Aqivex

What is being a leftist if not engaging in the ad nauseam repetition of things you feel ought to go without saying to one’s comrades, though?

I thought quokk was an anarchist instance. Hmm.

See, supporting Iran’s right to self determination and wishing them the best in kicking the teeth out of the hegemon’s mouth is only half the equation from the anarchist POV.

Only tankies would leave it at that.

Condemning stupid hierarchical bullshit masquerading as religious freedom such as this though, should be pretty easy.

This situation is probably going to be the best and most poignant example today of why we proclaim “No Gods, no masters”.

and I don’t see how knowing would make that any different for me.

It would confirm you’re a claimant with valid damages caused to you, legally speaking, for which you could then seek civil remedy directly from the various different culpable parties, even if criminal prosecution isn’t coming.

We all know Florida is one of the hottest and most humid places in the country. It’s a form of torture, likely to cause death

Plus also literally mosquito food in a place with encroaching new fun mosquito borne illnesses, as they’re trapped in a cage without any sort of protection. Absolutely deliberately cruel and unusual.

I don’t see any reason the global south should get involved.

When has the global south ever gotten the choice to not be embroiled in the empire’s machinations?

At least be consistent in your thoughts.

The commenter you replied to, basically described basic human-ing for you, and why it works and has always worked, in the past.

Your rebuttal is focused on…the Internet as an object of stagnant sociocultural jamming, is that right? I think that was the gist.

I won’t engage that directly at the moment, as it could just as easily be insight with poor communication skills behind it, as it could be a strange conspiracy theory, as it could be propaganda meant to deflate and discourage.

All equally plausible places to come from, because you keep repeating the same bits and not going deeper.

We should be choosing lower effort and maximizing for effect. Protests are high effort low effect. Online culture jamming is low effort, high effect. It is logic to anyone who thinks about this honestly

What is a low effort-high effect action you believe we should be taking?

On the same token, if your tactics to achieve a strategy which you’ve yet to share are sound…what are high effort and low effect actions we can force the opposition into making?

Hey! Some of us sociopaths don’t give a fuck about titles, position, and power!

In times of abundance we just happily feign whatever is in the best interest of being able to happily feign, which usually helps out the tribe and that’s why we got to keep making enough babies to pass that along.

Ethics and morality are complex/expensive, no doubt about that. Everything you said (except equating all sociopaths with the same angles of sociopathy) is true, no question.

Luckily, our selfish drive to get back to the comfy and unassuming does tend to result in…headaches for the other, less integrating members of the worst of humanity class.

We’re outnumbered though and can’t tell precisely when it’s time to stop trying to feign along and go dispassionately tear apart the obstacles standing between us quietly living in the metaphorically cave near the village and basking in the sounds of a happy society whose periphery is all we need to get by.

These ones?

We uh, can’t.

Not in the timescale that matters to us, with the resources and technological development available at hand.

But generally speaking?

You would need to introduce a different, runaway feedback loop that modifies/cancels/counters the first.

Like fungi did when they learned to eat lignin, or cyanobacteria introduced when they started spitting out that horrible and nasty O2.

Time and scale are what will do us in.

We just didn’t pace ourselves at all, societally speaking.

Weren’t able to build the chemistry and engineering tools needed to meaningfully expand the scope of the system beyond our planet to access any other resources or solutions beyond it…

And still cannot agree to any meaningful planet side changes that might even remotely allow for later pipedreams, because they need to happen now.

The Futurama ice cube joke is funny, but we can’t even attempt anything half as harebrained on a fraction of that scale.

Someone should mail all the postmasters and the inspectors a letter reminding them that the concept of qualified immunity doesn’t belong to them, that dear leader probably can’t even remember who the current postmaster general even is without being told, and that they are not insulated from the finding out.

Could we build an AI network to fight this?

There’s a reason why some very bright people in tech with decades of experience aren’t dismissing AI whole cloth.

The dangers are vast. The social harm is a real effect. The brain atrophy is an actual pitfall to be avoided, even at the cost of tying yourself to the metaphorical ship mast.

But the possibilities are also real, else they wouldn’t be using them against us.

The hatred is fine and all, but I really really wish the kind of people who frequent the Fediverse and spouted all of the encouraging anti-establishment stances…also minded their basic Sun Tzu:

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.

A book … which you have an eternal, irrevocable and transferrable license to use.

Bezos in 1994: “And I took that personally”

It squares away in the UCMJ. Generic ‘You’ used throughout, below this point:

You are supposed to have the balls/constitution/wherewithal/spine to disobey an order you believe or know to be illegal, despite the harsh automatic penalties that will presume you guilty until innocent for doing so, as you accept those possible consequences as readily as you accept taking an artillery shell for your country.

