Remember kids, when brown people do something bad, it’s terrorism. When white people starve an entire population after a failed occupation, that’s just because we are very concerned about misogyny. Now, starving an entire country en masse has (to my knowledge) never caused a government to be overthrown, and in this case has no chance of improving the treatment of women in the country. Nor have women in Afghanistan ever asked for sanctions, nor do they support them now that they are in place. But don’t let that fool you in to thinking we’re doing it for any reason other than to help women in Afghanistan.

Before you respond, please take a look at my post and notice I said _nothing positive about the Taliban _. This is about the disingenuous use of women’s rights to excuse and even celebrate mass starvation.

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We downvote conservative propaganda here, enjoy

Trump voters are the victim of a con, but the con is bigger than Trump. Conservatism in general is a con that needs misinformation networks like talk radio, fox news, facebook groups, etc. Without having been steeped in that bullshit for 40+ years, Trump would never have succeeded. It’s the whole ecosystem that’s doing the radicalization, not just Trump.

When the Trump fever finally breaks

Oh you sweet, beautiful child. Never change.

expect the backlash to be swift and bloody

I do. I just think you and I have different ideas of who the target will be.

Keto-mojo asked for their address and phone number, so they said they were homeless and lost their phone, and it worked

The gadsden flag but the snake is being tread on and says “one day I’ll own this boot”

No it isn’t

You’re right, the current situation is bad because poor and stupid people had too many babies.

But also see:

https://piped.video/watch?v=EAogtqyN22M

I avoid gas stations that have ads. There’s a chain where I live that doesn’t do them, so they get all my business.

I completely agree with his points but enshittification is such a cringey word

Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Those who do learn from history are doomed to watch as those who did not learn repeat it.

Technology and policy matter. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/21/world/europe/facebook-refugee-attacks-germany.html

Here are some similar aphorisms:

• It is what it is.
• Patience is a virtue.
• Success breeds success.
• You must be a friend to get a friend.
• Life isn’t fair.

Statements like these are truisms. They are widely accepted and often broad enough that they can easily be turned against their intended purpose. For instance, you could use “no labels” to say that people shouldn’t be racist. But you can also use it when people are pointing out or trying to correct racism, because correcting racism necessarily involves pointing out the racializing labels that are applied to people. They can also be used by dominant groups to say “don’t label me as a member of the dominant group” in order to mask the material benefits they are receiving as members of said group.

As someone from the US, a hearty thank you to Europeans. Not all of these will directly benefit me, but some of it will. Also, Apple has to be so fucking mad that they can’t keep their app store monopoly, even if just in Europe.

Imagine thinking that any for-profit company built on VC funding won’t end up data mining.

Here, I drew the word “Just” in this post

[Caption for the visually impaired: “Atlas holding up the celestial globe” by Guercino]

Ok, but we all should admit: .net is a terrible name.

IMO the best way to ensure that traffic always goes through a VPN is to use network namespaces. The wireguard website has an article describing the process. In a nutshell, you create a dedicated namespace to put the physical interface in, create the wireguard interface in that namespace, then move the wireguard interface to the root (“normal”) namespace. That way the only way to get traffic out without the VPN is to run a program in that dedicated namespace.