Because it is still very much a false accusation used to justify the invasion and eventual genocide of Ukrainians? "Oh but there are neo Nazis in the Azov batallion". So? There are tons of ethno nationalists in the Kremlin & duma, who'd gladly do a bit of genocide - as a treat - so they can consolidate more land and power. Hows about them bananas?
Let's look at the evidence the past 30 years regarding russiafication, the para military groups in Africa and the promotion of oligarchy, the overthrowal of foreign governments the installing of puppet states - as well as the deep state corruption in Russia.
But also, let's look at the recent indoctrination of children into military school being taught that Ukrainians are mongrel mutts, Africans being used as suicide bombers, junkies and alcoholics sent to the front lines because of the "tried and true" meat assault tactic, Russian soldiers coming in on horseback and donkeys, the oligarchs of Russia being disappeared the last year to fund the war is especially prescient - while claiming the defeat of Ukraine is imminent.
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Because it is still very much a false accusation used to justify the invasion and eventual genocide of Ukrainians? "Oh but there are neo Nazis in the Azov batallion". So? There are tons of ethno nationalists in the Kremlin & duma, who'd gladly do a bit of genocide - as a treat - so they can consolidate more land and power. Hows about them bananas?
Let's look at the evidence the past 30 years regarding russiafication, the para military groups in Africa and the promotion of oligarchy, the overthrowal of foreign governments the installing of puppet states - as well as the deep state corruption in Russia.
But also, let's look at the recent indoctrination of children into military school being taught that Ukrainians are mongrel mutts, Africans being used as suicide bombers, junkies and alcoholics sent to the front lines because of the "tried and true" meat assault tactic, Russian soldiers coming in on horseback and donkeys, the oligarchs of Russia being disappeared the last year to fund the war is especially prescient - while claiming the defeat of Ukraine is imminent.
In short: there is so much lies and bullshit coming from the Kremlin & the duma, as well as a metric ton of evidence proving how degenerate and incompetent they really are, to the point that seing the ol' "azovs are Nazis" propaganda point is like a conspiracy to generate free energy from the amount of eye rolling it will generate.
If it was such an issue, why not point out ICE or the IDF? Heck, why not deal with the ethno nationalists in Russia? Oh right, they're the ones in power.
Believing any of their propaganda is tantamount to intellectual suicide.
Tankies finding one problematic aspect in any movement they oppose and blowing it all out of proportion to justify repression. Also see Kronstadt rebellion, Hungarian revolution etc.
However any problematic aspect in camps they support is just an "unfortunate mistake" nevertheless worth "critical support" to oppose Western imperialism.
We have streets and buildinga named after a known fascist dictator in Greece who privately complained that Hitler didn't ask him to join the axis. This proves nothing except that time and war fog glorifies figures that don't always deserve it. This is exactly the kind of thing I was talking about. Purposefully disregard all nuance to paint a narrative.
streets re-named after a fascist mass murderer, yes. so if the germans suddenly started renaming streets after adolf hitler, you'd dismiss that too. nothing to see here.
Bandera was also a national liberation actor. One person who understands nuance could usually understand that national liberation actors tend to be lionized and their misdeeds trivialized. It happens constantly. Campists don't have a problem with mass murderers like Bandera, or Assad, or, Putin, they only have a problem when they're not in their camp.
And for a national liberation actor, Bandera is receiving comparatively little praise, especially from the current government.
This line of reasoning is therefore purposefully simplistic to paint a narrative, while of course ignoring the rampart fascism in the Russian aggressor who would of course impose a much worse form of fascism over Ukraine
We have streets and buildinga named after a known fascist dictator in Greece [...] This proves nothing except that time and war fog glorifies figures that don't always deserve it.
It proves there is a sizeable contingent in Greece that idolizes fascists and has enough institutional power to express that idolatry, and that there is not enough pushback in the rest of the culture to oppose that openly fascist expression. All of which is deeply worrisome and none of which negates the fact that there is likewise rampant Neo-naziism in Ukraine and that it has tremendous institutional and military power.
Just a tiny, insignificant problematic aspect like widespread support for fascism. No biggie. Btw, why are all our governments turning towards fascism? Where could this be coming from?
