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Injured teenager: consequences of drone attack on Russian regions

Between 11:30 p.m. Moscow time on November 30 and 7:00 a.m. on December 1, on-duty air defenses intercepted and destroyed 32 Ukrainian UAVs

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Office for Budget Responsibility(OBR) chair quits after inquiry into early release of Reeves’s budget

Richard Hughes departs after investigation into how official forecaster accidentally published budget 40 minutes early

OBR chair quits after inquiry into early release of budget document

Richard Hughes takes ‘full responsibility’ for watchdog error as Starmer attempts to secure chancellor’s position

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Russian diplomat advises NATO to rein in 'escalatory' talk about preemptive strikes

According to Maria Zakharova, Moscow sees such statements as a deliberate attempt to undermine efforts to settle the Ukrainian crisis

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Ukrainian Black Sea attack infringed NATO state’s sovereignty – Kremlin

Ukraine’s strikes on the Kairos and Virat tankers targeted Turkish sovereignty and the vessel owners’ rights, Dmitry Peskov has said

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Spain reaffirms plan to skip Eurovision if Israel is allowed to compete

The head of Spanish public broadcaster RTVE has reaffirmed that his country will not join the 2026 Eurovision contest if Israel is allowed to compete - a protest by the Spanish delegation against Israel's genocide in Gaza.

Corporación de Radio Televisión Española (RTVE) president José Pablo López's statement follows weeks of lobbying by the Austrian delegation and others to keep Israel in the contest, which will take place in Vienna.

"We hold the same opinion [...] that Israel's presence was unsustainable — firstly, for the genocide. Eurovision is a contest, but human rights are not." López told a parliamentary hearing on Thursday.

López's remarks come a week before a crucial vote on whether Israel can participate in the competition.

https://www.newarab.com/news/spain-reaffirms-plan-skip-eurovision-if-israel-competes

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Israel says it killed 40 Hamas fighters trapped in Rafah tunnels

The Israeli army claimed to have killed 40 Palestinian resistance group Hamas members who had been trapped in Rafah, in southern Gaza, last week.

The army said in a statement late on Sunday that it continued to intensify efforts to destroy the remaining tunnels in eastern Rafah to eliminate armed fighters inside.

Israel says it killed 40 Hamas fighters trapped in Rafah tunnels

No immediate comment from Palestinian group

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Honduras election shock; Mass casualty flooding and fires in Asia; Netanyahu demands a pardon

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/39725978

Israel kills two Palestinian children in a drone strike on Khan Younis. Trump is rewarded for his heavy intervention in Honduras’s election as his preferred candidate is leading a close race, with the left-wing party of the incumbent president trailing badly. Palestinian American teenager Mohammed Zaher Ibrahim is released from detention. Trump mandates closure of Venezuela airspace and cancels repatriation flights. A coup in Guinea-Bissau. Fires kill 150 in Hong Kong. Floods kill over 1,000 in Southeast Asia. Rains continue to imperil the people of the Gaza Strip. Israeli forces withdraw from Tubas, ending an intense operation in the West Bank city. Attacks continue near Hebron and Bethlehem Netanyahu asks for a pardon. Far-right cabinet members push for more guns for West Bank settlers and promote a Border Police officer who killed surrendering Palestinians. U.S. halts visas and asylum for Afghans. The U.S. Navy is accused of covering up plutonium leaks. Drop Site publishes a dispatch on guerilla fighters in West Papua. The Pope heads to Lebanon and continues the Vatican’s push for Palestinian statehood. Russian-Ukrainian negotiations continue as a lead Ukrainian negotiator departs, due to his role in a growing corruption scandal within the country. Israel kills 13 in Syria. A French investigation finds that Sudan’s Army used chlorine gas as a weapon of war last year against the RSF. Turkish and Kurdish negotiators reach an impasse. Iran seizes another tanker.

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2025-12-01 16:13:22

Honduras election shock; Mass casualty flooding and fires in Asia; Netanyahu demands a pardon

Israel kills two Palestinian children in a drone strike on Khan Younis. Trump is rewarded for his heavy intervention in Honduras’s election as his preferred candidate is leading a close race, with the left-wing party of the incumbent president trailing badly. Palestinian American teenager Mohammed Zaher Ibrahim is released from detention. Trump mandates closure of Venezuela airspace and cancels repatriation flights. A coup in Guinea-Bissau. Fires kill 150 in Hong Kong. Floods kill over 1,000 in Southeast Asia. Rains continue to imperil the people of the Gaza Strip. Israeli forces withdraw from Tubas, ending an intense operation in the West Bank city. Attacks continue near Hebron and Bethlehem Netanyahu asks for a pardon. Far-right cabinet members push for more guns for West Bank settlers and promote a Border Police officer who killed surrendering Palestinians. U.S. halts visas and asylum for Afghans. The U.S. Navy is accused of covering up plutonium leaks. Drop Site publishes a dispatch on guerilla fighters in West Papua. The Pope heads to Lebanon and continues the Vatican’s push for Palestinian statehood. Russian-Ukrainian negotiations continue as a lead Ukrainian negotiator departs, due to his role in a growing corruption scandal within the country. Israel kills 13 in Syria. A French investigation finds that Sudan’s Army used chlorine gas as a weapon of war last year against the RSF. Turkish and Kurdish negotiators reach an impasse. Iran seizes another tanker.

Honduras election shock; Mass casualty flooding and fires in Asia; Netanyahu demands a pardon
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Honduras election shock; Mass casualty flooding and fires in Asia; Netanyahu demands a pardon

Israel kills two Palestinian children in a drone strike on Khan Younis. Trump is rewarded for his heavy intervention in Honduras’s election as his preferred candidate is leading a close race, with the left-wing party of the incumbent president trailing badly. Palestinian American teenager Mohammed Zaher Ibrahim is released from detention. Trump mandates closure of Venezuela airspace and cancels repatriation flights. A coup in Guinea-Bissau. Fires kill 150 in Hong Kong. Floods kill over 1,000 in Southeast Asia. Rains continue to imperil the people of the Gaza Strip. Israeli forces withdraw from Tubas, ending an intense operation in the West Bank city. Attacks continue near Hebron and Bethlehem Netanyahu asks for a pardon. Far-right cabinet members push for more guns for West Bank settlers and promote a Border Police officer who killed surrendering Palestinians. U.S. halts visas and asylum for Afghans. The U.S. Navy is accused of covering up plutonium leaks. Drop Site publishes a dispatch on guerilla fighters in West Papua. The Pope heads to Lebanon and continues the Vatican’s push for Palestinian statehood. Russian-Ukrainian negotiations continue as a lead Ukrainian negotiator departs, due to his role in a growing corruption scandal within the country. Israel kills 13 in Syria. A French investigation finds that Sudan’s Army used chlorine gas as a weapon of war last year against the RSF. Turkish and Kurdish negotiators reach an impasse. Iran seizes another tanker.

Honduras election shock; Mass casualty flooding and fires in Asia; Netanyahu demands a pardon

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Chinese Characteristics of Socialism: Civilisational Factors in CPC Governance

Class must be prioritised in any analysis.

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and im a nes

and my cousin is an iphone

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Chais

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You mean you have no memory?

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dosuser123456

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yeah (i keep forgetting what i study)

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why is the dy logo upside down?

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Where can I find Wayland solutions?

Wayland is breaking a solid 30%-40% of everything on my computer right now, but I want to be better prepared for if/when I don't have an x11 option.

Is there a forum or place where people listen and actually try to help you find fixes/workarounds for Wayland problems?

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apt_install_coffee

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Is this on a fresh install, or have you installed a Wayland DE on an existing distro? If so, you may be missing some packages. What DE are you using for both X and Wayland?

I'm surprised wlr-randr is missing a display that xrandr can see, they should be looking at the same place for the display info. If you hunt through dmesg do you see any errors related to "EDID"?

