Notices by Ben Royce 🇺🇦 (benroyce@mastodon.social)

@dansup @themizzi @kissane

Dan is there any possibility you could clone yourself x5 for the sake of the fediverse? 🤭

Nothing but awe Dan for what you're doing!

@themizzi @kissane

they don't want "the normies"

they fear an #eternalseptember

thing is, since this is federation, anyone worried about that can keep their niche communities separate and never encounter "the normies"

and, like erin said, we want "the normies" here

otherwise they get mindwiped by plutocrat agendas on centralized #socialmedia

to do that we have to make the process of getting into the #fediverse dead simple

dead. simple.

even picking a server is a step too high for many

@dansup

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pixelfed stronk!

@dansup

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"#Kremlin says new #US #sanctions will destabilize international #markets"

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My gosh, my dear man #Peskov, this sounds terrible!

But...

One moment, if I may, dear esteemed sir:

You mean it's not the stupid mass murdering #ethnofascist #imperialist invasion destabilizing things?

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Think on it, you piece of shit

No one but cranial-cavity-voided morons buy this simpleton "no, u!" reverse-victim-and-offender #gaslighting #DARVO shit

https://www.yahoo.com/news/kremlin-says-us-sanctions-destabilize-120523210.html

#UkraineWar #Russia #Ukraine

@dsmdexter @tuban_muzuru @mister_shade02X2

some shadowy ghoul with a big payday

employed by mechanisms of power in russia that recognize the weakness and sense opportunity

that's the way a mafia works, and russia is a mafia thugocracy

@dsmdexter @tuban_muzuru @mister_shade02X2

the problem with that is if you go all in from the get go on economic sanctions, you have nowhere to go to if russia behaves even worse

the way to use economic sanctions is to gradually accumulate them if russia stays shitty, gradually roll them back if russia acts better, and clamp them down tighter if russia acts even worse

it's not like firing a gun or setting off a bomb, there's huge inertia involved and you push and pull, harder or softer

@tuban_muzuru @dsmdexter @mister_shade02X2

i don't know what to tell you. economic sanctions do work and they are real. their effects just don't manifest in a way we can appreciate with dramatic flair. stop looking for dramatic stark effects on this topic (unless there's an economic collapse, which is a long way away, but even then, i'm wondering if you would admit sanctions would have played a roll in that, when they would have)

@tuban_muzuru @dsmdexter @mister_shade02X2

that's a weird analogy to make, because the true analogy to the vietnam war is that russia is the usa and ukraine is vietnam

and who won the vietnam war?

@eva_chaos @tuban_muzuru @dsmdexter @mister_shade02X2

well yeah

in 2025

even 2000

but not 1975

@Gargron

you set it up to a nonprofit

you didn't have to do that

but you did

because you have sterling integrity

eugen i applaud you

thank you

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@BeAware

ps:

who's to say they didn't block it on purpose, then when they get the streissand effect, they go "oh hey guys, it's just a bug, just a little bug guys, so, no big deal... guys?"

@BeAware

understood

however

any chance to shit on meta is a good time

and i'm over strutting: "wow, great gif memeing ben, wow ben you're so awesome with your gif meme choice, damn ben you're a gif memeing god" (/s)

so, i'll leave it up

@BeAware

what do you mean

meta stopped blocking pixelfed?

"#Meta Is Blocking Links to #Decentralized #Instagram Competitor #Pixelfed"

https://www.404media.co/meta-is-blocking-links-to-decentralized-instagram-competitor-pixelfed/

#Fediverse

normal thought: be the girl

genius thought: be the camel

galaxy brain thought: the lesson here is to just be

just be you

#Voltaire's prescient quote on #Fascism and #SocialMedia #Disinfo

i'm not condoning violence

but i understand the inescapable result of endless abuse

more need to understand, and i fear they insist on coming to understand only the hard way

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable"

- John F. Kennedy

#wildfires #palisadesfire #california #losangeles #luigimangione

@Infoseepage

people worry that nato without the usa means ukraine succumbs

the truth is, nevermind european nato being able to handle russia itself, the nordic countries, in terms of sheer economic output and financial resources, can bury russia

https://global.espreso.tv/weapons-supply-ukraine-new-defense-alliance-how-nordic-countries-support-ukraine

@Infoseepage

look, dealing with trump is one thing

dealing with the kalmar union is beyond my grasp