JohnDClay @ JohnDClay @sh.itjust.works

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Tesla I'm sure will do fine. I'm not sure about the others who don't have an in at the white house.

Yeah, hexbear and .grad seem to be mostly tankie users, but it seems much more split on .ml. The admins are questionable, and I've seen tankies there disproportionally, but since it was the default instance for a long time, there are also a bunch of non-tankie users. I think lumping .ml in with hexbear and .grad really downplays just how bad those two are.

For example, I hope you wouldn't consider planning how to exterminate Jews allowable free speech. There will always be limits on free speech, the question is where your limits are.

They sensor criticism of the CCP

When hexbear federatedn with SJW, I spent a day arguing Russia invading is bad actually, North Korea isn't a democratic utopia, and China isn't a shining pillar of socialism. Then I blocked them all because that was exhausting. So idk if hexbear is still so tankie, but they definitely were at that point.

You'll call some things free speech and others not. No instance is going to allow everything. You'd need to create your own instance so it aligns with your views. Then the other instances will decide whether they want your content or whether to defederate.

And picking any of the big instances is fine and easy. The hard thing would be hopefully you don't get a tankie instance.

http://henrykfantazos.us/Face%20of%20the%20South/index_2.html

Some dictators certainly did, getting regime security in exchange for valuable resources.

Absolutely, and that includes Russia. They don't get a free pass to exploit them now just because others have done it before.

Or like buying weapons? Just bartering for commodities?

That's just payment, right? That's a lot better than nothing.

Hopefully kuiper will eventually be a meaningful alternative. Though Amazon also isn't great...

Even so, voting third party or not voting is worse than voting for the people on the right.

Even if that's so, you'd still need to vote for the people on the right, because voting third party in first past the post is objectively just terrible for everyone with similar goals.

Until we get ranked choice voting, you still need to support them though.

Yeah and artists and authors have been (rightly) complaining about open ai stealing their work. I haven't heard anyone siding with open AI on this

Who's saying this? Google open AI etc claim fair use, but no one really believes them.

Lol that's even better! The first line is short and sensational, it condenses hugely complex events, it's just missing some all capital words!

Taxation isn't because there's a middle man between your labor and the government?