archomrade [he/him] @ archomrade @midwest.social

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Was this communist 'fanboying' a neoliberal capitalist? That doesn't sound right.....

pot, kettle

IDK, I know a lot of neo-nazis who'd say 'fuck trump' in response to him being willing to work with Israel

Any time I see a lib complaining about being banned on .ml it's almost always because they earned it by saying something xenophobic or reactionary

for attacking Trump

attacking him for what, I wonder

We're being real loose with the term 'fanboy' now, huh

Is the reason you advocate avoiding VPN dependencies simply due to downtime if the tailscale service fails? Or is there a particular security vulnerability associated with using VPN subnets?

Watching all of this from a place of indifference, it's absolutely fascinating watching liberals and even conservatives process this whole saga in real-time

It's one of those increasingly common moments where the lack of ideological coherence creates chaos until a common perspective gets worked out.

Fair enough, but if you're trying to avoid data collection then open-sourced projects are preferable

Preaching to the choir here but LibreOffice has been excellent since my MSOffice license expired. Unless you're working in an enterprise setting with MS-specific macros or online collaboration, there's no reason to be paying for basic document editing software in 2025.

There are also self-hosted and open-sourced collaborative editing suites available that I haven't tried yet, but there are plenty of options

Was something supposed to happen?

A massive, comprehensive data privacy law would've covered the TikTok base and any software by any other threat

That's assuming the ban is motivated by privacy reasons, but i don't think it is. It's far more likely that it's because the US has no control over the platform's algorithm, which they fear is feeding Americans media and perspectives that are antithetical to their foreign policy objectives (Blinken and Romney have both stated as much).

A US buyer would be more friendly/responsive to US regulatory influence. That's the only reason this isn't a privacy bill instead of a ban or forced sale.

It isn't, unless you are looking to assign credit to Biden

We're in a version of that conversation right now bud

"Most of us are trans"

"I don't believe you"

"Here's a demographic poll showing that we are indeed majority trans"

"That seems really unlikely, you must be lying or that poll must be wrong"

"Here's a detailed history of our origin explaining exactly why it isn't at all unlikely that we are who we say we are"

"Ah, forgive me for my error, I believe you now"

“I don’t believe X” is not necessarily a statement about X

Right, bigotry isn't actually about the quality being marginalized, it's about reinforcing a desired hierarchy using whatever distinctions are most convenient and salient. Hard to paint them as bigots when they themselves are minorities; easier (and far more rhetorically salient) to simply deny their trans identity altogether.

There is if that server was made specifically by those people for that purpose, though.

Simultaneously 'Trump did not get the ceasefire' and also 'Netanyahu intentionally waited until after Trump won to agree to a ceasefire'

That sentence doesn’t even make sense with or without the context of this conversation.

Just because you don't understand it? I'll rephrase it: "explicitly dismissing the trans-status of a majority-trans community". Better?

All you’re doing is trying to make yourself feel better by saying other people are horrible with the implication you aren’t

That's exactly what this community is lol

Do you ever watch the NBA and think to yourself, "WOW, being taller than 6'4 is exceptionally rare! The odds that they are all here playing basketball together is simply unbelievable"?

Transfolk represent a exceptionally small but real segment of the population; the idea that all of them found the same lemmy instance and joined it exclusively vs. allies and other users is pretty improbable.

Except:

• a: hexbear existed long before most of the 'allied' lemmy instances you're referring to
• b: it was created explicitly as a safe-space for trans leftists
• c: the 'allies' you're referring to constantly have struggle sessions like this one

It's a little funny to me that a piece of this calculation is basically: "the probability that they'd all hang out together and not with me is just so low I don't believe it" lmao