silentjohn
@silentjohn@lemmy.ml
oh, hi Marx
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- Comment on TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture 2 days ago:
Tiktok was THE platform for pro-gaza content and solidarity. Leaks from Congress proves this. It’s a shell of what it once was now that the US oligarchs are in control of it and have turned it into their right wing spyware platform.
Blocked for unironically using the word ‘tankie’.
- Comment on TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture 2 days ago:
Kinda like fediverse in general. That’s the price of a non-corpo platform
- Comment on YSK the four rules of firearm safety 1 week ago:
cough Join SRA cough
- Comment on YSK the four rules of firearm safety 1 week ago:
I have never once seen this in a controlled range environment.
- Comment on FYI: Reddit trademarked some community names (Digg link) 1 week ago:
Digg fucking sucks. It’s just worse reddit with AI bullshit.
- Comment on Self-hosting in 2025 isn't about privacy anymore - it's about building resistance infrastructure 2 weeks ago:
Just a brief skim of this and I’m already so lost lol. Thanks for the link though, I’ll have a more detailed read through later.
- Comment on Self-hosting in 2025 isn't about privacy anymore - it's about building resistance infrastructure 2 weeks ago:
Man, I’m pretty techy. I work in tech. I’ve learned programming, etc, I use Debian. but selfhosting seems so daunting, not to mention inconvenient. I need to get into it though 😓
- Comment on I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter. 3 weeks ago:
How do you plan on doing the revolution without a gun?
“Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun” -Mao
“By any means necessary” - Malcolm X
“I don’t care if I fall as long as someone else picks up my gun and keeps on shooting.” - Che Guevera
etc, etc…
- Comment on Obama's got jokes 1 month ago:
Ol double tap civvies Obama getting peace price…
All presidents are war criminals 😒
- Comment on YSK - That there is a lot of trolling and brigading starting to happen around the LA peaceful protests to start violence. Here is a roadmap from 2015 on how they do it. 7 months ago:
It’s responsible for any successful socialist movement, so yea I’d say so.
- Comment on YSK - That there is a lot of trolling and brigading starting to happen around the LA peaceful protests to start violence. Here is a roadmap from 2015 on how they do it. 7 months ago:
50501 is a liberal movement whose only goal is pre-trump status quo.
Lenin talks about the need for a working class Vanguard, otherwise these spontaneous protests/movements will always get co-opted by liberals and mainstream, and eventually fizzle away. We saw it happen with BLM, occupy, women’s march, etc
I don’t have any long term hope for 50501, but we’re using the momentum to recruit for DSA and workers movements.
- Comment on Why are American cops allowed to be morbidly obese? 7 months ago:
Many departments don’t require physical tests once hired.
Most of the work cops do is domestic disturbance calls and traffic stops. There’s no reason to be physically fit for either of those jobs. Also, most people see the day shift and in nicer neighborhoods; again there’s really no need for physicality. Getting on day shift and good area means you’ve been on the police a while and “earned it” (or you have some clout), so usually olderish cops.
The young jacked mfers usually are on the night shift and in rougher neighborhoods.
Additionally, a bullet resistant vest and all the gear will make you look bigger/fatter than you really are.
So it’s kind of a combo of all that.
Also, ACAB