Notices by vruz (vruz@mstdn.social)

The object of torture is torture.

Important report by Apoorva Mandavilli.
No props to the NY Times ever for trying to afford themselves some token of plausible deniability for aiding the fascist regime.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/health/usaid-cuts-deaths-infections.html

AOC accurately describes Elon Musk, although I'm unsure what good an apt literary description does so late in the game.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-elon-musk-leech-doge-b2707377.html

Liberals going through yet another stage of denial: attempting to correct the Nazis when liberals interpret their words as an error as if Nazis had misspoken when they're promising to cull people.

They still don't believe them.

Besides, you can see something more through that lens.

The liberal person is not complaining about the literal or figurative culling.

The liberal person is complaining about the Nazis saying it.

History shows the pattern—authoritarians don’t misspeak, they telegraph. When they say “cull,” believe them.

It’s not just rhetoric. It’s a roadmap.

Anarchist nationalists for Ukraine and against the people of Russia.

The American mind can only produce recursive stupidity beyond belief making everybody a J. Edgar Hoover fanatic in miniature.

It's obvious that Putin is a monster, that should go without saying, but what are you going to do if you create a void of power that is occupied by something like Trump and Vance in Russia?

The inability to think beyond the next sacrificed pawn on the board is breathtaking.

Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.

3. “Military-grade destruction and overwhelming of a civilian population”

4. “Highest of treasons”

My disgust for Democrats for having allowed this to happen is infinite.

Having had the machinery of the state at their disposal, the decision to preserve the stability of a status quo of inherent injustice and giving priority to the peaceful transfer of power to an illegitimate Nazi government is a stain that they will never be able to remove.

@aral That also reminds me of certain journalists who were close friends of the tech billionaires, journalists who amplified them and made a career hanging out with them, some having even written books to glorify them, and now that they can't disguise it anymore all of a sudden they appear to have developed something that would vaguely resemble ethics, if it wasn't so laughable.

It's tragic that it's not millions.

@jeffjarvis

I think what they meant is that Trump is effectively executing on his unserious policy. Not being serious as in being a serious person, but serious as in actually doing the demented things he promised.

There are no good sides, only shades of brownshirt.

There's no such thing as cynical cyber rights activists, there's only informed people, and uninformed people.
https://www.wired.com/story/gravy-location-data-app-leak-rtb/

Hope that clarifies things enough for the Nazis, but also for the Dems who couldn't find a spine to prevent this from happening.

It was absolutely possible to write like this before, and to avert the social crisis that's going to unfold.
https://newrepublic.com/post/189950/trump-son-greenland

@chartier

Extrapolate to other social media websites presented as valid alternatives:

"I don't like Mastodon, full of weird people. This other social media website is more normal, still largely centralised and under control of one single entity at this time, it was funded by some of the same people who built Twitter, and it doesn't hurt that the notorious antivaxxer RFK built his audience there. Don't cancel me, you don't understand."

How it started / How it's going.

@aral That's really scratching the bottom. From underneath the barrel.

@aral

https://chatgpt.com/share/67448bd5-b418-8008-9e97-073574bef1af

@soldan Me parece bastante inseguro todo lo que hay en XMPP, por mas que hay gente que es seria y que le pone cariño.

Si es por cuestiones de seguridad, mejor usar Matrix, si existe la posibilidad.