[the linux kernel developers group] bent over backwards to comply with the american government’s overreach when they kicked out russian developers.

I though that was mostly due to Linus being a typical Russia-hating Finn, but I never investigated.

Now that the Red Scare is largely over

It never ended and won’t be over until capitalism is dead. What do you think the bullshit about a “Uyghur genocide” was for?

House votes to denounce ‘horrors’ of socialism ahead of Mamdani-Trump meeting

I feel like we Marxists have explained why hundreds of times in dozens of ways already.

My laptop’s TPM requires a pint of blood to allow booting to an OS. Two pints if it’s Linux.

If not already, I assume they’ll offer a for-fee API for bots.

4chan has good word of mouth: potty mouth.

Mastodon, Lemmy and Pixelfed already exist. Why is no one talking about them?

Because, unlike eYou, they don’t have €300K in seed capital. The fediverse has no marketing department and a €0 ad-spend budget.

the regime is murdering unarmed protesters in the thousands

I heard it was in the brazillions. Previously:

The “protesters” were mercenaries & rioters led by the CIA & Mossad to kill civilians & police and to seize or set fire to government buildings. It was the standard faux color revolution playbook for regime change that the US has been using since at least the 1980s.

One reason they keep using it is because you keep falling for it.

• Western Media Whitewashes Deadly Riots in Iran
• Meet the former fashion blogger and shady doctor behind the ‘30,000 dead’ Iran psy-op
• How Tehran Neutralised Starlink and Foiled Washington’s Colour Revolution playbook
• The blueprint of regime change operations

I satnd corecded 🫡

Practically speaking you don’t retain ownership of anything you publish here. It’s all out there in the open, being scrapped by bots.

For a good time, try editing 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre. At least the Uyghur Genocide page has been renamed Persecution of Uyghurs in China. Baby steps.

Less than a year ago, and no less true today.

the bourgeois failsons forgor that empires need to sustain their institutions of social reproduction

That’s not really how it works, or we’d already have them. People in China have those things because they beat the fascist KMT back to Formosa, and by force subordinated the bourgeoisie and the remnants of feudalism.

I don’t think you looked into how bad it was in 1979. People couldn’t get gas for love or money. Many states set up rationing laws such that you could only get X gallons, and only every other day. At gas stations, cars lined up on the street for hours to get any. For the first time ever, the industry designed cars for their fuel efficiency.

We haven’t gotten a reminder remotely like this since 1979. This one is only getting started, and some say it will be worse than the last.

• !worldnews@lemmygrad.ml » US war on Iran | Megathread for Week 12 of 2026
• American Prestige podcast
  • 🎧 https://americanprestigepod.com/
  • 📺 https://www.youtube.com/@AmericanPrestige/videos
• Decline and Fall podcast
• Radhika Desai
  • https://substack.com/@radicaldesai/posts
  • https://www.youtube.com/@RadDesai/videos
• Glenn Diesen’s Substack

In most states (meaning countries), all base/narrow money^[1] is backed by the fact that the state will only accept its own currency for taxes due. Which means that, if the state has no debt, then there is no (base) money. The base money in the economy is equal to the state’s debt. All the base money in the economy came from the state at some point buying goods/services/labor.

The US dollar is a safe haven insomuch as it’s likely to continue to have value for the foreseeable future, but it isn’t necessarily safe compared to the value of other currencies. In fact, IMO the US dollar is likely to continue falling w/r/t other currencies in the short & medium term, thanks to the deterioration of the petrodollar system and of dollar hegemony. We’re also a fading empire, and our economy is hyper-financialized, awash in debt, which doesn’t help. We’ve de-industrialized and don’t have a viable path to re-industrialization.

the USA is more on promoting maximum employment.

It’s supposed to be that, but in practice it isn’t. The Federal Reserve has a dual mandate, but they’re in conflict with each other, and really the maximum employment part is only given lip service.

This is long, but answers your questions: Why Not Signal?

-how to explain it to my friends who use signal because i recomended?

Okay it doesn’t answer that one. But also, whether they should use Signal or not depends on their threat models. Many people don’t see the US police state as a threat.