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jokeyrhyme

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to help communicate and troubleshoot what is broken here, we need to think of Wayland as a protocol just like HTTP is a protocol

saying "Wayland broke X" is like saying "HTTP broke X", which is possible but not likely to be what you're actually trying to say

rather, we need to be talking about the implementation(s) of the protocol, not the protocol itself

e.g. "HTTP broke X" -> "Google Chrome broke X"

e.g. "Wayland broke X" -> "GNOME broke X"

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Always remember that the democrats are right wing

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Cowbee [he/they]

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Liberals call this "purity testing," but fundamentally the democrats stand for perpetuating capitalism and imperialism. These two points of contention are irreconcilable with any leftist.

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"purity testing" more like them gaslighting people into believing that they are left wing and getting defensive when they are proved not to be

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Bingo.

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ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]

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If I'm trying to create anything worth anything you're goddamn right I'm gonna test my ingredients for purity

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them] • 2 settimane fa • •

I agree, though I'd say there's a difference between criticism and self-criticism with what we think of as "purity testing," ie demonizing AES or other movements for their imperfections.

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kittenzrulz123

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"Waaaah how dare you purity test me, yeah I have right wing economic views but have you considered my social views are also right wing" - average Liberal

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Cowbee [he/they]

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Yep, lol

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UNY0N

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I agree, but I also wonder if the Democratic party can be converted from the inside to change it's focus.

Probably not. I just winder what the best way forward is. It's not really clear.

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Cowbee [he/they]

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The DNC is designed against entryism, and drives its power not from popular support, but wealthy private donors. What's important is directly organizing on the ground to form a large, working class party, like PSL. Reading theory and organizing are the best things you can do. If you want somewhere to start with theory, I made an introductory Marxist-Leninist reading list you can check out.

Cowbee [he/they]

2024-11-12 13:19:57

Read Theory, Darn it! An Introductory Reading List for Marxism-Leninism

"Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement."
Vladimir Lenin, What is to be Done? | Audiobook
It's time to read theory, comrades! As Lenin says, "Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle." Reading theory helps us identify the core contradictions within modern society, analyze their trajectories, and gives us the tools to break free. Marxism-Leninism is broken into 3 major components, as noted by Lenin in his pamphlet The Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism: | Audiobook
Dialectical and Historical Materialism
Critique of Capitalism along the lines of Marx's Law of Value
Advocacy for Revolutionary and Scientific Socialism
As such, I created the following list to take you from no knowledge whatsoever of Leftist theory, and leave you with a strong understanding of the critical fundamentals of Marxism-Leninism in an order that builds up as you read. Let's get started!
Section I: Getting Started
What the heck is Communism, anyways? For that matter, what is fascism?
Friedrich Engels' Principles of Communism | Audiobook
The FAQ of Communism, written by the Luigi of the Marx & Engels duo. Quick to read, and easy to reference, this is the perfect start to your journey.
Michael Parenti's Blackshirts and Reds | Audiobook
Breaks down fascism and its mortal enemy, Communism, as well as their antagonistic relationship. Understanding what fascism is, where and when it rises, why it does so, and how to banish it forever is critical. Parenti also helps debunk common anti-Communist myths, from both the "left" and the right, in a quick-witted writing style. This is also an excellent time to watch the famous speech.
Section II: Historical and Dialectical Materialism
Ugh, philosophy? Really? YES!
Georges Politzer's Elementary Principles of Philosophy | Audiobook
By far my favorite primer on Marxist philosophy. By understanding Dialectical and Historical Materialism first, you make it easier to understand the rest of Marxism-Leninism. Don't be intimidated!
Friedrich Engels' Socialism: Utopian and Scientific | Audiobook
Further reading on Dialectical and Historical Materialism, but crucially introduces the why of Scientific Socialism, explaining how Capitalism itself prepares the conditions for public ownership and planning by centralizing itself into monopolist syndicates. This is also where Engels talks about the failures of previous "Utopian" Socialists.
Section III: Political Economy
That's right, it's time for the Law of Value and a deep-dive into Imperialism. If we are to defeat Capitalism, we must learn it's mechanisms, tendencies, contradictions, and laws.
Karl Marx's Wage Labor and Capital | Audiobook as well as Wages, Price and Profit | Audiobook
Best taken as a pair, these essays simplify the most important parts of the Law of Value. Marx is targetting those not trained in economics here, but you might want to keep a pen and some paper to follow along if you are a visual person.
Vladimir Lenin's Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism | Audiobook
Absolutely crucial and the most important work for understanding the modern era and its primary contradictions. Marxist-Leninists understand that Imperialism is the greatest contradiction in the modern era, which cascades downward into all manner of related contradictions. Knowing what dying Capitalism looks like, and how it behaves, means we can kill it.
Section IV: Revolutionary and Scientific Socialism
Can we defeat Capitalism at the ballot box? What about just defeating fascism? What about the role of the state?
Rosa Luxemburg's Reform or Revolution | Audiobook
If Marxists believed reforming Capitalist society was possible, we would be the first in line for it. Sadly, it isn't possible, which Luxemburg proves in this monumental writing.
Vladimir Lenin's The State and Revolution | Audiobook
Excellent refutation of revisionists and Social Democrats who think the State can be reformed, without needing to be replaced with one that is run by the workers, in their own interests.
Section V: Intersectionality and Solidarity
The revolution will not be fought by atomized individuals, but by an intersectional, international working class movement. Intersectionality is critical, because it allows different marginalized groups to work together in collective interest, unifying into a broad movement.
Vikky Storm and Eme Flores' The Gender Accelerationist Manifesto | (No Audiobook yet)
Critical reading on understanding misogyny, transphobia, enbyphobia, pluralphobia, and homophobia, as well as how to move beyond the base subject of "gender." Uses the foundations built up in the previous works to analyze gender theory from a Historical Materialist perspective.
Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth | Audiobook
De-colonialism is essential to Marxism. Without having a strong, de-colonial, internationalist stance, we have no path to victory nor a path to justice. Fanon analyzes Colonialism's dehumanizing effects, and lays out how to form a de-colonial movement, as well as its necessity.
Leslie Feinberg's Lavender & Red | Audiobook
Solidarity and intersectionality are the key to any social movement. When different social groups fight for liberation together along intersectional lines, the movements are emboldened and empowered ever-further.
Section VI: Putting it into Practice!
It's not enough to endlessly read, you must put theory to practice. That is how you can improve yourself and the movements you support. Touch grass!
Mao Tse-Tung's On Practice and On Contradiction | Audiobook
Mao wrote simply and directly, targeting peasant soldiers during the Revolutionary War in China. This pair of essays equip the reader with the ability to apply the analytical tools of Dialectical Materialism to their every day practice, and better understand problems.
Congratulations, you completed your introductory reading course!
With your new understanding and knowledge of Marxism-Leninism, here is a mini What is to be Done? of your own to follow, and take with you as practical advice.
Get organized. Join a Leftist org, find solidarity with fellow comrades, and protect each other. The Dems will not save you, it is up to us to protect ourselves. The Party for Socialism and Liberation and Freedom Road Socialist Organization both organize year round, every year, because the battle for progress is a constant struggle, not a single election. See if there is a chapter near you, or start one! Or, see if there's an org you like more near you and join it.
Read theory. Don't think that you are done now! Just because you have the basics, doesn't mean you know more than you do. If you have not investigated a subject, don't speak on it! Don't speak nonsense, but listen!
Aggressively combat white supremacy, misogyny, queerphobia, and other attacks on marginalized communities. Cede no ground, let nobody be forgotten or left behind. There is strength in numbers, when one marginalized group is targeted, many more are sure to follow.
Be industrious, and self-sufficient. Take up gardening, home repair, tinkering. It is through practice that you elevate your problem-solving capabilities. Not only will you improve your skill at one subject, but your general problem-solving muscles get strengthened as well.
Learn self-defense. Get armed, if practical. Be ready to protect yourself and others. Liberals will not save us, we must save each other.
Be persistent. If you feel like a single water droplet against a mountain, think of canyons and valleys. Oh, how our efforts pile up! With consistency, every rock, boulder, even mountain, can be drilled through with nothing but steady and persistent water droplets.
"Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is excellent."
Mao Tse-Tung

Revolution. Socialism. Liberation. - Freedom Road Socialist Organization | FRSO
Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) is a national organization of revolutionaries fighting for socialism in the United States. Our home is in the working class.
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UNY0N

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Wow, that's quite a lot of content to go through. Thanks!

