Auntievenim
@Auntievenim@lemmy.world
- Comment on YSK Post Follow up: People Defended Ars Technica in my Previous Post, Here is a Proof That Ars Technica Parent Company Secretly Manipulate Reddit for Their Own Benefit. 2 days ago:
Im glad this was what stood out in my comment lmaoo
- Comment on YSK Post Follow up: People Defended Ars Technica in my Previous Post, Here is a Proof That Ars Technica Parent Company Secretly Manipulate Reddit for Their Own Benefit. 3 days ago:
Are people here being deliberately obtuse or are these reddit shills also operating on lemmy bc who tf cares this much about defending arstechnica? Every comment has like five downvotes. Who cares enough to downvote this and go through the comments to downvote every comment?
It’s very clearly true that reddit is using their platform to boost stories by websites with ownership of reddit. Who needs this explained to them in baby English? It isnt that hard to understand or accept, this is also why people are here instead of reddit.
- Comment on Gillibrand Announces Legislation To Ban Distribution Of Blueprints For 3D Printed Firearms And Curb Epidemic Of “Ghost Guns” - Kirsten Gillibrand | U.S. Senator for New York 1 week ago:
Look lady if you want people to have access to weapons as guaranteed by the second amendment the number one roadblock are weapons manufacturers who have used their monopoly on production to make firearms a luxury item. “Ghost guns” are a democratization of self defense and, in a time of rising fascism, to stand on a soap box and say “I want arms even harder to aquire” is active disenfranchisement of the working class who will have to fight their way out of this without the support of their military.
The middle class should be mass producing this stuff right now on clandestine supply chains and distributing them to various cells across the country. Anyone with access to a 3d printer should be getting as much of this stuff out as possible before this even gets a vote. Pass around schematics on flash drives like its cod3 in your computer class in high school. We need to be organized now more than ever, they are showing a unified front against workers and this is just one step towards absolute censorship and surveillance. Take them at their word when they tell you who they are. If Luigi is the enemy here then let me tell you: you’re not on their side.
- Comment on Israel announces creation of 22 settlements in West Bank 1 week ago:
Don’t worry guys France and Saudi Arabia are meeting to discuss the two state solution it will all work out just fine. Israel will certainly respect global agreements this time around, I’m sure of it.
- Comment on Google is Using AI to Censor Independent Websites 1 week ago:
You are simply trading, by hate and ideology, the freedom of few to be billionaire with the freedom of everyone else to do what they want in their life.
Da ruski, good job pointing out the actual issue and then moving past it like it doesn’t destroy your argument. To your billionaire owners: we will thresh them just like the tsar and his family. The freedom from oppression exceeds anyone’s freedom to amass wealth. They will pay for their success either by death or taxes and I really dont care which one
^russian ^bot ^says ^what
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Orwell really didn’t miss
- Comment on the 'it' in 'it snows' doesn't refer to anything 1 week ago:
Snow is god scratching his dandruff onto us and rain is him pissing 😌🙏 hope this helps
- Comment on The New York Times Just Published Some Bizarre Race Science About Asian Women 1 week ago:
He goes by tripp because, according to his personal image consultant, “Leopold reitbarth the third” didn’t test well with under 30s in their focus groups
- Comment on We're deep into the baggy era mate 2 weeks ago:
They’re like modern day utility pants! Plus you can get them with fleece lining which is god tier for winter
- Comment on We're deep into the baggy era mate 2 weeks ago:
My gf says the same thing. She thinks they’re comfy but she cant wear them as part of an outfit. I’m sure if someone made joggers without the hang they’d get plenty of customers. I’m surprised nobody has tried yet, its like the only legitimate complaint I hear from people about them lol
- Comment on We're deep into the baggy era mate 2 weeks ago:
Joggers broke me out of the cycle, free your mind
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
This might be the funniest tweet in history
- Comment on Day 306 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing 2 weeks ago:
Yeah its like the mages guild house! I wasn’t sure if the enchanting tables there were different from the rest of the game, I’m too poor to afford the candles lol that kinda sucks it costs money even at the player house. I’m broke as hell in oblivion. I keep finding new player houses right after spending my money on upgrading the last one! Frostcrag is by far the cheapest to upgrade though, I really regret not going there first :(
- Comment on YSK: Mint Press News is Russian propaganda 3 weeks ago:
I was worried I might have gone too far off topic with my rant so I actually really appreciate the honest reply. I’m glad I wasn’t off base.
I just feel like the more nefarious thing to do is to silo people with bad ideas so they can reinforce each other out of sight of people who could reasonably talk them out of their spiral. Like you said, Im sure the .ml people are self selecting but there’s also an aspect of being defederated or ostracized for simply having an .ml username that makes them unable to get a reasoned debate out of people who claim to want a marketplace of ideas.
