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[–] PugEnjoyer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Are you under the impression PiS was normally a sane functional party before 2016 or something? Because I can strongly assure you this is more or less normal for them. Ever since the Smoleńsk plane crash in 2010, they've pretty consistently been insane and accusing KO (and the various precursor parties) of being agents of the global gay/Jewish/German/Russian conspiracy against Poland.

And I'm not against people having this recognition! I'm just saying, it's hypocritical to tell Canadians we can't see the US as an enemy nation if it acts that way, but it's okay for urbanite Americans to see rural Americans as their enemy. Either it's divide and conquer in both cases or it's recognizing political reality in both.

You missed my point - if you're saying Canadians recognizing the present reality that the US is an enemy nation of Canada is divide and conquer, I don't see how that doesn't apply to how you talk about urban/rural divides. Either acknowledging the political reality of a situation is divide and conquer or it's not.

[–] PugEnjoyer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 days ago (4 children)

You're complaining that Canadians seeing the US as an enemy nation is divide and conquer, but this screed against the rural peoples of your own country is just dandy???

[–] PugEnjoyer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 47 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The doge.gov website that was spun up to track Elon Musk’s cuts to the federal government is insecure and pulls from a database that can be edited by anyone, according to two separate people who found the vulnerability and shared it with 404 Media

Wow, really wild how the guy that doesn't know what SQL is, is somehow also bad at database permissioning.

[–] PugEnjoyer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The lower bound on what age a person has to be before being sexually attracted to them doesn't feel creepy goes up as you age, well past 18-20 by the time you're in your 30s. However, this lower bound does eventually slow or stop, and finding a 40 year old attractive by the time you're 60 doesn't feel nearly as weird.

So I'd imagine it's because basically anyone of any age can find a 40+ year old woman attractive without feeling like a creep, whereas most people start aging out of finding 18-20 year olds attractive by the time they're in their 30s.

[–] PugEnjoyer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 54 points 1 week ago

The churches housing undocumented migrants and fighting to give them sanctuary aren't the megachurches you're alluding to. The church I belonged to while living in the US was housing an undocumented family, and the finances of the church were open to all members so I can assure you we weren't getting any income for doing it.

I think the point of bringing up trans men is that sometimes people say that calling cis people eggs is harmless because you're at worst making someone in the supermajority briefly uncomfortable, and potentially helping someone who's trans figure themselves out. The point of bringing up trans men in this image is to point out that this argument misses how this attitude still ends up hurting trans people.

Even if I'm right about the intent though, I agree it doesn't come through that well, and I'm still feeling like this guess is a stab in the dark.

[–] PugEnjoyer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago

They can and do catch every post. That's how centralized platforms work; their logging platforms literally do see every single thing that's posted, have alerting set up to monitor for trends in case something illegal or offensive to billionaires is trending.

They use algorithms and language models to draw summaries about trending posts, what they're about and why they're trending, and can make realtime adjustments to their algorithms to deprioritize posts and accounts they don't want to see trendIng anymore. They can analyze text, video, images, and audio in real time, and determine what the post is about, even if the title of the post is something intentionally misleading, and apply algorithms accordingly. That's literally why they invested so much in AI moderation tools and image generation and analysis.

[–] PugEnjoyer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago

I think in general the American protest movement is really behind on ideas for what to do when the government doesn't want to listen. I've been to tons of "stand around and wave signs until change happens" protests, for BLM, migrants, LGBT people, healthcare, strike support, the only time the protest ever made any impact was when the march was in support of a strike.

Blocking up streets with protest works when it's being done to amplify the impact of a work stoppage, but just waving signs around on their own doesn't do anything, especially when the people you're protesting don't particularly want to placate the protestors.

And like, I get that "build a nationwide labor movement that can go on a general strike" as a step one for a protest is an impossible tall order, but we gotta face facts that just having a lot of people come out and wave signs around alone doesn't do anything, especially when the target of the protest really doesn't care that it's being protested.

[–] PugEnjoyer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Share where? All the platforms that you're implying people should share it on are either controlled by the oligarchs as well, or so sparsely populated you're going to only reach some absurdly small percent of the population.

I'm not trying to be a downer, it's better to be doing something than nothing, but if the oligarchs you're protesting own Facebook, Twitter/X, Google, AWS, etc, it just seems clear to me that if you can't rely on the news to report about it, you definitely can't rely on sharing to spread the word about it.

[–] PugEnjoyer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 month ago

For most antisemites, Jewish people who consider themselves white are doing so as a ploy to infiltrate and undermine white society.

Antisemitic conspiracy thinking is based on the idea that Jewish people are all deep down engaged in some sort of conspiracy to benefit Jews over non-jews, and so you can disregard actual Jewish people's thoughts and understandings of their situation as a smokescreen for their conspiracy. Antisemitic conspiracy thinking is at its heart, conspiratorial thinking, and can reinterpret almost anything into further proof of the conspiracy, even someone acting in a way that totally goes against how the conspiracy theory says they should be acting.

 
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