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do dota

Like dodgeball and softball and shit it’s hard but you also make friends

Try community sports especially goofy coed ones

Schildi Chat is probably the best client I have spotted, full voice and video chat functionality in browser. People do way less hemming and hawing about downloading an app if they’ve already been able to try it out in web - just like discord

I think what really does the best job of explaining why this place is forbidding is the attempts to point out the reasons are met with flat out denials. it’s like you’ve used this thread to reassure yourself that there are no disconcerting answers to your OP question

Getting banned on main is amateur shit you use alts to figure out what the real rules are. Nobody has ever actually enforced their espoused netiquette. The culture here is as toxic as SomethingAwful

Really? The website just seems like a fanclub for the standard figures of western marxism and then capitalist realism etcetera. You see this same group of french philosophers promoted in almost every western left space from tumblr to twitter to group chats like tg/discord

Is there anything you’re thinking of in particular there?

that’s not a low amount for activitypub active users. there are thousands of these things

Was reading from this cute paper RAND just wrote about the possibility of US national renewal to my buddy on the phone last night it’s a real nice chaser to explaining the key reasons the USSR was crushed when it still had the potential to “muddy along” for years, which still held the possibility of a political and economic renewal. Like a lot of spooky writing it’s a smooth mix of valuable or pertinent information, blatant lies, and misrepresentation that borders on self parody and projection.

It does not in fact reckon with the reason the USSR and the British empire both fell apart, the damn United States lol

Folks I don’t think we’re getting real industrial policy. We’re getting more of the fourth reich. Easy bet I know

I will add that this experience of having people accuse you of being reactionary for no reason and then getting no response is probably a big driver for “power posters” not wanting to come here but I’d like to add belatedly that it’s simply how few posts you actually see on here. It’s just like, infosec, lemmygrad which is the same, lemmy, not rly much to see

And then you run the risk of people getting extremely confrontational out of nowhere and deciding you’re a fascist because they only see Lemmy posts and their context has become reddit… idk what is an appeal of posting here?

can you name any reason why power posters SHOULD eschew the benefits of better software and wider community?

I think it’s cute that Ken Klippenstein has such a reaction to the statement that came out of the Iranians post Soleimani’s assassination, that the west has no heroes, only cartoon characters. He cannot help but compare the dead Iranian president to Wily [sic] Coyote. Of course they’re wrong, we have sports champions and movie stars as well. And when they die in a helicopter or car crash it is absolutely not like Wily [sic] Coyote, no matter their personal statements or beliefs.

Because internet commentators want to pass off their uninformed xenophobia as advocacy for democracy and the people of countries they despise and want to undermine the national interest of. For instance Ken Klippenstein referred to the Iranian President as an authoritarian dictator.

anything but the Grand Hotel Abyss

You too. While you’re out there, don’t go implying people who aren’t cheering on an elected leader’s death are opposed to reform of the system that elected them, implicitly. Especially when that leader has done more than you ever will for Palestine.

See, and there you go acting cute about it. We all know what you’re implying in this discussion of the guy dying in a fireball. Get outta here

and here you see the bailey of the motte and bailey strategy to defend regime change talking points. he’s no longer a leader he’s an “authoritarian dictator” a completely meaningless term which is only used to paint targets on the enemies of the west

you are just playing the good cop.

How’s the anti-terrorist operation in Donbas going, champ? Oh, half the Ukrainian army left to fight for the RuZZian terrorists?! Yikes, better call Lindsay Graham, Amy Klobuchar, John McCain, and Victoria Nuland, the real architects of the plan. I’m sure the West’s limitless arsenal and money will be able to support Ukraine against those dirty bydlo vatniks, heh heh. After all, haven’t you seen all those videos on reddit of their crazy shit falling apart? This is gonna be a piece of cake.

you didn’t even know this guy was elected, did you?

I’m not super up to the minute on Iranian politics but this is not something to mindlessly celebrate because “dead billionaire lol” when Iran is in the midst of getting closer to Saudi Arabia and peeling them away from normalization with Israel in the process