palestinians, to spreading fake lies about Israeli captives being tortured while not mentioning actual Palestinians being tortured.
Caving to Zionists has never worked and there's no reason to do so, ask Jeremy Corbyn.
Zohran is now lying and throwing Palestinians under the bus to further his own career.
I can't help but wonder whether this guy has just been a cynical liar from the start, if all the Democratic operatives running his general election campaign are just exceptionally good at performing rapid brainworm installations, or if the CIA simply took him into a room and explained what they'd do to him and his family if he doesn't toe the line.
That last one is particularly scary because I had the same thought when Bernie actually somehow got worse on Palestine than he was during his 2020 campaign. That was despite him having no intention of running for president again and also having the safest senate seat in this country. What was he afraid of?
Like maybe every left leaning politician in this country receives credible death threats from the CIA as par for the course on certain matters of foreign policy.
It's the whole Jstreet and AIPAC lobby telling their minions to convince Zohran that Israel isn't all that bad and that he needs to speak up for both sides etc.
Since Zohran wants power he will gladly do some mental gymnastics to accept whatever excuse he is given, do a little both-sidesing and call it a day.
The Right's Secret Plan to Help Billionaires Buy Elections
I'd not heard about the Montana initiative. But it's not surprising ... it's an interesting state, politically, as the main throughline seems to be "leave me the fuck alone, and if others aren't hurting me, let them do what they want." You know, rugged individualism that we at once enshrine as the basis of the American spirit and also call "woke."
In a way, I'm glad Orwell didn't live to see how far short he fell with Nineteen Eighty-Four. We see Ingsoc fully formed, but the road there is left as an exercise for the reader.
The better analogy at this point is V for Vendetta.
On the 20th anniversary of the creation of the Roberts Supreme Court, one point of consensus persists: Most Americans believe money corrupts the political process — and they want to overturn the Citizens United precedent that empowers oligarchs to buy elections.And yet, in two little-noticed cases — including one spearheaded by Vice President J.D. Vance — the high court could soon do the opposite, eliminating the last restrictions on campaign donations and obstructing law enforcement’s efforts to halt bribery.
As we recount in our new book Master Plan, the Citizens United case was the culmination of conservatives’ 50-year master plan to deregulate the campaign finance system and legalize corruption. What started as an incendiary memo from soon-to-be Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell became one ruling equating money with constitutionally protected speech and another extending personhood rights to corporations.
J.D. Vance and the Right's Plan to Help Billionaires Buy Elections
J.D. Vance and other MAGA interests are working to get the Supreme Court to end restrictions on campaign spending limits.David Sirota (Rolling Stone)
YouTube to give banned creators a 'second chance' after rule rollback
YouTube will give banned creators a 'second chance' after rule rollback
YouTube is rolling out a feature for previously terminated channels to apply to create a new channel after scrutiny from Republicans and President Donald Trump.Zach Vallese (CNBC)
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YouTube’s ‘second chance’ process fits with a broader trend at Google and other major platforms to ease strict content moderation rules imposed in the wake of the pandemic and the 2020 election.
Oh goody, we're going to get a whole new wave of far-right videos on YouTube.
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The program excludes creators terminated for copyright infringement
Because that’s just unforgivable. /s
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Just a good old change of heart, giving everyone a 2nd chance or possibly something else?
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People have been dropping the preceding adjective. It used to be that temp bans were handed out for first violations or accumulated minor violations, with the severity of the violation dictating whether it was a temporary ban of hours, days, weeks, or months.
Really egregious violations, or a pattern of temp bans not changing the users behavior would trigger a permanent ban.
I also hate the use of “ban” alone to mean temporary. The default use of “ban” should, does, mean permanent. If it’s temporary, it should be specifically conditionalized as such. I don’t really know when this started or how we got here, but it’s fucking annoying.
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It's Zohver
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For the liberals who think it it doesn't matter he claims Israeli captives are being tortured while not even mentioning the same for the Palestinians in extermination camps: your medicare won't matter to him either. Stop torturing billionaires.
Palestine is the ultimate litmus test.
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Xi vows to stand firm in pissing match with Trump.
I don't think that's realistic.
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in reply to etuomaala • • •China is really really tired of USA now, normally they would be way more diplomatic in their communications, this kind of strong language would previously be completely unheard of in a situation where there are negotiations taking place.
And this is not just Trump, Biden continued most of Trump's policies against China when he was president, and USA has been trying to control China's access to global markets for more than half a century, at times forcing even non American companies to sanction China, to prevent them from competing on equal terms.
Trump is making it worse of course, and he is probably the reason China now has had enough. But the fundamental problem is half a century old.
I guess the party is about to be over for USA, they can no longer bully the rest of the world into compliance that benefit only USA.
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in reply to Buffalox • • •China and everyone else I think knows that this is just another round of market manipulation. He will back down since 130 percent tariffs are effectively a trade embargo and the US is still not positioned to be able to do that without economic calamity.
So the question is when he will back down and how. I think the same trick will work. He will implement it, do a whole song and dance about how he super duper means it this time, do a few other things to tank the stock market, and then he and his insiders will make big buys before backing down on everything.
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in reply to nova_ad_vitum • • •Most likely he will back down, but it's false to claim everybody "knows".
Because there is a level of uncertainty, and even if he does, it shows negotiations are not going smoothly.
Trump is creating disruptions in the American market, and disruptions are harmful, especially they are extremely harmful to investments.
So whether he TACO out or not doesn't really matter for the harm he is doing in the meantime.
~~just another round of market manipulation.~~
FTFY:
another round of market disruption.
nova_ad_vitum
in reply to Buffalox • • •The disruptions and chaos are the only the worst part of this because everyone knows he will back down. Otherwise Chinese trade embargo itself would be far worse. If he actually did this the stock market would crash instead of just a hiccup, and the entire economy wouldn't be far behind. So it absolutely matters whether he chickens out or not.
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