Nice. Thanks for answering!

How do you produce F-key presses (F1, F2, etc)? I assume you can do so as a combo with a modifier key.

Sam Altman has refused to even provide evidence for this. His claim only has legs due to implicit sinophobia in his audience.

Then you need to work on your empathy and understanding of geopolitics.

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Some of this is good advice but I recommend evaluating every protest, having a real plan for transportation and a buddy system, and trying to be as secure as possible by default and only making exceptions when necessary.

Most of the guide is about phones and how they can leak information. The only surefire way to prevent your phone from leaking location information to show you were at a protest is to leave it at home. That should be your default. The next option is to use a burner, but you must be very careful about when you charge your burner and turn it on, as you never want it to be on near where you live or work. Cell signals can be triangulated to a few block radius. The next option is put your phone in airplane mode and turn it off. Your phone is now an emergency device, you won’t turn it in at the protest unless a safety critical situation develops, such as being separated from your group by police or other right wing violence. Under no circumstances should you use your main phone to coordinate day-of at any event. If you are an organizer, use a burner to do this. This is also a reason to not use Signal for day-of coordination, as it will pressure you to either turn your burner on at home so that you can coordinate or associate your signal account with other devices traceable to your home or work. Walky talkies are best but Signal alternatives like davel suggested are also better.

Also, cover your face and wear sunglasses.

The entirety of their logic is myopic electoralism handed down to them by the most insufferable party climbers imaginable. If you are against their neoliberal blue genocider, you must be for the other tean’s red neoliberal genocider, because all of politics must be condensed to the next / the last election day and which neoliberal horse may win it.

You’re talking to people that want to continue rationalizing their tacit, frequently racist support for genocide, and their easiest out has always been to say, “but Trump is worse”. They have never done the introspection required to look at their own personal role as a political being beyond what they’re told to do by the Democratic Party and their donors: slacktivist vote shaming, always presuming the high ground for themselves (even while tolerating genocide!), and doing as little as possible on the ground outside of minor exercises in false catharsis like a cop-escorted, permitted march or an ignored letter writing campaign.

When challenged on this by people on the left that do read and do self-reflect, these are the folks that responded in bad faith, even when the context is genocide, because they have made politics into an extension of their egos rather than a project to which to subordinate yourself and devote real work to.

Whining about .ml is their way of pretending to be vindicated every time Trump does something bad, as they cannot actually argue against what the people in .ml say, they must rely on inventions and emotional implications.

In short, many on .ml vocally opposed supporting genociding Democrats. None that I’m aware of expected Trump to be better. At best, a roll of the dice.

Jokes that only Himmler would find funny.

Scratched liberal.

Such as?

Laughing at genocide should get you tried at the Hague.

No response!

That’s right. You ghosted for 4 months.

I was wrong and you were right!

Yep.

With Kamala gone, Gaza is saved and everything is literally the same!

I never said either thing would happen. You’re making things up like a child and somehow think that smugness is the appropriate emotiom to accompany it.

Kamala would have done everything Trump is doing, it’s so obvious!

Kamala would continue the Biden administration’s genocide.

We’re safe in the hands of trump, you saved us from Kamala! Bless you!

I quoted this because I thought it would be a nea thing. But it’s still just delusional fabrications.

Try to think for yourself. Just a little bit. And be honest.

This was a liberal-run and liberal-funded genocide for 15 months. They have handed a righter wing liberal the reins because they could not even run an anti-genocide candidate.

You should feel deep shame at thinking you were even remotely in the right. Genocide apologists should be tried at the Hague.

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They also list South Africa, where Westerners love to give themselves all of the credit via boycotts when in actuality fighting Apartheid used all means available and necessary, including escalating violent campaigns and associated political parties who were the main representatives at negotiations.

Most examples of “non-violent” liberation (in some cases I should say “liberation”) are like this, it is a PR campaign putting a microscope on their preferred group or “movement” and failing to discuss the totality or criticize the incompleteness of outcomes and how this could relate to an adherence to nonviolence.

Example: MLK was notoriously incorrect about the propaganda power of seeing participants in nonviolent direct action arrestes and hurt by cops. Most people, particularly whites, disliked King, thought he and his methods were too extreme, and opposed the movement. They won impact through organizing ground game, by turning an increasing number of people out. But their wins were incomplete and King was martyred when trying to pivot to capitalism as the main racial oppressor that would live on after the legislative concessions. The groups he was active in fell apart or became a recuperated part of the system he opposed, many of his compatriots killed or houndes into silence by the FBI and local cops, and of course, black people still face mountains of discrimination and disadvage today, particularly by the “subtle” effects of the economic system. We should potentially blame nonviolence for the collapse of the movement, as it wed itself to bourgeois electoralist concessions and primed it to accept that as sufficient rather than steeling the public for a protracted fight that would not rest until liberation, e.g. New Afrika.