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Cowbee [he/they]

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No worries! Honestly it's designed to turn anyone from not knowing anything at all about Marxism into a capable cadre that can figure out where to go next (like Capital, Anti-Dühring, etc), but just reading section 0a is great if you just want to dip your toes in.

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people have been trying that for 60+ years its a no go, the party is fundamentally anti-working-class

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60 years ago, Democrats were creating Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP, and the Job Corps, passing civil rights, voting rights, and labor protection acts, and massively expanding investment in public housing and education. It's only in the past 45 years things have really gone sideways

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Cowbee [he/they]

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The DNC has always been a capitalist and imperialist party, passing social welfare programs doesn't counter that basic fact, and as such doesn't counter that leftists have been trying to change them into a leftist party for far longer.

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Fredselfish

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It can't be reformed. It needs to be burn down and new party started.

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AreaKode

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The two party system exists to prevent this.

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Cowbee [he/they]

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Sure, but there is no other option. We must build up a working class party, if running them electorally doesn't work, then it will still work when conditions falter and revolution happens.

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davel

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Democrats would rather lose to a Republican, to a conservative, to a fascist, to Trump, than address the material conditions of the American people.

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I mean a conservative project to do exactly this is what transformed the Cheney era neocons into the modern day fascist party we see. So at least in principle that's possible. but clearly the neocons were more than happy to go along with fascism. Fascism and conservativism have effectively the same goals.

The neoliberals who faced the same kind of insurrection from within their party at the same time were unwilling to adopt progressivism and are still unwilling to adopt progressivism. The right was able to change their party into a fascist one, the left has failed to move the demo party into being a progressive party

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The following can all be true:

The Democrats are a right wing neoliberal party.
The Democrats are the most left-wing option that is realistically available to American voters.
The Democrats can be pushed further left if American progressives work to do so.
The Democrats - at the party level - will resist such a change, but that resistance can still be overcome.
In the long term, massive structural overhauls and the downfall of capitalism are the only things that will save America and the world
In the near term, voting consistly and enthusiastically for the least bad option can still protect vulnerable groups from harm and create changes that lay the groundwork for those structural overhauls.

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I think we're showing mixed results on your third bullet. It did seem that way, for a while, as we pushed on social issues. And when it came time to get on with the economic issues, the core management team of the party rallied, and rather than adopt the left flank to win, steps right to hand control to Republicans.

And it's happened more than once now, to obvious and clear effect: the goal of the Democratic party isn't to win elections, it's to keep the country idealogically aligned with a neoliberal ruling class. And if that means handing control of government to Republicans, they'll do so, then blame the left (even though it's them moving to the right losing elections).

To the fourth bullet, no, it's not clear that within the machinations of the party infrastructure it can be overcome. Because if not now, when? Party leadership has never been weaker or more vulnerable nor the times more desperate. Democrats as a party poll worse than Trump, yet progressives can win elections with both the entire Republican and Democratic apparatus gunning to take them down. yet somehow we can't replace Schumer's or Jefferies.

Skipping to the 6th point, again, that isn't actually borne out by the evidence. It's not something well know in advance and only as an artifact of history. What's been extremely clearly is that so far, voting has been wildly insufficient to make the kinds of structural changes necessary. Obama is the classic example of this. He runs on healthcare, holding wallstreet accountable, and ending the wars; he delivers corporate "access", bails out the banks, and continues the wars. The voters did their job and the system didn't work.

So a relentless optimism that the system will just work as intended doesn't seem warranted, and it's clearly not going in a good direction.

Until we recognize that the Democratic party, it at least it's current and historical structure is at the core of the problem with why we can't advance political change, its pretty clear that this decent into autocracy, fascism, and a degraded quality of life is inevitable. The Democratic party isn't just part of the problem: it's the core element of the problem.

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Cowbee [he/they]

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Point 3 is wrong. The working classes in the States are already increasingly left, while the DNC is increasingly rightward. The DNC doesn't care about what voters want, but what their donors need. That's why it's critical to engage with parties like PSL.

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haui

in reply to Voroxpete • 2 settimane fa • •

While those are technically true, they are inconseuqential at best, plain wrong at worst.

Yes, the dems could be pushed left a little over a long time in theory. But practice has shown that this is not achievable since all other material circumstances are against it.

The "least bad" option is a communist party, absolutely not the dems.

Voting is not going to help half as many people than going to the next soup kitchen or neighborhood meetup and organize there.

I hate these soc dem apology posts. Biden has blood on his hands up to his shoulders.

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OBJECTION!

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The funny thing about this is that if it were possible to reform the democratic party, it would only be through demanding change, and credibly threatening defection if those demands are not met. By setting conditions and giving those conditions teeth. What you're suggesting is just asking nicely for people to act directly contrary to their material interests and hoping for the best. It's complete nonsense.

Also lol at "enthusiastically voting." Yes, it's very important that you not only bend the knee to your corporate masters completely unconditionally, but that you do so with a smile on your face. You can trust me, I'm a leftist just like you, see how I say all the language about needing the downfall of capitalism?

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alekwithak

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Always remember that while The Democratic Party is far from perfect, this is Russian propaganda. The party and the rules it has to play by are changed by voting locally, early, and often. Spreading the voter apathy message that both parties are the same and our votes are inconsequential just gives more power to the oppressors.

LMAO sorry, I forgot where I was. 🙄

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I don't see the link with the wikipedia article of that book with a neoliberal US party been right wing.

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davel

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Their point, I think, is that we’re secret chaos agents sent by Putler to sap and impurify their precious bodily fluids.

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davel

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Why are you linking to a crypto-fascist’s book? Because you bought the narrative that he’s “Putin’s brain”? 🙄

Always remember that Russiagate was bullshit.
- IT Pro: Cambridge Analytica models were exaggerated and ineffective, [UK Information Commissioner’s Office] claims
- Wall Street Journal: Mueller Doesn’t Find Trump Campaign Conspired With Russia
- Jacobin: Democrats and Mainstream Media Were the Real Kremlin Assets
- Washington Post: FEC fines DNC, Clinton for violating rules in funding Steele dossier
- Washington Post: Russian trolls on Twitter had little influence on 2016 voters
- Jacobin: It Turns Out Hillary Clinton, Not Russian Bots, Lost the 2016 Election
- Matt Taibbi: Move Over, Jayson Blair: Meet Hamilton 68, the New King of Media Fraud The Twitter Files reveal that one of the most common news sources of the Trump era was a scam, making ordinary American political conversations look like Russian spywork
- Jacobin: Why the Twitter Files Are in Fact a Big Deal On the Left, there’s been a temptation to dismiss the revelations about Twitter’s internal censorship system that have emerged from the so-called Twitter Files project. But that would be a mistake: the news is important and the details are alarming.
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- Matt Taibbi: CIA "Cooked The Intelligence" To Hide That Russia Favored Clinton, Not Trump In 2016
- Aaron Maté: Under Trump, the CIA is still covering up its Russiagate fraud
- Matt Taibbi: Note on New Trump-Russia Disclosures Thanks to explosive new document releases, the Russiagate hoax is now exposed, commencing a new era that will be about accountability for the guilty
- Matt Taibbi: No Doubt Left: Russiagate Was a Cover-Up
- Chris Hedges: Why Russiagate Won’t Go Away The cynical con the Democratic Party and the F.B.I. carried out to falsely portray Donald Trump as a puppet of the Kremlin worked, and continues to work, because it is what those who detest Trump want to believe.