Moreover, present day Russia is a creation by the West itself. It was your governments that wanted the USSR to collapse, your goverments that elevated individuals like Putin post-collapse. Now you get a brutal, capitalist, Anti-LGBT hellpit, that the people of the West somehow pretend just materialized out of nothing, and wasn't a result of their own negligence, their own unwillingness to prevent mass suffering in Eastern Europe and Asia after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
You are constantly in conflict with your own self-made monsters.
Just a tiny, insignificant problematic aspect like widespread support for fascism
"widespread"
Moreover, present day Russia is a creation by the West itself. It was your governments that wanted the USSR to collapse, your goverments that elevated individuals like Putin post-collapse. Now you get a brutal, capitalist, Anti-LGBT hellpit, that the people of the West somehow pretend just materialized out of nothing, and wasn't a result of their own negligence, their own unwillingness to prevent mass suffering in Eastern Europe and Asia after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Sounds to me USSR revolution wasn't that "successful" afer all
Sounds to me USSR revolution wasn't that "successful" afer all
Reducing the USSR to a "failure" because it collapsed is ahistorical idealism and the height of liberal nonsense. We should judge a formation by the contradictions it resolved, not by whether it achieved eternity. Tsarist Russia was a feudal wreck where peasants starved and most couldn't read. Within decades, the Soviet project doubled life expectancy, wiped out illiteracy, and industrialized a continent-sized country, dragging millions out of poverty.
Women gained full legal equality in 1918: abortion rights, divorce, workplace access, while Western women were still fighting for the vote. Socialized childcare and mass employment pulled women into public life on a scale capitalism wouldn't match for generations.
And let's not forget who actually broke fascism: the Red Army fought four-fifths of the Wehrmacht, lost 27 million people, and took Berlin while the West sat on the sidelines and even continued to trade with the nazi beast for years into the war (see the history of ford f
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Sounds to me USSR revolution wasn't that "successful" afer all
Reducing the USSR to a "failure" because it collapsed is ahistorical idealism and the height of liberal nonsense. We should judge a formation by the contradictions it resolved, not by whether it achieved eternity. Tsarist Russia was a feudal wreck where peasants starved and most couldn't read. Within decades, the Soviet project doubled life expectancy, wiped out illiteracy, and industrialized a continent-sized country, dragging millions out of poverty.
Women gained full legal equality in 1918: abortion rights, divorce, workplace access, while Western women were still fighting for the vote. Socialized childcare and mass employment pulled women into public life on a scale capitalism wouldn't match for generations.
And let's not forget who actually broke fascism: the Red Army fought four-fifths of the Wehrmacht, lost 27 million people, and took Berlin while the West sat on the sidelines and even continued to trade with the nazi beast for years into the war (see the history of ford factories and IBM).
Collapse doesn't retroactively erase what was built. "Anarchists" like you who dismiss seventy years of concrete progress because the state eventually fractured aren't radical they're reactionary. Material gains for millions don't vanish because the system that produced them later unraveled.
The aftermath of the collapse proved the stakes that people like you refuse to grapple with. The 1990s were catastrophic. Life expectancy cratered, millions plunged into homelessness and destitution, women and children were trafficked by the tens of thousands, and the entire country was looted by oligarchs with IMF blessing. The chaos bred Yeltsin's drunken comprador regime, which paved the way for Putin's rise as his right-hand man a direct product of the Soviet collapse. When you cheer the unraveling of a workers' state even a deeply flawed one, you're not celebrating freedom. You're celebrating the road that led straight to oligarchs, fascists, and some of the worst reaction imaginable. But you don't really care about anyone but yourself.
Reducing the USSR to a "failure" because it collapsed is ahistorical idealism and the height of liberal nonsense
'Tis what MLs perpetually do for every Anarchist revolution.
Collapse doesn't retroactively erase what was built. "Anarchists" like you who dismiss seventy years of concrete progress because the state eventually fractured aren't radical they're reactionary. It achieved the same great improvements for living standards all other such capitalist revolutions did throughout history. Material gains for millions don't vanish because the system that produced them later unraveled.
I'm not erasing anything. I consider the USSR revolution a great success for capitalism, as it turned an agrarian society into an industrialized capitalist nation. It also imporoved the people's living standard like any society becoming industrialized through capitalism. It's the only thing all such ML revolutions every achieved and the only thing they can achieve.
It's an abject failure at achieving communism (and anarchist argue, even socialism) though.
