M1ch431
@M1ch431@slrpnk.net
- Comment on Based and Red Pilled Gigachad, many such cases 😔 2 days ago:
I really appreciate that, I’ll consider taking you up on that after I get blood-work next.
- Comment on Based and Red Pilled Gigachad, many such cases 😔 2 days ago:
At this rate, everything in the last decade or last few years or even in the past few months has been nearly unpredictable. Thanks for chatting even if strong emotions flew around. I am not your enemy and we may have more common ground than I initially thought. Take care.
- Comment on Based and Red Pilled Gigachad, many such cases 😔 2 days ago:
I hope you are right.
- Comment on Based and Red Pilled Gigachad, many such cases 😔 2 days ago:
I think it’s the global wealthy, but same.
I concede, but I think some are more prepared than others.
I think our legal system as its bare bones isn’t bad.
Perhaps there are solid foundations present, but slow reform will not save us. We literally can’t afford to delay immediate action.
Yeah again my plans are not your business and not something I discuss online. Youre giving off Fed energy over there.
You were free to not engage, that was me being incredibly brave in light of recent developments. I don’t take great measures to hide my identity online and I don’t care to.
The documentary is direct evidence, primary sources, and specific excerpts. Literally there’s even pictures. It’s so solid as evidence and as a case, they didn’t even get sued by Trump over it (avoiding discovery).
Then why didn’t the US government under Biden take action? I’m serious. I immediately told you I’d check them out, I am aware of the allegations loosely being made by at least the book from other sources.
If you want to do this democratically - then go to the protests and town halls and talk to people. Go ahead. I’m not stopping you, there are many movements like that already.
We need country-scale action. I spend most of my days living with impaired health, bed-bound - I can do only so much by myself. I’m doing my best to improve my health when doctors aren’t trying to kill me. I have had extremely life-threatening encounters with the healthcare system.
I can tell you’ve never been homeless or did anything with the homeless network.
I have lived in a rural area, in poverty, without much dignity at all, and with chronic illness my entire life. I am gay, autistic, regularly discriminated against, I have experienced prolonged sexual abuse with absolutely no support, and I am effectively a dissident in the state I live in. And I have volunteered to directly help the homeless in the past. I’m not the vanguard, I’m just giving small nudges here and there where I can and am able.
- Comment on Based and Red Pilled Gigachad, many such cases 😔 2 days ago:
I think if the rich kill everyone, they will also die.
They have been preparing for decades, at least. You are free to believe what you want though.
They want the Fallout games to become reality. It’s almost certain. Fuck all of that. Pushing the development of AI unsustainably in a way that other countries can mirror (e.g. China) is suicide for the country, besides them.
- Comment on Based and Red Pilled Gigachad, many such cases 😔 2 days ago:
Russia has been capable for a decade now and again, has been propped up by China including the use of NK.
Disagree. Russia will see a coup or revolution before a proper war. They have utterly failed against Ukraine, it’s unbelievable to me how much they have failed. I have been observing the invasion, now and again, from before day 1.
Suicide for the human race? Duh. And that’s climate change.
See my instance. I’m aware. I can say for sure that the oligarchy here in America wants the whole world to perish while they wait it out in their self-sufficient bunkers.
Then don’t use it. Just like we have a post office, and UPS. But you need communications to be centralized somewhat lol, that’s how communcation works. You also wouldn’t say anything on there you wouldn’t say in a Town Hall, it would be your official profile. The power structure also wouldn’t be as centralized as regular social media- that’s why you can sue and demand things, based on constitution and bill of rights and other laws. That means you actually have ppwer over it.
I argue for decentralized, loosely standardized, democratic, socialist structures. The legal system is absolutely and completely busted. I really shouldn’t need to get into that. Hopefully you can agree that the Supreme Court is beyond saving. Your idea is a fantasy, but it’s a nice one if there was any state that truly represented its populace. I do value it though, and even if I call it a fantasy, I like it in theory.
There’s no legal way for us to depose the government or even to suggest to depose the government. I would never organize to depose the government.
