mistermodal @ mistermodal @lemmy.ml

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That's correct I am actually very gregarious and I am interested in Canadian affairs particularly because of my proximity to Toronto + folks I know there so we would get that beer. The strategies being used to pressure the US here deserve scathing criticism tho

I'm not the one trying to take the ball and go home. I much prefer talking to the Chinese over this app at this point. You guys should really restore proper trade relations with them. They actually know how the economy works. Didn't I already mention that you need to affect political institutions, finance, Canada's collaboration with the US on foreign policy and institutions like the World Bank etc that enable Canada to extract from poor nations? It may have been in some other thread I don't really care who any of you are sorry, boilerplate liberalism following the typical nonviolent capitalist activism framework. The US doesn't manufacture much important stuff, neither does Canada. That's why it's much more important to prepare to deal with the collapse of the imperialist financial system, which is clearly coming within years. Think 2008 without any cushioning. I'm serious. Hopefully people wake up under Trump lol but we could always get another Obama type after this and sleepwalk into it if he doesn't instigate a huge(r) economic crisis.

There is an organizing stage before effective political pressure can be applied. This is not "nothing", it is the most important part, very hard, which is why the message of "we don't need to educate, organize, and strike, we can just go to a different store/nude bike ride" is actively counterrevolutionary. Whole playbook of mass nonviolent activism was literally invented by Gene Sharpe a guy who was handpicked by Henry Kissinger. It's basically designed to make people engage in symbolic actions that may or may not be met by movements from the real power structures. In foreign countries attempting this protest playbook, you need a hard fist of CIA mercenaries and whatnot to shove through the real political transition, then the protests are used to grant it legitimacy. Here in the US you get minor concessions from elected officials and corporations, often made to nonprofit organizations, all of which reinforces their authority.

That's the ticket

I don't understand how every person responding to me has missed that I said "start chatting" not "continue chatting" but I will be idiot-proofing my lemmy comments from here on out, it's exhausting

Like I'm sorry to be terse, but you are presumably adults if you are taking interest in this, and you view the economy like a literal baby looking at a Richard Scarry Busytown book. There is a lot more going on than the consumption of first world citizens. It's not your consumption that needs to be cut off - and you can't, only minimize to essentials or seek alternatives that may very well be shipped by companies owned by US financiers (you won't even check as long as it doesn't say "made in USA", which NOTHING is. America CONSUMES, like you!) - it's your willing participation in reproducing the bourgeois democracy that enables people like Trump and Obama to ruin or end the lives of millions.

This is harder than anything you have ever even considered doing in your entire lives, so no wonder you can't even figure out what I mean.

Yes, of course I am arguing about more than what brand of socks Canadians buy. That's why I keep mentioning the global financial system run by the US. You seem to be under the impression you can "opt out". You're hiding under a blanket from the monster and hoping it goes away. Sorry but the monster is your own father

Guess not

Even before I looked more into the wider alt media network he is a part of, Prysner always made it clear what is at stake is shedding precious American blood on Iraqi soil. This never sat well with me. It is nakedly opportunistic social libertarianism. Did you know he was an interrogator? Not the only former interrogator to become a leftist superstar.

John Kiriakou lied about being present at the torture of Abu Zubaydah in order to frame his "torture-based information is too low-quality for the noble CIA" (missing its many many other uses) narrative. Kiriakou did actually torture people of course. If you line up his service record he worked at places where it happened all the time.

Strange bedfellows? No not really. More on this later.

True, first time I ran into catastrophic problems (caused by entering in commands I copied from online, knowing damn well it was a bad idea), I got annoyed having to fish out corrupted files and shit, but I realized that anytime something had gone wrong with Windows I had no tools to fix it and could only check in on a loading screen that lasts hours. It was a learning experience

Okay that's cool but even software projects like SimpleX need group chats for the software's community to ask questions and such, where should they be hosted? Slack?

Yeah me neither but that is what I gathered. Maybe I'll post it to Mander they seem geeky

Cool well if they did lmk if this is a fake controversy

That is not what pithy means. These are diatribes, tuned to make things as specific as possible for incredible foolish and disingenuous people. Pithy is quick and to the point. That would never work on you.

This article is paywalled, so I assume you have not read it and are going off the headlines, like you have with everything else you said to me. It's a shame you're giving up, but then again you never had political goals to begin with.

i breathe more hash oil than air

Fucking act like it then and calm down, I was just saying to the other guy, the issue is having to be online in order to connect contacts. That is a serious issue outside of people you're already tight with, think abt how flaky people are even in important situations.

Besides, what makes XMPP perfect to me is that the ecosystem is mature, it will be around forever, it has a service I can use to access Canadian and US cell networks while abroad. It has an encrypted facebook style social media site in rapid development that any XMPP acct can login to so they don't need to make a new account, that by design NEVER HAS THOSE ASSHOLES ON IT

Hopefully Webxdc on XMPP takes off more it's currently only on Cheogram Android app and Delta Chat droid/pc. You can make collaborative editors and games n stuff if I guess you want encrypted tuxcart (someday)

China can now switch up their factory production lines without human intervention in the dark and you're inventing a somehow even less interesting way of masturbating to your phone

I mean to set up the chat in the first place you gotta both be online. I think OMEMO is good idc if its quantum safe ill check later. Good tonmention ty, but if the government wants me bad enough to use quantum shit they're just gonna go thru my device itself. Yeah I know abt post processing it all after stashing it. The american govt is gonna collapse first anyways #whocare #theytouchedthemoney #theytouchedthemoneyanditgotquiet

Just a quick summary, I immediately cringed at how much I left out here. So, I'll drop a link later. It gets long fast & I have trouble not getting lost in a tangent about, say, loose ends related to Medea Benjamin/whoever. 🔜 Rage Against the War Machine rally feels like the point where everyone just started playing Calvinball and interviewing Kash Patel (But Leftistly)

Look everyone I know smokes weed it's really bad. More like a turn your brain on situation. You know how bad that is for your sleep architecture™ over a period of 4-5 years? It's a wonder they can even remember what I said, but telling them to do something at a certain time? I'd be uncloseted as an authoritarian. The only way I even get people to use these apps is Appeal to Paranoia.

It's just DSA for college republican types. It's not like the ACP invented basing your party around social media, engaging in basic church group activism, and talking about making America great again. Western leftists have been doing that the whole time. So, yeah, it's Hitler. You live and breathe Hitlerism.