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- Comment on TikTok sues the US government over ban 7 months ago:
The United States is a democracy only if oligarchies are democracies
- Comment on Al Jazeera office raided as Israel takes channel off air 8 months ago:
I find them to be extremely bias
I find you to be extremely illiterate.
- Comment on Al Jazeera office raided as Israel takes channel off air 8 months ago:
Israel under Likud is a fascist state
- Comment on The discourse 8 months ago:
The point is that we fear accusations of race-based prejudice but not sex-based prejudice.
- Comment on The discourse 8 months ago:
Fearing a person based on immutable traits is prejudice
Which is why everyone will claim on camera that they would prefer to encounter a black man over a bear
- Comment on The discourse 8 months ago:
No woman on camera would claim that she is more afraid of a black man than a bear
She would claim that a (racially ambiguous) man is more dangerous than a bear. Making that man black prevents her from articulating her fear
- Comment on The discourse 8 months ago:
“say you’re stranded in the woods. Would you rather encounter a random black man or a bear?”
This produces radically different results
- Comment on The discourse 8 months ago:
A better question would be if she would rather be locked in a room with a bear or a black guy
Weird how no one picks the bear in that scenario. Because sex-based prejudice is fine, but race-based prejudice is wrong
- Comment on Lemmy.ml is acting as a proxy instance for Hexbear and should be defederated by any instances that defederate from Hexbear 9 months ago:
Literally everyone on this site is an anonymous account. Why would you possibly think that is a relevant point? Plus your account is less than 30 days old, so if we’re going to start questioning users’ motives and origins then perhaps we should start with you
And I watch congressional hearings with intelligence agency leaders. They have affirmed that our messaging (propaganda) efforts on the internet have greatly improved since 2016. Which is evident just from comparing Reddit today to reddit in 2015
- Comment on Lemmy.ml is acting as a proxy instance for Hexbear and should be defederated by any instances that defederate from Hexbear 9 months ago:
That may have been true in 2014.
It is no longer true in 2024
- Comment on Lemmy.ml is acting as a proxy instance for Hexbear and should be defederated by any instances that defederate from Hexbear 9 months ago:
Blocked
- Comment on Lemmy.ml is acting as a proxy instance for Hexbear and should be defederated by any instances that defederate from Hexbear 9 months ago:
Considering many of the others that have been defederated. I think it’s kind of hypocritical that Lemmy.ml hasn’t.
So what? If it was wrong to defederate from those other instances then this can be wrong as well
However it’s important to remember that each server is answerable to it’s community and ownership
Or, more accurately, answerable to the appearance of a community and ownership. All of the major instances are heavily astroturfed by various state and corporate entities. Which includes both the United States/West and China/Russia. World is western aligned and ML is not. It’s a proxy war in cyberspace, same as occurs on reddit and Twitter and elsewhere. The solution to such a proxy war is not to cede all ground to the West - such action would not promote truth or critical thought
- Comment on Lemmy.ml is acting as a proxy instance for Hexbear and should be defederated by any instances that defederate from Hexbear 9 months ago:
governments shouldn’t have the ability to degrade our platform with shills and LLMs
I agree, but that is exactly what the United States and the West does.
China, Russia, and Iran do it as well, of course.
- Comment on Lemmy.ml is acting as a proxy instance for Hexbear and should be defederated by any instances that defederate from Hexbear 9 months ago:
.world spent months denying the genocide in Gaza. It’s a shithole that is likely an op run by western governments to herd in normies and push favorable narratives. Not remotely hard to see that
- Comment on Lemmy.ml is acting as a proxy instance for Hexbear and should be defederated by any instances that defederate from Hexbear 9 months ago:
You’re talking like a totalitarian. People with this worldview should not hold power, and certainly should not determine what is acceptable discourse.
It is disappointing to see that some Americans/Westerners are allergic to disagreeing worldviews. Apparently diversity is only permitted so long as it broadly supports liberal democracies and capitalist understandings of history.
Sickening stuff. Makes me think Lemmy isn’t much better than Reddit, particularly if this attitude becomes more prevalent on here
- Comment on Lemmy.ml is acting as a proxy instance for Hexbear and should be defederated by any instances that defederate from Hexbear 9 months ago:
But they are primarily leninists, dedicated ideologically to authoritarians and strongmen above all reality.
Why does that mean they should be banned? Is speech that we agree with the only permitted speech?
Just because you think they’re wrong doesn’t mean they should be banned. Banning them makes it look like we’re afraid of people reading their points, which gives them power and credibility
- Comment on US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users 9 months ago:
If that were true then the United States would have been communist by now