cacheson

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[–] cacheson@kbin.social 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Fellas, is it woke for YouTube to funnel viewers towards pro-fascist videos?

[–] cacheson@kbin.social 13 points 4 months ago

Unfortunately:

However, her veto is only symbolic as the prime minister's Georgian Dream party has enough members in parliament to override it by holding another vote.

[–] cacheson@kbin.social 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Personally, I’ve yet to see a single American successfully use guns to protect any other constitutional right from government infringement.

The Battle of Athens is probably the most uniquely clear-cut example of what you're asking for, unless we count the American Revolutionary War itself.

Other successful examples mostly involve activists using non-violent protest to push for change, while using firearms to protect themselves from violent reactionaries that would otherwise murder them. Notably, the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 60s. For a modern example, there's various "John Brown Gun Clubs" and other community defense organizations providing security at LGBTQ events against fascist groups that seek to terrorize event-goers.

It's also worth noting that resistance is often worthwhile even if it doesn't result in unqualified victory. For example, the Black Panthers' armed cop-watching activities saved a lot of Black folks from brutal beatings at the hands of the police, even if the organization was eventually crushed by the federal government.

I have seen lots of examples like Waco and Ruby Ridge, where the government should have tried harder to deescalate, but in the end, everyone died. The closest example I can think of where the government did backoff was the Bundy standoff and all those guys were “defending” was their ability to let their cattle graze illegally on federal land because they didn’t want to pay for access like everyone else.

It sounds like you might be in a bit of a filter-bubble. I don't mean any offense by this, it's a normal thing that tends to happen to people. If the news sources you read and the people you talk to don't mention these things because it doesn't mesh with their worldview, how would you hear about them?

[–] cacheson@kbin.social 6 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Strong gun control requires a police state, and it's advocates are okay with this. Some of them (mostly suburbanites and the like) just imagine that that police state will never be directed against them.

Others are capitalists that actively want to inflict a police state on the rest of us, for their own benefit. It's a lot easier to break strikes and enforce "work discipline" when the working class is disarmed.

[–] cacheson@kbin.social 1 points 4 months ago

Food Courts Martial

[–] cacheson@kbin.social 1 points 4 months ago

I see conservatives complaining about it occasionally, but I'm not sure how prevalent that sentiment is among them.

[–] cacheson@kbin.social 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Are there any physical obstructions between the controller and the antenna? That'd reduce the effective range.

[–] cacheson@kbin.social 1 points 6 months ago

I think it's actually a pretty old term. Definitely useful for the internet era though, now that we end up coming into contact with many more "interesting" characters than in the old days. xD

[–] cacheson@kbin.social 1 points 6 months ago

Possibly. I've seen comments from them here and there in various places, but it's true that I haven't had the responsibility of moderating them like you have.

[–] cacheson@kbin.social 2 points 6 months ago (4 children)

HardlightCereal seemed more like a crank than a troll, to me. Cranks are by definition at least somewhat annoying, and tend to get mistaken for and treated as trolls. They're not malicious the way trolls are though, and can be a positive influence. I think them drawing attention to this particular issue was a good thing, at least.

[–] cacheson@kbin.social 21 points 7 months ago

Ancaps: Government is bad because tyranny, we should get rid of it.

Also Ancaps: Here's how we can still enforce copyright, abortion bans, and racial segregation without a government! 🥰

 

The recent doxing of a Proud Boy school board candidate by the Midwest Youth Liberation Front highlights the work being done by teenage antifascists.

Article is from 2021, but I'd never heard of the "Youth Liberation Front" before.

 
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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by cacheson@kbin.social to c/div0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
 

EDIT: Looks like the defederation has been reversed. @db0 Thank you for looking into this quickly.


A commenter in the linked post is suggesting that dbzer0 automatically follows lemmy.world's block list. That seems like kind of a bad idea? In this instance it seems like the LW admins are just following the decision of lemmy.ml's tankie admins, and tankies gonna tank.

 

EDIT: As noted in the linked post, the defederation was a mistake and has been reversed. Thank you to the lemmy.world admins for reviewing this quickly.


I'm not a lemmy.world user, so I'm not directly affected by this defederation. I am a fan of both anime and the fediverse in general though, so I'm concerned about an apparent crackdown on my hobby and by what seems to be an increasingly damaging flaw in the fediverse model.

A few days ago. lemmy.ml defederated from ani.social, a lemmy instance specialized in anime. The only explanation given by Dessalines (lead dev of lemmy, owner of lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml) was that it was "full of CSAM". As far as anyone who's commented can tell, there doesn't seem to be any evidence of this whatsoever (see post link for an overview of the discussions). The only CSAM here appears to be in Dessalines' head.

That defederation was annoying, but not all that surprising. Dessalines and his fellow lead dev Nutomic are tankies, and tankies often seem to have a weird hatred of anime fans. The two of them have a history of making self-marginalizing decisions, so the obvious course of action is to just point them out so that people gradually abandon lemmy.ml, and hopefully eventually fork the lemmy codebase.

However, today I found out that lemmy.world had also defederated ani.social, again with no evidence presented for the decision. It looks like the LW admins are just rubber-stamping the bad decision of the lemmy.ml admins, without bothering to investigate at all.

We really can't afford to have the most popular lemmy instance behaving like this. The LW admin team has generally shown more professionalism in that past, so what gives?

 

Those of you that have your account on lemmy.ml may want to consider moving to another instance if you still want to be able to access ani.social.

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Rule but unironically (media.kbin.social)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by cacheson@kbin.social to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone
 

Liberated from some sarcastic tankie

 
 
 

I'd been vaguely aware of campaigns by tax-prep companies to stop the IRS from offering its own tax-prep software. I was going over some of my old tax info today, and started to wonder if there were any open source tax-prep programs.

What I found was Open Tax Solver. I get the impression that it's more clunky that using commercial tax-prep. Does anyone here have firsthand experience with it?

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