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bramblepatchmystery ,

The point isn't that the labor movement you are exposed to supports you now.

The point is that the labor movement can take off their union patches and bide time, go underground and find ways to continue fighting fascism.

You can't go back in the closet. A more cowardly version of you can, but the version you see yourself as, the tough guy, he dies if fascism takes hold.

bramblepatchmystery ,

You have heard the vile things said, and you don't care if they get power to change the laws to allow them to act on those vile words?

Not all gay people have your privilege, I hope you understand that before it is too late.

bramblepatchmystery ,

I have heard that you can't just choose to not connect it, you actually have to route it to a dead end like a pihole. Supposedly some of these smart TVs will make you think you were allowed to bypass completely but have just connected to the nearest unsecured network.

Not an issue for people who have no neighbors, but people who live in a suburb or city?

bramblepatchmystery ,

Well, if its that simple I won't have to worry when I upgrade next year.

bramblepatchmystery ,

Thank you so much for this walk through.

bramblepatchmystery ,

In my experience most of the people calling him genocide Joe can't vote in US elections.

But yes, their goal is to get Trump elected.

bramblepatchmystery ,

While I think a lot of this is Russia, I think Qatar is ultimately the main offendor here.

Next time you see a post on here linked to al Jazeera reporting in Palestine, just point out that all jazeerah is technically a wing of the same political apparatus that Hamas is. If you were to do this, you might notice that within 24 hours, downvoting of your comment might equal more than 50℅ of all activity in that thread, almost as if people were coming to that post solely to downvote.

You might also notice that for the people who do respond to you, they will almost never address anything you actually say, but appear to have prompts based off what specific keywords you hit. Or you might notice a flurry of accounts all responding as if they are the person already engaged in conversation with you, but they all have different screen names. Almost as if they are writing their replies directly from your posting history rather than their own account in boxes.

The propaganda machine is here, and I suspect the P2P nature of our system is going to make this platform the least able to moderate it out once we reach a critical mass of people.

Now, thankfully there is only 35,000 of us here, so we are such a low priority that there aren't too many bad actors here yet.

bramblepatchmystery ,

If I write you a message, you get an icon in your private message inbox allowing you to know I responded.

However, if you are signed into a sock account, or even multiple accounts, you might forget which account you are currently signed into, and instead of waiting to be notified (because Lemmy has a bit of a lag), you instead are refreshing my profile, you might just respond directly to me from there, even if you aren't in the right account.

bramblepatchmystery ,

Proof that the majority of accounts using Palestinians to sow division among democrats in an election year can't vote in US elections?

The only way I could possibly prove that to you is if I only communicated with people after photographing their ID and then sending all of that to you.

bramblepatchmystery ,

No, I just pointed out that you set up an unmeetable threshold to be willing to accept my experience.

If you aren't willing to trust a person's experience as genuine (even if their conclusion about said experience is wrong) unless they have collected data on 35,000 people behind the accounts on 1 website, that's entirely on you.

I can say that there is a boomer on Lemmy, if you are really interested, you could follow the accounts who seem to show up a lot, bullying anybody who disagrees with him.

bramblepatchmystery ,

You can also keep watch on the accounts who post and comment on al Jazeerah links.

I would say that any time a "leftist" posts an English language edition of a right-authoritarian state media in a positive fashion, chances are good that account should be saved and watched from time to time.

bramblepatchmystery ,

There are a lot of boomers here, I won't confirm any usernames, although my post history and who has responded certainly is public.

bramblepatchmystery ,

Al Jazeera being the state media of Qatar is a conspiracy? Has Al Jazeerah been told this?

bramblepatchmystery ,

If a leftist believes that a far right regime is the only place to get accurate information that can't be found elsewhere, and then promotes that far right regime's media, that person is not a leftist.

What are they? I don't know. But when we have a small amount of accounts of people who are not who they claim to be, and they all are spending hours per day promoting the exact same message, and occasionally responding to the wrong messages, coordination of some kind is happening.

These accounts who push borderline pro-hamas sentiments while using Qatari media to do so may not be state sponsored. It could just be some lone nutcase who just really agrees with Qatar's geopolitical goals.

bramblepatchmystery ,

How do you personally determine when a right wing propaganda outlet is telling you the truth?

bramblepatchmystery ,

I don't need to prove that people who are funneling ad revenue to far right authoritarian regimes who fund religious terrorism aren't leftists.

Their actions did that before I entered the equation.

bramblepatchmystery ,

Why would you assume the facts reported by the media wing of the government funding one of the sides being reported on is accurate?

Don't you agree that these leftists posting should wait until independent media verifies Qatar's claims before it gets posted?

bramblepatchmystery ,

What in that statement is conjecture?

Everybody who clicks on a link to that website without an ad blocker just gave ad revenue to an explicitly anti-semitic government. Going without a VPN, and that government now has a really simple way of unmasking the identities of who visited, directly from Lemmy.

As leftists, we have to be pro Palestine while being anti Qatar and anti Hamas. Trusting what they tell us isn't leftist, nor intelligent and I think if you are being honest with yourself, you already know that.

bramblepatchmystery ,

Maybe. If so, they'd be a lousy one.

bramblepatchmystery ,

You don't think it is necessary to fact check authoritarian governments before believing what they tell you?

