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They can just scan and open and reclose the mail they do this to everyone now I am so serious. Difficult to do at scale though so honestly I take it back, if everyone did it the mail way it could increase surveillance costs? Escalating everyone’s piracy to require forensic cracking at a federal or international level would skyrocket costa which should be a goal

Okay let me try again. Where are their servers conspicuously NOT located?

Levels of LARP that should be physically impossible

Very cool will check this out

The idea of people viewing the whole ActivityPub protocol’s potential through the deliberately stripped down and self-sabotaging platform of default Mastodon is still so sad to me

Mail is extremely insecure, it’s actually really nefarious for them to recommend it. I still use Mullvad sometimes because it’s just so cheap and fast. I know it’s some kind of high level NATO spyware though. Just look at where their servers are. I mean fucking come on now.

I have to say out of all the arguments from authority that exist, account age is probably the funniest. so, you haven’t logged off for a longer period than I have? sit the hell down then

[puts up posters of Zizek and Foucault everywhere] wtf why are people characterizing this place as having an undercurrent of western leftist idealism?? mods? is this bullying?

as for the screenshot, this is what the entire antiwar left does lmao reposting Chris Hedges articles and shit without knowing what they are. regurgitating libertarian talking points about the pandemic (everyone forgot this), posting offbrand versions of Mearshimer, I don’t owe you essays and essays on this subject. you are literally just repeating the libertarian “oh noes my tax dollars” and Israel lobby explanations for imperialism. slowly, it’s shifting. but people like you have fought it every step of the way with your perpetual aggrievement towards people that disagree

So, it is no trouble for you to deny the entire intellectual tradition. You don’t even know particularly where “your youtube guy everyone should check out” got his ideas, but at least he seems to talk like he knows what he is saying.

Here let me put the part that is most pertinent to your situation at the forefront so you don’t get all tuckered out after two paragraphs. I’m a real pleasant individual about these things. 😁

What are you even talking about LMAO? Can’t find any other words to express your disgust than “ew new person”?? I’m not assuming anything, I’m making completely obvious observations about the community and you’re taking them personally because they are accurate. You just disagree with my conclusions because you lack the historical context for your own beliefs. Anything else to say or do you just want to rage?

If you want a more complete summation, I could go into the Gonzaloist Maoist flavor of posters around here, but why even waste time on that?

The basis for most leftists is not materialism but idealism rooted in the tradition of German imperialist philosophers like Heidegger and Nietzsche, who have been venerated and smoothed over and venerated again and then denied by the intellectual apparatus (the system of universities and journals that decides which ideas are received by anyone) until everyone has their own little micro tradition of Nietzschianism to suit their tastes. Nevermind their actual Nazi beliefs. It didn’t bother Chomsky or Foucault or Zizek.

Of course, nobody engages directly with intellectuals. You don’t even read, or even pay attention to the alt-media which whether branding itself as left or right has roots in the same intellectual tradition, you may occassionally still engage with the Jon Stewart style kids’ entertainment/comedy adaptstion of the same ideas, but you guys get all of your news through the new pyramid scheme of Google and Amazon content creators.

So, it is no trouble for you to deny the entire intellectual tradition. You don’t even know particularly where “your youtube guy everyone should check out” got his ideas, but at least he seems to talk like he knows what he is saying. And since he was likely bred on The Young Turks and other things like that, he is still many steps away from even investigating where he gets his ideas from.

I didn’t even know about it when I was writing that.

Can you picture a more heroic death? I tell myself that I am getting the picture these days, sometimes, but the idea of a man like that engaging in a standard front line raid, it is jawdropping to me. I am awestruck honestly. I admit now I know nothing about their operations. All we know is media criticism. We are blind. Every day they live out heroism that is beyond the wildest fantasies of the shitty fucking writers who inspired us as children. There is a wild confrontation awaiting all of us, and avoiding it will only degrade and torture us.

Specifically that tirade was directed at both left Nietzschians and right anti-imperialists (all terminally online) who were casting doubt on Iran after Haniyeh’s assassination, but it is a larger pattern that I only noticed around then. The latter calling Pezeshkian Armenian before realizing he was Azerbaijani and having to backpedal on the wild speculation was sidesplitting to me. The implications are grave though. 2/3 Iranians are reformists. It’s not a fucking fifth column. The world is a complex place and every single mistake is measured and adds up, but in 360 degrees of unpredictable trajectories and sudden deceptive discontinuities.

Of course the left Nietzschians are you guys and since I came into your cage I will not go after you for the same reason I would not threaten any animal in a cage. So we will stick to the right anti-imperialists. While the Russian media can say things outside the scope of the Western narrative, many actors in state media and the online “military blogger” community continue to parrot Western psyops. [DISCLAIMER: VAGUE, INDETERMINATE SCOPE, HEAVY ON VIBES] Russia is getting back on track, so to speak, but I can’t overlook the way that like Saudi Arabia and Qatar, the idea of a successful insurgency kind of scares the shit out of them. It really is due to the power of the US educating most of the world’s institutions from the inside, disciplining them from the outside. In spite of all that

You have to admit it is pretty funny seeing exactly the same people who dismissed all of the Russian milbloggers (often meaning drunken Serbians and Macedonians and whatnot but let’s keep this curt and simple 😅) jump into the fray and use their “IRAN REVOLUTIONARY GUARD CORPS WHERE ARE MY SHELLS???” posts to portray the resistance as divided and ineffectual.

We are witnessing a live instruction course on how the US controlled global intellectual apparatus is still able to control foreign and domestic opposition.