Same thing just happened with IVPN :⁠-⁠\

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I see what you’re saying, but it is really easy to drum up support, especially with how effective the media has become at manipulating public opinion. I’ve seen the US go to war over much less in my life.

I used to use my Blackberry to read Digg every morning in college while waiting for classes to start. It was great in its heyday, but maybe that’s just nostalgia or that I’d not experienced anything quite like it prior.

What are they expecting to happen if they attack Taiwan? They’ll start the next world war. There isn’t a reality where the West is going to let them have it, regardless of how effective their “precision strikes” or suicidal their lunatics are.

Journalists should be forbidden from using “blasts” in headlines.

Yeah, that “exclusivity” attitude is the worst. I welcome anyone to the fediverse! The nature of the fediverse prevents any one entity from “fucking it up”, as the image claims; if you don’t like an instance or the instances it federates with, move to a different one that is more in-line with your values.

This would be so easily bypassed that the whole concept, while technologically cool, is completely useless. Someone could apply a very subtle smoothing filter and then do whatever they wanted with it after via stable diffusion (or use the myriad of alternative methods to remove the “protection”).

“Twitter… [is] a goddamn blight.”

Shillin’ for Pooh again, eh?

Came to say this and glad I didn’t have to.

You should check out the book “Daemon” by Daniel Suarez (if you haven’t already). Based on your post, you’d probably like it a lot. There’s a sequel, too: “Freedom”.

Was it not also MLK that said, “Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a nigh already devoid of stars.”?

I respect your opinion, but I worry that it’ll lead to violence, which doesn’t really solve anything.

Yeah, someone else mentioned that. That’s bullshit.

Ohhh!! That makes sense. Goddamn the wealthy, lol

Don’t talk to this asshole. They don’t argue in good faith and love to shit on the west with their whataboutism. This isn’t the first post I’ve seen this joker in.

I have mixed feelings about measuring their wealth based on share prices because they couldn’t sell their shares without tanking the price, right? Elon didn’t actually increase his wealth; just the value of something that he has a shitton of went up.

We could also tank the value of his stocks by not buying or using his stupid shit!. For example, anyone angry that he is rich should definitely not be using Twitter.

“Eat the rich”… blah blah blah. Much easier to just protest the rich and take our money back by not giving it or our time to the rich in the first place.

Are you trying to argue that China isn’t a terrible, totalitarian state? What is your point, even? Chinese whataboutism is so obnoxious.

I’m well aware, but, hey, we don’t get thrown in prison for questioning our leaders or the reported stories.