Thanks, Blaze.
Appreciate. ^^

Seems kind of weirdly unnecessary to start with “Lemmy” instead of just going with TMBG, but whatevs. Subscribed to John & John.

I love this comic, because “never quit / never surrender” is one of the godamn stoopidest phrases in our culture.

How about: “Take a break, re-tool, gather yourself, ask yourself if this is what you really want, and if so, can our methodology and stress-relief be improved? Well then, well then!”

if it’s once a year. If we did it every night…

Around here (MidWest city), fireworks go off every night for a month before, and then a month after the fourth. And I don’t mean a small amount, either. More like some version of the Vietnam War. It’s nuts.

Basically, most of summer is devoted to fireworks play, with the fourth being a deluxe version of the “fun.”

Oy, now I understand why I wasn’t seeing your latest content!

Hmm, I haven’t hyperventilated in a long time.

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you’re claiming that they’re misusing the anti-CSAM feature to remove comments from the modlog

Right, that was one aspect of that, but at the end of the day?

What ML has clearly done is to fuck with the integrity of the Lemmy-sphere across multiple, fundamental levels, and that’s what I and many others find completely unacceptable, and have of course stated as much.

Seriously, how is it even possible that you’re browsing the FV and haven’t seen this shit…?

Yes, yes-- I get the fact that you’re a ‘self-declared weirdo!’ “Big proponent for killing all cis men! Token Trotskyite!”

You DO understand of course that civilisation is collapsing fast, much of it due to our bloody inactions, is it not…?

Absolutely.
I will make it a special point tomorrow to look up the many, many posts upon that matter made in the last couple days across the FV.

One also wonders what people like you were doing in the meantime, but never fear-- please DO add on with any more requests for such information in the coming days. I will be happy to do the lookups and get back to you. ^^

as far as im aware there is no evidence that anyone has misused this specific admin power

In that case, then congrats for living in your own little delirium, apart from the many, many reports people have made reporting those specific abuses.

Well then, good for you.

Meanwhile, there’s been a legion of solid users here pointing out across the FV that the ML has in fact been abusing its admin powers, or did you think that the whataboutism of CSA would somehow, magically erase that shizzle?

If so, then shame on you.

That’s fine on ‘paper,’ but can you seriously not understand how it’s being shamelessly abused on the Tankie / ML front?

It’s more than just that IMO. It’s breaking the stated aim of open federation by tampering with comments, posts and mod records, which in turn get propagated or de-propagated to connected instances, right?

Yes, you may say that ML is of course free to screw with their own instance, but 1) one instance (particular a significant one like ML) affects other instances, and 2) they’re breaking the spirit of their own software by shamelessly abusing admin powers, in turn helping to normalize that behavior to the Lemmy side of the FV.

What’s the point of leaving oppressive, commercial social media only to run in to the same kinds of abuse of power on a supposedly transparent, user-run, P2P social network?

the devs have absolutely no say over how the software being used

It seems like they have some strong say when it comes to their own instance. According to some recent posts, ML admins (and maybe even mods?) have the ability to erase any record of mod actions, for example disappearing critique of the CCP’s brutal actions in Tiananmen Square that were posted on ML. That left no record in the public mod logs, and the users were never informed that their contributions had been (completely) deleted.

I’m only a 1yr Lemming myself, but I never saw such a critique aimed at any other instance, hence why I’m skeptical that the devs don’t have influence over how the software is used.

Nice job portraying all that as Biden’s specific work.

In any case, if you want to see the US go hardcore on Israel support, then by all means Trump will do that.

THIS, my friends, is the single greatest punching-through-reality accomplishment of “HwH.”

Now, whether @FauxPseudo@lemmy.world perfectly agrees with my take or not upon this particular one, we’re now in to the realm of great philosophers, and arguably even the mechanisms of quantum physics.

It is just awesome IMO.

And almost randomly-awesome at that!
Cue Andy Kaufman moment… oO

Best FalseKnees I’ve seen in a looong time.

I’m hardly a presidential scholar, but from what i understand, the country hit a peak of greatness under FDR’s reforms. Wages were very fair, consumers had lots of buying power, and there were social safety nets in place. Even after FDR, i think those things stayed relatively stable for some years before traitors and capitalists gained the upper hand.

The great irony is that boomers were pretty much the first new generation to enjoy the fruits of FDR’s work, and now they’re one of the biggest bases taking part in working to destroy democracy.

After Nixon successfully mobilised voters by Dog Whistling, then Reagan figured out that layering on the Religious Right was another winner, unregulated capitalism was well on its way to defeating a sustainable democracy. It’s been mostly downhill from there.

Geez, I know cats are flexible, but I thought for a moment that was Pullapart Boy:

Kinda nasty that the artist credit got rubbed out.

So, altho I thought this was Jim Benton’s work at first, I do believe this one is by Mike Jacobsen of Oz. His stuff from this era is here, and more modern stuff here:

https://www.semisupers.com/
https://www.instagram.com/seemikedraw/