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“To the Feds, I'll keep this short, because I do respect what you do for our country. To save you a lengthy investigation, I state plainly that I wasn't working with anyone. This was fairly trivial: some elementary social engineering, basic CAD, a lot of patience. The spiral notebook, if present, has some straggling notes and To Do lists that illuminate the gist of it. My tech is pretty locked down because I work in engineering so probably not much info there. I do apologize for any strife of traumas but it had to be done. Frankly, these parasites simply had it coming. A reminder: the US has the #1 most expensive healthcare system in the world, yet we rank roughly #42 in life expectancy. United is the [indecipherable] largest company in the US by market cap, behind only Apple, Google, Walmart. It has grown and grown, but as our life expectancy? No the reality is, these [indecipherable] have simply gotten too powerful, and they continue to abuse our country for immense profit because the American public has allwed them to get away with it. Obviously the problem is more complex, but I do not have space, and frankly I do not pretend to be the most qualified person to lay out the full argument. But many have illuminated the corruption and greed (e.g.: Rosenthal, Moore), decades ago and the problems simply remain. It is not an issue of awareness at this point, but clearly power games at play. Evidently I am the first to face it with such brutal honesty.”

Post got removed in .world for not being a "news source" even though Klippenstein is definitely a very established independent journalist, so trying again here I guess.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Just remember which instance let you read this, and which one wouldn't let you.

.ml doesnt need to host a bi monthly feud posts like .world does. Their moderator actions are all the advertisements we need. Make an account and export your settings today! Lemmy.ml

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

.ml sucks too. When I'll move, it'll be some super niche instance or self hosted.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (4 children)

What instance can I go to, so that I can freely say pure capitalism sucks, pure communism sucks, China / Russia governments suck. USA / Israel governments suck, every Islamic government sucks.

Bottom line is that most governments / authorities are shit, but there are levels to everything. And some are clearly worse than others.

I side with the people 99% of the time and I want an instance that sides / protects people not governments or ideologies.

Where can I find this?!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

It sounds like you lean anarchist? If so, I believe that https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/ is an anarchist instance?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago

Your instance. That’s what is great about the fediverse is that if there isn’t an instance that meets your needs, you can host that niche yourself and still have access to the same content (assuming you can stay on good terms with the other instances)

Personally I don’t have a problem with Lemmy.world’s moderation choices but if I did, I could always self host. But quite frankly if I had to face the risk of hosting an instance, I’d probably make a lot of similar choices

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

small instances do this better

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I mean .world 100% sucks lol, and people should definitely move off it, but I'd also like people to move off .ml or any other general purpose instance since centralization on any one instance can cause issues imo. I'm considering switching off of .ee for the same reason. I think it makes more sense to have specific instances for specific things, so that the admins of one instance can have more domain specific knowledge ideally.

.world specifically does seem like they can't go more than a few weeks without some kind of drama though lol.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago

The .ml/tankie witch hunts on .world are what got me to jump. It's just exhausting.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I don't wanna get banned for saying China does bad things too lol

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'm on .ml and I've said plenty of critical stuff against China, the mods are chill and in general it's been a really solid community.

That being said, I'm a hardcore leftist, so even though as an anarchist, I am strongly at odds with many statist solutions, I agree with the vast majority of leftist underlying critiques of sociopolitical issues.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

As long as you don't blindly repeat things from the US state dept without any critical thoughts you're fine. Look into things before you say them, China has plenty of issues, pick a real one.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

China is perpetuating genocide against their uyghur muslim population.

Edit: lmao, fuckin gottem.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

A genocide which was proven to be false by UN, Organization of Islamic Cooperation and the World Bank. All of which found no issues in the region. In 2019 July, the 41st session of the UN Human Rights Council met and voted on two opposing letters regarding Xinjiang. 50 countries voted in favor of China's policies and 22 voted against.

On 2019 October 29, at the 74th session of the UN General Assembly, 24 countries and the EU criticized China and 57 countries supported China

A great wiki piece, though obviously biased(as any piece of information is, no matter how much they say ):https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Xinjiang_Vocational_Education_and_Training_Centers

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Yeah that's the unsupported US state dept propaganda I was mainly talking about.

We know what genocide in the 21st century under an authoritarian regime that has complete and total control over the flow of information looks like, thanks to Israel. The Palestinian genocide is the most well documented genocide in history, despite Israel entirely controlling the access to technology, press, and internet, with a tighter grip than China.

Uighurs aren't under going a genocide. You can visit Xinjiang right now, without a tour guide. You can bring whatever tech you want and post whatever you want.

Was China harsh in their initial crackdown of allegedly radicalized elements among the poverty stricken population 20 years ago when 9/11 was still fresh in everyone's minds and the US government was invading a half dozen countries causing terror groups to flee to other countries and start cells there? Sure.

But fewer people of uighur descent were killed or imprisoned over the last 50 years in China, per capita or by total number, than black people were by the us last year.

If that's the basis for genocide, then boyo every country on the planet has committed genocide and is committing genocide.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

But fewer people of uighur descent were killed or imprisoned over the last 50 years in China, per capita or by total number, than black people were by the us last year.

Well, yeah, because the US has been waging a genocide since its founding.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Intentionally misdefining the word genocide doesnt make you right tho

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

What part of uighur culture was erased, exactly, by funding schools, arresting foreign violent religious extremists, and building affordable housing?

Are you saying uighurs are all violent, uneducated, homeless people and should remain that way due to their culture?

Just a reminder before you do the next state dept line, there are more mosques in every major Chinese city than there are in the state of New York.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

With a pic of winnie the pooh himself in every one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You know you can go to China yourself and verify that's false.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

No thanks, i dont go to countries that dont allow gay marriage. Thats regressive as fuck. I wouldnt feel safe to be myself there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You can get married to whomever you like in China, you just don't get the tax break. And yeah, that sucks they're a decade behind the US on that one subject, tax breaks for gay couples, while being a century ahead in other subjects.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 week ago

I dont feel safe in a country that treats me like a second class citizen. Aside from the fact that non citizens dont have the same protections non citizens do in the us.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

lemmy.world is perpetuating a genocide against our braincell population