Reviewer 2 @reviewer2@social.cleverlibre.org
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Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny has died in prison, presumably murdered on the orders of Vladimir Putin.
In the run-up to the rigged Russian elections this March, the puppet opposition figure Boris Nadezhdin became a rallying point for genuine anti-war sentiment and subsequently began to act in defiance of the Kremlin—not unlike how Yevgeny Prigozhin began as Putin's lackey but eventually struck out on his own. In this context, Putin likely feels that he cannot afford to permit any opposition figure to remain alive.
Navalny himself does not interest us. As a Russian anarchist put it a couple years ago,
"Navalny is an opportunistic ultra-nationalist bigot of a politician who paints himself as a populist using a narrative of anti-corruption politics that would only prop up a different batch of oligarchs."
Still, the protests when Navalny was arrested in 2021 were arguably one of the last expressions of the kind of mass resistance that could have prevented the invasion of Ukraine:
https://crimethinc.com/2021/01/24/letter-from-russia-on-the-protests-of-january-23
The recent events in Russia show that when authoritarians like Putin or Donald Trump gain power, it is only the beginning of the bloodshed.
But the tendency to rally around opposition figures rather than developing horizontal networks of resistance is part of the problem.
I have no hope, but I don't need it anymore. It's not like I'm giving up.
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There’s a certain kind of shill who can watch the Israeli state chase a mass of brutalized, starving Palestinians civilians into Rafah and then prepare to chase them back out of Rafah and still somehow deny genocide because it doesn’t look like their idealized imagining of a genocide.
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When we tell you "German liberals and centrists appeased the fascists, merc'd the left and then were surprised when they ultimately lost to the Nazis" this is what we mean.
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I'm gonna keep posting this as it keeps annoying bootlickers.
This is why I'm considering phasing out casual use of social media. The spaces are crawling with trolls who will accuse me of bad faith if I insist to keep communicating across difficult but surmountable lines of difference - and then conversely, to gaslight me that I'm asking too much when I call people on their shit when they're across the lines I cannot surmount - but across which I must communicate for the sake of, like, survival (*cough* ECOCIDE *cough* GENOCIDE *cough*).
I'm aware that this situation was partly generated by algorithms on commercial sites that boosted outrage for clicks - I never really liked e.g. Facebook and I've been dormant there for almost 10 years, but I had some actually constructive conversations there prior to ~2012 that I cannot seem to have anymore.
Masto seems better - I don't have much experience - but I do like to keep my timeline diverse in ideology & interests, and it looks like a lot of people whose bad behavior thrived on commercial social media have crossed over too.
I wonder if I'll need to wait until they all suspend me 😂
Got called a fascist by a Biden supporter for..... saying I support Biden? Lesson of the day: Sometimes you just need to take a deep breath, put yo...
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We understand that stepping back from the platform formerly known as Twitter remains difficult as long as so many trusted voices continue to prioritize it. By adopting the X-last approach, you can take collective action to address Elon Musk's hateful and dangerous direction: http://www.xlast.org
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I know some of you think Bluesky is strictly for the birds, but it occasionally throws up some hot theropod content instead:
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#California in the 21st century:
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I would tell you that you should boycott all aspects of the Super Bowl, but I know that for almost all non-Native Americans a football game is more important than their anti-racism and caring about Native/Indigenous people.
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Repeating for those who missed it:
"British Channel 4 (publicly owned commercial tv, not government funded) has examined “confidential Israeli documents” regarding #Israel’s claim that #UNRWA staff were involved in the #Oct7 attacks.
The network reports Israel has “provided no evidence” in its charges against UNRWA personnel."
Zero evidence. That's all it took for US-Satrap Nations to starve more #Gaza #Palestinians and deprive them of aid. A complete fabrication that UN workers were #Hamas.
