PhilipTheBucket

I don't really think so. With some leaders, playing along with the theater might be humiliating but they might at least secure a better future for their people. With Trump, the prize they get for their humiliation is nothing. He's not organized enough to even follow through on whatever good things are supposedly due to them for their obeisance.

blahaj is an echo chamber

Absolutely true

The whole thing is toxic

Wtf no

I’ve had it blocked since I’ve joined.

Okeydokey

Yay 😃

Someone post it

Needs more kings riding unicorns

My God man

Usually the tankie nonsense doesn’t really bother me. This one got me. Idk, maybe the boycott of .ml is the right idea. This is basically the same as not wanting to have anything to do with the openly nazi instances.

Give it time… I feel like a lot of the creative web is sort of reawakening. A lot of the existing web and social media encourages and models this kind of slot machine interaction and I think it will take some time for people to come back to a more contributory tradition.

My experience from [email protected]:

• MAU divided by total subscribed users, I found to be quite a good metric. It prioritizes new communities (maybe a little bit too much at the expense of more established communities, for your purposes) and requires them to have recent activity. The only flaw is that one post that blows up in an otherwise quiet community can spike that metric way way up for the whole month, but maybe that’s fine.
• I think crawling every node once a week or something, making a small handful of queries to get all the community counts, is probably more than fine.
• Yeah that stddev sounds too high, maybe look at a plot and check the math

Tito smoking Cuban cigars in the White House while sitting down with Nixon is also hilarious.

Nixon told him, “Mr. President, we don’t smoke in the White House.”

Tito laughed and said, “Lucky you!” and finished his cigar and no one attempted again to make him stop.

This is where my real concern lies, the suspension AND partial application of habeas corpus is essentially – in my view – a casus belli due the public. Habeas corpus must be universal in its application by the state, or the federal-state must be seen as a direct threat to the civilian public. They’ve tested the waters on this already in prior protests. At what point do we admit that it’s no longer being honored by the federal-state and realize that we’ve been stripped of our right to accuse those who have wronged us – also part of due process – and take matters into our own hands to restore our rights?

Yeah. The entire concept of American governance was that the people in the country fight to maintain control of their own government, and then take responsibility for it running properly. We’ve wandered pretty far from that at this point. To a large degree because the tools that we might use to coordinate and organize the fight have been co-opted by people who want to run the government on their own behalf.

Apologies for the long winded response, apparently I had more to say on this than I realized. TL;DR we agree, apparently – as I’ve just come to realize – the only difference is that I believe that we’re already at war, just not entirely de facto.

Agreed. Yeah, I was talking just about what the desired end state should be once democracy is reestablished, not saying we shouldn’t be vigorously defending ourselves right now.

Türkiye

Yeah I think any time you hear someone in the “geopolitics” part of the government talk about antisemitism you can safely assume it’s that second thing.