Wow. Just sit in that for a little bit.

bramblepatchmystery ,

Most corporate media aren't the sister organizations of Hamas.

You know that.

bramblepatchmystery ,

What specific US based leftist media are you accusing of taking money from weapons manufacturing?

I have been specific in my accusations against a media company, it is only right that you should as well.

bramblepatchmystery ,

If you can name a single account of a supposed leftist who is filling their day by posting state propaganda or pro-weapons manufacturing sources to leftist communities, than I will happily consider this to have merit.

From my perspective it seems like you are excusing authoritarian behavior under the guise that leftists do it for others and thus are obligated to do so for Hamas.

I think until you name and shame we can probably dismiss this specific point.

bramblepatchmystery ,

My understanding is that emergency services are either 2G or a mesh infrastructure (perhaps both? I am still learning tech.

bramblepatchmystery ,

From what I have read, I suspect that you might live in an area that took so long to get 2G that 3G essentially leapfrogged it for you. Emergency services run on 2G a lot of the time, and I don't think any reports of 2G service being out.

bramblepatchmystery ,

Than what is 2G still used for?

bramblepatchmystery ,

Good to know thank you for that information.

bramblepatchmystery ,

I have honestly always found their news search results useless.

bramblepatchmystery , (edited )

Were you only in the fight because you thought winning would be easy?

We need to not abandon vulnerable leftists just because we don't like liberals, because the alternative you have is worse and pretending otherwise is spitting in the face of a lot of people who won't have the luxary of taking off their denims and patches.

bramblepatchmystery ,

One side is milquetoast liberals and the other is christofascists who will be gunning trans people and their allies down in the street like rabid dogs.

I'm sorry you find it such a difficult choice.

bramblepatchmystery ,

It has gotten better for trans people.

Even 15 years ago teenagers in the west coast of all places would be told by their loved ones that if they were trans they would be cursing themselves to a life of prostitution.

I like to think about how far the trans community has gone and I don't want to see them go back to square one because you are having a temper tantrum.

bramblepatchmystery ,

And you are sitting on the sidelines in horror telling us you won't even vote against the anti trans agenda.

I wish everybody had your privilege.

bramblepatchmystery ,

No, I don't seem to want that, you ware pretending I seem to want that because your argument only exists if you choose to believe that.

bramblepatchmystery ,

No, you didn't use my words against me. You used the words you wanted me to say against me. There is a difference.

If you are going to pretend that none of this progress over the last 30 years happened that is fine, but i'm not interested in trying to have a dialog with a person acting in bad faith.

bramblepatchmystery ,

I'm sorry, I didn't realize you are living in the future where the chtistofascists are in power and have the legal impugnity to back state violence.

I thought you were just pretending to not understand the difference between ingrained power structures and random acts of non state violence committed by terrorists outside the bounds of the law.

I apologize for not assuming this was a time dysfunction. Although, if you are already there, you should feel pretty stupid for not just voting democrat.

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bramblepatchmystery ,

That's rough. I once knew a guy at work who was suffering from gambling addiction. Actually pretended $600 was stolen from him at work just so he could have a report to show his landlord or something bonkers.

I also knew a lady who had broken her arm, waited until the next day and then pretended she fell at work, got rushed to the hospital and immediately got LNI. The temp who was replacing her discovered like $50k in fraudulent checks.

Every single penny had gone to slot machines, of all things.

bramblepatchmystery ,

A large part of Alex's and David's relationship over the last 20 years has been 2 men very much attempting to publicly "cuck" the other intellectually.

Don't get me wrong, they are each probably the others only true friend.

bramblepatchmystery ,

I love it... unfortunately I can't buy a house.

bramblepatchmystery ,

Actually there is some truth to this cartoon.

Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone so he could hear his wife.

She was deaf.

bramblepatchmystery ,

I believe it was so she could hear.

Crazy to think that the phone of allthings is a failed design, or atvleast considered such at first.

bramblepatchmystery ,

When I left tiktok, I feel like I was getting an ad every 4 or so minutes, almost all of it scammy fastbfashion brands. I think I left tik too fully at the same time as the reddit protests.

bramblepatchmystery ,

As somebody whose wife just downloaded opera onto the family computer I am horrified.

She's been complaining that the internet is slow and has blamed it on protonvon, so has resorted to turning the vpn off when using the internet or discord.

I remember after Twin Peaks season 3 came out, showtime was stating left and right how profitable the show was, and then accusations started flying that the show was so profitable because showtime was taking over the browser while people were watching and mining bitcoin in the background without telling people they were doing so.

I trust Opera about a thousand times less just because I had never hears of them until a week or two ago.

bramblepatchmystery ,

More big women for me then.

bramblepatchmystery ,

I don't know, man, if you got banned from Facebook for calling somebody a cocksucker, it sounds like they are trying to hold right wingers accountable.

bramblepatchmystery ,

You didn't get the joke.

You are complaining that meta refuses to ban bigots, but aknowledge you arent allowed on the site for calling people cocksuckers.

bramblepatchmystery ,

In weird posts like this, the answer is always drugs, alcohol, and mental illness, or some combination of those three.

With his level of fame, wealth, and power, it's also possible he is a blackmail victim.

bramblepatchmystery ,

We can safely say it's one of the first 3 then.

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