Said the scientist who sadly illustrated the point ― his exceptional contributions to the science of evolutionary biology, and to the public awareness both of its findings and of its potential political misuses, counterbalanced by the damage he did to honest scientific debate by dogmatic strawman gaslighting ― misrepresenting the arguments underlain by the theoretical viewpoints he didn't like and likely never fully understood, by systematically overstating the political implications he saw in and occasionally read into them.
Context:
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1993/01/14/confusion-over-evolution-an-exchange/
“Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to nove...
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@Melpomene https://qoto.org/@olives/111884417729866558
As I kind of wrote there, though after you posted that lol, Facebook almost seems to fancy themselves as some sort of state.
They have "policy documents" which are like "laws" (though, it wouldn't surprise me, if these weren't completely open to the public). A "fake court" (the "oversight board") which hands down "judgements". Probably a "profession" of people who cook up "policy documents". And probably, contractors (outsourcing has it's own problems, one they might not understand the culture, two don't shake the boat), who execute it.
I really think this whole thing with platforms has gone way too far. I wonder whether companies like Facebook which are so big and try to be so many things should even exist. Facebook does video, Facebook does groups, Facebook does "family networks", those web developer / marketer facing services where they track you on unrelated sites so as to make the entire Internet "likeable" or for marketing, Facebook does Instagram, Facebook does Whatsapp (Whatsapp is better, although even there, there are shenanigans like not encrypting the metadata). It's not even really about intermediary liability.
I also wonder whether platforms haven't coddled these QAnon type people too much. It's strange when they have a stringent standard in one area, then manipulating media to make it look like someone (in this case, the president) is some sort of predator is alright. I understand the argument that "they can never make everyone happy" and that "moderation is hard" but it feels strange.
Even there, though, again, I think platforms like this shouldn't really exist.
Gofundme for the survivors of the Israel-aligned chemical weapons terror attack on Columbia University students
https://www.gofundme.com/f/grieving-cu-community-members-need-your-support
From X/itslaylas: "medical bills are coming in for students that were attacked. students are facing hospital bills in the thousands. Columbia has offered no financial support. Please share this gofundme & donate if you can."
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Anarchist Library: **CrimethInc. - Days of War, Nights of Love**
"Author: CrimethInc. - Title: Days of War, Nights of Love - Subtitle: Crimethink for Beginners - Date: 2011 - Source: <cdn.crimethinc.com/assets/books/days-of-war-nights-of-love/days-of-war-nights-of-love_screen_single_page_view.pdf> eclipse the past Warning: this book will not save your life Today there is a booming discontent industry, consisting of entrepreneurs who cash in on your misery by selling you products that describe and decry it. Thus the exchange economy finds…"
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/crimethinc-days-of-war-nights-of-love?v=1707197768
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Leave your phone at home when you go to protests OR use a burner.
Also see:
"Meet Jack.: Or, What The Government Could Do With All That Location Data..." A powerpoint presentation by the #ACLU. His prospective employer even manage to find out about Jack's drinking habits, his girl on the side, AND his #union activities... https://www.aclu.org/issues/privacy-technology/location-tracking/meet-jack?redirect=meet-jack-or-what-government-could-do-all-location-data #DomesticSurveillance #DomesticSpying #Surveillance #OrwellWasRight #LocationData #LicensePlateReaders
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Such wisdom as this:
“When the *liberal* discourse is ‘actually our guy is deporting brown people in record numbers, so there’ you really gotta ask yourself if beating fascism is in fact a priority. The idea that giving voters soft-fash policies is a strategy for sidelining fascists not only is historically illiterate but also deeply misunderstands the nature of doing #politics as a task of effectuation and world-making. A mistake that literally no fascist has ever made.”
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@Radical_EgoCom I'd just like to note that atheists from a predominantly Christian background (enculturated or actually ex-believers) are not the same as atheists who are former members of other religious communities. It varies depeding on the type of god(s) you disbelieve in. So for example ex-Christian atheists are more likely to buy the whole singularity/mind uploading riff than ex-Jewish atheists (because no afterlife).
Científico antinómico
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