exactly 😭

Just having a sarcastic rant :D I like Mastodon but have trouble convincing my friends to join even though I think it aligns with their principles

I can’t wait to tell my fellow radical leftist friends about this amazing move that aligns with socialist and anarchist principles! Really looking forward to them coming up with excuses to keep using X and not even create an account on the mastodon instance I host for us! /s

How many hospitals are even left

How are you running your script?

(I have no idea how to solve your issue I’m just asking questions to sound smart and helpful)

What’s the deal with quotes around Israel im headlines? I see that here all the time

Yep also doing rust! I forgot to do the one for today woops.

Got my solutions at https://codeberg.org/PotatoesFall/aoc2024

I think their point is that the sudden peak in the graph a few days ago was not the beginning of a much bigger increase

I’m something of a gopher myself you know

what is the rust one again. It looks so familiar but eludes me

edit: it’s nodejs

whether we take the censorship to be benevolent,

I do not take censorship to be benevolent. Fuck censorship

alright sorry for leaving you hanging, I got some time gonna answer now.

you’re the one complaining about the article you have to find a point that was made in the article that you disagree with

That’s fair. Although I’m not really disagreeing with the content of the article. For one, it makes many claims itself that are not substantiated.

And yet, despite constant blabbering about “freedom and democracy”, there’s (un)surprisingly little actual freedom in the belligerent power pole.

Agreed, but there’s no example. This is just narrative.

Worse yet, if new laws in the United States and European Union are anything to go by, there’s going to be less of it than ever before

Agreed, but again it’s just narrative no examples. I can think for myself, I’d like to know why this is the case.

I could keep going but this goes for both of the first paragraph. Every sentence is loaded with narrative, while depriving me of any actual information.

Then it gets juicy.

Back in 2020, the near-universal crackdown on actual free media

Back in 2020, covid caused a shock to the global population, making them susceptible. Fake news and medical misinformation ran rampant, and there was an outcry against it, as conspiracy-crap isolated people even more. Russian state-sponsored propaganda quickly picked up on this, and capitalized on fear and shock in order to lure people into their propaganda. I investigated some of the “news outlets” spreading medical misinformation back then, and the articles were just like this one. All narrative, very little actual information. Just enough to confirm peoples beliefs and then a little more to influence them. Drago is basically admitting he was part of that.

Maybe it’s not about covid, maybe it’s about something else. Anyway Drago makes no attempt to tell us what his great journalism was about.

Then the article finally has some proper information about WikiLeaks being under attack. No complaints here

Uncomfortable truths, otherwise known as “evil Russian disinformation”,

for real? wow. Once again not a single bit of information. Which truths? What is the great journalistic effort that Drago seems to want my recognition for?

Thousands of British citizens are arrested every year for social media posts.

The source for this is… a twitter post? really? I’m not saying it’s not true I’m saying this article is not journalism. It’s an essay at best, and a shit one at that.

In the meantime, “evil” Russia allows actual free speech to journalists from countries that banned virtually all Russian media.

And the source for this is… links to Telegram channels? lmao

The case of Tucker Carlson

Another reminder that this is a far-right propaganda author. Tucker Carlson is a white supremacist piece of shit and his intentions were clear.

“Russian disinformation” (i.e. the truth)

come on you have to admit this is hilarious.

Basically, the information conveyed in this article is next to none. There is only narrative. The article barely provides no evidence for its own narrative, and then you expect me to bring evidence to refute the narrative. I’m not here to do the authors job for him lol.

I’m not even trying to refute the article. Like I’ve said many times now and you fail to understand, I don’t disagree with the opinion that censorship is becoming a bigger problem in the West. But the article isn’t trying to inform you. The article is trying to manipulate your opinion.

TIL go is an interpreted language and runs straight from source code!

ah right thanks. potato potato not like either phrase is true lol

worlds most ethical army

I can handle nonsense but please don’t call me a liberal.

Can you point to the part you want me to engage with? Half your comments are you fantasizing about me so I’m not sure what you’re even trying to tell me.

I didn’t need to put this into anything because the writing style tells me everything I need to know. Highly opinionated. Essays posing as news. Opinion underlaid with paper-thin “arguments”. It’s the same that was around during covid spreading misinformation about vaccines and masks. The disinformation itself is not the goal. The goal is to capitalize on people’s fear and isolate them. Make them easy to manipulate later on.

It’s not a new strategy either. Fear and hate have always been tools in the hands of the powerful. If you think the West has a monopoly on that, you’re sorely mistaken.

Fuck Westerm hegemony and capitalism, sure. But also fuck Putin. Fuck all oligarchs.

What the fuck are you even talking about? I’ve said nothing about Ukraine. Do you call everyone who disagrees with you a liberal? That is a rude insult to sling around in these parts.

Your post got rained in downvotes despite being posted on lemmy.ml. Clearly I’m not the only one who can tell this is trash

No, I mean the Naomi Klein that voices pro-palestinian opinions in the book. Here’s a highly israel-critical interview.

This is what I mean. Blind dogma and hatred will make you turn against those who should be your allies.