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Melvin_Ferd

@ Melvin_Ferd @lemmy.world

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  • We beat 'em before

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  • Fuck moderation. Moderation is a big part of how we got here.

    They boxed people into sanitized communities. Look at the biggest groups here or on reddit. It's usually only headlines. Very little discussion. No interpretation. Mods removed anyone they felt were 'trolls' it left only homogeneous spaces. No insight. Just people all agreeing with each other saying like 10 phrases over and over again.

    Moderators, especially in left-leaning spaces, have turned disagreement into a bannable offense. If you do not perfectly align, you are out. Moderators enforce purity.

    I posted a clip recently of an agitator burning a flag at a protest and then running away. It had hundreds of upvotes. A mod deleted it and said it was because they did not like it. That is not moderation. That is controlling what people are allowed to see.

    People keep pretending the real fight is in the streets. It is not. If powerful institutions did not believe online spaces mattered, they would not spend billions shaping them. They understand the battleground. For some reason the leftist haven't figured it out.

    We need to go back to basics. Moderation should be minimal. Mods should handle illegal or truly extreme content and nothing else. Everything else should be decided by the community. That is why upvotes and downvotes exist. Why was that forgotten

  • Sadly accurate

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  • Yea i saw the same about elections too. I try to tell people I'm with that if you pay attention to current events it's just icky. Life is much better even you don't bother to stay present and aware or bother voting. Let every one else worry about democratic participation. Someone else will do it. Worry about yourself. Self care is important

  • Sadly accurate

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  • I agree, don't bother. Not really much we can do. It's not like we can do what the right wing did with covid. Or what they did with the border wall. Or what they did with podcast. Or what they did with comedy. Or what they did with left wing voice. Or what they did with Venezuela, twice. We can't do any thing. Don't over do it delete most of your accounts online. Or at least don't ever comment on anything or create any content. Just draw everything you want to say on a piece of cardboard and go stand on 24th and Bloomington with it and then thar will change minds

  • We beat 'em before

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  • Everybody's grandmother, aunt, uncle, sister, brother is there. The people who are apolitical but who are swing voters needed to actually control and change things. Everyone except the left. They're in a street somewhere again while the right wing uses Facebook to convince the public these protestors are criminals or some shit. See that's what happens when you ignore critical steps

  • The #1 Programmer Excuse for Legitimately Slacking Off (2026 Edition)

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  • Use both at the same time. It's a fun party trick

  • The #1 Programmer Excuse for Legitimately Slacking Off (2026 Edition)

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  • Good thing about ai is it's never down. Code much better with it than stackbullshit

  • We beat 'em before

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  • But you are the media in this world. Everybody here is generating media everyday. Traditional media was replaced with Facebook and Twitter and reddit. How many leftist removed themselves from there? Is it any surprise that the whole world seems like it's using right wing talking points anymore. The left fucked themselves and most still don't get what has happened here

  • We beat 'em before

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  • Anybody still on Facebook

  • Machado presented Trump with her Nobel award at White House meeting

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  • What does président Stephen Miller think about that. Trump isn't the president

  • At this point, what should we do about the ICE raids? If an ICE agent breaks in without a warrant or holds you at gunpoint, what do you do?

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  • 'Don't reinvent the wheel'

    Wait, this is horrible advice. It's the opposite of what any successful entity does. The wheel here is a problem that the authoritarians have solved long ago. If you're not reinventing it then you're cooked before you even go to the store to buy your markers and bullshit cardboard supplies. They have studied the same old civil protests for decades. They have made laws to prevent protestors from being effective. They have decades of behavioral studies and actionable propaganda that they pull out and dust off every time you even think about sharing one of those 'no kings' or 'general strike' posts. Any protest you can imagine they have solved. If you don't reinvent the wheel, you're going to look fucking stupid when you show up with another 700m people and go home having accomplished nothing except get your leadership and organizers arrested.

    That wheel needs to be reinvented. Look at the truck convoy. Hate them all you want but they did something brilliant. It was brilliant because at their top they had people who studied and knew police and authoritarian response and they found solutions to break them. After all, they were the authoritarians. They first drove through the streets across America to build awareness and hype. It's a fucking parade. People came out and cheered on over passes as they rolled through. Others joined. Then they filled cities with so many vehicles and trucks that the police had no idea how to even responsed. How do police safely weave themselves into that formation to make arrests. Then what do they do with the trucks just sitting there? The truckers made it a street party to prevent police from committing violence. They invited families down to enjoy music and hot tubs while also shutting down major parts of cities everywhere neutralizing police ability to do their job.

    The left do not have the same effort at the top. It's lacking. But they need to figure it out super fast because I promise you if you're just showing up to the streets with the same old shit then you've already lost. That wheel needs to be reinvented quick

  • At this point, what should we do about the ICE raids? If an ICE agent breaks in without a warrant or holds you at gunpoint, what do you do?

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  • Laws specifically targeting disarming leftist

  • At this point, what should we do about the ICE raids? If an ICE agent breaks in without a warrant or holds you at gunpoint, what do you do?

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  • The clownvoy showed up with enough big trucks that the police could not fight out how to handle them. They also invited people to come hang out so police couldn't just tear gas and beat skulls in. The left are still protesting in ways that they protested 70 years ago. The police and military have literal books and charts to deal with it. Unless these protest evolve, they're really not doing back shit

  • At this point, what should we do about the ICE raids? If an ICE agent breaks in without a warrant or holds you at gunpoint, what do you do?

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  • Would be incredible to see protest where they show up to any ice presence fully armed. Still act as observes but also to ensure ice doesn't execute anymore Americans

  • Oh yes

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  • No, they lasted. I hate this mentality that these women were chained to their man. There was bad ones but so many were great marriages and you saw it in their old age. They all weathered a lot of history together and grew from it

  • What a great idea

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  • Skiddly woop wopp

  • Definitely the safest source for advice

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  • I just said the most common sense thing and you don't like that. In all these stories they should include the chat history. You sound like a MAGA here for a reason. You should explore what causes MAGA to make similar arguments

  • Definitely the safest source for advice

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  • My point is I don't buy into any of it unless they release the entire chat history vs sniping snippets

  • Self-host Reddit – 2.38B posts, works offline, yours forever

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  • You're awesome. AI is fun and there's nothing wrong with using it especially how you did. Lemmy was hit hard with AI hate propaganda. China probably trying to stop it's growth and development in other countries or some stupid shit like that. But you're good. Fuck them

  • Self-host Reddit – 2.38B posts, works offline, yours forever

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  • I fucking hate lemmy sometimes.