barrbaric [he/him]

If you weren’t fairly online and/or in fringe left-wing or right-wing spaces, you probably wouldn’t have heard about him because he wasn’t really that important. Most of my coworkers (and this is in the US) had never heard of him before his neck just did that.

It was Mitt Romney who said they had to ban tiktok because it was too pro-palestinian.

Yep, the party it wants you to fill out a survey for at the end has this on their website:

We are neither left nor right wing, we do not follow any ideology but instead we emphasise personal virtues and strength of character.

Classic third way framing, followed by “personal virtues” conservative hogwash.

I once had windows quarantine the download files, claiming they were viruses. Had to manually add an exception and then it worked fine.

In the US transit mostly doesn’t exist beyond buses that barely ever run.

For Interstellar, at least, I’d say it’s incredibly low-brow. The resolution is just “the power of wuv saves humanity!”, which is extremely simplistic and easily understood by the masses.

Whoa, hey, let’s not go too far here. I dispute classifying finance officers as “human”.

One could argue that anyone paying taxes to the US (or any US-allied states) are “part of the problem” in that they’re partly paying for a state that is dead set on exterminating all life on the planet by accelerating climate change and embracing fascism (or, at the bare minimum, doing nothing major to oppose it). But the people paying those taxes are only doing so under threat of violence, imprisonment, or death. I think anyone who opposes this state of affairs is not part of the problem. They might not be part of the solution, which imo would require engaging in activism to attempt to overthrow the current state of affairs, but they’re neutral at worst. I’d like to think I do enough to fall under the former umbrella, and so would not think of myself as “part of the problem”.

The people who are “part of the problem” in my mind are three groups:

1. Those who willingly go along with the fascist project but do not meaningfully contribute to it. In america, these are your typical Trump voters who happily go along with everything he says but aren’t doing anything beyond that. It also includes many liberals who still believe in american exceptionalism and, for example, don’t see anything wrong with committing genocide so long as the person doing it is polite and pretends to be trying to stop it.
2. Those who contribute to the fascist project but are following orders. These are the kind of people who will go to Jan 6th, or scream about woke teachers at a schoolboard meeting. They might even run for small-time local office.
3. Those who are orchestrating the fascist project. These are the billionaires, high-level politicians, media personalities, and right-wing think tanks who have been actively pushing and/or masterminding the fascist movement for decades.

Clearly it’s one point three-twenty em-bee.

Well it got rid of the ability of people to downvote and potentially silence (by pushing them off the front page) any posts made by trans users, so I’d say yeah.

FWIW Hexbear disabled downvotes entirely (after a scandal where an audit revealed that certain users were exclusively downvoting posts of trans users) and it doesn’t seem to have resulted in any problems.

We also have a very strict moderation policy though, so this may not be universally applicable.

Nyaa.si still up, all is well

I desire the end of America and indeed all capitalist states, ideally before they slide even further into fascism in the near future. Death to the Israeli state, and death to any states that support it.