I was thinking of the other side. It’s relevant in how much of a barrier it creates to making new, plausible accounts. Not much of one.

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The difference is a speed bump. It’s a relevant one, but not that relevant, especially in the era of chatbots.

Maybe. Biden and Obama deported everyone who needed deporting in an attempt to please the Republican voter.

There weren’t many problems left to validly deport.

It’s why they started raiding workplaces and schools. Any actual problems were already solved.

“Principled” is the wrong word. “Naive” might be better. “Cowardly” with rationalization could work.

They believed it would damage the country to have a jury of 12 put Trump in prison rather than a jury of 375 million. It would damage the country. The best possible outcome was Dems win the election and then Trump sees justice. Intolerance bring fascisms, so they fought fascism with tolerance. This is the result of their actions AND our actions.

It was convenient to pass the buck onto the American voters because it meant they didn’t have to do anything.

It’s not an argument anyone who studies this video would buy.

Now we find out if he faces a jury of his peers.

He did step out of the way. He did not in any way stop the movement of the vehicle.

That’s a good first step. One of the best things we can do to fight back is make sure we have cameras that report to us, and that don’t report to them.

We decided what our cameras are used for. Not them.

These are conversations better had offline.

I appreciate that everyone is skeptical of all comments here.

And I’m glad people express that skepticism.

It’s very clear there’s manipulation here. And if you think you’re immune, you shouldn’t be participating in anonymous social media.

But I do appreciate that there are some people here to fight against the bots and threats to democracy, both foreign and domestic. Even if we can’t tell who they are or what is manipulation and what is honest.

Be careful what you post. Be aware. Be skeptical. Talk to people in real life, because even if it’s just people at the corner shop, that’s a hell of a lot more valuable than here.

We’re going to recreate Tiananmen Square. We may zip right past Kent State.

repeating the same tired, thought-terminating clichés

like “both sides”

The 2020 election.

The Nazis are back. The late 90s weren’t significantly more racist than today. Words were thrown around more. Fewer people had black bags thrown over their head before being deported to El Salvador.

That’s right, we’ve made very little progress in 30 years. Some on the queer front, but not the LG part.

Sorry, I stopped reading where you “both sides”.

How does the US get blamed in this?

If there’s any one country, it’s primarily Russia that’s the black hole. Just because we’re farther down the hole than you are doesn’t make us the primary culprit.

Meanwhile China’s just sitting back and benefiting from pretty much everything. They’re passive enough about it that they might not be running it, just damn if they ain’t coming out on top at the end of all this.

Well, when the electorate only gets our news from the media and aren’t capable of researching candidates on our own, how else do you get elected?

Kind of. But who’s going to make this stick? I think there’s a lot of rank and file who won’t comply with this.

Shouldn’t it be called Microsoft 250? There are 250 working days in a year. As soon as I’m home I’m using Thunderbird or Libreoffice, certainly not the product formerly known as Microsoft Office.

It’s already happening, in part because of this and in part because of the unstable, unpredictable US government.

Several European countries are looking towards investing in open source as a way to get away from American big tech because they’re suddenly considering US sanctions against them a real possibility, or at least a real threat.

Kind of. It’s certainly difficult to deal with this.