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Why the fuck not?

GNU. Just GNU; IDGAF which kernel it is (as long as it’s copyleft and supports my hardware).

I really meant it in an antimeme/literal/sincere sort of way, but was too lazy to remove the top and bottom frames.

Virtual Felinity

Why would they need to blackmail ideological fellow travelers?

What do you mean, “illegal?” If the phone user consents to turning it on, that makes it legal.

I hate to defend Google, but I will absolutely defend single-party consent for recording. Don’t like it? Don’t fucking call me in the first place. It absolutely grinds my gears when shitty software (including from Google) plays an obnoxious warning message when I want to record a call, even though I have the right to do so without warning.

I’m really not sure what point you think you’re making. Of course they’re all reading from the same script; that’s obvious! In fact, my point was that right-wing propagandists have the power to write the script and force it to be read, while left-wing people don’t because they don’t own a fuckton of TV stations.

I feel like you’re being intentionally obtuse. Stop it.

Meanwhile, I’m married and can’t be bothered to change anything in my Kubuntu UI from the defaults. I wonder if there’s a correlation, LOL

That first one, anyone can do.

Really? Anyone can order local TV news stations across the country to read scripted propaganda of their choosing? You’re just going to straight-up deny Sinclair Broadcast Group’s unbalanced political power exists?

Really? Okay then, how do I do this myself? Or how do I do this myself? Or how do I do this myself?

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I can’t claim that one because people were hating him before I was born.

But this was supposed to be a thread about getting banned from fun places, though.

I want them to synchronize my watch history so that each one doesn’t keep listing the videos I already watched in the other.

The Internet is a massive force multiplier. This is why groups like the heritage foundation works to research how best to utilize it. They don’t focus their people on public protests or half the shit the left does.

That’s my point: the left doesn’t have the equivalent of groups like the Heritage Foundation to figure out how to do that force multiplication. It takes resources to do that, and the only people supplying the resources are doing so in service of capital, not against it.

Just think for a minute how many people have shown up to protests across the country for the past 10 years. Think of what they could accomplish if they instead created content like this.

A protestor and a trained think-tank analyist who does propaganda as their full-time job are not interchangable. You can’t just tell protestors to create content like the right-wing bot farmers instead; they don’t have the skillset for it. They also don’t control the platforms like Murdoch, Zuckerberg and Musk do, for that matter. There are many, many strategies that make right-wing propaganda so effective that left-wingers simply cannot replicate without a fuckton of money, no matter how much unskilled volunteer labor they have.

No it isn’t their full time job.

So you’re saying the staff at orgs like the Heritage Foundation aren’t getting paid? Where’s their $108 million in expenses (according to Wikipedia) going, then?

You keep making bullshit blanket statements. You need to understand that not all compromises are the same – what you compromise on and why matters. AOC was not ever going to get the party to budge on Zionism, so what’s the fucking point of destroying her credibility and effectiveness on other issues by tilting at windmills?

Speaking of which, you have no credibility and I don’t give a fuck about anything you have to say. Go away.

if AOC acts like that, how is she ethically any different from the likes of Pelosi?

If you’re too fucking stupid to understand things like compromise and strategic voting, that’s nobody’s problem but your own.

Take a really hard look at yourself

You need to take your own fucking advice and quit being a condescending dipshit.