The D Quuuuuill

There’s also some questions about when Peter Thiel’s influence over him began

that’s a significant point and ties into my point about my GRF being build around a logical fallacy about modern warfare. not only is the american military a huge slush fund, it’s built around assumptions that may simply not make sense anymore. who knows what the future holds, but things are about to get weird. i have hope that enough of us who believe in a peaceful and just world will be able to harness the power of the people to forge a better world than the one we currently live in

For that reason I go by naval deckspace since military history is basically the history of who’s the best at building boats. If we go by military expenditure, we would assume that America’s military is 4x more powerful than the next most powerful military (China). If we go by deckspace, however, America and China are peers in military power. It gets even more complicated when you take into consideration that America’s latest weapons platforms (The F-35 and the Gerald R Ford class carriers) are designed around logical fallacies, and you have a situation where the world’s seas are patrolled by a paper tiger.

Add to this that American military doctrine is built entirely around either facing a peer nation like Russia or China or a non-peer colony like Nicaragua, and that the military is suddenly sizing up near-peer nations like Iran, and things could be about to get very spicy fast.

Here are some things people outside of the United States that people can advocate for to reduce America’s military influence:

• Take to the streets and demand your governments divest themselves of the American Military Industrial Complex. F-35 diplomacy is America’s strongest ties to other nations
• Get a movement going to teach your youths not to fight. Here in the states conscription is spinning up because no one is coming willingly to the recruitment centers anymore. More and more people are seeing the US military for what it really is, a giant slush fund and exploitation scheme. This is a new wrinkle I’ve never seen before in my life.
• Have some grace for the people who fell for the propaganda schemes of the last 40-80 years that convinced them military service was about keeping nations safe and not about the continued rape of the global south
• Create mutual aid projects that help people from being so desperately poor that they feel military service is the only way for them to eat. The strength of the labor movement has always been our ability to feed the people, and when we’ve failed it’s always been because people were too hungry to see that we wanted what they wanted: peace, dignity, and a life worth living

if you’re looking for something else to recommend people, i’d point you to Verity Vox and the Curse of Foxfire

Marxist-Leninist are the most active IRL leftists. i know this to be true because they’re always saying that. i find this to be odd given that all the IRL leftists i’ve ever known are anarchists or Trotskyists. the MLs i only ever meet online tell me this is because all the leftists i’ve ever known have been feds. i’ve always found this odd, too, since the only ML i ever knew in real life was an IRS agent who turned Trotskyist after her brother was killed by a soviet agent. the MLs i only ever meet online tell me this is because i’m a fed. i find this odd, too, since so many of my friends are in hiding, in jail, or out on bail awaiting trial and i’m powerless to use any of my fed connections to do anything about this. i wish i knew what we were ivestigating. until i find out i suppose i’ll keep working to build a better world where i am however i can

don’t make me tap the sign

bolshevism is not communism

you’re focusing on a single form of government and saying it’s the only way communism could exist when a lot of scholars can’t even agree on if it should exist within the discussion of communism or if it should just be considered socialism, or if its coalescion of authority was extensive enough to just be another example of another capitalist society.

if you disagree with the Read More Theory club, that means you’ve read either too much, or too little theory. Please read this poorly sourced blog about how all anarchists are feds, and then this overt right wing fascist propaganda about how the global south would benefit from more russian paramilitary groups, actually

and on some level it’s important for good opsec that things that don’t require opsec be done with good opsec

if your whole phone is encrypted this likely doesn’t apply to you so long as you have a strong passpharse (6 characters or more) and a good data shredding policy (shred after 5 wrong guesses)

however, that is not most people

as far as i know signal uses Google’s notification service and if you want it to not you need to use Molly

there’s a lot of things under fascism that shouldn’t be needed

here on lemmy we interpret obvious sarcasm as sincerity

absolutely. you need to own the infrastructure of the network

when authoritarians fight, the people lose

ITT: people posting on the internet about something they found out about from the internet saying that an authoritarian regime shutting down the internet because the people under that regime were using it to coordinate resistance efforts is not so bad

sorry, i’d take y’all a lot more seriously if you were having that conversation over ham radio

hybrid warfare baybee! the northern empires are real good at it! it’s just mass media manipulation from the 1930s only this time again

“i gave weapons to people desperately fighting for survival to give to people desperately fighting for survival. when the didn’t enact my vision, i threw a tantrum”

what a fuckin’ loser

i’m interested in this. as a southerner, i offer everyone water when they arrive at my house because water is a basic human need and most people won’t ask for it when they need it because it can be a struggle to get it and they don’t want to put me out. it’s just like… a little showing of mutual respect and love for our shared struggle that takes not much to offer. if we’re eating, i’ll offer you food to.

if i don’t offer you water i’m communicating in the southern way that you are not welcome and your presence in my household has been imposed on me. i go by the standard Nikki Giovanni taught me: everyone gets fed, racists can fetch their own water.

but i acknowlege this is likely a cultural difference. my wife hates this pattern of showing solidarity and finds it confusing. so like… how do you and your people demonstrate that someone is welcome in your space?

yes but Linux Mint XFCE doesn’t use all the heavy weight sytems that mean Ubuntu desktop needs 6 GB ram. for that matter, Xubuntu will, too, but fuck canonical.

however, as much as i loathe canonical i’m not gonna attract people to more secure from bullshit solutions if i’m net willing to meet them where they are. i’d rather we all be on debian however if even i can’t get my laptop to work properly with it, i’m gonna direct some people to mint just to get them a little farther afield.

or if you can’t get that to go (i had some hardware support issues) look to MX Linux or Linux Mint XFCE