Guess we just let Trump destroy the government and install a dictatorship…
I disagree, we do have power. This government is entirely ineffective, even before Trump rose to power, and I’m not going to roll over and lose any semblance of democracy - I’m going to do my best to save democracy with democracy. Hopefully you come to agree at some point. I never imagined to hear you use legality as an excuse. Trump and the current administration are taking a shit on our legislative branch and our laws in a general sense. 77 million voted for Trump. There may be around 290 million citizens. There are approximately 344 million people living in the US. The numbers are there to take back democracy with democracy. I am completely serious.
Complicated topics cannot be summarized in a Tweet or Lemmy post, they take time like books, long form media, or yes, documentaries and news interviews, gasp.
If people in debates are told to source their claims, they provide the direct context, and there is a preference towards direct evidence, primary sources, and specific excerpts.
- Comment on Based and Red Pilled Gigachad, many such cases 😔 2 days ago:
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I -already- said I am acutely aware of recent developments. We disagree. Russia is not capable, India is unstable, and China is likely to let Russia fail as they essentially already have been. World war is absolute suicide for the human race.
I am not saying to ban other social media, I am saying as a cornerstone of democracy, we need to be able to have forums with our government in official and secure ways, that we can track, and sue over free speech violations. We cannot do that with private companies including private servers. You can just get banned and silenced. Further, we should have streamlined ways of getting government notices, recalls, and contacting our officials. No upvotes or ads allowed.
If I trusted my government, I’d be more inclined to agree with you. I’ve been lied to and gaslit far too much. My government didn’t represent my interests or the interests of the American people even under Obama. Centralized power structures are literally the problem causing every single thing we are talking about, for the most part.
so we DON’T have power
Let’s organize a vote of no-confidence to depose our government because it’s all kinds of fucked up.
No, you don’t manage my feelings, and further, your edits messed with my other comment and made it reset. So I think I get to be annoyed that it cost me an extra 15min of my life trying to tell you stuff that you couldve googled yourself because you’re so geopolitically ignorant.
You edited your initial response to me after posting. I caught your comment before you finished.
Linking me documentaries instead of primary sources does not respect my time.
- Comment on Based and Red Pilled Gigachad, many such cases 😔 2 days ago:
I want to thank you for sourcing most of your claims and engaging with me in good faith. I wish you sourced the claim I specifically pointed out, but alas, I’ll engage with what you posted.
Please see American Kompromat by Unger and Active Measures documentary linked elsewhere itt.
I’ll will give it a watch at a later time when I get over my illness, but the rise of Trump surely didn’t have anything to do with the DNC and Clinton campaign pushing Trump as a pied piper candidate and telling the media to take him seriously. Russia did not make the mainstream media mention him an uncountable number of times. Russia also does not fund domestic right-wing organizations that back Trump to the best of my knowledge.
From the verified, leaked DNC memo sent by the Clinton campaign in 2015:
Our hope is that the goal of a potential HRC campaign and the DNC would be one-‐in-‐the-‐same: to make whomever the Republicans nominate unpalatable to a majority of the electorate. We have outlined three strategies to obtain our goal:
- Force all Republican candidates to lock themselves into extreme conservative positions that will hurt them in a general election;
In this scenario, we don’t want to marginalize the more extreme candidates, but make them more “Pied Piper” candidates who actually represent the mainstream of the Republican Party. Pied Piper candidates include, but aren’t limited to: • Ted Cruz • Donald Trump • Ben Carson
We need to be elevating the Pied Piper candidates so that they are leaders of the pack and tell the press to them seriously.
It’s clear that the press took him seriously.
Regarding illicit content/ snuff, here’s a much smaller example with monkey torture rings: www.bbc.com/news/world-65951188
I’m not sure if that’s relevant to the discussion.
Torture by Putin’s admin in prisons: www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62465043
I don’t disbelieve that.
