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Trump is a Russian asset and the Kremlin dictates U.S. policy.
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As a long time poster at all types of Lemmy instances, I still don't get why people don't like lemmy.ml
Can someone ELI5?
Hex and grad are tankie instances that are very in your face about it and don't carry the honor of being "the flagship" instance and as a result were easy to widely defederate from which led to most people here not having strong opinions on it
.ml admins are hardcore tankies, but try to maintain .ml as the flagship and thus are more subtle about their tankieness. Instead opting to just censor any dissenting opinions before things get crazy in threads.
As a result many instances are way more hesitant to actually defed from them like they did the rest of the Tankie Triad, thus leading to more widespread visibility and in turn more widespread dissatisfaction of them by most.
Checkout !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works (for those on a .ml account you'll need to use this link because, ironically, .ml admins censor that comm from you: https://lemmy.world/c/meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works ) for documented instances of their behavior
One example of this is when I called out some Hexbear users for their bullshit propaganda and then when they started brigading against me and making literal death threats, the .ml mod swooped in, deleted my comments, and gave me a temporary ban. The hexbear users comments remained visible including the death threats.
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It's full of "communists" that blindly excuse every damn thing that states like China and Russia do just because they dress themselves in red, or used to, and oppose everything western in an attempt to be "anti-imperialist", ignoring what Russia is doing to Ukraine at this very moment. Hypocrites and dogmatic ideologues who can't see nuance in anything.
"When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called "the People's Stick". - Mikhail Bakunin
They are a minority that have opposing views. Just as any ideology, they have flaws and they just accept those flaws with open arms.
You could go there and say: china owns 80% of cobalt companies in Congo. You'd get banned.
Can say that china has far higher inequality than the EU. You'd get banned.
You could say that the Chinese government subsidising smartphone and electric vehicle market in china is trickle down economics. You'd get banned. (I get cheap high quality stuff because Chinese citizens their taxes pay for the profit margins of the Chinese shareholders.)
You'd get banned.
I honestly just wonder if they are economically illiterate morons, to be honest ☺️
They try to play themselves off as communists but I can't say I've ever seen a single one of them make a legitimate comment about communist ideals. What they really are is a propaganda mouthpiece for the Chinese and Russian governments.
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Krasnov, destroying America from within since 1987, the best accidental investment Putin ever made. Great success, comrades! 👍
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Looks like Russia won the ideological war and will be exporting authoritarianism to the globe.
The main thing to remember about authoritarians is that none have ever been documented to be impervious to small pieces of metal moving at high speed.
It's too soon to say conclusively that they all aren't though, additional testing is required.
Note to self: before becoming dictator, develop natural immunity to small arms fire. Begin with BB gun?
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This isn't a nationalist idea .... the oligarchs have won and are exporting authoritarianism to the globe. Most or the majority of people everywhere just want to have a peaceful life whether they are in the US, Russian, China or anywhere on the globe ... it's oligarchs and wealthy morons that think they can manipulate everyone, everywhere all the time and allow them to become rulers of the universe.
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fuck
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Love the way THE BBC is trying to make signal sound like some hackers playset, really shows how much the UK gov hate encryption or people having any privacy at all.
It also goes to show that Signal may actually be worth its salt in regards to security.
You use Signal to avoid government surveillance.
I use Signal to avoid government accountability.
We are not the same.
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Sounds like a bunch of traitors.
Are you just figuring that out now? Attacking all its allies is what did it for me.
The US is a captured state now, and there are only a few ways out; voting is not one of them.
Welcome to the party pal, most of us knew it was traitor town when "Russia if your listening" was said on national TV.
Independently verifiable detail number 28543 showing that Trump and everyone he has appointed are unfit for office, and that no one who voted for him will ever care about, and from which no consequences will ever flow.
I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters. -- Mr. Donald J. Trump
Could everyone please stop repeating "nothing will ever come of this" every time fucked up shit happens?
Until someone actually faces consequences, it's just people spitting truth sadly.
Man I don't have enough time in the day to be doing that.
I save my cynical outbursts for when he gets caught. And I have reasons, though you may not agree with them.
I think it's important not to lose sight of the fact that our government is incapable of dispensing consequences to this man, regardless of what he does, regardless of where his loyalties clearly lie, regardless of how he continually works at the destruction of the United States of America. So we're not surprised at where things are four years from Jan 21 like we were four years from Jan 06.
While we are all tempted by the complacent comfort of "someone in government will handle it" now that he's actually at the peak of his power, it seems key that we all remember "no one in government handled it" for four years when he was out of power and arguably at his weakest.
That encryption is not impenetrable, however, and the Google Threat Intelligence Group warned just last month of "increasing efforts from several Russia state-aligned threat actors to compromise Signal Messenger accounts used by individuals of interest to Russia's intelligence services."
This is somewhat disingenuous. Signal can't be directly cracked. Only access to the phone directly or via mirroring can expose it. The article somewhat explains this.
I am in no way whatsoever excusing the actions of these douche-chalupas. I prefer accuracy in my reporting, though. That said, Witkoff in Russia may as well have been a direct line to Putin.
The most uncrackable encryption can be defeated by Steven Witkoff sitting on Putin's lap while reading the messages.
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This seems a bit too nitpicky tbh.
The author is correct, Signal is not "perfect", because the weakest link is always the endpoint device and the end user. Which is kind of the whole point of this article; The issue is not that Signal was used, as it's reasonably secure, it's that the people using it are not secure at all.
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These fucking fools, these incompetent baboons. Gods damn the whole lot of 'em.
You are assuming it wasn't puposeful. And clearly it's been going on a while. They only got caught due to their incompetence
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If the GOP had an iota, a molecule, a QUARK of integrity, the cabinet would be impeached en masse. They are a disaster.
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I'm shocked....but I'm also not shocked. This has gotten to the point that you think they can't one up themselves and then they go and do it.
I'm looking forward to anyone using the word 'signal' around trump being suspected of mocking him.
Sensitive egotistical maniacs are so much fun to placate.
Full texts got released! See update on the Atlantic!
Literally zero chance they weren't monitoring his phone while he was in the country.
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