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I believe it's going to be super fascinating because I don't believe collapse is actually possible anymore. All indices - the stock market, the price of gold, crypto, the dollar - all of it - is, imo, set-and-supported by algorithms and dark pools.

If true, this weirdly leaves the "illuminati" to do what they please, as these markets will no longer offer any actual consequences for... anything at all, really.

Anybody notice that Trump doesn't give the Scaramucci treatment to people in this go-around? He was hiring then firing left and right in his first term, but this time around - nothing.

Saying "I would have no way to know" is not the same thing as "I'm a moron and can't look shit up." You have to think you don't know what something means before you're going to go look it up.

I never looked up unalived, because I didn't know it had some stupid context that would set somebody off and it's meaning is plain. If you think that makes me an idiot, then I guess that's just how it has to be. I think you should maybe relax a little.

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Well, you've made an assumption and I get it now, but it's wrong.

Aside from Lemmy and Reddit, and mostly Lemmy these days, I'm not on any social media at all. I've never been on TikTok. I quit Facebook a year after I joined it - horrified by what it was doing - in 2007. I've never been on Twitter, I've never been on Twitch or Instagram, I've never been on any site where I had to avoid a filter, ever. In my life. Before reddit it was something awful and before that usenet. I'm fucking old.

So I didn't use the word because I am capitulating to capitalist censorship. I used the word here - and iirc I have used it in the past - as what I thought was simply a wry euphemism implying state-sponsored spycraft/murder. I consider the word assassination to be too "bottom-up" of a term - citizens assassinate presidents, not the other way around. Murder is too generic, murder is what criminals do or people do in crimes of passion. So I used "unalived" because I'm talking about a state actor doing something to a citizen.

I did not know that it carried any other meaning, nor that it came to prominence from circumventing censorship algorithms. I would have had no way to know.

Edit: I would never use some goofy shit like "seggs" for "sex" ffs, so I do see people here and on reddit who are in the habit of circumventing filters - but there's nothing about "unalived" that screamed anything other than "wry euphemism" to me.

Why not? Why do you feel compelled to apply peer pressure to make sure other users' language conforms to that which you approve? Who can say.

Edit: perhaps I'm just going about this all wrong. Let me ask you: are you trying to help me? Do you think my life would be improved if I used the word "assassinate" in this context instead of "unalived?" Or is it just that it grates on your nerves so much to see people use terms that are commonly used to get around filters that you feel obliged to correct me so I won't do it in the future, materially improving your life? Because this issue seems to be really important to you and I'd like this conversation to end amicably. Maybe you can convince me why it's in my best interest to not use this word and words like it.

No shit.

I'm literally saying the Russians had a reason to kill this woman and could have done so, but OK comrade.

How does one save Americans $130 billion with a $1 trillion deficit reduction?

I didn't use the word because I was trying to bypass filters. I like the word.

Well they do have a motive to make it look natural, they're still actively fishing for plausible deniability, they're not going to go throwing people out of windows here. If she had a history of seizures, they without question knew it and could leverage it into unaliving her. The idea that she was resigned and no longer any kind of threat is naive, she could be in possession of a lot of damaging intel, given her activities.

I'm not saying this is definitively what happened, I'm just saying that dismissing it outright is probably too optimistic. Some consideration should be given to the fact that a) she was young, b) she went after Russian interests and c) she's dead.

Even if they were to find something in the autopsy though, I doubt we will ever hear anything other than "natural causes" because America is fully a Russian vassal state.

Talk means nothing, look at what he does. All his actual actions benefit the Kremlin and serve to further it's goals. Words do not inflict sanctions, and repeatedly saying shit while doing other shit just makes it seem like the Kremlin is looking for plausible deniability for their puppet. Wake me up when anything at all has been done that materially damages Russia or Russian interests, because that right there will be a fucking news story.