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How does this image make you feel white boy

You’re not breaking the fourth wall, this is not a parasocial interaction either or whatever new term people get attached to, this is not “tapping the glass”, this is just interacting online.

Nope!

Private frontends and decentralized social media like Funkwhale and PeerTube will really be the most accessible form of piracy ever if more people start using it this way

Getting whiplash between “haha Russian invaders and bots get fucked!!! Finland!!! Wooooo Finland!!!” and “ah, we take no pleasure in doing this, our hands are tied”

Maybe the professional communications and Mastodon bubble Linus has been posting in led him to believe everyone in the world hates Russians now and that would be really well received

Geopolitics posters will no longer be contained by petty accusations of “bringing politics into it”, the NATOids have drawn blood. There is no turning back now.

This guy is a pig, he never talks about Palestine without trying to pin blame on Hamas for daring to kill the baby killers who have been occupying their country for generations.

No wonder he is trying to make the political problems in the US all about Trump and the neocons. Dems have nothing to offer.

I am 6’2 and it makes me uncomfortable how people turn it into a weird thing. I hate judging anyone by their height. We should be talking about how the environment isn’t designed for a range of people with varying needs. Being told I should work harder because of it is fine with me hah hah. Most people are doing some weird judgment.

Moreover, common cause of height loss geographically is poverty. Don’t be a fucking pig. Anyways that’s why I didn’t have a kid in America or an allied country. Deny the west your precious bodily fluids and raw biomass. No I’m not kidding.

Search is really useless and made even worse by federation never working as intended (even after subscribing), just try any of the Misskey forks and you will see what I mean. There are too many things to list.

They can just scan and open and reclose the mail they do this to everyone now I am so serious. Difficult to do at scale though so honestly I take it back, if everyone did it the mail way it could increase surveillance costs? Escalating everyone’s piracy to require forensic cracking at a federal or international level would skyrocket costa which should be a goal

Okay let me try again. Where are their servers conspicuously NOT located?

Very cool will check this out

The idea of people viewing the whole ActivityPub protocol’s potential through the deliberately stripped down and self-sabotaging platform of default Mastodon is still so sad to me

Mail is extremely insecure, it’s actually really nefarious for them to recommend it. I still use Mullvad sometimes because it’s just so cheap and fast. I know it’s some kind of high level NATO spyware though. Just look at where their servers are. I mean fucking come on now.

I have to say out of all the arguments from authority that exist, account age is probably the funniest. so, you haven’t logged off for a longer period than I have? sit the hell down then

[puts up posters of Zizek and Foucault everywhere] wtf why are people characterizing this place as having an undercurrent of western leftist idealism?? mods? is this bullying?

as for the screenshot, this is what the entire antiwar left does lmao reposting Chris Hedges articles and shit without knowing what they are. regurgitating libertarian talking points about the pandemic (everyone forgot this), posting offbrand versions of Mearshimer, I don’t owe you essays and essays on this subject. you are literally just repeating the libertarian “oh noes my tax dollars” and Israel lobby explanations for imperialism. slowly, it’s shifting. but people like you have fought it every step of the way with your perpetual aggrievement towards people that disagree

So, it is no trouble for you to deny the entire intellectual tradition. You don’t even know particularly where “your youtube guy everyone should check out” got his ideas, but at least he seems to talk like he knows what he is saying.

Here let me put the part that is most pertinent to your situation at the forefront so you don’t get all tuckered out after two paragraphs. I’m a real pleasant individual about these things. 😁

What are you even talking about LMAO? Can’t find any other words to express your disgust than “ew new person”?? I’m not assuming anything, I’m making completely obvious observations about the community and you’re taking them personally because they are accurate. You just disagree with my conclusions because you lack the historical context for your own beliefs. Anything else to say or do you just want to rage?

If you want a more complete summation, I could go into the Gonzaloist Maoist flavor of posters around here, but why even waste time on that?

The basis for most leftists is not materialism but idealism rooted in the tradition of German imperialist philosophers like Heidegger and Nietzsche, who have been venerated and smoothed over and venerated again and then denied by the intellectual apparatus (the system of universities and journals that decides which ideas are received by anyone) until everyone has their own little micro tradition of Nietzschianism to suit their tastes. Nevermind their actual Nazi beliefs. It didn’t bother Chomsky or Foucault or Zizek.

Of course, nobody engages directly with intellectuals. You don’t even read, or even pay attention to the alt-media which whether branding itself as left or right has roots in the same intellectual tradition, you may occassionally still engage with the Jon Stewart style kids’ entertainment/comedy adaptstion of the same ideas, but you guys get all of your news through the new pyramid scheme of Google and Amazon content creators.

So, it is no trouble for you to deny the entire intellectual tradition. You don’t even know particularly where “your youtube guy everyone should check out” got his ideas, but at least he seems to talk like he knows what he is saying. And since he was likely bred on The Young Turks and other things like that, he is still many steps away from even investigating where he gets his ideas from.

I didn’t even know about it when I was writing that.

Can you picture a more heroic death? I tell myself that I am getting the picture these days, sometimes, but the idea of a man like that engaging in a standard front line raid, it is jawdropping to me. I am awestruck honestly. I admit now I know nothing about their operations. All we know is media criticism. We are blind. Every day they live out heroism that is beyond the wildest fantasies of the shitty fucking writers who inspired us as children. There is a wild confrontation awaiting all of us, and avoiding it will only degrade and torture us.