Spez: No no guys I'm one of the good ones, remember? We made a little safe space for The_Donald for a while and we just got rid of a bunch of Charlie Kirk stuff, we're doing what you wanted
Spez: No no seriously guys I'm one of you, I'm on your side
Spez: Jesus Christ stop it that hurts, stop it, you can't, you can't
Goebbels had a phrase for this strategy
This was the point of all the lawsuits against CBS, constantly blustering at the media and talking down to them, even all the way back to January 6th mobbing up on the reporters and beating them up and smashing their equipment. They're trying to look for people they can bully into going along with the fiction, paving the way for the horrors. And look, they found some.
All the way back in 2016, there were holocaust survivors who were giving some pretty chilling interviews, saying Trump's rhetoric reminded them of how Hitler spoke and how he did things.
China, Iran, Russia and North Korea
One of these things is not like the others.
What the FUCK is this story
Public records show that the suspect is unaffiliated with any party, while both his parents are registered Republicans.
Authorities also said that ammunition from a bolt-action rifle recovered after the shooting included inscriptions such as, “notice bulges OWO what’s this?” “Hey fascist! Catch!” and “If you read this, you are gay LMAO.” Another casing bore the phrase “Bella ciao,” in an apparent reference to the popular Italian anti-fascist anthem.
On Sunday, however, Cox told NBC’s Meet the Press that the suspect’s political ideology was “very different” from his family’s.
“There clearly was a leftist ideology with this assassin,” he said, citing information from Robinson’s family and romantic partner.
Cox later told CNN’s State of the Union that Robinson lived with his transgender partner, though investigators were still trying to determine whether their romantic relationship was a motive behind the shooting.
The 22-year-old suspect was also steeped in “dark” corners of the internet, Cox said.
"Meatball Ron" was another stroke of real genius. "Sloppy Steve" was another decently good one, but honestly, "Weird Stephen" is fuckin' perfection.
The police are famously not real sympathetic to a really shocking level of human suffering, once you're a "suspect."
Of all the sins that got us booted from the Garden of Eden that was the early internet, I would say "my growth is more important than your good experience, so let me tweak things to boost my growth, and put my stuff in front of you" is probably a strong contender for the top spot.
Again, I get it. A lot depends on the specific details of the community and posts we're talking about. I don't think wanting to grow your small community or insulate it from unfairness is automatically a bad thing, but wanting to adjust things to make sure your small community will grow is not automatically a good thing, either.
Is it helpful for the Malay community to get all these downvotes from non-Malay speaking lemmy users who are too lazy to hit the block button?
That's a great analogy. So, if the posts are marked as English/Unspecified, so they're cluttering up everyone's feed with posts that practically all users literally can't read, then yes having them sort of "marked down" for the majority of the community to keep the overall feed clean is probably the right answer. It's easily solvable by teaching people to use the language setting correctly on their posts so they're hidden from people who don't enable Malay, and that's probably a better answer than spamming everyone's feed with Malay stuff and mechanically preventing anyone from filtering it out for other users via downvotes, because "it's not fair to me that you don't want this in the feed."
I know that's not quite what you meant. I don't want to argue back and forth about this issue indefinitely, but I think it's just another instance of the same "depends on your perspective" issue, of the average user who wants the algorithms assembling the feed to work right, versus the community creator who obviously doesn't want everything they post to be downvoted. I think they're both valid viewpoints but it seems like you guys keep repeatedly emphasizing the second point of view and not really considering the first one.
Or, he could put it through, and make friends enough with the terrifyingly oligarchic forces that run our society that he might all of a sudden become the "default choice" in the same way that Biden and Hilary were, and they might agree to kneecap anyone who tries to Bernie Sanders him. And we might have six more weeks of winter, so to speak.
Yeah, I guess looking for factual underpinning to it was just an error on my part. My point was that Russia and North Korea actually have done something wrong, and Iran is at least our geopolitical enemy, but China is still more a business partner for us than anything else. Sure they like to park independent wealth in US properties sometimes, and sometimes they spy on us, but WTF everyone does that kind of thing, they're just notable because they do more of it because they are bigger.
But yeah, trying to break down the thing from a "how much sense does the list make" standpoint was missing the point I think. It's just more prancing around for the crowd before the main event begins and they can have ICE snatch up all their opponents. Not long now.