I’ll go through some other examples from this database.

• Soviet Bloc Independence campaigns after the fall of the USSR. These were, by and large, primed by CIA-funded “civil society” organizations that congealed around liberalization (read: privatization) campaigns. Some employed violent coups to accomplish this while their states were weak due to a diminished Moscow. But in what world is the backing of the dominant superpower simply a win for non-violent action? The knife was already at their throats, they would receive the shock therapy treatment like Russia or Ukraine if they did not fall in line. Rather than an example of the power of grassroots non-violent organizing, these are examples of a great powers struggle. And once the liberal parties were in power, they enacted their privatization with brutal violence.

• The Arab Spring. This was not non-violent and it largely failed due to disorganization and a lack of militant discipline. It was another case of cooption snd defanging by “civil society” style groups, but different ones this time. No Arab Spring uprisings led to a better country for their people, for liberation, for the demands sought. They list Mubarak and then fail to mention Morsi and Sisi or explain why they head the new government or what the military had to do with it. They just vaguely tut-tut Egyptians about not “keeping” the “freedom” they had won.

• Latin American non-violent campaigns were essentially all crushed with violence via US-backed military coups or are otherwise misrepresented. Carlos Ibañez del Campo was removed via coordinated strikes and protests that were not non-violent. They had to fight cops. But all of this is simply called non-violence rather than organized class struggle. They list the overthrow of Pinochet without mentioning that Allende was deposed in a US-backed coups or that Chile more or less retains the Pinochet dictatorship constitution. The single man was removed from power (and allowed a comfy retirement in the US) but the system was left in place. And again, not a simply non-violent campaign and again one premised on class struggle and collective labor power.

• They incorrectly label the GDR a dictatorship and fail to accurately describe the outcomes, which were primarily the DDR illegally annexing the country, stripping it for parts, and impoverishinh the people there. They don’t mention that East Germans preferred their own country and state nor that, with these conditions imposed and left parties bsnned, East Germany is still comparatively poor and is now far right. And, again, this was something pushed and funded by the US.

Note that this article was written by George Lakey, the academic behind this database. As a tenured professor for decades and now emeritus, he has no excuse for these gross cases of ignorance / omissions. He is literally paid to think about such things, to spend the time to skeptically investigate and question his own biases. But of course, such people are recruited and funded and promoted precisely bevause of their bias and selective incompetence.

The IDF constantly lies and their human shield rhetoric is just PR for their wanton murder of Palestinians.

FDR was the liberal response and then recuperation of left organizing. Socialists and organized labor had become substantial enough to begin threatening to demand concessions on their own terms. By legalizing a liberalized set of rights and privileges on the terms of liberal democrats, they could control and then stymy those movements rather than observe the left oppositionally build until liberals became irrelevant.

Not really dumbing it down so much as framing in accessible language.

“Here are several terminally online streamers. Are they cooking oe are they cooked?”

You can Gish Gallop over this comment section all you want, but you’re not worth my time.

I am not Gish Galloping. I am engaging in good faith and am responding directly to what you’re saying with explanations and context. Do you think that’s a bad thing?

In many of these attempts to criticize you are really just telling on yourself. You’re actually getting combative and complaining that I am taking the time to help you challenge unexamined biases (that you bring up via accusations) and provide additional relevant context. Given how many objective errors you have made in trying to justify your attacks, don’t you think a bit of humility is in order? Why launch into everything with speculative attacks?

I’ll put it simply for you here since you’re so obtuse

I’m not being obtuse.

outlawing how a person expresses their sexuality, when it isnt at the cost of another persons consent, is shitty

I don’t think we’ve had a conversation about whether that is shitty. This conversation has mostly been me replying to your false and bad faith accusations using more restraint and patience than you will likely receive any other time.

and authoritarian.

Again, this means nothing and you should be more skeptical towards your internalized biases.

Have fun defending reactionary and authoritarian actions.

I don’t believe I’ve defended anything other than myself. You should get over this habit of lying about others in support of beinh dismissive.

Whatever it takes to defend your side, right?

I’m not the one engaging in bad faith behavior here and you are the only one thinking in terms of sides. Again, telling on yourself.

Please do your best to improve how you disagree with people. If you behaved like this in any decent irl left organization you would get kicked out for aggressive toxicity and dishonesty.