GarbageShoot [he/him]

Please call Tara Reade a Russian asset, just so we’re clear on everything

Among the most-viewed misleading claims where X failed to add accurate notes were posts spreading lies that “welfare offices in 49 states are handing out voter registration applications to illegal aliens,” the Democratic party is importing voters, most states don’t require ID to vote, and both electronic and mail-in voting are “too risky.”

This is just normal Republican lies. There’s no particular reason to attribute it to foreign influence. In fact:

One false narrative—that Dems import voters—was amplified in a post from Elon Musk that got 51 million views. In the background, proposed notes sought to correct the disinformation by noting that “lawful permanent residents (green card holders)” cannot vote in US elections until they’re granted citizenship after living in the US for five years. But even these seemingly straightforward citations to government resources did not pass muster for users politically motivated to hide the note.

This appears to be a common pattern on X, the CCDH suggested, and Musk is seemingly a multiplier. In July, the CCDH reported that Musk’s misleading posts about the 2024 election in particular were viewed more than a billion times without any notes ever added.

It seems like some of it is nearly-openly lead by the platform owner, with judgements on veracity handed down from him to his fanboys.

The calls are coming from inside the house. You can’t pin everything on foreigners, least of all things where you have no specific information on them being to blame.

“But bots!”

Even setting aside that the article doesn’t attribute even most of what’s happening to bots (hence its title), that’s not an adequate counterclaim. Do you really, really think that among the mountain of Republican think tanks and other organizations, none of them are running a bot farm of even a few dozen accounts, like the 45 cited in the article? Granted, it could be Russia (logically, it probably isn’t China, which Republicans are usually harder on), but there have also been domestic operations, haven’t there?

Here’s an easy example that does not directly “prove” the above case is not foreign interference (again, it’s at an overlap point of the interest of different groups) but demonstrates that it clearly seems that there are domestic bot nets doing numbers and thus that such a possibility needs to be considered for other cases where a Republican bot net might have an interest.

Defensible sentence technically, but I think it’s actually plausible with three hads and the second past perfect makes the sentence unnatural.

Time is running out for this lion to stop eating me alive

I’m not sure where they are but they were really just what I said without any additional details. I remember one of them said something to the effect of “We should give them to a group being eradicated rather than a group doing eradicating” but that’s about it.

Ukraine - Palestine seems good to me. I’ve recently seen multiple lemmitors bemoaning all the military supplies sent to Israel, saying it should instead be sent to Ukraine.

I’d vote for the Korea one if it wasn’t redundant. Also “Why shouldn’t a Jewish state exist?”, A History of Media Manipulation, and Hitler Didn’t Come from Nowhere all seem particularly interesting.

Independence of the judiciary? Gone, abolished by the last major legislation of his presidency. Judges will now be elected by partisan ballots. Independent election administration? Crippled. Nonpartisan enforcement of government-transparency rules, nonpartisan antitrust enforcement, nonpartisan telecommunications regulation, nonpartisan energy regulation? Abolished, abolished, abolished, and abolished. Only the central bank, after a long struggle, will retain its autonomy from direct presidential control.

*It has links to these claims that I won’t bother to replicate

Notice how a lot of what they are talking about are offices being put up for election, and sometimes they even say as much, but then at the end they say “Only the central bank . . . will retain its autonomy from direct presidential control.” even though that is not at all what they established was being taken from the other offices.

I think that a good thing to mention is the Great March of Return, how a large segment of the population of Gaza was dedicated to pursuing peaceful protest to reclaim their old homes and free prisoners, and they were met not just with rubber bullets and tear gas, but live ammunition, notoriously snipers aiming for kneecaps and essentially competing seeing how many they could shoot, like American settlers gunning down buffalo.

But really, what they are asking for is why you are anti-zionist. Unless you think you’ve been groomed by hexbear (since that’s the popular allegation, or so I’ve heard), there’s no way any of us know the answer to that better than you do. I have nothing against sharing resources with them (maybe spare them the gore if you can), but I think it’d be most effective to give a personal history of your beliefs and what persuaded you. You believe it for good reason, don’t you? Then talk about that!

I’d more say that the military occupation was done for the sake of confrontation (this is similar to the official Chinese line). It was a really senseless invasion, as far as I can tell (and I disagree with the Vietnamese line that the war was expansionist).

Come on, you’re more well-read than this. You know that military occupation and annexation are not the same thing.

If I was just complaining about border skirmishes, then I’d mention India or something. The attack on Vietnam was more than just a “minor border skirmish”.

the map is far more accurate than it is not though

Come on, Yog, we can hold ourselves to a higher standard than this. It’d be so easy to just color in Vietnam and then you’d be set, but by posting it in its current form you are actively lying.

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The one is not the other

Arendt is one of the more overrated authors in America short of the founders, but she has a point about how, when you are removed from the brutal nature of the violence, you can just sort of shuffle it into your day-to-day activities. Sure, you can certify the paperwork, it’s just letters on a screen. Hell, you can even administer the needle, as it’s not your job to concern yourself with his innocence or guilt, it’s your job to use this specific set of injections to kill him in a visually benign way. Separating arbiters from brutalizing and brutalizers from arbitration makes the flagrant injustice much more palatable to both parties.

Individually, yes, but collectively, it must be possible, since we are the material basis for the system existing in the first place.

Frequently they blame ““communist”” politicians for letting the immigrants in

On this chart, Labour is to the left of Lib Dems, 93% to 90%. They are to the right of Greens, who have 96%.

That’s a limp deflection. Is it really so difficult to not go around mocking people for typing errors like a 13-year-old?

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