Right? It was self-evidently a grift, yet “serious” bourgeois rags like FT pretend otherwise.

Thanks I h8 it.

Pathetic. They’re scraping the bottom of the barrel.

You’re also assuming I’m not being persecuted.

Big if true.

It’s not pettiness. These are brave defenders of the liberal international order.

FYI, lately it’s a different user (or account, anyway) who downvotes your non-negative articles about China.

The languages that are vulnerable are vulnerable https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endangered_language

Two boots: “left” and right.

fail-safe motherfucker do you speak it

We eat what we can and what we can’t we can.

I wonder how James Rehwald and Lady Izdihar manage to survive on TikTok then.

Doubling down on feigned obtuseness, I see.

You can take the girl out of Reddit, but can’t take the Reddit out of the girl.

The same numerically. You’re not that obtuse, so is this a joke or are you a cringey debatelord?

social justice warriors

Okay boomer.

Not sure—I haven’t read any fascist manifestos. Maybe Blackshirts and Reds.

Dugin isn’t “Putin’s Brain” any more than Navalny was, but he is popular with some US & European fascists.

• https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Dugin
• 📺 Caleb Maupin speaks next to Aleksandr Dugin at Alternatives To Globalization Conference in 2018

There are already dozens of decent feed aggregators, and I’m not interested in Lemmy tacking on functionality that’s superfluous to social media. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_feed_aggregators

Or do you mean follow or block posted links to sites? That functionality already partially exists at the admin level. We can block posts of URLs to specific domains. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4514

There’s already a ticket for per-user URL blocklists: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4689

I haven’t read the article, but be warned that 972 is an Israeli liberal Zionist rag.

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.
— A.A. member https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/03/23/same/

When Imperial forces take out your sandcrawler.

“Anyone who disagrees with me is a paid Russian shill.”

• IT Pro: Cambridge Analytica models were exaggerated and ineffective, [UK Information Commissioner’s Office] claims
• Wall Street Journal: Mueller Doesn’t Find Trump Campaign Conspired With Russia
• Jacobin: Democrats and Mainstream Media Were the Real Kremlin Assets
• Washington Post: FEC fines DNC, Clinton for violating rules in funding Steele dossier
• Washington Post: Russian trolls on Twitter had little influence on 2016 voters
• Jacobin: It Turns Out Hillary Clinton, Not Russian Bots, Lost the 2016 Election
• Matt Taibbi: Move Over, Jayson Blair: Meet Hamilton 68, the New King of Media Fraud The Twitter Files reveal that one of the most common news sources of the Trump era was a scam, making ordinary American political conversations look like Russian spywork
• Jacobin: Why the Twitter Files Are in Fact a Big Deal On the Left, there’s been a temptation to dismiss the revelations about Twitter’s internal censorship system that have emerged from the so-called Twitter Files project. But that would be a mistake: the news is important and the details are alarming.
• MSNBC Repeats Hamilton 68 Lies 279 Times in 11 Minutes
• Matt Taibbi: CIA “Cooked The Intelligence” To Hide That Russia Favored Clinton, Not Trump In 2016
• Aaron Maté: Under Trump, the CIA is still covering up its Russiagate fraud
• Matt Taibbi: Note on New Trump-Russia Disclosures Thanks to explosive new document releases, the Russiagate hoax is now exposed, commencing a new era that will be about accountability for the guilty
• Matt Taibbi: No Doubt Left: Russiagate Was a Cover-Up
• Chris Hedges: Why Russiagate Won’t Go Away The cynical con the Democratic Party and the F.B.I. carried out to falsely portray Donald Trump as a puppet of the Kremlin worked, and continues to work, because it is what those who detest Trump want to believe.