If they were truly so ideologically captured that they would kill you for saying Stalin was a bad leader they probably wouldn’t be on here defending it. They’d be doing whatever psychotic militant commune shit the patriot front is doing.
We all seem to agree that patriot front is worse than whatever .ml is doing but the fact that .ml is publicly available to be scrutinized, and there are entire pages dedicated to going in their comms explicitly to get banned for bad faith, means the size of the outrage is not commensurate with its output. Idk who on .ml is plotting a communist coup but unless that’s what they’re doing I see no reason to be planning on imprisoning anyone who defends china.
There’s real, material right wing threats in our country that have real power. Why are we on lemmy yelling at the weird kids table for playing their card game none of us care about? Like you said, even republicans who voted for this are just as much victims of propaganda as the best of us. We’d be better off pointing people towards the actual cause of our problems instead of trying to blame a fringe group for holding us back.
I’m saying we need everyone, and we can bicker about how much state intervention is too much once we no longer have to worry about concentration camps being filled with dissenters.
Thanks again for really putting thought into your reply and understanding where I’m coming from. Every time I mention .ml I’m worried that someone somewhere is gonna tag me and have me brigaded for “defending” them. I don’t care what they’re doing. I know its not nearly as destructive as what republicans have been doing and I don’t see anyone on lemmy posting trophies of the republicans they’ve caught detaining someone illegally. Let’s focus our energy on the real threats while we still have enough bodies to choke up the combine. I fear we are losing daylight fast.
- Comment on Day 306 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing 3 weeks ago:
Ugh the bruma makes quild recommendation took me, I kid you not, and entire week. I never got any prompt options after finding the guy hiding and assumed I had to get up enough mysticism to cast dispel on him lmao
After a week of making no progress leveling mysticism I went back and they were like yeah just go get a book or something and I’ll stop hiding
The staff you get is well worth it though, I wasn’t sure what I would use a staff for so I just went with shock and holy shit that staff is the most overpowered thing in my kit. 80 points of shock damage per hit with some 120 charges when full. I only ever take it out when I’m fighting hoardes or doing a boss-like mission because it clears rooms so fast lol
- Comment on Call to defederate from feddit.org over zionism 3 weeks ago:
As excessive as defederating an entire instance is, think about how insane banning anti-zionist speech across an entire instance is.
It’s not like its one gardening sublemmy or the diary of Anne frank guy, its an entire instance banning a specific form of antifascism. That’s unhinged and their justification is flimsy as hell.
If you wanna stay on that instance spam them with pictures of children in Gaza 24/7 until they ban you or reverse course on this decision.
It’s plainly an attempt at palestinian erasure. They decided to ban anti zionism the same week Israel announced they would be exporting 1 million Palestinians to Libya and occupying Gaza permanently. It’s not an accident, or for their safety, or German law, its genocide and feddit apparently wants to mandate it big brother style where you cant talk about eastasia.
It’s insane. Power tripping mods to a new stratosphere. Nobody should just be okay with this. Speaking for palestine without fear of being banned is one of the main reasons a lot of us left reddit in the first place. Don’t bring that shit here!
- Comment on YSK: Mint Press News is Russian propaganda 3 weeks ago:
This I think goes to show how the mainstream obsession with “tankies” as an ideological group is no different than the people screaming about “libertarians” in the 2010s
The majority of these people that are visible online are likely just literal teenagers trying to deep dive into concepts they have no foundational understanding of and glomming onto whatever sounds the best to their 14 year old, completely externally enforced, worldview.
Now, also just like the libertarians of the 2010, there are like five specific people who hold inconceivable sociopolitical and economic power who ARE in fact attempting to force reforms through governments, undemocratically, to achieve these undeniably horrific outcomes because it does in fact suit their personal ideological aims.
Those people have been privately or publicly working cooperatively with Russian information warfare (or just are GRU) in order to boost the perceived popularity of their agendas.
What you’re describing, the people saying “I hate putin, but Ukraine should lay over and give up” are probably the exact targets of this effort.
Those are liberals you’re talking to. Those are the people who read all the tankie stuff and read all the nazi propaganda on twitter and came to the manufactured “centrist” conclusion that Ukraine just doesn’t really matter and the real loss is the fact that fighting continues.
It’s why donald trump, every single time he mentions it, says
there are 5,000 soldiers dying a week, on both sides: RUSSIAN and Ukrainian
It’s a deliberate attempt to frame Russia as an equal in terms of tragedy. There is no tragedy for Russia outside of the fact they’ve sent a quarter of their working age population into a meat grinder for a dying psychopaths dreams of a greater Russia under his control. Ukraine is fighting a war to maintain their sovereignty.
