Couldn’t think of a more lemmy thread topic than one involving both Russian geopolitics and linux.

part of me is sad that there aren’t many .worlders defending blocking those evil tankies. lol

also can confirm; am autistic

most don’t pay attention; so they wouldn’t notice.

it always gives me pause to see well known kernel maintainers take such seemingly knee jerk reactions.

when a someone like a script kiddie does it, it doesn’t matter; but I wonder when a kernel maintainer does it, i have to wonder why and i think i’m afraid to learn that the impetus and thought process for both are the same.

Harris is doing multiple campaign events with Liz. Fucking. Cheney. A warmongering, anti-LGBT, anti-choice neocon. Remember when she threw her own gay sister under the bus to try to win an election (which she lost anyway)? I do. Now I personally haven’t decided if Harris is right to use Cheney like this, but it doesn’t feel great to a base voter like me who remembers 9/11 and her family’s Iraq hawkery. The Cheney family used to be universally reviled on the left, and this effort is doing a fair amount to rehabilitate her reputation with some dems, and I’m not thrilled about that.

i have similar memories & thoughts pertaining to biden & clinton with 10450; doma; don’t ask, don’t tell; ICE & immigration reform; etc. experiencing first hand how our collective memories about biden stop working before 2008 shows that reality of the past doesn’t matter at all. every we’re in this situation we collectively agree that there’s a problem; but then we opt to do the same things over and over again (eg democrat or republican) instead of trying something new. no one knows what the right answer is; but we know what the wrong ones are because we keep doing them and here we; each time squabbling all over again and thinking that the next time will be different despite doing nothing different to make it happen.

I’m voting for Harris, without a doubt, but she is already moving to the right, at least as a political strategy. FFS she has already promised to put a Republican in her cabinet!! If she goes any further in that direction she’ll be at a serious risk of losing some dependable progressive base voters. But as some other comments have mentioned, if she wins there’s no reason to believe she won’t continue rightward.

here’s one of the clearest examples: we know democrats are moving rightward and we know that they’re usually the lesser evil. so we support them more often in the hopes that they don’t fully embrace a rightward movement and they move rightwards anyways and we have no leverage to get them to change because we’re going to vote for them anyways.

Harris isn’t very progressive to begin with, she’s just infinitely better than Trump which makes her look like the best candidate in history.

did acab stop being a thing because of her?

I think I made a mistake by bringing in the concept of power tripping mods.

you’re right to: a huge majority of the lemmyverse’s current userbase has self sorted themselves into a few instances that makes power tripping mods a real problem.

if they had embraced the lemmyverse in it’s original tankie spirit this would not be is a problem at all because the fediverse is designed to keep the discourse going despite any block/ban/defederation; taking those actions only serves to remove yourself from the main group chat that everyone else can see. a power tripping mod has no power when you can easily side step them to continue participating in the discourse.

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i sort by new and on all instances and it’s clear that the people on .ml and lemmygrad are getting the full group chat while people on instances like .world are only getting a smaller subset; which is why i asked the question.

the people in that demographic seek fiscal policies that protect their wealth and they’re not voting liberal to get it.

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this looks like the trex skeleton they have on google’s campus and it makes me wonder if this is some kind of psyop. lol

i can understand posting to lemmygrad and .world because of the defederation; but i don’t understand why .ml? those guys don’t defederated with anybody.

the people who pour their heart and soul are the people they want. i’m the kind that they don’t want: software engineers that have been doing IT/operations for so long that we understand & accept “good enough” and don’t give a rat’s ass if they don’t implement something we’ve been working on; so long as we continue to get paid.

they search for people like you in the hopes of avoiding people like me because mind sets like mine are both more common and more difficult to manipulate.

to be clear: they’ll still shit on you like they do to anyone else, but know that you’re the kind of people that they want and, if you can figure out how to leverage that for yourself, you’ll be doing very well.

i want a world with himbos as far as the eye can see!

the gazans will be reduced to native america reservations in isreal with populations too small to ever resist the collective boot on their necks in the future; as they are in the united states right now.

additionally, all the wanton destruction levied by the idf over wealth building assets like real estate and the local economy imposes both a new generational impoverishment and maximizes the reduction of any previous generational wealth to guarantee that the future gazans will be dependent on governmental purse strings as the native americans are today and will be controlled by those purse strings into the future.

in the fediverse; blocklists only serves to remove you from the group chat that everyone else can see.

then i hope that americans can rediscover religion quickly if kamala loses; amen. lol

being alive to see the controversy first hand when they first redid the klingons after the first movie and again after discovery has taught me to smile at fan controversies. lol

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