Daily writing promptWrite about your first computer.View all responses Here’s the thing about my first computer. It didn’t coddle me. It didn’t autocomplete my thoughts or ask how I was feeling today. It sat there like a beige brick with delusions of gran
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Here’s the thing about my first computer. It didn’t coddle me. It didn’t autocomplete my thoughts or ask how I was feeling today. It sat there like a beige brick with delusions of grandeur and dared me to figure it out.
It was a Commodore 64. Used. Already scarred. Already suspicious of me. Perfect.
I was 13, which is exactly the right age to be given something powerful with no instructions and just enough danger to ruin your sleep schedule. This thing booted up to a blinking cursor. No icons. No friendly mascot. Just a prompt that basically said “prove you’re not stupi
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Here’s the thing about my first computer. It didn’t coddle me. It didn’t autocomplete my thoughts or ask how I was feeling today. It sat there like a beige brick with delusions of grandeur and dared me to figure it out.
It was a Commodore 64. Used. Already scarred. Already suspicious of me. Perfect.
I was 13, which is exactly the right age to be given something powerful with no instructions and just enough danger to ruin your sleep schedule. This thing booted up to a blinking cursor. No icons. No friendly mascot. Just a prompt that basically said “prove you’re not stupid.” Most days, I barely managed.
Before there was the internet, before people argued with strangers for sport, I ran a BBS on it. One phone line. One modem screaming like it was being tortured. If someone picked up the house phone, everything died. Entire digital civilizations erased by Aunt Linda calling to chat.
Running a BBS meant learning patience, troubleshooting by rage, and understanding that technology does not care about your plans. You learned by breaking things. You learned by staying up too late reading messages from people you’d never meet, typing back like it mattered. It did.
That machine taught me more than school ever did. It taught me curiosity. It taught me how systems work. It taught me that if you want something, you better build it yourself. No app store. No updates. Just manuals, trial, error, and a lot of swearing.
Kids today tap glass and call it skill. We had to earn our fun. We had to know why things worked. Or didn’t. That old C64 wasn’t just a computer. It was a gateway drug to obsession, independence, and the kind of problem-solving you can’t download.
If you know, you know. If you don’t, start with Commodore and dig into BBS. That’s where the real internet started.
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Brave is essentially just Chrome with an adblocker, a bunch of bloatware, and a bunch of controversies.
Brave took BAT donations in YouTuber's names without their consent, with them keeping the money if the YouTubers didn't claim it. davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2…
Brave's search engine crawler hides itself from websites by pretending to be Googlebot, and Meta (Facebook) buys API access from them to train their AI. stackdiary.com/brave-selling-c…
The business model of Brave rewards as a whole is to block all other ad networks to replace them with their own, which is unfair as only YouTubers and websites that have joined can make money from most Brave users.
If Brave actually cared, they would create an acceptable ads style featur
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Brave is essentially just Chrome with an adblocker, a bunch of bloatware, and a bunch of controversies.
Brave took BAT donations in YouTuber's names without their consent, with them keeping the money if the YouTubers didn't claim it. davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2…
Brave's search engine crawler hides itself from websites by pretending to be Googlebot, and Meta (Facebook) buys API access from them to train their AI. stackdiary.com/brave-selling-c…
The business model of Brave rewards as a whole is to block all other ad networks to replace them with their own, which is unfair as only YouTubers and websites that have joined can make money from most Brave users.
If Brave actually cared, they would create an acceptable ads style feature which was free for everyone and allowed simple contextual banners while blocking ads which track you, take up most of the page, or have NSFW content.
Their approach is monopolistic as they have full control and can strangle YouTubers and websites by dropping pay at any time.
And Brenden Eich has said on Twitter that he plans to release "Brave Origin", which is a paid version of Brave without the bloatware. That name is ironic as he is admitting that his browser is commercialised and bloated, which is similar to when gorhill gave uBlock way to Chris Aljoudi who commercialised it, which led him to create uBlock Origin.
If you use Brave, ditch it and look at using Librewolf or Helium instead, which both include no ads nor tracking and don't have Brave News, Rewards, Wallet, Talk etc bloatware.
I'm fairly certain that I was not the only person in the world who thought to himself, "Did they just yoink the entire Internet and bundle it together into a
Do people realize that if Firefox dies (in the many ways that could be interpreted), all of these downstream forks will also die right?
Like, the work to in essence remove unwanted parts of a code base is admirable but its an utterly miniscule fraction of the work that goes into maintaining a modern browser, keeping up with standards, sending people to be voices at conventions, etc.
