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Like dodgeball and softball and shit it’s hard but you also make friends

I think a key cope for these people is still that the US and allies’ production hasn’t really fully been unleashed. They were also claiming Biden was going to expand our MIC realistically, I guess because these people operate on contrarian headline takes circulating the posting arenas. When you throw a bunch of money into these expensive DOD projects it doesn’t really do anything other than multiply the cost of a project further. We never magically developed the capacity to bring chipmaking to the US which was something else Biden people trumpeted quite a bit years ago

Try community sports especially goofy coed ones

Schildi Chat is probably the best client I have spotted, full voice and video chat functionality in browser. People do way less hemming and hawing about downloading an app if they’ve already been able to try it out in web - just like discord

I think what really does the best job of explaining why this place is forbidding is the attempts to point out the reasons are met with flat out denials. it’s like you’ve used this thread to reassure yourself that there are no disconcerting answers to your OP question

Getting banned on main is amateur shit you use alts to figure out what the real rules are. Nobody has ever actually enforced their espoused netiquette. The culture here is as toxic as SomethingAwful

Really? The website just seems like a fanclub for the standard figures of western marxism and then capitalist realism etcetera. You see this same group of french philosophers promoted in almost every western left space from tumblr to twitter to group chats like tg/discord

Is there anything you’re thinking of in particular there?

Was reading from this cute paper RAND just wrote about the possibility of US national renewal to my buddy on the phone last night it’s a real nice chaser to explaining the key reasons the USSR was crushed when it still had the potential to “muddy along” for years, which still held the possibility of a political and economic renewal. Like a lot of spooky writing it’s a smooth mix of valuable or pertinent information, blatant lies, and misrepresentation that borders on self parody and projection.

It does not in fact reckon with the reason the USSR and the British empire both fell apart, the damn United States lol

Folks I don’t think we’re getting real industrial policy. We’re getting more of the fourth reich. Easy bet I know

Eh I guess it’s something

I will add that this experience of having people accuse you of being reactionary for no reason and then getting no response is probably a big driver for “power posters” not wanting to come here but I’d like to add belatedly that it’s simply how few posts you actually see on here. It’s just like, infosec, lemmygrad which is the same, lemmy, not rly much to see

And then you run the risk of people getting extremely confrontational out of nowhere and deciding you’re a fascist because they only see Lemmy posts and their context has become reddit… idk what is an appeal of posting here?

can you name any reason why power posters SHOULD eschew the benefits of better software and wider community?

I think it’s cute that Ken Klippenstein has such a reaction to the statement that came out of the Iranians post Soleimani’s assassination, that the west has no heroes, only cartoon characters. He cannot help but compare the dead Iranian president to Wily [sic] Coyote. Of course they’re wrong, we have sports champions and movie stars as well. And when they die in a helicopter or car crash it is absolutely not like Wily [sic] Coyote, no matter their personal statements or beliefs.

Piping jlai and other foreign language posts into Mastodon etcetera is preferable to me anyways since there are loads of other features like watching threads, actually getting notifications further down a thread from you, muting a thread, filtering posts for files only, or hiding replies from the timeline. But yeah it’s worth it for the translation, since you all work with an allowlist thing I’d recommend just using a microblog instance already favored by others here, and ask the admin to set it up to fetch all the posts from some lemmy instances. It doesn’t really have a lot of problems except Misskey hardcoded their check for image thing so it fucks up on the Lemmy posts. Might be fixed soon. Lucky I was mainly using Mastodon when I made my whole lemmy relay and rss server combo otherwise I would have run into more issues.

mastodon and misskey and their forks do this, not every server uses the same translation service or even provides it. it loads almost instantly underneath the original text with one tap. yes, i am serious, chinese that is written in non-shitpostese translates immaculately. we are living in the future. oh, you didn’t know there are chinese shitposters on the federations? :3

never ask members of the communist party of the philippines why joma maria sison called for attacks on BRI projects which were simultaneously sanctioned by the philippine govt and the USA from the netherlands worst mistake of my life

LGBTQ+ issues

ah yes like the dozens of times you jumped at mistranslations of things like PE programs or shutting down creepy idol businesses that exploited their employees and tried to act like a country that put gay hookup apps on the map with blued was cracking down on homosexuality or literally again because of a translation thought they were banning being a femboy

yeah why is nobody taking your concerns seriously when you again post a guardian or scmp article which uses manipulative language to bait you

you can only imply there is a subtle backlash against lgbt rights in china because the reality is if you compared hate crime statistics you would realize they don’t need western gay rights organizations to stamp out the problem and you’re blowing hot air

In what way? I am trying to start a discussion both about why you believe this man’s death should be celebrated, the premises of what you think about the government in iran, and what the reality of a collapsing state looks like, what kind of world we would really live in if mccain’s dream of nuking iran were realized, the intersection of the president’s death with geopolitics, the western instrumentalization of orgs like HRW to go soft on israel and hard on targets we want to exploit & enclose or push out of competition, regional politics

you are free to step out and come back later but it’s clear you don’t want to talk about the differences between this guy, bin laden, and hitler. it’s actually far more interesting than “bad man die is good. me very smart no explain”

Sorry am I making up that you compared the Iranian President to Bin Laden AND Hitler, and said his death should be celebrated? Was that a dream? Are we going into conniptions?

Because internet commentators want to pass off their uninformed xenophobia as advocacy for democracy and the people of countries they despise and want to undermine the national interest of. For instance Ken Klippenstein referred to the Iranian President as an authoritarian dictator.

Because you started a discussion with other people and made unfounded claims, you should anticipate a response. You shouldn’t just misapply made up debate rules to act smug without backing up anything you said. This is assuming you’re interested in exchanging information with other people and learning. 🤠