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Webstir

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About Webstir

Luddite

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49183012

    It’s the capitalism, stupid. Here’s a little blog post I penned a while back on the topic: https://www.ianwelsh.net/capitalism-as-mental-illness/

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    Is surveillance risk chilling your online speech?

    Given the expansion of the fed/state/local/corporate surveillance net, do you find yourself expressing yourself less freely on the internet than you did five years ago?

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    Comment #47463966

    The Trillion Dollar Race to Implode Our Economy. Fixed it.

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    Comment #47318826

    [flagged]

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    Comment #47318820

    Yeah, right. The emperor has no clothes. Trump’s made the U.S. the laughingstock of the world. And CBS has now gone full Larry Ellizionist nazi.

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    Comment #47270153

    Good. It’ll help build an underground movement against the Epstein class.

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    Comment #46912961

    No. Because: have a life. Maybe: try getting one.

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    Comment #46912921

    Read: “it’s ok to hang out on a pedophile nazi site to get my AI fix.” You must be a highly moral and ethical human being. I can tell.

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    Comment #46856083

    Just another variant of AI porn

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    Comment #46825390

    How do you know? Because you watch and listen to capitalist propaganda all day? And, on what do you compare? Do you compare it against poor people's lived experience in the U.S. th…

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    Comment #46804590

    What’s more stunning to me is you believe the propaganda.

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    Comment #46749132

    [flagged]

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    Comment #46741503

    Yeah, Princeton educated capitalist propaganda guru David M. Van Zandt is always my first go to. Let me guess, he sits on the Atlantic Council, too? Maybe, try finding your brain a…

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    Comment #46741451

    Wait 'til banks wrap their minds around carbon coins. See: Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson.

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    Comment #46741405

    Well, by golly gee whiz. Do ya think so? This is all so embarrassingly obvious. Who's blog? Some 12 year old that got baked for the first time and had their first epiphany they're …

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    Comment #46687648

    We don't. Read Moon of Alabama: https://www.moonofalabama.org/2026/01/iran-the-ragtag-networ...

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    Comment #46687635

    Read, propaganda piece.

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    Comment #46682496

    Why? The #fediverse beat you to it. No algos. No ads. No walled gardens. There are good reasons people like Cory Doctorow have eschewed corporate social media and solely rely on #M…

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    Comment #46673906

    So, stupid dupes? We don’t want AI. It’s just one more tech bro move to cement their fascist goals by wrapping people further inside their walls and making them stupid enough to co…

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    Comment #46656093

    Not to mention the fact that you “didn’t know what documents [you] needed, what decisions mattered first, or how to prepare before spending thousands on lawyers. Everything felt re…

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    Comment #46656056

    Lawyer here. I just did a couple dry runs. That the stupidest petition I’ve ever seen. Worse than most pro se people who just write in the blanks using state provided templates. Fa…

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    Comment #46654591

    [flagged]

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