The beauty of open source projects is that if they are abandoned, other people can pick them back up. Sure it may be difficult, but if it wasn't FOSS it wouldn't even be possible.
Thats the beauty to silly idealists who pretend they can't understand that hundreds of employees getting paid full time wont materialize out of thin air to keep a massive project like a web browser alive in the absence of that structure.
"Asking for representation is a purity test and you should feel bad for thinking of it. Your vote is simultaneously not worth consideration but also if you (the person entirely unrepresented by the electoral system) dont vote for people who don't represent you at all, worse people will be elected and its entirely 100% your fault! No we will not change the voting system to allow more then two parties to exist without a spoiler effect. Yes we will howl every election about the spoiler effect we refuse to fix, even in deep blue states. Fuck you. Fuck you forever. I hate you and i hope you and your people die. Now vote for who I want and smile really big and pretend this is a democracy!"
Did I miss any talking points blue conservatives? See yall during the midterms should they happen.
The things he's complaining about all seem like good features for a group with voluntary membership. Its only when membership is compulsory that those kinds of things become bad.
At a glance, I don't see a problem. Isn't social media already a system for rating social credit?
I think the problem with social credit scores is when they're mandatory and can limit things like housing access. Filtering posts on opt-in social networks just sounds like a reasonable tool for moderating decentralized platforms.
It's one thing to have reactionary, bigotry and imperial propaganda removed and have a reason provided and it's another to poorly implement a social credit score into your frontend and never have a clue in the first place. Why don't they just go back to reddit where you have that already instead of reinventing the wheel?
So then why redo the features that a centralized, closed-sources and for profit shit hole has? Sounds pretty authoritarian to me to do that and not trust a community mod team
Also this seems relevant to undersrand those fed libs:
PieFed was created explicitly because the people that made it were uncomfortable working with communist devs. They actively develop a competing platform that smells like it was cooked up by feds to silence dissenting voices. People like you that keep pushing this line defending the extremely egregious actions of the PieFed devs makes you very suspect.
PieFed is literally the opposite of decentralized by including baked in blockage of the original developers of the platform they are building off of. You are actively using the work of communists to do anti-communist fed shit. You should be ashamed of yourself.
you know what else is nonprofit and "decentralized"? OSINT and the fucking NEDa and USAID which are CIA cutouts.
No on PieFed you only have your comments shadow hidden by a user blocking you for making them uncomfortable for calling out their liberalism/racism/fascism.
You don't have a fucking leg to stand on here you piece of shit.
Marxism is scientific truth and fears no criticism. If it did, and if it could be overthrown by criticism, it would be worthless. In fact, aren’t the idealists criticizing Marxism every day and in every way? And those who harbour bourgeois and petty-bourgeois ideas and do not wish to change — aren’t they also criticizing Marxism in every way? Marxists should not be afraid of criticism from any quarter. Quite the contrary, they need to temper and develop themselves and win new positions in the teeth of criticism and in the storm and stress of struggle. Fighting against wrong ideas is like being vaccinated — a man develops greater immunity from disease as a result of vaccination. − Mao
The comment is about PieFed, whose developer is the kind of person who posts on thought policing communities like Meanwhile On Grad, globally tracks your score and restricts your account. It also has some features to drop messages that seem like a good idea but will certainly be used by a coordinated liberal order to silence leftists.
Donald Trump’s latest executive order allows the U.S. to impose additional tariffs on countries that ship oil to Cuba, deepening the economic siege on the island.
The result isn’t abstract policy. It’s collective punishment: blackouts, long gas lines, delayed medical care and families struggling to get through the day.
We’re in Havana asking Cubans about the new measures and about what life looks like when fuel, electricity and transportation begin to disappear.
Cuba has already been suffering increasing fuel shortages since the U.S. blocked all oil going to the island from Venezuela. In recent weeks, power outages in Havana have increased.
Donald Trump’s latest executive order allows the U.S. to impose additional tariffs on countries that ship oil to Cuba, deepening the economic siege on the island. The result isn’t abstract policy. ...
Donald Trump’s latest executive order allows the U.S. to impose additional tariffs on countries that ship oil to Cuba, deepening the economic siege on the island.
The result isn’t abstract policy. It’s collective punishment: blackouts, long gas lines, delayed medical care and families struggling to get through the day.