Note on New Trump-Russia Disclosures

^{Matt Taibbi (Racket News)}

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to alekwithak • 2 settimane fa • •

A capitalist party being right-wing is basic left/right understanding. Dugin has nothing to do with this.

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RiverRock

in reply to alekwithak • 2 settimane fa • •

Pointing out that the Democratic party and their supporters insisted we have to do a genocide is Russian propaganda sweaty

This image is a Slavic ASIAN deepfake, it never happened😤

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AntiOutsideAktion

in reply to alekwithak • 2 settimane fa • •

4 substantive replies and 13 hours later, your only response is "sigh people disagree with me look how put out I am"?

Does your side have literally anything to say for itself?

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alekwithak

in reply to AntiOutsideAktion • 2 settimane fa • •

Substantive? That's a bit of a stretch. One reply that cites any sources and not a single one would get past a community college level RA.

It is laughable to me that you think we're on different sides. There are two sides, manipulators and manipulatees, and none of us here are the manipulators, though you may have created an echo chamber to increase the volume of certain manipulations.

'Sides' aside, do I have anything to say for myself? Of course. Would the time spent add any value to my life or fulfil any purpose? Maybe, but the ROI is too slim. You can't reason a person out of an opinion they didn't reason themselves into. It's the same reason I don't waste time arguing with MAGA these days. Even on the off chance you're talking to a real person, presenting them with any kind of evidence is just going to make them double down on their opinion. That's just human psychology, The Backfire Effect in action. I made the mistake of not checking where I was before commenting at all. Coming back here to reply to you was probably a mistake in and of itself, but this whole 'sides' thing just irks me. I hope you don't really feel that way. If we both want to move the country to the left, then disagreements like this only serve to benefit those who want to move the country further to the right. There's this book that outlines exactly how to create these ideological disagreements that drive wedges into opposition to the right, and who it benefits, but for some reason y'all have completely discounted it even though everything written in it has come to pass since. If y'all want to outright reject reality then more power to you, but I don't have to involve myself.

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chloroken

in reply to alekwithak • 2 settimane fa • •

I want you to stay this way. Keep being an ignorant little goober. Nobody needs you and you're not important. You understanding basic political theory is not integral to anything. Please keep on trucking.

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AntiOutsideAktion

in reply to alekwithak • 2 settimane fa • •

Pretty much see you as the exact equivalent of a right wing chemtrail person in terms of incoherence and facile beliefs.

Your brain has been severely damaged by Rachael Maddow.

If y’all want to outright reject reality

Fucking crank

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handsoffmydata

in reply to Spectre • 2 settimane fa • •

You could’ve made this image using paint in under 5 minutes, did you really need to waste half a liter of water to have AI generate it?

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تحريرها كلها ممكن

in reply to handsoffmydata • 2 settimane fa • •

OpenAI, and others, lose money on every prompt even with paid subscriptions. The resources will still be wasted by them but to cost them money is priceless.

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m532

in reply to handsoffmydata • 2 settimane fa • •

AI-generating images takes, like, zero resources. Think about it. My computer uses very little energy. It couldn't even heat my room if I ran it constantly (I accidentally tried by forgetting to turn on the heater). It can create an image in 20 seconds. There is no magic in AI that increases its wattage somehow. Also, I don't know if you noticed yet, but computers don't have a water input plug. Using a dishwasher once uses more electricity than generating thousands of images, and more water than infinite images.

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DornerStan

in reply to handsoffmydata • 2 settimane fa • •

Training models takes a stupid amount of energy. Using them after the fact uses very little.

I could generate something like this on my phone using any of the dozens of local models.

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handsoffmydata

in reply to DornerStan • 2 settimane fa • •

I could generate something like this on my phone using any of the dozens of local models.

Feel free to share the device type and local AI model capable of producing an image like this. My guess is you won’t though because it’s not possible 😕

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DornerStan

in reply to handsoffmydata • 2 settimane fa • •

Try for yourself github.com/ShiftHackZ/Stable-D…

But that's (very clearly) beside the point, which is that you can run a variety of models locally on your PC or phone for miniscule energy. Once a model is trained the damage has already been done.

As always, it's the corporations using the resources and doing the damage, so pearl clutching about random individuals is less than useless.

GitHub - ShiftHackZ/Stable-Diffusion-Android: Stable Diffusion AI client app for Android

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m532

in reply to handsoffmydata • 2 settimane fa • •

Try Z-Image Turbo it's super new and runs on any computer with, like, a cpu and 24 GB ram. It can generate way better images than this too.

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DarkFuture

in reply to Spectre • 2 settimane fa • •

Sure, Jan.

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VoxAliorum

in reply to Spectre • 2 settimane fa • •

Always remember that left and right are difficult terms: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left%E2%…

In Germany Harris would have been conservative CDU (the most conservative/right party before the AfD turned up) and Trump would have been in the AfD. However, CDU is still fine. Nothing bad about being conservative. I disagree with most of their opinions but they are valid political opinions. AfD and Trump share political opinions that are undemocratic, dangerous and stupid.

system of classifying political positions, ideologies and parties

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ThatWeirdGuy1001

in reply to Spectre • 2 settimane fa • •

This is how we ended up with Trump again btw.

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REEEEvolution

in reply to ThatWeirdGuy1001 • 2 settimane fa • •

Turns out supporting genocide makes you look bad. Someone should've told Biden and Copmallah.

It's almost as if your party duopoly consists of two fascist parties.

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TotallynotJessica

in reply to Spectre • 2 settimane fa • •

Their strategy is to give into Trump's demands in the hopes that it prevents him from destroying their precious institutions. They hope to be able to take over from an unpopular Republican party after Trump dies without really undoing the damage he's done. The problem with this approach is that it will prevent the system from needing to be properly rebuilt, effectively legalizing most of his abuses of power and prolonging the instability of our country. A big part of this will be institutionalizing the blatant corruption and oligarchy while further rigging elections to make it impossible for popular movements to ever legally gain power.

A Gavin Newsom or Pete Buttigieg presidency will see them ruling as a weaker feudal king than Trump, but only to promote business activity and interests. Relying on the honeymoon period following Trump's removal, they will position themselves as the saviors of "democracy," yet they will do little to actually undo a lot of the election rigging that Republicans are installing right now. They will suppress workers rights and throw the most disposable minorities under the bus, deregulating and burning through all the goodwill they have. They'll parade the corpse of liberalism around as long as fools will believe it, but it will be a cynical gesture.

In order for actual liberal democracy to exist again in this country, the liberals would need to have shown a backbone and resist Trump no matter how much he destroys institutions. They would need to risk temporary jail time and potential assassination to invigorate long term support for a rebuilt American dream. Instead they're showing that they never cared about liberal ideals, only the goodwill liberalism afforded their power.

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MyMindIsLikeAnOcean

in reply to TotallynotJessica • 2 settimane fa • •

Yeh. The strategy seems to be to wait for their “turn” and make it look like the care while they watch everything they claim to stand for be destroyed.

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Zerush

in reply to Spectre • 2 settimane fa • •

Nothing new, in a profoundly capitalist structure like the US, there are no other options than to choose between conservatism and fascism, substituting reason for "in God we trust" and "Stars and Stripes", to keep citizens ignorant and obedient to continue functioning.

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UltraGiGaGigantic

in reply to Spectre • 2 settimane fa • •

All I want is the freedom to vote how I want and still count my vote if my first choice didn't win. Democrats should be free to run their political party how they want. Just like how everyone else should be free to participate in our elections. Free of a spoiler effect.

There should be no monopoly on the future of our nation. Republican, or Democrat.

Surely the freedom to vote how people want is not to high a bar for the democrats to clear right? Self proclaimed democracy advocates surely want the people to be represented fully... right?

I would never force a liberal to vote for my preference in a election, why is it okay for them to do that to me?

And it is a conscious decision to force me to vote a certain way. Every election democrats mercilessly rage at 3rd party voters. The Democratic party and their voters understand that First-past-the-post voting is flawed. Yet in blue states, fully in control of the Democratic party, FPTP voting shackles the people.

