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DomeGuy

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  • Coordinated Pro-Russian Propaganda Network Targeting ActivityPub and ATProto Services

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  • True enough. But even a tyrannical government at least has a presumable intent of working for the betterment of its country. (Albeit through wrongheaded and small-minded means )

    A.foreijgn power, especially a historical adversary and bad actor, is instead presumably working to harm or diminish us.

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  • You presented it as proof that Russia is supporting misinformation on the left. To be that, it has to both include all three parts of the claim -- that there is disinformation on the left, that Russia is covertly supporting disinformation, and that some of the disinformation on the left was supported by Russia.

    If your wife sleeps around, and I engage in casual sex, it does not necessarily follow that I slept with your wife.

    A common suspicion in America is that Vladimir Putin believes that Trump as POTUS is good for Russia, and that Putin interferes with US politics with a specific goal of helping Trump.

    If you have some reporting that directly links Russia to left-wing disinformation I'd love to read it. But the BBC article I read after following your link didn't have any such link.

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  • Your article doesn't seem to mention Russia once.

    Rumors and smears are part of free speech. To the extent that right-wing trolls and their audience are actual voters, it's essentially just a coarse form of ordinary political speech.

    The extent to which a foreign government acting coverly is either creating or artificially boosting such content is scandalous.

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    The age of adulthood should be 21 and the age of consent should be 21 across the world

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  • 25 is the age that some dude studying brains stopped looking, since it gets really hard to find study participants who are 7 years past freshmen in a university who's longest tract is a 4 year undergraduate followed by a 3 year graduate.

  • With AI being what it is, how long do you think before digital media is no longer admissible in court?

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  • Tech folk seem to not realize that "this image could have been faked!" has been a problem since the very first photographs.

    Every step in evidence collection literally served to put someone's name on it, so those people can go before a jury and say "yeah, that's the stick i used to get the video from their security system"

    They're rarely called,.AFAIK, mostly because "that video must be faked" needs some corroborating evidence to be plausible. And for that matter, so does "this video shows him robbing my store!"

  • homeovestism - is it a thing? Preferred nomenclature? Respectfully correct?

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  • Follow up thought after dinner: AGP is also auto-misandry and a strong example of toxic masculinity.

    For those not familiar with the term, it's the idea that all trans men are only trans men because they think themselves sexually appealing as women. Which is fairly strongly disproven by "cis women feel that way, too", but also exposes a wretched opinion about cis men.

    We're SUPPOSED to think that we're sexually attractive. If we want to get laid that means we need to find someone who finds us attractive, and that's damn hard when we can't even think of ourselves as sexy.

  • homeovestism - is it a thing? Preferred nomenclature? Respectfully correct?

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  • "Unsettled science" is putting it far to charitably. From the second paragraph of that wikipedia article:

    Scientific criticisms commonly made against Blanchard's research include that the typology is unfalsifiable because Blanchard and other supporters regularly dismiss or ignore data that challenges the theory

    You could keep reading that Wikipedia article down to its sections on "Transfeminist critique", "Transgender men", and "Societal impact." I also recommend reading what Julia Serano wrote on the topic. (Which I find it to be a strong case that AGP is just bad science.) https://juliaserano.medium.com/making-sense-of-autogynephilia-debates-73d9051e88d3

    Or, to be brief: AGP is transphobic because it reduces transgenderism to a sexual fetish. There are non-transgender cross-dressers and transgender men and women who are asexual or demisexual, not to mention thousands of definitely-transgender children who haven't had a sexual thought in their lives.

  • What is something you said in school that you didn't realise was embarrassing / inappropriate until later or later in life?

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  • Kindergartners are definitely old enough to understand "no touching without permission" and "no touching in the underwear zone period."

    When my kids were.tiny, we decided our bodily autonomy rule would be phrased as "the only times you're allowed to touch someone else are in an emergency and with their permission."

    FWIW. I certainly grew up in an era where some adults didn't even grasp "no means no "

  • Delusions of a Protocol

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  • Godwin himself pointed out that his law doesnt apply when discussing actual fascists.

  • Delusions of a Protocol

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  • By "association rights" I infer that you mean the right of free association.