We’re in Havana asking Cubans about the new measures and about what life looks like when fuel, electricity and transportation begin to disappear.
Cuba has already been suffering increasing fuel shortages since the U.S. blocked all oil going to the island from Venezuela. In recent weeks, power outages in Havana have increased.
Donald Trump’s latest executive order allows the U.S. to impose additional tariffs on countries that ship oil to Cuba, deepening the economic siege on the island.
The result isn’t abstract policy. It’s collective punishment: blackouts, long gas lines, delayed medical care and families struggling to get through the day.
We’re in Havana asking Cubans about the new measures and about what life looks like when fuel, electricity and transportation begin to disappear.
Cuba has already been suffering increasing fuel shortages since the U.S. blocked all oil going to the island from Venezuela. In recent weeks, power outages in Havana have increased.
Video - How Do Cubans Feel About Trump’s Oil Blockade?
Donald Trump’s latest executive order allows the U.S. to impose additional tariffs on countries that ship oil to Cuba, deepening the economic siege on the island.
The result isn’t abstract policy. It’s collective punishment: blackouts, long gas lines, delayed medical care and families struggling to get through the day.
We’re in Havana asking Cubans about the new measures and about what life looks like when fuel, electricity and transportation begin to disappear.
Cuba has already been suffering increasing fuel shortages since the U.S. blocked all oil going to the island from Venezuela. In recent weeks, power outages in Havana have increased.
Donald Trump’s latest executive order allows the U.S. to impose additional tariffs on countries that ship oil to Cuba, deepening the economic siege on the island. The result isn’t abstract policy. ...
Of course most of the events I'm interested in are broadcast at ridiculous times of day, which makes sense given the time difference. Does anyone know where a guy might find recordings, or at least a livestream? FMHY has lots of TV links, I'm sure I'll be able to find some stuff there, but I'm hopeful that somebody more intelligent than I am is also interested and has a better plan than I do.
Sidenote: what events are y'all looking forward to? I'm excited about Ski Mountaineering, and I think there's a Freeride Ski event as well!
Edit: I understand that some folks have strong opinions about the Olympics, and that's alright. However, I wasn't asking for your opinion on the event in a political manner, and outside of "what events are you looking forward to?" did not ask for any opinion whatsoever. I am interested in watching them, and am looking for the best ways to do so without paying. That doesn't effect you, and frankly your opinion of the event is unwelcome and irrelevant to the conversation at hand.
If you want to have a discussion about all of the ills invol
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Of course most of the events I'm interested in are broadcast at ridiculous times of day, which makes sense given the time difference. Does anyone know where a guy might find recordings, or at least a livestream? FMHY has lots of TV links, I'm sure I'll be able to find some stuff there, but I'm hopeful that somebody more intelligent than I am is also interested and has a better plan than I do.
Sidenote: what events are y'all looking forward to? I'm excited about Ski Mountaineering, and I think there's a Freeride Ski event as well!
Edit: I understand that some folks have strong opinions about the Olympics, and that's alright. However, I wasn't asking for your opinion on the event in a political manner, and outside of "what events are you looking forward to?" did not ask for any opinion whatsoever. I am interested in watching them, and am looking for the best ways to do so without paying. That doesn't effect you, and frankly your opinion of the event is unwelcome and irrelevant to the conversation at hand.
If you want to have a discussion about all of the ills involved with the Olympics, make a thread about that, in a relevant community. I agree with a lot of the negative opinions about the Games and would happily engage in that conversation in the appropriate context. This thread is about where those of us who do chose to watch may do so. Thank you in advance for stowing your opinion.
Another Edit: regarding representing your nation, that isn't incorrect, but also absolutely minimizes that making it to the Olympics is the height of athletic achievement and many of the athletes dedicated their entire lives in order to reach that point. And you're shitting on that from behind a computer. Younger me was a very competitive skier, I nearly went to college explicitly for ski racing. So I have in that regard a pretty deep understanding of the level of commitment it takes to go beyond that level. It's nothing to snear at and say "well your president/PM/government is bad so you're as guilty as they are" and doing so reflects more on you than the athlete.
You can get yourself a one-month iptv sub, and put ott on your android tv device, probably put you out 10 to 15 bucks. Most will have a dedicated olympics set of channels that rebroadcast events during USA prime time hours. Also maybe pick up a Peacock sub for a month and enjoy the show.