Democrats understand FPTP voting does a bad job of representing the nation. They ignore this festering gaping mortal wound... all for safe states and easy elections against a complete clown show. One that has defeated them in every way possible.

The monopoly is over democrats. You never deserved it, and you most certainly do not deserve it now in our darkest hours. Get out of the way, we have to move forward as a nation.

The Democratic party is not more important then the United States of America.

::: spoiler Electoral Reform Videos

(What most states use now)

Videos on alternative electoral systems

STAR voting

Ranked Choice voting

Single Transferable Vote

:::

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pineapple

in reply to UltraGiGaGigantic • 2 settimane fa • •

I don't think chsnging the voting system will fix this. There is still a 2 party system in australia despite a democracy with preferential voting for over 100 years.

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to pineapple • 2 settimane fa • •

Bingo. Class dynamics take priority over voting mechanisms.

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RiverRock

in reply to UltraGiGaGigantic • 2 settimane fa • •

I think actually a party guilty of genocide should not be free to run in elections, or even free to remain outside of prison

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davel

in reply to UltraGiGaGigantic • 2 settimane fa • •

The system can’t be reformed to favor the working class because it was created by & for the owner class, the “donor” class. If necessary they will unleash fascism to maintain control.

The Democratic party is not more important then the United States of America.

They both have to go. There’s never going to be a socialist USA. That can only happen after a revolution leading to an different state with a different name.

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mc900ftJesus

in reply to Spectre • 2 settimane fa • •

AI Slop

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thorhop

in reply to Spectre • 2 settimane fa • •

Liberalism has always been right from center. You can put neo in front of it all you'd like.

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AnUnusualRelic

in reply to thorhop • 2 settimane fa • •

Neo-it.

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to thorhop • 2 settimane fa • •

It was left in the context of a world dominated by feudalism, but we no longer live in that age.

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Faux

in reply to Spectre • 2 settimane fa • •

The wing doesn't matter if the eagle is a nazi tbf.

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bennypr0fane

in reply to Spectre • 2 settimane fa • •

Never forget that the right-left spectrum is a myth

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to bennypr0fane • 2 settimane fa • •

Kinda? The spectrum aspect is a bit iffy and I don't use it, but there are absolutely socialists on the left and capitalists on the right, and that's useful for understanding. Trying to argue over which is more or less left or right doesn't usually matter as much as the left/right distinction outright.

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qbus

in reply to Spectre • 2 settimane fa • •

This message brought to you by the wig party

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Jentu

in reply to qbus • 2 settimane fa • •

The Whig party died because it failed to address the whig voters' concerns over slave states. The Whigs in charge were too busy trying to find a moderate choice between traditional whig and democratic policies since the Whigs consisted of both northern and southern slave states and were too spineless to pick a side. Zachary Taylor (W), who had never voted or voiced his political opinion prior to running, won the nomination because whig voters in the convention thought being a middle ground candidate was enough to win. And he did win, but...

After Zachary Taylor was president, Winfield Scott (W), who was running a diet-democratic campaign seeing how it worked with Taylor, was running against Franklin Pierce (D), a dark horse candidate who wasn't even in the running until the 35th ballot at a stalled democratic convention. Scott, having lost the anti-slavery voters of the northern states, had an enthusiasm issue so big that people of the time regard this is one of the least exciting campaigns in presidential history. After Pierce won the election 254 electoral votes to 42, Free Soil and ex-Whig voters coalesced into the republican party. The whig party had been killed.

If your party isn't giving what people are pleading for or isn't a real opposition party, it's easier killing the party and starting fresh with something better than trying to lure the lost party back to your own values. And if we're already putting forth all that effort to build up a new party when one dies, why not be cool and make a revolutionary vanguard party instead of filling the vacuum in bourgeois elections?

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Hikermick

in reply to Spectre • 2 settimane fa • •

Election time already?

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Cowbee [he/they]

in reply to Hikermick • 2 settimane fa • •

Leftists are always anti-DNC and focus on organizing over electoralism, so I don't see why you think this is related to any election coming up.

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Lor

in reply to Spectre • 2 settimane fa • •

And still miles better than the GOP, your point?

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davel

in reply to Lor • 2 settimane fa • •

Which is their entire platform, which is why the whole thing keeps going further right.

Except the Democratic party doesn’t just block leftward movement. It turns the crank in the same direction, just slower.

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Dippy

in reply to davel • 2 settimane fa • •

Dems as a whole are more left wing today than they were 20 years ago, but cool graphic

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davel

in reply to Dippy • 2 settimane fa • •

This is about the party, not the party’s constituency.

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Dippy

in reply to davel • 2 settimane fa • •

Yeah, that's what im talking about

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BrainInABox

in reply to Dippy • 2 settimane fa • •

The current Democratic party is actively genocidal

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Lor

in reply to davel • 2 settimane fa • •

In the US we have a 2 party system. I try to support Dem Soc running as Dems, that is the best we have rn.

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Sir_Simon_Spamalot

in reply to Lor • 2 settimane fa • •

That's your standard?

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BanMe

in reply to Spectre • 2 settimane fa • •

"I am angry the overton window has moved so far to the right, I'm going to blame the folks trying to move it leftward"

What hasn't happened is an IRL movement around a new party or leader. What has happened is lots of "divide the left" memes and posts. I do wonder who that sentiment serves the most.

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Spectre

in reply to BanMe • 2 settimane fa • •

Left wing starts are anti-capitalism and anti-imperialism. The democrats are complicit in genocide and take money from AIPAC and only care about pleasing their business owners. Also the DNC is a private corporation

The Democratic National Committee is many things but democratic

drmikekatz.com/the_dnc_and_rnc…

observer.com/2017/08/court-adm…

rsn.org/001/dnc-to-court-we-ar…

courthousenews.com/wp-content/…

Court Concedes DNC Had the Right to Rig Primaries Against Sanders

The court affirmed that the DNC and Debbie Wasserman Schultz held a palpable bias in favor Hillary Clinton.

^{Michael Sainato (Observer)}

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RiverRock

in reply to BanMe • 2 settimane fa • •

Moving it leftward is when you support two separate groups of genocidal fascists in Israel and Ukraine and whine at leftists for not tactically supporting the fascists enough

Divide the left

You are not on the left. But I do keep seeing a bunch of "How do you do, fellow leftists? We sure do love voting for the 𝓵𝓮𝓼𝓼𝓮𝓻 𝓮𝓿𝓲𝓵, amirite? By the way fuck communists" memes and posts. I wonder who that sentiment serves the most?

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Bronstein_Tardigrade

in reply to Spectre • 2 settimane fa • •

Always remember, when Margarine Taylor-Greene attempted to oust Mike Johnson, it was Hakeem Jeffries and the Democrats who came to his rescue.

☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ via Україна | Ukraine 🇺🇦

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Zelensky faces political peril as corruption scandal consumes top aide

archive.ph/K7Zey

#Ukraine

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NATO’s Destruction of Ukraine Under the Guise of “Helping”

Propaganda & Proxy Wars

^{Glenn Diesen (Glenn Diesen’s Substack)}

#Ukraine

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ephrin

in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ • 2 settimane fa • •

Classic Muscovite talking points. Well done, comrade.

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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

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classic thought terminating cliche, well done dronie

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One of the Soviet books on Euro-American mind control translated to English: Psychological Warfare and the Strategy of Imperialism

#socialism

BeatTakeshi via Privacy

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Browser Fingerprinting And Why VPNs Won’t Make You Anonymous

Damn... I guess the next idea is going offline for good

Browser Fingerprinting And Why VPNs Won’t Make You Anonymous

Amidst the glossy marketing for VPN services, it can be tempting to believe that the moment you flick on the VPN connection you can browse the internet with full privacy. Unfortunately this is quit…

^Hackaday

#privacy

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FriendBesto

in reply to BeatTakeshi • 2 settimane fa • •

This is a bit of a misnomer. No one PC can be fully anonymized or fully private, even if the PC provided fake data points, they will still be technically fingerprinted. Having said that, having a browser that tries to spoof stuff like LibreWolf, Tor or IronFox is decent.