Cyberwarfare by Russia, including propaganda: geopoliticalmonitor.com/exploring-cyber-darkness-…
Not entirely relevant to the discussion, but a lot of these vectors could be mitigated through sane practices like not exposing our e.g. energy infrastructure to the open web.
Long read, got through most of it. States and our country being broadly incompetent with our voting systems is well-known. We can do better at any point and standardize systems, increase oversight and transparency, improve efficiency, and vastly improve security. Experts and other influential figures have been sounding the alarm for a long time.
[sources of election interference in Europe]
I don’t live in these countries and I did not experience these happenings, but I will say that it is incredibly more plausible to me that Russia is more overtly influencing European politics, and I don’t need a wealth of evidence to hold that position. Thanks for the links though, I will check them out on my own time.
Crypto funds rightwing extremists, usually in preparation for an election takeover: www.defenseone.com/threats/2025/01/…/402427/
Unregulated, speculative, and essentially untraceable currency should not have ever been able to be converted to other currencies. I am unsurprised, but at the same time we can do better.
[various sources relating to the Ukraine sovereignty conflict]
I am a believer in sovereignty and I support the people of Ukraine. I’ll leave it at that.
[various sources relating to Musk & Starlink]
Yes, Musk is very likely a traitor and is not a good-faith actor. The facts are in evidence, yet you are the first person I have seen consolidating this information.
Lol you sweet summer child. There’s a world war coming, the entire EU has been unable to stop this.
The EU has done nothing concrete on multiple fronts. The Biden administration also largely abandoned Ukraine…
I don’t see a world war or a civil war coming, call me naive but I feel there is little appetite from populaces across the world. I don’t believe China would seriously position themselves with Russia against the world, despite recent developments which I am aware of. Again, maybe I’m naive, but I’ll hold my position.
Yes, had we had a national online forum, this could’ve been prevented.
I disagree, I am a firm believer in decentralized social media. I dislike Lemmy and other fediverse platforms for a few key reasons that we may agree on, but they are the best we have currently. Specific countries could regulate or tailor decentralized media to fit their needs.
- Comment on Based and Red Pilled Gigachad, many such cases 😔 2 days ago:
You can source your claims. I’ll wait. There is too much here that is hyperbole and not based in reality.
If a majority of right-wing influencers are literally and currently traitors, that is a serious accusation and requires serious proof.
- Comment on Based and Red Pilled Gigachad, many such cases 😔 2 days ago:
What are some major talking points that Russia seeded in their heads that persist to this day? These people are pro-American in their minds - many likely believe they are more pro-American than anybody else.
- Comment on Based and Red Pilled Gigachad, many such cases 😔 2 days ago:
You’ve fallen for propaganda that convinces you that there is an external enemy to worry about instead of actually looking at the situation critically. Right-wing organizations drive right-wing talking points.
They’ve sown distrust of traditional media and of democratic institutions
Pretty sure they did that to themselves. I didn’t need Russia feeding me propaganda to see through the bullshit, and many others reached that conclusion on their own. The Fairness Doctrine being repealed is one big reason why traditional media failed. Russia didn’t do that.
they’ve polarised discourse to that communities that mostly rubbed alongside one another reasonably well now are so idealogically opposed to each other that the middle ground has evaporated.
Right-wingers and liberals alike have polarized discourse. Leftists aren’t innocent either, especially MLs (many whom seem to be biased towards Russia), but there are plenty that I have interacted with that or witnessed that were exceedingly fair and human.
Liberals blame anybody to the left of them for not falling in line, constantly mock or berate them for demanding better, and do absolutely nothing to meaningfully do anything to improve their preferred party or improve the human condition in America. As for the right, we all know what they do.
middle ground has evaporated.
Politics and governance shouldn’t be a game of tug of war where the right have a monster truck pulling their side and Democrats pretending to hold the rope on their side.
- Comment on Based and Red Pilled Gigachad, many such cases 😔 2 days ago:
How is Russia controlling their talking points now? Is everybody on the right threatened, blackmailed, or are otherwise under duress? We know they aren’t the most intelligent bunch, but they are being traitors for their own reasons - for the most part.