Yea, a subscription might be the easiest way. I would love a way to capture the video to my drive, is that the ott route? I don't have an android tv box and have heard of it. IPTV is definitely a good suggestion that I hadn't considered, do you have any recommendations?
Walmart has a $20 Onn android box. Ott is the iptv app. Those cheap boxes only have a couple gigs of storage so recording is not really an option. As far as providers, I've used layer seven a few times with decent results. A couple web searches will turn up some good reviews of iptv providers.
There's a great Android TV app called Tivimate. You can record shows to a hard drive attached to the Android box.
If you're in the USA (or maybe Canada?), the Walmart Onn 4K is a very good device for the price ($30). The Nvidia Shield Pro ($200) is more premium. I have two of them.
The best IPTV services are secretive and require an invite from an existing user. The one I use hasn't accepted new customers for a few years, so unfortunately I can't refer you.
Audiences can watch on CBC and the free CBC Gem streaming service. Once launched, CBC’s website, cbc.ca/milanocortina2026, will offer full event schedules, results, highlights, athlete profiles daily updates and more.
For those in other countries, check who is broadcasting locally and you might be able to access it for free through official channels
Yes it will. a few years ago when the Tragically Hip played their last concert a couple of my friends in the US wanted to watch as the CBC was showing it for free. So I let them have access to my personal VPN on my server which is in Montreal.
They are still participating in the name of the country they represent. That’s manufactured solidarity and they have the choice and by extension the voice to stand down on these platforms.
Exactly - the athletes represent their nations. No matter their genuine selfish reasons (money, fame, etc), they are endorsing their nations' policies.
Beyond that, the IOC is corrupt and the Olympics is just another way to funnel money from the people to the elites.
What praxis have you taken part in comrade? I donate all of my extra eggs to the local community pantry, and use the money from the ones I sell to buy dry goods to donate.
I will glance proudly at the TV, knowing my city dodged the biggest economic bullet that we probably ever faced. This was the Olympics that we would have been holding too. While I lament that our current Olympic facilities are decaying, I don't at the same time think it was responsible to invite this organization (and all the chaos that they bring) back into our city. We can provide the funding for future infrastructure in other and more sustainable ways.
I only watch olympics as much as its easily available to see what I want. so we will see what is on youtube or streamed somewhere I can see it. if not I figure whatever. I mean its supposed to be this global good will thing so you would think everything would be available to watch from some website for the global population.
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I don't know, fear mongering is a very traditional and expected conservative policy. It's the ultimate nothing-burger they use to distract from the real issues that they're not going to fix.
The CP should change its acronym to CLP for the Chicken Little Party 'cause it's really well known for running around in circles screaming "THE SKY IS FALLING!".
This stuff is as fake as the American Second Amendment being untouchable. Totally okay for them as long as it's kids getting gunned down as soon as it becomes a threat to them it isn't a thing.
And I do think people find literal Nazi's very justifably threatening and turns out people on the left also has guns so I don't think this will stick around even if they pass something for it.
I always wonder what the tipping point is for failed government policies as the world slips deeper into dystopia and the old beat goes on. If people are starving and freezing in the street you don't invest in commodities, do you? You try to feed them and get them some warmth, so they don't die. Fiscal prudence should never enter the equation for these types of issues. The best we have here is kill someone before they kill you?
Conservatives think letting them die is the "fiscally responsible" option. Even if there are mountains of evidence suggesting otherwise the concept sounds simple and "common sense" enough for their base.
Long before generative AI, copyright holders warned that new technologies for reading and analyzing information would destroy creativity. Internet search engines, they argued, were infringement machines—tools that copied copyrighted works at scale without permission. As they had with earlier information technologies like the photocopier and the VCR, copyright owners sued.
Courts disagreed. They recognized that copying works in order to understand, index, and locate information is a classic fair use—and a necessary condition for a free and open internet.
Today, the same argument is being recycled against AI. It’s whether copyright owners should be allowed to control how others analyze, reuse, and build on existing works.
Long before generative AI, copyright holders warned that new technologies for reading and analyzing information would destroy creativity. Internet search engines, they argued, were infringement mac…
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Not just thousands. In an FCC filing, the company mentions deploying up to a staggering 'one million satellites' in orbits ranging from 500 kilometers to 2,000km.
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I don't understand why this is getting such a heavy downvote.