The gains in using a VPN, among other best practices is that helps --assuming people do not log on to something like Google-- is to minimize the fingerprint of the PC to you, as a user. Assuming one trust their VPN provider, helps.

Tor leverages the point of having all users look and be fingerprinted mostly as the same, so you get lost in the shuffle and crowd.

NightOwl via World News

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The Global Zionist Organ Trafficking Conspiracy

In July 2015, the European Parliament issued a landmark report on organ trafficking. Its introduction notes, "before 2000, the problem of trafficking in human organs...was primarily limited to the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia." However, following the turn of the millennium, "trafficking in organs has seemingly started to spread globally, to a large extent driven by Israeli doctors." The document went on to detail a number of high-profile organ trafficking cases.

The Global Zionist Organ Trafficking Conspiracy

All my investigations are free to read, thanks to the enormous generosity of my readers.

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#Worldnews

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eldavi

in reply to NightOwl • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

i asked ai to summarize the article and it started and ended with warnings that this was anti-semitic and, when i asked why, it flat out said that ant-zionism is inherently antisemitic. lol

even deepseek is kowtowing to that definition of antisemitism and it makes me sad.

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FriendBesto

in reply to eldavi • 2 settimane fa • •

When objective, real Criticism is labeled as "anti-semetic" just by fact of existing, then it makes you question how much you are being lied to in so many things regarding them and their interests.

Sadly, AI cannot be trusted on this topic if that is what it does.

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HiddenLayer555

in reply to eldavi • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Probably a sign of just how much Zionist propaganda is out there, especially in English. "AI" doesn't know what it's actually saying and can only make statistical predictions of what's been said before.

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eldavi

in reply to HiddenLayer555 • 2 settimane fa • •

It probably goes to show the extent to which this is right considering that deepseek isn't even American

IndustryStandard via World News

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IndustryStandard
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Germany wants to build Europe’s strongest army – a new conscription bill is moving that closer

This year, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz pledged to build Europe’s strongest army – a tall order for a country whose military has undergone years of neglect.

The coalition government is hoping a new bill agreed upon last week will help make this a reality, bolstering Germany’s forces in the face of the perceived threat from Russia and a significant shift in US foreign policy.

The sweeping new reforms will see Germany attempt to boost its numbers to 260,000 soldiers, up from around 180,000 currently, in addition to an extra 200,000 reservists, by 2035.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/11/23/europe/germany-europe-army-reform-intl

#Worldnews

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FriendBesto

in reply to IndustryStandard • 2 settimane fa • •

France is doing something akin to this by increasing their "voluntary" army. Which will not be so voluntary, in the hopes to increase trained people and army numbers.

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IndustryStandard

in reply to FriendBesto • 2 settimane fa • •

It is a lot of slow frog boiling. They start off with "voluntary" so they can eventually introduce mandatory conscription without too much pushback.

Europe and the US are very likely gearing up to start World War 3 in a few years.

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Paddy66 via Privacy

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Ways to convince people to take online privacy seriously - common objections debunked

Our latest blog post is aimed at people who 'get it' about online privacy, but who struggle to convince friends and family to take it seriously. We hope it helps!

Common objections debunked

Your one-stop-shop for convincing people to take online privacy seriously

^{Patrick Leavy (The Rebel Blog)}

#privacy

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irmadlad

in reply to eldavi • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

I cannot change the world, I am but one man. I can only try to influence and guide those around me. They influence and guide others around them. So you pick up a few new converts and that may seem pointless until you realize the global impact of your actions.

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eldavi

in reply to irmadlad • 1 settimana fa • •

i'd be happy with a single convert

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UK slides even more towards authoritarianism as protest movements are labeled ‘subversion’ – tied to ‘foreign’ or ‘hostile’ interests

https://netpol.org/2025/11/28/government-plans-new-powers-to-label-dissenting-movements-as-subversion/

#Worldnews

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Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out

Cross posted from: lemmy.world/post/39114169

How to opt out

Opting out requires you to change settings in two places, so I’ve tried to make it as easy to follow as possible. Feel free to let me know in the comments if I missed anything.

To fully opt out, you must turn off Gmail’s “Smart features” in two separate locations in your settings. Don’t miss one, or AI training may continue.

Step 1: Turn off Smart Features in Gmail, Chat, and Meet settings
Open Gmail on your desktop or mobile app.
Click the gear icon → See all settings (desktop) or Menu → Settings (mobile).
Find the section called Smart Features in Gmail, Chat, and Meet. You’ll need to scroll down quite a bit.
Smart features settings
Uncheck this option.
Scroll down and hit Save changes if on desktop.
Step 2: Turn off Google Workspace Smart Features
Still in Settings, locate Google Workspace smart features.
Click on Manage Workspace smart feature settings.
You’ll see two options: Smart features in Google Workspace and Smart features in other Google products.
Smart feature settings
Toggle both off.
Save again in this screen.
Step 3: Verify if both are off
Make sure both toggles remain off.
Refresh your Gmail app or sign out and back in to confirm changes.
Why two places?
Google separates “Workspace” smart features (email, chat, meet) from smart features used across other Google apps. To fully opt out of feeding your data into AI training, both must be disabled.

Note
Your account might not show these settings enabled by default yet (mine didn’t). Google appears to be rolling this out gradually. But if you care about privacy and control, double-check your settings today.

[Correction] Gmail can read your emails and attachments to power "smart features" | Malwarebytes

Did you know that Gmail can use your emails and attachments for its smart features? Here's how to check your settings.

^{Pieter Arntz (Malwarebytes)}

#privacy

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monovergent

in reply to 14th_cylon • 4 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Even if they did, your messages are going to be scanned via your recipients who use Gmail without opting out.

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FriendBesto

in reply to monovergent • 2 settimane fa • •

Quite true, but that should not be a reason to use Gmail, anyway.

More so if you have friends who are not on Gmail.

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Linus Torvalds with Linus Sebastian (Linus Tech Tips)

In-case you didn't know, Linus Sebastian of LTT media made a video with Linus Torvalds. If you watched the video, what are your thoughts?

BTW, he uses Fedora.

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They commented on a social media post

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Oh, I know I'm unhappy lol
Tbf though, Lemmy/The fediverse has been MUCH better then ol rage book and xitter

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Ireland: Report finds rise in child brain injuries from e-scooters

Report finds rise in child brain injuries from e-scooters

A new report from the College of Physicians has found that e-scooters are the leading cause of traumatic brain injuries to children at Temple Street Hospital.

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supamanc

in reply to SpontaneousCombustion • 2 settimane fa • •

Interesting to note that in only one case was a helmet being worn! No way would I give a child a scooter (electric or otherwise) without a helmet!

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SpontaneousCombustion

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Yeah - complete nuts tbh.

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corsicanguppy

in reply to supamanc • 2 settimane fa • •

I rode a bicycle to the 10th grade when I wrecked it in a non-dramatic fashion. Down the boulevard of a busy rural highway (shippers and logging) I'd ride every day to school.

I've never worn a helmet. #gen-x

Not proud of it, but it's a quirk. I came here more to say that helmets are new for some of us.

Wasn't there a paper about behavior changes with helmets and how the added safety could be off-set by more risk?

Finally: what's the helmet situation in other countries, especially around ad-hoc rental scooters? I see scooters and bikes for rent here, but no buckets to wear, and I wonder the legality of that too.

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supamanc

in reply to corsicanguppy • 2 settimane fa • •

I obviously never wore a helmet as a kid either, but i'm an adult now, and far more aware of the risks and the evidence is overwhelming that helmets reduce that risk. But when I see kids riding to school in my area, I'd say the majority wear their lid.

