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I’m optimistic in this regard. I think the future you’re describing is already here. Their grasp on social media is stronger than ever, but they’ve overplayed their hand. It grows more clear every day that these platforms are nothing but tools of social conditioning and control. The popular resentment for these platforms rivals the political parties themselves, and likely exceeds that of the traditional media. I mean, how’s Mark Zuckerburg polling lately?
Should be enforced on streets with pedestrian traffic, not open highways.
The Lord works in mysterious ways.
Real “they’ll sell us the rope” hours.
Actual site with the list appears to be getting DDOS’d right now.
God did they really try standing this thing up on MediaWiki? (I can’t tell, but after several minutes I got a 500 error with a message about PHP). This kind of shit needs to be a static HTML file with minimal attack surface. It needs to be something that can be trivially downloaded in full, archived, and shared. You are hosting the greatest threat to US domestic law enforcement on the internet on something with an attack surface the size of O’Hare International Airport, and your threat model is literally the final boss of threat models.
Anyway, it’s really cool and I hope the information finds its way to the people who need it.
This is probably not as high up on the list, but the fact that the uprising in 2020 was able to collect at least one scalp (Derek Chauvin behind bars) is seen by the right as a total defeat, despite the fact that the movement won no reforms and the militarization of the police continued completely unhindered.
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The thing is, they don’t think they’re lying. They think that if we were telling them the truth, this information would inevitably permeate the highest echelons of institutional media and academia. They operate under an epistemological framework where these institutions are cornerstone of reality, and any fact or historical occurrence they haven’t acknowledged is suspect.
The idea that powerful ideologues of American imperialism like Alan Dershowitz and Larry Summers can wield their high positions at an institution like Harvard University to skew the trajectory of academics doesn’t even enter their minds. They barely grasp the idea that there’s a reason why people like Jeff Bezos would buy the Washington Post.
As a disclaimer one of my best friends recommended I try it out (He has been using Fedora for years ) he also works in IT so should something go wrong I have someone a phone call away that could help me.
The availability of this personal support is a better reason to try it than any of the mundane technical differences. That said, Fedora is my go-to choice for any machine which isn’t a server and doesn’t justify substantial effort in customization and maintenance. It has been my laptop OS for 10 years now.
Dude wants to put another star on the flag
A comrade on Mastodon explained the situation very succinctly earlier today: https://mast.lat/@VENECO/115882956268990907
(edited machine translation):
As a citizen of a besieged, blockaded and sanctioned country, I can only repeat to people who care about Iranians that they must demand the lifting of the cruel Western sanctions designed to punish ordinary people, cause misery, and cause unrest.
No country can “reform” and freely determine its future while under the attack of external enemies determined to subjugate it.
The Westerners have no other role with regard to our countries but to pressure their respective regimes to end their decades of imperialist aggression and interventions.
It’s not much, but that ought to be the party line in a nutshell. Educational resources on the sanctions regime are probably a good place to start. I don’t know any good literature, but the Guerilla History podcast did a series titled “Sanctions as War” last year, with an episode about Iran.
It’s an advertising gimmick which is meant to imply that the other nine varieties of gas station dick pills hanging next to this one DO cause your dick to fall off while you’re shitting uncontrollably all over the Super 8 Motel.
Dude’s face looks like a UV wrap texture
The “Audit the Fed” libertarians must be vibrating.
Last time I installed Windows I literally had to drop out of the install wizard and run a bunch of terminal commands in order to perform the installation without a Microsoft account. They’re stricter about that than even having a fucking license key.
The thing is they build up this control, and every time they squeeze they piss it away. They squeezed during the George Floyd uprising. The Silicon Valley platforms censored the Blue Leaks across the board. They banned this community for it’s uncritical support. What happened? We slipped through the cracks. Sure, we might not be agitating on their platforms as much any more, but we’re free. We’re able to discuss and analyze the state of affairs much more clearly now. The same thing happened with the Russia-Ukraine war. They cracked down hard, flooded the zone with war propaganda, banned a lot of sources of information which weren’t toeing the line (to be clear, they deliberately leave the cranks alone every time they do this). People signed up for Telegram and continued following their sources there instead.
The genocide in Gaza is somewhat unique, because a lot of the primary sources there are explicitly proscribed as terrorist organizations to begin with. There was no r/Hamas or r/PFLP to ban. No funny memes for mujahidin teens Facebook group. The horrors of the genocide were broadcasted much more organically, in bits and pieces from thousands of personal accounts. If anything, it is much more difficult to censor something like this compared to a centralized news organization, website, or internet forum.
Every time they do one of these crackdowns, they are eventually effective at limiting the flow of information on the mainstream platforms, but it is a phyrric victory. The Internet itself is too porous. Every time they crush a community on Reddit, it turns into one on Discord, one on Matrix, and two on the Fediverse. All the while, it is too easy to grab a clip from one platform and post it on another. The actual social networks involved change with every crisis too. If they are effective at rooting out everyone involved in radical environmentalism, they will still be starting from a very elementary level on police abolition, or BDS or regime change in one country or another. The surge of gestapo freaks in Minneapolis has activated a whole new wave of people recently who were not and did not need to be on their radar before. And this dynamic will continue playing out as well.
We need to be careful about falling into early 2000s style Internet utopianism, but despite their methods being more sophisticated than ever, they definitely don’t have this shit under control, and they won’t until they start arresting people by the busload for posting.