Can any downvoters kindly explain why they're chosing to downvote this?
Thanks.
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in reply to Digit • • •Because it is still very much a false accusation used to justify the invasion and eventual genocide of Ukrainians? "Oh but there are neo Nazis in the Azov batallion". So? There are tons of ethno nationalists in the Kremlin & duma, who'd gladly do a bit of genocide - as a treat - so they can consolidate more land and power. Hows about them bananas?
Let's look at the evidence the past 30 years regarding russiafication, the para military groups in Africa and the promotion of oligarchy, the overthrowal of foreign governments the installing of puppet states - as well as the deep state corruption in Russia.
But also, let's look at the recent indoctrination of children into military school being taught that Ukrainians are mongrel mutts, Africans being used as suicide bombers, junkies and alcoholics sent to the front lines because of the "tried and true" meat assault tactic, Russian soldiers coming in on horseback and donkeys, the oligarchs of Russia being disappeared the last year to fund the war is especially prescient - while claiming the defeat of Ukraine is imminent.
... show moreBecause it is still very much a false accusation used to justify the invasion and eventual genocide of Ukrainians? "Oh but there are neo Nazis in the Azov batallion". So? There are tons of ethno nationalists in the Kremlin & duma, who'd gladly do a bit of genocide - as a treat - so they can consolidate more land and power. Hows about them bananas?
Let's look at the evidence the past 30 years regarding russiafication, the para military groups in Africa and the promotion of oligarchy, the overthrowal of foreign governments the installing of puppet states - as well as the deep state corruption in Russia.
But also, let's look at the recent indoctrination of children into military school being taught that Ukrainians are mongrel mutts, Africans being used as suicide bombers, junkies and alcoholics sent to the front lines because of the "tried and true" meat assault tactic, Russian soldiers coming in on horseback and donkeys, the oligarchs of Russia being disappeared the last year to fund the war is especially prescient - while claiming the defeat of Ukraine is imminent.
In short: there is so much lies and bullshit coming from the Kremlin & the duma, as well as a metric ton of evidence proving how degenerate and incompetent they really are, to the point that seing the ol' "azovs are Nazis" propaganda point is like a conspiracy to generate free energy from the amount of eye rolling it will generate.
If it was such an issue, why not point out ICE or the IDF? Heck, why not deal with the ethno nationalists in Russia? Oh right, they're the ones in power.
Believing any of their propaganda is tantamount to intellectual suicide.
Evilsandwichman [none/use name]
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in reply to 白浆领主 • • •db0
in reply to 白浆领主 • • •Tankies finding one problematic aspect in any movement they oppose and blowing it all out of proportion to justify repression. Also see Kronstadt rebellion, Hungarian revolution etc.
However any problematic aspect in camps they support is just an "unfortunate mistake" nevertheless worth "critical support" to oppose
Western imperialism.
huf [he/him]
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mmhmm
Category:Streets named after Stepan Bandera in Ukraine - Wikimedia Commons
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in reply to huf [he/him] • • •Bandera was also a national liberation actor. One person who understands nuance could usually understand that national liberation actors tend to be lionized and their misdeeds trivialized. It happens constantly. Campists don't have a problem with mass murderers like Bandera, or Assad, or, Putin, they only have a problem when they're not in their camp.
And for a national liberation actor, Bandera is receiving comparatively little praise, especially from the current government.
This line of reasoning is therefore purposefully simplistic to paint a narrative, while of course ignoring the rampart fascism in the Russian aggressor who would of course impose a much worse form of fascism over Ukraine
This chain of argument perfectly proves my point
huf [he/him]
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in reply to CindyTheSkull [she/her, comrade/them] • • •honest examination == low effort sarcasm? Deeply unserious...
CindyTheSkull [she/her, comrade/them]
in reply to db0 • • •It proves there is a sizeable contingent in Greece that idolizes fascists and has enough institutional power to express that idolatry, and that there is not enough pushback in the rest of the culture to oppose that openly fascist expression. All of which is deeply worrisome and none of which negates the fact that there is likewise rampant Neo-naziism in Ukraine and that it has tremendous institutional and military power.
db0
in reply to CindyTheSkull [she/her, comrade/them] • • •FortifiedAttack [any]
in reply to db0 • • •Just a tiny, insignificant problematic aspect like widespread support for fascism. No biggie. Btw, why are all our governments turning towards fascism? Where could this be coming from?