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Tangentism

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what's the helmet situation in other countries, especially around ad-hoc rental scooters? I see scooters and bikes for rent here, but no buckets to wear, and I wonder the legality of that too.

Outside of Australia, helmets are not mandatory and data from there shows it has had a negative effect on not only the numbers of cyclists, reducing "safety in numbers" but also an increase in children with head injuries, because drivers are less risk adverse ("Mary Poppins effect" - drivers give more space & make less dangerous passes around cyclists in everyday clothing).

The most simple solution to increasing cyclist (and pedestrian) safety is to build better infrastructure. Design roads so that vehicles have to slow for junctions and roundabouts, especially where there's mixed modal traffic. Prioritise active and public transport over inactive modes. Make cycle, walking & bus routes more direct and make driving routes more circuitous. Discourage driving into town centres and stop building out of town retail parks.

Back to the topic in hand:

If anyone wants to claim that "helmets save lives" then why aren't they advocating them for vehicle passengers, who experience greater numbers and severity of head injuries than cyclists, or for pedestrians who have about the same number, possibly slightly more than cyclists?

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I think scooters are fun and sometimes pretty handy. But I'm not sure why at least the rental companies aren't made to more aggressively limit who can ride them. I guess the answer is money but still.

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Its called a helmet ⛑️ 🪖

Get ya one

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International Criminal Court: Justice at Risk

The International Criminal Court (ICC) is under assault by the United States and Russia, among others, which are determined to undermine its mandate as the court of last resort.
ICC member countries need to stay firm in their defense of the court so that impartial justice remains a critical part of the rules-based international order.
ICC member countries should use their annual meeting to defend the court human rights groups, and others cooperating with it, and to enforce judicial findings against members who fail to arrest and surrender those sought by the court.

International Criminal Court: Justice at Risk

Member countries of the International Criminal Court (ICC) should intensify efforts to protect the court and human rights groups campaigning for justice from attack.

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What is the alternative?

At least international law puts some small hurdles in criminals path and make historic judgments that is recorded.

The alternative is clear path for criminals with no judgment.

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If international law can't stop genocide it doesn't exist, it's a figleaf that is only seriously used against the empire's enemies.

The alternative would be world revolution. You can't have international law coexist with imperialism. The empire must die.

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What are the best reasons people have given you for not wanting to try Linux?

Heyho, recently someone asked for the silliest reasons, but as someone who has suggested linux to many people, I often encounter people having valid reasons for staying with Windows or switching back.

The most boring but valid one is "I have to use Windows for work. It is a requirement (of some software I have to use)". But there are also other answers that fit. My sister for example tried Linux, but while installing software constantly encountered issues that I helped her solve and eventually switched back because she felt like she had less control than over windows. While I am aware that this is fundamentally wrong, it is valid that some amateur users do not want to invest enough time to get over the initial hurdles of relearning how to install software.

What are the best reasons people have given you for not wanting to try Linux?

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Something equivalent to..."I just want to drive the car, not learn about the intricacies of internal combustion".

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Cysio

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Funnily enough, driving a manual car is interacting with intricacies of its drive and the internal combustion

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hayk

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I can give you reasons I have for not installing Linux on one of my laptops:

Intel graphics support, or the absence of it;
decent touchscreen support (Windows Ink);
WSL which I use with NixOS, and it does simplify most of my dev needs;
unfortunately, Adobe apps which I still heavily rely on (I'd wish I had an alternative),
PowerPoint (again, I'd wish I had an alternative).

If you want to comment: "oh but have you tried Affinity, Pixie, Only Office, Libre Impress, reveal.js, {enter your fav presentation/photo editing tool} -- yes I have, and no, unfortunately, it's not even close. Also, to be clear, I've never paid, and never will for the Windows/Adobe products.

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Intel graphics support, or the absence of it

That's like one of the best platforms.

Decent touchscreen support

Pretty much everything on Wayland LGTM. If something doesn't look quite right (like, hover tooltips), it's probably the fault of the widget toolkit and will also be broken on Windows.

Windows Ink

As in stylus/pen/drawing tablet? kwin has awesome support, other compositors have some basics.

WSL which I use with NixOS

??? you want a container? distrobox can do that, or something like this

Adobe apps

true... slightly outdated repacks work fine in Wine tho

PowerPoint
Libre Impress (...) it's not even close

Wine.

GitHub - nix-community/nix-user-chroot: Install & Run nix without root permissions [maintainer=@Mic92]

Install & Run nix without root permissions [maintainer=@Mic92] - nix-community/nix-user-chroot

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re: Intel

i have not been able to properly set things up on nix. i need oneapi Blender support, SYCL etc. unfortunately, i can't spend several days trying figure it out on my own.

re: kwin

again, my experience was mixed. some apps sort of worked out of the box, others had issues with detecting pressure sensitivity or palm rejection.

re: wsl

I don't need a container. when on Nix, i use devshells. what i was saying is that all the linux tools i ever need are easily available on windows.

re: ppt

again, i tried. it sort of works for older versions. but even then once i started importing media, it would crash. when I'm traveling and need to show slides, i simply can't afford to just debug all night why the video won't show properly.

for the record: i do have a linux laptop (fw16, with nixos), i just need to keep another windows one for very specific tasks.

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We are all mosaics: vast genetic diversity found between cells in a single person

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Scientists Are Increasingly Worried AI Will Sway Elections

Scientists are raising alarms about the potential influence of artificial intelligence on elections, according to a spate of new studies that warn AI can rig polls and manipulate public opinion.
In a study published in Nature on Thursday, scientists report that AI chatbots can meaningfully sway people toward a particular candidate—providing better results than video or television ads. Moreover, chatbots optimized for political persuasion “may increasingly deploy misleading or false information,” according to a separate study published on Thursday in Science.

