• mechoman444@lemmy.world
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    I’m sure that everyone, including trump will feel the full force of the law. The FBI will immediately investigate make arrest and punish everyone involved in this blatant act of anti-patriotism and treason.

    Right?

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      Who thinks he needs to intercept them?

      He was probably told before any of these guys.

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    I’m looking forward to anyone using the word ‘signal’ around trump being suspected of mocking him.

    Sensitive egotistical maniacs are so much fun to placate.

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      Are you just figuring that out now? Attacking all its allies is what did it for me.

      The US is a captured state now, and there are only a few ways out; voting is not one of them.

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        Welcome to the party pal, most of us knew it was traitor town when “Russia if your listening” was said on national TV.

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    Literally zero chance they weren’t monitoring his phone while he was in the country.

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    Love the way THE BBC is trying to make signal sound like some hackers playset, really shows how much the UK gov hate encryption or people having any privacy at all.

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      The UK is an utter shithole when it comes to privacy, always has been. It doesn’t look to be getting better any time soon either.

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        You use Signal to avoid government surveillance.

        I use Signal to avoid government accountability.

        We are not the same.

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            Less. If someone has root privs on your phone they can screenshot without your notice and send those shots wherever they want, encryption or self-deleting messaging apps be damned.

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            Because it’s largely irrelevant? If someone says “This is the best lock you can use on your front door” and someone else replies “not if you leave the key in the lock” do you think that’s a important thing to mention? No lock is safe if you leave the key in the lock. Maybe it’s important to remind people that you shouldn’t leave your key in the lock, but that statement says nothing about the security of the lock.

            Similarly maybe it’s important to remind people that their phones might already be rooted, but that statement says nothing about whether Signal is good or bad from a security point of view.

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        Well I use it and have put it on relatives phones so they can communicate with me easily, ideally though I’d use Threema but yeah signals a lot better than other free alternatives.

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        No.

        Graham Fraser: Technology reporter.

        Signal, compared with other messaging apps, has added security features to protect the privacy of its users. Conversations on the app are end-to-end encrypted, which means they can only be read by the recipients. Signal can’t even read what has been sent. But security is only as good as the person using it.

        Link

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        Isn’t hard to look up the BBC site, their pretty much making signal sound like an insecure hacking tool only used by dissidents.

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        Lol I wear my ban with pride. All you have to do is go over there and use the word ‘tankie’. They really don’t like that word for some reason.

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        As a long time poster at all types of Lemmy instances, I still don’t get why people don’t like lemmy.ml

        Can someone ELI5?

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          Hex and grad are tankie instances that are very in your face about it and don’t carry the honor of being “the flagship” instance and as a result were easy to widely defederate from which led to most people here not having strong opinions on it

          .ml admins are hardcore tankies, but try to maintain .ml as the flagship and thus are more subtle about their tankieness. Instead opting to just censor any dissenting opinions before things get crazy in threads.

          As a result many instances are way more hesitant to actually defed from them like they did the rest of the Tankie Triad, thus leading to more widespread visibility and in turn more widespread dissatisfaction of them by most.

          Checkout !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works (for those on a .ml account you’ll need to use this link because, ironically, .ml admins censor that comm from you: https://lemmy.world/c/meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works ) for documented instances of their behavior

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            One example of this is when I called out some Hexbear users for their bullshit propaganda and then when they started brigading against me and making literal death threats, the .ml mod swooped in, deleted my comments, and gave me a temporary ban. The hexbear users comments remained visible including the death threats.

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            How do they get off being the ‘Flagship’ instance then? Should that concern us or is it meh?

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              I don’t think it can, it’s a flagship because it’s the first instance, being run by the main devs as a demonstration of Lemmy’s capabilities so it’s always on the latest beta version at least.

              But, they could just stop using it as a tool to further their own political stances and have it actually be a “generalist” instance. For that though, they’d have to give up being the admins of it, which they’ll probably never do.

              It is of concern yes, but maybe if the wider Lemmy-verse defeded from them, like they did Hex and Grad, it would at least be easier to say that their views are not shared by any of us to any newcomers/outsiders by being able to point to a clear and visible action like defederation.

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                Damn - as I love Lemmy and believe in the mission it’s hard to square that with tankie devs

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                it would at least be easier to say that their views are not shared by any of us to any newcomers/outsiders

                Do we need users who cannot mentally separate that?

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            I find you in every thread shitting on ml at the vaguest mention of Russia or China though. Before anyone ever brought up anything related to them. It’s almost like you have an agenda. Or vendetta.

