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Republicans Are Blurring the Faces of Capitol Rioters so They Won't Get Arrested
  • Well, no, I don't think that's obstruction. He's not hiding them from DOJ, since they already have the footage. Choosing to not publicize faces for John Q Public won't get in the way of their prosecutions.

    FBI has their list of most wanted including pictures.

    So this is perhaps not helpful at worst, and avoiding vigilante justice at best, is what I'm thinking.

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    Republicans Are Blurring the Faces of Capitol Rioters so They Won't Get Arrested
  • Yes, although someone else here pointed out to me that the Speaker actually did say he wanted faces blurred to protect those folks from DOJ, which is absurd 1) because I agree that those clowns need to face consequences, and 2) it makes no sense given that DOJ already has the raw footage.

    Still, I'd hate to encourage reddit-style vigilantes even if that seems at odds with the fact that the FBI posts images explicitly looking for help in identifying certain suspects.

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    Republicans Are Blurring the Faces of Capitol Rioters so They Won't Get Arrested
  • Yeah, my fault. I read about this in an Axios article that I linked above. That only makes the rep's comment more absurd when, again, we know the DOJ has the unedited footage, which is also acknowledged in the Rolling Stone article.

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    Republicans Are Blurring the Faces of Capitol Rioters so They Won't Get Arrested
  • I don't think you have, unless you want to share what you think I've said and refresh my memory. The only political topic I've engaged on Lemmy had to do with landlords, so I'm not sure where you're coming from.

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    Republicans Are Blurring the Faces of Capitol Rioters so They Won't Get Arrested
  • I may be confused about your point. It seems like you're acknowledging that it's a bad argument, but supporting using it against those whom you despise, no?

    It's not a good argument (nothing to hide), and I think it gets deployed by whomever is trying to lean on someone else. It's not great to be a hypocrite, but hypocracy doesn't invalidate an argument.

    This is all aside from what I meant to be my main point though, which is that this original post is, in my view, meant to gin up more outrage by misstating what the speaker said. Turning discourse into an exchange of inflammatory bumper stickers is social media's most toxic influence.

    Talking through "nothing to hide" and its ramifications is worthwhile and on point though. Kudos!

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    Republicans Are Blurring the Faces of Capitol Rioters so They Won't Get Arrested
  • There have already been well over 1,000 arrests, a few hundred sentenced, etc. (https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/capitol-breach-cases) and you can look up names/details of those who've gone through due process. That's the system at work, like it or not. I don't think it's up to you or me to convict, or harass, or whatever else. You can maybe ID folks whose images are posted by the FBI requesting information from the public. I just hate to see crappy headlines and social media posts distorting what's happening when it seems pretty simple to verify through non-extreme media outlets.

    I say this all with respect.

    I hope everyone who gleefully rampaged around the capital gets what is legitimately coming to them.

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    Republicans Are Blurring the Faces of Capitol Rioters so They Won't Get Arrested
  • It's either foolish or malicious to deliberately misrepresent the actions or motivations of these ass-hats just because they're ass-hats.

    The DOJ already has unredacted footage and the blurring of faces is meant to avoid retaliation by "non-governmental actors", i.e. vigilantes, not to save anyone from arrest.

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    What is the first movie you can remember ever having watched?
  • It might be Little Shop of Horrors. Definitely freaked me out.

    I vaguely remember crying when the cat was electrocuted by chewing on Christmas lights in the Griswolds Family Christmas.

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    What single item improved the quality of your life over you got it? (Buyed it/got as present/made it)
  • Yes, sleep mask for the win. I recommend the kind that is just a wide soft bit of cloth that wraps around your head. Like this. The ones with elastic straps or eye cups, gel, foam, whatever, have not been nearly as comfortable IMHO. I just want a pillowcase for my face.

    I've also recently started wearing earplugs since my wife is up before me and the kitchen sounds always cause me to stir well before my alarm.

