Our News Team @ 11 with host Snot Flickerman
Oh yeah because I forgot they totally proved Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein were secretly the same person.
Iraq had zero to do with that terror attack but was used as a pretext for war based on the lie that the two were connected somehow.
The second half of the article is about Signal.
It sucks they mention WhatsApp first, but I think the bigger omission is that they don’t mention non-US entities or anything you can self-host and federate like Matrix.
What’s really fucked is that means the kids are being realists and are super aware of how fucked and precarious their situation is.
The adults of this world have failed them miserably and it makes me furious. I hate what my country has wrought.
What are the rules? Are you allowed weapons of any sort?
Is it like gladiator style combat or are you allowed ranged weaponry?
This is pretty vague, and I’m fairly sure the community rules say that when posting questions about lions you need to be very specific otherwise you’re what is known as a “dingus.”
*terms and conditions may apply
He was pretty pro-Musk and pro-Peter Thiel and certainly wasn’t a paragon of leftist thought. While being decently educated and well traveled, he seemed to have a lot of faith in technolibertarian ideals.
I’d say that’s clear from his Twitter and Reddit histories. It doesn’t mean he’s a frothing-at-the-mouth MAGA nut, but it also doesn’t mean he’s a dyed-in-the-wool leftist who understands the issues.
Further, like most people, he only became radicalized when a serious injury impacted his own life. It didn’t make him question the whole system of capitalism, just healthcare.
And all that’s fine and not meant to be an indictment one way or another about the guy, but more it’s meant to point out that like most Americans, he’s seemingly a little confused about larger issues. Which also makes sense since he’s only 26, learning about it all takes time.
Finally, I’m still not 100% convinced a bunch of this is just contrived police bullshit to pin it on a patsy, and that’s why his motives seem confused. Although I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s just lacking education and confused, like most Americans.
Americans: It’s all that gosh-darn SOCIALISM that’s causing this mess! Because socialism is when all the rich fat cats at the top keep all the earnings for themselves. Fucking dirtbag woke socialists!
And no lessons were learned that day.
Even Mangione has proved undoubtedly that he doesn’t entirely understand the very issue that radicalized him. (If he isn’t just a patsy, of course)
“I wasn’t a lying duplicitous bastard like Trump. That’s where I went wrong.”
just… what?
To be fair, it says a lot about the intelligence of the average American when a lot of them think these checks were from Trump’s personal bank account, just due to the signature.
Literally all you had to do was offer universal healthcare, as evidenced by *sweeping gesture at everything.
I always liked their politics more than their actual music, but that shouldn’t be construed as me disliking their music as much as being indifferent.
What’s funny is the majority of the country supported the war, at the time. Less than a quarter of polled citizens were against the war. (That’s me! I was there!)
When polled now, the majority of the country claims they were against it at the time.
Echoes of the Civil Rights era, where at its peak, it was deeply unpopular, but the Boomers spent the last 50 years re-writing their own history to pretend they were always on the right side of history… only for Trump to make them feel safe in being racist again.
We are anonymous!
No offense… but is this your first day on the internet?
The US NSA sucks down the entire contents of the entire internet every day since like 2010.
We’re like five days out from a murder in broad daylight and the suspects’ Reddit and Github accounts have been leaked.
During the Iraq War, sites like Linuxjournal.com were classified as “extremist forum” and people who went to the site were marked for deeper surveillance. The Bush admin also came close to hitting non-violent Quaker protestors with terrorism charges.
The instance admins at Lemmy have to buy a domain, that means the Domain Registrar has their real-life info on who they are. Depending on their country, they might be legally required to keep logs for years. Meaning all it requires is a subpoena for information and they’re required to dig it up and give it to the cops. (How did the cops get their name and contact info? Subpoenaing the Domain Registrar) So anything you did to interact with that site, including your IP, info on your OS, browser, screen size, installed applications, etc. are available for the cops to ask for, if they have a legal investigation they are pursuing. Your ISP might be required to keep logs, too. Since every piece of hardware has a unique MAC address, it’s trivial to cross reference when a specific IP was assigned to a specific MAC address and whose account that MAC address is tied to. They don’t generally hand out internet connections to people who refuse to show ID and pay only in cash.
You are not even close to fucking anonymous here on a public facing website without encryption.
Unless you’re using a VPN and Tor/Tails to connect to the internet, your identity is known. Even then, if a nation-state wants your ass, they’ll find you.
Should have gone to a McDonald’s in Alberta. They haven’t had any rats in about 70 years.
The Daniel Penny verdict couldn’t have come at a better time to show all this to be true.
Kill a CEO? You’re a horrific monster!
Kill a homeless person broken by the system we live in? You’re just protecting yourself!
They need to make it easier to find their podcast on their website, instead of dumping everyone into the Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify Podcasts pipeline…
https://blowback.show/BLOWBACK
There’s a playlist of the episodes near the bottom of this page.
Reminds me of the graphic novel “The Bush Junta.”
Episode Zero with H. Jon Benjamin as Saddam Hussein is pretty gold.
I think their assessment that the history of the Iraq War is important to understand our current place in history is absolutely correct. Especially not prosecuting war criminals and how that lead to not prosecuting Trump.
Lmao, that’s reading a lot into what I said. Who said anything about explaining anything to them? They don’t see the same earth or problems on the earth that we do, and almost nothing is going to change that. Bezos going to space didn’t give him that bullshit “Overview Effect” and make him a better person. Musk doing hallucinogens didn’t suddenly make him a better person and recognize that other people really exist.
But treating them like they’re infallible and just so damn smart when the evidence shows otherwise isn’t helping.
Depends on which Lemmy instance is being used, what country their instance is set up in, and local laws surrounding it.
It also depends on how much money the admins of your Lemmy instance have towards fighting legal battles. The reality is that most of them have basically zero money for that, so some of them are going to be more… aggressive, because deep down, they’re actually protecting themselves and the instance first and foremost.
Further, we don’t know if this is actually his manifesto or if it’s a fake or if it’s planted evidence. Some might be deleting it to avoid being sued for defamation of character by Mr. Mangione, if he beats this case, and it turns out that was a false manifesto.
The only reason I have sympathy is because I know how it is to be broke and just not have it in you to be fighting big political battles, especially when you literally cannot afford to retain a lawyer to do so. I’d wager most removals are due to that, but that’s just me putting myself in other people’s shoes.
If it hasn’t been clear, the internet has been an absolute disaster for most governments worldwide.
It allows regular citizens to bring kitchen-table issues to each other.
Ask yourself why no laws have been made about things like political parties have to force their paid political commenters to admit that their opinion is paid and that they’re on the clock. Especially after the Cambridge Analytica scandal and the existence of Correct the Record.
Billions have been dumped into “Persona Management” software for the explicit purpose of disrupting these conversations. ( This article is thirteen years old. This isn’t new.)
Information is power.
Control of information is also power, since you are denying access to information to others.
Thanks for the pointers.