I don’t think finding foreign nationals fighting in a war necessarily means their government regime is sending them.

There’s a lot of foreign fighters in a lot of conflicts without representation or protection of their government, and I’d be curious if that case is different here.

Basically:

These folks include presenting a false person as being of age, then switching to underage at the time of meetup when the target shows up.

A group descends upon the target who is now told they’re a pedophile.

Then the group tries to kill the person who was trying to meet what they thought was an adult.

And the perpetrators think this is justice.

Yeah I believe the next step in this process is to make the easy jump into hunting all those people expressing ‘Pedo apologia’. Half this thread suddenly is fair game to ‘investigate.’

It’s a bottomless well, really.

Hell, KiwiFarms style tactics is becoming more and more common and mainstream. It’s on Lemmy too.

…what makes the downvotes come from .ml?

Virtually every ban and removed comment found in the mod log from an .ml community gets a dedicated thread these days.

It has everything to do with how demanding to see the manager/admin/dev doesn’t auto-bypass moderation policies. Works on centralized social media where the owners and their employees get flummoxed over potential ad revenue.

Juxtapose the term liberal with tankie for a moment in usage alone.

If being called liberal is interpreted as above, it is likely those are the same sentiments expressed when calling someone or something tankie, no?

ByteDance shell company Chrome.

Basketball diplomacy builds good will.

The toxicity of the ideology vs the toxicity of users describing or supporting an ideology.

It’s like asking if NASA went to the moon because of the NKVD or despite the NKVD.

She dissented in a minority opinion against a decision Alito made last week.

Alito made up complete fantasy and misinterpreted his own self to rule against the EPA and rrverse the 9th circuit. It is completely devoid of legal basis outside dictionary definitions and it even references its own arguments incorrectly. Alito literally contradicts himself in his own aegument and just plods right through. Barret calls this out as a failure on the basis of ‘ordinary english’.

But it doesn’t matter because Alito was in the majority. No matter how meaningless his arguments were or how utterly correct the dissenting opinion is: it is so ordered.

“all magic in Harry Potter comes from the divine tree, at the beginning the tree blessed few people with its world bending power of imagination, this is how wizardry began, the tree spoke latin btw.”

It’d be right up her alley since the books nor movies allude anything whatsoever to a divine tree that spoke latin.

If the books had a divine tree that spoke latin then there’d be some framework and substance lending credibility to the explanation, which would be different.

It’s acting entirely in the moment. It’s an ideologically vapid approach that is the realm of the pure grifter.

CombatVideos and MeanwhileOnGrad help frame that irony.

…it’d be nice if communities could federate individually so the instances werent such flashpoints for prejudices.