    If so, can you be a little bit more specific as to whose "association rights", specifically, are a more important issue than the right of trans folk to get healthcare, be free from discrimination, and be able to play sports without being harassed?

    My inclination is that the most important targets to defend against facist oppression are the ones being targeted, which does suggest one plausible answer, but I really do want to know what you meant in your post.

  • Delusions of a Protocol

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  • Please tell.me that you have better sources in the UK than I, and that their recent transphobic swing didn't make trans care harder to get and keep.

  • Mr. Pope

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  • Holy fuck, thats even worse that I imagined. Most places I'd seen that just cropped to just the first line of the reply, delightfully skipping all of the "sin of empathy" heresy.

    As depicted in the gospels, when Jesus was asked what the most important part of the law was our Lord And Savior literally said "love.".

    https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark+12%3A30-31&version=NIV

  • Delusions of a Protocol

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  • There is a bunch of normalized transphobia in America. That certain views are shared by elected politicians doesn't make them not transphobic.

    "Trans allies aren't even bothering to debate this white guy, they're just calling him names" isn't proof of anything more than the frustration of said allies. It's essentially the same thing as "Trump derangement syndrome".

    If we want to argue that someone is or isn't transphobic, it would be a better use of everyone's time to focus on what they actually said and what justifications their critics give for applying that label.

  • homeovestism - is it a thing? Preferred nomenclature? Respectfully correct?

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  • Stay positive

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  • At least one interoperable PDS has come online, and the network later folks seem entirely aware of the single point of failure that their "firehouse" model suffers from. More importantly, their entire value proposition isnt "were not Twitter", but rather "if we become evil you should be able to pack up and go elsewhere."

    It's fashionable on Lemmy to bash Bsky, but the difference really is comparable to the old GNU Hurd project vs Linux. The two most successful FOSS systems ever (Linux and git) took a sucess-first, share-later model while an opinionated actor in charge. I dont mean to argue that this is philosophically better or appropriate for all projects, just that there's precedent for FOSS starting less open than it eventually becomes.

  • Stay positive

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  • Maybe drop a platform owned by a modern-day facist who keeps using your tweets to train his attempt and cyberdyne?

    Mastodon and BlueSky are right there.

  • Politics in America has always been dirty. How does trump really stack up?

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  • If the Pope was in charge health care would be single-payer, abortion would be emergency-only, and both gay marriage and capital punishment would be illegal.

    I wish I had the faith in human competency that conspiracy theorists demonstrate, but I think the truth is that humans are far stupider than that.

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    Should my character be 21-23?

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  • Character age is a slippery, weird thing that's best to avoid if at all possible.

    Take this summer's Superman as a great counter-example. If it's set in 2025, and the opening crawl is to be trusted, Clark came to earth in 1995 and started superheroing in 2022. He would have been in preschool when 9/11 happened, in high school for the Sandy Hook massacre, and presumably studying in the fortress of solitude during COVID lockdowns....All of which would have distracted from the story.

    In contrast, look at Peter Parker and the Fantastic Four. How much older than Sue is Reed? What year of high school did Spider Man get bit? Heck who's older -- Sue, Johnny, or Peter? None of these are answered in the MCU or consistently in comics, and nobody cares. (And let's not even contemplate the X-Men or Batman and his Robins...)

    So, yeah, a 21 year old superhero dating 30-somethings is fine. But you don't really need to do more than establish that your character is at least 18/21 to lampshade away any squick from your readers.

    TL;DR : Yeah, the age is fine. But you can skip mentioning it at all as a genre staple and nobody will care.

  • Is it racist to oppose illegal immigrants?

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  • YES.

    If you're an American, our entire history of immigration legislation is racism bundled on racism following in the tradition of racism. Were it not for chattel slavery and our betrayal of the native tribes our racist immigration laws would be the most shameful part of our history.

    And if you're not American, your own country's immigration laws are almost certainly based on either racism or "nationalism", with the latter mostly being a holdover from when "French" and "English" were considered different races.

    Unlawful emmigration to a country should be, at worst, a bureaucratic fine and probation. Anything more is simply bigotry in a polite suit.