This is disheartening.

My hope was that federated communities would mean smaller scale and therefore higher social accountability – meaning both fewer propagandists and bots, but also some kind of forcing function to make discourse actually make sense, like accountability to the other members of the group to maintain a shared understanding of reality. I guess I was missing the fact that people regularly disagree about what real even is.

I don’t actually know where that optimism came from. Maybe I’ll stick around for a minute, but idk, I can’t in good conscience legitimize tankie rhetoric by making actual sense while wearing a tankie uniform.

Thanks for the heads up

Are you telling me the average opinion on .ml is in favor of Russia invading Ukraine?

And … ugh I’m taking the bait but wtf, whatever nazi militia shit was stirring pre-invasion, Russia went directly for Kiev on day one. It’s impossible to deny the imperialist, genocidal objective of Russia in prosecuting this war against Ukraine - the evidence for it is public, well established, and Russia doesn’t even deny it, they claim it as their own!

I’m not one to stick my head in the sand, but I sure would like to hear someone else disagree with the assessment that I’ve joined a fully delusional instance.

I’m new here, why would that be? Don’t know the rep of the place I just joined I guess

Oh, dear, you haven’t heard? European intelligence services are salivating at the chance to break encryption. While it’s certainly a race to the bottom that the US and China are currently winning, Europe is absolutely making a sincere attempt at being in the authoritarian club. :-/

Personally I’m surprised to see the Commonwealth Club signing off on such a presentation, I had some respect for them. Maybe I didn’t know what they were about in the first place, but I do know they have hosted some really good speakers and, genuinely, some really good debates in the past.

Although, my memory of the institution dates back to pre-2016, so what do I know.

I’m really hoping someone at least takes notes that they share about the amount of crazy that’s going to be on exhibit here. This is off the charts. 4 lectures? He could say what he has to say in 10 minutes, I guarantee it.