You are to hold this inhuman (as in, literally against psychological norm) stance deeper than the other stances programmed (with full use of psychological norms) into you in the course of being shaped for military services during training.

Because you are a warrior and are expected to hold yourself to standards far above and beyond those of the common population that you are (on paper, says every military of everywhere really) sacrificing your service for, so they don’t have to.

Does it work?

Eh. Maybe if a standing military was full of the mythical Warrior Poets envisioned by the glories in the marching songs.

They pretty much universally never are, and usually never were except for brief periods fostered by singular individuals as driving forces.

And thus, here we are.

Given what Kegsbreath has been doing to reshape the US military under his toddler level understanding of what a “warrior” is, I wouldn’t expect much of the requisite spine to still be enlisted for service for long.

They exist still, and hopefully the ones that are already out, the ones still in, and their neighbors are doing some common sense mathematics, but that is simply not something that can be expected and accounted for, and historically when things get to that point, it’s a bad time for everyone regardless.

I think you may have tapped on the wrong comment to reply to, and want Viking, the one reply below me.

They’re the one with a direct and clear answer to the question you’re posing to me.

But because I like irony, one of the answers is your context.

You literally wouldn’t be able to try to educate me on the historical connotations of the word and why its usage should rightfully be avoided in all possible cases, if your education was [removed].

Yeah.

There was a hidden asterisk on my “that’s fine and all”.

This comment carries no rebuttal to your point.

I just have better things to do with my day than invite commentary from .ml, generally speaking.

Edgarianny and Freddys said that they followed the proper instructions and were told they were approved for self-deportation by the government. “On July 6, we went to our ICE check-in appointment as instructed,” the letter said. “We believed we were going there to finalize our travel home. Instead, after we signed all the forms waiving all our rights, we were arrested. “We were immediately taken into custody and transferred to Dilley. Since then, we have done everything we can to make clear that we want to return home. We withdrew our immigration appeal, waived our rights, and asked to return voluntarily. We were even told that we had been placed on a list for a flight home. Then we were taken off the list.”

I used to think the right choice for “justice” for the…perpetrators behind this, was an expeditious trial. With an equally expeditious carrying out of sentencing.

I think I was wrong.

If and when, if and when. Care should be taken to ensure they all get promises of leniency, good treatment, and safety. That the signing of their plea deals will make their life uncertain, but otherwise okay, just be patient. Then a good and torturous shuffling through the same facilities they used and then without warning, the wall out back.

Yeah.

Being utterly unfamiliar with this case up until my rushed reading of 10 mins ago, and operating under the assumption that everything you’ve said is 100% factual reporting:

Holy. Fucking. Shit.

What!? That isn’t smoke pointing to a fire, it’s a goddamn molten slag cast in the shape of a man gleefully setting fire to a previous life as he dances over to a new fire pit.

That shit is too on the nose that I fully expect the true crime drama episode in 10 years about husband’s exploits to come with a warning about the gullibility of the system and technology.

Just enough digital trail to “absolve” him, conveniently, but only if you pick and choose where and when to accept the trail is on his side?

This is absolutely looking like the classic “sociopathic piece of skin husband has idealized mental picture of life shattered by difficult reality and decides to dispense with his ‘property’ before moving on” murder pattern.

Your instance does filter out the word ‘bitch’, under the stance that it’s commonly used as a gendered slur iirc.

Which is fine and all but the implementation is utterly context-less word matching.

will make what were once optional guardrails mandatory for its users to implement by Jan. 1.

Jan. 1.

It’s more insulting than that. They’re hedging their bets that they won’t have to do it at all in the first place, first.

Their fascist die roll doesn’t land, then they can swap to the standard corpo bullshit described above.

Ocean is too tired to hold in extra Co2, and far too blue and not white anymore where it matters either.

It’s worse than that. She had a mental health crisis and what the article terms a “street incident”. The article makes it clear that she was in crisis, visibly, and faced a strong language barrier.

So what happened to her? Not a hospital. Not care. She was put in a county jail. For SIX MONTHS.

THEN comes ICE. She’s already spent six months in a confusing hellscape where even the cruelty is as ad-hoc and unstructured as everything else besides the actual routines of confinement.

Six. Fucking. Months.

After ICE did what they did…she didn’t even wander. She was so broken, confused and lost that she just treated it as a continuation of her confinement:

Surveillance camera images show Michel at the bus shelter on Pittsburgh’s south side, sitting on the bench in daylight at first on 1 March, with a small, pale bag of belongings, still sitting there in darkness that evening, then slumped half upright on the ground and eventually lying on the ground the following morning.

She didn’t even move from that spot. A human being in need of help, and they might as well have driven her and thrown in her a dumpster, it would have had the same effect.

ICE is only one piece of the course corrections required and very important, but the system practically killed her six months before they did the actual murder.

There’s more than a couple of chuds in an SUV to just.