joanwestenberg

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Every "partial ceasefire" that leaves tanks rolling and bombs falling isn't a step toward anything except prolonged suffering and cynicism. It’s just a used-car sale repackaging of diplomatic half-measures as humanitarian achievements.

 

Authoritarians never mention what happens after the "strong leader" consolidates power.

The corruption that inevitably follows.

The silencing of dissent.

The capture of institutions by cronies.

The erosion of rights for anyone outside the favored group.

But these are the consequences of a populace who have stopped caring enough to participate.

 

MAGA has nothing left to offer except more of the same: more screaming, more outrage, more rot. It's all downhill from here.

So what do we make of men like John Fetterman and Gavin Newsom, who now seem desperate to cozy up to it?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I love when history plays the hits

 

I’ve been planning on moving to Linux for a while - and my first options were Framework and System 76. But I’d rather support an EU co. I’ve been down the rabbit hole for the last few days, but I’m keen to hear recommendations!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Fuck this is accurate

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Is it because his neighbour’s dad told him so

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I think we need simple, non technical content that gets people who haven’t used the fediverse stoked to find out more and try to get involved. That’s what I’m trying to do with articles like this - add momentum and tap into a big potential audience who are primed for this. But I also do want to put together a Getting Started landing page that helps people kick off.

I really do think we need to get people pumped enough to want to be educated about it all.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

There’s some accusations of bias / pro CCP moderation on .ml

There’s some stuff about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36255366

But I haven’t directly experienced any of this myself so I can’t speak to the truth of it. Idk.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

This is so utterly horrifying. I cannot imagine how scared these women must be.

[–] [email protected] 126 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I legit thought this was a photo of a train station

[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Tesla is a sinking ship and Musk knows it. It’s incompatible with his personal beliefs and its customer base are the enemy. I think the goal here is to drain as much value as he can, shore up his wealth via other means and abandon the brand entirely - probably while blaming liberals and protestors etc.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Oh I forgot about this shit. Yeah.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

It won’t happen, but you have no idea how fast I would produce my credit card if it did.

In the meantime I’m looking to replace my iPhone with a Fairphone.

I just miss that crackberry keyboard.