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[–] PortoPeople@lemm.ee 334 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Trump is a Russian asset and the Kremlin dictates U.S. policy.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 122 points 1 week ago (4 children)

You have been banned from Lemmy.ml

[–] return2ozma@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (6 children)

As a long time poster at all types of Lemmy instances, I still don't get why people don't like lemmy.ml

Can someone ELI5?

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 42 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (11 children)

Hex and grad are tankie instances that are very in your face about it and don't carry the honor of being "the flagship" instance and as a result were easy to widely defederate from which led to most people here not having strong opinions on it

.ml admins are hardcore tankies, but try to maintain .ml as the flagship and thus are more subtle about their tankieness. Instead opting to just censor any dissenting opinions before things get crazy in threads.

As a result many instances are way more hesitant to actually defed from them like they did the rest of the Tankie Triad, thus leading to more widespread visibility and in turn more widespread dissatisfaction of them by most.

Checkout !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works (for those on a .ml account you'll need to use this link because, ironically, .ml admins censor that comm from you: https://lemmy.world/c/meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works ) for documented instances of their behavior

[–] CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee 28 points 1 week ago (2 children)

One example of this is when I called out some Hexbear users for their bullshit propaganda and then when they started brigading against me and making literal death threats, the .ml mod swooped in, deleted my comments, and gave me a temporary ban. The hexbear users comments remained visible including the death threats.

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[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 21 points 1 week ago

It's full of "communists" that blindly excuse every damn thing that states like China and Russia do just because they dress themselves in red, or used to, and oppose everything western in an attempt to be "anti-imperialist", ignoring what Russia is doing to Ukraine at this very moment. Hypocrites and dogmatic ideologues who can't see nuance in anything.

"When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called "the People's Stick". - Mikhail Bakunin

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[–] MeisterLemmpe@lemmynsfw.com 25 points 1 week ago

This was all known before, americans still voted for him. This is what they want...

[–] Tryenjer@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

Krasnov, destroying America from within since 1987, the best accidental investment Putin ever made. Great success, comrades! 👍

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[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 221 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Looks like Russia won the ideological war and will be exporting authoritarianism to the globe.

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 146 points 1 week ago (6 children)

The main thing to remember about authoritarians is that none have ever been documented to be impervious to small pieces of metal moving at high speed.

It's too soon to say conclusively that they all aren't though, additional testing is required.

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Note to self: before becoming dictator, develop natural immunity to small arms fire. Begin with BB gun?

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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 59 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This isn't a nationalist idea .... the oligarchs have won and are exporting authoritarianism to the globe. Most or the majority of people everywhere just want to have a peaceful life whether they are in the US, Russian, China or anywhere on the globe ... it's oligarchs and wealthy morons that think they can manipulate everyone, everywhere all the time and allow them to become rulers of the universe.

[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That is being tested right now.

[–] eran_morad@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

It’s not looking good, bruh.

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 week ago

i'll have you know that social contract that formed in russia after 90s looks just like that: citizens fuck off from politics in return for some prosperity. every time when russian state expected that that won't last due to things like 2008 crisis or covid or what have you, they started a war as a distraction and to rally around the flag some nationalists. now they're on 4th attempt, this one was due to post-covid recession. difference is, this time they were high on their own supply of propaganda and planned accordingly. they also can't back down because they see it as a weakness, and that would mean a coup

[–] floo@retrolemmy.com 18 points 1 week ago
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[–] Teknikal@eviltoast.org 130 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Love the way THE BBC is trying to make signal sound like some hackers playset, really shows how much the UK gov hate encryption or people having any privacy at all.

[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 58 points 1 week ago (9 children)

It also goes to show that Signal may actually be worth its salt in regards to security.

[–] booly@sh.itjust.works 72 points 1 week ago

You use Signal to avoid government surveillance.

I use Signal to avoid government accountability.

We are not the same.

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[–] Wilco@lemm.ee 122 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Sounds like a bunch of traitors.

[–] Tiger666@lemmy.ca 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Are you just figuring that out now? Attacking all its allies is what did it for me.

The US is a captured state now, and there are only a few ways out; voting is not one of them.

[–] oppy1984@lemm.ee 17 points 1 week ago

Welcome to the party pal, most of us knew it was traitor town when "Russia if your listening" was said on national TV.

[–] octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 98 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Independently verifiable detail number 28543 showing that Trump and everyone he has appointed are unfit for office, and that no one who voted for him will ever care about, and from which no consequences will ever flow.

I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters. -- Mr. Donald J. Trump

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[–] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 64 points 1 week ago (6 children)

That encryption is not impenetrable, however, and the Google Threat Intelligence Group warned just last month of "increasing efforts from several Russia state-aligned threat actors to compromise Signal Messenger accounts used by individuals of interest to Russia's intelligence services."

This is somewhat disingenuous. Signal can't be directly cracked. Only access to the phone directly or via mirroring can expose it. The article somewhat explains this.

I am in no way whatsoever excusing the actions of these douche-chalupas. I prefer accuracy in my reporting, though. That said, Witkoff in Russia may as well have been a direct line to Putin.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 50 points 1 week ago (4 children)

The most uncrackable encryption can be defeated by Steven Witkoff sitting on Putin's lap while reading the messages.

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 1 week ago (8 children)

This seems a bit too nitpicky tbh.
The author is correct, Signal is not "perfect", because the weakest link is always the endpoint device and the end user. Which is kind of the whole point of this article; The issue is not that Signal was used, as it's reasonably secure, it's that the people using it are not secure at all.

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[–] Uniquitous@lemmy.one 50 points 1 week ago (3 children)

These fucking fools, these incompetent baboons. Gods damn the whole lot of 'em.

[–] massacre@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

You are assuming it wasn't puposeful. And clearly it's been going on a while. They only got caught due to their incompetence

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[–] Klutzikaze@reddthat.com 26 points 1 week ago

I'm looking forward to anyone using the word 'signal' around trump being suspected of mocking him.

Sensitive egotistical maniacs are so much fun to placate.

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Literally zero chance they weren't monitoring his phone while he was in the country.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Why monitor what he went there to inform them about?

*receive orders about

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