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[–] [email protected] 1 points 59 minutes ago

They don't. Lines they claimed to have last year have been erased and moved further out. They'll keep moving them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Lmao this is cute.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Huh? That other person seems calm and respectful too. What do you mean?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

What will that do and how will it help all of the people in her same position?

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

Where are they being detained and tortured again?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

Saw an article today about a French scientist who was denied entry to the US after their phone was searched and texts critical of Trump were found.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 hour ago

You're getting downvoted but it's important that we remember this. She's hot, she's white, she's an actress. She said herself she thinks it's thanks to her friends and family working with the media that she got released at all. I bet she'd agree with you that being white played into her favor here.

Think about all the people who don't have those types of resources or public empathy points. We have no idea who is actually locked up right now or what will happen to them.

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

Yes, they have that "social conservativism" that has become the shared obsession of the American right thanks to Russia's brilliant disinfo and behavioral modification campaign.

I just meant that, economically, they do not share American conservative values. For example, the typical poor Russian can't just work their way up the social ladder, start their own business, hit it big, own a bunch of property, etc. You must be born into it, full stop. This is the piece that American conservatives fail to understand in their Russian aspirations, and why, at the end of the day, they really do not want to be Russian despite what they've been brainwashed to believe.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Under the current administration we indeed aspire to be more like Russia and are succeeding.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

That's really interesting. Are the people/entities who own individual servers (or even certain servers) known to the general public? I love the idea of social media not being centralized in the hands of billionaires, but I worry about trusting all of the same information to someone whose identity I don't know at all. Flip a coin, they're probably Russian or Chinese.

Basically I'm just asking about how/why we trust the owners of these servers. I still have a lot to learn about this technology.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

You have a lot of catching up to do. Good luck.

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