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NormalC [he/him, comrade/them] @ NormalC @hexbear.net
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  • Again, you're minimizing when faced with an inherent contradiction.

    The US is not "one country", it is the entire security apparatus of the modern imperial core of minority nations. Every western leader is aligned with the US for legitimacy and resources. US policy dictates the global climate. The rise of reactionary fascist politics in Western Europe under Trump was not a coincidence.

    Would it surprise you to learn that the DPRK has repeatedly petioned the US to mutually dearm its nukes and the US has refused? The nuclear "button" is the entire point of this thread. It is also the way the US threatens the integrity of the entire world.

  • The POTUS can launch nuclear weapons without any briefing or coordination with the rest of the government. It is his sole power, not even the legislative congress can override him.

    The Russian head of state must consult with their top brass to even have the ability to do so.

    The CPC have a documented retaliation policy and can't just launch nukes preemptively.

    Nice shitlib logic. You just repackage white superemacy with imperialist characteristics because that model of the world absolves you of urgency.

  • Are you sure that Steam is uninstalled completely from your filesystem. Steam creates a ".steam" user directory and leftover data in the directory may be conflicting with the flatpak. Delete it if it exists and then try restarting your computer. The flatpak version of steam sandboxes the .steam directory.


    As always, Steam is proprietary software and doesn't bother to follow freedesktop standards. The support I can give can only go so far. GOG is always a better solution as it can be used with a libre client like Heroic Games Launcher or Lutris without DRM or invasive anti features. You do not need Steam to leverage Valve's contributions with Proton and Vulkan.

  • I've grown up under a communist government in a socialist republic...

    Huh? That's a very roundabout way of describing a communist state. Where do you come from specifically? You can count communist states on your fingertips.

    ideology, like all ideologies, is scary for its intolerance and disregard of human nature...

    I don't think that's what the word "ideology" means. Also it's dangerous and unproductive to off-handedly remark on "human nature." It's a bad faith psuedoscientific buzzword that's rooted in uncontextualized historical analysis. Nothing happens in a vacuum.

    I will therefore gatekeep any pure ideolog, just to save my own faith in humanity.

    Again, I'm not quite sure what this means. I think you're conflating a lot of things here that just don't make sense and I dont want to make any assumptions about you. No community can ever be immune to reactionary politics, but thats not the same as rejecting "pure ideology"

  • To most of us, we see "dictator" before we see "asian guy". You're not attacking the picture.

    Damn you just didn't "see" the racism so therefore it cannot be problematic. But since President Xi is a "dictator" that must mean that people who are calling me out for racism must be the ones at fault because they're protecting a big evil man. Most people "agree" with you so therefore it must be "not racist".

    I can tell you never worked through dismantling racist imagery that wasn't spoon fed to you by a 24/7 news entertainment cycle.

  • Ah, so this is the person you're referring to. In that case, yeah his arrest was warranted. It turns out you can't just spread fatphobic and racist imagery around in American social media networks and not expect to eat shit.

    Posting three of the same headline piece is also meaningless, all three of them are obvious western sources. Your first post of RFA also ruined your credibility. We don't overlook that.

    The CPC take measures to prevent reactionary content from being proliferated. This is normal for a country.

    He was also only sentenced to 6 months, hardly life shattering. Meanwhile rabid disinformation campaigns in the US are facilitated or outright encouraged by standing political officials.

  • Wannabe communists

    There's a lot to unpack in that one. First of all, how do you even gatekeep being a communist? Surely you don't hold a degree in Marxist-Leninist thought? Nor are you a hexbear yourself.

    Or perhaps since you have this perception that we are all petite bourgeoisie (mostly white) in the imperialist core that we can't actually be communists (ignoring how paradoxical that is)

    Perhaps communism in your mind is only for the "orient" and global south. Those in the "West" must just be play acting.

  • Piracy is always moral. These types of comments ignore the fact that "game devs" don't actually have full control of their works but instead is split through a larger publishing/corporation and shareholders. Game devs have very little autonomy or personal agency at all.

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  • I'm a zoomer in uni as well. People have given me the "its another app on my phone" excuse but once I tell them I don't use any social media they are actually a lot more understanding.

    Bonus points if I hit them with the Free Software rhetoric.

    This person is just a brainless chud who got pwned by a literal computer program for parasocial weirdos.

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  • Security and avoidance of anti-features != anonymity. If you wanted that you would have to use something like GNU Jami which has account archives and is peer to peer.

    I'm just grateful that the phone number requirement means less of a hassle for others.