There’s like 500 tankies online while donald trump is in the Oval Office repeating literal Kremlin talking points to the president of Ukraine and I have to get on here and read about how insufferable it is that anon said something defensive of china. Be so for real right now.
Pointing out this stuff like this post does, showing how information warfare gets injected into discourse and hidden as real journalism, is the exact thing that causes this discordant worldview to stop holding weight. The more exposure this gets the less likely people will just take some report and form an opinion completely unaware that opinion is the manufactured outcome of the organization publishing that report. (For example climate deniers using oil lobby reports of climate change being “unsettled science” to defend their position that the climate data you’re showing them doesn’t prove anything)
These people online are not the enemy, they are the only people willing to fight with you against the forces that control every aspect of our lives. This is lemmy for Christ’s sake. The faster we all realize that and move past the sticking points of which genocidal empire deserves more support than criticism the sooner we can be rid of the brokers who sowed all these conflicting viewpoints in the first place.
So long as people are willing to care for one another and stand up against injustice they are not my enemy. Learn to identify and counteract the actual bad actors with information so that anyone who mistakenly comes across their viewpoint is immediately greeted by a counterpoint from a real person with a conscience.
There are networks that exist exclusively to push Russian and zionist viewpoints and defend them online as if they are “common sense.” It is our job to have the knowledge and courage to shout down incorrect and malicious interpretations of the world and bring forward a more nuanced and complete understanding of history and modern politics.
Attempting to exclude them entirely just offers the inexperienced a closed system to be inculcated with those beliefs without pushback. That’s why we got where we are in the first place. It’s good when Russian bots get outed in a public forum, it shows everyone there exactly what the shit looks like so they recognize it on the next Facebook post their uncle sends them. Fostering critical thought and media literacy is step one to dismantling this prison we all currently exist within.
(I’m not arguing with anything you said, your comment just gave me this train of thought and I don’t think it would make sense out of context as its own comment)
- Comment on YSK: Mint Press News is Russian propaganda 3 weeks ago:
What an interesting and yet completely unsurprising thing to learn today. Thank you for taking the time to write this up!
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Thats exactly why I am using lemmy exclusively for brand awareness
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
This is an all time post
- Comment on Is your sleep schedule actually messed up, or are you just aligned with a different timezone? 3 weeks ago:
Hey don’t bring my 1am dinner into this lol we’re talking about sleeping!!
- Comment on Is your sleep schedule actually messed up, or are you just aligned with a different timezone? 3 weeks ago:
:O how do they do it so perfectly
- Comment on Is your sleep schedule actually messed up, or are you just aligned with a different timezone? 3 weeks ago:
Hell yeah, we need someone to run the 7/11 overnight! /s
To stay on brand: hire someone from Europe, and then nobody has to “stay up all night” lol
- Comment on Is your sleep schedule actually messed up, or are you just aligned with a different timezone? 3 weeks ago:
I’m loving this comment section lol this was just a silly idea and here’s a really interesting conversation happening under it
- Comment on Is your sleep schedule actually messed up, or are you just aligned with a different timezone? 3 weeks ago:
A machiavellian construct :/
- Comment on Is your sleep schedule actually messed up, or are you just aligned with a different timezone? 3 weeks ago:
I think you’re agreeing with me, so let me rephrase: the sleep schedules we don’t align with could be due to a geographical misalignment in our circadian rhythm.
If you live on central time and never get tired until 4am maybe your body is telling you that your natural state would be somewhere in Hawaii. The friction comes from people generally being scattered across the world in places that don’t agree with what their body feels should be the right time to go to bed.
Does that make more sense? Go to sleep when your body tells you to, and then figure out where in the world that lines up with a “normal sleep schedule” you know what I mean?
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- Comment on FBI opens inquiry into 764, online group that sexually exploits and encourages minors to self-harm 3 weeks ago:
I was coming here to say the same lol they’re investigating to figure out how they can run the same racket
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Look, this guys failure to properly plan his business around his own politics is reason itself for his business to fail lmao
How does one own a small business, vote for the guy campaigning on a trade war, then get shocked when your small business is ruined by the trade war?
Oh no, the consequences of my actions, what have I done to deserve this!
- Comment on Trump tariffs to hit small farms in Maga heartlands hardest, analysis predicts 4 weeks ago:
I like how they write this article in shock as if it will be a shame when all the farmers lose their shirts to the multinational ag conglomerates. That’s the entire point of the trade policy you fucking wet napkin.
“The results of Trump’s first tariff war strongly suggest” that the goal is to further consolidate industry into the hands of the few COME ON YOU’RE RIGHT FUCKING THERE JUST SAY IT.
