Yes! Tax the capitalists! I’m glad you agree.

Exactly and thank you. Dipshit reframing for rightwing numbskulls to repeat.

There is a WONDERFUL book, BATTLECRY OF FREEDOM, (McPherson) covers civil war era in detail, using contemporary accounts. One of a dozen world-changing books in my life.

It’s also like scifi: the 1840s etc was the start of particular world changing science and tech: telegraph (instant electric communication), railroads, and germ theory. There was an angle where this was a technological war…

Woah! Suddenly I’m gay! What happened!?

Oh wait I just remembered I’ve been gay since 5 yrs old.

ITT In This Thread.

As an aside, “communist” has a very specific meaning, and I think (hope, assume) people here are using it like exaggerated lefty. But it’s not at all. The high school debate team type definition is long since dead. It generally means a forced expropriation of citizen wealth. Ala ccp or the Soviet state (notice, plox, that that is deceased). Does anyone here really want that!??

No there are not “two sides”. The right wing is a fkn minority. The rest of us want to carry on with our lives. Left center and some conservative. Bigots wanna bigot.

The right! Leaving people alone! Lol! Lefties want “treat every one well” and the right passes law after law removing rights from specific lists of people, starting with those they seem as politically weakest (trans, gay, poor, black). The party of “small government” sure wants a lot of social control laws.

And yes explicitly, lefties want to remove any “right” to treat people “you don’t categorically like” badly.

Fuck the right wing, seriously wtf.

Stop being mean to everyone. Then no one would care about you at all.

Gab is forked mastodon. Dunno ruqqus but it’s shutting down. Never heard of voat.

Try again?

Broadly speaking, so-called conservative folk are not creative. They resist change, and trying new things is umm trying new things.

Weirdos like me LOVE CHANGE and novelty so you can probably guess which direction I lean.

Trans and queer and furry and weird folk are often programmers and creative folk. ActivityPub is written largely by and for queer and trans and furry folk. So no surprise it’s so strongly supportive of individual expression and rights.

Is anyone surprised that everything the chump crowd touches fails?

Let me Google that for you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie?wprov=sfla1

Well the solution to that is obvious…

I tuck my t-shirt into my underpants and pull them way up, just to be sure.

Got facts and sources to back these assertions up? Yeah what they do sucks – but facts are required.

Here is an explanation of what is happening with the .ml tld.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36817179

Seriously it’s like no one knows how to use the internet (erm, to learn about teh innernets).

When in doubt, Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_code_top-level_domain?wprov=sfla1

This was all done decades ago…

Hmm … I think the point of this post, and comm, is being (righteously) annoyed. When leavened with humor, of the self-deprecating kind, it’s good.

But public indulgence of righteous indignation is kinda gross. Once in a while maybe…

I wonder how many complaining here actually read even this bland and uninformative article.

At issue I believe (because it is not stated, but discussed elsewhere in better venues) is that UK wants to be able to see inside encrypted comms and files, under the guise of CSAM detection. Apple is right to oppose it.

Arguments based on hypocrisy real or perceived in other venues (china) has nothing to do with this decision its just piss-taking. Give it a rest.

I wish everyone EVERYONE would stop saying “ai”. It is not in any way intelligence. These are large language models.

This is a bit long, but John Sayles says it right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot4z1UrPvZY