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  • If you are aware of what they are doing, and you provide support to them, that is therefore knowingly providing support to their actions, whether you agree with those actions or not.

    Or, if you just meant 'agree with' rather than 'supply', then I would say that what they're doing is not something they will ever stop. It's an integral part of their existence as an imperial Zionist state, they aren't just doing it for fun, or because of some 'bad apples'. They have no plan or desire to stop, their history is mostly just this same type of war and besieging repeated, and the USA would probably abandon them and let them collapse if they miraculously did decide to stop, because the US imperial strategy only values the Zionist Regime as a attack dog in the Middle East, a region critical for resource control.

    A lot of words to say, it might as well be supporting guns without supporting bullets. There is no realistic situation where guns won't be used to shoot bullets. They can't be separated, in reality. Why support guns, at that point? It's just a comfortable abstract idea in a vacuum.

  • Thanks for linking the Red Sails article, I've finally gotten around to reading it. Interestingly, while the work critiques even the title of Manufacturing Consent, it provides a similar sense of fulfillment to Manufacturing Consent by providing a material, non-conspiratorial explanation to a more-or-less 'common sense' phenomenon (media control, brainwashing).

    In a way, the premise and conclusion echo some wisdom I'd heard before, albeit in a different context: It's not enough to be right.

    While that speaker had basically meant that theory is useless if it is never applied, and only used as an "I told you so" after-the-fact, this article makes a related case, that the correctness of an idea doesn't automatically mean it will be accepted by a typical healthy person. And as someone who veers towards a more academic and scientific side of life, where correctness is so valued and there's an expectation that everyone in the scene is on the same page about basic fundamental facts, the brainwashing framework is a convenient and intuitive (even if false) rationalization of why so many people can be so ignorant to these basics (like flat earth theory, anti-germ theory, that level of ignorance). It really is hard to empathize and not be condescending to people in relatively-advanced countries in the modern age still believing that kind of thing. The brainwashing theory is convenient - they've been dupped by a cult leader! the [religion/government] wants to keep them ignorant and encircled them with a false reality! they've been conditioned to be dumb since birth! This explains it! But that only goes so far, there is a point where a person has enough access to information that the brainwashing theory fails to justify their rejection of evidence. I know first hand, like many, that it takes time to dismantle the propaganda pervading our liberalist status quo, but it's not magical or hypnotic.

  • Is that how they act once they get home after a long and exhausting day of labouring? Just sit down in the couch and die, staring at the white wallpaper until they collapse?

    Replace the wallpaper with a television and this is awfully familiar in my neighborhood.

  • Almost tortured the lil spidey friend more than hasan.

  • ie. topic boards with ephemeral linear message threads

    This describes a general forum format, but you might mean chan imageboards specifically. There have been federated imageboards for a while, but they're very niche and experimental and I don't see the value. The two examples I've heard of are NNTPchan (2015-present, NNTP protocol) and Fchannel (ActivityPub protocol).

    There's the related imageboard webring, but there's no actual federated interaction between the boards, it's effectively just cross-advertising to allow easier discovery.

  • The article does explain some of these. Look at the list of banned genres, it's literal neo-Nazism.

  • Ah yes, I forgot about that (I've mostly been using scripting-langage web apps)

  • My only gripe was that it doesn't handle (unencoded) spaces in a URL name, which is probably correct behavior but they're in the titles of torrents on some sites, so I'd have to manually edit them each time. I ended up just using qBT.

  • The Zionist Regime must fall. From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free. Organize in your community to raise awareness of your country's complicity (e.g. weapons manufacture, university/college affiliations) and organize in your workplace to use your power as a worker to sabotage the conflict, especially if you are in ports or manufacture.

  • Where’s the criticism against them with such vigor as your post.

    It's not needed, OP and everyone here knows they're horrible. There's no point in adding a redundant "death to Republicans" after every critique of the Democrats who enabled them.

  • I wouldn't get too depressed about it, it would just be another niche bit of alt-tech if it were anything other than completely neutral. I can't think of a case when an anti-left fork of a software was memorable as a self-hostable tool. The closest I can think of is Gab, which hardly qualifies, nor does it hold a torch to Mastodon.

  • Also, the entire idea is contrary to rms’ FOSS goals

    Perhaps, and I don't see how that's a problem. Saint IGNUcius isn't the divine dictator of FOSS. The original Funkwhale announcement's author makes it clear at the end that they don't hold freedom-as-an-end-goal (liberalism) as their ideology.

    LARP

    Not LA nor RP, my friend.

    As you hinted, a determined admin can disable the blocklist, it probably isn't too technical to patch, but this makes a clear statement, which if you've seen any right-leaning tech forums, has a real impact on them (see their discussions on Firefox and Rust, or better yet, don't).

  • On the other hand, open-source software enables one to disable or edit those blocklists with a simple patch. It's just an extreme way of making it the default behavior, and therefore making their political statement stronger.

    There might be a better way, but I'm not really concerned with this implementation.

  • [from the original announcement]

    If you are a liberal or if you want to have fun, have a look at "Aamer Rahman: Is it really ok to punch nazis?" :)

    haha, nice. And this makes the Funkwhale announcement author's position clear: combating fascism is more important than defending lofty ideals, like their liberties. They treat Funkwhale as a community, not merely a tool.

    Some of the points Sean brings up may be reasonable critiques, I don't know enough about music tagging to know how easy or hard MusicBrainz is to use, and there is also the question about what if a formerly RW artist reforms (many, many have deradicalized or left the movement, fun fact: this is an important source of antifascist intel). I know about a dozen artists who, as teenagers, were in edgy right-wing circles and echoed that in their works, and are now very far away from that and regretful, but if they hadn't taken up new aliases, they'd probably be lumped in with their unwelcome past works. So I do see merit in the complaint about that project lead failing to implement a way to handle special cases.

    With all that said, I'm definitely in support of this move. I just hope they implement and improve it well - that will make or break it.


    This reminds me of Mastodon (like Sean mentioned in the article) and Lemmy. I'm not experienced with Mastodon, but I am aware of how they reacted to Gab (formerly a Mastodon instance, before getting bullied by almost everyone), and how most of Lemmy divorced Wolfballs (run by a US-Libertarian, think 🧊🍑 + antivax, but soon populated by white supremacists and neo-nazis; eventually shut down, among other reasons, when the admin realized the Nazis on their instance weren't just pretending for a laugh and that many were commercial bots. Probably didn't help that their admin had a non-white partner and jewish friends) and exploding-heads.

    These are examples when a FOSS tool takes a community stance, rather than an idealistic liberalist freedom-above-all stance.

  • I've neglected diacritics for too long.

    Look at this, it's a whole form of wordplay for Vietnamese speakers.

  • A friend of mine was laid off in a firing of 300 workers. A couple of years later, a new upper manager comes in and tries to hire 500.

    The people making decisions at large corporations have no idea what's happening on the ground, they just see major shareholders, a budget and expenses.

  • (something something invasions of North America, invasion of Mexico, Occupation of the Philippines, ... )