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    Please, do not use Brave.
  • I always find myself coming back to Vivaldi. Extremely customizable browser. Yes, it's chromium-based like so many others, but I like it a lot and it's always gaining fun new features. I keep Firefox as a backup, but often have (relatively minor) performance issues with Firefox, particularly on Android.

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    Meta wants to charge EU users $14 a month if they don't agree to personalized ads on Facebook and Instagram
  • They're missing the damned point. I have never used Facebook, but on any service if I'm paying a monthly fee it is to remove myself from the ad-based enshitification.

    It's also what drives me crazy with respect to Microsoft products. I pay for MS 365, and I'd even be willing to pay for Windows if they'd leave me the fuck alone. I pay for ProtonMail and they do leave me alone, so I'll always stick with them. Any app that I use for which I can pay to remove ads, I do it... unless it's a subscription and I can't quite justify the perpetual expense, like for my preferred weather app MyRadar.

    Hell, I almost bought into the MyRadar investment pitch until I saw that giving them $400 still wouldn't net me a lifetime subscription.

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    Don't be fooled Billy, it's not really a job, more of a parasitic relationship
  • Right, but do the faux revolutionaries in this thread know the difference between a good landlord and a bad one? They seem to enjoy basking in righteous anger and not to care for nuances.

    Good landlords hate bad landlords too. There's a lot of common ground to be shared.

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    Don't be fooled Billy, it's not really a job, more of a parasitic relationship
  • That's why this is such a frustrating conversation, and it's similar to many other hot button issues. It gets treated like a black & white problem and folks start slandering whole groups when the issue usually arises from some sub-set of opportunistic assholes, or extreme bigots/mysoginists/what-have-you. (I my mind I'm also thinking about social issues that pit left-leaning people against right-leaning people, where everyone treats the other side as if each person were an example of the most extreme in that camp.)

    So in this thread there are folks talking about overthrowing landlords en masse, when it's the large investors from outside the local community (plus some scumbags in the local community) who are adding to the suffering in the world.

    Small landlords of the sort that you described are indeed just making long-term investments that are likely to yield a decent return or become a source of stability as an appreciating asset. It's the kind of investment that we should want lots of people to be able to take advantage of.

    We need a more efficient way to get to the heart of the matter in these conversations because just scrolling through the comments it seems like a lot of ignorant or misguided anger.

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    Don't be fooled Billy, it's not really a job, more of a parasitic relationship
  • That's why this is such a frustrating conversation, and it's similar to many other hot button issues. It gets treated like a black & white problem and folks start slandering whole groups when the issue usually arises from some sub-set of opportunistic assholes, or extreme bigots/mysoginists/what-have-you. (I my mind I'm also thinking about social issues that pit left-leaning people against right-leaning people, where everyone treats the other side as if each person were an example of the most extreme in that camp.)

    So in this thread there are folks talking about overthrowing landlords en masse, when it's the large investors from outside the local community (plus some scumbags in the local community) who are adding to the suffering in the world.

    Small landlords of the sort that you described are indeed just making long-term investments that are likely to yield a decent return or become a source of stability as an appreciating asset. It's the kind of investment that we should want lots of people to be able to take advantage of.

    We need a more efficient way to get to the heart of the matter in these conversations because just scrolling through the comments it seems like a lot of ignorant or misguided anger.

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  • Since my favorite reddit app came to Lemmy I'm really keen on getting more people into the fediverse to pump up the volume of content around here. Are there any initiatives that we can assist to get folks onboard?

    I had my wife join, and she likes it, but laments the slow pace of new material in the communities.

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    This just happened twice, so might be a real bug. When I select text in my comment and hit the link button, paste the url, and save, there is an "!" inserted before the bracketed text. This seems to prevent the link from appearing.

    If I delete the ! it works fine.

    I'm on android. Dunno if the app is on iOS.

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    Not Boost specific, but hopefully that's OK. I'm wondering whether Lemmy content is subject to crawling by search engines like Reddit is. Especially for certain topics, it can be really handy to have and occasionally a good way to discover a community.

    Boost is great, BTW. Great job!

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