why do you think I give a shit if the democrats have support? I can point to fascism from the current gov without supporting the limp dicked opposition. Stop treating politics like a sports event, it's embarrassing.
javiwhite
joined 9 months ago
The conservatives introduced the online safety act. Labour enforced it, but labour haven't been a progressive party in the UK for decades.
"Increasingly far left government", tell me you know absolutely nothing about the subject, without saying you know absolutely nothing about the subject.
The US (more specifically Project 2025) is a huge driving force in this, they're just domestically focused on the "make America white again" stage of their plans to return to a nuclear family, but that won't stop them using their lobbying powers, or control over tech monopolies to strongarm other countries into submission.
Damn you sir, you didn't need to call me out with that last paragraph.
No, I know it wasn't my shoe, but look at how well it fits!
Oh agreed,
We could roll a d20 with only 20 being the passing mark, everything else fails; which gives a 5% success chance... and that still seems optimistic when describing a relationship with America.
Basically, Aus, Canada, UK and every other American "allied" nation should have a magic 8 ball that only returns with "yeah you're fucked" when asked anything about the relationship with America, it's not a question of if, it's a question of when.
Activism like this isn't for people on Lemmy, who have already been exposed to the likes of decentralisation, open source Vs closed source etc.. its predominantly for those that still think brand name = quality.
I don't use social media these days, but i do have inactive accounts; I'm considering logging in and changing the pictures to clippy. It may have absolutely no effect, or it may be the 16th clippy PFP that someone sees, which may then prompt them to ask why everyone is changing their photo to clippy.
So whilst it won't change anything in a large way, it can act as the catalyst for those who are still unaware to try and educate themselves on the subject, and hopefully lead to them leaving Microsoft products altogether like you've alluded to.
For example; I'm already not using any Microsoft products, so continuing to not use their products is less impactful than by changing my mainstream photos to clippy, even if it has no effect.
We can try to tell people about the evils of microsoft until we're blue in the face... But if they "research" it themselves, it's far more likely to stick.
Oh I see what you're talking about. I thought you meant the link to fffmpegs forgejo site rather than the crosspost link.
Maybe it's just the app I'm using, but sync was able to redirect me to the Open source community that this was originally posted to. (It's hosted on lemmy.ml, but the poster is from Lemmy.zip, which is why the post link is Lemmy.zip).
When I open via browser though, I see the OSA block that you're referring too... An interesting difference for sure. But I suppose if all posts from lemmy.zip were blocked, we wouldn't be seeing this one either, so I'm guessing it's just post shares that won't work?
You sure that the issue is geographical? I'm in the UK and was able to access the site without using a VPN or anything like that.
That's fair, it came across as though you were denying the existence of external forces altogether despite the fact that misinformation campaigns and large amounts of funding to right wing parties are what have fueled the likes of AfD, Reform UK, PVV etc across Europe, as well as the current situation in America.
Yes, every country has its fascists, rapists, murderers etc.. but that doesn't make the possibility of external influence riling these groups to action any less plausible.
Also, I think like i've misunderstood your meaning, you've misunderstood the comment you were responding too; I don't think the person you replied too meant external forces are the sole reason, but rather the driving force.
So on a subject about human rights you reduced the scope to Europe because you were being sarcastic?
Enlighten us with a higher form of wit; what were you trying to say?
Freedom advocate my arse.
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