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  • Beware: Government Using Image Manipulation for Propaganda

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  • I didn't actually see it myself, but I heard a lot of people thought it looked AI at first and that it was genuine (alternate angles and stuff like you said). It's good to check up on it (sounds like you actually put the effort in) so we can try to keep our facts straight, as hard as that is these days.

  • Creative accounting

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  • Epstein has always had close ties to MIT and there was a big scandal about them accepting donations.

    It's also been own for several years that Chomsky stayed at Epstein's Paris home at least once, and publicly apologized for his association with Epstein iirc.

  • Mexico Defends Cuba Oil Shipments as Humanitarian Aid

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  • Do we know anything about why there was an announcement and then a reversal and everything?

  • At least we're not tankies

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  • I sort of agree with you but if liberals acknowledged and understood class alignment, they wouldn't be liberals. I do think that the "opportunity for education" approach is more effective than outright hostility.

    I find that online interactions about complicated topics can be quite frustrating, since snark and "dunking" trend to prevail. This is driven by corporate social media and spills over into other online interactions.

  • Los Angeles aims to ban single-use printer cartridges — new ordinance will target ink and toner that can't be properly recycled

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  • Just FYI to people that you can get remanufactured ink cartridges for a fraction of the price (around half) of OEM. They are sometimes modified to contain more ink in the same body. The company I purchased from included a prepaid bag to send used cartridges back for reuse.

    Also while I'm in PSA mode "REDUCE, REUSE, and then recycle". Sometimes we skip over the first two steps since reducing is not marketable and reusing rarely is (although reusing printer cartridges appears to be a sustainable business).

  • Beware: Government Using Image Manipulation for Propaganda

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  • I think that video was confirmed

  • let's hope

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    • Haiti
    • Vietnam
    • Ghana
    • Bolivia
    • Fiji

    "Acknowledge and move on" is an extremely bad take if you know the facts about the genocide of American Indians (and Canadian First Nations) and how it is essentially ongoing in 2026. "Dark past" is not an accurate view of the situation. It is also unique to being a settler-colonial project, not something that is common to all countries.

    It leads to an extremely unstable state as we can see from the three most recent presidential elections. The state wants to colonize itself because it ran out of other countries to exploit. That's what fascism is (ice raids and shit being a prominent symptom).

  • Minnesota State Legislature Special Election Results 2026

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  • The entire concept of "for-profit news" is a conflict of interest.

  • let's hope

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  • The founding ideal of the United States is unlimited "westward expansion" (complete exploitation of the land and the genocide of indigenous people). The United States has been incredibly effective at achieving this. This is not a fringe interpretation of history, it is relayed in the first episode of the PBS Revolutionary War documentary that came out last year.

    "Freedom, equality, and liberty" or whatever may be your values, but in practice they never were intended for people who weren't part of the white, christian, landowning male class who founded the United States.

  • They're trying to take our guns!

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  • One of the main purposes (arguably the primary purpose?) of the "well regulated militia" was to ensure that settlers could attack and exterminate American Indian tribes during westward expansion.

  • TikTok users in the US can’t write ‘Epstein’ or see anti-Trump videos

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  • It isn't though. "Propaganda" has fluid definition, so I was hoping to get on the same page so we could continue the discussion. It's always helpful to clarify terms before we just talk past each other.

    I'm familiar with the comic, but it doesn't represent the situation here at all. Is asking any sort of clarifying question to someone who is directly in my replies "sealioning" to you? I thought it represented an undesired and obnoxious series of questions by a third party, but I'm one of the primary participants in this conversation.

  • TikTok users in the US can’t write ‘Epstein’ or see anti-Trump videos

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  • First part may be true, but I really don't think you can directly blame China for that. The app itself is a tiny factor is the rise of the far right which has a lot more to do with the "in real life circumstances".

    I would also disagree that China gains much from a divided Europe. The argument could be made in theory, but it doesn't align with what i've observed From Chinese foreign policy in practice.

    The approach of amplifying divisions in other countries is more of a Russian tactic than anything. Russia stands to gain more from a divided Europe, and it would be in alignment with their foreign policy in practice. That said, I also think the Russian influence on these matters is a bit overstated at times, to the point where the actually issues aren't being discussed. I notice it on the American side of things as well.

  • TikTok users in the US can’t write ‘Epstein’ or see anti-Trump videos

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  • I guess it might help if you clarify what sort of content was propaganda to you?

  • ICE agents to help with US security operations at Winter Olympics in Italy

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  • They're dabbing on us every day

    "Yeah the "immigration enforcement" is blatantly my personal militia, it doesn't have to male sense to you, you can't do anything about it anyway. Watch me send them to Italy; see? it doesn't matter!"

  • TikTok users in the US can’t write ‘Epstein’ or see anti-Trump videos

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  • Yes, they literally explicitly said this. There also wasnt even "Chinese propaganda", the just didn't care to censor pro-palestine content and that's unacceptable to the US.

  • [no politics] You have been given the chance to make a short PSA broadcasted to your entire community, or region, or country. What problem will you fix?

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  • Technically all of these responses are political. I think we know what OP meant though, and the discussion is all the better for it!

  • Messaging apps - XMPP vs Matrix vs ???

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  • Nobody has mentioned mattermost yet. I haven't stress tested it by any means, but I found it too be decent.

  • Is there a way to add other "Local" instances?

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  • I see, unfortunately I think it's necessary though since the local feed is provided by the instance.

  • Is there a way to add other "Local" instances?

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  • The post feeds are delivered server side, but Voyager supports multiple accounts if you want to tap over and see posts from another instance's local feed?

  • United States | News & Politics @lemmy.ml
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    Minneapolis mayor: ‘I don’t support abolishing ICE’

    thehill.com /homenews/state-watch/5689661-minneapolis-mayor-frey-ice/
  • Portland @lemmy.ml
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    Three City Councillors to travel to Vienna to learn about their successful and renowned social housing program

    www.oregonlive.com /business/2025/08/portland-city-councilors-will-travel-to-austria-for-housing-junket.html
  • Portland @lemmy.ml
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    How Portland’s ‘ghost mall’ [Lloyd Center] became the city’s coolest startup incubator

    www.oregonlive.com /retail/2025/07/how-portlands-ghost-mall-became-the-citys-coolest-startup-incubator.html
  • Science @lemmy.ml
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    Lake Tahoe In Depth (2025)

  • World News @lemmy.ml
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    Sunken boat killing hundreds overshadowed by Titan submersible coverage

    www.nbcnews.com /news/rcna90336