Moreover, present day Russia is a creation by the West itself. It was your governments that wanted the USSR to collapse, your goverments that elevated individuals like Putin post-collapse. Now you get a brutal, capitalist, Anti-LGBT hellpit, that the people of the West somehow pretend just materialized out of nothing, and wasn't a result of their own negligence, their own unwillingness to prevent mass suffering in Eastern Europe and Asia after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
You are constantly in conflict with your own self-made monsters.
db0
in reply to FortifiedAttack [any] • • •"widespread"
Sounds to me USSR revolution wasn't that "successful" afer all
QinShiHuangsShlong [none/use name]
in reply to db0 • • •Reducing the USSR to a "failure" because it collapsed is ahistorical idealism and the height of liberal nonsense. We should judge a formation by the contradictions it resolved, not by whether it achieved eternity. Tsarist Russia was a feudal wreck where peasants starved and most couldn't read. Within decades, the Soviet project doubled life expectancy, wiped out illiteracy, and industrialized a continent-sized country, dragging millions out of poverty.
Women gained full legal equality in 1918: abortion rights, divorce, workplace access, while Western women were still fighting for the vote. Socialized childcare and mass employment pulled women into public life on a scale capitalism wouldn't match for generations.
And let's not forget who actually broke fascism: the Red Army fought four-fifths of the Wehrmacht, lost 27 million people, and took Berlin while the West sat on the sidelines and even continued to trade with the nazi beast for years into the war (see the history of ford f
... show moreReducing the USSR to a "failure" because it collapsed is ahistorical idealism and the height of liberal nonsense. We should judge a formation by the contradictions it resolved, not by whether it achieved eternity. Tsarist Russia was a feudal wreck where peasants starved and most couldn't read. Within decades, the Soviet project doubled life expectancy, wiped out illiteracy, and industrialized a continent-sized country, dragging millions out of poverty.
Women gained full legal equality in 1918: abortion rights, divorce, workplace access, while Western women were still fighting for the vote. Socialized childcare and mass employment pulled women into public life on a scale capitalism wouldn't match for generations.
And let's not forget who actually broke fascism: the Red Army fought four-fifths of the Wehrmacht, lost 27 million people, and took Berlin while the West sat on the sidelines and even continued to trade with the nazi beast for years into the war (see the history of ford factories and IBM).
Collapse doesn't retroactively erase what was built. "Anarchists" like you who dismiss seventy years of concrete progress because the state eventually fractured aren't radical they're reactionary. Material gains for millions don't vanish because the system that produced them later unraveled.
The aftermath of the collapse proved the stakes that people like you refuse to grapple with. The 1990s were catastrophic. Life expectancy cratered, millions plunged into homelessness and destitution, women and children were trafficked by the tens of thousands, and the entire country was looted by oligarchs with IMF blessing. The chaos bred Yeltsin's drunken comprador regime, which paved the way for Putin's rise as his right-hand man a direct product of the Soviet collapse. When you cheer the unraveling of a workers' state even a deeply flawed one, you're not celebrating freedom. You're celebrating the road that led straight to oligarchs, fascists, and some of the worst reaction imaginable. But you don't really care about anyone but yourself.
db0
in reply to QinShiHuangsShlong [none/use name] • • •'Tis what MLs perpetually do for every Anarchist revolution.
I'm not erasing anything. I consider the USSR revolution a great success for capitalism, as it turned an agrarian society into an industrialized capitalist nation. It also imporoved the people's living standard like any society becoming industrialized through capitalism. It's the only thing all such ML revolutions every achieved and the only thing they can achieve.
It's an abject failure at achieving communism (and anarchist argue, even socialism) though.
FortifiedAttack [any]
in reply to 白浆领主 • • •Jul 2024: "Genocide is okay if Israel is doing it. Vote Democrat btw."
Sep 2025: "Israel is allowed to torture Western activists. Israel is our greatest ally."
Jan 2026: "Jews were the only victims of the Holocaust, everyone else doesn't matter."
LemmeAtEm
in reply to 白浆领主 • • •lol who is downvoting this? Is it just because it's not funny since it's a 1:1 representation of reality, so not really anything satirical?
Evergreen:
leftypol.org/edu/src/166202600…
The excuses that libs will insist on making for loudly openly self-procliamed nazis will never cease to... disappoint me.