Elon Musk came and did a talk at Occupy Toronto. He was supposed to be doing some talk that got cancelled (iirc in protest), but ended up at St. James park and people let him take the stage in the gazebo and talk about going to Mars for about 30 minutes. My buddy actually gave him some advice on how to cast the fuselage for his rockets. lol
Matthew 5:17-20 "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfil them. For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished."
It's all a genocidal mass delusion, no matter what version or interpretation is concerned. All the people who cherry pick from it are doing by bleating out of context (both historical and scriptural) saccharine platitudes is to provide a smoke screen to cover for the people who take it literally and act accordingly. They perpetuate the conditions for that genocidal delusion to continue, and then pretend they're not responsible by making bullshit "no true Scotsman" excuses. The fact is if you have a brain and a conscience, you don't need that farcical pseudohistorical fantasy novel to dictate nor justify your actions.
The answer is shekels and influence. You don't have to be a sincere Zionist to want to have a career and cash in on their stream of funding. People with no scruples will do anything they're told if there're some shekels in it for them.
The other aspect is that superficially at least, the Democrats' religion is "muh oppressed people". So Jews being the all time victim Olympics champions makes them automatically saints in the left-wing religion.
On the other hand, what this tells me (if true) is that people are more afraid of being surveilled and censored by their own government than by the foreign governments which are claimed to be such an existential threat to them. Probably since there's far more clear and present evidence of the former being true than the latter.
Really I think the distinguishing feature in terms of how "terrorist" is used as a political label, is that it's a means for states with superior capacity for violence to vilify smaller groups of people who use guerrilla warfare tactics in order to make up for the asymmetry of military power.
I'm not don't think that most "terrorists" lack the will to conquer when you look at the trajectory historically. But that said it's just as often used by native populations to overthrow an occupational force as much as it is by foreign invaders.
What mainstream politicians will never admit explicitly, but always do implicitly, is that for better or worse terrorism is often effective. Arguably it's the only really effective method when faced with tyranny, even while it can also be a vehicle of tyranny. Examples would be Israel (Haganah, Irgun, Lehi, Stern, et al), Rojava (PKK), Ireland (IRA), Syria (HTS), Afganistan (Taliban), Mexico (EZLN), etc. The difference between "terrorist" and "freedom fighter" is ultimately just a matter of propaganda, and whatever power dynamics are dominant at the international level.
The current NAS does have it's silly "night crew" AI generated group fap's and so on. It's kinda cute. I was thinking it might be fun to try doing something similar for SPW but after giving it a moment's thought it just seemed too derivative. I like the quirkiness here, and don't feel like it has to try-hard to be anything it's not.
I actually joined up on NAS right after that switch. I never listened to the show, so dgaf about the wankers Curry/Dvorak or their drama. Main reason I don't use NAS is because a) SPW is home (NAS just a backup, in case shtf), and b) mastodong's ridiculous short character limit is a pain in the ass for my long-winded style of serious-posting.
Not sure exactly when I joined SPC, but it was definitely "years" ago. I'd guess several, but didn't mark the exact date. Before that I was on a few other instances (and fedi networks) for some years, but it was more often those "try desperately to keep my mouth shut" kinda situations.
I haven't noticed anything. But then given my preoccupations and attitude towards most stuff, I'm not really part of the in-group as far as I can tell. I'm just happy I haven't worn out the hospitality as a result. As far as I'm concerned you're doing a fantastic job and I couldn't really ask for more.
> > No doubt! They'd be fools not to. > Well, I don't think they need to figure out how to censor "vaccine misinformation".
I mean from their perspective, not mine. It's like bioweapons, and nukes, space lasers, skynet/terminator bots, etc. From a military perspective, they're gonna do it. If they don't, then someone else will. No moral boundary or argument will prevent it. It's as certain and inevitable as death. Wringing hands and crying "But what about the children?!?" is a political media tactic used to manipulate the naive and gullible, and nothing more. It's like rules of the internet. There will be porn of it. Except in this case, if it can be used to control and/or kill people, there will 100% be moar of it.
> > since it's probably just a matter of time before fedi becomes just as bad as mainstream social media > That actually can't be done and I will ensure that it doesn't happen here, at least.
Censorship yes, to some extent (notwithstanding enshitifications like fediblock). But the big-tech/state surveillance (ie. anonymity and privacy issues) aren't likely to be solvable on fedi. Also AI/LLM generated content. It's not the right tool for that job. Feel free to prove me wrong though. I'd welcome that.
> ...seeing what they're going to push is the only reason to watch the news.
Definitely. Also why I keep track of pop culture stuff like whatever latest thing is coming from Hollywood, streaming BS, etc. Most of it is a thinly veiled psyop.
A lot of my issues on earlier mainstream platforms had to do with contradicting psyops stemming from MSM accounts. It got to the point where I couldn't even have a conversation with friends on their own timeline, nor even respond to direct questions, because my messages would just get auto-deleted (from public viewing) by AI.
> ...they admitted to running troll farms and spying on foreign journalists, and finally, there's this paper where they're trying to figure out how to map fedi...
No doubt! They'd be fools not to. It's a foregone conclusion. Gotta look at all these tech's from a military SIGINT perspective to understand what's going on. Personally I'd like to see folks migrate to something like SimpleX or that ilk since it's probably just a matter of time before fedi becomes just as bad as mainstream social media was several years ago to present. I'm a bit torn about ditching my fedi accounts, but it seems like it's probably just a matter of time before I do so for the sake of my own privacy and not having it show up on the inevitable social credit score (once my fedi gets correlated with govt ID by some AI).
Interesting pdf's btw. All getting archived for future reference.
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