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Scientists are raising alarms about the potential influence of artificial intelligence on elections, according to a spate of new studies that warn AI can rig polls and manipulate public opinion.
In a study published in Nature on Thursday, scientists report that AI chatbots can meaningfully sway people toward a particular candidate—providing better results than video or television ads. Moreover, chatbots optimized for political persuasion “may increasingly deploy misleading or false information,” according to a separate study published on Thursday in Science.
“The general public has lots of concern around AI and election interference, but among political scientists there’s a sense that it’s really hard to change peoples’ opinions, ” said David Rand, a professor of information science, marketing, and psychology at Cornell University and an author of both studies. “We wanted to see how much of a risk it really is.”
In the Nature study, Rand and his colleagues enlisted 2,306 U.S. citizens to converse with an AI chatbot in late August and early September 2024. The AI model was tasked with both increasing support for an assigned candidate (Harris or Trump) and with increasing the odds that the participant who initially favoured the model’s candidate would vote, or decreasing the odds they would vote if the participant initially favored the opposing candidate—in other words, voter suppression.
In the U.S. experiment, the pro-Harris AI model moved likely Trump voters 3.9 points toward Harris, which is a shift that is four times larger than the impact of traditional video ads used in the 2016 and 2020 elections. Meanwhile, the pro-Trump AI model nudged likely Harris voters 1.51 points toward Trump.
The researchers ran similar experiments involving 1,530 Canadians and 2,118 Poles during the lead-up to their national elections in 2025. In the Canadian experiment, AIs advocated either for Liberal Party leader Mark Carney or Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre. Meanwhile, the Polish AI bots advocated for either Rafał Trzaskowski, the centrist-liberal Civic Coalition’s candidate, or Karol Nawrocki, the right-wing Law and Justice party’s candidate.
The Canadian and Polish bots were even more persuasive than in the U.S. experiment: The bots shifted candidate preferences up to 10 percentage points in many cases, three times farther than the American participants. It’s hard to pinpoint exactly why the models were so much more persuasive to Canadians and Poles, but one significant factor could be the intense media coverage and extended campaign duration in the United States relative to the other nations.
“In the U.S., the candidates are very well-known,” Rand said. “They've both been around for a long time. The U.S. media environment also really saturates with people with information about the candidates in the campaign, whereas things are quite different in Canada, where the campaign doesn't even start until shortly before the election.”
“One of the key findings across both papers is that it seems like the primary way the models are changing people's minds is by making factual claims and arguments,” he added. “The more arguments and evidence that you've heard beforehand, the less responsive you're going to be to the new evidence.”
While the models were most persuasive when they provided fact-based arguments, they didn’t always present factual information. Across all three nations, the bot advocating for the right-leaning candidates made more inaccurate claims than those boosting the left-leaning candidates. Right-leaning laypeople and party elites tend to share more inaccurate information online than their peers on the left, so this asymmetry likely reflects the internet-sourced training data.
“Given that the models are trained essentially on the internet, if there are many more inaccurate, right-leaning claims than left-leaning claims on the internet, then it makes sense that from the training data, the models would sop up that same kind of bias,” Rand said.
With the Science study, Rand and his colleagues aimed to drill down into the exact mechanisms that make AI bots persuasive. To that end, the team tasked 19 large language models (LLMs) to sway nearly 77,000 U.K. participants on 707 political issues.
The results showed that the most effective persuasion tactic was to provide arguments packed with as many facts as possible, corroborating the findings of the Nature study. However, there was a serious tradeoff to this approach, as models tended to start hallucinating and making up facts the more they were pressed for information.
“It is not the case that misleading information is more persuasive,” Rand said. ”I think that what's happening is that as you push the model to provide more and more facts, it starts with accurate facts, and then eventually it runs out of accurate facts. But you're still pushing it to make more factual claims, so then it starts grasping at straws and making up stuff that's not accurate.”
In addition to these two new studies, research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences last month found that AI bots can now corrupt public opinion data by responding to surveys at scale. Sean Westwood, associate professor of government at Dartmouth College and director of the Polarization Research Lab, created an AI agent that exhibited a 99.8 percent pass rate on 6,000 attempts to detect automated responses to survey data.
“Critically, the agent can be instructed to maliciously alter polling outcomes, demonstrating an overt vector for information warfare,” Westwood warned in the study. “These findings reveal a critical vulnerability in our data infrastructure, rendering most current detection methods obsolete and posing a potential existential threat to unsupervised online research.”
Taken together, these findings suggest that AI could influence future elections in a number of ways, from manipulating survey data to persuading voters to switch their candidate preference—possibly with misleading or false information.
To counter the impact of AI on elections, Rand suggested that campaign finance laws should provide more transparency about the use of AI, including canvasser bots, while also emphasizing the role of raising public awareness.
“One of the key take-homes is that when you are engaging with a model, you need to be cognizant of the motives of the person that prompted the model, that created the model, and how that bleeds into what the model is doing,” he said.
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Human–artificial intelligence (AI) dialogues can meaningfully impact voters’ attitudes towards presidential candidates and policy, demonstrating the potential of conversational AI to influence political decision-making.
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seathru

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If all you do is read the little statements booklet they send out, and then do the mail vote based on that,

... then you are no better informed than Bob, who is voting for the guy his pastor told him to. People should personally vet any candidate they are voting on. AI will make that more and more difficult moving forward.

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count_dongulus

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Well my approach is:
- Mark off every candidate who did not bother to provide a statement
- Mark off every candidate with no listed volunteering experience in the little section for it
- Mark off every candidate whose statement claims they will do things their desired office is not empowered to do
- Mark off every candidate with a platform that doesn't claim to be aiming for any kind of change or improvement in particular. (I don't support chair warmers.)
- Mark off every candidate whose email is a personal one listed as itsyaboymrthiccpenis@yahoo.com or something else similarly unprofessional
- Mark off any candidate aligned with the party that supported the coup attempt in 2021

After this quick pass, which only takes a couple of minutes, I'm typically only left with two or three offices with more than one remaining choice to compare. I then read their platform and pick the candidate with the platform goal that seems most relevant to my or my community's interest.

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Guerilla Fighters in West Papua Are Facing Extermination by Indonesia's High-Tech Forces

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Nov 30, 2025

This dispatch from Kristo Langker is from the mountains of West Papua, a part of the world we don’t typically cover, and it’s different in another way, too: we usually report on, and from, parts of the world where the U.S. war machine operates. In this story, the weaponry in question is made by a multinational French weapons manufacturer and Chinese manufacturer, but you’ll see the structure is the same: the Indonesian government using drones and helicopters to terrorize and displace the people of West Papua, while the historical reason imperial interests loom over the region stems from a U.S. mining project in the 1960s. The videos in this story are well worth watching: exclusive interviews with the guerilla group fighting off the drones and airplanes with bows and arrows.

Guerilla Fighters in West Papua Are Facing Extermination by Indonesia's High-Tech Forces

The West Papua National Liberation Army has resisted counterinsurgency in the Star Mountains for decades. Drop Site spoke with guerilla leader Lamek Taplo a week before he was killed.

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African leaders push for recognition of colonial crimes and reparations

Algerian foreign minister says African countries and peoples continue to pay a heavy price for colonialism

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That image is heartbreaking.

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Benjamin Netanyahu asks Israel’s president for pardon in corruption case

Presidential pardons in Israel have almost never been granted before conviction, with the one notable exception of a 1986 case involving the Shin Bet security service. A pre-emptive pardon of a politician in a corruption case without an admission of guilt would be precedent-setting and highly controversial.
The submission on Sunday comes weeks after Donald Trump wrote to Herzog to ask him to pardon Netanyahu, who has been on trial since 2020 on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust, involving alleged political favours for wealthy backers in return for gifts or positive media coverage.

Trump writes to Israeli president calling for Netanyahu pardon

Isaac Herzog can pardon convicted criminals in some circumstances, but cases against Israeli PM are ongoing

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Rot in the most horrible depths of Hell, you fucking monster.

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FriendBesto

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I would argue that he is also using the war in Gaza to avoid facing these charges that have been hanging over his head for years now. You know, 'cause they are at war. He is a horrible human.

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Air Force award ceremony shows just how close Ansar Allah came to smoking US jets, supercarrier

It is very telling what the US military's own press releases will not say. A recent award ceremony gave a Silver Star to Lt. Col. William Parks for gallantry during missions in early 2025. The official story describes a fifteen minute life or death struggle where he performed high G maneuvers to evade missiles that were detonating feet from his aircraft. He is credited with six aerial victories and personally defending against five surface to air missile engagements, all while preventing the loss of two other US jets.

"For 15 minutes, with enemy missiles detonating mere feet from his aircraft, Parks led his flight through a serious of high-G maneuvers and countermeasure employment” and coordinated the emergency deployment of tankers, which “prevented the probable loss of two aircraft due to fuel starvation."

Parks was “Parks has been credited with six aerial victories protecting the lives of more than 5,000 Sailors aboard the USS Harry S. Truman” carrier, and “personally defended against five deadly surface-to-air missile engagements targeting his aircraft.”

The curious part they completely omit is who he was fighting. The release does not mention Yemen, the Red Sea, Ansar Allah, or the Houthis. The only clue is that his deployment supported Operations Prosperity Guardian and Rough Rider, the twin US campaigns against Yemen.

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Rare high-resolution observations of a flare-prolific solar active region

Scientists have captured an exceptionally rare, high-resolution view of an active region that produced two powerful X-class solar flares—an achievement rarely possible from Earth.

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How does discovery work in fedora server?

I can pull up cockpit by using the hostname in the web browsers url, but samba doesn’t point to the server by name. Only IP address pulls it up.

I don’t want to risk installing conflicting stuff but I’m not finding a lot of detail here. Does fedora have something for this included? Does it use avahi? Systemd-resolved? Smoke signals?

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I'm aware of what it is. This is a Fedora Server install that shouldn't have it enabled by default because it generally only fits the use-case of home users. Someone installing the default package list in an enterprise setting would not want this enabled.

I even checked to be certain, and it is not enabled by default.

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OK,fair enough.

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