            Please show me on this doll where the dirty commies hurt you:

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              Hmm yes, how dare I pushback against authoritarian misinformation, propaganda, censorship and toxicity. I do what I can within my power to prevent (or rather having it get worse I should say)the Lemmy-verse from garnering a rep outside for being “That Tankie Place” or worse, Voat 2.0

              I’ve already seen it on Reddit and testimonials here (from those that actually tried to give it another shot, who knows how many won’t ever come back) “I tried that Lemmy place, but it was just a bunch of tankies” is not a pleasant comment to read outside the Lemmy-verse

              What I’ve documented on !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works is but a mere fraction of the crap they pull and focused on just .ml

              Btw, tankies are authoritarian “communists”

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                Right. And I’m on board with that and that’s not what I am saying. If I mention “Russia bad” in a thread, without any ml presence in the whole post, I don’t expect someone to derail my thread with their anti-ml agenda. Why not keep it there where it’s relevant: an actual ml poster excusing Russia’s behaviour?

                Or, as you do, in your welcome messages to new users.

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          It’s full of “communists” that blindly excuse every damn thing that states like China and Russia do just because they dress themselves in red, or used to, and oppose everything western in an attempt to be “anti-imperialist”, ignoring what Russia is doing to Ukraine at this very moment. Hypocrites and dogmatic ideologues who can’t see nuance in anything.

          "When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called “the People’s Stick”. - Mikhail Bakunin

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          They are a minority that have opposing views. Just as any ideology, they have flaws and they just accept those flaws with open arms.

          You could go there and say: china owns 80% of cobalt companies in Congo. You’d get banned.

          Can say that china has far higher inequality than the EU. You’d get banned.

          You could say that the Chinese government subsidising smartphone and electric vehicle market in china is trickle down economics. You’d get banned. (I get cheap high quality stuff because Chinese citizens their taxes pay for the profit margins of the Chinese shareholders.)

          You’d get banned.

          I honestly just wonder if they are economically illiterate morons, to be honest ☺️

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            They try to play themselves off as communists but I can’t say I’ve ever seen a single one of them make a legitimate comment about communist ideals. What they really are is a propaganda mouthpiece for the Chinese and Russian governments.

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              Historically, groups that have “communist” in their name have been Soviet mouthpieces. Not all of them, and the ideology doesn’t require it by any means, but it happened a lot. Conversely, if they had “socialist” in their name, they were more likely to want nothing to do with that shit.

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      Krasnov, destroying America from within since 1987, the best accidental investment Putin ever made. Great success, comrades! 👍

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    They should have left their personal phone at home, and brought a burner. Without the fun apps on it.

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    Looks like Russia won the ideological war and will be exporting authoritarianism to the globe.

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      The main thing to remember about authoritarians is that none have ever been documented to be impervious to small pieces of metal moving at high speed.

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      This isn’t a nationalist idea … the oligarchs have won and are exporting authoritarianism to the globe. Most or the majority of people everywhere just want to have a peaceful life whether they are in the US, Russian, China or anywhere on the globe … it’s oligarchs and wealthy morons that think they can manipulate everyone, everywhere all the time and allow them to become rulers of the universe.

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        i’ll have you know that social contract that formed in russia after 90s looks just like that: citizens fuck off from politics in return for some prosperity. every time when russian state expected that that won’t last due to things like 2008 crisis or covid or what have you, they started a war as a distraction and to rally around the flag some nationalists. now they’re on 4th attempt, this one was due to post-covid recession. difference is, this time they were high on their own supply of propaganda and planned accordingly. they also can’t back down because they see it as a weakness, and that would mean a coup

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      Nahhhh according to the tankies of .ml, Russia is just trying to export humanity-saving peace, love and socialism but has just been continuously beaten down by the big bad US :(

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    Independently verifiable detail number 28543 showing that Trump and everyone he has appointed are unfit for office, and that no one who voted for him will ever care about, and from which no consequences will ever flow.

    I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters. – Mr. Donald J. Trump

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      Could everyone please stop repeating “nothing will ever come of this” every time fucked up shit happens?

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        Man I don’t have enough time in the day to be doing that.

        I save my cynical outbursts for when he gets caught. And I have reasons, though you may not agree with them.

        I think it’s important not to lose sight of the fact that our government is incapable of dispensing consequences to this man, regardless of what he does, regardless of where his loyalties clearly lie, regardless of how he continually works at the destruction of the United States of America. So we’re not surprised at where things are four years from Jan 21 like we were four years from Jan 06.

        While we are all tempted by the complacent comfort of “someone in government will handle it” now that he’s actually at the peak of his power, it seems key that we all remember “no one in government handled it” for four years when he was out of power and arguably at his weakest.

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    It looks like you’re using an ad blocker.

    Well, can’t read that website.

    Plasters some big dead thing from a website called “getadmiral.com” over the page that I can’t remove.