The major talking points mostly came from the aforementioned organizations and outlets even when some of these people were being paid.
- Comment on Based and Red Pilled Gigachad, many such cases 😔 2 days ago:
If you look into it an amazing amount of them are further funded by Russia.
You seem to know more than me based on your response. You are claiming an amazing amount are presently funded by Russia, source?
Do these people also take money from right-wing organizations?
- Comment on Based and Red Pilled Gigachad, many such cases 😔 2 days ago:
Yeah, let’s just ignore the right-wing think tanks, conservative/MAGA influencers who aren’t on Russia’s payroll, and right-wing “news” organizations. It’s totally just the Russia and not right-wingers trying to destroy the country to grab all the power for themselves…
- Comment on 'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed' 5 days ago:
That’s just the inherent cost of going with general purpose engines.
Some studios are able to use general purpose engines very well, others not so much. It seems like there is a level of expertise needed to make well-oiled games.
- Comment on Who could have predicted this? 2 weeks ago:
It is primarily for those who want to be in control of there computing.
Which becomes more and more weighty by the day, even for casual users. Bitlocker being enabled by default is a time-bomb waiting to explode.
For me, I had to switch to Linux earlier this year due to strange issues with bluetooth audio cutting out when my monitors went to sleep and game stuttering/poor performance on Windows.
- Comment on My brother got arrested for a dime bag. His picture got put up on the jails website. And they advertise. So shouldn't my brother get paid at least a little for providing clicks? 3 weeks ago:
It should be able to be wiped clean, and not ever be published to the internet without safeguards to prevent AI-scraping/people search websites for picking it up. These websites should block anybody without a legitimate or reasonable need to know that information - it’s also not news-worthy to systematically report on arrests that are e.g. victimless and not tied to a notable event.
If you want it completely publicly accessible, that should be a right upon arrest.
- Comment on Google will throttle your Pixel 10's battery, and there's nothing you can do about it 4 weeks ago:
Companies that use child slavery and modern slavery in their batteries holding people hostage to their decisions about your personal devices…sounds about right.
- Comment on In 3.5 years, Notepad.exe has gone from “barely maintained” to “it writes for you” 3 months ago:
And how much slower is it to launch and use?
- Comment on Bluesky Is Plotting a Total Takeover of the Social Internet 3 months ago:
We don’t have a hate boner. We see “decentralized” being thrown around like a buzzword and we see that it really doesn’t apply to their platform.
It’s like “Libertarians” taking the word “libertarian” and shifting the meaning to describe their ideology. It’s a distortion of the spirit of the word.
- Comment on End of 10 is a campaign to move people over to Linux with Windows 10 support ending 4 months ago:
KDE was fairly seamless for me, Zorin does have lots of merit though for making Gnome/XFCE more usable/accessible. My workflow basically didn’t change.
- Comment on End of 10 is a campaign to move people over to Linux with Windows 10 support ending 4 months ago:
Nice, that’s big.
- Comment on is it ableist to “support equal rights and those with disabilities” but think someone is terrible and doesn’t deserve rights for showing signs of a disability? 4 months ago:
I read enough of OP’s comments and looked at their past commenting/post history and it was pretty clear that it was a cry for help. It wasn’t for karma, they deleted their account.
- Comment on is it ableist to “support equal rights and those with disabilities” but think someone is terrible and doesn’t deserve rights for showing signs of a disability? 4 months ago:
Everybody deserves kindness, compassion, and empathy.
Ableist people also include people that idealize not being ableist. They come up with excuses like, “I’m not being ableist, I’m just giving you hard love!” or, “You need to do what I say and do it exactly how I say because I care about you!”.
There was a reddit thread where many people were dog-piling on a severely disabled person. The person was diagnosed with autism with intellectual disability, a severe heart condition, severe PTSD, and ADHD.
Many people came into the thread to say that they were making up their disability, that they should be institutionalized, that they were a troll because their doctor wouldn’t give them bad advice to deal with their heart condition, and so forth.