Also, I seriously doubt any of them would bust a grape in a food fight

This person disagrees and captures the energy well I think lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5Tiwtwr_dg

If your point is that angry leftists are far less likely to shift into advocating for or directly doing violence without the leftist context around them immediately shutting them down for going off the deep end, sure but also… don’t mistake people using guns for a stand in for their identity as the whole of gun ownership, they are just the most immature and loud ones…

More importantly, don’t conflate the aesthetic attraction to violence and physical violent (nonconsentual) dominance over others as the same thing as the capacity for violence or self defense.

The largest subset of gun owners who actually identify deeply with their guns are hunters… which cannot easily be described as simply “conservative” exhibit A being how many hunter based environmental groups have consistently advocated for habitat and wetland protections in a way conservatism is hostile to.

I am pointing to the reality outside of this little bubble that globally we are experiencing a rise of authoritarian rightwing, openly racist and exclusionary political movements.

I mean sure, fuck Putin, russia is just an authoritarian dictatorship but also my president literally acts like a damn russian asset so I just find it tiring to listen to all of this alarm over leftwing people being pro-russia when it just kind of misses the point of who has the power, who is hurting people right now, and who we need to be focused on as a group of people that may launch unprovoked, violent acts.

Across the board, all over the world, the political parties that are most aligned with russia/Putin are rightwing, in Europe, in the US, everywhere… so yeah there are leftwing idiots here who support russia but also gestures at the globe again it kinda feels like a distorting narrative to focus on.

With the difference that I haven’t seen many rightwing chuds around here (thank god)

Here is the thing, there are lots of rightwing chuds with extremely toxic beliefs that use fediverse software, some of them have even tried to integrate with the larger fediverse… but invariably these rightwing communities end up being so toxic that nobody wants to connect with them.

Trump’s bullshit Truth Social is literally just stolen Mastodon code that doesn’t really need to have any federation capability because again nobody wants to connect with them…

https://www.pcmag.com/news/trumps-social-media-site-quietly-admits-its-based-on-mastodon

My point is that maybe the reason you see more leftwing idiots here than relative to your experience in other mediums/spaces is that while there are dangerous idiots of every type leftism does not largely endorse ideologies of violence and exclusion no matter how much conservative snowflakes accuse leftism of being this way it is just projection… so the instances you are on may not feel the need to censor leftist communities the way they do the equally “extreme” rightwing communities because the leftists don’t start attacking the humanity of trans people and harassing them in public, they don’t engage in rampant antisemitism or islamophobia, leftism doesn’t idolize the capacity for violence or obsess over there being specific ways you have to perform your gender socially, even if you hate leftists there just is way less reason to completely hard cut them off then there are for extremist rightwing communities…

Make no mistake though, there are tons of rightwing extremely toxic communities out there using fediverse software (or stolen fediverse software as is the case with Truth Social being stolen Mastodon code without attribution) and the reason you don’t see them is they already caused too much of an issue for everybody in the community you joined that they burned the bridges that would naturally lead you to listen to them.

TL;DR You are more likely to run into a Hasan Piker type here gasp!!! than a Tucker Carlson type because the Tucker Carlson types tend to say some really scary shit in the process of doing things like criticizing Israel, like genuine antisemitism or other things and they were already blocked by most normal communities that widely federate on the fediverse whereas the Hasan Piker types are just maybe from your perspective focused on the wrong politics but are not advocating directly for violence and exclusionary ideologies. The mainstream media and the billionaires who own corporate social media refuse to hold Tucker Carlson types accountable even when they say really twisted, evil things, the fediverse does not.

I am not pretending their aren’t leftist idiots here, I am pointing out the unhealthy weird obsession some people have in this place with hating on them… especially given the flood of violent rightwing ideologies happening globally right now it feels especially disengenous.

Welcome in!

Welcome! It’s cozy here :-)

Except for the centrists and conservatives here who are terminally obsessed with tankies who feel the need to warn everyone in every single “I am new” post.

Stop

If you flip this around to “China bad, the West good” it describes 99% of your posts and comments tardigrade…

If you still work at Microslop you are part of the problem, this company is functionally dead.

Microslop profited off the Palestinian Genocide, they care more about this broken crap over human beings.

I mean, I have no idea I am just a rando with very limited information, but at the very least I would say being able to fire off all the ballistic missile interceptors was an attractive feature of the Iran War for Trump because it made being pressured into giving/selling more to Ukraine a non-issue.

Well Israel too but yeah same system.

New U.S. President Joe Biden stated his intention to reinstate the deal.[359] Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett advised against this, saying that stopping Iran’s aggression and preventing Iran from building nuclear weapons should be the priority.[360]

The thing people here in US ignore on both sides of the “establishment media” is that from Iran’s perspective both “teams” in the US had a chance to rectify things… and NEITHER did.

There is no credible evidence Iran was not following the JCPOA, especially along terms of military escalation. How then must we evaluate the launching of the Iran War by the US and Israel? It leaves little room to even plausibly propose a hypothetical framing where the US and Israel haven’t acted DIRECTLY against european and global interests in launching the Iran War.

Rouhani,[327] Theresa May, Emmanuel Macron, Angela Merkel, and European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said the agreement was working well and that no one country could break it, reconfirming support for the deal. Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov confirmed that Iran was in compliance.[327]

In 2018, IAEA inspectors spent an aggregate of 3,000 calendar [person-]days in Iran, installing seals and collecting surveillance camera photos, measurement data, and documents for further analysis. In March 2018, IAEA Director Yukiya Amano said that the organization had verified that Iran was implementing its nuclear-related commitments.[328] On 30 April, the U.S. and Israel said that Iran had not disclosed a past covert nuclear weapons program to the IAEA, as required.[329][330]

On 8 May 2018, the U.S. officially withdrew from the JCPOA after Trump signed a Presidential Memorandum ordering reinstatement of sanctions.[333][334][335][336] The IAEA continued to certify Iranian compliance.[337] Other signatories said they would comply with the deal even absent the U.S.[338]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_nuclear_deal

No I am pointing out the Iran War was from the beginning going to be a disaster for Europe since the clear objective was to bomb Iran into escalating its retaliation so the US and Israel could then leverage that for domestic/internal power.

Also Trump needed an excuse not to give Ukraine any significant amount of ballistic missile interceptors and help retain his daddy’s (Putin) power, and the Iran War was the perfect conduit for Trump and Vance to launch every interceptor they could get their hands on as wastefully as possible.

The only way for me to logically interpret Trump and Vance’s actions in launching the Iran War are as a series of steps taken to try to force Iran to try develop a nuclear weapon, so I agree too.

What are you on about?

In January 2020, Republican US senator Tom Cotton accused the institute of antisemitism, calling it an “isolationist, blame America First money pit for so-called scholars who’ve written that American foreign policy could be fixed if only it were rid of the malign influence of Jewish money.”[20][17]

Ahh now I understand, you are a Zionist.

Obviously, but that is not an accurate summary of the article.

People like him are only given support and trust once in an eternity.

There are plenty of people with similar potential, the problem is we crush, reject, obliterate and kill them all 99% of the time before we can witness their gift.

the world has moved further and further away from his dreams.

Not here it hasn’t!

Also open access science publishing has exploded in the years since his death.

It is so radicalizing to me that AI companies are socially and economically doing way worse than Aaron and facing zero repercussions for it.

Also open access science journals are a MUCH bigger thing now because we realized Aaron Swartz was right after we killed him.

More lame china=bad slop from tardigrade.