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There a whole article about Russian disinformation on this topic here. They certainly did have a pact with the Nazis. Your argument is basically “it didn’t happen, but if it did then it the West forced us into it” which is a 100% classic disinformation line. It’s like when Putin says there is no war with Ukraine, but if there is it’s because the West forced us to do it.

That Harris used her nomination acceptance speech “with more than 26 million watching from home, to issue a forceful call for Palestinian human rights was actually remarkable,” said Rolling Stone. It could be argued that “taking up the call for Palestinian freedom and self-determination is a bigger coup than a brief speaking slot of the kind the Uncommitted delegates were seeking.” While the Uncommitted movement was unable to secure a speaker, group leaders “cast their work at the convention as a success,” The Guardian said. Uncommitted’s impact was still undeniable, as “numerous delegates, including older Black and white delegates from as far-flung as Texas, were spotted wearing keffiyehs in clear support of the pro-Palestinian movement,” The Independent said.

Although much of Harris’ rhetoric “continue[s] to be empty,” Uncommitted Washington State DNC delegate Yaz Kader said at Rolling Stone, “The positive thing is when she did talk about Gaza, the roar from the delegates in support was palpable.” Nevertheless, Kader said, until Harris “can make that change” from words to action, “I’m still uncommitted.”

IMO Kader is 100% right to doubt whether Harris’ words of support for “Palestinian freedom and self-determination” will translate into any meaningful policy changes. I hope they keep up the pressure on this.

I’m not suggesting study bias, but I am suggesting that Chinese citizens’ social media and internet use is now so closely monitored by the CPP that it has a chilling effect on free speech, and this may have influenced the results even if they were told the study was anonymous.

Secondly, since Xi took power, according to that same report, he has “effectively sidelined functional and professional institutions of party and state”, in addition to removing term limits. These are all classic authoritarian strongman moves. The study goes on to point out that having an effective authoritarian as leader - one who has helped improve the lives of many Chinese citizens - is of course going to be popular. The old saying goes that a benevolent dictatorship is the best form of government, and that may be true in some regards, right up until the point it isn’t benevolent anymore. Which is more or less inevitable imo.

It couldn’t possibly be that people are too scared to criticize the CCP, right? … right?

It’s already been requested as a feature request, see https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4572

Those eyes are definitely saying, “How could you do this to me?”

This dude is getting legitimately downvoted for JAQing off. Also, his home instance is explicitly anti-corporate and anarchist, so defending right wing billionaires is against our rules. You are correct that Lemmy is generally left of centre, depending on the instance, so JAQing in defense of billionaire assholes is never gonna go down well.

Bearskin bug? Happy pride month!

Because hardly any popular 2fa authenticator apps have implemented sha256 yet. No point putting the chicken before the egg.

The fact is we don’t allow copyrighted material, torrent files or direct download links on c/piracy anyway, it’s against our rules. So this whole thing is based on a malicious misrepresentation of our community, initiated by a user with a grudge against us, because we banned him for posting anti-trans and racist content.

I switched from containers to total cookie protection just for quality of life. It takes a lot less micromanagement of settings and still provides strong protection. I’ve not looked back since, and yes, I think it’s more than sufficient for most people.

Cut it out, dumbass.

Because “you don’t get rich by paying your bills” according to them.

Yay, cya!

Hard agree with you on that. AI generated articles are a disaster for the internet. There’s just no quality control any more, especially when actual authoritative sites are no longer in the top search results. Now we’ve got tons more crap-tier content on the internet and no way to differentiate it from the useful content.

You should see some of the usernames I’ve seen reported from the sh.itjust.works instance. I’m not going to post any but it seems like there is no moderation of usernames at all as far as I can tell. Major oversight on their part.

So long as they can pocket a few hundred milion from the IPO, Reddit management couldn’t give a monkey’s about any of their milions of users or the thousands of communities that made Reddit valuable in the first place. They are quite happily flushing all that down the toilet to get their big pay day. Why didn’t they just go non-profit like Wikipedia? That’s the only business model that makes sense for Reddit and is sustainable. But then nobody gets to become a multi millionaire, and we can all see which would be the bigger tragedy for u/spez.

So he reckons that without locking out free downstream users, Red Hat would go tits up and the whole Linux ecosystem would fall into the hands of hackers and hobbyists? Fine by me.

I like Jeff Geerling’s response:

Red Hat: those who use open source code and don’t contribute back are “a real threat to open source companies everywhere”

I call them: users.

I fight for the users.